Crack! Snap!
Explosions rang out through the jungle as spells blasted the trees apart!
Bellatrix brazenly hurled Exploding Charms at a large tree, one after another.
Her features were actually quite delicate, but whenever she went mad, she bulged her eyes and threw back her mouth in wild laughter.
"Ha ha! Run! Keep running!"
Behind the tree, Theodore wore an icy expression. Holding the unconscious Old Nott upside down, he extended the Bone Jade Wand past the splintering trunk and fired a silent Killing Curse.
Bellatrix remained unruffled. With a flick of her wand, she transfigured a vine on the ground into a Shield Stone Golem, which physically blocked the incoming green light.
Her patience was wearing thin. Seeing Theodore still fighting like a cornered beast, she waved at the dozen or so lackeys behind her.
"Stop slacking! Use Exploding Charms together! It doesn't matter if you cripple him!"
Only a few of those chasing Theodore with Bellatrix were veteran Death Eaters. Most were bounty hunters who had been lured in, then forcibly subdued and put to work by Voldemort.
They were halfhearted and perfunctory about their work. Otherwise, even with his improved strength, Theodore would have been captured long ago.
"Confringo!" × N
A dozen or so Exploding Charms shot toward the large tree.
Theodore caught sight of them through a blasted gap in the trunk, and his gaze sharpened.
He flung Old Nott hard onto the ground, then reached inside his robes and pulled out the Ace of Spades from the Sequence Cards.
Shawn had sent this card over with Purple Shadow. It contained a Mutated Petrificus Totalus that Shawn had stored himself, a spell more useful than the Killing Curse in a complicated battle.
Just as Theodore was about to activate the spell in the card, a