Chapter 166 - 166 The Return of Dracula
Chapter 166: The Return of Dracula
The Curlywing Demon had just been hit by a black-robed sorcerer's stupefaction spell, and although it hadn't suffered much damage due to the outer skin that repelled the magic spell, it was still a bit emotionally dissatisfied.
It viciously bit on Rolf's hand, and then flew up carrying the horn of the poisonous horned beast in its two small claws.
In the distance, the black-robed wizard still stood in the midst of the transparent protective barrier, idly waving his wand and casting magic spells at the animals that swooped around from time to time.
A piece of magical animals once again fell around the barrier, leaving only a horned camel beast, two eight-eyed giant spiders and other higher danger level animals still maintaining their fighting strength, but looking at the current situation should not be able to hold out for long.
Right at this moment, an animal with a green exterior and blue interior spread its large butterfly-like wings and swooped down from high in the air towards the barrier surrounding the black-robed sorcerer.
"Huh, is there actually a curled-winged demon in this forbidden forest?"
The black-robed wizard glanced up suspiciously, but didn't pay too much attention to it, only waving his wand casually.
He was obviously aware of the fact that the outer skin of a curled-winged demon could repel magic, and the magic spell he cast did not attack the green skin on the curled-winged demon's back, but instead purposely struck at its blue abdomen.
In the black-robed sorcerer's opinion, this curled-winged demon was just an unexpected delight that appeared in the forbidden forest, and was no different from other animals.
However, when the spell was about to hit its abdomen, this curled-winged demon loosened its two claws, revealing the horns of the poisonous horned beast.
The black-robed wizard's magic spell was just about to strike this dangerous horn-
"Boom!"
With a loud explosion, the poison horned beast's horn instantly burst apart!
The curled-winged demon very nimbly wrapped itself in its wings and turned into a green cocoon, blocking the impact of the blast with its very sturdy outer skin and bouncing far away from Rolf.
At the same time, the powerful impact immediately blew a huge gash in the protective barrier around the black-robed wizard.
Rolf immediately stood up and once again blew the whistle calling for the animals to attack.
In the next moment, magical animals such as the Horned Camel Beast and the Eight-Eyed Giant Spider that still retained their physical strength also immediately discovered this opening outside the barrier.
They used this opening as an entry point for their charge and instantly tore through the barrier, attacking inside.
Before the black-robed wizard could react from this matter of the barrier being torn apart, he was toppled to the ground by a horn of an angry horned camel beast.
Immediately after that, an eight-eyed giant spider fiercely stuck its huge front chelicerae on his thighs, and the poisonous glands at the tip of the chelicerae immediately secreted a large amount of venom.
The black-robed wizard gripped his wand tightly and tried to continue resisting, but in the blink of an eye, he was crushed by the other angry magical creatures, and completely fainted while being bruised all over ...
Rolf was finally relieved to see the trouble resolved.
But he didn't want that black-robed wizard to be killed under the siege of magical animals just like that, so he pulled out some more scales and feces of fire dragons from his own pouch, found the gaps between the animals, and threw them at the black-robed wizard's side.
There were also grades between magical animals, in which a large, fierce beast like the Fire Dragon, which was of the 5X grade, capable of reaching tens of feet in length, weighing several tons, and could also fly, was undoubtedly located at the forefront of magical animals.
Even the eight-eyed giant spiders, which were also at the 5X level of danger, were only overrated by the magical zoologists who rated them because of their short temper, toxicity, and overly intimidating looks, which didn't mean that they would be able to go head-to-head with the fire dragons.
Therefore, when Rolf threw out the scales and feces that were tainted with the Fire Dragon's scent, these animals that were originally still aggressive felt threatened and did not dare to continue staying.
The fire dragon's scales and feces were indeed quite effective as well, and the animals soon walked away cleanly.
"I told you that the Bent Horn Sound Beast would bring you good luck, right?"
After the animals had left, Luna came bounding out from behind a tree trunk and over to Rolf.
"It did work this time." Rolf nodded approvingly, then looked at Luna with some guilt, "But I'm really sorry for destroying your poisonous horns, well ... the horns of the curved-horned hearty beasts."
"It's okay!" Luna said full of concern, "It was the Bent Horned Hearty Beast that volunteered to help you, and I'm willing to honor it."
"Eh ..." Rolf sweated, "It's good that you don't care that the Bent Horned Sound Beast's horn was destroyed."
He had absolutely no idea what kind of brainwave the little witch was in to be able to say something as bizarre as it being a horn willing to offer to help ...
