Chapter 51 Forbidden Forest (Ch 51)

Ten o’clock…

“Um…excuse me for asking, why are you guys here? Mr. Filch? What’s going on?” Kaisen looked at the five little wizards and then at Filch who brought them here.

“This is the punishment given to them by Professor McGonagall. They were originally supposed to follow Hagrid to patrol the Forbidden Forest, but now they follow you instead.” Filch said humbly.

“Okay. Thank you, Mr. Filch, and all of you, follow me and don’t fall behind. Since you are here today, we will just take a walk outside the Forbidden Forest.”

After Filch left, five small lanterns appeared in Kaisen’s hands, and three pieces of fluorite also appeared and surrounded him.

“Cool!”

“Of course, if you are not in the punishment time, I would even let you touch it…Draco, please let go of your hand?” Kaisen had just finished saying that if it was not the punishment time, he would be willing to let the young wizards touch the fluorite, and Draco quickly put his hand on it…

All in all, it’s very disrespectful.

Kaisen held the wand in one hand, with fluorites flying around him, ensuring that they could turn into hard obsidian in an instant to physically knock out any magical creature that suddenly attacked him.

He even took out a rope and asked several little wizards to hold it in their hands to ensure that they would not fall behind.

Draco, who was new to dancing but loved to jump, quickly grabbed the front rope. After all, Professor Kaisen, who was so close at hand, was much safer than a useless rope.

The other four young wizards were a little embarrassed. On the one hand, they also wanted to be as close to Kaisen as possible. On the other hand, as Gryffindors, the courage imprinted in them made them embarrassed to compete with Draco for the front position.

Just like that, five shivering teams of six people slowly patrolled the outside of the forbidden forest.

“Professor, are we in danger?” Harry, who was walking at the back, suddenly said after a while.

“That shouldn’t be the case. Wasn’t this punishment arranged by Professor McGonagall? Although Dumbledore has always been unreliable, Professor McGonagall is still very reassuring.” Kaisen explained.

Draco, who was walking behind him, breathed a sigh of relief. Professor McGonagall certainly didn’t seem like the kind of person who would kill a young wizard at the drop of a hat.

After all, such a serious person…

“Okay, let’s patrol as quickly as possible, and then get through your punishment for today as quickly as possible. Then you can happily nestle in your bed again, and never have to grind redstone again.”

“Of course that’s not necessarily the case. Draco, you’d better not make the same mistake you did before.”

Kaisen added, remembering something.

“Not again, Professor.” Draco shuddered as if recalling the nightmare-like experience of grinding stone.

The six of them chatted idly like this. Most of the time, Kaisen was worried that the little wizards were scared, so he kept finding topics to talk to them, hoping that this would make them relax a little.

Most of the magical animals in the Forbidden Forest are intelligent. Although their intelligence is not high, they can still distinguish that five little wizards and an adult wizard with high magical powers cannot become their prey.

The simple brains of these magical animals can perform such simple conversions.

If you take a chance, you are almost certain to die.

Until Kaisen felt that they had almost walked, he took out his pocket watch from his pocket: “It’s already twelve o’clock. We still need two hours to get out of the forbidden forest. I hope you don’t have classes tomorrow morning.”

“Actually, we have an early morning meeting tomorrow,” Harry said with a bitter face.

“Perhaps you can ask Madam Pomfrey for some refreshing potion. It is very suitable for people who are tired when they wake up early, if you don’t mind the embarrassment of having white smoke coming out of your ears.”

“Perhaps.”

Neville murmured softly, then he raised his head and looked past Ron, Hermione, Draco, and finally Professor Kaysen.

At this time, Kaisen was looking up, controlling the fluorite to drift towards one of the places. It seemed that there was a…human figure there?

The figure realized that he had been discovered and walked out of the bushes. He was a sturdy man with a human upper body and a horse lower body… a centaur.

“I’m a professor at Hogwarts, Kesenhis, and you are…” Kesen still held the wand tightly in his hand. He had already made up his mind that as long as the centaur in front of him made the slightest movement, the three withered skulls would instantly blow him into pieces.

“My name is Ronan, and I’m a centaur. We have always lived deep in the Forbidden Forest, and we have nothing to do with you wizards…”

Kaisen nodded. “That’s the best way. Then, Mr. Ronan, why don’t you stay in the depths of the Forbidden Forest, but come here? I remember that this should be considered the outer circle, at best close to the middle circle.”

“Mars is unusually bright tonight, which means that the forbidden forest will not be peaceful in the near future,” said Ronan.

“Mars…disasters and accidents?”

Ronan nodded. “The centaurs’ astrology is different from the wizards’ divination, but their views on Mars are similar. Recently, many unicorns have been killed in the Forbidden Forest. Perhaps it was some powerful and evil magical animal, or perhaps it was some people with ulterior motives.”

Kaisen nodded, his eyes still fixed on the centaur in front of him, while he chatted and laughed with the five little wizards behind him: “It’s a pity, if we had heard the news an hour ago, we could have returned to the castle an hour earlier.”

“But it’s not too late now. Thank you for your reminder, Mr. Ronan.” Kaisen protected the little wizards behind him and retreated silently.

Ronan also understood the situation: “The centaurs have no intention of attacking you.”

“Hmm.” Kaisen nodded, and only put down his wand when he saw Ronan turn around and start to pedal the horse’s hooves. The horse’s shadow was soon out of sight, so he made a clattering sound.

“Let’s leave quickly. I don’t know if what the centaur named Ronan said is true, but I can’t take the risk.”

This time, the group of six did not follow the original route, but instead followed the Big Dipper in the sky and walked straight towards the Hogwarts Castle.

Along the way, they built bridges over rivers and roads over slopes. Until this moment, Kaisen took a deep breath.

He regretted it, really regretted it. If he had known that such a bad thing would happen, why would he walk in a straight line? He would have just followed the original route.