Chapter 210 Tracing Curse
Chapter 210 Tracing Curse
This is the latest tracking spell developed by Anduin. He calls it the 'Tracing Charm'. It is based on the tracking spell and is researched by fusing some blood magic, scent runes, and temperature runes.
And he engraved the corresponding manifestation spell on the new monocle. After the two cooperate, the detection of elements such as blood stains, footprints, scent traces, and vital signs can be realized.
The bloodstain on the ground will be light red in sight, the light spots around the ground are traces of biological activities related to this bloodstain, and the fog above it is a trace of smell. The touch and stay of time will also reveal different shades of halo.
This spell has two usages, one is non-locking investigation, which can see the clues appearing in the field of vision, but the disadvantage is that it is relatively easy to be disturbed, and he needs to carefully distinguish them one by one.
However, there is another way to use the tracking spell to lock the sample for precise tracking, just like what he is locking on now is the blood of the Hippogriff, and the surrounding spots of light are also related to the Hippogriff.
"There are the most clues here. There are a lot of bloodstains and feathers left on the ground. The preliminary judgment should be that they are Hippogriffs. There are scratch marks on the trees on both sides. It seems that there was a fierce battle between the two sides."
Then Anduin carefully checked the traces left around, mainly the broken branches of the trees that fell on the ground, and the claw marks on the trees.
"There are different paw prints from the Hippogriff, and there are no bite marks. It seems that the main attack method of the target creature is two claws. The height of the scratches is not low. Could it be a large creature, but judge the creature by the size of the scratches It shouldn't be that big, maybe it's a jump attack?"
Anduin made a preliminary inference based on the traces at the scene. The target should be a medium-sized creature weighing no more than 300 kilograms. It has powerful forelimbs with four fingers or more, agile movements and good jumping ability. The number is unknown.
"First of all, it is certain that it is not a dragon. Suspected targets include chimeras, cat leopards, werewolves, wetland werewolves, sac leopards, manticores, griffins, etc. The next step is to find a way Found it."
Then he turned his gaze to the bloodstain again, along which two moving traces were separated, and the smell of blood mist also split into two sides.
"One of them leads to the outside of the Forbidden Forest. It seems to be the Hippogriff's escape route, but the Hippogriff should have received serious injuries. Why doesn't it continue to pursue it?"
Anduin checked the return path again, and found that the aura and traces of the hippogriff extended for more than ten meters and then floated directly into the air.
"It seems that the Hippogriff endured the pain and flew away, so it was able to escape. In other words, the attacking party has no flying ability, so flying creatures such as the Gryphon can be ruled out. gone."
Immediately afterwards, Anduin returned to the scene again, this time he looked at another trace, no accident, this is the route when the target creature left, because the opponent's body was contaminated with the blood and breath of the Hippogriff, so The traces that appeared were fairly clear.
Then Anduin cautiously began to explore along this path. After a while, the footprints on the ground were either covered by fallen leaves or destroyed by other creatures. Now he can only follow the bloody breath forward.
Moreover, these traces were intermittent and weakened, which caused a lot of trouble for his exploration.
However, with his persistence, he finally found out, and after exploring another kilometer, Anduin stopped behind a big tree.
"This is?" Anduin squatted down, pawed at the fallen leaves on the ground with his hands, and then twisted a bunch of hair to watch.
"The target should have rested here for a while, so the marks are so heavy, and the remaining hair is dark in color, and there are still blood stains on it."
"Huh? No." Anduin looked at the blood on the hair and identified it, "Isn't this the blood of the Hippogriff, and the Tracking Spell didn't respond to it, which means the target was actually injured? "
"But no other hair or blood samples were found at the scene of the battle just now. It seems that the target was only slightly injured, or has a strong self-healing ability." Anduin judged by looking at the strand of hair.
"Then the murderer can be preliminarily determined to be a werewolf or a werewolf in the wetlands, but the werewolves in the wetlands mainly live in the Americas, so they should be local werewolves, but why do they appear near the periphery of Hogwarts?"
"It doesn't matter. I want to find it. I don't know if it is a native werewolf or a werewolf patient. I hope we can communicate. If it is a native werewolf that lives completely in the form of a werewolf, it will be troublesome and must be resolved as soon as possible."
After Anduin made a good judgment, he directly used the trace-finding spell on this bunch of hairs. After getting new clues, the traces in his vision gradually became more abundant.
A gray light mist is like a transparent ribbon, extending from the big tree where Anduin is in to the depths of the Forbidden Forest.
And from here, there are many traces of the activities of other creatures around, and they are more or less contaminated with the breath of some targets, resulting in a mixture of various strange smells, which also interferes with the tracking.
For this situation, Anduin first used the function of the echo spell to scan the surrounding hundreds of meters to eliminate some wrong breaths, and at the same time used the tracking spell on the blood of the hippogriff and the target, More or less locked the direction of travel of the target.
Following these remaining traces, Anduin continued to go deeper. At the same time, along the way, he found some traces of other magical creatures and many wild herbs.
For these wild herbs, since you see them, you can't let them go.
After the harvest, Anduin looked forward to this trip to the Forbidden Forest even more. Regardless of the final result, at least it was not a waste of time.
Then Anduin gradually followed the traces left by the murderer, and time gradually passed, until he came to a river several meters wide.
"After arriving here, the clues were interrupted, and there were no clues along the sides of the river. That is to say, did the target cross this river?" Looking at the river in front of him, Anduin frowned and felt a little troubled.
The river cut off all traces of the murderer. If the werewolf waded across the river, the river water would probably dilute the smell, so he was not sure if there would be any harvest on the other side of the river bank.
And if the werewolf didn't cross the river directly but swam along the river, it would be troublesome.
(End of this chapter)