"I think I'd better go see how the black-robed wizard is doing, don't make a scene ..." Rolf said, changing the subject.
He moved his feet to the black-robed sorcerer who had fallen to the ground, looked at his messy sorcerer's robes, bruised skin, and pale face, and reached out to press his hand on the black-robed sorcerer's heart.
The heart was still beating.
"Whew, it's a good thing no one was killed, I still don't know who the hell this guy is."
Looking at the black-robed sorcerer who was bruised and deep in a coma but at least still had a breath left, Rolf quietly sighed in relief.
He then lifted the hood covering the black-robed wizard's face, wanting to see what kind of person this was that would actually appear inside the Forbidden Forest of Hogwarts and look familiar with the neighborhood.
However, when Rolf saw the black-robed wizard's face, he couldn't help but widen his eyes-
"This is Assistant Professor Riddle?!"
"What is Assistant Professor Riddle doing in the Forbidden Forest in the middle of the night?!"
...
"That's pretty much what happened."
In the Hogwarts Headmaster's office, Rolf condescendingly recounted the events of the past few days to the two people in front of him.
"Grandpa, Professor Dracula, I really didn't think that Assistant Professor Riddle was catching magical animals to add teaching props to the Defense Against the Dark Arts class!" Rolf defended.
"And the way he captured the magical animals wasn't right at all, he actually used something harmful to magical animals like bait spice ... Of course I couldn't hold back and did it!"
"How dare you make excuses with me after you made a mistake?" The older Newt glared at Rolf in a rare moment, "Why don't you hurry up and apologize to Professor Dracula?"
"Do you know that just because you made Professor Dracula's teaching assistant have problems, he ended his vacation early and came back, dedicated professors like Professor Dracula are rare!" Newt said.
"I'm sorry, Professor Dracula." Rolf said honestly under his grandfather's coercion.
"It's fine, it's just a short little vacation, it's not a big problem!" Dracula waved his hand graciously.
As a matter of fact, he would have been too lazy to continue staying at Dracula's castle.
After all, having to be arranged by this cheap daughter of Serena to do all sorts of things every day always made him feel a bit faceless. In contrast, it was instead more comfortable to teach at Hogwarts.
Just as Newt and Rolf were still praising Dracula's dedication to giving up his vacation, another voice came tearing down the stage-
"But I vaguely remember that Professor Dracula didn't have the Headmaster's approval for this vacation at the time, did he?" Dumbledore, who had been sitting behind his desk watching the play for half a day, suddenly interjected at this point.
"You directly dumped the professor's job to Riddle, the assistant professor, and didn't even bother to greet me, and then disappeared alone for more than a month?" Dumbledore said with a smirk.
"I take it you weren't originally planning on coming back for a few more days? Just in time for Christmas when the students are out of school and there's still another month of vacation left."
"Ahem ... I don't think I've gone overboard to that extent either, have I?" Dracula pulled down a black line on his face.
As a matter of fact, he had really thought about it like that.
"Been there, done that!" Dumbledore commented with a nod.
In the blink of an eye, it was revealed that Dracula hadn't even asked the Headmaster for a leave of absence, had granted his own leave, had thrown his work to the TAs, and had secretly butchered his way out of Hogwarts all by himself.
Newt and Rolf were both a little stiff-faced.
The two wizards, one of them old and one of them young, had just been praising Dracula's dedication to giving up his vacation to come back to class, and in the next second they were listening to Dumbledore talk about Dracula's behavior of secretly running away from Hogwarts on his own ...
"So the last time we met on Mount Olympus, you didn't take time out of your vacation to go there, but instead you just butchered out of Hogwarts?" Newt couldn't help but ask.
When he had taken Rolf to Mount Olympus to observe that strange weather vision, he had at least greeted the professors and leaders of Yinfamoni and given Rolf an early vacation.
Although by this time, Rolf's previous vacation had long expired, but at least it wasn't like Dracula who left without saying goodbye and gave himself a vacation ah ...
"It's true that I had just run away from Hogwarts at the time, and I was feeling a bit bored at that moment, so it suddenly occurred to me to visit an old friend in Mount Olympus." Dracula shrugged, "I was going to go back after a week, but I didn't expect to meet Mr. Scamander."
"Quite a lot did happen in between, and it was delayed for quite a while."
"Otherwise it wouldn't have been so bad that a small wizard sneaked up on my assistant professor and seriously injured him."
Dracula glanced at Rolf and laughed softly.