"What's wrong? My mother-in-law—what's wrong?"
Maka and Hermione looked at the fat wizard Borbus who was suddenly startled. They paused for a moment before Maka shook her head in confusion.
"What the hell kind of accent is this?" he couldn't help but complain.
But unlike Maka's surprise, although Hermione also had a puzzled expression, she was just confused because she couldn't understand what the other party said.
"What language is this?" She quickly turned her head and asked Maka, "Sounds like a variant of ancient runes?"
"That's right, it's the West Saxon language of runes, and now we mainly learn the Fesac language of runes... Oh, of course, Mr. Borbus's accent is very strange, and it is not pure. West Saxon…”
And during the casual conversation between the two, several more arrows fell from the air, which scared the fat Borbus and jumped to the side at least twenty feet away, and finally hid under a tree. Under the tree.
When Maka saw this, she felt that this guy seemed quite unreliable, right? It was rare that when he saw the name "Bolberts" before, he had a lot of expectations for the first ancient magic text professor at Hogwarts!
But before he could think too much, there was suddenly a rumble in the distance. In this world of ice and snow, it was obvious that the entire nearby ground was trembling slightly.
With a "crash", the snow on the trees beside the road was affected by the vibration and fell down directly.
As a result, Borbus, who just wanted to hide under the tree to prevent being accidentally injured by arrows, was suddenly covered in snow and half of his body was covered.
"Is it an earthquake? Or is there a volcano erupting?"
Luna had lost interest in the fat man by now, and when Maka was talking to Hermione, she was still wandering around in the snow on the side of the road. At this time, when she saw the strange vision, she seemed to finally be interested again, but she guessed in another direction about something that was obvious.
"It's a giant!" Hermione corrected, "Don't you remember what Maka said before coming in? In 1051, the last giant hunt... We are now in the Greek area, and just now, there was probably the sound of giants running."
As Hermione said, this memory fragment was selected from the scene where Borbus encountered a Greek wizard hunting a giant. It was also the last unilateral hunting of giants in the history of magic.
After that, of course, there were several battles between wizards and giants, but that was the real war that came and went.
The year Borbus is currently in is 1051, and many years ago, the largest wizarding war in history ended long ago. The group of wizards who won the final victory regarded the defeated magical creatures as long-term hunting targets, including some humanoid species.
As for giant hunting, it is perhaps the most dangerous hunting activity.
"Bang-bang-bang-bang-"
Another shaking, like the earth was shaking, came from the opposite side of the village not far away.
Although Borbus looks timid, his intelligence is not frightened at all. When he noticed that the movement was coming towards him, he immediately pushed aside the snow around him and ran out. Then he randomly chose a side that was perpendicular to the direction of the earthquake and started to escape.
He doesn't like the most popular hunting sports in the wizarding world today, especially dangerous activities like hunting fire dragons or hunting giants.
But as for the basic situation of these movements... As a well-known magician scholar, he has been forced to experience a lot.
He knew that the wizards who were hunting at this moment should still be in the "rushing" stage.
Before officially starting to deal with the giants, the hunters will first drive away the giants that are gathered together in twos and threes, and then stare at one of them and lead it away into the distance.
This is a very classic giant hunting method. It is said that during the wizard war, the ancestors used this method to defeat the scattered and unorganized giant tribe.
Therefore, Borbus was prepared to immediately stay away from the routes taken by the hunters to drive away the giants - this choice was certainly not wrong in theory.
Unfortunately, there will always be some bad deviations between theory and practice.
Just after Borbus ran for a while, the rumbling sound suddenly appeared again, and the source of the vibration was still coming in the direction Borbus escaped.
"Turned a corner?" Maka, who was not far behind him, glanced curiously into the distance.
Hermione looked at Mr. Borbus in front of her slightly strangely and said in confusion:
"Why didn't he disapparate?"
"Because in the era when Hogwarts was first created, Apparition was still an old version—you have already previewed those three elements, right? Goal, determination, and calmness... The wizards at that time only knew the first two essentials. So they must become 'calm' naturally after many consecutive successes."
