Chapter 83

The night of the forbidden forest is still so dark. Occasionally, the wind blows and the leaves rustle.

In the depression deep in the forbidden forest, it is still a mess. Numerous eight eyed giant spiders, large and small, surrounded Maka, who came again, and stared at him silently with eight big shining eyes.

This is the third time since the beginning of this semester that Maka has entered the territory of the eight eyed giant spider. He spent almost a whole summer vacation on the transformation of his blood.

You know, in addition to helping Willie take care of Raphael Long's kiss when she was in brova fort, Maka mostly studied this aspect in her spare time.

The good news is that the research on blood transformation is going well. We can start our first attempt tonight.

"Aragok, are you ready?" Maka asked calmly.

When Maka came back from France and came to the forbidden forest for the first time, aragok met with his wife mossag.

At first, moszag didn't agree. It was like killing him to give up his children.

But when mossag learned that if aragok accepted the blood transformation, the children born would be stronger and easier to survive, he quickly agreed.

In the forbidden forest, even for the population of eight eyed giant spiders, the survival rate of larvae is not very high. Mossag always loses his temper because his children disappear and die. It is very important for him that his children can grow up healthily.

But even so, aragok hesitated about "accepting the transformation of wizards".

When Maka asked aragok if he was ready, aragok rattled around, obviously still worried.

"Don't worry, I also said that even if the transformation fails, there will be no problems." Maka comforted, "at most, I feel very tired and need to rest for a few days."

Maka chose the transformation plan from his best magic medicine.

He extracted some of aragock's body fluids and mixed it with the blood of the basilisk. If successful, aragock may not have too much change, but its children will integrate some of the magical properties of the Basilisk into the characteristics of the eight eyed giant spider.

However, this blood transformation is indeed very difficult. Even if the research process is quite smooth, Maka doesn't think it will succeed soon.

When aragok said he was ready, Maka decisively injected the prepared liquid medicine into his body.

As time went by, aragok's state didn't seem to change much. It just slowly became listless. From standing at the beginning, it gradually became lying on the ground.

"I feel... Weak," alagok said with a click.

"I think the first attempt failed." Maka patted aragok on the leg, then took out a bottle of magic medicine and handed it to his mouth. "Drink this, and then rest for a few days, and you can recover soon."

It's normal that the failure of the first attempt didn't bring too many accidents to Maka. All he needs to do is readjust the modified formula according to the data collected in this attempt, that's all.

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In the early morning of the next day, the sun rose as usual, scattering the first sunrise on Hogwarts, dispersing the silence brought by the night.

Maka got up from bed, finished washing in a hurry, and hurried to the greenhouse.

Although Willie dropped out of school, she continued to take care of the flowers and plants - there were a lot of magic medicine materials planted by Maka herself. If she was careless, she would lose a lot.

In the past, there must have been no one so early, but today there is an uninvited guest in the greenhouse.

"Professor?"

As soon as Maka opened the door of the greenhouse, she saw Snape who was looking at herbs in the greenhouse.

Snape nodded expressionless to Marca.

Just as Marca was going to do her own business, Snape took the initiative.

"Wolf venom, how's it going?" snape asked.

"Good progress, professor." Maka turned around and replied, "although the preparation process is very complicated, there is no great difficulty in pharmacology."

"Well," snape nodded, lowered his head and continued to check the herbs.

When Maka saw this, she wanted to go back and make trouble with her own affairs, but on second thought, she stopped again.

"Professor Snape, there is a kind of flower. I wonder if you can look at it for me?" asked Marca.

He refers to the flowers that Willie asked him to try last semester. After that, Maka continued to check a lot of information, but did not solve the original question.

He thought that maybe Snape, a master of potions, would know and maybe.

"You should ask Professor spraot such a question." snape raised his head and said impatiently.

But even if he said so, he still came to Maka.

The flower seeds that Maka tried to plant have grown some stems and leaves. They look very ordinary. They won't move around like other magical plants, and they won't suddenly eject any gas.

