Having escaped famine, I was accepted into Hogwarts.

Chapter 44 Snape? Should I avoid his sharp edge?

Soon, Kane arrived in front of Hagrid's hut and banged on Hagrid's door.

The door was opened.

"Kane, what's up?" Hagrid asked, pleasantly surprised to see Kane.

"Hello Hagrid, are you free now?"

"Uh, to be honest, no. Dumbledore, for some reason, asked me to go to Diagon Alley to buy a large quantity of mandrake seeds. Originally, this was Professor Sprout's job, but Professor Sprout has been quite busy lately, so, uh, hehe..." Hagrid gave an awkward smile.

Kane nodded. After all, Hagrid wasn't his personal nanny and had his own things to do. Besides, he didn't need Hagrid to protect him. All Hagrid needed to do was tell him where the giant spiders in the Forbidden Forest lived.

And so, Kane cut to the chase without any hesitation: "I've heard there's a nest of spiders in the Forbidden Forest? Where is it?"

The moment Kane asked that question, it struck a chord with Hagrid. After all, Kane's appearance was indeed very deceptive. Asking such a question with such a face made him look like he was going to the Forbidden Forest to befriend the spiders.

After all these years, someone has finally discovered their cuteness!

Hagrid swiftly returned to the room, found a ball of white spider silk that was rolled up in a ball, and handed it to Kane.

"This is a token shared by the spiders in the Forbidden Forest. As long as you have this, they will lead you to their nest."

Hagrid simply explained how to find the large spiders, and didn't go into more detail. After all, kids don't like being guided or disciplined when making friends, so let Kane discover the cuteness of the little spiders on his own.

Kane, however, had no idea what Hagrid was really thinking. All he knew was that he could find the spider's nest in the Forbidden Forest by holding the white ball of spider silk in his hand.

hiss......

Hagrid, you are absolutely the most authoritative person at Hogwarts!

Hagrid soon left Hogwarts in high spirits. Kane's willingness to befriend the Octopods was a very good start. As more and more people accepted his little darlings, the Octopods would one day live in peace with humans and even appear in the pet shops in Diagon Alley.

Kane had already entered the Forbidden Forest and wandered around for a long time before finally finding a small spider. He let the spider smell the ball of silk in his hand, and soon the little spider began to lead the way for him.

What a wonderful little spider! I'll definitely save you for last so you can continue to reproduce and multiply endlessly.

However, when Kane followed the little spider to the spider's nest and actually saw Aragog, he realized that it seemed unnecessary to spare the little spider's life, because he wouldn't be able to kill all these spiders anytime soon.

As Aragog, hanging in the very center of the giant spider web, emitted a sound barely audible to humans, the second largest spider, seemingly the second-in-command of the spider colony, slithered over, its enormous mouth only centimeters from Kane's face, as if observing whether the young wizard posed any threat.

Kane saw a huge spider head suddenly rush towards him. He had just been struggling with how to attack, but now the spider had delivered itself to him. Wasn't that perfect?

The next moment, the wand appeared in his hand, and he thrust it into the head of the giant spider in front of him. With the shadow encroaching, the spider changed its appearance almost instantly, and then a basic knockback spell was unleashed inside the giant spider's head.

With a bang, the giant spider turned into a slippery spider gland and two clumps of spider web, which he quickly picked up and stuffed into his pocket.

In that instant, Aragog thought of many things, and finally his little brain realized one thing: the person in front of him was an enemy.

It then looked at the little spider in the corner that had brought Kane there. Was that you?

Unfortunately, before he could finish speaking, the little spider's shadow suddenly twisted and turned into a grotesque maw, which bit off the little spider's head, along with two spider webs and a gland. It's worth mentioning that although the spider was small, it also lost a piece of monster flesh.

With the second spider also taken down, the other spiders finally came to their senses. They realized that the little wizard in front of them was an enemy, not a friend, and they all pounced on him in an instant.

Kane swung his wand sharply, and a massive swarm of killer bees was summoned as if they had been scattered into soldiers, instantly charging towards the densely packed spiders.

Kane picked up all the scattered spider webs on the ground and stuffed them into his pocket.

"Human, how did you get that spider silk ball?" Aragog suddenly spoke in human language and asked Kane.

"Wow, this big guy can talk?" Kane was a little surprised, but that was all. Although this big guy looked very intimidating, it was actually very old. The probability of it successfully attacking him was probably not as high as the probability of him being killed by a bucket of tartar sauce falling from the sky.

As the limited number of killer bees were eventually driven to the brink of extinction by the relatively unlimited number of spiders, Kane had already collected enough spider webs. With a flick of his wand, he unleashed a dark flame that drove back most of the spiders, and then left without looking back.

Those who knew understood that Kane was doing this to obtain the spider web and upgrade the Eternal Realm technology, but those who didn't... or even the spiders themselves, only felt endless fear and bewilderment watching this scene.

A young wizard, carrying the token he had given to Hagrid, found his home. Upon arriving, he killed his second-in-command without saying a word, and then, as if possessed, used magic and the eerie shadows to kill his few remaining offspring.

Finally, as if he had had his fill of killing, he left without saying a word. This behavior of entering and leaving the spider swarm as if it were no man's land seems anything but normal.

"Hagrid... is it you who led this madman here to me?" Aragog let out a final sigh, unsure whether it was because his good friend Hagrid outside the Forbidden Forest had been tricked by the evil Shadow Wizard into wielding a butcher's knife against his own offspring, or because...

Is Hagrid in trouble?

In short, a hint of melancholy could be seen on the spider's face, suggesting that it would have a good chat when it saw Hagrid again.

Kane, who had leisurely left the Forbidden Forest, first put Hagrid's spider silk ball back on the wooden stake in his yard. Now that he knew where the spider's nest was, he no longer needed the spider silk ball.

Back in the dorm, Harry and Ron were already up; if they weren't in the dorm, they were probably out looking for food.

Kane was happy to have some peace and quiet, so he plopped down in the corner of the alchemy engine, pulled out handfuls of spider silk, fiddled with it for a while, and made a top hat.

The top hat restores sanity much more efficiently than the wreath, and most importantly, it avoids the awkwardness of not having a wreath while wearing it; all you need is...

Kane placed his top hat on the ground, slammed it down twice, wrinkling it slightly, then violently folded it into a smooth curve, turning it into a cowboy hat, and put it on his head.

Feeling a wave of mental relief, he even felt sleepy. Speaking of sleep, he remembered something, spent two seconds making a tent out of his hand, stuffed his bed inside, and gained another way to restore his sanity.

With the immediate crisis resolved, only one last task remains: crafting the spirit particle decomposer requires four more rabbits...

Aragog and his spiders should still be hunting him down in the Forbidden Forest, so... rabbits... he remembered there were a few rabbits in the Potions classroom used for testing potions...

emmm....

Would Professor Snape welcome me?

Probably not.

Would I back down and not go?

Of course not, why would I avoid his sharp edge?

Just then, Harry and Ron had managed to pack a huge amount of food from the basement through some underhanded means and were about to leave when they saw Kane striding menacingly toward the Potions classroom from another direction.

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