Professor Vampire.

Chapter 156: Newt's Magic Suitcase

"So you still have a way to help Nagini recover now?" A glimmer of hope surfaced in Newt's eyes.

It suddenly occurred to him that this person in front of him was the originator of almost all blood magic in general, so maybe there would be a way to help Nagini lift the Melodicus blood spell?

"It's hard." Dracula quietly walked over to Viper's side and said softly, "She's completely lost her consciousness as a human being now, and that loss of consciousness has probably been a long time coming."

"Look at me." He looked into Nagini's eyes and suddenly spoke.

Nagini subconsciously raised his head and met Dracula's burgundy-eyed child.

In an instant, countless jumbled memories flooded into the middle of Dracula's mind -

Nagini's earliest memories were disjointed, and it seemed that every once in a while a piece of memory would be missing; and as time passed, the disjointed memories gradually became coherent ... the missing memories became fewer and fewer until all the memories were connected.

Not only that, the earliest memories are not only missing, but also appear to be very mold lake, seems to be a kind of ignorance, obscurantist lake coating state, as if just out of the world of the newborn generally ...

As the memory slowly became coherent, Nagini's consciousness gradually woke up, his memory also became clearer, and his intelligence improved at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Eventually, after the scene in Nagini's memory appeared in a forest, there was no more break in the memory.

Dracula watched in silence as Nagini's memories went from disconnected to complete, knowing that this was the beast consciousness from the Maledictus blood spell gradually overrunning the original Nagini, causing her memories to slowly dissolve in the passage of time.

By the time Dracula was able to see the memory images that tended to be completely clear and complete, that was also the moment when the original Nagini's consciousness completely dissipated.

"It is indeed impossible to find the consciousness of being a human inside this snake." Dracula clasped his hands to his chest and let out a slow breath, "The original Nagini's consciousness had completely dissipated decades ago, and the Viper's consciousness was the next to take its place."

Newt froze for a moment, but unexpectedly didn't feel too hurt either, just sighed helplessly.

Deep down he had actually prepared himself for this and had guessed Nagini's eventual end as a meredicus blood cursed orc.

"I want to take Nagini away." Newt said softly, "Maybe there's a chance to find another way to lift the blood spell in the future?"

Dracula naturally had no problem with this and nodded casually.

However at this point the snake monster was reluctant.

It brought its large green head over and shook it anxiously, as if it was raising some kind of objection.

"What, you have an opinion?" Dracula hooked up the corner of his mouth and reached out to pat the snake monster's messy head, "But you don't think about it, when I'm around, where is the place for you to speak?"

The snake monster's movements froze.

Even in such an unwilling situation, it didn't dare to open its own eyes, so it could be seen to what extent it feared Dracula.

This snake monster no longer had the slightest bit of courage to refute Dracula at all.

"Is Mr. Snake Monster unwilling to have his friend taken away?" Newt very kindly looked at the snake monster and asked in a gentle tone.

As if he had grabbed a lifesaver, the snake monster secretly avoided Dracula and kept nodding at Newt.

"That's right, you two snakes are probably the only intelligent creatures in the middle of the entire forest." Newt nodded thoughtfully, "If I take Nagini away, you one snake staying here must be very lonely I think ..."

"Hiss-" the snake monster plopped down at Newt's feet, a hopeful expression even somewhat anthropomorphized on the snake's face.

It had endured too much loneliness in the basement of Hogwarts Castle for too long, and the previous thousand years of encounters had no desire at all to experience it a second time.

Now that it had managed to make a snake friend who was also highly intelligent, how could it want this friend to be taken away by a stranger who suddenly arrived?

"Mr. Scamander, you actually don't need to take care of this snake monster's emotions so much." Dracula looked at the snake monster that was trying its best to please Newt and shook his head with a lost smile, "Just take Nagini, I'll take care of it."

He walked over to the snake monster and said to it, "Don't think I don't know, all you have to do is molt a layer of skin and sleep for a while, and a few decades will pass, it won't be as lonely as you think at all."

"Or how about this, you can sleep until Mr. Scamander passes away, and by then, if I haven't found a way to undo Nagini's Meredith blood spell, I'll personally go and bring her back to be your companion!"

Hearing Dracula's "good idea", even with Newt's good temper, he couldn't help but darken his face.

"Ahem, Professor Dracula, I don't think I'm going to die that easily ..." he coughed dryly.

"Oh, I'm sorry Mr. Scamander, I actually didn't mean it in a bad way." Dracula then realized that what he just said wasn't quite appropriate and changed his tone.

But then, he couldn't help but add, "But it's true that you won't live longer than me and Snake Monster, so there's actually nothing wrong with my idea ..."

Newt's face darkened even further.

"It's okay, I understand you meant no harm ..." he said, "I wonder if you'd be interested in hearing what I came up with?"

"I'd like to hear it." Dracula said.

"In fact ... I could take Mr. Snake Monster with me so he wouldn't feel alone." Newt unconsciously licked the corners of his mouth, and a light seemed to shine in his eyes.

Dracula: "..."

So that's what you guys had in mind!

