Hogwarts Rebel

After confirming that the werewolves had left, Mo Lan and Cynthia walked out of the catalpa forest.

"Hey." Cynthia, who almost fell, subconsciously grabbed Mo Lan's hand.

"Be careful, LOO-mos." Mo Lan said with concern, and then, the control wand emitted bright light, allowing the two of them to see things clearly in the dim Forbidden Forest. They almost tripped Cynthia just now. It's a broken branch.

"Thank you, Mo Lan." Cynthia let go of Mo Lan's hand.

Walk for a while.

"Mo Lan, it's so late, why did you come out? You just happened to save me." Cynthia seemed to remember something and asked doubtfully.

"Do you suspect that I'm following her?"

Mo Lan said to Cynthia with a worried tone: "You also said that it was so late. I just woke up at that time and saw you going out. Mr. Colin was not beside you. I was worried that you would encounter any danger. I was in a hurry. Next, I came out with you, and I was afraid that you would be angry, so I just wanted to protect you in the dark."

Molan's explanation was meant for Cynthia, but also for another person.

Cynthia lowered her head in self-reproach.

"I'm sorry, Mo Lan, was it me who woke you up? Blame me for almost getting you injured in order to collect herbs."

Mo Lan said gently: "It doesn't matter. Promise me to protect yourself. Your father, Mr. Colin, won't want you to be in danger."

"Yes, Mo Lan."

Mo Lan originally wanted to ask Cynthia whether the herbs she collected were related to the Wolfsbane potion and what it was used for? But after thinking about it, he decided not to ask.

The two returned home safely. Cynthia entered her room and mouthed good night to Mo Lan before closing the door.

Mo Lan was lying on the bed, thinking about tonight's harvest, werewolves, five-pointed star brand, herbs, and the final target - wolfsbane potion.

"Although, I don't know the formula of Wolfsbane potion, so I can't judge whether the herbs Cynthia collected are needed for refining Wolfsbane potion, but this possibility is very high."

"Well, who would need it?"

In the early morning, Mo Lan got up early. Next to the creek, he was the first to appear in this illusionary place, practicing magic spells.

"At present, it is not certain whether the time flow rate in this illusion is the same as that in the outside world, but the practice of magic spells cannot be left behind. After all, even in this illusion, Mo Lan can truly feel the passage of time."

Before that, Mo Lan returned to the catalpa forest last night and confirmed the location of the werewolves' territory through the traces left by the werewolves.

Maybe, it will come in handy.

After the daily practice, Mo Lan returned to the cabin. He still had one more thing to confirm.

Pushing open the wooden door, Mo Lan walked in, and Cynthia and Colin also got up.

"You kid, I didn't tell you not to run around." Colin frowned as he looked at Mo Lan who had just come back from outside. His tone was better than when they first met.

"Now that you're back, let's go. I'll take you away. Don't stay with me." Colin said to Mo Lan.

Cynthia opened her mouth, wanting to say something, but still nothing came out.

Mo Lan, who had just walked in, followed Colin out. Before going out, Mo Lan secretly waved to Cynthia to express "goodbye".

The two of them hadn't gone far, and the surroundings were unusually quiet.

"Is it a werewolf again? By the way, I have never seen any other magical creatures in this illusion." Mo Lan thought to herself as she looked around.

"These damn guys!" Colin's eyes were full of anger when he saw these werewolves, and his wand was pointed at them.

"Avada Kedavra (Avada Kedavra)" did not hesitate at all. Colin's wand shot out a green light and hit the werewolf that the wand was pointing at. Seeing the death of his companion, other werewolves attacked Colin and Mo Lan.

Like a madman, Colin kept using Avada Kedavra on these werewolves, causing more werewolves to choose to attack Mo Lan, and Mo Lan found it much more difficult to deal with the werewolf attacks. After a while, he fell to the ground and was almost bitten by a werewolf.

"Damn it!" Seeing that Mo Lan could no longer resist the werewolves' attack, and looking at the werewolves that kept surrounding the two of them, Colin also knew that he could not stay here any longer.

Colin fought off the werewolves surrounding Mo Lan, grabbed Mo Lan and used Apparition to return to the cabin.

"His strength is better than mine. Although, when he met a werewolf just now, he was as if he had lost his mind. Those who didn't take precautions. Those who knew were wizards, and those who didn't knew thought he was a berserker. However, you can't expect me to fight with him. It's still the same." Mo Lan figured out Colin's strength.

