Chapter 147: Yodel's Origins

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Allen returned to the dormitory smoothly, without encountering Filch along the way.

His roommates had all fallen asleep by then.

Allen walked to his bed, placed the stack of parchment Professor Flitwick had given him on his desk, but he discovered an anomaly.

He felt as though someone had moved his desk.

Since he began practicing memory magic, Allen's memory had become extremely sharp, so he could remember the position of every item on his desk.

Yet today he found the position of his drawer was wrong.

Allen's eyebrows furrowed, but he did not take this matter to heart, because he felt it might be someone else looking for something; such things had happened before...

That night passed just like that.

Next, Allen began to execute his plan to hunt the Acromantulas.

He wanted to collect as much spider venom as possible during the winter hibernation of the Acromantulas to exchange for more Jin Jin Jialong, for which he made a detailed plan.

He borrowed the Invisibility Cloak from Harry to be able to slip out of Hogwarts Castle smoothly.

Considering the depths of the Forbidden Forest were still quite dangerous, he also went to the broom shed to find a flying broom to carry with him, so that he could fly away directly when encountering danger. There were relatively few magical creatures in the Forbidden Forest with ranged attack capabilities; as long as he could fly into the air, he would be in an invincible position.

Although his flying talent was not as good as Harry's, he used the flying broom quite skillfully.

His roommates would not feel curious about Allen returning so late every day, because usually when Allen went to the abandoned girls' bathroom to test his various spells, he also returned very late.

Hogwarts had just experienced another heavy snowfall, covering the previous ruts in the Forbidden Forest.

However, Allen had already left enough markers beforehand.

Following the markers, he smoothly found the basin where he had hunted last time.

He flew on the flying broom in the air, carefully searching for the spider's exhaust holes beneath the large trees; soon he found one.

For hunting Acromantulas, he formulated an even more detailed plan.

He hovered on the flying broom above the treetop, then focused on commanding the Blade Leopards to act.

The nest beneath this large tree contained only four Acromantulas; under the Blade Leopards' attack, they quickly became cold corpses.

Allen hurriedly took out the prepared containers to collect the Acromantulas' venom.

But he discovered that the collected Acromantula venom was far, far less than he had imagined...

Allen believed this was because the Acromantulas entered hibernation in winter, did not need to hunt prey, and thus reduced their venom secretion.

Additionally, when the Blade Leopards struck under his command, they were neither gentle nor rough; their mithril armor and mithril claws sometimes absorbed a large portion of the Acromantulas' venom, which also made the venom Allen collected even less. After Allen hunted four Acromantulas, he collected less than 100 milliliters of venom.

Although the venom collection amount did not meet expectations, Allen still felt extremely excited.

Because in just one night, he earned more than ten Jin Jin Jialong, something he would never have dared to imagine before.

However, the venom collection amount falling short of expectations also made Allen work even harder to search for and hunt Acromantulas.

During the hunting process, Allen also continuously discovered and summarized problems existing in the Blade Leopards' action logic, optimizing and adjusting them upon return.

However, Allen did not find an Acromantula nest every time; sometimes he also returned empty-handed.

But even so, within a week, Allen earned his first small goal in life—100 Jin Jin Jialong.

And the action of hunting Acromantulas made Allen's movements within Hogwarts even more mysterious.

After dinner, he disappeared from everyone's sight, then quietly returned to the dormitory only late at night.

Harry, Ron, and Hermione had also complained to him about this issue,

as they had not seen Allen's figure after dinner for a long time.

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Allen's explanation for this was that he was helping Professor Flitwick with some spell research, and only then did the three of them reluctantly accept Allen's explanation.

However, this matter also sounded an alarm bell for Allen.

What he considered secretive behavior was actually quite obvious in the eyes of others who paid attention.

And secretly going to the Forbidden Forest to hunt Acromantulas was a serious violation of school rules.

He felt that frequently hunting Acromantulas would inevitably lead to discovery, so he decided to reduce the hunting frequency, going only on Wednesdays and Saturdays each week.

Inside the Thought Chamber.

"You have been coming here less frequently recently; has something happened?" Yodel also noticed Allen's anomaly.

"I recently found a money-making job; I have to go work every Wednesday and Saturday," Allen deflected.

"How is your research into your own origins going?" Allen quickly changed the subject.

One benefit of the Thought Chamber is: within the four-dimensional chamber, everyone's image is virtual, a mental projection; the body's emotional fluctuations will not be displayed on the virtual image.

But the drawback is that Allen also cannot see Yodel's emotional fluctuations.

Therefore, the images of Allen and Yodel inside the Thought Chamber are forever expressionless.

"Still no progress," Yodel said, shaking his head gently.

"I suspect the creator of this diary is a wizard who lost his true heart," Yodel continued.

Actually, this was also Allen's previous speculation; extracting memories is not a pleasant thing. What normal person would extract all their memories before the age of eighteen at once?

First, it is unnecessary; second, extracting so many memories is not necessarily useful.

Allen quickly put on an expression of attentive listening.

"A wizard who lost his true heart, or became evil, one day suddenly repented; he decided to extract his most precious and beautiful memories and place them into this diary," Yodel said softly.

"Then what use is there in extracting them?" Allen asked, puzzled.

"To ensure our most precious and beautiful memories remain unaffected, I suppose!" Yodel showed a rare expression of emotion.

"Hmm, this explanation makes logical sense..." Allen said sincerely. Actually, regarding Yodel's origins, he was not particularly concerned; as long as he could continue using the Thought Chamber, that was enough.

"Moreover, I think you don't need to explore your own origins either," Allen hesitated before voicing his own thought.

"Why?" Yodel looked straight at Allen.

"We've been together for half a year now," Allen organized his words, "I feel that you have already become an individual with independent thoughts."

"You don't actually need to think of yourself as just an appendage of the main body, and there's no need to go searching for your own origins either—you should live for yourself now." Allen looked at Yordle sincerely.

Yordle's expression turned strange; this was the most expressive Yordle had ever been.

"Your main body extracting his memories from before age 18 might have just been to let go. I think you should also learn to let go."

"Hasn't this half year with me been good?"

"Live for yourself! Yordle! Don't be bound by other things." Allen walked over to Yordle's side and said, gently patting his shoulder.

Yordle looked at Allen with a complicated expression...