Chapter 363 Katebourne

Chapter 363 Katebourne
The Forbidden Forest was as eerie and silent as ever.

As soon as Xie Ling entered the depths of the forbidden forest, the divine Amaterasu was immediately fully activated, and any movement within a few miles could not escape Xie Ling's perception.

Ever since most of the forces in the Forbidden Forest were unified by the Silver Fang's wolf pack, those dangerous dark creatures seemed to have behaved themselves a lot better. Xie Lin could hardly sense the presence of any red-hatted monsters or blood-sucking bear spirits. However, there was a group of sika deer foraging not far away.

Xie Ling frowned slightly, he felt the breath of the wizard's magic.

He hid his body with the invisibility spell and explored the surroundings carefully, and indeed he found something.

With the center of the Forbidden Forest as the point, eight corners around it are equipped with a monitor similar to Moody's Alchemical Eye.

It was a close call. If it weren't for Xie Ling's invisibility magic that could avoid the detection of this magical device, Xie Ling would have exposed himself.

Moody's Alchemical Eye was not something that was commonplace. According to Schelling's understanding, in addition to the Ministry of Magic, only a few powerful pure-blood families in Great Britain could own one, and its price was not much different from that of a Firebolt - this showed how much Dumbledore had invested in it...

This is actually not surprising at all. Given Dumbledore's character of always strategizing and controlling the overall situation, Hogwarts, as his base, would definitely not allow any unexpected changes to occur near Hogwarts.

Xie Ling secretly released a huge two-headed snake from the suitcase space and ordered it in snake language to hunt the deer.

The two-headed snake is a variant of the Runespoor, a monster carefully cultivated in Schelling's dark laboratory. The loss of a head not only did not weaken the power of the Runespoor, but made it even more insidious and cunning.

The two-headed snake did not recklessly attack the deer. Instead, it changed its scales to a color similar to the earthy surroundings and slowly approached the deer almost silently.

When they were about three feet away from the feet of the deer, a few more alert male deer seemed to sense the approach of danger. They showed vigilant looks and began to look around constantly, but unfortunately they noticed nothing.

In the blink of an eye, the two-headed snake flashed by like lightning, and its two heads simultaneously killed the two largest deer.

The remaining deer suddenly panicked and scattered in all directions, causing the scene to fall into chaos.

The two-headed snake seized the opportunity and flashed everywhere like a phantom bubble. Every flash would mercilessly take the life of a deer.

"Stop - faint!" An extremely angry roar was heard, and Xie Ling's mouth corners slightly raised. He knew that the prey he had been waiting for had finally taken the bait.

The visitor was Sylvanus Kettleburn, the former professor of Care of Magical Creatures specially invited by Dumbledore.

Although the two-headed snake is immersed in hunting, its two heads and two pairs of eyes allow it to always be distracted and alert to its surroundings.

The two-headed snake nimbly dodged the first stun spell that came its way.

Although it was the first time Kettleburn had seen such a ferocious beast, he had rich experience in dealing with magical animals and soon realized that this beast was probably a man-made species of runespoor snake.

He took out a bag from his pocket without any hurry, threw it forward with all his strength, and the bag exploded in the air, spraying brown and yellow powder mist all over the sky. Xie Ling sniffed it gently and soon recognized that it was a secret snake repellent powder, a secret recipe that only a few magical animal experts knew how to mix.

Sure enough, the appearance of the yellow powder mist made the two-headed snake's reaction significantly slower, and its range of activity gradually shrank as it had to avoid the powder mist.

Kettleburn did not let his guard down. He first took out a bottle of potion from his pocket that could make the drinker immune to any snake venom damage and drank it. Then he took out a tube of ointment and carefully applied it on his neck and hands, making his entire palms look shiny.

Xie Ling's eyes narrowed slightly. It seemed that except for the Defense Against the Dark Arts class, almost none of the professors at Hogwarts were easy to deal with.

The ointment applied on the neck and hands is a hardening ointment that can make the skin as hard as iron, so hard that the sharp teeth of ordinary beasts cannot bite through it.

Schelling would not doubt that the outdoor wizard robe worn by Professor Kettleburn would also have some function to protect the wearer.

Professor Celtborn first used Flock of Birds to disrupt the two-headed snake, then slowly approached step by step.

When he was about seven or eight steps away from the two-headed snake, just as he raised his wand to give the two-headed snake a critical blow, a black Bowtruckle suddenly appeared on his shoulder, pointed in the direction of Xie Ling and screamed loudly.

What kind of magical Bowtruckle is this? It can actually sense Xie Ling’s presence!
Xie Ling couldn't help but feel extremely surprised. This surprise was more because his confident invisibility magic was actually discovered. Although he knew that this would not change anything - with his current strength, when Kettleburn appeared alone, his fate was already doomed.

The dark soul magic in his body exploded in an instant, and terrifying pressure immediately descended upon the field. A violent black shadow appeared and disappeared behind him, like a world-destroying demon god descending to the world.

The only remaining deer let out a mournful cry and knelt on the ground trembling. The two-headed snake also bent its neck and lowered its two proud heads.

When Celticburn saw a pair of scarlet snake-shaped eyes, he lost consciousness for a moment.

The soul-controlling ring that Schelling had just put on his right ring finger emitted an eerie dark green light. With a sound of "soul leaving the body", Celticburn's body stiffened. Without even showing any sign of resistance, he fell directly into Schelling's control.

The reason why it went so smoothly was not only because of Xie Ling's own extremely strong magical power, but also because the Soul Control Ring's amplification of the Imperius Curse was more powerful than Xie Ling had expected.

The performance of black magic requires evil thoughts as a basis, so a powerful black magic caster usually has varying degrees of psychological and spiritual distortion.

Although Schelling had conducted in-depth theoretical research on black magic, in order to protect his own mind and soul from being harmed by black magic, he himself could not be said to have made great achievements in black magic.

Xie Ling originally thought that it would take a lot of effort to cast his Imperius Curse, and finally rely on his mental power at the level of a grand magician to forcibly control Keltborn. However, he didn't expect that Keltborn didn't even have the strength to resist his Imperius Curse.

No wonder in the original world, Yaxley, who possessed this ring, could become a master of the Imperius Curse and successfully control the then high-ranking Ministry of Magic Director of the Department of Law Enforcement, Pius Synix, with the Imperius Curse, making other Death Eaters at the time amazed at his performance.

Now that I think about it, this ring probably played an important role in Yaxley's success.