"By the way, this is for you." Hope took out a black and hard needle-like object from his pocket and handed it to Mateo.
After taking it, Mateo looked it over and said, as if recalling bad memories, "Could this be..."
"Yes, these are the leg hairs of the eight-eyed spider. When I was escaping, I swatted away one I caught easily. See if it can be used as a staff core." Hope said with a thumbs up.
Caleb frowned and said, "Are we still going to the Forbidden Forest to find unicorns?"
Hearing this, Mateo waved his hands repeatedly.
"What about the core of the staff?" Caleb asked doubtfully.
Mateo took out the box where the cow hair was stored, and took out a new box to put the spider's leg hair.
"These are enough. I won't use the unicorn tail hair this time."
There are already enough of these, and it will be a waste to look for unicorns. That's right, it's definitely not because he is afraid.
"How about we buy a few. In fact, I'm quite rich." Hope suggested again. To be honest, all his pocket money was moldy in the vault and he couldn't find a place to spend it. He could do that too. Borrowing some from his grandfather, his grandfather would definitely agree, but Hope was a little embarrassed when he thought that he had wasted so much material during the holidays and that it was worth a lot of money.
Mateo waved his hand and refused: "How about that? Don't worry, the materials we took the risk to get are enough. There is no point in finding the ones we bought ourselves."
Hearing this, the corners of Hope's mouth twitched. He felt that losing some wealth was better than losing his life.
Mateo said: "I'm going to make a staff core. Do you have one to go to the secret base?"
The abandoned classroom they found before, with the blessing of Hope's multiple protection spells and disguise spells, suddenly turned into a hidden place like a secret passage. It was also used as a secret base by several of them. Mateo used it as a secret base. Most of the things were left there, except for the more important ones.
Caleb nodded and said we would go together.
Hope also nodded. His homework and other things were still there. It had become a place for him to read and write homework. The space in the classroom was still a bit small now. He was going to learn the Seamless Stretching Charm and renovate the classroom. Expand it.
Although Hope has learned a lot of miscellaneous spells in order to perfect their secret base, most of them are for protection and disguise. He also wants to learn more offensive spells, especially large-scale, meteorological spells. Curse is a good choice. Next time he is chased by eight-eyed spiders, he will directly summon thunder and lightning to kill them.
However, most of the records about weather spells in the library are about watering flowers. Maybe the powerful weather spell is in the forbidden book area. It seems that he will start sleepwalking again.
All the way to the entrance of the secret base, the original classroom door was gone, replaced by a stone statue and a red blanket draped on the wall.
This stone statue was actually moved by Hope from other places. Anyway, there were so many stone statues in the castle, and no one would notice that one was missing. Originally, Hope wanted to design the stone statue as a guard who opens the door, but he found that the stone statue contained a hidden secret. A large amount of magic power, as if someone had cast a transformation spell, and his magic power could not be shaken. Just put it here as decoration.
Coming to the stone statue, Hope chanted: "Study hard and make progress every day!"
The blanket behind the stone statue became fluffy. Going around the stone statue, the three of them lifted the blanket and walked in.
Mateo said with some embarrassment: "Hope, can we change the password?" Although the meaning of this sentence was very good, he felt inexplicably ashamed to shout it out.
Hope refused righteously, "What a positive word. If you say it a few times, you will get used to it."
Arriving inside the base, the place has changed drastically. The base is now divided into three parts, one part is Mateo's laboratory for making wands.
The other part is for studying. There is a bookshelf there, which contains many books and other things that Hope bought, as well as several study desks.
There is also a part of the exercise area that Caleb strongly requested. There are now many dumbbells, barbells, sandbags and other exercise equipment. Caleb believes that a strong body is truly strong, so he exercises there whenever he has nothing to do. Sometimes he even brings They practice together. Not to mention that sometimes it feels good to sweat. Caleb's body is getting stronger and stronger, and emm... he looks less and less like a first grader.
After he learned the Traceless Stretching Charm later, he also wanted to create a rest area, a medicine refining area, and the like.
At this time, there were already people in the base. Yulin was quietly writing her homework, unaware of the arrival of the three people.
Hope looked at Youlin who was writing her homework, and felt that the handwriting on the homework under her hand looked a bit familiar.
Until he got closer to Hope and saw clearly, wasn't this his homework?
"What are you doing?"
Yulin, who was startled by the sudden sound, felt no guilt at all after seeing the person clearly, and said angrily: "Why did you scare me?"
Hope watched Youlin copying his homework word for word, and said speechlessly: "You should correct the homework you copied."
"Who copied your homework? I've finished my homework a long time ago! I think your magic class homework is very good about the application and transformation of the floating spell. Take it over and take a look." Yulin said.
Hope suddenly realized that this was a question he had thought about when he was thinking about the flying spell before. He happened to learn the levitation spell in the previous class, so for this assignment he wrote down some conjectures about how the levitation spell works on the human body to achieve flight. , see if Professor Flitwick has any good suggestions.
"These are just some of my ideas. I will sort them out after Professor Flitwick reads them," Hope said.
After saying that, Yulin also finished copying and said, "Don't forget to give me a copy when the time comes and I'll take a look."
Hope made an OK gesture and said, "I'll put it on the bookshelf after I've sorted it out. Just take a look."
At this time, Mateo came to his laboratory and took out the hair of the Riem cow and the hair of the eight-eyed spider that he had obtained in the Forbidden Forest before, preparing to make the core of the staff.
The production of the wand core is not just about stuffing these materials into the wand, but it needs to be processed and made into something similar to silk thread before it can be used.
Youlin looked at the golden hair and the black needle-like things, and wondered: "Didn't you go to the Forbidden Forest to look for unicorns? Did you find them? I remember that unicorns are silver-white. What are the colors of these? Something’s not right.”
Thinking of the experience in the Forbidden Forest again, Hope couldn't help but sigh and said: "Forget it, I almost couldn't come back. The unicorn was not found, but we found other materials, the hair of the Riem cow and eight Forget about the leg hair of an eye spider and a unicorn, I won’t look for it anymore.”
