RPAGF Chapter 168: Limitations of prophecy, and offensive and defensive battles (3 chapters in 1)
Chapter 168: Limitations of prophecy, and offensive and defensive battles (3 chapters in 1)
As for the rest of the prophecy.
Well - words such as dusk and descending all represent this disaster in prophecies.
Yinghuo represents Mars and represents ominousness.In recent decades, the light of illumination has never weakened, and the disasters have never stopped.
The white beast...referring to Sirocco?Well - although it is true that Zuowu doesn't meet often, it's not impossible.However, a little white cat with Zuowu bloodline is indeed rare.
As for the rose...since the end of the Wars of the Roses, this has generally been a reference to England.
Albion is the ancient name of Britain.
This prophecy is roughly divided into two parts. The first half seems to mean snatching people from Avalon, and the second half seems to say that the person born under three specific conditions is King Arthur.
In the era of Yinghuo Illumination, the man who was born in England and had a white beast by his side was King Arthur.
From this point of view, the one who perfectly meets this condition - the King of Legends is probably not Hermione!
This is really no joke, Harry and Ron were both born in Wales, and the only one among the trio who was born in England was Hermione.If we just interpret the literal meaning of the prophecy, she does fully meet these three constraints.
Of course, he himself fits the bill quite well, but not as much as Hermione.
However, what puzzles Anthony is, what does this return mean?
According to legend, King Arthur did not die, he was just seriously injured and was sent to Avalon by Merlin to recuperate.If return means his return from Avalon, what does the second half mean?
Did you mean that King Arthur was reincarnated? ——Hmm—— A feeling of disharmony came over my face.There seems to be no concept of reincarnation in Celtic mythology!
I don't understand.
Of course, what if King Arthur returns?
Is it possible to hold a light cannon and level a small city with one shot?
Don't be ridiculous, the King Arthur of this world is a Muggle, not even a wizard, so what can he do?
Even the legitimacy of the so-called legendary king.
——Anthony still feels that the legitimacy of the wand in his hand seems more convincing.
"Oh! That's right." In Firenze's hut, Anthony suddenly remembered his purpose of running into the Forbidden Forest.
He blinked his emerald green eyes, looked at Firenze and said, "When I entered the city, I found many Acromantula corpses near the city wall. Can you allow me to collect some things?"
Firenze stared at Anthony.He was surprised.
He was surprised by Antony's indifference and indifference after hearing about the prophecy.
As for the place Anthony was talking about - those were the centaurs' trophies. The Acromantulas that appeared near the town were killed and piled at the foot of the city.
"Ahem! Of course, that thing is of no use to centaurs." Firenze said with a smile.
"Oh, thanks!"
"Hmm - you don't seem surprised at all?"
"Surprised?" Anthony frowned, feeling sorry for this centaur who lived in the forest and had no contact with the outside world.
He explained calmly: "Two thousand years have passed since the story of King Arthur, and the outside world has been turned upside down. Even if he comes back, what's the use? Even if someone obtains his identity, in today's Britain, it will probably only be People exclaimed: Wow! You are actually King Arthur! Then, those who should work must still work, and those who should go to school must go to school. Nothing will change, not even the ability to shake the Windsor royal family."
"The centaurs should really go out for a walk. Dramatic changes are taking place in the magical world. This is the time for you to fight for your rights." With that, Anthony and Ron started eating together.
They haven't eaten yet one night.
"Really?" Firenze looked at the sky outside the window with some confusion.
He didn't understand what Anthony said. The centaurs' impression of Muggles was still in the medieval period.
They cannot imagine the outside world.
Seeing the confusion on his face, Anthony swallowed the rice porridge-like food in the bowl in his hand and said slowly: "For example, suppose that 500 years ago, a great prophet saw it. 500 years later, There will be a huge disaster in the UK, um - a meteorite is hitting London."
"Is such a prediction important?"
"Of course it's important. I don't know how many people will die. You humans should evacuate the residents of London immediately." Firenze said somewhat matter-of-factly.He has a good heart. Although the relationship between centaurs and humans is not very good, he does not want to see so many people die.
"This is the limitation of prophecy. It only sees part of the future. 500 years later, human beings' technology will be enough to enable them to land on the moon. A meteorite will be discovered by humans before it enters the earth's orbit. The next step is just A few 'weapons flying to the outside of the earth' directly destroyed the meteorite."
