Chapter 205

A few minutes later, he removed his hand from the Qilin's head and opened his eyes, and the cub itself only blinked its eyes in confusion, not understanding what had happened.

"This is... interesting," a smile crept on Severus' face, but a slightly unnatural, crooked one, "Very interesting..."

"What is it? " Nagini asked impatiently because it was very rare to see him so tense and serious. "Well, I can say one thing, I did it," looking into her eyes, Severus said confidently, one of the visions, lasting a second, belonged to her being in human form, in it, she was stroking the head of the already well-grown Qilin and the familiar veranda was behind her, it was not difficult to guess where they were.

"I already knew that." the snake chuckled in response, and in her emotions, there was nothing but confidence in the words spoken, although there was still a bit of joy.

"You know, it's really nice to hear..."

"Well, don't keep me in suspense, what else is there?"

"I was standing in front of the children in Hogwarts school uniform and according to the notes on the board, as well as the cabinets with ingredients, this is a potion lesson, and... it's strange... I never thought of becoming a teacher at Hogwarts..." Severus looked down at the cub, which, having once again rested its front paws on his leg, began to happily rub its muzzle against his hand, and seeing this Severus began to stroke his head.

"I would like to see you as a teacher." with notes of joy in her voice, she imagined such a picture, "The spitting image of Vlad Dracula, only missing fangs!"

"I'm not interested, I doubt that something like that will happen unless it's for some very good reason."

"What else?"

"I also saw a couple of battles involving this kid and a little bit about the "Magic Jungle", but there was only me standing in front of the barrier, that's all, by the way, what I'm thinking about is, what should I feed them?" he looked at the three Qilins, two of which were standing a meter away from him, but without the former trembling, although it was easy to notice wariness in their eyes, but this is not surprising, because they were only taken away from their mother yesterday and if not for Nagini, they most likely would not have even dared to approach him.

"Well... good question, but... I don't know either, maybe milk?" the snake inside sighed with relief, having learned that that "bitch" was not in the visions.

"Hmm... maybe I should go to the nearest store and buy it while you keep an eye on them," he suggested, thoughtfully stroking his chin, and then added, "I'll also collect information about their diet while I am at it."

"Okay," Nagini nodded cheerfully, sliding off him, and when she landed on the ground, in a split second the cubs surrounded her and joyfully began to cuddle up to her, from which the snake naturally melted and joyfully stroked them with her tail, and thanks to the fact that their backs were covered with scales and very strong, they did not experience any discomfort, but the opposite of it.

"Then I'll go," he said with a gentle smile, observing this picture, and disappeared and the maledictus, after a few seconds, looked at that very place with a complex look; it was hard to say what she was thinking about at that moment. Only Phoenix did not change, still looking with contempt at all the creatures gathered below, and the she-wolves, tired of growling at him, walked under the side of their leader, who was still hiding behind the white wall.

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The Prince, who appeared in the hotel room, sighed tiredly, and his smile slowly began to fade until it disappeared completely.

"She immediately noticed that I tried to change the subject; she really knows me very well..." his gaze grew cold, and his face twisted from barely restrained rage, and he again remembered that vision... Puffs of smoke rose into the sky from an almost destroyed house, bloody bodies of wolves lying in its ruins. In the place where the gazebo had previously stood, there were bodies: Thunder Tiger, and next to him a bear and Black Hound.

To the left of them, five meters away, was the King of Chimeras himself, to whom a trembling doe was clinging, covered in her father's blood, flowing from a huge, black wound on his chest.

And in front of them was Nagini in her human form her body was also covered with severe wounds, but she was still standing on her feet and looking up with hatred, and behind her lay one of the Qilins, whom he instantly recognized by the lighter color of his shade, and others, along with the house elves, were probably somewhere under the rubble or there was simply nothing left of their bodies.

And finally, the one who caused rage in the Prince, a feeling that he had not experienced for a very long time. It was a man of about forty, in a leather coat and high boots, holding a black book in his hand.

