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Chapter 109
🕑 Added 2023-07-05 14:14:49 +0000 UTCAfter slowly reading the agreement received from Oliver’s hands, Severus had to admit that it was drawn up very competently, almost completely making it impossible to transfer the map to third parties, and even with his death and capture, there were separate points for this.
"Not bad, then I'll duplicate it," pulling out several sheets of A4, he copied the contents of the parchment into them and handed it to the man, "Your signatures are needed here, in blood, all three, the punishment for violation isn't much, it's just that you will boil from the inside, nothing more."
Hearing that ,and with what ease the guest(Severus) said this, goosebumps went down the backs of those gathered in the room, because even though the sheets that Severus handed them looked completely ordinary and did not emit magic at all, they did not even think not to believe him, because the unknown had already proved his strength in fact, and each wizardhad his secrets.
Of course, before signing something, they first completely re-read the text - three times, in order to be sure that the content of both agreements is the same, and only after that, already simultaneously, they signed them.
After Snape's sheets burned, black flame marks appeared on the palm of each of them, and to their surprise, Oliver, who was more versed in this area than the rest, could not understand how it works, because, as soon as he tried to examine it , he felt his own magic begin to burn him from the inside, causing his face to twist and he quickly stopped any attempts to study the seal.
“You shouldn’t do this anymore, my seal is not so easy to remove, and if you try again, it will activate and you will feel what it is like to be cooked from inside,” Severus warned him with a grin, noticing the actions of the man.
“That should have been said earlier, and… when are you going to put that damn sword away!?” The bearded man grumbled angrily, noticing the condition of his colleague, who was supported by the man in glasses and then he looked down at the weapon pressed to his neck.
“I am a very careful person.” Finally returning the sword to its sheath, Severus caught the rolled parchment. “But before I leave, I have one more question,” Severus did not check the parchment because the contract clearly stated which card he needed, so it was impossible to deceive, “Compared to other factions…”
“We have one of the fullest ones,” the man proudly answered, stretching his neck, finally examining the intruder’s appearance normally and snorting with displeasure when he saw the mask, but even without it, he could guess what a swordsman looks like.
"It's clear, then it will save me from going to others, thank you, I will not say goodbye." And without saying anything else, Severus calmly left through the front door, no one tried to stop him, and without any problems he left the tent and disappeared.
For several seconds, there was deathly silence in the room, until a tired sigh escaped the lips of the man in glasses, this situation turned out to be too nerve-wracking.
After all, if their "guest" had not the purest thoughts, they would not even have time to understand how they would have lost their lives.
And the man, who had previously been held "hostage", poured a stack of strong drink and gulped it down at once. "Death has never been so close, damn it!" throwing a glass at the wall with force, which shattered into hundreds of fragments, he took the second one and refilled it, also drank in one gulp, "Apparently, we have already relaxed too much, that even some boy, can take me, Nicholas! A hostage! And that so with such ease!" although the man recognized the extraordinary skills of the unknown, he still felt wild shame, because he was one of the strongest wizards in the "second safe zone" and the fact that he could be neutralised so easily was a real shame, "Mark! Tomorrow we will be going to the jungle to hunt!"
“As you say, boss…” said the named wizard, not very cheerfully, as he didn’t really want to go somewhere, nevertheless, even for them it was a rather dangerous place, it was not for nothing that it was called the “forbidden” part of the forest.
"Oliver, this applies to you too." the bearded man continued.
“Yes…” he nodded weakly on the machine, because the man’s attention was completely focused on the seal.
“Do you think he can survive out there on his own?”
"It would be better if he died there!" the leader snorted angrily, throwing his head back and closing his eyes, "But such types of man do not die so easily."
“I can’t argue with that, but do you think we should look for information about him?”
“Forget it, do you think this is his real appearance? This bastard is too cunning and “cautious,” the leader said with a grimace, and then added indifferently, “But if you can’t wait, you can send people to look for information about him."