"What? Humans have landed on the moon?" Firenze was shocked. Although he didn't quite understand what Anthony said about the weapons flying out of the earth in the second half, he heard that humans landed on the moon in the first half.
"Well - 1969 years have passed since Americans landed on the moon on July 7, 21."
"Oh! Anthony is right, it's true." Ron also helped.
Although the wizarding world strictly blocked this news that seriously affected wizards' sense of superiority, due to the special nature of Mr. Arthur's work and the space craze in Britain during that time, Ron came into contact with many Muggles who landed on the moon. Toys, or space book posters or something like that.
"This..." Firenze was a little distracted for a moment.
In the culture of the horse people, the moon is a symbol of dignity and mystery, and they even have festivals to celebrate the full moon.Now I suddenly know that humans have landed on the moon.This made him suddenly feel like his faith had collapsed.
"The Voyager exploration satellites launched by the Americans are almost reaching Pluto. Many 'space telescopes' (exploration satellites) for detecting Mars have already been launched."
"Even the photo quoted in the Hogwarts astronomy textbook was taken by a Muggle satellite!"
"Huh? Is there any?" Ron suddenly raised his head and asked doubtfully.
"Yes! It's the picture of the surface of Mars. The one with weird movements."
"What? Was that taken by a Muggle?"
"To be precise, it was taken by NASA. (National Aeronautics and Space Administration)"
"It's incredible!" Even Ron was a little surprised at this moment.
It's unimaginable that photos taken by Muggles would appear in wizards' textbooks.
In fact, if Anthony hadn't had an "Encyclopedia of the Universe" when he was a child.There was that photo of Mars on it, otherwise he really wouldn't have discovered it.
After all, photos taken by Muggles don't move.
The editor-shaman put a lot of effort into making it move.But the effect is very poor, the picture looks weird.
But little wizards won't notice a small illustration.
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One dinner, Anthony and Ron had a great time.
Except for Firenze, who looked preoccupied and like he had lost his dream.
After dinner, Firenze chatted with them for a long time about various astronomical knowledge.What surprised Anthony was that the centaurs had known about the earth, the moon, stars, planets, the Milky Way and so on very early, even thousands of years ago.
But for more than a thousand years, they seemed to have never made any progress. They were clearly leaders, but they were eventually overtaken by humans.
A candid chat in which Anthony answered almost all of his questions.
Firenze also exchanged some magic knowledge of the centaurs with them.
Anthony explained to him why Ron was only showing his head.
Firenze, while sighing at the magic of the invisibility cloak, taught Anthony some centaurs healing magic.
Afterwards, Firenze led him and Ron to the corner of the city wall where a large number of eight-eyed spider corpses were piled up.
Realizing that they were about to get rich, the two little wizards happily took out a lot of bottles and jars from their pockets and went to collect the poison.
The process was very smooth.Thanks to Professor Snape and Professor Sprout, they didn't do the stupid thing of injuring their fingers while collecting poison and poisoning themselves.
A busy ten minutes.
Anthony didn't know how much he had collected.
He could only sigh while hating that he had too few containers.
Looking at the pile of shrunken glass bottles in his package, Anthony couldn't help but smile. Look, this is no more valuable than King Arthur's name, well - and the broken sword. too much.
While the two of them were immersed in the joy of the harvest, they were completely unaware that on the other side of the forest, after a fire swept through the Acromantula's cave, the group of spiders went crazy.
Aragog, that old spider is not dead.
Thanks to the spider cave and intricate tunnels, it miraculously survived after half of its body was scorched.
Aragog, after settling in the Forbidden Forest, had never suffered any injuries in the six to seventy years. Even when faced with those arrogant centaurs, he and his children could still hold their own against them.But today!Just today!Two young wizards from Hogwarts not only killed hundreds of their own children, but also seriously injured themselves.
It was a humiliation it had never felt before.
Anger spread in the heart of the blind Acromantula.Burning its sanity.
Finally, after it learned from one of its children that it had seen the two little wizards in the forest in front of the centaur town, Aragog finally lost his mind.
Very good, my two opponents actually came together.
Aragog, who was as big as a small elephant, tapped the ground with his intact claws.
It was issuing orders to the spider swarm, ordering them to attack the centaur town.
This time it will destroy both of its enemies together.
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"What's wrong, Firenze?" Anthony, who was shrinking all the glass bottles and putting them in his backpack, was keenly aware that Firenze's expression next to him was a little solemn.