"Is this his room?" Mo Lan looked around without waiting for him to think about it.

Colin said: "Get out, remember, find an excuse to stay here temporarily, don't let Cynthia know that I am injured, she will worry about me."

Mo Lan didn't speak, nodded and walked towards the door of the room.

"Wait, Scourgify (clean it up)" Colin cleaned up the blood on Molan's shoulder before letting him go out.

This blood is not Mo Lan's. Colin hates these werewolves to the extent that he doesn't care about being bitten by these werewolves, and the blood drips on Mo Lan's body. In comparison, Mo Lan's whole body is covered with blood. There wasn't a single wound up or down.

"Mo Lan, why are you back? Or did you come out of my father's room? Where are the others?" Cynthia was a little surprised when she saw Mo Lan, but also felt confused.

"Mr. Colin is in the room. He told me something about you. I plan to stay for a while. You won't find me annoying, will you, Cynthia?"

"How could it be, Mo Lan, can you stay? That would be great. When you left, I felt like my only friend was gone, but I couldn't selfishly leave you behind. In the end, I couldn't even say goodbye. I can’t say it.”

"Oh, by the way, I have something to tell dad. He will be very happy to know. You wait for me here, Mo Lan."

Just as Mo Lan was about to stop him, Colin's door opened.

"Dad, I just have something to tell you, about wolfsbane..."

"Cynthia! Come into the room." Colin interrupted Cynthia.

"Wolfsbane? Cynthia has collected all the herbs. The progress is faster than I thought." Mo Lan guessed based on what Cynthia said.

The two of them didn't know what they said in the room, but when they came out, there was uncontrollable joy on Colin's old face.

"Boy, we need you to go somewhere with us tonight." Colin was obviously not good at talking to people, and what he said was no different from what was said between the kidnappers and the hostages.

"Dad! Really, what are you talking about? It will make Mo Lan misunderstand. Let me tell you." Cynthia pushed Colin back into the room.

"It's like this, Mo Lan, my father is sick, and I need to refine a potion that can cure him. Now I have collected other medicinal materials, but according to the formula of the potion, there is still one natural condition missing - The moonlight of the full moon, this is actually nothing, but do you still remember the five-pointed star brand on my arm? Every full moon night I will be attacked by werewolves, so my father and I hope you can be by my side to protect me ."

"Moonlight of the full moon? I don't know the specific formula of wolfsbane potion, but there is absolutely no such thing. There is also a full moon night. I remember it seems to be tonight." Mo Lan was secretly thinking about every word of Cynthia.

There is one crucial point, which represents Mo Lan's choice, in order to confirm this matter.

Mo Lan said tentatively: "Mr. Colin, can't even he do anything? You also know that my strength, Cynthia, is not much stronger than you. I'm afraid that I can't protect you well. Why don't we prepare for a while? Collect more herbs, maybe Mr. Colin’s illness will be cured during this time.”

"But, Mo Lan, no matter whether I refine the potion or not, the werewolves will never give up attacking me. As for the herbs, there is not enough time for us to collect them anymore, and I don't know why we have the tools to refine a bottle of potion." After weighing the herbs, I originally wanted to collect some more to be prepared, but I couldn’t find them.”

"That's it. We obviously knew the result a long time ago." Mo Lan said softly.

"Cymbidium?"

Molan responded: "Well, Cynthia, when will we set off? Didn't Mr. Colin say we were going somewhere?"

"Great, thank you, Mo Lan. I was worried that you would be angry. I have always felt that it is unfair to you to involve you in this matter, but do you know? When I heard Dad say that you are willing to help us , how happy I am.”

Then, Cynthia took Mo Lan to a room not far from the wooden house, which contained a variety of tools, herbs, and books for refining potions.

"Mo Lan, this is where I will make the potion at night. This room and the things inside are left by my mother. These books contain a lot of knowledge about potions. You can read them. It doesn't matter. Now It’s still early in the evening.”

In this way, Mo Lan was reading the books left by Cynthia's mother, while Cynthia was preparing for the potion refining in the evening.

Until the evening, Mo Lan put down the book in his hand. Cynthia beside him had gone out to collect herbs at night and had just been preparing for refining potions. She didn't have a good rest. She was too tired and lay on the table. Fell asleep.

Colin has not shown up. Tonight is a full moon night, which can only be partly explained by the fact that Cynthia can grow up safely. It can be seen that Colin must have a way to maintain his sanity in the werewolf transformation. The main reason is Maybe it's because he hasn't recovered from the injury he suffered this morning.