“I trust your intuition,” Mark drawled with a flattering smile, pouring another glass from the bottle on the table.
“Hmm, you’ll still go to the forest with me tomorrow, flattery won’t help you slop down."
"What are you saying boss, I will gladly go with you, how can I let you go there alone ?!" Looking indifferently in his direction, Nicholas sipped a strong drink and plunged into his thoughts...
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At the same time, Severus returned to his tent, where Nagini and Nellie were already waiting for him in his guise.
Severus did not go to other groups for maps, because he could see that the man with glasses was not lying.
As for the contract, getting rid of his seal was a matter of seconds, but about that black parchment, Severus had to sweat a little, because it was not just a seal, but a real curse that was fixed on the magic core and in case of its violation, in the same second it intensified and the worst thing for any wizard happened, this was the destruction of the core, and at the same time, the violator not only lost magical abilities, but the life span was halved, followed by general weakness.
Like that, Severus could not allow to gain a foothold on his core, because if this happened, then it would be impossible to tear it off.
Therefore, after returning, the first thing Severus did was to destroy the curse, and after sitting down at the table, he began to study the map itself.
Compared to the one Brew gave him, it was many times more detailed and many rather interesting places were marked on it, as well as the territory of those very snakes, which was very deep in the forest and marked in red.
As Severus understood, especially dangerous places were marked with this colour, because in addition to them, there were two more similar territories: one belonged to giant stone creatures covered with crystals, and the other, to huge plants with red, blooming buds with sharp spikes inside.
In addition to them, there were also other territories marked with green, yellow and blue colours. It was not difficult to understand the map, and in more than an hour, Severus completely studied it, and even compared it with the one which Brew gave him, Snape was able to determine the exact location of the same flower, which is the penultimate ingredient for the potion, with which Severus was going to restore Nagini's human form again.
The plant was located in the territory of chimeras, strange creatures that did not have any one specific appearance, each of them differed from each other in that they consisted of completely different animals, as an example, a monster was presented: with the body, front legs and head of a lion, tail in the form of a snake, hind legs instead of claws had hooves, a pair of wings grew on its back, and dragon horns on its head.
The monster could breathe fire, possessed a terrifying poison and was able to fly, in addition, it had razor-sharp claws and a powerful jaw, and its size was a little over twelve metres.
In addition to all this, the wizard saw another interesting place, it was also a blue area that belonged to the "Werewolves", three-meter-high humanoid wolves, very reminiscent of real werewolves in their appearance, as well as with a note that you can become infected with "lycanthropy", that is, to become a real werewolf in the likeness of Lupin.
And after that, Severus had a hunch as to how the first werewolf might have appeared in the outside world. But still, Severus did not concentrate on this special attention, but began to lay his route in order to pass through the area of chimaeras, half-snakes, half-dragons and finally get to the black area marked on the map as “unexplored”, from where he was going to start looking for traces those creatures, unless of course the appearance of Serpent was just an accident, which he really wanted ...
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The night passed quite calmly, no one tried to bother them, the sign on the tent helped to get rid of all sorts of incidents.
Therefore, the very next morning, throwing it back into the pouch, they headed towards the exit from the “safe zone”, along the way, Severus also examined the goods in the shops, but he did not see anything interesting among all that consumable , except that their potions are sold for three times as much as in the outside world and are marked as an exclusive product that cannot be found anywhere else.
As Severus understood, they mainly sold what could help them survive in the “forbidden” part of the jungle, such as potions and artefacts, and the rest of the goods were taken outside, where they were sold.
Of course, this was not surprising, because in the second "safe zone" only groups hunted, and there were only a few singles, and therefore, there was simply no one to sell the prey to, and even if something appeared, it was quickly bought out by gang members and this happened right in front of Snape, when the man put up the crystal for sale and people bought it out in a minute, on the chest of the guy was depicted a sign in the form of a sword and a stick crosswise.
Therefore, Severus did not waste time on a senseless inspection of the goods and after a few minutes he simply left the "town" …
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Thank you for reading.