He had a very good impression of this handsome platinum-haired centaur, and invited them to dinner and allowed them to collect spider venom.He was so nice to me when we first met~
It's really uncomfortable...
"The light of Yinghuo tonight is a bit too bright." Firenze frowned and looked into the distance. From the direction guided by the stars, the disaster seemed to come from there...
"Yinghuo? Mars?" Hearing the sound, Anthony also raised his head - it was also some kind of illusion - maybe because he had just set off the fire, he felt that the star in the sky was indeed a bit brighter than usual.
The little wizards also have astronomy classes, and Professor Aurora Sinister takes them to record the stars every week.
There is a huge star chart on the second floor of the Gryffindor common room, so it was not difficult for Anthony to find the location of Mars.
At this moment, there was a commotion in front of the centaur city gate.
Many centaurs wearing leather armor or naked flocked to the city wall.
"Bain, what happened?" Firenze stopped a centaur and asked seriously.
"Ronan came back from the forest and found that the spiders seemed to be going crazy and were heading towards the town."
Bain is a horseman who looks very Scottish. He has a rough face, black beard covering his cheeks, a strong body, and clear muscle outlines. It is obvious that he is a brave warrior.
"How could it be?" Firenze was a little surprised, although their relationship with the Acromantula had never been very good.
Even many centaurs in the tribe believe that the spiders in the forest are tools used by human wizards to destroy the centaurs tribe.
This is one of the reasons why the relationship between Hagrid and these centaurs is so tense.
However, after so many years, although the Acromantulas have been expanding their territory, there has been no direct conflict with the centaurs.At best, they are harassment and sausage tactics.
Moreover, for the centaurs, the biggest danger of Acromantulas is their crazy reproduction, and their demands for food are getting bigger and bigger.
There were countless magical animals and ordinary animals living in the Forbidden Forest.At that time, the nights in the Forbidden Forest were noisy.It was as quiet as it is now, like a pool of stagnant water.
The eyes of the Acromantula compress the food source of all living things, which is what the centaurs are worried about.
"It's fire." From a distance, a horseman with red hair and beard, a shiny brown body below the waist, and a long red tail suddenly walked up.
Anthony recognized it, and he was among the centaurs who escorted him and Ron to the centaur town.
"A fire broke out in the forest, near the Acromantula's lair!"
Ronan walked over with an angry look on his face, stared at Anthony and Ron, and said, "These two wizards must have done something. Otherwise, why would they appear in the forest so late?"
Ronan is completely different from the other two centaurs. Firenze looks like a reserved prince, and Baine looks like a warrior.
As for Ron, the scars all over his body revealed that this man was not easy to mess with. He was more like a gangster or a warlord... the kind of character who could be easily known at a glance.
"Anthony..." Ron was indeed frightened by Ronan's expression. He nervously grabbed Anthony's sleeve.He looked in horror at the centaur who was at least eight feet (about two meters and four meters) in front of him.
"Humph! It is indeed you." The panic on Ron's face could not escape Ronan's eyes, and he immediately realized that he had guessed correctly.
"We are surrounded by spiders, do we have to sit back and wait for death? I just set a fire." Faced with Ronan's eyes, Anthony was not afraid. The guards in his family all had an aura that was inaccessible to strangers. I've long been used to it.
"But you shouldn't have led them here."
"We didn't do it on purpose. Sirocco brought us here. If I could disapparate, I would go directly back to the castle."
Anthony shouted, but he also knew that he was in trouble this time, so he took a deep breath to calm down the excitement in his heart, and said: "I can return to the castle and inform the professors, and they will be willing to help you."
"The centaurs don't need human help." Ron shouted towards the two little wizards: "Don't think we don't know that the spiders in the forest were brought in by you humans."
"Then what do you want? Throw the two of us out to feed the spiders?" Anthony was furious. This centaur has no sense at all.
"We won't do that." At this time, Firenze finally stood up. He looked down at Anthony and Ron. He could guess why the two of them appeared near the centaur town. Then he looked at The other two centaurs said with serious expressions: "Hilok brought them here because he trusted us. Well - inform the tribesmen and prepare for defense!"
"Huh!" Hearing this, the other two centaurs stopped talking. They could also guess the reason, but the centaurs didn't trust humans in their bones.They think about the worst in everything.
After glaring fiercely at Anthony and Ron, the two sturdy centaurs walked away angrily with their hooves.
