In the case of the outbreak of the disease seed and the spiritual plague seed at the same time, the breath on the big snake's body weakened violently, and at the same time, the state became worse and worse with the naked eye.

Although it is not known if this serpentine creature living in the spirit world has lungs like snakes,

But it is clear that the shadow of the Black Death has completely enveloped it, and continues to erode its flesh—

At this time, the corners of the big snake's mouth were already slowly flowing blood, and at the same time, it was unable to roar anymore, but opened its big mouth, but it couldn't spit out a sound.

And the outbreak of the spiritual plague has aggravated its rational collapse and soul trauma.

Harley is now like a professional artist, sculpting the serpent's body bit by bit, destroying its body and spirit and transforming it into the shape she wants.

Finally, seeing that the serpent seemed to be visibly weakened and no longer struggling, Harley chose to raise the level of her attack - remote hands.

"Mirror Jump!" "Ice Spear!" "Black Flame Missile!"

In order to prevent the big snake from having any backhand, Harley did not directly reveal her position and figure.

She just manipulated the magic mirror in her hand, constantly infusing it with power and extraordinary abilities.

Sharp ice spears and flaming black flame missiles continued to emerge, flying out through the mirrors that had previously been placed around them, and bombarding the serpent's body.

The giant snake suddenly suffered this attack under mental anguish and seemed a little overwhelmed.

It reluctantly mobilized the forces of the Death Realm in an attempt to stop these attacks, but with little success.

As time passed, the serpent's struggle became more and more powerful, but its breath became weaker and weaker.

Everything seems to be just a flashback before death.

Still cautious, Hallie struck the final blow:

"Psychic Storm!" "Breath of the heart!"

When the two strongest psychic attack abilities on the manipulating glasses were used, a stream of psychic breath erupted from the magic mirror.

The serpent's body suddenly surged with the power of extremely deep darkness and death, and its breath of life was much stronger than before in an instant.

"Do you still know how to lower my vigilance by playing dead? It's a pity that it's useless! ”

The power of night and death does not match the power of the audience, and it cannot be perfectly prevented.

In addition, Harley continued to use the witch's various means to consume, so the attack of the spiritual realm finally hit the head of the giant snake smoothly.

The spiritual and rational aspects were almost at their limit, and the serpent had little ability to resist at all, and was quickly eroded.

This big snake originally had a chance to escape, as long as it escaped from the scope of the law of all laws, it could easily remove the mark of "criminal" on its body and stabilize its mental state.

But instead of doing so, it thought about completing the hunt by playing dead.

It's a pity it didn't work out, and it can't escape.

The serpent's rationality has completely disappeared, and his soul is about to dissipate.

Harley took a half-step to the side and burrowed into a magic mirror.

When she reappeared, she was hovering above the serpent's head.

A long blade of ice burning with black flames appeared, piercing through the serpent's head.

At the same time, there was a large amount of black and dark green light on the ice long knife, which was spreading towards the giant snake's body at this time, firmly locking its collar and spirit in this body.

Harley nodded in satisfaction as she felt the breath of life of the creatures below her fade away.

"The hunt is over, go all the way."

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After the hunt, Harley didn't immediately investigate the connection between the serpent and the core of her wand.

She methodically sealed the spirit of the giant snake, which was already very weak and about to dissipate, but was forcibly imprisoned in her body by her own black magic into the magic mirror.

The long ice knife gradually melted into a medium-length boning knife in Harry's hand.

Little by little, Harley began to dissect the serpent, dividing up the various materials on its body.

There are really a lot of extraordinary materials on this giant snake's body, especially the pair of snake eyes, which contain a large number of extraordinary materials of the night path.

Harley carefully removed it, solemnly laid layers of rituals and dark magic on it, and finally stored it in the deepest part of her pocket.

With these snake eyes, along with some other night pathways or items from a similar realm, Harley was able to concoct potions and claim the extraordinary properties of the piece in her body that came from the Sequence 3 Dread Bishop.

