Chapter Forty-Nine: The Cultivation of Dangerous and Magical Creatures
Ike didn't take Lockhart too seriously, and it was clear from the Cornwall elf incident that he was at the peak of his Oblivion Charm, but he was also very sparse in other things.
Ike had a guess about this situation.
Increasing the level of enchantments in the Waste Notepad system has a strong side effect, which is mostly related to the effects of enchantments. Just like before, when the level of Ike's explosion spell increases quickly, there will be an urge to turn into an explosion maniac.
Similarly, Lockhart was so focused on the Oblivion Charm that his own memory was a little problematic, and it was shown that the other spells didn't work as well as they should.
In other words, the Oblivion Charm was too strong to make him forget how to cast other spells correctly, and this effect was basically irreversible.
After all, Lockhart doesn't have a system.
The "Anti-Lockhart Alliance" is in full swing, but Ike is focusing most of his energy on studying.
He hadn't forgotten what was the most dangerous thing about Hogwarts in his second year, and it would be unreasonable for something like a basilisk to sneak attack.
The thick skin and large size of the basilisk make it very resistant to ordinary spells, and the lethal effect of the snake's pupils also reminds Ike of a legendary creature - Medusa, and in some ways the basilisk is even more dangerous than Medusa.
Seeing Medusa's eyes is just petrified, and seeing the basilisk's eyes will die immediately, and indirect seeing will be petrified. That is, the basilisk did not deliberately kill people in the original plot, otherwise even if he was lucky enough to be petrified, he caught up with the basilisk to convulsions and roll over tactically on his body, it was just a different way to die.
Ike didn't want to bet on whether the basilisk would attack him, so he had to be prepared in advance.
A speculum is a gadget that can detect malicious intent, and even if it doesn't react to the basilisk, it will also have an effect on the basilisk manipulating behind the scenes. Then carry a small rock and a mirror with you. The stone is for the basilisk to turn something into a rooster, and the mirror is inspired by the story of Medusa.
Legend has it that Perseus, the son of Zeus, defeated Medusa with a mirror made of a bright shield, and Ike guessed that it might have had an effect on the basilisk as well.
Maybe the basilisk saw the mirror and petrified or even killed itself?
Ike didn't plan to fight the basilisk, all the preparations he made were to create enough time for him to escape. For the basilisk in the Chamber of Secrets, who had lived for hundreds of years, most of Ike's methods were either useless or unworkable.
Avada is definitely ineffective, the damage of the Smashing Spell, the Explosion Spell, and the Cutting Spell is also limited, and the effect of the Fire Spell is too slow, and it will also give Ekhiti Azkaban an experience ticket.
The Eye Curse is the strongest way to abolish the basilisk, but it is too difficult to hit the eye curse in front of the basilisk, and one will be hit if you are not careful.
Thinking about it, the Transfiguration is more reliable, as long as you can control the actions of the basilisk, the next thing is easy to do, proper fixed target training. However, the main body of Hogwarts Castle was deformed by anti-transformation magic, and no one but Dumbledore was able to deform the castle's walls and ground, and the path was blocked.
So, just now, it's just too strong, but Ike is still very sure.
The first attack in my memory took place at the Halloween dinner, almost two months, which was plenty of time for Ike to prepare a little more.
After the curfew, Ike skillfully put on the phantom spell and went silent, and slipped into the forbidden area for the first time in the new semester.
This time, the goal is clear, which is to find information about the basilisk.
The basilisk is also mentioned in "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them", but it is only a few short sentences, and the origin and danger of the basilisk are gone, after all, Newt has never seen a basilisk, and it is normal not to know much about it.
But in the forbidden section, Ike is sure that he will be able to find detailed information.
Hogwarts was quiet at night, and it was rare for the night wanderers to come out so early, which just gave Ike a chance.
Sneak into the forbidden book area and go straight to the bookshelf where the evil creatures have bred to find it. After flipping through several books in a row, Ike finally found a detailed record in a book "Ways to Cultivate Dangerous Magical Creatures".
This rubbing-up of Ben Merlin's contemporaneous wizard's notes details how many man-made magical creatures were cultivated, including Hippogriffs, griffins, sphinxes, and basilisks.
Crack the protective magic on the notes, and simply flip through the forbidden book area. The more Ike looked at it, the more frightened he became, and he had a deeper understanding of the saying that if he didn't do it, he wouldn't die.
The author of the note is a dark wizard who admires the famous ancient Greek dark wizard Ilbo the vile, and spends most of the content trying to reconstruct the study of the vile Helbo.
Curses, dark magic, magic rituals, bloodline fusion experiments, and all kinds of evil killing methods make Ike's scalp tingle, compared to the content about the basilisk.
The cultivation method is not simply to put a male egg under the toad and incubate. First of all, the male egg should be removed from the rooster that has never crowed or mated with a hen, and then soaked in the venom of the thirteen poisonous snakes, during which the male egg should not be inactive.
After the male egg has absorbed enough venom, select a male toad that is large enough. After placing the male egg under the toad, to ensure that the toad remains motionless throughout the incubation process, the wizard needs to feed it a special potion to keep the toad alive and reduce its body temperature as much as possible.
The whole process cannot be interrupted, and if the male eggs are removed during the incubation process, everything has to be done all over again.
When hatching is about to be completed, the toad will slowly petrify until it turns into a stone, and the newborn basilisk will crawl out from under the stone.
Newborn basilisks aren't very powerful, and even looking directly into their eyes will only give them the feeling of a brain tingling. But when the basilisk grows to the length of an arm's length, it is able to kill birds, beasts, and children. From this point on, the basilisk will only obey the command of the Parseltongue, and if the wizard who cultivated it does not understand the Parseltongue, it will become the target of its attack.
Many sorcerers who cultivated the basilisk would choose to kill it at this point to obtain venom and snake skin, which were needed for some of the magical rituals and potions left behind by the dastardly Helbo.
The owner of the note once bred two basilisks, one of which was killed when it was just grown and turned into material, and the other ran away while the owner was not looking, and later came back to try to kill the owner of the note, and finally became the experimental material.
The battle was swift, and the master of the note was able to kill the basilisk with only two spells: the Skinning Charm and the Death Curse.
The Death Curse is the Avada Curse that has been passed down to this day, and the Peeling Curse is the dark magic studied by the despicable Helpo. The spell is "Peel and Remove Bones", which completely removes the target's skin, leaving only a puddle of flesh. This spell was originally used by the dastardly Helbo to strip magical beasts of their fur, and was able to ignore magical beasts' resistance to magic to a certain extent, but when a dark wizard brutally used it on people, it was designated as dark magic because the scene was too bloody, and it was forbidden to use it.
However, its magical philosophy has been inherited, and the dung removal charm commonly used in St. Mungo's Magical Injury Hospital now has the shadow of the Skinning Charm.
However, Ike was skeptical that the Skinning Charm would do much of a difference to the basilisk in the Vault, a one- or two-year-old basilisk and a hundred-hundred-year-old basilisk were two different things, but it was a good idea.
Water droplets wear stones, quantitative changes cause qualitative changes, and the means of wizards taming fire dragons are very valuable for reference.
Throw a few more peeling spells and it will always work.