Chapter 25: The Hunt

"Okay, see you tomorrow in the Forbidden Forest!" Maple said with a weird smile on his face, giving the Weasley brothers an understandable look. After saying this, Maple couldn't help but ask, "What exactly have you prepared, so that you can reveal it?" In this way, I also have a bottom in my heart. ”

"Don't worry, our preparation will definitely not be worse than that of you, a junior brother." The Weasley brothers looked at each other and smiled, as if they had prepared a big surprise, but it was clear that they weren't going to tell Maple a word before tomorrow.

"Are you so sure you'll get more out of tomorrow than I do?" How could Maple not know their thoughts, nothing more than to establish the dignity of an old troublemaker in front of himself as a newcomer!

"If we don't have this certainty, how can we still have the face to be your senior?" The Weasley brothers smiled confidently and said goodbye to Maple.

After the Weasley brothers left the empty classroom, Maple paused for a moment and walked out of the classroom.

"Hermione!" Maple was taken aback, then turned and avoided Hermione in an attempt to get out of the place quickly.

"Stop, I've heard what you're saying. You want to go to the forbidden forest, you are violating the school rules like this. Hermione said loudly, her words causing Maple to stop immediately.

"Oh, my aunt, it's okay to be quiet, you'll be heard by others like this." Maple walked over to Hermione and tried to cover Hermione's big mouth with her hand, but Hermione dodged it, and Maple whispered to her.

"You have to promise me not to go to the Forbidden Forest tomorrow, otherwise I won't hide it for you." Hermione insisted.

"Hermione, if I beg you, don't tell Hagrid, or my plans will be ruined. Wait until I give you another gift, what do you want, as long as I can do it, I will help you do it, okay? Maple pleaded in a low voice.

"Mmmm, I haven't thought about what you want for the gift you said, I'll tell you when I think of it." Maple paused for a moment, this sentence seems to have been heard somewhere, how can it be so familiar. After Hermione finished speaking, she was no longer embarrassed and walked away, but there was a little fox-like smile on her face, I just hummed twice, although I accepted your gift, but I didn't agree to your request.

When Hermione left, the frustration on Maple's face was gone, and the conspiracy had succeeded.

Hermione, you must tell Hagrid about this! Fred, George, no matter how cunning you are, you don't have to drink Lao Tzu's foot-washing water, you just have to take care of luring Hagrid away, and I'll take care of the rest.

Hahahaha!

Coming out of the Room of Requirement, Maple asks the Gryffindor students to bring a message to the Weasley brothers, and then make an appointment to meet in the empty classroom. Then Maple went around to the library, and when Hermione came out, she waited for her in the path she was on. Deliberately pretending to be sneaky to attract her attention, and sure enough, she followed without hesitation, and then everything went as he expected.

It's so cool to play with so many people in the palm of your hand and watch them get played around by yourself!

"Fred, George, what are you doing here?" The next day, the Weasley brothers arrived early in one of the promised places in the Forbidden Forest, and were boredly waiting for Maple's arrival, but they did not expect to hear the last thing they wanted to hear.

Having played hide-and-seek in the Forbidden Forest more than once or twice with Hagrid, the Weasley brothers were all too familiar with the voice of the big hunting ground guard.

"Spotted, run!" The Weasley brothers immediately grabbed a large bag of hunting bows, eggs, laxatives, bloody raw meat, and other things they had prepared, scattered their legs, and ran.

"Tooth, catch up with them!" Seeing that Hagrid was still carrying the big dog that had caused them a lot of trouble, he ran even harder.

And when this joyous farce happened here, Maple had already entered the Forbidden Forest from the other direction with a broomstick and a sturdy rope that he had specially prepared.

After entering the Forbidden Forest, which was covered by dense woods, Maple rode up to the sky on the Seven Stars and flew towards the place where the Eight-Eyed Giant Spider was nesting.

Although much stronger than before, Maple was not arrogant enough to go to the valley of the eight-eyed spider's nest to provoke the spiders the size of a small elephant, but was still some distance away from their nest.

After going deeper than the last time, it was full of dense eight-eyed giant spiders, the smallest of which was the size of a pug.

Lowering the Sweeping Seven Stars to a place above the top of the tree where they could stand, Maple waved his wand and a rope tightly bound the Sweeping Seven Stars to the thick trunk.

Then Maple tied one end of his specially prepared rope to the end of the broom, and he grabbed the other end of the rope himself, and his body fell, barely moving as he swept it.

The tie is sturdy and fully capable of bearing the weight of the maple. And then—

"Extend! Extend! Maple used his wand to point the half-meter-long rope that he had turned into with a contraction charm, and the rope began to grow slowly again under Maple's spell, like a helicopter, and Maple landed.

