Who let this Dementor into Hogwarts!

Chapter 15: The Youthful Dementor Boy Will Not Encounter the Nosed Monster Old Deng
After leaving Harry, who was wandering around and finally returned to the dormitory to play chess with Ron, Cohen successfully arrived at the venue outside the castle.

"Damn it! In the Hogwarts Legacy game, you can use Floo Powder to teleport directly into the Forbidden Forest!"

The Forbidden Forest's location is obvious, and of course, Cohen's location is also obvious.

Because there is only a flat and open grassland between the castle and the forbidden forest, it has to be said that it is difficult to cross here without being discovered during the day.

However, Cohen managed to sneak in by pretending to make friends with Hagrid and then making a feint, taking a detour and going straight into the Forbidden Forest.

The price is that you will have a bunch of rock cakes in your pocket that look like stones. If you really encounter danger, you can use them as stones to hit monsters.

As soon as we entered the forbidden forest, the relatively bright sunlight outside was mostly blocked by the shade of the trees.

The ground is littered with intricate tangles of old tree roots, and tall, sturdy ancient trees stretch their branches out from the top, forming a dense protective net - it is hard to imagine riding a flying broom through here.

The forest was filled with the smell of soil and rotten leaves. Cohen looked left and right, and from time to time he could see some mushrooms and herbal plants recorded in "One Thousand Magical Herbs and Fungi".

But he didn't see any creature with a soul strength higher than 2 - which means that so far all Cohen could see were bugs.

However, Cohen did not want to absorb the souls of the worms. Their soul strength was only 1 point, and this was simply because the system's lowest mark was 1 point.

Maybe even if Cohen ate as many worm souls as a castle, he still couldn't fill the gap in his soul.

"Goo-"

The thought that he was here to eat souls made Cohen's hunger resurface.

Fortunately, I brought some candy to satisfy my cravings so I wouldn’t be hungry all the way.

Hard work pays off, and Cohen finally found a nest of magical creatures with three points of soul strength in a tree hole.

Fire ash snake.

Moreover, Cohen happened to run into the last few minutes of the fire ash snake laying eggs. Because the fire ash snake has a lifespan of only one hour, it will turn into ashes after laying eggs.

"If I don't eat it, it will die. The forest feeds the Ash Snake with everything, but the Ash Snake gives nothing in return for feeding the forest. Suck!"

Cohen sucked down the soul of the Fire Ash Snake Mother in one gulp—he felt nothing, and it even seemed worse than Professor McGonagall's transformed product.

Watching the mother fire ash snake turn into ashes after finishing laying eggs, Cohen turned his attention to this nest of fire ash snake eggs.

"hiss……"

Cohen felt his conscience, which had been dormant for a long time, suddenly stir.

"These little guys will definitely burn this tree after they are born. Preventing forest fires is everyone's responsibility. I—"

A nest of fire ash snake eggs with one point of soul strength plus a fire ash snake with three points of soul strength finally increased Cohen's soul strength by 0.1%, but this was actually enough.

As long as the quantity is sufficient, even a small amount can be piled into a mountain!
What the forest lacks the least is fire ash snake eggs.

They are born from uncontrolled demonic fire and reproduce asexually. If a nest of fire ash snakes appears somewhere, then a huge population of fire ash snakes will appear there.

The fire ash snake species is often eradicated, firstly because of its number and pest-like harmfulness, and secondly because of its medicinal properties - the fire ash snake's eggs are an ingredient in aphrodisiacs and can also be used to treat malaria.

In line with the principle of not wasting anything, Cohen froze all the fire ash snake eggs with a freezing spell after extracting their souls, intending to take them back as ingredients for potions.

The Fire Ash Snake, which originally hid in various cracks in rocks and tree holes, was a difficult-to-find magical creature. However, Cohen had a unique advantage—he could see the soul strength label through some obstacles.

So along the way, Cohen was fiercely clearing out the fire ash snakes, then freezing their eggs and putting them in his pocket.

The rock biscuits given by Hagrid also played a very crucial role. Cohen threw them along the way (to make room for the fire ash snake eggs), eliminating the possibility of being directionally challenged.

There's no need to worry about the rock biscuits being eaten by animals passing through the forest, because no one except Hagrid can chew them...

In addition to the fire ash snake, you can also see a few lost eight-eyed spider cubs in the forest from time to time -

"Evil monster! Suck!"

There were two more eight-eyed, confused little spiders in the forest.

The eight-eyed giant spider is obviously a level higher than the fire ash snake. Even its juvenile form has a soul strength of 4 points.

Cohen was cleaning out the souls of the creatures passing by as if he was sweeping the place—it felt like every dog ​​passing by would be bitten by Cohen.

Of course, if the animals are cute, Cohen will let them go—

"Double-standard dog."

The Count stopped by a broken tree trunk near Cohen, holding a black rat in his mouth and making inarticulate sounds.

"You have to understand one thing: being cute means you can do whatever you want."

After stuffing the last frozen fire ash snake egg into his overflowing robe pocket and letting a cute moon beast that was still dozing off run away, Cohen rolled his eyes at the earl who had come running over out of nowhere.