Through her own research on wolfsbane potion left by Cynthia's mother, or more likely a diary.

Molan learned that the five-pointed star mark on Cynthia came from her mother.

When Cynthia's mother was young, she came up with the idea of ​​developing wolfsbane potion because her five-pointed star brand would attract werewolves. Later, she met Colin, Cynthia's father, and the two came to this place together.

Colin was not a werewolf at first. He was accidentally bitten to protect Cynthia's mother and was infected by lycanthropy and became a werewolf.

As for the piece of paper that Cynthia and Mo Lan mentioned about the five-pointed star brand being a curse, Mo Lan also saw it. However, by comparing the handwriting, it can be seen that this paper was written by Cynthia's mother. On it is Cynthia's mother's comment on the brand. She hated him so much that after her husband was bitten by a werewolf, he regarded it as a curse.

In Mo Lan's opinion, this is more like a bloodline curse.

Cynthia's mother is very smart, and her research on wolfsbane potion can be said to be making rapid progress. The potion that can keep wizards sane while turning into werewolves is the end point for most wizards, but it is just the starting point for her.

It is also based on this that Colin can maintain his sanity while turning into a werewolf, even when facing Cynthia's mother, the so-called "werewolf's next victim."

In the end, they successfully developed a wolfsbane potion formula that could restore wizards infected by lycanthropy to normal. However, Cynthia died before the finished product was refined.

After the death of his wife, Colin became as old as he is now. Later, when he learned that Cynthia wanted to cure himself and refine the wolfsbane potion, he subconsciously stopped him, because his wife could be said to be because of this. After death, he became a human being and a wolf. He didn't want his daughter to leave him again.

But the shame of being a werewolf tortured him day and night, so there was a situation where Cynthia secretly went out to collect herbs at night, and he pretended not to know and followed behind to guard her silently.

The experience of the father and daughter also made Mo Lan hesitate.

Mo Lan walked to the sleeping Cynthia and thought: "Illusion should not be a word that allows me to ignore life."

At this moment, the tip of Mo Lan's wand emitted a silver halo, which was a phenomenon that had occurred when Mo Lan encountered it for the first time.

Mo Lan looked at her wand: "You haven't changed. How could I let you down? I have already made this realization. Thank you for reminding me."

Mo Lan came to the territory of the werewolf, used the illusion spell to keep his body consistent with the surrounding environment, killed several wolf cubs one after another, leaving a piece of his clothes at the scene, and then left calmly and returned to the present day. The place where everything ends at night.

"A werewolf's sense of smell should be very sensitive, right?" Mo Lan said softly while looking at the night sky.

There is a bright moon in the night sky tonight, and the moonlight shines on the young man's face.

Mo Lan walked into the house and woke up Cynthia.

"Well, Mo Lan? Mo Lan! Why did I fall asleep? What time is it now? I didn't miss the full moon." Cynthia woke up in a daze and ran to the window in a panic to look at the moon outside the window.

"Don't be nervous, Cynthia, all the conditions are met, and it's just right now." Mo Lan also came to the window to watch the arrival of the last condition, and comforted her.

Cynthia watched the full moon rise gradually and began to refine the wolfsbane potion. Mo Lan just glanced at it and walked out, taking out her wand to guard the door.

After a while, the howls of werewolves were heard all around, and pairs of eyes flashing with evil light appeared in the grass, staring at Mo Lan or behind him, and they rushed towards him.

"Reducto (Shattered to pieces)" Mo Lan hit the werewolf who rushed forward, but the power was unbearable. Many werewolves followed and rushed towards the house. Mo Lan took the initiative to rush forward and did not want the werewolves to get close to the house. The werewolves kept He tried to bypass Mo Lan and rush to the house behind him, but was blocked by Mo Lan.

While casting spells on the werewolves while dodging their attacks, Mo Lan seemed to have a very difficult time, but she still tried her best to prevent any werewolves from approaching the house behind her. In the end, she was knocked down by one of the werewolves. On the ground, several werewolves immediately surrounded him, wanting to kill the human in front of him.

At this moment, a werewolf walking upright suddenly appeared next to Mo Lan, fighting off the werewolves surrounding him and protecting Mo Lan behind him.

"Mr. Colin?" Mo Lan asked uncertainly.

"Well, kid, focus on the enemy in front of you."

