Harry Potter’s Book of Sin Chapter 326: Giant tribe and gifts
Not long after sunrise, Hagrid and Mrs. Maxim had to be "forced" to wake up. Fastest update
The reason is very simple, and it is also a bit dumbfounding, because the snoring sound of giants eventually caused a small avalanche on the mountain.
Fortunately, at least Maca had noticed some signs in advance that allowed them to avoid the impact of falling snow.
"I counted it just before dawn. There are a total of eighty-two giants that can be seen below...The one lying on the bottom of the lake at the bottom of the valley should be the'Gu Ge' among them." The flow gradually ceased, and Maca said to the other two.
In the huge crowd, the leader is generally called "Gu Ge", and the way the militant giant chooses Gu Ge since ancient times is naturally fighting.
A giant is a creature with a fighting spirit in its blood, even if it is a battle between the same race, it will be merciless.
Although this kind of infighting will always be regarded by wizards as barbaric and rude, in any case, the strength of the giant's combat power and vitality must have a lot to do with their habits.
It's just that in ancient times, during the period when giants were still active and free, Gu Ge changed unusually frequently. At that time, Gu Ge always represented the highest level of combat power among the major giants.
But now, the largest giants in the world are only left in the valley. Even if they are still combative, they will inevitably lose many potential targets.
Just now Maca had already seen the Gu Ge by the bottom of the valley, but no matter how you look at it, he was a lazy guy.
Perhaps when he first ascended the position of Gu Ge, his combat power was stronger than other giants. This can be seen from his apparently taller size, but now it is not necessarily.
"Eighty-two... there are only so little left! There used to be a lot of..." Hagrid looked at the valley below, and said with emotion, "At the beginning, it was said that the whole world added up There are more than a hundred tribes, but look now..."
Hagrid and Mrs. Maxim are both people who have a deep connection with giants. Even Mrs. Maxim, who refuses to admit it verbally, is now showing complex expressions.
To put it bluntly, this is the result of a surge in the number of wizards and Muggles.
Although wizards have hardly launched large-scale wars against giants, as the wizard’s area of activity continues to expand and wizards are always ensuring that Muggles are separated from the magical world, the territory for magical creatures to live will increase. Land is less.
However, creatures like giants have always had a great demand for living space. They not only need a place for daily survival, but also relatively free individual space.
The giant not only hunts other creatures for survival, but also often triggers fights because of the fighting spirit of the day. When they live together like they are now, the phenomenon of infighting will happen very frequently.
"Dumbledore and I talked for a while before we set off..." Hagrid stared at the sleeping giants below, and said softly, "Dumbledore said it was our fault, and the wizard forced them out. When they arrived together, they had no choice but to live like this..."
"Let me say, it's not who can be right or who is wrong," Maca shook his head, "There have been many magical creatures extinct in history. Since they will be extinct, it means they have not Can become stronger like a wizard"
"In ancient times, we wizards seem to have also experienced struggles. Our current life is also the result of our ancestors' hard work."
He thought for a while, then turned his gaze to Hagrid and Mrs. Maxim.
"Just like the two of you, the blood of the wizard and the giant is flowing through your body..."
"I'm just"
Mrs. Maxim seemed to want to deny her old "big skeleton" theory again, but Maca shook her hand at her.
"I actually occasionally guess how our wizards were born? How did they evolve to what they are now..." Maca said in a deep voice, "Maybe, the blood in our body is also mixed at all. Unbearable, isn't it?"
Just like the "Disguise Magnus" among wizards who occasionally awaken like Tonks, the blood of wizards has always been mysterious. In other words, it has always been "suspicious".
"Don't talk about it." During the moment when the three of them were somewhat reverie, Maca took the initiative to put aside the topic, "Hagrid, I remember that before you set off, Dumbledore should have asked you to bring some Gifts to their Gu Ge? What did they bring?"
Speaking of this topic, Hagrid was clearly energetic.
As mentioned before, giants hate wizards, and they hate wizard magic. But what they hate is that wizards use magic to harass or deal with them.
