The Shopkeeper of All Worlds in the British Wizarding World

Chapter 38: Unicorn in the Forbidden Forest

Just as Ryan was lost in thought as he stared at the beautiful scenery, the leading unicorn suddenly neighed as if it had discovered something.

With this roar, all the unicorns turned their heads towards the direction where Ryan was hiding.

Ryan swallowed nervously, because he knew that in a one-on-one fight, even an adult unicorn werewolf would not be a match. Not to mention a small group of five or six, even a giant dragon would be in trouble.

In this situation, running away is definitely not an option. In the woods, humans can never outrun this natural spirit. So Ryan decided to go out and face the unicorn. After all, the unicorn is a creature of the good camp, and it should not have the habit of killing innocent people.

Thinking of this, Ryan pushed aside the branches and walked to the open space where the unicorns were. He stared at the unicorns across the open space.

The tension made Ryan lose his sense of time. Maybe a long time had passed, or maybe just a little time had passed. The leading unicorn finally looked away, and the rest of the unicorns also relaxed. But they still stayed in this open space.

Ryan let out a long sigh and simply sat on the grass to watch the unicorns' actions. After all, even for wizards, the opportunity to face a group of unicorns in the wild is very rare.

When the unicorns were rubbing against each other, Ryan discovered that one of the unicorns seemed to have been injured in the right leg. There was a wisp of black mist emanating from the wound, and silver blood was constantly flowing down.

Seeing this, Ryan stood up and slowly walked towards the herd of unicorns. The unicorns started to get a little agitated, then looked at him with vigilant eyes.

Ryan walked to about four or five meters away from the unicorn, and then said, "I saw that one of you had a wound on his leg, and it was probably caused by some kind of black magic attack. It will be difficult to heal. I think I have something to help him."

According to legend, unicorns are very intelligent and pure magical creatures, so Ryan tried to explain his purpose to them, hoping that the unicorns could understand and respond.

Ten seconds later, the leading unicorn called out to Ryan twice in a friendly manner. It could be heard that it accepted his kindness, but it refused to let Ryan get close.

It was actually true that unicorns only accepted females approaching them. Ryan thought they would make a compromise in a hurry. I really don't understand what the difference is between male and female humans to unicorns? They are obviously not the same species as humans.

Since he couldn't get close, Ryan took out a new lantern grass and placed it on the ground. Next to it, he placed dozens of sun crystals on a leaf.

As Ryan mastered planting and Chinese medicine, he discovered that the sun crystals produced by the sunflowers were not just sunlight, but also contained the power of light and life. This power could just drive away and neutralize the harm of the dark forces.

After putting these things away, Ryan took seven or eight steps back and spread his hands to show that he had no ill intentions.

Obviously, as a magical creature, the unicorn can also feel the light and life force inside. The leading unicorn held the lantern grass in its mouth and placed it on the injured unicorn's hind legs. Then it sent all the sunlight crystals on the leaf to the injured unicorn's mouth.

The injured unicorn stuck out its tongue, licked almost all of the sunlight into its mouth, and swallowed it. Afterwards, the entire unicorn began to emit a silvery-white light like moonlight.

As the light was generated, some black mist emerged from the wound on the unicorn's hind leg. The mist seemed to have consciousness and wanted to go back into the wound, but was quickly attracted by the lantern grass and turned into light in the lantern growing on the lantern. As the introduction of the lantern grass said, other plants absorb light energy and emit oxygen, but the lantern grass absorbs darkness and emits light. Although this is neither scientific nor magical.

The reason why the unicorn's wound hadn't healed was because of the obstruction of the black magic. When the remnants of the black magic that were like maggots on the tarsal bones were cleared away, a soft silver light flashed. The wound on its leg was completely healed.

When the leading unicorn saw this, it let out a cry of gratitude towards Ryan, then led the small group of unicorns into the forest and slowly disappeared.

In Ryan's observation, when the unicorns left the clearing in the forest, the silver light on their bodies gradually faded. When they ran under the trees where the moonlight could not reach, the silver light on their bodies also disappeared.

It turned out that the unicorns had just used the moonlight to stimulate the magic power in their bodies to expel the black magic attached to the wound.

Following this clue, he quickly imagined the whole incident. Today, Voldemort and Quirrell should have come out to rely on the blood of the unicorn to survive. However, on the one hand, it may be that Voldemort and Quirrell's body has not yet deteriorated to the most serious extent, so he did not kill and suck the blood of the unicorn to avoid attracting Dumbledore's attention.

On the other hand, it is also possible that after Voldemort and Quirrell injured another unicorn, they attracted a group of unicorns. The combined forces felt that they might not be able to handle all this in a short time, so they chose to leave. The unicorns chose to go to a safe place to heal their companions.

After confirming that the unicorns had left, Ryan found seven or eight unicorn tail hairs where the unicorns had just stood. These hairs cost ten gold galleons each, so they must not be wasted. (Note 1)

After stuffing the silver tail hair into his robe pocket, Ryan felt that today's harvest was beyond his expectation. So he thought it would be best to return to his bed in the dormitory as soon as possible.

But when Ryan just turned around, he heard a big animal coming towards him. Before he could hide, a white shadow flashed through the woods in front of him.

Could it be that the unicorns hadn't left yet, or were there other animals? After all, the Forbidden Forest was huge, and even Hagrid couldn't tell exactly how many kinds of magical creatures there were.

Because there was no way to judge whether the creatures coming over had malicious intent. In order to avoid being hurt, Ryan chose to lean against a stone, pulled out his wand and looked around. At the same time, he took out two pots of lantern grass, two pots of fire dragon grass and two pots of machine gun peas to set up a line of defense in front of him.

Just as he was staring at the darkness in the forest nervously, a light laugh suddenly came from the forest.

The nervous Ryan almost ordered the plants to attack the place where the sound came from, but he finally suppressed his impulse. Because it is not a good idea to attack rashly when you don't know whether it is an enemy or a friend. What's more, firing at the place where the sound came from may not hit the target, but will expose your own strength, resulting in a disadvantage when the real battle begins.

The atmosphere became more and more depressing, and Ryan was just about to leave. Finally, the voice sounded again, and it was actually in English: "Hey, little guy, don't get excited, I won't hurt you."

Note: Rhys Laghorn mentioned the price in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

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