Chapter 74 Death and the 3 Brothers

All in all, Newt has devoted his life to the protection of magical animals.

He believes that wizards should protect magical animals, and should live in peace with those intelligent species classified as "humans".

He has been fighting for this goal his entire life.

William generally admires such people with dreams and actions.

He hesitated for a moment, and quickly recounted what he saw under the black lake.

Newt is an expert in this area, and he should be able to answer William's confusion.

"I have seen the sacrifices you saw in the mermaid tribe," Newt explained.

"In fact, it's not just mermaids, there are sacrifices in almost all tribes of intelligent creatures.

Human beings also sacrificed in ancient times. After they gained a certain power, they produced the first group of powerful warlocks.

This is also the predecessor of some wizards. "

"Part?" William noted Newt's words.

"That's right, not all wizarding power comes from sacrifice." Newt hesitated. "My child, this is not my field. Professor Dumbledore has more research in this area."

Newt clearly didn't want to talk too much about it.

"The priest opens the portal to the special realm by performing the appropriate magical steps.

The invisible power is there, like man himself, in many forms, both good and evil.

There are powers of light that heal, guard, and search the universe, and there are dark powers that go the opposite direction...bringing destruction and chaos.

If the sacrifice is properly performed, the invisible power will obey the prayer of the sacrificer and will be displayed in the world... Thus, the sacrificer seems to have infinite power.

In return, this power requires sacrifices - prayers and praise for the powers of light... and blood and even life for the powers of darkness. "

"Who are the mermaids... offering sacrifices to?"

"I think it's the Siren, the siren, and the earliest mermaid." Newt pondered for a while, "You should have seen that mermaid statue, right?"

William and Hermione nodded quickly.

"That statue is the legendary Siren. I have seen statues of Sirens in every mermaid tribe in the world."

"Isn't the Siren a fairy tale?" Hermione wondered. "There are stories of sirens in Muggle stories."

"A story?" Newt shrugged. "I don't think so, boy."

"The simplest example is Muggles in the Himalayas, where snowmen are often seen, and the rumours of the Loch Ness monster are becoming more and more popular among Muggles.

For Muggles, the Yeti and the Water Monster are just legendary creatures, but for wizards, the Yeti and the Water Monster are magical creatures that have not changed.

They like to show off in front of Muggles and deliberately get their attention. "

"But...it's different."

"It's no different, wizards are a story to Muggles, just like Merlin and King Arthur."

Newt turned his head and looked at the sea of ​​clouds.

"Many stories evolve from facts. It's just that in the circulation of later generations, they are constantly distorted, exaggerated, and even mixed with other stories.

But that doesn't mean there really isn't. "

William raised his eyebrows, and he had heard similar words from Dumbledore.

"Is there any evidence?" Hermione asked suspiciously.

Newt laughed: "I have traveled around the world over the years, seen too many magical creatures, and collected countless first-hand information.

Even if you're interested, I think I'll have to spend an academic year explaining it to you both. "

"We would love to take your Conservation of Magical Creatures class.

' William laughed.

"Forgive me, boy. I'm retired, and Professor Kettleburn is excellent."

After Newt became acquainted with several people, he started to talk more.

"Actually, I want to prove that the easiest way is that all mermaids know about sirens, even if it is a tribe of mermaids that has been enclosed in a lake for thousands of years.

Isn't this fun? "

Both William and Hermione listened intently.

Newt continued: "There's one more thing I discovered during my investigation.

Every merfolk devoutly believes that there is an island in the far sea where the siren, the siren who sings the magic song, lives.

Her singing guides ghosts into the underworld.

Siren is the guide of the underworld and the most loyal servant of the god of death. "

"Death?" William frowned slightly.

"Is that the god of death among the three brothers?"

The elf Mercury, who had been listening to the story, suddenly asked.

"Yes, it's him!" Newt's eyes were very serious.

"Wait, three brothers... isn't that just a story?" The more William listened, the more confused he became.

If, according to Newt, the Sirens really existed, William would understand.

He has seen the power of the phoenix, and the siren may be a powerful mermaid.

But suddenly he brought up the underworld and the god of death... This is the same nonsense as "Zhen, Qin Shi Huang, make money".

"What are the three brothers?" Hermione was even more puzzled, she hadn't even heard of it.

"A bedtime story from Bedouin the Poet," explained William.

"Why haven't I heard of it!" Hermione looked at William in surprise.

"This is an old story in the magic world. It is said that it was written by old Bedou, and every little wizard knows it."

"How did you know?" Hermione asked curiously.

"The wizard story book I bought for Annie. When school wasn't in the past, she used to pester me to read her bedtime stories at night," William explained.

"What's the story of the three brothers?"

William coughed and said: "Once upon a time, there were three brothers rushing along a secluded sheep-intestine path, and it was almost dusk.

As they walked, they came to a river, the water was too deep to wade through, and it was too dangerous to swim.

However, the three brothers were well versed in magic, and with a wave of their wands, a bridge appeared over the wide water. When they reached the middle of the bridge, a hooded figure blocked their way.

In the way was Death, angry at the loss of three new offerings - the river where travelers usually drown.

But Death was cunning, and he pretended to congratulate the three brothers on their magic, saying that they had eluded death by cleverness, and that each would receive a reward.

The boss is a warlike wizard who wants the most powerful wand in the world!

Death went to an elder tree on the shore, made a wand out of a dangling branch, and gave it to the boss.

What the second child wants is the ability to bring the dead back to life. The god of death picked up a stone from the shore and gave it to the second child, telling him that this stone has the ability to bring back the dead.

Death asked the youngest third child what he wanted, and the third child was the most humble and wisest, so he wanted something that would allow him to get out of there without being followed by death.

Reaper reluctantly gave him his invisibility cloak. "

William quickly finished the story of Death and the three brothers.

"In the end, the other two brothers died. Only the third one avoided the sight of the god of death and lived until he was very old. Then he finally took off the invisibility cloak, gave it to his son, and greeted the god of death like an old friend."

"It's just a fairy tale," Hermione began to support William's assertion. "There can be no god of death..."

"Wait," Mercury interrupted suddenly.

"I heard my great-grandfather's story of death and the three brothers, but it was a different version.

The content is completely different from that of Old Bedou! "

Mercury's words took William by surprise.

Is there a new version of this bedtime story?

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