harry potter book of crimes

"who?"

"Bang"

At the moment Maka turned around, a huge ice bird suddenly flew from behind him, and in his slightly stunned eyes, it almost scattered the large group of flame creatures around him.

What's going on? Where did this bird come from? Why...

Why could he feel a familiar magic wave from it?

Maka watched the ice bird flutter its wings and spin up after a dive and impact. While the ice crystals reflected a bright light, cold air spread everywhere it passed.

For a moment, even Maka had a hard time distinguishing which ones were the cold waves he created using the cooling rules.

And just as the ice bird spun and flew upwards, a mysterious wizard wearing a dark windbreaker suddenly appeared in Maka's sight.

"Uh...thank you."

Judging from the whole process and the current results, this wizard did help him. But whether this person was an enemy or a friend, Maka was completely unable to decide.

Because from the moment he saw this wizard, he immediately felt the "sense of rejection" emanating from him, a kind of aura that kept strangers away.

So...it never goes wrong to always say thank you first, right?

Of course, compared to Maka's surprise, Haierbo was actually much more surprised. After all, just at that moment, less than half of the flame creatures he cast were defeated directly.

However, although the large group of flame creatures were scattered many times, the flame itself as its constituent element was still floating in the air with the wind.

The next second, Maka, who noticed that the flow of magic power became violent again, had no choice but to look in the direction of Halbo.

"boom!"

However, the large flame seemed to be suddenly gathered by an invisible big hand, and suddenly gathered into a ball, and then saw a long flaming snake rushing out of it that was comparable in size to the ice crystal giant bird.

In just a blink of an eye, the large fire snake, mainly red, orange and black, snaked up in the air, opened a ferocious giant kiss that exhaled hot breath and swam straight towards Maka.

It seems that although Haierbo was interfered with by the mysterious wizard, he did not focus on him because of it. His eyes only fell on Maka from the beginning to the end, and he did not intend to make any changes at all.

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"The true summoning technique that combines soul rules and ordinary first-level rules...isn't it worth anything now?"

To be honest, with his current understanding of the soul rules, it is not impossible to summon a giant beast with the power of rules like the other two people present.

It's a pity that he has never had a chance to try it, so he will obviously need more time to construct magic.

And Haierbo, who is controlling the giant flame snake over there, will give him that time?

"Tsk."

Clicking his tongue lightly, Maka suddenly descended quickly, narrowly dodging the giant mouth of the fire snake that was heading straight towards him.

Although he doesn't have time to play any summoning skills, it doesn't mean that he has no power to fight back!

"Speaking of which, in recent years, I have been busy studying the principles of magic, and my reliance on the power of rules has also increased... It seems that I have almost forgotten the original fighting concept..."

How should a wizard who is truly proficient in actual combat fight?

Godric Gryffindor, as the undoubtedly strongest one among the four founders of Hogwarts, had given Maka an obvious answer back then.

"Concentrate."

As he suddenly fell, Maka's eyes suddenly dimmed. Combined with his perception of magic, the world in his eyes instantly lost color and turned into a picture made up of only sensory information.

"Swift."

Lightning flashed in his mind, and at the moment when the fire snake passed by him, he exerted force on his feet and directly left the magic book under him, and his body exploded with an unexpected speed.

"Frozen."

The cooling rules guided the cold current, continuously condensing ice blocks under his feet, allowing him to move lightning-fast in the air without the need for a floating spell.

"Mute."

Before he finished speaking, Maka, who was moving at high speed... disappeared.

"laugh"

Just for a moment, Haierbo, who had been hiding secretly just now, suddenly revealed his figure.

His eyes widened, and he looked down at his left shoulder in shock. There, a straight and slender bone staff actually penetrated from behind him, skewering him.

above.

"boom!"

Immediately afterwards, a burst of blue-white light burst out from the long staff, engulfing Haierbo's entire body.

In the distance, the mysterious wizard watched everything that happened in this short period of time, as if he was also surprised by Maka's sudden outburst.

But a few seconds later, he suddenly raised his right hand, and then swung it down violently.

At the same time, Maka, who had just appeared behind Haierbo, had now returned to his original position. Judging from the fact that he was stepping firmly on the magic book again, his chest was rising and falling slightly, the consumption was probably not low.