Maple jumped straight down when he was just over half a meter above the ground. Before charging into the spider swarm, Maple cast an Iron Armor Charm on herself.

After falling into the middle of the spider swarm, Maple did not directly use the strongest Divine Blade Shadowless Spell he had now mastered, but first used his other spells, which he wanted to use to test his combat skills.

"Broken bones! There are many obstacles! ”

Under Maple's crushing spell, those spiders the size of chickens and ducks were blown away, and they were directly unconscious. Spiders with adult dogs or even larger have only one claw at most.

While Maple's Wand of Immortality grants him the defensive power of a powerful Iron Charm, it also limits the damage and lethality of his spells.

"Faint! Pieces! "Because of the super defense of the Iron Armor Charm, although there is a steady stream of spiders that are faster than Maple, none of them enjoy the food in front of them.

But Maple's side was not having a good time, although these spiders would not be able to eat him if his iron armor spell was not broken, but the strength of the opponent's attack still hit his body through his iron armor charm.

His body was knocked into the air several times, and these spells of his could only attack one enemy at a time, except for the Smashing Charm. There is one magic that Maple knows that is more suitable for this kind of group combat than the Shadowless Spell of the Blade, and that is the Thunderbolt Explosion. It's just a pity that it's dark magic, and at Hogwarts, it's hard for him to have a chance to learn this spell. But in the underworld of the wizarding world in Tumbledown Alley, there are many dark wizards who know this spell, and if they have the opportunity, they must break through and learn this spell there.

It can't go on like this, except for the consumption of mana, the results are limited.

You can't just use spells, you should combine them with other magic and the laws of physics that you know.

"Broken bones!" This time, Maple's smashing spell didn't hurt a single spider, as he wasn't aiming at spiders in the first place, but at their feet.

The Smashing Charm blasted a hole in the ground, and the surrounding dirt became much softer. After breaking away from the ground, Maple used a levitation charm to move the dirt from the pit out of the hole, turning it into a small mound.

Maple casts Transfiguration on the mound, which instantly turns into a hard cone. Because the iron cones were deformed from broken earth, they were not only unable to cut through the spider's defenses, but were quickly cut off in the middle after several hits from particularly large spiders.

"Oh, yes!" Actual combat was the best way to test tactics, and soon, Maple had a new inspiration.

After the Crushing Charm and Transfiguration conjured up iron cones, Maple added another Iron Armor Charm to them, and each iron cone was immediately as stable as Mount Tai and was never broken again.

The iron cones and craters didn't kill many spiders, but after changing the terrain, they slowed down the spiders' movement speed considerably.

After that, Maple quickly thought of using Transfiguration to conjure ropes, twist them between two trees to create a rope net, and then apply an iron armor charm on top of the rope net, as long as they are surrounded on all sides, he can completely create a protective area of his own in the spider colony.

It's just a pity that I didn't have a chance to test this tactic for him today, because most of his magic power has been used up.

"Shadowless!" Maple finally used the weapon, but instead of attacking the spider directly, he used the spell to cut off a stout tree.

When the tree that reaches to the sky falls, it knocks down a large number of spiders, and severs the spider swarm into two parts.

While the spider swarm was in disarray, Maple came to the rope that swept the seven stars. As he stepped on the fallen tree trunk and rushed out of the spider colony, Maple found that the spiders were eating their own kind that had been crushed by the giant tree, and he couldn't help but feel disgusted. But in this case, no matter how many spiders Maple kills, he won't feel guilty.

Finally finding the dangling rope, Maple cast the Blade Shadowless Charm again, slicing off the eight claws of several spiders around her, and then shattering the teeth of the incapacitated spiders.

"Armor protection!" Maple defeated six spiders, but only had time to cast the Iron Charm four times, and the remaining two were eaten by the surrounding spiders.

"Fly around!" Maple used the levitation charm to move the four loot protected by the iron armor charm to the trunk of the tree one by one, and before that, he had already grabbed the rope and released the contraction charm to the air at a height of one meter.

Using magic to control the rope to string the four spiders, Maple grabbed the rope and tapped it with his wand again—

"Shrink!"

It was over, and Maple left the sky with four prey hanging from the rope hanging from the broomstick. The bearing capacity of the broomstick is really good, and there are four spiders that are bigger than the hounds, and they sweep the seven stars without the slightest instability.

If you use the Levitation Charm, not to mention that Maple can't control so much, even if you only control one, it will take a lot of magic to control the spider all the way out of the Forbidden Forest with the Levitation Charm. And that's why Maple came with a broomstick, four living eight-eyed spiders are worth more than a dozen dead eight-eyed spiders.