"Still no news about the princess?"
Among the coral reefs, in the darkness, a certain mermaid whose face could not be seen clearly was hiding, lowering his head and listening to a clown fish talking.
"There is no news yet. According to people from the Skye family, two of their people found the princess, but were killed by the princess. After that, the princess disappeared again."
The man deliberately lowered his voice, but you could still hear it was a male voice.
The voice coming out of the clownfish's mouth was so indifferent: "Humans are a bunch of trash. I shouldn't have expectations for them."
"Sir, we are really not good at operating on the shore. The 'Foam Scale' is only in the hands of the princess. If our people go ashore to chase, they can only continue to send targets to the princess."
When the clownfish heard this, he was silent for a moment, and then said: "That's true, but... we can't count on people from the Skye family. Go contact some professionals in the human world."
"Tell them, I can accept a dead mermaid. But the mermaid's body must remain intact!"
Someone in the shadow nodded and said: "I understand, sir, I will contact the other party as soon as possible."
"Then leave it to you."
After saying that, something about the clown fish felt pulled away.
It shook its head around in confusion, then hid in the sea anemone in panic, never to be seen again.
Someone in the shadow was silent for a long time and sighed deeply.
"This is...fate."
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Yinfamouni Magic Academy Banquet Hall
Miranda walked alone in the banquet hall, waving her magic wand little by little, carefully changing each flag, table and chair. Let them change color to the green that symbolizes Gunter. In addition to the four symbolic magical animals of Yinfamouni transformed into the chair, a normal snake was also added. That is also the representative of the Gunter family.
She became so detailed that she even refused to let go of the details of the snake's scales.
"You are punishing yourself, little girl."
Morian looked at Miranda who looked disappointed and said helplessly.
"That can't be your fault. In every sense, even if you are alone, there is a high probability that the little guy from the Gaunt family will not come with you. Because he does not trust us."
"The same goes for Dumbledore. I don't know what they have gone through, but it is obvious that their trust in strangers like us is only maintained at the lowest level."
Miranda heard what Morian said, but she just shook her head: "This is their business, and if I don't complete the task, I haven't completed the task."
When Morian heard this, he shook his head again. No matter what she said, this little girl had already attributed the failure to her own incompetence.
In fact, it is understandable, after all, Miranda was actually a little bit cautious in this matter. Although the attitude was sincere, it also caused Dumbledore and Luke to get entangled to a certain extent.
When she failed under such circumstances, she attributed the failure to her own cleverness.
She may have been affected by this, but that doesn't mean that she is the one who is really to blame.
"Are you going to greet the little guy here?"
Mo Li'an looked at the large banquet hall and said doubtfully: "It's summer vacation now. Even if we teachers are included, we don't need such a big banquet hall."
After Miranda heard this, she thought for a moment, and then shook her head: "I don't know, but that's what Principal Albert said."
Morian couldn't help but twitch the corners of his mouth.
From the perspective of being the principal's secretary, Miranda is quite successful in a sense. She truly followed Gilbert's orders as God's will.
This is unimaginable to ordinary people.
At this time, Miranda has become a little girl with a secret in Morian's eyes.
He is now very curious, how did Ai Gilbert tame this little girl...into this way?
Of course, you can't just ask this. It's one thing not to be able to ask anything, and it might even offend Miranda.
"Well, I guess I won't get much results from asking you. I'll ask Albert."
With that said, the short and sharp old man left the banquet hall.
"Goodbye, Professor Morian."
Miranda said goodbye politely, and then began to make detailed adjustments to the things around her again.
She is really serious.
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Saphiel Skye looked at the report in front of him, his beautiful eyebrows almost twisted together.
"Are you kidding me?"
There was a hint of anger in Saphiel's voice.
"A man who was poisoned also killed two of our 'stalkers'. This kind of person is not someone we should touch from the beginning."
The look on his subordinate's face was quite solemn, and he said calmly: "But, head of the family, this is the condition proposed by the other party, and we have no room to refuse."
"The people from the Deep Sea Empire are also our stable partners. Now..."
Saphire Skye raised his hand in a 'shut up' gesture.
"Even if this is the request of the people from the Deep Sea Empire, we have to see clearly whether we can get involved in such a thing..."
Sephiel Skye said solemnly: "We don't know much about the Deep Sea Empire. Something must have happened this time that we don't know about."
"First find out what's going on, and then weigh the pros and cons."
The subordinate nodded: "Yes, I will go down and make arrangements."
And just as he was about to walk out of the room, he heard Skye's cold voice behind him.
"Next time, next time let me take charge of these tasks that you should have handled..."
"There won't be a next time, Lord Skye."
The subordinate assured him seriously.
Skye didn't respond, just waved her hand silently.
After his men left, Skye frowned and looked at the report, looking at the two corpses that had been chewed into white bones. One of them was still intact, while the other's bones were split open in the middle.
Obviously, the opponent is very strong.
"With only half of the magic power at most, is it still so strong? This little girl must have a high status in the Deep Sea Empire, so..."
Skye smiled coldly: "The previous price is not enough."
"You have to pay more."
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"Grandpa, is it really possible that this is a basilisk?" Luo Fu looked quite surprised.
"But even a newly born basilisk will not only be this small in size."