"Stop trying to be cute. I'll always remember you cursing a mouse's ancestors for an entire hour." "Oh."

The Count turned his head back, tilting it in an attempt to look cute.

"You continue to work on the species extinction plan in the forest - I'm here to bring you a message. Harry Potter asked me to find you and ask if you want to go with them. They will come to Hagrid's place at three o'clock in the afternoon."

"Okay, I can ask Hagrid for some valuable unicorn hair or something—using Harry's face." Cohen planned, "Go tell Harry that I will be out at three o'clock and there is no need to wait for me in the castle."

The bells of Hogwarts could be heard even at the edge of the Forbidden Forest, so Cohen was not worried about missing the time.

The Earl flapped his wings and flew away, and Cohen had already entered the middle of the Forbidden Forest.

The temperature here suddenly dropped cold, and the sunlight was almost completely blocked by the trees. From time to time, an unknown creature with a soul strength of seven, eight, or even ten points would rush over.

Cohen was already considering whether to end this leveling journey now. Thanks to his unremitting efforts, the Forbidden Forest's fire ash snake family and several lost eight-eyed giant spider cubs contributed up to 3.4% of Cohen's soul integrity.

Now Cohen's soul strength has reached 15 points, which is much faster than exchanging sin points for soul fragments!
However, Cohen has now encountered a problem, that is, the improvement of his soul completeness seems to have reached a bottleneck. When he destroyed the fifth-to-last fire ash snake nest, he already had 15 points of soul strength, but until now, the number behind the soul completeness has not even increased by 0.1.

It seems... these low-level souls can no longer improve themselves.

Suddenly, Cohen, who was about to turn around, saw shiny silver bloodstains scraped on the leaves of the bushes in the woods.

This is unicorn blood.

The blood trail led all the way to the depths of the forbidden forest, which was hidden by bushes. These bushes showed signs of being trespassed by, and many of the branches were bent or broken.

Magic... mixed with the sweet scent of soul, Cohen felt his heart pounding.

During this period, the only one who attacked unicorns in the forest... seemed to be Quirrell, who had Voldemort pressed against his forehead?
Did they actually start sucking unicorn blood now? Cohen originally thought that this incident would not happen until the second half of the semester.

The current Voldemort is not something Cohen can handle - he has a full forty points of soul strength, and the store doesn't sell the "Five Minutes Real Man Direct to 100 Points of Soul Strength Experience Card". Going to fight Voldemort now is simply courting death.

Just because the Aurors failed to kill Cohen doesn't mean that Voldemort, who has been in the dark magic circle for so long, can't kill Cohen. What if he has a spell specifically to kill Dementors?
“Squeaky!!!!”

Cohen was about to run away when a loud horse neighing came from behind him.

"Evil creature, get out of our territory!"

What? Evil creatures? Quirrell was driven out by the centaurs? Behind his back?

There was a chaotic sound of horse hooves, and Cohen couldn't tell whether it was the footsteps of Quirrell fleeing.

But with the centaurs here, Quirrell probably wouldn't dare act recklessly...

Cohen turned his head and looked behind him, wanting to see a certain Voldemort running away in anger.

But it seems...

"Is the script wrong?" Cohen's mouth twitched a few times. There was no Quirrell behind him, only centaurs. Just a glance would tell him there were at least ten of them.

The centaurs drew their bows like crescent moons, and all of them were aiming at Cohen!

[Soul Strength: 15]

It was just the right level for Cohen to eat right now, but Cohen had no intention of killing the centaurs unless they wanted to kill him first.

The leading centaur had a beard and looked wild and proud.

It stared at Cohen for a long time, and finally blurted out a strange sentence with a strange look on its face:
"What the hell?"

"It's a strange foal, Baine, but we never hurt foals." Beside it, a red-haired, melancholy centaur blocked the arrow of the bearded Baine. "The one who hurt the unicorn was not him—"

Suddenly, a cold arrow shot from the direction of the unicorn's bloodstain, and Cohen dodged it with extremely fast reaction - then Cohen realized that he could release half of his soul to explore the situation. In this way, if he had known that the centaur and Voldemort were here, Cohen would have slipped away fifteen meters away.

"call out!"

The next arrow followed, accompanied by the sound of horse hooves in that direction - obviously, there was more than one team of centaurs trying to capture Voldemort, and another team was flanking him.

Cohen could even hear the clacking of someone darting through the bushes that were halfway up to his waist.

If he didn't run away, he would be accidentally killed by another group of horsemen shooting arrows randomly!
Cohen couldn't bear to give up his current body. Not only was it adorable, but if he changed his body, Edward and Rose might become cold towards him. Cohen didn't want to hear himself asking his parents weird questions like "Do you love my soul or my body?"

Just when Cohen decided to run away, a certain Quirinus Nose-less Starfury Quirrell who did not want to reveal his name also emerged from the bushes wearing a black hooded cloak.

Cohen immediately pulled his hood up as well - they were all wearing vests, and whoever revealed their real name would be embarrassed.

Two seconds later, Quirrell's position was level with Cohen, and their escape routes were almost the same - because this was the flattest road in the forest.

"What a coincidence, you're running away too?"

(End of this chapter)