At the other end, the dazzling white light that engulfed Haierbo was naturally an extreme eruption of Maka using the power of the cooling rules.

That was the ultra-low temperature that surged directly inside his body. Even if his current body was not a physical body, he would definitely suffer severe injuries after taking this blow head-on.

But Maka didn't expect that when even the giant flame snake showed signs of collapse, the giant ice crystal bird still hovering high in the sky suddenly swooped down at the command of its master.

Why, does the wizard who has always been mysterious since his appearance think that Haierbo would still choose to give it a try under such extremely unfavorable circumstances?

However, under the premise that "there are two powerful enemies and he was seriously injured", Haierbo really launched another active attack!

Suddenly, the giant flame snake that was about to disintegrate suddenly solidified again, turned around and started to bite the place where Maka stayed. Almost at the same moment, Haierbo itself suddenly turned into a ball of dark flames.

, and collided head-on with the giant ice crystal bird.

There was nothing serious on Maka's side. With his reflexes and instant speed, it was no problem to dodge the fire snake's attack. However, the ice bird was unable to dodge and was hit by a powerful impact from the black flame.

"Bang!"

As the black fireball exploded under the violent impact, the huge ice bird immediately became abnormal.

Obviously, contaminated by the black flame that can burn the soul, the soul rules used to maintain the form in its body have begun to become unstable.

However, Haierbo, who transformed into black flames, obviously did not feel comfortable this time.

However, even if the black flames that were dispersed quickly gathered again, they could only be pieced together into a human form. The appearance of a normal person like before could no longer be maintained.

"Interesting... MacLean will not mention it for now, but what is your origin as a young man? I still remember that we seemed to have met at night a few days ago, right?"

It was obviously impossible for Halbo, who had become a black fire man, to still have a mouth, but what he said was still extremely clear.

Of course, it always feels a little weird to see a lump of fire that roughly looks like a person talking.

Seeing Haierbo asking about the mysterious windbreaker wizard, Maka couldn't help but pay a little attention to the fact that the person's appearance was too sudden, which made him dare not relax his vigilance against him until now.

Even so far, that person has always stood on the same front as him silently.

"Cough cough cough... cough cough..."

An inexplicable coughing sound suddenly sounded, as if the other party had been holding it in for a long time. The coughing made even Maka, a bystander, feel a dull pain in her lungs.

But after he finished coughing, the windbreaker wizard still didn't speak, as if he had made up his mind from the beginning and would not say a word.

Not only that, while Maka and Haierbo were waiting for him to make a sound, Icebird, who took this opportunity to secretly recover, actually attacked Haierbo without hesitation!

Looking at the momentum, I'm afraid they won't give up until Halbo is solved.

"snort."

Haierbo suddenly dodged, using the magic of space movement to avoid the ice bird's surprise attack, and then appeared in another position in mid-air.

I heard him snort coldly and then said:

"Although I really want to fight with you two more times, after all, you two can be said to be the strongest people I have ever encountered in this era... Unfortunately, the time seems to be almost here, and I also

It’s time to get on with the ‘business’.”

"So, let's see you next time! Don't worry, I believe we will meet again soon..."

While saying these words, Haierbo's figure was also constantly changing its position, allowing the persistent ice bird to attack again and again.

And when he spoke his last words, he evaded for another time but never reappeared.

"Are you leaving again?"

Probably because the battle situation this time was really complicated, and many changes occurred one after another, Maka couldn't immediately remember his original intention of chasing all the way here for a while.

After he turned around and thought for a moment, he remembered something.

"Ah!" He quickly glanced at the distant sky, and said silently to himself, "That's right... I have completely lost the thing I wanted to follow, so what's the point of him staying here anymore?

?”

After thinking about it like this, Maka turned around and looked at the mysterious windbreaker wizard with doubt.

"Maybe you don't want to talk, but I still have to thank you again for your help! Well, I wonder if you can tell me your name. Maybe we can... make friends?"

As far as the situation just now was concerned, Maka actually didn't expect the other party to answer any of his questions. Therefore, instead of asking some sensitive questions and asking for trouble, he might as well start with the simplest test.

But who knows...

"Ahem...friend?" (To be continued)