"Besides, you did a good job." Colin turned to Mo Lan and said.

With the addition of Colin, the danger on Molan's side has become much less severe, but the situation is still not optimistic.

There seemed to be endless werewolves around to kill.

"Damn it! Why are there so many more werewolves tonight than before? It's hard to get a chance to start over, you disgusting guys." Colin yelled, no longer blindly defending, and rushed forward to fight these werewolves. Fighting together.

Mo Lan watched all this with cold eyes. The only thing that needed his attention now was the cabin behind him.

Colin and Mo Lan were desperately guarding the hut. Finally, with their constant persistence, Cynthia ran out of the hut with a bottle of potion.

Mo Lan, who was always paying attention to the hut, immediately spotted Cynthia running out of the hut.

"Don't come out, Cynthia, it's dangerous!" Mo Lan rushed to her side with concern for Cynthia's safety, closely followed by the werewolves who had been besieging Mo Lan.

When Colin saw that Mo Lan rushed to Cynthia's side to protect her, he also attracted some of the werewolves. He didn't care about anything else and just wanted to rush to his daughter's side to protect her, but the werewolves around him were dead. It bit him and wouldn't let go, and the injury this morning made Colin's idea become a luxury.

In this way, Mo Lan and Colin seemed to be separated by a chasm, out of reach.

"Mo Lan, go and help my dad. He's bleeding a lot. Hurry!" Cynthia didn't even take out her wand to defend against the werewolf beside her. She just asked Mo Lan to help Colin over and over again.

Molan ignored it and just let a werewolf break through his defense, and the werewolf jumped Cynthia.

"Cynthia!" Colin saw his daughter being knocked down by a werewolf, and the scene of his wife leaving him flashed through his mind. He immediately ignored the attacks of the werewolves around him and just wanted to get to his daughter immediately.

Just when Cynthia thought she was going to die, Mo Lan killed the werewolf in front of her and then defended herself from the attacks of the surrounding werewolves.

After seeing that his daughter was safe, Colin's tense heart relaxed. The pain radiating from all parts of his body made him feel so tired for a while.

After confirming that Colin's injuries were beyond repair, Mo Lan had no intention of continuing to hide his strength.

When Colin discovered that the boy behind him was dealing with a werewolf, he no longer looked as embarrassed as he did last night, this morning, and just now.

Colin didn't understand why. He wished he had seen it wrong, but reality told him that everything was so real.

Colin's inner world.

The young man in front of him showed his true face and smiled at him and said: "What will you do, Mr. Colin?"

That smile seemed to Colin full of malice.

He rushed to Mo Lan and grabbed Mo Lan's neck with both hands.

But Mo Lan still said calmly: "Killing me is easy, isn't it? Consider Cynthia."

Colin found that a wand appeared in the hand of Mo Lan in front of him. The wand was not pointed at him, but at Cynthia beside Mo Lan.

For a moment it seemed as if I had returned to reality.

Colin looked at Cynthia next to Mo Lan. He felt that the distance between him and his daughter was growing. No matter how hard he tried to walk towards her, the sounds in his ears gradually disappeared, and he knew that Mo Lan had already It has become his last hope, the hope of protecting his daughter. All Colin can do now is to kill more werewolves so that his daughter can be safer.

When the full moon gradually set, the werewolves regained their senses, and when they saw such heavy casualties on their side, they all fled one after another.

"Dad!" Cynthia rushed to Colin's side and lay on him crying bitterly.

Everything was over, Mo Lan and Cynthia buried Colin, and the wolfsbane potion was also buried in the ground by Cynthia on Colin's chest.

After doing this, Cynthia fainted in front of Colin's grave because she was too tired and sad.

Mo Lan took Cynthia back to the cabin and carried her back to Cynthia's bed in her room to rest.

Before walking out of the door, Mo Lan was silent for a long time and whispered: "I'm sorry."

Arriving at Colin's tomb, Mo Lan placed the blue flowers collected on the road in front of the tombstone.

"I'm not sorry, I couldn't help myself"

"I understand that my sin is unpardonable and I have a reason to live."

"I'll let you drink the potion and bet that Cynthia can collect all the herbs again and refine the second bottle."

"Hang the sword by the side of your neck and leave your fate to others."

"I can't play in this bet."

When the last sunlight fell on Mo Lan's shoulder, a bottle of potion appeared in his hand, surrounded by black mist, and the panel returned to its original state.