Everyday Players at Hogwarts..

Chapter 355: The Blood Curse Is Lifted

The Basilisk is a giant venomous snake, also known as the King of Serpents. It is a creature created by dark wizards.

The vile Herpo was the first person to breed a basilisk: he placed an egg under the body of a toad and hatched the creature known as the basilisk.

Male basilisks inherit some of the characteristics of the egg from which they are derived, and have a feather on the top of their heads.

Basilisks can grow up to 50 feet long and have dark green skin and yellow eyes.

Its skin is covered in scales that can deflect spells.

Its venom is a highly toxic substance that can kill a person within minutes and cause drowsiness, blurred vision, and hallucinations before death. The effects of this venom are long-lasting, and even five years after the basilisk has been dead, its original venom can still be used to damage inanimate objects beyond repair.

As such, it is one of the few substances powerful enough to destroy a Horcrux.

However, the most terrifying thing is probably its gaze, which can instantly kill any person or animal whose eyes come into contact with it.

This gaze, which can directly deprive a living being of its life, is also the main reason why spiders fear basilisks.

Spiders have 360-degree vision and cannot close their eyes, making it easy for them to make eye contact with a basilisk.

But this does not mean that the basilisk has no weaknesses.

After Hailpo bred the first basilisk, he discovered that the phoenix was its natural enemy and the phoenix's tears were the only antidote to the basilisk's venom.

The basilisk's killer move, the life-stealing gaze, is useless against the phoenix.

It can also be controlled by Parseltongue.

Parseltongue can also put the Basilisk into a deep sleep, which prevents it from continuing to grow, and puts it into a state similar to suspended animation, allowing it to live longer and not be limited by its natural lifespan (900 years).

After Herpo, the power of the basilisk also made other dark wizards envious and white wizards fearful.

It is not known which black wizard or white wizard discovered the basilisk's most obvious weakness after a long time - the crowing of a rooster was fatal to it.

Its deadly gaze can also be weakened, and when a victim's eyes meet the basilisk's indirectly, such as through reflection, they are merely petrified.

And with enough reflections, the threat can be reduced to almost nothing.

However, wearing glasses will not save your life when making eye contact with a basilisk, because glasses still allow gaze to pass directly through instead of reflecting it like mirrors and cameras.

Since the weaknesses of the basilisk were discovered one by one, cultivating a basilisk became a fashion at that time - and it could also be used to guard one's wealth.

However, since the Middle Ages, breeding basilisks has been considered illegal, but this practice is easy to conceal as people only need to remove the eggs from under the toad before the arrival of the Department for the Regulation and Control of Magical Creatures.

This also led to one thing, that is, the practice of breeding basilisks has become prevalent again.

Although most wizards who started breeding basilisks on a whim failed (thinking that making a basilisk was just about placing eggs under a toad's body), among these failed wizards, an unknown wizard made the wrong target - replacing the toad that hatched the eggs with a poisonous snake.

Thus the cockatrice was born, and as soon as it was born it took the life of its creator.

As a result, the wizards still don’t know who the unlucky guy is until now.

Unlike the basilisk, the cockatrice has no apparent weaknesses, but has feathers and scales that can make a deadly cry and deflect spells.

The birth of this dangerous creature also prompted the Ministry of Magic to crack down on the breeding of basilisks.

Therefore, there has been no record of sightings of the basilisk in Britain for at least four hundred years. This is why Ryan must go to the Chamber of Secrets to find the basilisk.

The methods of breeding basilisks had long been destroyed one by one - including Smith.

There is no method for breeding basilisks in the books related to Herpo in Smith's collection.

Because it was so dangerous, even Riddle, who had Parseltongue, could not completely eliminate its danger, and Myrtle lost her life due to a moment of carelessness.

Although Ryan can directly create the basilisk ritual through "thinking", or directly find the possible remaining basilisk eggs.

But Nagini couldn't wait.

The blood curse on her body has reached a critical stage. She needs a snake that is more powerful than her own snake body to serve as the sustenance of her animal nature and carry the blessing of the Dark Mother Earth.

"Now is the time." Ryan pointed his wand to the sky.

That is Sirius, which appears in the winter southern sky, located at the lower left of Orion. It is the brightest star in the winter night sky and a first-magnitude star in the constellation Canis Major.

This is the most important part of the secret of the birth of the basilisk, a mysterious celestial body that is regarded as the true source of mysterious power in many myths.

Blue starlight fell from the sky and gathered one by one at the tip of Ryan's wand, forming a blue star.

The next second, the stars splashed out, forming a glittering magic cage like a giant halo.

This magic cage surrounded Nagini, and she kept spinning and twisting inside.

An obscure, strange, low, and sacred voice began to sound from Ryan's mouth, and the magic cage began to float towards the basilisk coiled by the pool.

The earth began to shake, and the surrounding light disappeared abruptly. A strange darkness suddenly emerged from the basilisk.

The sound, light, and wind all disappeared, leaving behind only long spells in an unknown language.

I don't know how long it took, but as the last syllable of Ryan's spell fell, a high-pitched snake cry sounded from the night sky.

The long snake body hovered in the air, and its bright green scales began to be filled with blue starlight. Its bright yellow eyes also turned as blue as the sky.

A naked, graceful female body was lying on its side on top of this drastically transformed, gravity-defying basilisk.

"It's amazing." Ryan disappeared on the spot, and the next moment he appeared in front of the woman who should be Nagini.

Ryan waved his hand, and the starlight turned into silk threads, which flew towards Nagini's white and exquisite body. A dress of the same color as the basilisk's scales appeared on Nagini's naked body.

"Master~" A charming and pure voice, full of innocence and knowledge of the world, came from Nagini's mouth, who had just opened her eyes.

Although she had clearly regained her human form, she was still twisting like a snake. Her little face used the force from Ryan's legs to move upwards, and finally appeared on Ryan's profile.

She would rub Ryan's cheek from time to time, acting like a spoiled child.

"Nagini, do you remember who you are?" Ryan stood straight, with a tall girl wrapped around him, which didn't seem to be a problem for him at all.

"Nagini is Nagini, the master's Nagini?"

"But it's very strange now. Nagini can fly. Nagini has two bodies." Nagini looked at the snake body under her puzzledly, and the snake body also looked at Nagini with its beautiful sky blue snake eyes.

(End of this chapter)