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HP: Fantastic Beasts And The Right Way To Use Them - 231
🕑 Added 2025-10-18 19:41:00 +0000 UTCChapter 231: The Basilisk's Little Wish
BOOM!
Its body crashed down again, but the delicious little wizard dodged, making its heart, already dominated by bloodlust, increasingly irritable.
Actually, it didn't want to use this stupidest method of hunting by smashing down with its body, but this prey was different from the past. It had never smelled such a fragrance before, and whether fangs or eyes, both would make this fragrance less pure.
It needed the most perfect food and didn't want this delicacy tainted with any other scent.
However, although this delicacy smelled very fragrant, it was still far from that extremely, extremely fragrant thing it had smelled when first emerging.
It had thought about how happy it would be as a little basilisk if it could eat that extremely, extremely fragrant thing.
Unfortunately, it had tried many times, but whenever that extremely, extremely fragrant thing approached, it would give it a very dangerous feeling, making it involuntarily want to flee.
The basilisk's mood suddenly became somewhat downcast.
In its life, it actually didn't have any great wishes. As a basilisk, it didn't have very deep thoughts to carry overly grand aspirations.
It only had one small wish—to eat a few full meals.
But even such a tiny wish had rarely been realized. At the very beginning, the one feeding it daily was a cold-looking old wizard who seemed to only treat it as an ordinary test subject, feeding it a little something each day and conducting some experiments on it. That period was the most comfortable time it had lived through.
But one day, that cold old wizard suddenly never appeared again. Time flowed by as it spent countless years in this laboratory before waiting for the second person to open the door.
It was that person who gave it its first full meal and brought it the concept of "heir," giving it another mission besides eating its fill that it couldn't disobey.
However, starting from a certain day, that person also disappeared, leaving only it again. In this room it shed countless skins before finally waiting for someone who could let it out.
But that time, aside from eating a little girl's soul, it didn't eat anything else at all—it couldn't be called fulfilling its dream.
And then there was this time.
Looking at the fragrant little wizard before it, a crimson gleam flashed in the basilisk's eyes.
Its body heavily crashed down again, forcing that little wizard to dodge aside with his exhausted body.
His body should have already reached its limit—he could only keep his eyes tightly shut, not daring to raise his head and look directly at it.
This was good. Humans illuminated by its eyes, it could only eat some soul fragments but couldn't eat their delicious flesh.
The basilisk slowly opened its mouth.
Today, it would definitely eat a full meal!
But just as it was about to bite down, it suddenly discovered that the wizard boy before it with tightly closed eyes suddenly showed a smile on his face.
Then, his chest badge seemed to brighten, and a voice sounded simultaneously from front and back.
It was a young boy's voice, seemingly just past voice change, sounding somewhat muffled but revealing endless excitement.
The next second, it only felt a piercing pain from its tail, hurting so much it nearly fainted on the spot.
The next second, it only felt a piercing pain from its tail, hurting so much it nearly fainted on the spot.
"Honestly, after seeing Hermione use it so many times, I've long wanted to try what this spell feels like in combat!"
"Terramotus!"
BOOM!
The wide room shook violently. Fred felt that with himself as the center, everything around seemed to enter his control.
The ground cracked according to his thoughts, tremors spread following his intentions, and endless power surged from below into his left leg, pressing on that basilisk's tail tip.
"ROAR!"
The basilisk before him let out a miserable roar. Its tail instantly shattered, exposing white bones, then even the bones were shattered by high-frequency vibrations. The entire tail completely exploded, turning to powder and scattering around.
"That brutal?"
Seeing the effect of his stomp, Fred's eyes widened in surprise.
He'd only learned this magic less than three months ago—he didn't expect one stomp to have such devastating results?
Looking at the basilisk writhing on the ground from intense pain, delight arose in Fred's heart.
Have I already become this strong? Can I withstand an XXXXX-level basilisk?
But just as Fred was feeling smug, Wood's somewhat breathless voice sounded behind him.
"I heard Professor Kahn say this magic causes purely physical damage."
"The basilisk's skin has strong resistance to magic, but when facing physical attacks, it's only slightly stronger than ordinary large snakes. That's why your stomp was effective."
"Can't you let me be happy a bit longer?"
Rolling his eyes, Fred's body suddenly lunged aside as a gust of wind swept past. A giant snake head appeared at his original position, its stinking venomous fangs biting at empty air, some venom sliding from the fangs and corroding small pits in the ground.
"Phew—good thing I reacted fast."
Scrambling up from the ground, Fred looked at the shadow on the floor and calmed his breathing.
Wood had already aimed his wand at the basilisk's shadow, slightly raising it while reciting the spell.
"Confringo!"
Although these senior students were better at using Stunning Spells in combat, facing the basilisk, the Stunning Spell definitely wouldn't be as effective as the Blasting Curse.
After all, the basilisk's skin had very high magic resistance, while the Blasting Curse's damage wasn't a purely magical attack.
Actually, if possible, he also wanted to try close combat with the heavy stomp magic, but after Fred's stomp just now, this basilisk had been crazily smashing around everywhere, giving him no chance to get close.
However, his teammates should be arriving soon. With more people creating distractions, he might have a chance to try.
Bright yellow light exploded on the basilisk's back, making the already pain-crazed basilisk's writhing even more violent. At the same time, footsteps sounded in the corridor behind them, accompanied by voices from their chest badges.
"We've reached the second-floor bathroom. Do we jump into this pit?" Daphne's voice sounded somewhat hesitant, because that large crater didn't look safe.
"That's right! You just jump straight down. Little Ronnie was caught by Percy and is down there to receive you."
"What do you mean 'caught'! This was voluntary!" Ron's embarrassed and angry shout came through the badge.
"All right, stop arguing!" Percy's voice rang through the channel. Then Wood heard that steady voice simultaneously from behind.
After so many Magical Creatures Club gatherings, Percy had gradually developed the presence of a proper commander.
"Spread out formation! Fix Lumos in the sky and determine the basilisk's direction through shadows!"
"We're facing a real XXXXX-level creature this time. One mistake, and even if Professor Kahn might be watching nearby, he might not be able to save you in time!"
"Got it!"
"Understood!"
(TL NOTE: Now the Stomp Charm/Earthquake spell is named 'Terramotus.')
