Heart of Darkness Breaks Free

"It pierced him!"

Ulrika looked overjoyed.

This Ulick Gamp before her looked remarkably like herself. Though, in a sense, he was herself, Ulrika was determined to draw a clear line between them.

Gamp's chest had been pierced by the Golden Gryphon's claws. He was undoubtedly doomed!

Excited light gleamed in Ulrika's eyes.

The teachers and students of Hogwarts erupted in cheers as well.

Ginny and Hannah jumped up and down, each grabbing one of Moriarty's arms. "Big Brother Moriarty, Senior Ulrika won! Gamp is dead!"

A smile appeared at the corner of Moriarty's lips.

Just as they could see, Gamp's chest had been pierced through by the sharp giant claws.

With such a massive penetrating wound, Gamp's heart must have been pierced as well!

And Gamp's heart was the Dark Element Magic Sacred Relic, the Heart of Darkness.

The properties of the Dark Element Magic Sacred Relic meant that Gamp would not truly die, but if the Dark Element Magic Sacred Relic was destroyed, could Gamp still revive?

The answer was no!

Gamp was utterly powerless now. He felt everything drifting away from this body, and even the agonizing pain seemed to be leaving him.

This was not a good thing. On the contrary, it was terribly bad—it signaled that Gamp was about to die!

Gamp's consciousness gradually faded, his pupils lost focus, and his head slowly drooped...

But at the very instant before death.

A heart burst from Gamp's back, tearing through flesh and skin as it emerged!

Gamp's final sliver of consciousness before death:

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I never ordered the Heart of Darkness to leave me. Why did it leave me?

But this is good too. I won't truly die!

An intense dark aura rose from Gamp. Gamp was dead, but Dark Elemental Magic was released.

"The Heart of