115 Maledictus
What happened in the spider's den attracted the attention of many magical creatures that live in the forest.
Gray and Perona's attacked the spider's den directly, which made many surviving spiders run away in all directions.
So now most of those spiders will be hunted by other creatures very soon.
Those spiders were never a good neighbor in the forest... Naturally, all the other creatures are happy to hunt them, now that they are weak.
Gray carrying Nagini, while Perona floating beside him moving to another location in the forest.
He's moving in the direction of the familiar presence he felt before.
And soon he saw the familiar presence he just felt before.
"Unico!" As soon as Perona saw the pure white horse not far away, she called it with a happy tone and flew to its side.
Gray also smiled seeing the unicorn is still safe.
This unicorn is the familiar presence Gray felt.
The stupid unicorn that got himself caught by Quirrell before, and almost lost his life.
*NEIGH* As soon as the unicorn saw Gray and Perona, he made a happy sound and run to their side.
But seeing Nagini's on Gray's shoulder, the unicorn didn't dare to get closer and kept moving left and right.
For this, Gray smiled and said nothing. Nagini's aura for other animals is naturally strong. For the unicorn to be scared of her it's absolutely normal.
Speaking of, this stupid thing should have been attracted by the noise they made before.
So after getting closer, Gray felt it's presence.
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A few minutes later, Gary looked at the unicorn and Perona in front of him while thinking of something.
The reason he came here after feeling its presence, not because he wants to see the stupid unicorn again. But because Gray needs something from it.
Unicorn blood... Unicorn is one of the most magical creatures out there... Even though it doesn't have fighting power, but every part of its body is a treasure...
So Gray wants to give its blood to Nagini.
He's sure this will make her stronger in a way or another...
"Nagini, I'll make a new change in your blood, which might hurt again, but it will make you stronger, are you okay with this?" Gray whispered at Nagini on his shoulder.
Hearing Gray's words, Nagini hesitated as if thinking of the pain last time, but after a second, she nodded her head.
Getting stronger means she will be more useful for Gray, and closer to him and this is what she really wants.
Getting her approval, Gray walked to the unicorn side.
The unicorn also found Gray, but under Gray's order, it didn't resist.
So Gray didn't have any trouble and touched the unicorn body, while Nagini is already wrapped herself around him, so can enter her disks anytime.
Looking at the unicorn disks. Gray was familiar already, so he entered the C disk directly and found the file he wants.
[Unicorn Bloodline] - 25 GB.
Looking at this blood, Gray directly copied it to Nagini...
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After a few minutes, the copying ended.
And as soon as the copy ended, Nagini around Gray also started changing.
Unlike the elf bloodline, the unicorn bloodline merging was so different.
Nagini this time didn't show any pained reaction, but her body started shining silver light all over, and she didn't move at all.
Perona looked at Gray who's already wrapped with long silver light that is actually Nagini with interested eyes.
The silver light was bright and pure, giving Gray and Perona who's close to it, a feeling of comfort.
It took a few minutes for the light to finally calmed down and started disappearing, and Nagini's figure also appeared slowly.
Nagini's body is still the same, but all her skin lost color... More like a lifeless green.
But then her skin started cracking fast and a new snake body appeared beneath the lifeless green skin.
Under Gray and Perona's eyes, Nagini's old skin falls down showing a new snake more beautiful than before.
Her size still the same, but her color was lost.
Unicorns are known for their pure white color that is so bright which will make the freshly fallen snow looks grey in comparison.
And Nagini's situation is almost the same or can be said to be more beautiful than the unicorn itself!
She became so white and pure, much more beautiful than before, but in her eyes, there is still a green light inside which gave her a touch of life and looks so unique.
"Nice!" Perona said while looking at the Nagini.
Nagini's look right now, is really superior.
Nagini also found her changes and looked at Gray with weird eyes.
This is not the first time Gray changes her blood, and every time is more magical than the other.
This also raised her hope of becoming humanoid again someday.
Seeing Nagini's new look, Gray did not feel weird... For him, Nagini is still Nagini, and she will change more and more very soon, so he doesn't have to feel weird.
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After saying bye to the stupid unicorn, Gray walked back to the school with Nagini and Perona.
Along the way, Gray checked what new changes Nagini has.
First is her blood.
Between her files, Gray didn't find the Unicorn bloodline.
But he didn't feel weird about this and looked at the biggest file there. Which explained the reason.
[Maledictus Bloodline (White elvish serpent)] - 85 GB.
Gray expected the unicorn to merge with the elf bloodline since both of them gave a huge extra life.
But he found himself wrong.
[Maledictus Bloodline]...
This cursed blood is more like a predator.
Not only absorbed the Unicorn bloodline, but even the elf bloodline was absorbed after merging the unicorn bloodline.
But he's not sure if this result is really good or not...
He's not sure if he raised Maledictus Bloodline strength like this, will it be harder to return to humanoid form or not...
'But there is no other way for the time being...' Gray thought of this and sighed helplessly.
Since things evolved to this, he will continue on it. Whether it's good or bad, he will know in the future.
And as said before, he will go to more worlds later, he should find many ways to fix things.
Gray talked with Nagini and asked her if she could do something new after having her bloodline upgraded.
And Nagini didn't answer, but used her tail and made a small scratch on his face, which made Perona beside Gray almost blow up.
But then, Nagini licked his scratch and found it was healed directly.
From this, he got the answer...
Unicorn horn is usually used as a healing and anti curses potion material, and unicorn blood gave cursed immortality... So for her to have such a new ability, Gray wasn't so surprised.
But being licked by her feels weird...
Soon both of them walked out of the forest. To find it was already early morning, after a few hours the classes should start.
So Gray didn't rush to the school and wandered around with Perona and Nagini, today he will end the Basilisk event. So he's waiting for Harry to enter the chamber first then follow.
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In the hospital wing, both Harry and Ron looked at the petrified Hermione and were sad.
Usually, Hermione is the one who will lead them and tell them what they should do. Only now they realized how bad both of them are without Hermione's leading...
Seeing her petrified like this not knowing what to do is really annoying.
They don't suspect Gray anymore, since he saved them last night, both couldn't help but wonder where they should start, or what they should do.
Things are getting worse and worse every day. Hagrid was taken to Azkaban, Dumbledore was removed from the headmaster seat...
And the school might be closed...
Harry really wonders what he should do to fix everything.
In fact, he wanted to find Gray and Perona, but he couldn't find them till now, which made him helpless and worried that something happened to them in the spider's den.
So he came here to visit Hermione helplessly again.
While holding Hermione's hand, thinking about what he should do. Harry found that she's grasping a piece of paper inside.
So he took the paper slowly, then read what is recorded on it.
What the paper records are the information of a serpent creature called the Basilisk~!
Reading the Basilisk's information and thinking of everything he knows, Harry's mind started moving fast and connected everything together.
Hermione already figured out everything before! But unfortunately, she was petrified before she tells them.
But even so, she wrote the answer that will really help them on the paper.
This means, even if she's not here, she still leads them!
Hermione is really..... Special...
While talking with Ron and thinking of their next step, Professor McGonagall's sound appeared around the school, telling everyone to go back to their rooms.
And Gray who just entered the school also heard her voice.