Remember, when the next Christmas vacation is over, Hermione and the others will be old enough to learn the Apparition spell. To this end, Maka also specially added a few more personal theories that he summarized from his in-depth study of this curse.
Although due to some abnormalities in his soul, he himself has never been able to stabilize the coordinates of his appearance. But this did not prevent him from studying the theory of this curse very thoroughly, and it had even been applied to the production of door keys.
However, not to mention the calmness on Maka's side, Borbus was in quite a lot of pain.
He was already fat, so it was extremely difficult to run. Coupled with the sense of urgency that a huge creature was approaching, he already felt exhausted before he could run for long.
"It's really fatal!"
Borbus muttered breathlessly, then suddenly stopped running and sat down on the spot.
But just when Hermione thought he was going to give up on escaping, she saw the chubby Borbus lowering his head and rummaging around in his satchel.
Seeing this, the three of them also moved closer to the fat wizard, wanting to see what good things he would come up with.
Speaking of which, Borbus is indeed a very good scholar of magic, but I don't know if it is because he spends all his time studying ancient magic texts. His level of magic has always been below the average. .
Among the first professors of Hogwarts carefully hired by the Big Four, he was the only one who couldn't cast the Apparition Curse.
At this moment, listening to the sound of the giant running getting closer and closer, Borbus finally took out a piece of... a piece of parchment from his satchel
When Maka saw it, she immediately showed a surprised expression.
On that piece of parchment, he saw another rune array structure that he had never seen before—different from the ancient circular array and the circuit structure created by Maca himself, it was a polygonal irregular structure. Way.
And while Maka was still thinking about the special structure she saw, Borbus, holding the parchment, climbed up from the snow again, and actually rushed towards the source of the earthquake. .
Maka and the others took a look and quickly chased after him.
From the symbols and patterns glimpsed on the parchment just now, he could guess that it should be a formation built with incomplete regular runes, but he had no way of knowing the specific effect at this time.
But just looking at Borbus's confident look, the power shouldn't be that small.
Not long after, when they followed the figure in front of them around a small forest, they suddenly spotted a huge figure near the horizon in the distance.
Against the background of the setting sun, the figure looked particularly huge.
But Borbus was not intimidated by the terrifying giant. He kept running and strode over there.
"Look, there are other wizards over there!"
Hermione had good eyesight and immediately noticed the small figure next to the giant. But next to the giants, those little guys are not so conspicuous.
Naturally, Maka didn't need to be reminded by Hermione. He had already noticed that the contemporary wizards were taking turns attacking the giants, casting spells of moderate power while running, luring the giants back and forth to move this way.
Giants are a species blessed with physical advantages. The strong and efficient muscles throughout their bodies allow them to easily achieve terrifying running speeds that are inconsistent with their body size.
Therefore, when driving away and tempting giants, the wizard's hunting team often needs to have a considerable degree of coordination to at least avoid injuries as much as possible.
But at the next moment, Borbus, who was running that way, stopped suddenly, and then started running back without hesitation, looking in a certain direction from time to time along the way.
Maka looked where he was looking, and couldn't help but grin - there was another giant walking out from behind the mountain.
It seems that the previous change in the source of the earthquake was not caused by the giant "turning", but simply two different giants running separately!
When two or more giants appear at the same time, the scene will become much more chaotic, and this is probably why Borbus decided to run away again.
Seeing the fat man passing by with a distressed look on his face, Maka stopped looking at the two giants and waved Hermione and Luna to follow Borbus away.
This is Borbus' memory world. If you are too far away from that thing, you won't be able to see anything.
But when the three of them hurriedly caught up with Borbus, Maka quickly stopped in a fit of laughter and tears, and also shouted at Luna who was running too fast.
"No wonder Professor Binns said that Borbus 'almost never came back'... He was so unlucky that day, he actually met three giants one after another?"
There was no doubt that another giant suddenly stood up in the ravine far away in the direction the fat man was facing.
Obviously, the shock of his fellow race's running woke up the giant who was not yet asleep.