Harry Potter and the Great Old Ones

Chapter 213 Enchanted Forest
Tiera didn't dare raise her head, keeping it down as she passed through the Gate of Deep Sleep. Only after entering the Enchanted Forest and hearing the giant gate close behind her did Tiera dare to raise her head.

Before him lay an incredibly strange forest, with low, massive oak trees whose branches reached out in all directions—

There are no flowers, no green grass, no sunshine here, only strange mushrooms emitting a dim phosphorescence.

The air was filled with a stale, rotten, and nauseating stench.

After passing through the Gate of Deep Sleep and entering the Enchanted Forest, Tiera had essentially entered the realm of the Dreamland.

In the Enchanted Forest lives a small, brown creature called Zulg, which has multiple thin, cicada-wing-like wings on its back and makes a sound by vibrating these wings.

The Zuggers know many secrets of the dream world and also have some understanding of the waking world, because there are two places in this forest that border the human world.

Most Zul'Gurub live in burrows, while some in the trunks of large trees. They mostly feed on mushrooms. But of course, no one can resist the temptation of meat—

Whether it's a physical body or a spiritual body like Peter Pettigrew's current one—

But clearly, Tiera doesn't need to worry about that.

Zul'Gurub doesn't need to worry about being captured by Tiera and used as experimental subjects.

This is the Dreamland, a world protected by the chaos of the hidden realm; this is His backyard.

As an intruder, Tiera must be careful with her words and actions, lest she unintentionally anger Nyarlathotep and bring about her own demise.

Otherwise, every single creature in the Dreamland that Tiera could defeat would end up in my lab.

“Sigh…” Tiera sighed, feeling deeply pained.

The "parasite" on Peter Pettigrew suddenly changed, transforming into countless tentacles that stretched outwards—

A moment later, the "parasite" transformed back into the papal robes, tightly wrapping around Little Pettigrew's spiritual-spiritual body.

Tiera just used the "Parasit" talent authority to sense the location of life. About 1,700 meters east of Peter the dwarf, there is a large number of life forms gathered, which should be a Zul'Gurub tribe.

The Enchanted Forest is vast, located at the border of the western and southern regions of the Dreamlands. Tiera needs the Zul'Gurub tribe, familiar with the Enchanted Forest, to guide him.

In the Dreamland, no individual life form is permitted to fly except for beings with divine dimensions and the servant races of Nyarlathotep. Therefore, Tiera could only walk out of the Enchanted Forest step by step.

This is why Tiera needed Zul'Gurub to guide him.

Exiting one of the exits from the Enchanted Forest leads to the Minar region, near the southern border. This region is home to the city of Ib and the ruins of Xel'Nass. Near Ib lies a large lake, where the Great Old One Bokrug resided.

That was an evil god known as the "Avenger".

This is a place Tiera must hide in; with his current power, he is still powerless against beings of the Great Old Ones' caliber.

Tiera needs to find another way out of the Enchanted Forest—

That is, the road that leads directly to Ussa.

Usa is a city ruled by cats, where the law forbids anyone from harming or killing cats.

The cats of Usa City have the ability to jump through space in the Dreamland, allowing them to leap to the moon at any time and appear in most locations on Earth.

So Tierra's first destination was Ussa, hoping to gain the cats' help by giving them Peter Pettigrew, the "mouse," as a gift and toy.

Although the cats of Usa are different from cats on Earth, possessing intelligence and basic rationality, they still retain some animalistic instincts.

Tierra thought there was a chance they might like Peter the Pettigrew, who could turn into a mouse, as a gift.

Tierra needs to use their spatial jump ability to travel directly from Usa City to the Cold Plateau—

Once Tiera arrives at the Cold Plateau, all she needs to do is wait until the expedition team also enters the Cold Plateau. Then, she can have the "Parasit" meet up with the expedition team carrying the "Inheritor," and select another person from the expedition team to parasitize. With the support of the two great artifacts, the "Parasit" and the "Inheritor," Tiera will have some confidence to trade directly with the Moon Beasts.

If not—

Natiela had no choice but to continue using Peter Pettigrew's body, joining a caravan of merchants and transporting wool from Usa and cabbages harvested from Usa's busy farms to other important cities in the western region of the Dreamlands.

These are the coastal jungle city of Hlanith and the desert trading center of Ilarnek.

Tiera planned to rest in the two cities for a while to see if they could provide enough pillar copper, flowing silver, and sky gold.

If possible, as soon as the expedition team carrying her "inheritor" enters the Cold Plateau, Tiera can immediately use the spatial authority of the "inheritor" to teleport the expedition team over to complete the transaction.

This way, there's no need to risk contact with the moon beast anymore. After all, obtaining the materials needed for the ascension ritual is the main task, while contact with the moon beast...

It's not too late to come after you become a god.

If the coastal jungle cities and desert trading centers could not provide the materials he needed, Tiera planned to return to Ussa, and then travel through Ussa to the port of Dylath-Leen.

This is the largest city in the Dreamland, and also the largest port in the entire Dreamland. Almost every week, a large black multi-oared sailing ship laden with rubies docks at the shore.

Then, from those ships would emerge merchants who were completely different from the other merchants—

Those who engaged in trade all had unusually wide mouths, and the way they wrapped their headscarves was particularly unsightly—

Those headscarves would strangely create two small bumps on their foreheads. The shoes these people wore were also the shortest and strangest in the entire Six Kingdoms.

These strange traders were exactly what Tiera was looking for—

Servants and agents of the Moon Beast clan, inhabitants of the Cold Plains.

Tiera planned to make contact with them first to see if she could obtain the three essential ingredients for the ascension ritual through the inhabitants of the Cold Plains, or even if possible—

Tiera also wanted to go with them to the Cold Plateau to visit the high priest of the Moon Beast Clan, who lived alone in the ancient stone monastery.

Just as Tiera was advancing towards the nearest Zug tribe, in another part of Central Asia—

Archaeologist Judy Wilson, mystic Adolkent, geography student Mitchell McGann, and former KGB agent Sumarokov Romanov find a local guide, Abni Abhiddin.

They planned to rest for a day at the foot of the Hindu Kush Mountains to replenish their rations, and then head up the Hindu Kush Mountains in the early morning of the third day to find the cave they had located through a vast amount of literature.

This was no easy task, as the legends of demonic creatures and blasphemous trade had deeply ingrained themselves in the hearts of the local people.

However, due to poor transportation, these legends and information were rarely taken to other places.

The locals believe that the cave the expedition team is looking for is the entrance to hell.

Therefore, no one was willing to lead the way.

Except for Abni Abhiddin.

While Abni Abhihidin may not have been the originator of these horror legends, he was likely one of the first in his generation to encounter them.

He had witnessed his beautiful, young mother drugging her husband, who was more than ten years older than her.

Then they traded gold and rubies with those terrifying creatures.

His mother's calm and relieved smile that night became a nightmare for the rest of his life.

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