Chapter 527: A Buried Temple?

"How do you like them, Ivan?! Harry, Ron and Hermione really liked them, they were just born!", Hagrid said proudly. "I thought about it. You can raise them yourselves this year. We can make a great project."

From Harry and Ron's sarcastic expression and tone earlier, Ivan doubted that they really liked those Sprouts.

The three of them must have said that just because they didn't want Hagrid to be sad.

"How did you guys get these Escregutes with exploding tails?" Ivan leaned over and looked at the group inside the crate. The tail of one Escreguto suddenly exploded, and sparks flew everywhere. He hurried back, frowning, and said, "This must be a new kind of magical animal. I've never seen it in any book."

"Yes, it's a new breed, a hybrid of the Manticore and the Fire Crab. I christened them Blast Scrags. These little guys are really cute, aren't they?" Hagrid waved his hand and seemed very pleased that Ivan asked, "You know, it's not easy. The Manticore barely lets the creatures get close. And it's even harder to get them to 'work together' to produce offspring. It took me about sixty fire crabs this summer to get it."

It was hard to imagine how Hagrid did it.

While all the wizards were going to the Quidditch World Cup, the man was taking care of a Manticore and a group of Fire Crabs. He was doing his best to get them to mate and give birth to their young....

Those Fire Crabs were not cute, but terrible, absolutely horrible!

Since the ban on experimental breeding had been enacted, the breeding of new types of magical creatures had been banned.

The Department of Regulation and Control of Magical Creatures of the Ministry of Magic enforced the ban to the letter. It was illegal for Hagrid to do so.

But seeing the happy expression on his face, even if Ivan told him this, he wouldn't care.

Hagrid was now completely immersed in the joy of getting the Scripps, just thinking about how to raise them.

If Hagrid could find them the right food to eat, these dangerous Stigmata could grow quickly and cause harm to all living things around them.

They had fully inherited some of the characteristics of the Manticore and the Fire Crab, and should be even more dangerous.

Of course, this posed no problem for Hagrid.

Thinking back on his past experiences, whether it was the dragon, the Cerberus, or the Acromantula, they weren't much safer than the Fire Skink.

In Hagrid's eyes, they were all cute babies.

Last term, Ivan had nearly exterminated all the Acromantulas in the entire Forbidden Forest.

Affected by the eyeball monster, they had become more evil and their bodies had begun to grow abnormally, becoming pure Dark creatures.

However, Ivan spared Aragog and handed him over to Hagrid. Without the evil god's supply, the old spider could not live long.

During this time, Hagrid had been busy caring for the weakened Aragog, and had no energy to think of anything else.

Unexpectedly, as soon as Aragog's health improved, he produced a large number of potentially more dangerous Exploding Tailed Skinks!

Ivan sighed, gave up trying to persuade Hagrid and turned his attention back to what he had just said about the Manticore.

"Where did you find the Manticore?" asked Ivan, "This magical animal is very rare."

The Manticore is a very dangerous beast with the head of a man, the body of a lion and the tail of a scorpion. More precisely, it is a monster with a red lion's body, human face, human ears and blue eyes. Its upper and lower jaws have three rows of sharp teeth each and the tail is that of a scorpion with a deadly stinger that can shoot in any direction.

This magical animal is native to Greece and is very rare and extremely dangerous. It is one of the most dangerous magical beasts known to date.

A Manticore's skin repels all known charms, so it is extremely difficult to subdue a Manticore with magic. It is known to be able to speak like a human being and is considered a sentient beast.

But due to its violent nature, it was not offered the status accorded to it like Goblins and other similar beings. It is recorded in the history of magic that a Manticore once killed 30,000 Muggles as food.

For this reason, in ancient Persia it was called "Manticore", i.e. "man-eater".

This terrible evil monster is also considered by Muggles as a mythical symbol of tyranny, contempt and jealousy.

In the magical world, they are magical animals created by ancient wizards to guard treasures.

As the remains left by ancient wizards were explored and excavated, the Manticore became increasingly rare.

According to reliable records, her last appearance was in 1296.

A Manticore saved a person, and she was set free because everyone was too scared to go near her.

Since then, the magical world had never seen a Manticore.

That's why Ivan was surprised when Hagrid said that those Scrygutes were a breed of the Manticore and the Firecrab. He didn't know where Hagrid had found a Manticore.

"In the swamp deep in the Forbidden Forest there is one!" said Hagrid, standing up. "It's their territory, no other creature dares to go near it. Except to hunt, it never wanders too far away, as if it's watching something."

The swamp is deep in the Forbidden Forest?

Ivan still remembered the swamp. Eight hundred years ago, Okegiga, the greatest warrior in the history of the Centaurs, once found a huge relic buried in the mud. It was an ancient and mysterious temple.

The upper part was covered with thick swamps, and the inside was a wide and quiet rotunda. It was silently covered with many magical plants, and the marble walls were engraved with complex magical symbols and ancient magical inscriptions.

The floor was covered with various magical patterns and lines, as was the top of the Temple of the Moon.

At the speed of Okegiga, the centaur, he had to gallop for more than 20 minutes in this empty hall to reach the center.

There stood the terrible statue that could conjure the evil forest god into the real world.

Hagrid said that the Manticore could have been used to guard something. It could be that sunken temple. When he thought about it, Ivan decided to go there and take a look. There might be something left at the site related to the evil god.

With the statue of the evil god in Voldemort's hands, this kind of exploration was even more necessary.

The Temple was buried under the mud of the swamp and had not been discovered by wizards and the Ministry of Magic. Only Okegiga had been there 800 years ago, and the place might not have been destroyed, which had great exploration value.

In addition to the evil god, the ancient sorcerers might have left other treasures.

Even if there was nothing, just for the fact that the temple was a relic left by the ancient sorcerers, it was worth Ivan's visit.