Like some Muggle plants, they just break through the ground and stand there quietly.

But if you look carefully, you will find that there is a layer of Psychedelic brilliance on their branches and leaves, and people will stare at it unconsciously for a long time.

At this point, even Snape was caught.

Marca had to pat Snape on the arm to remind him.

"You can't stare at those lights. It's easy to get stuck," Maka said.

Snape looked away, stood in his place and thought for a moment before he spoke.

"I haven't seen it, and I don't remember mentioning it in any ancient books, but it should have a strong psychedelic effect." snape said seriously. "When they bloom, we must be prepared for it."

Maka nodded immediately.

"... you can ask Professor sprott again," snape suggested.

"In fact, I've already asked, and she doesn't know what kind of flower it is," Marca said. "This is the flower seed provided by Miss brova. Although I don't know where she got it, maybe it's a new artificially cultivated variety."

Snape gave an "um" and glanced at the plants again, then walked away.

He came to the greenhouse this time to select some herbs for teaching. Although he is always cold faced and doesn't like students asking questions in class, he is always well prepared in teaching.

Snape is a qualified professor of magic medicine, which is personally recognized by Dumbledore. His vision has rarely made mistakes.

The time before breakfast passed quickly. When Maka finished packing up her tools, she hurried away again. Snape, on the other hand, had already gone back to his office halfway through his work.

After breakfast, the first class today is Professor Lupin's defense against the dark arts.

Lu almost stepped into the classroom with the class bell. He looked at everyone and smiled. He put his tattered suitcase on the desk.

His clothes were as shabby as when he came, but he looked healthier than when he was on the train, as if he had eaten a few strong meals.

"Good morning, everyone," he said. "Please put all your books back in your schoolbag. Today is a practice class. Just hold a magic wand."

The whole class immediately put the books back in their bags. Everyone looked very excited because they had never taken a practical class on defense against the dark arts.

It does sound new.

"Well," said lupin, seeing that everyone was ready, "come with me!"

Everyone stood up and followed lupin out of the classroom.

He led them along the empty corridor, turned a corner and went to another corridor. Soon he stopped and was parked outside the teacher's lounge.

"Please go in," said Professor Lupin, opening the door and taking a step back.

The teacher's lounge is a long place full of old chairs. It looks spacious and the windows are large, which makes it always bright.

In the deepest part of the room, near the wall, there was a big wardrobe. It shook and banged against the wall from time to time. It seemed to contain something.

"How could I forget this thing! I knew I should have skipped this class..." Maka shook her head and said, "unless everyone wants to see what Bogart looks like."

"Don't worry," said Professor Lupin calmly, because several students looked nervous. "There's just a Bogot in it."

"Bogart likes dark, closed spaces," Professor Lupin said. "The wardrobe, the gap under the bed, the cupboard under the sink - once I met a Bogart hidden in an old clock in my ancestral home."

"This one moved in yesterday afternoon. I asked the headmaster if the teachers could not disturb it and give my third grade students some practice opportunities."

"So, I think what you should know in advance is --" what's Bogot? "Lupin asked, looking at the students.

"It is a deformed creature. It will see through your heart and become what you fear most," replied a Ravenclaw boy.

"Yes, that's right, that's right!" lupin nodded with a smile.

He paused, glanced at Marca standing behind, and suddenly said, "Mr. McLean, I always hear other professors say that you usually have a deeper understanding of some knowledge. Don't you know what you want to add?"

Maka looked at lupin and said, "it can't be said to be a supplement. It's just a guess - Bogot's deformation to frighten people may be because they feed on human fear, not the self-defense generally considered by the wizard world."

"Of course, this is only the guess of some wizard scholars, but I personally think this guess is really reasonable."

"Yes, it's just a guess. McLean is right." lupin nodded. "But it's a good research topic, which involves a lot of very profound knowledge. I hope you can understand it in the future."

"Well, next, I think..."