Many Hogwarts students knew Tris was powerful, but almost none had a clear idea of just how powerful he was. Whenever Tris dealt with someone at school, he usually finished them off in a few moves.
All they knew was that the gap between them and Tris was enormous-so enormous that they could not even gauge his strength. Today, they finally gained a little understanding of it.
Having dodged the ground spikes, Tris lashed out with a whip of lightning. Although the Sphinx tried to dodge, the lightning whip still wrapped around his hind leg.
He tried to wrench himself free, but a powerful current shot through his body a moment later. Even though the Sphinx possessed outstanding magic resistance among fantastic beasts of his level, the shock left his entire body numb, momentarily robbing him of his strength.
Tris had already channeled his magic again. The lightning whip climbed up the Sphinx's hind leg, wrapping around his entire rigid, immobilized body in the blink of an eye, then abruptly tightened.
The enormous Sphinx collapsed to the ground like a giant rice dumpling, all four limbs bound tightly and unable to move.
The Sphinx was furious.
As Egypt's most famous and symbolic magical creature, he had always been treated with great respect. Most European wizards were atheists-probably because the Church's various idiotic antics over the years had gone well past being funny.
Many Egyptian wizards, however, still believed in deities. All sorts of bizarre religious beliefs flourished in Egypt's Wizarding World.
As the physical embodiment of the god Ra-Harakhte, and a highly intelligent being to boot, he was generally treated with deference by Egyptian wizards. This trip to Britain could even be considered a "business trip." When had he ever been treated like this?
Instinctively, he opened his mouth to