Chapter 249 Rice: Are You Asking Me to Take the Exam Honestly? !

Daphne picked up Riddle's diary from the ground, and without even bothering to turn it over, she walked directly to the corpse of a nearby giant spider.

"This thing is a bit like... an alchemical tool mentioned in the book, which needs to be destroyed in a special way." Hermione chased after him and almost said something she shouldn't have said, but fortunately she stopped in time and changed her words.

"I know." Daphne waved her hand, and then stabbed the diary fiercely into the fangs of the giant spider.

A scream that was not like a human voice came from the diary, and at the same time, large streams of black blood gushed out from the place where the diary was pierced by the fangs. Along with the gushing of blood, the diary also emitted billowing black smoke.

This process lasted for more than ten seconds, and then everything returned to normal.

The dust settled, and Daphne, Astoria, Hermione and Harry solved the crisis in the Forbidden Forest together.

"It's over. The monsters lurking in your tribe have been cleared by us." Daphne walked past Aragog holding the diary that was still smoking slightly.

"Thank you, young and excellent child." Aragog knocked on its big claws to show respect, and sighed: "It's a pity that there is no such an excellent talent as you among my descendants."

It felt quite strange to be praised by a big spider. Daphne shook her head and tried to suppress this weird emotion. She left the nest of the eight-eyed giant spider with the other three friends.

When the spider nest was far behind and the shadow of Hogwarts Castle was vaguely visible in the distance, Daphne began to worry about the safety of Rice. She was eager to know what was going on over there.

At this time, Rice was chatting with Ravenclaw.

"How is it, my apprentice is not bad? She handled everything in a proper manner - at first I really thought she was going to set the spider nest on fire." Rice was happy. In his opinion, Daphne and Astoria could definitely get 100 points in tonight's assessment.

"Indeed," Ravenclaw's voice was filled with a hint of envy: "Granger needs more experience, but the last monster is a little weak."

Rice shrugged his shoulders: "No way, who made it so crazy that it could hardly exert its original magical power, and the last attack on the soul was still very dangerous. If Nightmare hadn't been there, Potter would have suffered a lot."

"It seems that the next teaching goal is to strengthen the children's soul-level defense."

Rice sighed: "Rowena, you know, you can't take shortcuts at this level. Working hard to study magic and make your own soul stronger is the only right way."

"Can't you make a few magic props?"

"It's very difficult..."

"I have saved some things here over the years, and there may be something that can help you."

"Maybe it can."

In a few words, Rice negotiated the terms with Ravenclaw - Ravenclaw provided him with some special dark creature materials, and he tried to make defensive magic props at the spiritual level.

When the chat was almost over, Les jumped down from the tree and prepared to return to the castle.

"You can't go back yet. Theoretically, you should still be fighting with me in the seal." Ravenclaw's voice sounded faintly, which startled Les.

"Oh, right! This..." Les couldn't help but cover his forehead: he had to find a place to deal with it for one night.

But it was only one night, he didn't dare to delay any longer, if he dragged Daphne and Astoria's psychological defense line to collapse, it would be counterproductive.

God knows what they will do!

So, the next morning, when Daphne walked into the common room with two dark circles under her eyes, she saw the familiar figure again.

Suddenly, her eyes were wet.

"Les!!!" She ran over quickly, ran in front of him, and then stood there, excited and didn't know what to say.

Looking at Daphne's expression, Les felt a little guilty.

[Please forgive me, Daphne, I may not use this excuse next time. However, this is also what wizards must go through on their way to maturity.

No one can guarantee that this will not happen in the future...

Study magic hard, kid! 】

The guilt only lasted for a second in Les' mind, and then disappeared without a trace. He stretched out his hand and looked at Daphne with a smile--

"My package should be returned."

Les' words suddenly made Daphne's emotions incoherent. After being interrupted by him, the excitement that rose in her heart at the beginning had disappeared without a trace.

Daphne rolled her eyes unhappily, and then took out the package that Les had given her before from her arms.

Watching Les tie the package around her waist, Daphne felt an irrepressible curiosity in her heart-she even regretted not opening the package yesterday to see what was inside.

But she was obviously not in the mood yesterday, and today she was in the mood but had no chance.

"Guess?" Faced with Daphne's question, Les avoided answering.

Daphne:...

"Could it be the letters of those medieval wizards?" Daphne said in a joking tone.

"Right."

Daphne's expression suddenly became extremely surprised: You really collected a lot of medieval wizard mail? !

"Don't believe it?" Rice raised his eyebrows.

Daphne certainly didn't believe it - she always felt that the so-called "letters from ancient wizards" were all nonsense excuses made by Rice, how could they really exist?

"Bet?"

Les's firm attitude made Daphne hesitate, but the bet offered by Les overwhelmed her mind.

"If I can't produce those letters, I can answer one of your questions - any question is fine. If I can produce the letters, you have to help me do a trivial thing." Les' eyes flashed with cunning light.

He really needs the help of his disciple now!

"Any question is fine?" Daphne was attracted by the bait like a fish on the hook.

"Of course, I swear on the honor of Slytherin House that I will answer any questions truthfully."

Daphne was immediately moved.

She felt that Rice was just bluffing!

At this point, she had successfully convinced herself, so that no matter how she reasoned, she would get the existing conclusion: Rice was in a dilemma, and was trapped by herself, so he could only use the so-called "bet" to evade herself and try to persuade herself to back out.

I won't fall for it! Daphne showed a confident smile and accepted Rice's bet.

Then she stared in amazement as Rice took out a thick stack of parchment from the small package.

"Here, take a look at it, I have more here." After Rice put the first stack of parchment on the table, he took out the second stack from the package.

Daphne:! ?

She picked up the parchment and flipped through it, and found that it was actually a letter written in Latin by an ancient wizard! ! !

"I lost, tell me, what should I do?" Daphne's eyes were dull and her face was pale, just like a fresh fish that had been caught and given up struggling.

Les whispered his request.

Daphne's eyes widened: You call helping you cheat in the exam a trivial matter? !

Les smiled happily: "What else? Do you want me to take the exam honestly?"

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The first update is here, the second update will be in the evening, wait for me to get off work~