And their favorite gift is actually magic.
"This is the Goublay Fairy Fire, Dumbledore did it himself."
Hagrid drew a rather large torch from the package set aside, and when he took off the metal cover on the top of the torch, a pretty blue and white flame burst instantly.
The brightness of this kind of flame is not high, it has no temperature, and it has no practical value. But since ancient times, it has another name, Eternal Fire.
This is a magic flame made with an ancient magic that has been cracked by scholars. That magic inherits the ancient magic's consistent impression of "complex and difficult" and requires a fairly high level of magic to complete.
The reason why this kind of magic is not included in the Hogwarts curriculum is roughly based on the above two points.
The reason why it is called "eternal fire" is precisely because this flame can burn forever, even if the caster dies, it will not affect its magical effects.
But Maca knows that, in essence, this thing is not actually a "magic flame" that burns magic power, not even a "flame".
Because the "burning" of the Gublai fairy fire does not require any fuel, but a kind of magic that is only related to light.
"Anything else?"
This first gift immediately dissipated most of Maca's interest, but to be honest, the giant did like this "flashy" magic item because it looked so "beautiful".
"And this," Hagrid said, and took out another big package. "A helmet made of a fairy is said to be indestructible!"
Like the Gublai fairy fire, this helmet is also a kind of "first-class visual effect".
But this is at least much better than the useless flame. Anything with the words "produced by a fairy" will generally not be a big hit.
Of course, if this thing falls into the hands of giants, it's actually an ornament, anyway they can't wear it!
After that, Hagrid took out a few more gifts one after another, but those things were obviously more common than the first two, but there was nothing to say.
They waited on the ridge until it was close to noon, and finally found a good time.
To put it bluntly, that Gu Ge finally got up!
Negotiations with giants need to be gradual. Those big guys are inherently impatient, so the three of them agreed to send a goblet fairy fire first. After agreeing to give the next gift the next day, he must leave the giant tribe immediately.
After that, Hagrid, who appeared to be the tallest, started, and raised the Gubrai fairy fire high above his head, and walked towards the valley below.
When a few giants first noticed these "malnourished little guys", with a roar, the atmosphere of the giant tribe became depressed.
"Hold the gift high and stare at Gu Ge's position. Other giants don't need to look at it."
This is the custom of foreigners expressing their wish to meet Gu Ge when they step into the giant's territory, just as the three of Maca and others are doing.
When they were truly standing on the same plane, they finally could most intuitively feel the oppression that stems from their body shape.
Maca is of course the shortest here, he is less than 6 feet tall.
When he walks among giants that are twenty feet up at every turn~IndoMTL.com~ Even with his strength, there is no need to be afraid, but he can't help but feel a little dignified.
Because they didn't come to fight this time, creatures like giants, it's easy to fight with them, but if you want to get along well with them, you have to be a little bit more awkward.
Fortunately, the giants of the rules that have been handed down since ancient times still understand.
As the three of them headed all the way to the valley bottom lake, even if the giants on both sides were frequently restless, the traditional customs deeply imprinted in their bones still made these "violent mads" force their hearts. The flames of war.
"Roar"
A certain giant who was closer to them screamed at them, causing Mrs. Maxim to tremble all over.
Finally, they finally approached the lake at a steady pace, and there was only a short distance from that Gu Ge. At the same time, the previously restless giants gradually calmed down.
When I got close, Maca realized that thick ice had actually formed on the surface of this lake, but it was broken by those giants with great force.
The Gu Ge of the giant tribe was lying on the edge of the lake at this time. When Maca and the others arrived here, he was roaring and asked the people of the tribe to feed him food.
Unlike other giants who only used a large, coarse animal skin to cover their **, this Gu Ge wore a set of old leather armor that was passed down from generation to generation.
Since ancient times, giants have lived poorly and in vain, but in ancient times, when wizard wars were frequent, giants also participated as mercenary forces.
Maca knew that this set of equipment should have survived those troubled periods.
"Albus Dumbledore, to the giant Gouge, a gift to pay tribute.")!!