Chapter 299: Buckbeak plummeting downhill

Downstairs, Goyle and Crabbe were crying non-stop; struggling desperately, but unable to shake the hairy, thin legs of the Acromantulas.

Next to the two people, Malfoy looked pale and unconscious.

None of the three saw the hippogriff in the sky, not to mention Ivan sitting on Buckbeak's back.

If he was gone, no one would know he had been here.

Ivan hesitated, no doubt, he didn't like Malfoy. But to let him die and witness his death, he couldn't do that no matter what.

Just as twenty years ago, Harry's father James saved Snape from the werewolf; in the original plot, Harry saved Malfoy and Goyle from the fire.

This issue was beyond the personal level of whether or not someone liked you, and was related to one's own nature and conscience.

To save or not to save, may seem like a difficult decision.

But for Harry, for Ivan, for a true Gryffindor, there was always an answer.

"We're going down, Buckbeak!" shouted Ivan, drawing his wand. "I must have gone completely mad, risking my life to save Malfoy!"

On the ground, Malfoy, Goyle and Crabbe were in despair.

It was only natural, they were about to become food for the Acromantulas. By the time the school rescue arrived, they would only find the white bones or half-eaten corpses.

Thinking of such a scene, Malfoy was unwilling to give up and quickly fell to the ground.

He felt that his life was slipping away from him quickly and that he was likely to die at any moment.

Today, he finally paid the price for what he had done.

Just as he had given up, a hippogriff swooped down against the Acromantulas, and its brown steel claws caught a giant spider and crushed it straight up.

Green liquid splashed into Malfoy's face, sobering him up.

He couldn't believe it; he blinked and remained motionless, his brain stopped working.

Next to him, Goyle and Crabbe, who had been struggling, were also stunned, at the sudden attack.

Even the Acromantulas were stunned. They lay on the ground, and their large pincers, which had been snapping steadily, stopped.

Everyone looked at Buckbeak in surprise, but he did not stop. Under Ivan's command, he flapped his wings and floated into the air, gale force and fearless, and ran straight for the nearest Acromantula that was clutching Goyle.

A red light flashed, and Ivan's Petrificus Totalus Curse hit it.

Goyle was surprised to find that the Acromantula was gradually turning to stone, and its body showed a blue-gray color and became more rigid.

Its two long, hairy, well-gripped legs were weakening.

With a bang, Goyle was released by the Acromantula and landed heavily on the ground.

"God, this....this Hippogriff came to save us!"Goyle looked like he had just reacted, looking at Buckbeak in disbelief and sobbing loudly, "Help, help, get me out of here, I don't want to die!".

"I know, it's Buckbeak!" Crabbe increased his resistance and shouted. "It's the Hippogriff raised by Hagrid. Must be...."

Hearing Crabbe's reminder, Malfoy also recognized Buckbeak.

There was a lot of confusion in his heart, and he felt this was ironic.

A few minutes ago, he was promising his father to kill the Hippogriff, but now he had to rely on him to save himself.

But now he couldn't hold so much in mind, Malfoy promised that as long as he was alive, he would pay Buckbeak.

Just when he wanted to scream for help like Goyle and Crabbe, he stopped and looked at Ivan sitting on Buckbeak's back with puzzled eyes.

Being saved by Buckbeak, and Ivan of all people, was something he had never imagined.

He hesitated less than a second, and the thought of survival immediately overcame his pride and he weakly shouted to Ivan, "Help, save me!".

Ivan didn't have time to talk to Malfoy. Through unexpected surprise attacks, he and Buckbeak collaborated to eliminate four Acromantulas and successfully rescue Goyle. When the remaining

Acromantulas reacted, their pressure increased sharply.

Click, click, click, click, click....

They danced with sharp pincers, and ran from all directions toward Ivan and Buckbeak, and their eight pairs of glowing black eyes glowed with malicious ferocity.

Without Ivan's urging, Buckbeak flew at once to escape the attack.

"Don't abandon us, take me away, don't leave me alone!" shouted Goyle, crawling two steps forward with a look of panic.

"This idiot!" Before Goyle's behavior, Ivan was speechless.

Since he didn't pull out his wand to fight, or at least hide, he was putting more pressure on Ivan's rescue by being a free target for the Acromantulas in front of him.

"Come down, Buckbeak!" shouted Ivan.

They returned quickly and the wand in Ivan's hand twitched.

Magic erupted from the end of his wand, and a circular aura of light blue magical energy centered on him and spread rapidly.

Sensing danger, the Acromantulas scattered back and forth.

Ivan's wand pointed at the huge rocks scattered on the ground, and the rocks twisted into a blue-black snake that slithered toward the Acromantulas.

He wanted to make a basilisk, but as the basilisk itself had strong magic, it was difficult to make such a transfiguration, and it was too hasty, the stone eventually became a monster, and the snake's body still had aspects of stone itself.

But this was enough. As everyone knows, the Basilisk is the mortal enemy of the Acromantulas.

If a basilisk were here. Without even attacking, it could drive away the Acromantulas just by the pressure of its own momentum. Ivan's large snake, though it had neither the momentum nor the attack power of the Basilisk, was enough to scare them away by its mere appearance.

Click, click...

The Acromantulas backed away and did not dare approach the large slithering snake.

As the Acromantulas retreated and dodged, Ivan let Buckbeak land beside

Goyle and shouted, "Get in!".

Goyle stood up awkwardly, his legs still shaking.

He desperately grabbed Ivan's outstretched right hand and wanted to climb onto Buckbeak's back, but being too nervous, he tried several times without success.

By the time Ivan lifted him up, more than twenty seconds of precious time had passed.

Goyle's face was pale. He gasped and clung tightly to Ivan. His whole body was trembling.

Buckbeak flapped his wings and flew back. Not far away, the Acromantulas seemed to have overcome the fear of Ivan's fake Basilisk transfiguration, and discovered that they were just stones without any real attack power, and were together again.

Seeing that Goyle had been rescued, Malfoy and Crabbe shouted louder for help, fearing that Ivan would leave them alone.

Startled by the voices of the two, the Acromantulas that had been crouched in the territory were all eager to move, and came out of their hiding places. The situation became increasingly serious.