Basilisks themselves are giant snakes, and thanks to the magic of starlight, they can quickly absorb magic and grow even at birth. Not to mention how big it can grow immediately, at least it will be the adult size of a normal snake.
"That's what I think too. So although her abilities have a lot of overlap with those of a basilisk, I'm still not sure whether she is a basilisk or not."
"Her snake eyes will not cause death directly, but they can be controlled independently. Her venom is more toxic than the recorded basilisk."
Luke said seriously: "I don't know whether this is considered to have its own advantages and disadvantages, or..."
"It's more advanced, Luke."
Newt said seriously to Luke: "Being able to control it means being more advanced. After all, snake eyes are the most typical feature of the basilisk and their most important weapon."
Luke nodded. He didn't deny what Newt said, or in other words, there was no way to deny what he said.
"But if you want to say it, whether this thing is a basilisk in the true sense, I think it is open to question."
Newt looked a little weird.
And these words also made people around him a little confused.
"So this should be..." Luke pressed.
Newt frowned, nodded and said, "You know that the basilisk is actually a man-made magical animal, right?"
"Despicable Haierbo, he is the one who created the basilisk." Of course Luke knew such things, and even understood them very well.
In the Gunter family, the despicable Herbo is highly respected. Putting aside the evil things he has done, this man is a genius of black magic in the true sense.
Basilisks, Horcruxes, charms, and many more. These peak productions of black magic are basically the work of this person. This fact itself is outrageous.
Many ancestors of the Gunter family have unanimous evaluations of Haierbo.
"Amazing talent and stunning beauty".
This is definitely considered a compliment.
"Yes, but you have to know that in Muggle legends, there is a magical animal with very similar abilities to the Basilisk."
Newt said with a slightly serious expression.
"Medusa? Gorgon?" Luke frowned, "This is not a magical animal. This is the legendary mortal son of God."
"Yes, but that's just a legend. But according to my previous investigations, the origin of the Gorgon is most likely not a basilisk."
Newt was a little surprised that Luke knew so much about Muggle mythology. You know, these myths basically have alternative interpretations in the wizarding world.
While he was surprised by what Luke saw, Luke was also surprised by what he said.
"This is research that overturns previous judgments and common sense. Newt, are you sure?"
When talking about this, Dumbledore couldn't help but interrupt.
This is not a simple Shuoyuan. It is a research result that overturns existing knowledge and may even cause an uproar.
“It’s not yet certain, so I haven’t published an article yet.”
Newt readily admitted that he was still in the research stage. To be honest, if the two people in front of him were not one of his old friends, and the other was probably incompetent and disdainful to compete with him for research direction, he would not tell others this casually.
"This is really... surprising." Luke put away the surprise on his face, and then said, "Do you want to say that Doris is the Gorgon?"
If it is true, then Luke can only say that the system is awesome.
It turns out that this snake can really become like a human!
"It's possible, after all, the ability is so similar to that of the basilisk..." Newt hesitated for a moment, shook his head, and looked at Luke seriously, "I'm not sure. After all, it's possible that it's just a simple mutation and variation."
He returned the photo in his hand to Luke: "If you can bring it...her here, I might be able to draw a conclusion. But a simple photo won't do."
That would be Luke. If it were anyone else, the picture of the snake would have said what kind of newly discovered magical animal it was and what was so special about it. Newt didn't believe a word of it.
After all, this happens almost every day. The world of magical animal research has never been short of such mistakes. Whether it is deliberate fraud, or unintentionally mistaking a certain subspecies or mutant species for a new magical animal, this is something that happens from time to time.
Whether it is human science or wizard science, it is conducted through exploration, trial and error, and correction. This is normal.
But for the strict Newt, such a thing has never happened.
He didn't want it to happen in the future either.
But Luke said this, so he felt that there might be something worthy of careful consideration.
"If I have the chance, I will bring Doris here. But not now. She should be living quite happily in the Forbidden Forest now."
Luke also spoke with some uncertainty.
Dumbledore's brows couldn't help but twitch when he heard this.
"Can you throw all dangerous things into the Forbidden Forest? Although students are not allowed to move around there, it is still a school area after all, and Hagrid still has to patrol there..."
After hearing this, Luke blinked and said, "But... Hagrid is the person who releases the most dangerous magical animals into the Forbidden Forest!"
Dumbledore really wanted to refute this, but he couldn't.
You can't say Luke is slandering Hagrid just because he told a few truths.
This is not the logic of a normal person.
"Anyway, you'd better not put everything in the Forbidden Forest."
Dumbledore said with a headache.
Luke smiled and said: "Don't worry, Professor, I gave my cat to Taylor."
Seeing that the two of them were no longer in good shape, Newt was also amazed. He had rarely seen Dumbledore get along so harmoniously, so harmoniously that he seemed like a friend.
Rolf, on the other hand, looked at Luke with confusion on his face.
After all, this boy could have a lively chat with his grandfather, he could have a good conversation with Heidi, and he had such a good relationship with Professor Dumbledore.
How can a person do such a thing?
Rolf looked at Luke, vaguely aware of the differences in the world.
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In the alley in the distance, a woman in leather clothes was looking at the house over there from a distance, as if waiting for something.
She raised her head and glanced at the moon. There was a hint of sadness in his eyes.
The night... is getting darker.
