The Disturbance in the Unicorn-Horn Wand Core

In a world shrouded in darkness, Xiwen and Newt stand side by side.

"Can you use magic here?" Newt asked softly.

Xiwen shook his head, but then, remembering that Newt might not be able to see his movements, he said, "No, even spells from other systems are unusable. It feels like the flow of all magic is imprisoned here."

"Fortunately, the Undetectable Extension Charm and the magic that was already in the suitcase haven't shown any signs of being removed. This area should only be isolated from spellcasting," Newt said, unlocking the suitcase. "Then we should still be able to find some help."

After opening the suitcase, Newt shouted a few words into it, and then a group of Winky little creatures flew out of the suitcase.

Numerous fairies, fireflies, and luminous insects fluttered around Newt and Xiwen, illuminating their surroundings.

"It seems the magical abilities of the Fantastic Beasts have also been isolated, and they're not quite used to it," Newt smiled at Xiwen and explained. "But at least the bodies of Fantastic Beasts are the most wondrous creations of nature, like these glowing little guys."

Teddy the Niffler crawled out of the box, his eyes shining as he looked at the Winky little bugs around him. Newt was so frightened that he quickly picked him up and stuffed him into his pocket to stop him from harming the poor little bugs.

Newt still had a few Silver Sickle in his pocket, which he had put there to deal with those mischievous Niffler.

Just then, another jet-black vine shot out, but Xiwen instinctively swung his sword and cleaved it in mid-air.

Xiwen glanced at the broken piece of black vine on the ground and subconsciously breathed a sigh of relief.

"I didn't expect you to know how to use a sword." Newt looked at Xiwen with surprise and asked, "How can you do everything at such a young age?"

"Maybe it's because I'm interested in everything, and I'm good at a jack-of-all-trades but master of none," Xiwen said with an embarrassed smile to Newt.

"You don't seem like someone who's bad at things." Newt shook his head with a chuckle.

However, before the two could exchange more than a few words, they were startled to see countless dark vines shooting towards them from all sides, as if facing a barrage of arrows!

"Watch out, don't get tangled up in them!" Newt's expression turned serious, and he shouted a few more words at the opening of the suitcase.

As soon as Newt finished speaking, an Occamy with blue-green wings flew out. As soon as it flew out, it rushed towards the swarm of vines that were shooting towards it, Accio nimbly through the gaps between them, while using its sharp wings to cut one black vine after another.

Then came two fierce-looking, light yellow animals with crab claws and scorpion tails. Each of them was the size of a horse, and with their long scorpion tails, they could even reach two meters in length.

Xiwen, who found the animal very familiar, asked in surprise, "Are these the two Scorpiontail we brought back from Erkstag Prison?"

"That's right, the Manticore modified by the Germany wizards are indeed easy to tame, and they grow extremely fast," Newt said excitedly. "These two are only juveniles now; they'll probably grow to four meters long when they're adults."

"This isn't the time to discuss that. The current question is, do you recognize these vines?" Seeing that Xiwen Newt still enthusiastic about explaining Fantastic Beasts, Shiv quickly interrupted him and asked, "Tell me if they have any weaknesses; maybe that will make it easier to deal with them."

"I don't know." Newt, usually so knowledgeable, shook his head this time and said in a deep voice, "Actually, just looking at the faint patterns on these vines and the remaining leaves, I feel that they are just the most common vines in the forest, and there is no trace of magic at all."

"Fine, then we'll just have to hack away!" Xiwen's eyes turned cold. He drew the Alchemical Longsword he had casually crafted a few months ago from its sheath.

Of course, the Runic Circuits on the sword have now lost their effectiveness; only the sturdy material and sharp blade remain for Xiwen to utilize.

While the two were talking, the two Scorpiontail began to use their sharp crab claws and scorpion tails to snap or pierce through many dense vines.

With the help of the three Fantastic Beasts, Xiwen wielded his longsword like the wind, quickly severing all the dark vines. Once severed, the vines seemed to lose all mobility, lying limply on the ground.

"It doesn't seem so difficult after all!" Xiwen sheathed his sword, looked at the vines on the ground, and sighed heavily.

Newt had already crouched down, picked up half of the motionless, pitch-black vine, and solemnly examined its veins and the stems and leaves that had long since lost their moisture.

"Xiwen, this really is just an ordinary vine without any magical abilities," Newt said, turning to Xiwen. His expression turned grim.

"So, this means..." Xiwen stared blankly at the dark plants in front of him, a bad feeling creeping into his mind.

"This means there's some evil force here that can bring these ordinary vines to life, granting them the ability to move," Newt said gravely. "Now we don't know if anything else has been given this evil power as well. In any case, we must be extremely careful."

Xiwen frowned, about to say something, but his attention was suddenly diverted by the magic wand in his hand.

Just moments before, when he needed to use his sword, Xiwen had placed his wand in his left hand. Now, the wand in his left hand suddenly emitted a slight humming sound, and even a faint white light emanated from within it.

"What's wrong with your wand?" Newt noticed the unusual thing about Xiwen's wand and looked over in surprise.

"I don't know," Xiwen shook his head helplessly and said. "This has never happened before."

Seeing this, Newt examined the white light emanating from the Eye Demon closely and said in confusion, "This pure white looks just like the pure white light on Unicorn."

As he spoke, he promptly squatted down, disregarding his image, and pressed his ear against Xiwen's wand, as if listening to something.

"Um, actually you can just hold my wand next to your ear, you don't have to do this..." Seeing Newt's actions, Xiwen's lips twitched.

"Don't speak!" Newt interrupted Xiwen forcefully, remaining in his position and listening to the faint sound from the wand.

"That's right, it's the cry of Unicorn." After listening for a while, Newt suddenly looked up and asked Xiwen, his expression full of surprise, "What's the core of your wand made of?"

Xiwen paused for a moment, then realized that someone had asked him this question before.

His mind raced, gradually recalling the silver Unicorn Xilisi he had encountered in the Forbidden Forest, and the words Professor Kettleburn had spoken to him when they met the Unicorn—

"Several years ago, an evil dark wizard attacked a Unicorn in the Galloway Forest. The Unicorn had just given birth and was weak. To protect her cub, she was cruelly killed by the dark wizard."

Xiwen suddenly looked up at Newt and exclaimed incredulously:

"There might be a dark wizard in this area who once killed Unicorn!"