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Chapter 364

The Lifted Blood Curse

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The Basilisk is a giant venomous snake, also known as the King of Serpents of Serpents. It is a creature bred by Dark Wizard.

The Herpo the Foul was the first to breed the Basilisk: he placed an egg under the body of a toad to hatch it, and the resulting creature was known as the Basilisk.

Male Basilisk inherit some of the characteristics of their source—eggs—and have a feather on their head.

The Basilisk can grow up to 50 feet long, with dark green skin and yellow eyes.

Its skin is covered with scales that can deflect spells.

Its venom is a highly toxic substance that can kill a person within minutes, causing them to become dazed, have blurred vision, and experience hallucinations before death. The effects of this venom are long-lasting; even five years after the Basilisk itself has died, the venom it produced can still be used to destroy inanimate objects, rendering them irreparable.

Therefore, it is one of the few substances capable of destroying Horcrux.

However, its most terrifying feature is its gaze, which can instantly kill any person or animal that makes eye contact with it.

This gaze, capable of directly taking the life of a creature, is also the primary factor contributing to the spider's fear of the Basilisk.

Spiders have a 360-degree field of vision and cannot close their eyes. This makes it easy for them to make eye contact with Basilisk.

However, this does not mean that the Basilisk has no weaknesses.

After Herpo the Foul bred the first Basilisk, he discovered that the Phoenix was its natural enemy, and the Phoenix Tears were the only antidote to the Basilisk Venom.

The Basilisk's deadly gaze, its most lethal weapon, is useless against the Phoenix.

It can also be controlled by Parseltongue.

The Parseltongue can also put the Basilisk into a deep sleep, thus preventing it from continuing to grow and entering a state similar to suspended animation, allowing it to live longer and not be limited by its natural lifespan (900 years).

After Herpo the Foul, the Basilisk's power made other Dark Wizard envious and white wizards wary.

It is unknown whether it was Dark Wizard or a white wizard, or how much time had passed, but they discovered the Basilisk's most significant weakness—the crowing of roosters was fatal to it.

Its deadly gaze can also be weakened; when the victim's gaze is indirectly met by the Basilisk's gaze, such as through reflection, they will only be petrified.

If enough reflections are made, the threat can be reduced to almost nothing.

However, wearing glasses cannot save a person's life when making eye contact with the Basilisk, because glasses still allow the gaze to pass directly through, rather than reflecting like a mirror or camera.

After the Basilisk's weaknesses were discovered one by one, raising a Basilisk became fashionable at that time—it could also be used to guard one's wealth.

However, since the Middle Ages, breeding Basilisk has been considered illegal, but it is easy to conceal, as people only need to remove the eggs from under the toad before the personnel of the Department of Magical Creature Management and Control arrive.

This has led to a resurgence of the practice of breeding Basilisk.

Although most wizards who started breeding Basilisk on a whim failed (thinking that creating Basilisk was simply a matter of placing an egg under a toad), one unknown wizard among these failures got his target wrong—he replaced the toad that hatched the egg with a venomous snake.

Thus, the Chicken-Body Snake-Tail Monster was born, and it took the life of its creator the moment it was born.

And to this day, the wizards still don't know who that unfortunate fellow was.

Unlike the basilisk, the Chicken-Body Snake-Tail Monster, Basilisk has no obvious weaknesses, but it also has deadly cries, feathers, and scales that deflect spells.

The birth of this dangerous creature also spurred the Ministry of Magic to intensify its crackdown on the breeding of Basilisk.

Thus, there have been no records of witnessing the Basilisk in Britain for at least four hundred years.

That's why Ryan insisted on going to the Chamber of Secrets to find the Basilisk.

The methods for breeding Basilisk have long been destroyed—including Smith.

There were no methods for breeding Basilisk in the books about Herpo the Foul in Smith's collection.

Because it was so dangerous, even Riddle, who possessed Parseltongue, could not completely eliminate its danger, and a moment of carelessness led to Myrtle's death.

Although Ryan can create Basilisk directly through a ritual of "thinking" or by finding any surviving Basilisk eggs.

But Nagini couldn't wait.

The Blood Curse on her body is at a critical stage, requiring a snake even stronger than her serpentine body to serve as a vessel for her bestial nature and to carry the blessing of the Dark Earth Mother.

"Now is the time." Ryan pointed his wand to the sky.

That's Sirius, appearing in the southern winter sky, located to the lower left of Orion. It's the brightest star in the winter night sky and a first-magnitude star in the Canis Major.

This is the most important part of the secret of the Basilisk's birth, the mysterious celestial body regarded as the true source of mysterious power in many myths.

Blue starlight descended from the sky, gathering at the tip of Ryan's wand to form a blue celestial body.

The next second, the stars splashed out, forming Winky, magical cage that resembled a giant halo.

The magical cage enveloped Nagini, inside which she spun and coiled incessantly.

An obscure, strange, deep, and sacred voice began to emanate from Ryan's mouth, and the magic cage began to float toward the Basilisk coiled around the pool.

The earth began to tremble, and all the surrounding light suddenly vanished, giving rise to an eerie darkness from the Basilisk.

Sound, light, and wind all vanished, leaving only long incantations in an unknown language.

After an unknown amount of time, as the last syllable of Ryan's spell faded, a high-pitched snake's cry echoed through the night sky.

The long snake coiled in mid-air, its bright green scales beginning to fill with blue starlight, and its bright yellow eyes turning as blue as the sky.

A naked, graceful female body lies on its side atop the head of this drastically altered, gravity-defying Basilisk.

"How amazing." Ryan vanished from his spot and reappeared in front of the woman who was supposed to be Nagini the next instant.

Ryan waved his hand, and the starlight turned into threads that flew toward Nagini's fair and exquisite female body. A dress the same color as the Basilisk's scales appeared on Nagini's still naked body.

"Master~" A charming yet innocent voice, tinged with naivety, rang out from Nagini's mouth as she opened her eyes.

Although she had returned to human form, she still writhed like a snake, her small face rising upwards from beside Ryan's legs, finally appearing on Ryan's profile.

She would occasionally nuzzle Ryan's cheek, acting coquettishly.

"Nagini, do you remember who you are?" Ryan stood ramrod straight, a tall woman wrapped around him, which seemed to be no problem for him at all.

"Nagini is Nagini, the master's Nagini?"

"But this is strange, Nagini can fly now Nagini has two bodies." Nagini looked at the snake body beneath her in confusion, while the snake body looked back at Nagini with its beautiful sky-blue snake eyes.

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