Dracula seriously doubted that Newt wanted to take the snake monster away from the first time he saw it ... Maybe even without Nagini, his old friend, he would have proposed the idea of taking the snake monster away.

It's just that having Nagini as a lead-in made Newt's idea even more justified ...

But Dracula thought carefully about it in turn, and suddenly realized that there was nothing wrong with letting Newt, the world's best magical zoologist, take away the serpent monster -

Because of the special and cruel magical talent, wherever the serpent monster was placed was actually a great risk.

In case one day, a few unlucky Muggles came to explore this forest in Albania and stumbled upon the snake monster; at the same time, the snake monster was playing too oblivious and forgot to close his eyes in time ... then tragedy would probably happen so rashly.

Before Dracula wanted to place the snake monster in the Albanian forest, the main idea is still let it help to find the Ravenclaw crown just.

Now that the crown had been returned to its rightful owner, the snake monster naturally didn't have to stay in this forest.

So Dracula shrugged and looked at the snake monster.

"What do you think?" He asked.

The snake monster shook his head in a hurry.

After spending some time in an environment as large as the Albanian forest, it never wanted to move into any human dwelling.

Even if it was as grand and wide as Hogwarts Castle, the only space that could be used for the snake monster to move around was a basement that was rather cramped for it, a patch of pipes that led in all directions but made it difficult for it to turn around, and a small underground plaza that was the only thing that was considered open.

Compared to the vast forest, it was the difference between a Quidditch pitch and Myrtle's washroom!

The snake monster couldn't believe that Newt could provide it with a living environment that was larger than Hogwarts, let alone compared to the forests of Albania.

Newt seemed to see what the snake monster was reluctant because of and couldn't help but smile.

"If it's because of the range of motion, then you don't really have to worry about it." He opened the old suitcase in his hand and placed it flat on the ground, "You can come in and take a look, this suitcase is no smaller than this forest!"

The snake monster still shook his head vigorously.

Although this person looked quite agreeable, but to say this kind of bullshit to trick the snake, really think that he is a stupid snake?

He must have wanted to use flowery words to trick himself into this small box, and then immediately closed the box once he was inside.

The snake monster thought he saw the truth.

"What's the matter, you don't believe it?" Newt was dumbfounded and helplessly turned his head to look at Dracula, "Professor Dracula, its intelligence is indeed too high, and now it's starting to doubt what I said."

"I didn't expect you guys to be quite vigilant." Dracula kicked the snake monster's thick serpentine body with interest, "Mr. Scamander didn't lie to you, his box is indeed the size of a forest!"

"Niko once told me about that interesting magical zoologist who carried a box that looked like a small world inside. Now that another few decades have passed since the time of the Global Wizarding War, this unimpressive looking chest is only going to get bigger."

With Dracula's endorsement, the snake monster was finally convinced that Newt's chest was big enough.

But it was still a bit hesitant, wondering if the environment inside was as wonderful as this forest, and if there was enough food and water.

"If you're still unsure, I actually have snakes in this box like like the Nystriped Snake, Bird Snake, Longhorn Water Snake, and so on." Newt saw the snake monster's hesitation and smiled at it.

"Although these snakes won't be any more intelligent than you and Nagini, but it's not bad by any means, so at least you can have some other companions, right?"

Hearing Newt's words, the snake monster finally made up its mind.

It slithered and shook its huge body, burrowing headfirst inside Newt's suitcase.

And as if the suitcase had elasticity, it obediently expanded its entrance into an oval shape, just enough to accommodate the snake monster's oak tree-like thick body.

"Remember to keep your eyes closed and don't hurt the other animals!" Newt shouted from behind its tail.

After the snake monster had gotten inside Newt's old suitcase, Nagini followed suit.

Newt then turned his attention to Dracula and smiled an invitation:

"Professor Dracula, would you be interested in coming to my Fantastic Beasts World to take a look?"

Dracula slowly hooked up the corners of his mouth, a look of interest emerging on his face.

"Of course, I've wanted to visit this legendary suitcase for a long time." He chuckled softly.

Together, the two walked to the edge of the suitcase and looked down the opening from above to see a deep cavern with what appeared to be lights on inside the case.

There was a narrow wooden ladder attached to the outside of the box from the ground floor.

Newt, even though he was no longer young, was still very agile and climbed into the box quickly and skillfully.

"You can come down now, Professor Dracula!" Soon, Newt was down to the bottom rung of the ladder, his voice coming up far from the box, "Please close the lid for me when you come down!"

Dracula shrugged and didn't reach for the ladder that connected the top and bottom, instead he jumped lightly.

The cloak behind him spread out like black and red interlocking flames, and as Dracula landed lightly on the floor inside the chest, it also slowly closed and retracted, falling flat and sprawling down to the position of his ankles.

Dracula then raised his hand and snapped his fingers.

The lid snapped shut with a snap, so tightly that even the clasps were fastened.

"Er ... Professor Dracula," Newt looked at the closed lid of the box, expression stupefied said, "you put the button closed, then how can we still go out?"

Dracula's high and clear expression froze instantly.

"Unlocking spell?" He asked in a small voice.