As for some of the other extraordinary materials, Harley didn't pay much attention to them, but she was a little surprised when she saw some special parts

Part of the body of this big snake is almost the same origin as the spirit world, and if you take out the spirit world directly, it will not only lose the spirit, but the entire material will be directly dissipated.

This phenomenon has only been seen in some very special spirit creatures, so Harley now has some guesses about the origin of the serpent.

She patiently rearranged the ritual and carefully preserved all these materials, after all, they were all excellent materials for practicing alchemy.

After all of this was processed, a patch of ice appeared out of thin air under Hallie's feet.

Then, her entire body disappeared without a trace, and the ice in place quickly melted, turned into magic, and dissipated into the spirit world.

On the mirrors around the arena, Harry's figure kept emerging, and she used spider silk to retrieve other mirrors and wands nearby.

Eventually, Harley uses her Mirror Shuttle ability to quickly return the way she came, returning to the Forbidden Forest at the starting point.

It was already three o'clock in the morning.

The previous battle seemed simple and quick, but when you count the time it takes to get on the road, set up the battlefield, and clean up the battlefield, it actually lasted nearly five hours.

Although the Forbidden Forest was alive at night and the chirping of magical beasts was a good time to hunt, Harley didn't stop long.

She silently skimmed through the Forbidden Forest, past the stations of other schools, and finally demonstrated a superb skill in climbing the castle walls with her bare hands before making it back to her dormitory.

In the Gryffindor Tower, on the bed in a girl's dormitory, a light flickered slightly.

The figure lying on the bed twisted for a moment, and when it finally stabilized again, it didn't seem to change in the slightest.

But at this time, the person lying on the bed is no longer the clone who only has Sequence Six, but the Despair Witch body of Sequence Four.

After returning to Hogwarts safely, Harley pulled out the mirror and began to study channeling the serpent and its identity.

And the true identity of this big snake is similar to what Harley guessed, it is not a snake in essence, but a semi-spiritual creature-

The corpse of a snake, because it accidentally fell into the spirit world, happened to be eroded by the extraordinary properties of the two paths of death and night, and the combination of the power of the spirit world itself, finally formed this strange and extraordinary creature.

And in the process, it just so happened that the collection of high-order extraordinary properties scattered in all corners of the world began to begin.

There are more and more powerful wizards or magical beasts that have fallen, and the new generation is getting weaker and weaker.

And this big snake happened to seize this gap, and wantonly devoured the extraordinary characteristics of the spirit world that were not originally taken away without enemies, or absorbed the power of the spirit world, and almost enjoyed the spirit world exclusively.

However, it is not without a price to enjoy the spirit world exclusively, and its power composition also makes this great snake unable to leave the spirit world.

As for the heart of the wand in Harley's hand, it came from another creature similar to the serpent.

However, this is not at all the snake that the former owner of the rod core and Ollivander's grandfather thought it would be, not even a serpentine form.

The two fought a battle in the spirit realm, and the Great Snake eventually won.

But despite the heavy price it paid and the victory, it came to nothing.

Because the corpses of its opponents fell out of the spirit realm, some of them quickly dissipated because they were separated from the spirit realm, and some of them fell into the snake's nest.

That's why Ollivander's grandfather thought it was a snake nerve, because when he was collecting materials, the snakes were all around it, eager to try, but afraid to approach.

What happened next was very simple, Ollivander's grandfather used this nerve to pair with a top-of-the-line snake wood to craft a wand.

But because it was too close to the material that barely reached the demigod level, it ended up falling into madness.

did not directly lose control or die, and it can only be said that he was blessed with a great life.

And when the giant snake was hit hard, its rationality was also close to collapse, and it just wandered in the spirit world and continued to devour all kinds of low-level extraordinary characteristics.

And after recuperating from its wounds, its rationality finally returned to a part and remembered the corpse of its old rival.

Although it was unable to find the body of the old rival, it still found the head of the wandmaker Ollivander's grandfather based on the breath left behind by the old rival.

