harry potter book of crimes

"Go back quickly!"

When Hermione came out, she was obviously the fastest runner. When Maka felt something was wrong, she was already behind Maka.

At this moment, Maka was seizing the time to sense the familiar magic wave and waved her backhand.

Immediately afterwards, Hermione felt a soft but strong force rushing toward her, pushing herself back towards the entrance of St. Mungo's and quickly flying back.

And at this moment, a voice from nowhere suddenly sounded from the surroundings, echoing erratically in the street area.

"No," the voice said suddenly, "I think it's actually quite nice here. You don't need to go anywhere..."

"Herbo!"

Maka took a step towards the door, and the top of the staff in his hand was already filled with cold air. But because he hadn't found the opponent yet, he didn't take action, and was still just preparing to attack.

"I thought you weren't going to come out tonight..." He narrowed his eyes slightly and said loudly, "If you don't stay at the place of your summoning ceremony, why did you come to my place? Could it be that...you don't care at all?

Aren’t you worried?”

From Maka's point of view, it would undoubtedly be best if the other party can leave voluntarily because they are worried that the ritual will be destroyed. And even if that doesn't work, at least it can attract the other party's attention first.

There is no doubt that as long as Hermione and the others go back first, his worries will be much less. After all, even if the red brick department store outside is damaged, it will not affect St. Mungo's itself.

But what Maka didn't expect was...

"Bang bang"

Two rapid knocks sounded, and then he heard Hermione's voice.

"What's going on? The entrance can't be opened!"

In this critical moment, this is undoubtedly the worst news. After hearing this, Maka turned back almost subconsciously and glanced in the direction of the old department store window.

With just one glance, he saw that there were only four people left at the door: Hermione, Pansy, Luna, and the windbreaker wizard who was standing by the window to escort them in.

It seemed that the rest of the people had already retreated back to St. Mungo's Hall, and some of the last ones might not even have had time to come out.

However, even if the situation behind him was getting worse, Maka couldn't be distracted to check the situation. Because he knew that Haierbo was nearby and could appear from a corner at any time and take action.

So at this moment, he could only hope that the windbreaker wizard could solve this problem as soon as possible and send all the three girls who were still outside.

And things developed just as Maka expected. The moment he turned to look back, a blazing flame suddenly appeared from mid-air, taking the form of a large number of magical animals and flying towards him.

The astonishing high temperature not only melted a large area of ​​ice crystals that had been floating in the air, but even the temperature that had dropped a lot suddenly became too high again.

It can be seen that there are a huge number of magical animals condensed by flames. Just look at the momentum of running downward from the sky, it is like an endless river of flames.

Needless to say, we must not let the other party attack at the moment. If we get too close, any mistake will inevitably lead to consequences that Maka does not want to see.

"Stay behind me, don't move!"

As he spoke as a reminder, he swung the staff in his right hand upwards. The next second, a cold current mixed with ice crystals rushed towards the flaming creatures like a huge wave.

"boom"

A series of violent explosions created a storm of ice crystals and flames in mid-air, spreading in all directions.

Under the explosion and impact caused by the collision of the two first-level rules, even the fog that had always been lingering was forcefully pushed away, revealing a long-lost twinkling starry sky.

Of course, this battle between extreme cold and high temperature is still going on. Maka does not dare to hold back at all, he has already exerted the power of the cooling rules to the limit.

And perhaps because he has always adhered to the principle of "more is worse than more" in the study of regular runes. Although Haierbo's flames still contain some soul magic skills, they are still a little bit suppressed by Maka. The tendency to go back.

But the problem is that even though Maka knew that the flames came from mid-air, he still hasn't been able to find the exact location where Haierbo is hiding.

Yes, the fluctuation of magic power that could be vaguely felt from the beginning is still looming now, but there is no way to accurately grasp it.

"Isn't the entrance open yet?"

"not yet."

Even though she was a little anxious, Maka could only suppress the stirring in her heart at this time, and while resisting the attack, she felt as carefully as possible the fluctuations of magic power passing through every inch of space around her.

Other than that, it seems like all that's left is waiting.

Behind him, Luna and Pansy were both holding their wands half-raised, while Hermione and the trench coat wizard were checking the reason why the entrance was suddenly closed.