"I put an anti-unlocking spell on the lid for security ..." Newt covered his face.

"It's okay, I'll take the shot." Dracula rubbed his brow, "Big deal, I'll just destroy the lid and fix it when we get out."

"Never!" Newt rushed to stop it, "I can get Teddy to stick his claws out of the case and gouge the snap buttons from the inside, there's no need to destroy the case."

"Well, so that's what sniffing is for." Dracula shrugged helplessly.

After solving the problem of how to open the lid of the case from the inside, the two walked together out of the small compartment that housed the ladder.

Behind the cubicle was a small workroom that housed a marching bed, a few tropical outfits, a small wooden table, a half-sized bookshelf, and an assortment of tools hanging on the walls.

In addition to that, the workroom was full of manuscripts and books on magical creatures - just cowhides of the kind Newt had taken out earlier filled most of the shelves here.

Newt took a set of overalls off the wall and slipped them on, then pushed open the wooden door on the side of the workroom.

"Welcome to the world of Fantastic Beasts!" He said cheerfully.

Dracula spared a glance in the direction of the wooden door -

As the wooden door opened, a new world presented itself to Dracula!

The first thing that caught his eyes was a forest, in which countless tall trees grew, on which some round bird's nests made of bamboo were hanging, and a group of strange birds were frolicking in the forest.

Looking back across this wooded area reveals a landscape unlike any other. It was dotted with a large savanna, a large rainforest, a moonlit sandy area, and a small rocky outcrop of a hill, among other things ...

"I really underestimated your creativity, Mr. Scamander."

A few rare moments of wonder appeared in Dracula's eyes, taking in the magical world with interest.

"Actually, this place was only as big as a small yard in the beginning ..."

Newt said while casually taking a bottle of bait from the side of the road, and full of unconcern, he put his hand into the bottle filled with meat worms, scattering the worms inside the round bird's nest in the forest.

"But as my appetite gradually grew and I rescued more and more magical creatures, I had to keep expanding the old box that had been with me for decades with the Unscarred Stretch spell."

"Gradually, I realized that keeping the animals in a normal crate wasn't suitable for their growth. So I taught myself some useful herbalism, plant growth spells, weather spells, and other magic, trying to transform an environment suitable for the animals to live in."

"Without realizing it, this suitcase has slowly turned into what it looks like now ... This is one of the things I'm most proud of in my life."

While feeding the small animals in the bird's nest, Newt told the story of this magical suitcase, with tenderness and relief in his eyes.

"It's marvelous." Dracula surveyed the assortment of ecosystems around him and sauntered over to Newt.

He watched Newt's movements as he fed the little creatures, and noticed that the circular bird's nest contained several magical little creatures covered in bluish-purple scales and possessing the body of a snake and the head of a bird.

They lay coiled in the nest with their mouths open in a wailing manner.

"Is this the bird snake you introduced to the snake monster earlier?" Dracula asked with interest.

"Yes, it's the bird snake." Newt pitched and fed the bird snake babies like a milkmaid while explaining to Dracula, "Don't look at them as if they're small now, but in fact, this magical animal can fill up the entire space they're in."

"Bird snakes can be over fifteen feet tall at their largest!"

"So it looks like even when they grow to their maximum, they're still not even close to that snake monster guy." Dracula laughed.

"Professor Dracula, it's the fifteen foot height that bird snakes can reach, not the length." Newt smiled and shook his head, "They can be fifty feet just as well if you go by length."

"Like that?" Dracula raised an eyebrow, "That's quite a big one."

He then suddenly thought of something else, "Speaking of which, where did Snake Monster and Nagini go? Aren't you worried about that Snake Monster guy wreaking havoc on your place?"

"It's fine." Newt smiled and shook his head, "Snake Monster's intelligence is higher than I thought. In that case, judging by how much he fears you, messing with the damage can only be described as asking for trouble."

Soon enough, Newt skillfully finished feeding the little bird-snake guys and wiped his hands on a nearby towel.

"Let's go check on the snake monster and Nagini now if we're worried." He said to Dracula, "If nothing else, they should go and make a home in the cave environment I've set up. Most snakes prefer a dark, warm, and humid living environment."

"There are two Ruini striped snakes living there as well though, so let's hope a few of them don't start any conflicts."

Together, the two walked towards the other side of the jungle environment, where a gloomy cave could be seen at the end of the tall trees.

Borrowing the vampire's excellent vision, Dracula easily spotted the snake monster's size beyond that of a normal snake.

However, at the same time, there were three other, no, it was another snake that was sword-fighting with the snake monster.

This was a Ruini snake that was orange in color, covered in black stripes, and had three heads.

Its size was quite large, and surprisingly, it barely lost to the snake monster!

"Would a normal Ruini striped snake be this big?" Dracula turned his head to Newt and asked.

"It's true that normal Ruini striped snakes aren't very big, they're only six to seven feet long." Newt explained, "But this one has been with me for decades, and I've used some special cultivation methods to breed him, and that's how I've raised a big guy that's over thirty feet long."

"But I think ... instead of discussing the size of the Ruini Striped Snake, it's more important for us to go and persuade the fight now."