It was precisely because of the erosion of the spiritual power that Ollivander's grandfather was able to temporarily regain consciousness, but then died directly.

It's a pity that although the big snake has laid a trap with its few sanities, its nest attracts not ordinary small fish, but a terrifying witch.

"I really didn't expect you to be such a precious and extraordinary material."

After Harley withdrew her consciousness from the magic mirror, she pulled out her wand.

It was slender and sturdy, and although it had never been wiped, there was not a speck of dust on it.

Harley's eyes widened suddenly, and a turquoise glow burst into action, rapidly eroding the wand.

Although he has been using it very smoothly, he should still be cautious when holding such an extraordinary material that is barely at the same level as himself.

After all this was done, Hallie quickly fell into a deep sleep after a busy day.

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December brought strong winds and heavy rain to Hogwarts, mixed with snow.

Fleur always likes to complain about the weather at Hogwarts, and if she was fighting the dragon now, she would have been able to subdue it more easily-

After all, you don't need to use the weather spell yourself, God has already provided the most suitable climate.

Soon, instead of complaining about the weather at Hogwarts, Fleur began to fear.

Because she and Hermione finally teamed up to crack the secret of the Golden Egg in mid-December.

To this end, Hermione spends a great deal of time looking for the ghosts of the houses, focusing on Nikol, who is almost headless, and Fleur writes to Louis XVI of Beauxbatons.

However, the former said that the sounds made by the ghosts who played music at his death dinner had no meaning at all, and were just improvised.

Louis XVI, on the other hand, believed that the sound was more likely to be made by the guillotine as it completed its task.

He also imagined that Fleur Amway's latest guillotine had been developed, believing that if he tried it himself, he would definitely be able to crack the mystery in the golden egg.

And even if you don't crack it, you won't lose it, at least you can join the Headless Knights after you die, and tour the world for the ghosts, so that you won't be trapped in Hogwarts like Nick, who almost lost his head.

The two are forced to shift their targets and begin to search for various creatures capable of emitting piercing screams, such as female ghosts and banshees.

Finally, on the second Friday of December, while the three of them stayed in the Room of Requirement to check the materials, Hermione wanted to relax after digging through the materials in the forbidden area.

And the way she relaxes is to flip through a very old tome - "Comparison of Fantastic Beasts in Different Environments of the Same Race".

At first, Hermione didn't think specifically about the mermaid, but just kept collecting information and inquiring about the wide range of magical beasts and magical plants.

But that just excludes merfolk.

While many creatures, such as merfolk and centaurs, do not accept this view per se, as it is an insult to them by wizards, haughty wizards don't care about it.

Therefore, these humanoid creatures belong to the category of "human" in the laws of the Ministry of Magic of various countries.

In order to comply with the law, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them is not included, and the other materials Hermione references follow this rule.

Only this book is so old that merfolk are still in the category of fish.

Hermione looked through a variety of merfolk in this book, and found that the merfolk who lived in icy freshwater lakes were ugly, and their songs were piercing screams when they were in the air, but they would be singing when they were in the water.

This also surprised Hermione, because according to the information she had read, the mermaid's singing voice was very beautiful.

And the second half of this chapter gives an explanation - the mermaid who lives in the warm ocean is beautiful, and the voice is still beautiful in the air.

This is also the source of the story of Ulysses in the Homeric epic poems in Muggles.

The song of the Siren he heard was actually the song of a merfolk in the warm waters of the ocean.

And the mermaid recorded in the ancient Oriental magical beast book "The Classic of Mountains and Seas", which Muggles could also read, is actually this beautiful mermaid.

As for why merfolk in cold freshwater weren't recorded by Muggles...... Yes, who do you think the so-called water ghost refers to?

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(Thanks to the three bigwigs of "Nine-Tailed Yan Fox", "Bread Man Who Loves Salted Fish", and "Abyss Salty Man" for their tips!) ）

(End of chapter)