Boom... Boom... Boom... Ten blasts in a row...
Ten more holes appeared in Hogwarts Castle. By repeatedly using Apparition, Li Mu kept teleporting inside the castle, using the magical fortress to shield himself from the ten Alchemical Short Spears. After several rounds, the spears had lost much of their destructive power.
It was just like a guided missile: whether flying or tracking its target, it needed fuel.
Magic Power was the fuel for the Alchemical Short Spears. Without it, they were nothing more than ten fire pokers.
After Apparating once again, Li Mu appeared in the sky, climbed onto a Flying Broomstick, and continued to ascend.
The Alchemical Short Spears chased after him, while a second Li Mu appeared atop one of Hogwarts' towers.
Using the Polymorph Spell, he turned a chair into a replica of himself, then infused it with Spark Energy, giving the decoy the Magic Power and life aura of the real thing. It would have thrown the spears off course even if they were manually controlled, let alone automatically guided.
After casting an Illusionary Body Curse, Li Mu returned to the Great Hall.
By now, the elderly wizards and several professors had joined forces and nearly put out all the Fiendfyre in the hall.
The Super Iron Skin Charm protected against attacks from outside, but not from within. Relying on his LV10 Illusionary Body Curse, Li Mu quietly slipped into the midst of the elderly wizards. Fragments of broken tables and chairs littered the floor. They had survived the Fiendfyre only because of the Super Iron Skin Charm.
He cast the Polymorph Spell on a group of objects, transforming heaps of table and chair fragments into Metal Hummingbirds.
The Metal Hummingbirds flew just above the ground, targeting the elderly wizards' lower bodies and striking at their vital points. A few wizards had defensive magical artifacts that activated automatically, but most of the others were badly wounded and screamed in agony.
That wasn't all. Some of the Metal Hummingbirds flew at the Alchemy Puppets assisting Nicolas Flamel with his Alchemical Enchantment.
Many of the Alchemy Puppets were left battered, directly interfering with Nicolas Flamel's Alchemical Enchantment.
Seeing one man defeat dozens of renowned wizards, Nicolas Flamel knew that if he didn't act, all the elderly wizards would die at the hands of the Phoenix City Lord. The Phoenix City Lord's mastery of the Polymorph Spell, Illusionary Body Curse, Apparition, and Fiendfyre Curse was extraordinary.
But if he took action himself, who would strengthen the Alchemical Enchantment preventing Apparition within Hogwarts?
Even if he defeated the Phoenix City Lord, the man could escape by Apparating.
Weighing the pros and cons, Nicolas Flamel had no choice but to abandon the idea of dealing with the Phoenix City Lord today.
Through Legilimency, Li Mu sensed Nicolas Flamel's fighting spirit.
He immediately realized that his plan to stall for time wouldn't work.
The elderly wizards' Super Iron Skin Charms were troublesome, but if he focused his attacks, he could still take them down. He had only been trying to buy time, hoping to wait until the effects of the Dragonblood Potion Nicolas Flamel had taken began to wear off before going all out.
He hadn't expected Nicolas Flamel to give up this chance to capture him in order to save the elderly wizards.
It seemed he'd underestimated the standing these wizards held in the magical communities of their countries. If they didn't have powerful connections, why would Nicolas Flamel pass up such a good opportunity to save them? Li Mu didn't believe a man who had lived for over six hundred years was softhearted.
After dealing with the elderly wizards today, he would soon face a united assault from the magical communities around the world.
"Attack..."
As Li Mu spoke, dozens of Killing Curses shot from his right sleeve.
The shrunken Miracle Building, Azkaban, was hidden inside his sleeve. Ever since the battle began, dozens of Dark Wizards concealed within Azkaban had been ready to cast Killing Curses. They had only been waiting for his command to unleash a volley through Azkaban's entrance.
Almost all the elderly wizards in front of him had their lives snuffed out in an instant.
Only a few survived because the other wizards had blocked the Killing Curses for them. But they would have been better off dying quickly, because Li Mu immediately pointed his wand at the bodies and cast the Egyptian spell, Corpse Explosion.
One of the Dark Wizards he had recruited was from Egypt and had fled to Britain after getting into trouble there.
He wasn't particularly powerful, but he had learned Egypt's forbidden Dark Magic, the Corpse Explosion Spell. He had discovered it while excavating the tomb of a famous wizard, and had been hunted across the land ever since his first attempt to use it.
Under the power of the Corpse Explosion Spell, the bodies of all the elderly wizards became human bombs.
Amid dozens of thunderous blasts, half of Hogwarts collapsed.
After Apparating to safety, Li Mu immediately pointed his wand at Nicolas Flamel, who had Apparated nearby as well.
The black-green beam of the Killing Curse was blocked by a Super Iron Skin Charm generated by a ring on Nicolas Flamel's hand. The ring shattered, but it bought Nicolas Flamel enough time for two Dragonblood Knights to charge to his side and form an impenetrable wall.
What a shame they weren't living Dragonblood Knights.
If the two Dragonblood Knights were still alive, they could have used Dragon Might Deterrence, the greatest threat Dragonblood Knights posed to wizards. The power could leave a wizard dazed for a time, and even a moment's distraction while Apparating could cause the spell to go wrong.
A failed teleport would be bad enough. A successful one might send the head away while leaving the body behind.
Nicolas Flamel took out a chessboard. Dozens of carved pieces left the board and transformed into Alchemy Puppets. Each one cast a different spell, and dozens of spells locked onto Li Mu, shaking the ground where he stood.
Using Apparition, Li Mu attacked again and again, appearing and vanishing without warning.
But each time, his spells were blocked by the two Dragonblood Knights. He couldn't harm Nicolas Flamel or the Alchemy Puppets behind them. Even when he occasionally found a chance to destroy one or two puppets, Nicolas Flamel immediately produced more.
He cast the Super Fierce Fire Curse to attack them all at once, but the Dragonblood Knights' shields absorbed every flame.
So a group fight really is the way to go.
Li Mu abandoned the idea of fighting alone and tossed Azkaban behind him.
The dozens of Dark Wizards who streamed out were no longer the weak Half-bloods from before. They were elite fighters, handpicked from among all the Dark Wizards in the British Magic World. Every one of them was skilled in Apparition, the Iron Skin Charm, and the Killing Curse.
Nicolas Flamel saw the scene with his own eyes and nearly swore aloud.
Dozens of Alchemy Puppets had been unable to do anything against the Phoenix City Lord. Now the Phoenix City Lord had dozens of elite wizards at his side, and soon Nicolas Flamel would be the one getting mobbed. Continuing the fight would only cost him the Alchemy Puppets he had painstakingly collected, with no benefit at all.
Nicolas Flamel decided to retreat and Apparated away under the cover of the Dragonblood Knights.
The moment he was gone, the Dragonblood Knights and Alchemy Puppets were summoned away as well.
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