At the entrance of the Forbidden Forest, one big and four small figures were gathering together.
Harry appeared somewhat nervous. He glanced at the pitch-black and eerie Forbidden Forest under the night sky not far away and couldn't help but look up and ask, "Hagrid, are we really going in?"
As soon as these words came out, Hermione and Ron beside him also looked up at Hagrid together.
A bit further away, although Malfoy acted like he didn't care with his usual arrogant attitude, if you looked carefully, you could still see that he was also secretly watching everything from the corner of his eye.
"Of course we are. This is a task Dumbledore assigned, and it must be completed. But you don't need to worry, Fang and I are with you,"
Hagrid comforted and explained. "In recent months, the creatures in the Forbidden Forest have become very panicked. Some have even fled the forest in a frenzy. This is very suspicious. I suspect some kind of powerful outsider creature has broken into the forest. Our task today is to find it and drive it away."
"Is that so?" Harry lowered his head in disappointment, then glanced uneasily at the Forbidden Forest ahead.
For some reason, he had a bad feeling.
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[At the same time, deep in the Forbidden Forest.]
Accompanied by an almost inaudible rustling of leaves and grass, Link and Arkam were slowly moving through the forest.
Thanks to Arkam's presence, Link didn't enter from the same entrance as Harry and the others. Instead, he went straight into the depths of the Forbidden Forest.
This gave Link more time. And it also made it easier for him to find the unicorns.
Yes, what Link and Arkam were currently searching for was unicorns.
This was a plan that Link had long arranged. Because compared to Harry and the others, Link's greatest advantage was that he already knew from the beginning that Quirrell and Voldemort's target was the unicorns.
That meant they only had to keep an eye on the unicorns, and Quirrell would come to them.
This saved him a lot of effort. After all, Quirrell, possessed by Voldemort, might be hard to find, he was a wizard who knew how to hide himself.
But unicorns were different. Finding them was very easy, because the Forbidden Forest didn't contain any natural predators for them.
At the same time, these beautiful creatures, representing holiness and purity, who usually only liked to interact with pretty female witches, were especially loved by wizards.
This had led them to become something like the overlords of the Forbidden Forest, every day, they just swaggered around the forest, not afraid of people at all. They'd even chase you down asking for food, and if you didn't give it to them, they'd spit on you, truly arrogant.
(A/N: Of course, they only interact with girls. Real creeps.)
"Link, I've found them."
"Hm? Where?"
Hearing Arkam's voice, Link, who was riding on Arkam's back, suddenly perked up.
But Arkam didn't say anything, he simply stuck out his forked tongue and pointed into the distance.
Link followed his gaze and quickly saw, in the dense woods far away, two unicorns standing there.
Link had to admit, unicorns were indeed beautiful creatures. They didn't just have spiral horns on their heads but also smooth, snow-bright, silvery-white fur. Their coats were so shiny they seemed to glow with a silvery-white halo.
They were beautiful, that much Link could see, but holy? Not at all.
Because the two unicorns in his field of vision right now were doing something commonly shown on animal documentaries.
What made Link feel the most speechless was that the male unicorn looked especially weird, he didn't look like a unicorn or a pegasus at all, more like a donkey.
That donkey face, paired with the thrusting motion, looked downright obscene.
After watching for a while, Link silently rubbed his eyes. He felt like his eyes would need a good cleaning later.
But just as Link was rubbing his eyes, those two unicorns suddenly stopped what they were doing and turned their heads to the side.
This sudden change made Link instantly alert. He dismounted and tried his best to hide himself in the surrounding bushes.
"Great! I finally found them! Master, are you satisfied now?"
Quirrell's voice echoed from the darkness nearby, and when Link looked over, he saw a familiar black-hooded figure standing not far from the two unicorns.
The moment he saw that figure, Link's breathing grew heavier, because he had bet correctly, Quirrell really chose to act today.
Taking a deep breath, a glimmer of blue light flickered in Link's hollow eyes.
"Hiss hiss hiss!"
Arkam beside Link was also trembling with excitement.
Seeing this, Link, who had already activated Occlumency and the Sensory Amplification Charm, gently patted Arkam's body, signaling him to calm down.
Now wasn't the best time to act. Quirrell might be trash, but the Voldemort on the back of his head was not. Even though Voldemort was now just a weakened remnant soul, he was still not to be underestimated.
Link had a feeling that attacking rashly would be useless, only by striking the moment Quirrell attacked the unicorn could he get the result he wanted.
At the same time, the two unicorns had also reacted.
The female unicorn that was just underneath let out a few "eeeeee" sounds before darting into the forest, while the male unicorn looked annoyed and walked toward Quirrell, seemingly wanting to teach this mood-killer a lesson.
Seeing this, Quirrell was stunned for a moment, then burst into laughter.
"Hahaha! Look, master, this unicorn actually came over on its own! Uh… why does it look so strange? Master… is its blood okay?"
"Enough nonsense! Kill it now!" A hoarse and gloomy voice came from within the black robes.
Hearing this, Quirrell trembled and didn't dare say anything else. He directly raised his wand and pointed it at the donkey-faced unicorn.
But just then, Link in the distance suddenly waved his wand.
"Sectumsempra!"
With a loud shout, a flash of light suddenly appeared. In the blink of an eye, it crossed nearly a hundred meters and landed straight on Quirrell's chest.
"Ah!"
A scream echoed as blood sprayed into the silent night.
Quirrell looked down in disbelief at the horrifying 20 cm long gash on his chest. Only then did he finally react, forcing himself to point his wand in the direction the curse had come from.
But unfortunately, Link's attack wasn't over.
"Die! You liar!"
Whoosh~
A whistling sound suddenly rang out. A huge black shadow leapt out from behind Quirrell, opening its bloody mouth and lunging straight at him.
Boom!
With a loud noise, Quirrell's figure was instantly swallowed by Arkam and a shower of dirt…
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