He had short, dark hair and the most ordinary, slightly plump face, which you would look at once and forget in a few seconds.

But Snape greedily peered into every millimeter of him, remembering everything, from his brown eyes to an almost imperceptible birthmark hidden under his bangs, so as to never forget.

But besides him, Eileen stood there and looked ahead indifferently, with her clouded gaze, and then she slowly raised her palm and pointed it at the maledictus, while the self-confident smile never left the man's face.

At this point, the vision broke off, but Severus simply did not understand one thing, where he himself was at that moment, that some dead man decided to run around in his house, wound Nagini, and even subjugate Eileen, as for how he did it, it was not difficult to guess.

The book lying in his hand was the "Scripture of the Necromancer", an artifact, at the peak of the rank of "Archmage", capable of subjugating any undead, up to the peak of "Magister", even if it was a lich and how he was able to defeat the King of Chimeras, no longer raised questions.

But most of all, Snape was angry with his future self, because hadn't he learned anything from the last time, when Macmillan died and Tobby was injured.

"How annoying it all is, I just got rid of one problem, and now a second one has appeared..." the Slytherin hissed, gritting his teeth, and a small mirror appeared in his hand, the image in which after a few seconds changed to the gloomy face of the leader of the "Black Star".

"What do you want?"

"Find me this man," raising his finger, he created a small screen on which that same bastard was depicted, "But don't touch him, and immediately give me the exact location."

"Yes..." Arnold muttered in surprise,and goosebumps ran down his spine from the sight of that pair of cold, almost icy eyes.

The prince did not say anything more, and almost immediately put the mirror back into his bag, and then, taking a deep breath, trying to suppress his anger, he began to remember what else was in Qilin's vision, some clue that could indicate who the dead man was.

But no matter how much he searched, everything was in vain, no identification marks, no specific spells by which one could find out where he was from or where he studied.

It was as if he had deliberately hidden everything, and it was not necessary that what he saw was his real face and not some spell or potion for changing appearance.

But, even so, in order to get someone's appearance, you must carry out a certain procedure, from removing hair to a detailed study of the face.

Of course, it is quite possible that, like one maniac from his world, he could wear a mask made of human skin, but then a corpse will remain if the corpse is destroyed, there will be people who remember him if they are killed or their memories are erased, it is quite possible that some wizard remembered him, and cyclic memory erasure spells simply do not work on them, but besides all this, there are many other "buts" and it is simply impossible to kill a person, even if it is a Muggle, and not leave a trace, especially when a wizard takes on the search.

But Severus did not give up, he continued to study this vision, every stone, everything, until one moment, in the corner, he saw a half-pressed calendar sheet, the date on which was partially covered by the wall, but the twenty-second of June was clearly visible. Severus could not say for sure whether it was the right day or not, and as luck would have it, the sky was covered with a foggy haze and he could not see the sun.

By its position, it would not be difficult to determine the approximate year and month when this would happen. But Severus did not despair, because there was another time determinant, which was the doe, the daughter of the King of Chimeras, who was five times larger than now, and by the speed of her growth, it was also possible to determine approximately when this would happen and this time, he would definitely be home and meet this bastard.

But Severus did not lie to Nagini; in addition to these visions, there were indeed several battles that were not of any interest, as well as another one where he stood in front of the barrier, the very barrier that kept the Devils from invading this world and then entered it.

"So I was still able to move on to the next rank, and this... could it be that at that time, I was busy with this, so I could not return back ...? No, I could not just leave without leaving anything to protect them, and this could mean that what I did was not enough for this ..." tightly clenching his fists, his gaze became sharper, "So, I will have to start that project much earlier."

In his hand, a mirror appeared again, in which, after a few seconds, a young face with freckles and medium-length red hair appeared.

"Lord Prince, how can I help?" Shafiqi asked, a little surprised by such an early "call". "I need you to get some materials, galleons don't matter."

Seeing how serious he was, the wizard nodded nervously and rummaged around in the closet, took out a pen and a notebook:

"I'm ready, tell me…"

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