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Chapter 1311

Burning Paris (V)

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What happened tonight would still be spoken of with awe a century from now!

The Eiffel Tower, which had stood on the Champ de Mars for a century and had always been called the "Iron Giant," tonight—

became a true Iron Giant!

The massive tower was undergoing a complex transformation. The instant it grew feet, it began to move.

With every step it took, the earth let out a heart-wrenching groan. After only a few steps, when it waded into the Seine River, the Iron Giant had already taken on the outline of a body and arms!

Boom!

The river immediately flooded both banks, and fierce wind and waves swallowed countless sightseers along the shores in an instant!

The Muggles screamed, wept, and wailed!

The powerful magical field churned the clear night sky into chaos. A vast mass of dark clouds gathered above the Eiffel Tower at a visible pace, while bolts of lightning struck the cracked earth.

It was like the end of the world!

"Those animals."

Sirius stared at the Iron Giant as the outline of its head gradually emerged, his eyes bloodshot.

He made no attempt to flee. Nor did any of the wizards amid the ruins of the collapsed hotel.

They all knew the giant had come for them. Blindly fleeing would only cause even greater casualties among the Muggles!

"How did they even do this?"

Someone stared at the Iron Giant and muttered in a daze.

Turning steel into a humanoid shape was not particularly complicated magic.

A third-year Hogwarts student could turn a wooden stick into an exquisite puppet. But what stood before them was an Eiffel Tower over a thousand feet tall!

Such large-scale Transfiguration could only be accomplished by two or three people at most!

Sirius, his face full of grief and

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