"Is this how you express gratitude? By sneaking up on us?" Draco slowly turned around and mocked Ranrok. "Looks like your ' Goblin etiquette' isn't very good."
As soon as he finished speaking, a blinding azure light gathered at the tip of Draco's " Watcher," and then an even faster azure beam shot towards Ranrok like lightning!
"A mere trick!" Ranrok said, raising his left hand, covered in a heavy metal gauntlet, and confidently met the attack.
However, his expression froze the next second!
"Bang—Crack!"
A crisp sound of metal shattering was heard!
The seemingly sturdy Mithril gauntlet was instantly pierced and shattered like paper under the bombardment of the azure beam!
Broken metal fragments flew everywhere! But the beam's momentum hadn't subsided, and it slammed heavily into Ranrok's breastplate!
"Ugh!"
With a muffled groan, his short body was struck head-on by a battering ram, his feet leaving the ground and flying backward several meters before crashing heavily onto the ground covered with decaying leaves, kicking up a cloud of dust. He slid a distance before coming to a stop.
"It seems," Draco said, blowing away the smoke from the tip of his wand as he looked at the disheveled Ranrok getting to his feet in the distance, a sneer playing on his lips, "That you're celebrating too soon."
The entire hall was deathly silent!
Not only was Ranrok stunned by the impact, but Hermione and Professor Babbling were also taken aback.
That was Ranrok, who had absorbed Ancient Magic energy, whose strength had skyrocketed, and who had previously made them feel like they were facing a formidable enemy...
Are they really that vulnerable in front of Draco?
In just two exchanges, his gauntlet shattered, and he was sent flying?
Isn't this difference a bit too big?
Ranrok struggled to his feet from the rubble, looking at his hand with its charred skin showing, and touching the dented breastplate, a look of terror appeared on his face for the first time.
"How could this be..." His voice trembled with shock and excruciating pain, "How could you... break through my defenses?! This is the Mithril, infused with Ancient Magic technology!"
"You think your cobbled-together piece of junk is invincible?" Draco looked at him like he was an idiot. "Smashing it is as easy as having hands, isn't it?"
"That's enough, Ranrok! Azkaban or Hell, choose one!" Draco said sternly, raising the " Watcher " staff once more, its tip glowing dangerously again.
A second shockwave erupted!
However, just as the shockwave was about to hit, Ranrok's figure vanished from the spot with a "poof" sound!
The shockwave missed.
It blasted into the rock wall behind it, creating a large crater.
"Don't be so arrogant, kid!"
Ranrok's chilling voice suddenly came from behind.
The three of them turned around abruptly and saw that Ranrok was already standing next to the floating emotional energy container!
Its right hand was resting on the energy container.
" Apparition?!" Hermione exclaimed, her face filled with horror. "This is Hogwarts grounds, protected by Anti-Apparition Jinx! How could you possibly be unaffected?!"
Professor Babbling's expression changed drastically as she considered an even more terrifying possibility. "Unless... you're not a pure Goblin... you're House-elf?! Only House-elf can ignore the Anti-Apparition Jinx restriction within the castle's boundaries!"
"Shut up!" Ranrok's voice suddenly turned sharp and shrill. "Don't compare me to those lowly, cowardly creatures who are only fit to be slaves!"
"Oh? If not..." Draco looked Ranrok up and down, sizing him up.
"There's another possibility, one that better suits your current appearance and capabilities—you're a bastard."
"You—!!" Ranrok was completely enraged, his hands trembling as he pressed them against the energy container.
"You're about to die and you're still spouting nonsense!" Ranrok roared. "I'll tear your mouth apart right now, and then I'll make all of you taste what it's like to be completely consumed by pain!"
As soon as it finished speaking, the hand it had been holding onto the energy container suddenly burst forth with a strong dark red light, and an unprecedentedly huge red shockwave blasted directly at that fragile emotional container.
"Smash it!"
"Stop!" Hermione and Professor Babbling cried out simultaneously.
But it was too late.
"Crack! Boom!"
An indescribable, deafening crash!
The energy container shattered under the destructive energy surge from Ranrok! In an instant, the immense emotional energy that had been sealed away by Morgana for so long was released completely.
A violent explosion occurred in that area instantly...
A terrifying shockwave is spreading in all directions.
" Protego Maxima!" Draco shouted, and the golden shield expanded once more, protecting Hermione and Professor Babbling in the center, forcefully withstanding the energy tsunami.
Through the light of the shield, they saw--
An extremely irregular mass of energy floated in mid-air.
Its core is scarlet, surrounded by a thick black mist. The grayish-red energy flow is like a living snake, constantly coiling, merging, and churning.
This mass of energy expanded rapidly at a speed visible to the naked eye.
It continues to devour the surrounding light!
"Oh no... He succeeded... The container is completely shattered, and the energy is out of control..." Professor Babbling said in despair.
The Repository walls crumbled under the impact of the energy, and the entire cave trembled violently, as if it would collapse at any moment.
At the center of the churning dark red energy storm,
Ranrok completely abandoned his original form and forcibly merged with the Ancient Magic energy filled with pain.
Finally, a ferocious, enormous Ancient Magic energy dragon, filled with an aura of ominousness and destruction, coiled in the center of the Repository, occupying almost half of the space!
The dragon's body was formed from a mixture of silvery-white Mithril bones and black, painful energy flesh.
Its surface was covered with countless cracks, from which dark red energy surged wildly.
Two twisted, bizarre bone horns grew from the top of his head.
Those eyes had no pupils, only two cores of pain burning with a ghastly white flame.
Its arms spread out, transforming into enormous bone wings, the edges of which were curled with sharp spikes.
Ranrok looked down at the three tiny figures, like ants, within the shield below, with its eyes burning with a ghastly white flame.
It roared and proclaimed:
" Goblin... never give up!"
"And now--"
"It's the end of wizards!"
"Roar--!!!"
The crimson energy dragon roared deafeningly, its massive body charging forward.
The hideous maw, formed from Mithril and painful energy, opened wide, unleashing a torrent of energy like a waterfall of lava, a cataclysmic flood, that surged toward Draco and his companions!
Wherever the flames passed, the air twisted violently, the ground was plowed with scorched deep trenches, and the rubble instantly vaporized.