Looking at their retreating figures, Firenze turned around and said calmly: "You have caused a big trouble."
"If you are willing to accept help, this is nothing." Anthony said lightly. Dumbledore could kill the Acromantulas in the entire forest by himself, plus other professors.
Even Hagrid risked his life to bring Aragog's body out of the spider cave in his sixth year.
For human wizards, who can apparate, they are indeed not afraid of such dark creatures.
"The centaurs are capable of driving away enemies." Firenze's face suddenly turned ugly. He felt a hint of disdain from Anthony's words. That indifferent tone seriously hurt the pride of the centaurs.
Although he yearns for the outside world, he cares more about the dignity and pride of his own race.
"Forehead..."
Looking at Firenze who turned to leave, Anthony froze in place with some embarrassment.
What did you say wrong?
He blinked and looked at Ron next to him. The latter also shook his head, saying that he didn't know why he had such a big reaction.
Anthony, who couldn't understand, simply gave up thinking. He carried Sirocco to the Centaur city wall and looked out at the dark forest outside. The forest without a trace of light seemed to be hiding some kind of terrifying giant beast. Ready to devour any wizard or anything else that dares to enter.
However, Anthony was very calm holding Sirocco in his arms.
After knowing that the cat in his arms could apparate, he suddenly stopped panicking and relied on the cat's strength. Anyway, if any emergency happened, just let Sirocco take them and run away.
The Apparition of Fantastic Beasts is an anti-Apparition spell that can break through Hogwarts, and you can go directly back to the Gryffindor common room in the next second!
It was different from Anthony's relaxed look.
The centaurs around him were all nervous, looking at the forest as if they were facing an enemy.
Countless arrow feathers and spears were carried to the city wall.
A torch, lighting up the city.
Everyone is waiting quietly.
Suddenly there was a commotion on the top of the city. Anthony and Ron looked over and saw that it was a centaur walking towards them.
This centaur is very tall, looking at nine feet (two meters and seventy), and he seems to have a high status in the centaur tribe. There are many young centaurs following him around.
Anthony guessed that he probably had a profession like a general.
"Why are you two little ponies here? Get out of here quickly." The newly-appeared centaur has a particularly irritable personality and is even more impulsive than Ronan. As soon as he met them, he had a scolding tone on his face.
"We're here to help." Ron said quietly, standing behind Anthony.
"Haha, help? Look at your body. Can you draw a bow?" Margery said disdainfully.
Yes, compared to the centaurs who were more than two meters tall, the little wizard who was nearly 12 years old was only as tall as their legs, so he looked really weak.
but...
Anthony didn't speak, but took out his wand and waved it gently towards a big tree outside the city.
A traceless sharp blade passed through, directly cutting off the big tree that was as thick as his waist.
"Can you?" Anthony looked up and said calmly.
"This..." Margery was speechless for a moment. He stared blankly at the fallen tree, with shock in his eyes. Then he looked at Anthony deeply, turned around and left silently.
"Cool!" Ron cheered happily, then looked at the wand wrapped in thick tape in his hand, and his desire for a new wand suddenly became stronger.
He must get a new wand quickly.
And just when the two of them turned their attention to the surrounding centaurs, a shrill roar suddenly sounded in the forest in the distance.
Everyone on the city wall was shocked - the Acromantula is here!
Outside the city, there are many traps, and the group of spiders cannot rush through them for a while.
But the closer and closer 'click-click' sounds told everyone that those traps could not withstand the Acromantula army at all.
Soon, some fish that slipped through the net appeared in the jungle.
"Fire arrows!"
As a roar came from among the centaurs, countless sharp arrows instantly stabbed the calf-sized spider to the core.
But this was just the beginning. Then, more and more spiders appeared in the jungle.
Countless feet stepped on the ground and made a "swirling sound".The crazy army of spiders charged forward fearlessly along the corpses of their companions.
The battle between the centaurs and the Acromantula entered a fever pitch as soon as they made contact.
Anthony also quickly started waving his magic wand, and each spell hit a spider accurately.
He soon discovered that although they were all trying their best to kill these spiders, they had no effect at all on the flood-like spider swarm.If the stalemate continues, it is inevitable to break through the defense line.
The lethality of bows and arrows is still too weak.
At this time, Anthony began to miss the various firearms he had seen at Windsor Castle during the summer vacation.
If there are a few cannons placed on the city wall, no matter how many spiders come, they will still be serving food.