Mastering Lightning from Hogwarts

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"Let's go!" Anduin, with one hand, placed the dragon heartstring, now dyed silver-blue by the Wild Lightning magic runes, into a long wooden box. With the other, he steadied Hogg.

When he reappeared after Apparating, he was in the Forbidden Forest, but not in the densely wooded depths. Instead, he stood in the middle of a centaur camp dotted with five- to six-meter-high wooden huts and tents.

These centaur dwellings were quite primitive, yet they exuded a savage beauty. Using trees, animal hides, and burlap, they had constructed yurt-like homes, only much taller than human houses, with doorways over three meters high.

At this time, the centaur camp had a considerable number of dwellings, resembling a small village. Since the fall of the mysterious man, the various scattered centaur tribes had reunited at the call of the centaur elders. Counting those stationed in various areas for patrol, they numbered nearly a hundred.

This was the largest gathering place, and it could be considered the town center for the centaurs in the entire Forbidden Forest, a hub for exchange and trade.

It could be said that Anduin helped these centaur tribes establish this place. For the past two years, he had been trading with them.

Anduin exchanged many resources from human society with the centaur elders for specialties from the Forbidden Forest, using salt, parchment, cloth, cookware, ironware, tea, coffee, tobacco, and so on, in exchange for a vast quantity of magical creature pelts and herbs, a very primitive form of exchange.

Originally, Anduin had thought of helping the centaurs lead a more civilized life, but this was rejected by many centaurs, including the elders, who preferred to embrace nature and a primitive environment.

These centaurs were unwilling to accept even the better-quality cotton cloth and exquisite tools that Anduin offered them, preferring rough, durable burlap and finely crafted ironware.

Anduin was quite helpless about this, feeling as if he were taking advantage of the centaurs. When facing these sincere and simple centaurs, Anduin showed sufficient sincerity.

But the centaurs didn't think much of it. They could accept a certain amount of material assistance and trade, but they were unwilling to abandon tradition. So, often when doing business, they felt that Anduin was giving them too much. This counterintuitive trading logic, to be honest, made Anduin very uncomfortable at first.

Now, there were many centaurs around, busy with their own affairs.

Some female centaurs were drying pelts on fences. Their techniques for processing pelts were much better than those of human society, especially for magical creature skins, allowing them to better preserve the magical power in the pelts. Anduin would even entrust them with processing some magical creature skins he had collected from elsewhere.

In addition, many adult centaurs were patrolling the outskirts of the camp, and some were chasing each other on the dirt roads within the camp. These centaurs were good at running and liked to gallop, so the roads in the camp were built very wide, and the ground was covered with loose, soft soil.

Next to those yurt-like houses, some elderly centaurs were either standing or lying down, either smoking water pipes or crafting arrows with carving knives in their hands.

The entire centaur camp exuded an aura of peace and wildness coexisting.

However, when these centaurs, busy with their own affairs, saw Anduin, they would nod to him as a sign of greeting.

Anduin was the only wizard besides Hagrid who could freely enter and leave this camp. He was able to receive this courtesy because he was considered a benefactor who had helped the centaur tribes a lot. You should know that if it were any other human wizard, let alone treating them politely, it would be good enough if they weren't directly driven away by force.

The centaur community was very repulsed by humans who liked to destroy nature. Since 1811, when the International Confederation of Wizards determined that centaurs met the definition of "human," and the Ministry of Magic, based on Article 2 of the fifteenth decree of the Department for the Regulation and Control of Magical Creatures, considered centaurs to be magical creatures with "intelligence close to that of humans," these centaurs felt insulted.

The centaurs even demanded that the British Ministry of Magic classify them as "beasts" and did not want to share the definition of "human" with creatures such as vampires, hags, and wizards.

The Department for the Regulation and Control of Magical Creatures still had a Centaur Liaison Office, but in reality, no centaur used it.

So, when the Department for the Regulation and Control of Magical Creatures learned about Anduin's relationship with the centaurs, they very much hoped that Anduin would bring colleagues from the Centaur Liaison Office to establish contact with the centaur tribes. After all, this department was too deserted, and being sent to this department was like being sent to a cold palace.

Of course, Anduin asked the centaurs for their opinion, and the answers were all negative. The centaurs did not accept any humans other than Anduin approaching them and stated that they 'did not rule out using force against those self-righteous wizards'.

The reason why Hagrid had a good relationship with them was because the centaurs didn't regard Hagrid as human at all. This concept was too fucked up in Anduin's opinion. He even felt injustice for Hagrid, but Hagrid himself didn't have any objections.

At this time, Anduin led Hogg through the outer edge of the camp, heading towards the center of the camp. Although there were not many houses here, the area was not small because each yurt was quite large.

After turning a few corners, Anduin arrived at a plaza in the center of the camp. Centaur Elder Brandwarden was leading several young centaurs in training.

They had erected several fences of varying heights on the training ground. These young centaurs had to jump over these fences at high speed and then shoot at several targets with bows and arrows.

The site, training equipment, and targets were all provided by Anduin. After the arrows they shot hit the targets, the targets would also display the hit ring number and power value. Originally, Anduin thought that the centaurs would be very resistant to this kind of alchemical product, but after they personally experienced it, they still accepted it with a 'so fragrant' attitude.

At this time, a centaur was leaping with agile posture, jumping 'swoosh' 'swoosh' high, crossing the more than one-meter-high railing. Each time they crossed a railing, they would quickly draw their bows and shoot arrows at the moving targets swinging left and right on the side.

After the arrows were shot, these galloping centaurs didn't look to see if they hit or not, and didn't stop, just quickly ran to the next railing. These railings were higher than the other, and the last one was nearly two meters high, reaching the chest height of adult centaurs, which was an extremely high challenge for many adult centaurs.

The centaur who was challenging at this time maintained extreme speed of galloping, crossing one railing after another, and without exception, all the arrows shot hit the bullseye, and launched an assault on the final railing.

I saw this centaur exerting all the strength of his body, leaping out towards the railing, and soon his two front feet had crossed over, but just as he was about to land perfectly, his hind feet still failed to cross perfectly, and he was hooked by the railing by just a little bit!

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