However, before taking a few steps, she suddenly stopped.
The next second, an unseen number of monsters flew out from the castle door. They flew very fast and looked like black cloaks.
"Dementors??"
Rossi was surprised at first, but then rejected this judgment.
Although the appearance seems to be related to a black cloak at first glance, dementors are dark creatures covered in cloaks, and these monsters in front of them look like a black cloak.
It's the Voldemort!
The textbook "Dark Powers: A Guide to Self-Defense" has a detailed introduction to this magical creature.
Maybe the appearance of Dementors is related to this creature, or there may be some secret connection between them. Not only do these two monsters have similar appearances, but the only way to deal with them is the Patronus Charm. curse.
"Call the gods to protect you!"
The silver-white rabbit jumped out from the tip of the wand. After circling Rossi, it nimbly pounced towards the crouching bats hovering around.
At this moment, Rossi suddenly heard a rustling sound behind him.
Cold hairs all over her body stood up instinctively, and she suddenly turned around, only to see a vine that was so dry that it seemed that it had long since lost its vitality, had quietly crawled less than five meters away from her.
Seeing her turn around, the vine paused for a moment as if it had intelligence, but then suddenly jumped up and swept towards her like a long whip.
Man-eating vine: A carnivorous plant that looks more like an animal. There are sharp thorns on the vine. When there is someone nearby, it will jump out, roll up the person and pull it back to the roots, and then digest it and absorb it. The plant usually grows out of flesh.
Thinking of what he had read in "The Encyclopedia of Carnivorous Trees", Rossi immediately stopped the Patronus Charm, pressed harder on his toes, and quickly backed away with light movements.
"The flames are blazing!"
In mid-air, she pointed her wand forward out of habit.
However, until she fell back to the ground, not a single spark flashed from the tip of the staff.
"Oh, you can't use magic other than the spell to be tested..."
Rossi smiled bitterly and quickly twirled the wand in his hand.
"Enemy trap!"
Invisible magic power emitted from the tip of the wand, drawing a circle on the ground as the wand rotated.
A defensive shield that was completely different from the Iron Armor Spell and the All Protection Spell that could see the transparent shield appeared around Rossi. It was invisible and formless, completely hiding Rossi like an invisibility spell.
"This spell is equivalent to an invisibility + shield with a fixed range."
While making another judgment about this defensive spell in his mind, Rossi raised his eyes and looked around.
The vines that missed the target lost their target and launched random attacks in all directions extremely quickly. And without the continuous magic output, the silver-white patron saint also disappeared in the process of chasing the Voldemort Bat.
Fortunately, the Patronus Charm's deterrent effect on the Voldemort Bats was strong enough, and it only took a few seconds for the hordes of Voldemort Bats to flee in all directions.
Only then did Rossi notice that where he had just passed, there were footprints shining with lavender light.
"what is that?"
While he was doubting, a series of lightnings fell from the sky, following the flickering footprints.
Fortunately, the defensive spell just released also had a good shield capacity, and it was able to withstand two consecutive lightning strikes.
"Thunderbird?"
Suddenly remembering the information she read in "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them", Rossi quickly pointed the wand at her feet.
"Disappeared without a trace!"
The place where the thunderbird lives will form an electromagnetic field attached to the ground due to its long-term stay. Once an animal breaks into its territory, it will be contaminated with some electromagnetic substance, leaving conspicuous traces when moving. .
The Thunderbird will pursue the intruder based on this trace.
Therefore, when accidentally entering the Thunderbird's nest, as long as the Thunderbird has not discovered it yet, the Disappearance Curse is a good solution.
"Every step is really a test point!"
Rossi murmured in his mind, looking at the open castle door not far ahead, sliding open the inventory and preparing to take out his broomstick and rush over.
But the items that could usually be reached in an instant were lying motionless in the inventory.
"During the exam, no magic props are allowed."
After hearing the system prompts, Rossi bit her lower lip helplessly.
have to! Not only can't use other magic spells, even props are prohibited!
Rosie complained, pointing the wand at the man-eating vine that was about to slash towards her.
"Shrink quickly!"
Encircled by circles of white ripples, the man-eating vine quickly shrunk to half of its original size and slapped onto the ground with a snap.
"Retreat the enemy three feet!"
Unlike the stunner, which can stun the target, the knockback spell only has a simple knockback effect. However, because of its single effect, this light yellow spell actually knocked back the shrunken man-eating vine by a full 50 meters. .
Looking up at the thunderbird that was circling in the sky searching for him, Rossi grabbed the gap where its back was facing away from him and ran quickly towards the castle.
It can only be said that Rosie grasped the timing very accurately. This time, she ran into the castle very smoothly.
"Eh? Why are the decorations in the castle completely different from those in Hogwarts?"
Looking at the scene in front of him, Rossi couldn't help but feel a little confused.
Although the scene in the courtyard was a bit desolate and decadent, it at least looked similar to the exterior of Hogwarts.
But after entering the castle, she found that even the layout here was completely different.
The first floor of the castle was divided into eight small rooms, door-to-door on both sides of a corridor that was neither wide nor narrow.
At the end of this corridor, Rossi could see a stone staircase more than two meters wide that should lead upstairs.
After a few brief observations, she once again fixed her gaze on a portrait of a middle-aged man hanging opposite the door.
The portrait is covered with gray layers, and the man cannot move or talk like the characters in the magical portrait.
"A Muggle portrait hanging here?"
After pondering for a moment, Rossi finally found the origin of this portrait in his memory, "He is the Muggle family patriarch who built Hogwarts Castle mentioned briefly in "History of Magic"? Well, it should be the Percy family. .”
"So, this is Hogwarts before the school was founded? Hmm... there are only a few words about it in "History of Magic". It was built to fight against the Scots and Normans, and then was abandoned and occupied by magical creatures. ...After the four founders of Hogwarts chose this place, they teamed up to expel the magical creatures occupying it into the forest behind the castle, which was the original Forbidden Forest..."
Although Rosie thought about the history here, for now, it did not help her in the exam. She didn't even know what level she wanted to pass.
"It seems we still need to explore this place first."
(End of chapter)