Although you can guess with your knees at this moment that this is probably Haierbo's method, but if you want to unlock the blockade, you still have to figure out where the problem lies.

But to be honest, if this is really Haierbo's personal manipulation, it's hard to say whether the blockade can be lifted in a short time.

But just over ten seconds later, another more obvious magic wave suddenly entered Maka's perception range from the fog at one end of the street.

"The more delicious the food, the better, right?"

Haierbo's unknown words echoed softly around him, but what followed was another emaciated figure that did not belong to him.

When the strange magic wave that Maka sensed gradually moved from the mist into his field of vision, a pair of dark eyes immediately made Maka understand why Ajinbad described them as black before.

of gems.

Because he saw that the firelight in the sky was reflected in the pair of eyeballs, reflecting a clear stream of light.

"This kind of magic power fluctuation..." Maka frowned slightly, and said secretly while being alert, "I seem to have felt it somewhere?"

However, regardless of whether he had sensed a similar source of magic power before, he obviously did not have the time to recall it at this time. He knew that the wizard was definitely not an existence that could be easily dealt with.

Well, although he wasn't sure whether he could still be called a "wizard".

The next moment, Maka did not wait for the opponent to continue to approach before taking action. Instead, while maintaining resistance to the flaming creatures of Haierbo, her left hand without the staff quickly swung.

He couldn't easily complete such a split-purpose spell casting method, so he only chose the simplest and crudest method.

"boom"

All modern magic spells are ready-made, and he has already mastered them quite proficiently through continuous learning and practice in the past. At this moment, an explosion spell with powerful magic output was thrown out almost without thinking, and fell at the opponent's feet.

.

In an instant, it was as if a Muggle high-explosive bomb had fallen on that stretch of road, and the shock wave kicked up a large amount of bricks, gravel, and soil.

But when the dust dispersed slightly, a smooth sphere as black as the opponent's eyeball was revealed. It was obvious that the guy used this spherical shield to block the violent explosion just now, and even the slightest damage was not sustained.

Didn't stay.

"What's that?"

Maka glanced over there, just in time to see the seemingly extremely solid spherical shield suddenly soften and turn into a viscous liquid substance flowing around the opponent.

The opponent himself, after removing his defense, continued to walk towards him step by step.

"'Greed'...'arrogance'...there is even a trace of 'jealousy'...a major sin, a major sin that is reaching its extreme..."

"...Please hand over your sins to me!"

Those eyes, as deep as the bottomless abyss, stared at Maka momentarily, as if they could not see anything else.

What deserves people's attention is the other party's statement that is obviously different from how he treated others before.

That's right, before meeting Maka now, the guy would usually just ask the other party to "contribute" the sins to him after listing his sins. But this time, the other party didn't mention it in such a condescending tone, and actually

The word "please" is also used.

It's a pity that no matter how "polite" that guy is, what "he" wants to do obviously remains the same.

Suddenly, just when Maka was about to take action again, the opponent suddenly raised his hand and pointed forward. The next second, in the sight of Luna and Pansy, a black spike with a length of 5 feet suddenly appeared.

It was generated from the black material in front of him and flew straight towards Maka.

"The divine edge has no shadow."

Since the last explosion failed to test the depth of the opponent's unknown substance, Maka obviously greatly increased the strength of the spell this time. This magical blade, originally designed by Snape to be invisible and silent, actually failed due to his limit.

The increase exceeded the invisible load limit and took on a translucent form.

"Ding"

Immediately, the two magic products collided with each other, making a harsh sound of metal clashing.

Following closely, a few people saw that Maka's translucent magic blade dissipated instantly, and the opponent's black spikes also spun and flew back.

When Maka saw this, she couldn't help but frowned again.

It was not easy for him to be distracted from dealing with another determined enemy while fighting with Haierbo's magic. It can only be said that fortunately, Haierbo had obviously not used his true strength.

This allowed him to spare some time to cast these two spells.

"Do you need help?"

Suddenly, the pleasant voice of the windbreaker wizard came from behind, but Maka immediately shook her head.

"You concentrate on solving the issue of sealing the entrance. That is the most important thing to us right now." He said without looking back, "I have no problem for the time being."