Even beneath the seawater, the Water Man's outline remained clear, faint golden light filling its body until it looked like a statue of gold.
Zhang Xiao floated within the Water Man's chest, blazing golden light coiling around his body as he devoted all his attention to controlling it.
Heaven and Earth Manifestation was a legendary divine ability of the Daoist Order. Zhang Xiao honestly did not know whether Dragon-Tiger Mountain possessed it.
His version was really just an idea he had come up with while facing the basilisk in his second year-fight something huge with something huge!
Even Dumbledore had not expected this. He had only intended for the young wizard to use Transfiguration creatively, conjuring a large living creature to engage the basilisk.
But Zhang Xiao had chosen to hide himself inside his transfigured creation, becoming a "Gundam pilot."
(For details, see Volume Two, Why Did the Chamber of Secrets Turn Out Like This?-Chapter 97.)
Because of the limits of his control, the Water Man Zhang Xiao formed was not fifty meters tall like the statues, but only around thirty. It looked rather like Guo Xiaosi fighting two Yao Mings.
The two stone statues seemed startled by the golden giant that had abruptly appeared before them. Once again, they made those strange, low sounds.
Their one-handed grip on their tridents changed. They stepped forward, grasped their weapons with both hands, and crouched slightly.
Zhang Xiao's expression grew serious, his eyes flecked with golden light narrowing slightly. As a member of the Daoist Order, which specialized in martial arts, he saw the difference in their stances at a glance.
Before, they had been spearing fish. Now, they were fighting. The intensity was on an entirely different level.
A fight, then...
Zhang Xiao clenched his fists, and the enormous Water Man