Archaeologists at Hogwarts

Deep in the silence and darkness of the Forbidden Forest, Toby sat on a raised rock. He pushed his long hair back to the back of his head, revealing the scars scratched by arrow blades on his cheeks, and then held the inlay tightly with his right hand.

The butt end of a sharp arrow that enters the flesh and blood.

"Huh...huh...hiss-"

Toby gritted his teeth, pulled out the arrow, and threw it aside.

"Al, give me the white essence."

"ah."

Toby silently treated the injury on his body and poured the white essence on the wound bit by bit. Within a few seconds, the wound began to heal slowly, leaving a medium-sized scar.

He put the fresh food back into Al's belly pocket and kicked the seriously injured Bain aside. The unconscious Bain groaned in pain, but still did not wake up.

The witch robe flew over and was automatically put on Toby's body, covering the dense magic circle, and the dark atmosphere disappeared immediately.

The Black Devil once again transformed into a mediocre ancient magic professor. Almost no one knew how many traces there were under his clothes, and how much unimaginable pain Toby had to pay.

Toby looked around - except for Bain, who received extra "preferential treatment", all the centaurs were piled together, forming a sizable pyramid - the leader Margery was located at the top of the tower.

He is also the only one who can stay awake.

"I can't let you..."

A spell flashed across and hit Margery, and the world finally became pure.

In other ancient ruins in the past, whenever Toby had to fight a battle like this, he would start the process of searching for the ruins.

And this time, Toby didn't want to be an exception.

He suddenly felt that protecting the Philosopher's Stone was not that important anymore. This was a God-given opportunity - he had explored many places in the Forbidden Forest during this semester, but there was always one place that he could not forget, which he had never been able to touch.

place.

Even the only time he wandered around the edge, he was discovered by the hot-tempered Bain. As a result, he formed a grudge with Al, which also led to the duel in the last confinement.

Al, who was sitting on the flying carpet, put his treasures back into his belly pocket. It flew back to Toby's head, tilted its neck and called out: "Huh?"

"No, there's no need to rush back to the castle just yet."

Toby said calmly: "Let's go."

"It's time to go see the real centaurs tribe."

At this moment, not only was the Philosopher's Stone no longer important, but even Dumbledore's instructions were forgotten by Toby - nothing can compare to archeology - the centaurs were living in the Forbidden Forest.

For nearly a thousand years, they have the qualifications to be regarded as ancient magic.

Toby bypassed the centaurs who could no longer stop him, passed through a dense hazel forest, walked with Al beside a narrow stream, and then detoured through several woods again.

Finally, they stopped in front of a wall formed by branches.

There were bursts of sounds coming from inside the wall, including people talking to each other and noises from having fun - female centaurs and centaur cubs all lived inside, waiting for the male centaurs to return.

The magic ball flew out of Toby's pocket and melted to form a silent magic circle, covering both of them, dimming their figures little by little until they were completely transparent.

Compared with wizards, horse people prefer to stay close to nature and interpret nature. In this tribe, you can see green houses made of plants everywhere. Next to each house there is a piece of cultivated land, where planters and rats

Herbs such as tail grass and fragrant mallow are specially used by centaurs in their special divination methods.

A young pony lit the herbs on fire. He carefully observed the shape and signs of the smoke, and suddenly screamed: "A stranger has broken in!"

His divination was immediately ridiculed by his companions.

"Oh, come on, you said the same thing last time, but what happened? We still found nothing."

"Yes, that time we all went to find Granny Liya. She is the most powerful prophet in the tribe, but in the end nothing happened."

The pony man suddenly became aggrieved: "But the result of my divination is clearly like this, and the method was not wrong..."

He turned his attention to a corner of the tribe, where there was also a house made of plants. The only difference was that there was a silver lime tree with a diameter of more than ten feet growing next to the house, highlighting the extraordinary identity of the owner.

Silver lime wands made from the silver lime tree are beautiful in appearance, and have properties suitable for seers and legilimens. The mysterious nature of these two roles gives the holder of the silver lime wand a high status.

At the same time, Toby also walked to the door of this special room.

Almost the moment he arrived, an old voice came from the house: "Please come in, guest from afar."

Al suddenly became alert. Toby waved his wand and pushed the door open without touching it with his hands.

He walked in.

All the decorations in the house are also made of living plants. Except for the old man lying on the soft grass, she is also a centaur, but she looks very old. She is probably older than Dumbledore.

Even older.

Toby withdrew from the invisible state. He stood in front of the old man and said condescendingly: "I thought Margaret was your leader."

"He is indeed." The old man said calmly, not surprised at all by Toby's arrival: "The centaurs need a strong enough leader to protect themselves, and Margery is the best."

Toby declined to comment.

"Then who are you?" he asked.

"If this makes it easier for you to understand." The old man explained: "You can think of me as the sacrificial master of the tribe, with a higher status in the entire tribe."

"Compared with the leader?" Toby asked curiously.

The old man showed a smile: "I watched Margery grow up. He is willing to listen to my words and will never embarrass you again from now on. I can guarantee this."

Unfortunately, this promise was of no value to Toby. He was more interested in the noble old man in front of him. Even in his many years of archeology, a complete tribe of centaurs was rare.

"Who was the stranger who sneaked in before?" Toby asked bluntly.

The old man pondered for a while.

"It's the person whose name can't even be named." The old man finally answered: "He briefly appeared in the forest and also found the centaur tribe. In order to prevent him from harming the cubs in the tribe, I

I had to make some exchanges with him."

Seeing Toby's eyes becoming more and more dangerous, the old man still replied calmly: "If you want to know - Dumbledore also knew about this a long time ago. The last time you took the children of the castle,

After he was brought to the forest, he came here to deal with the problems you caused."

The old man didn't say the word "threat", but Toby already understood what was going on.

"This is the fate of centaurs." The old man continued: "Before Dumbledore gave us the statue of House, we didn't know much about this ancestor. We only knew the instructions he left behind - no matter how we

Whatever the divination results are, we are not allowed to take the initiative to disclose it to the outside world. Because the continuation of the bloodline of the centaurs is more important than anything else. Once this is violated, the wizards may regard us as enemies."

"——This will lead to the destruction of the centaurs. You should know the history and what happened to the giants and the goblins. There are only a small number of them left and they are struggling to survive. The reasons for this are very complicated."

"The only reason I can tell you is that magic is not eternal. I understand your philosophy, and part of your guess is right. The level of magic that wizards can use in the entire magical world has indeed decreased - the real reason is

You need to find it yourself, as it is shrouded in the fog of divination level, and even most centaurs cannot detect it."

Similar to the way he came, Toby also left the centaur tribe silently.

It was only then that the female centaurs quietly gathering around the old man's house began to disperse.

This actually made Toby make an interesting discovery. The social structure of the centaurs is biased towards a matriarchal society, and the female centaurs are the main force that truly maintains the continuation of the centenarian bloodline.

"No wonder the centaurs have been able to live in the Forbidden Forest for so long."

On the way back to the castle, Toby explained to Al: "It is estimated that even the previous headmasters of Hogwarts do not know the secret of female centaurs."

"They are the most powerful centaurs, and they will only show up when they are threatened with annihilation."

Al blinked in confusion: "Yeah?"

"Are you talking about me?" Toby said nonchalantly: "It's probably because they divined something. It seems that there are still people who can understand what it means to be more Slytherin than Slytherin."

"In other words, even they don't want to become one of the real relics."