Hogwarts Card System Chapter 230

Chapter 229: Stealing a Kill~

Ted, with everyone’s assistance, played a support role for Dumbledore. He was essentially a middleman support.

It wasn’t until the Molten Core Giant showed signs of defeat that Ted felt his opportunity had arrived.

Speaking of which, that giant, over ten meters tall, was incredibly fierce!

It truly didn’t seem like something an individual could contend with.

Its immense size meant every movement, like a giant machine, brought endless destruction. It constantly unleashed large-scale magma explosions, and every stomp caused a minor earthquake… it felt like the earth was collapsing!

And it was incredibly tough! Even after being pummeled by Dumbledore’s controlled Ice Stone Giant, it lasted over twenty minutes before showing any signs of weakness!

If this thing just stood there and let Ted hit it, he probably wouldn’t be able to do anything to it for several hours.

Fortunately, old Dumbledore was powerful!

In the later stages, he even controlled the Ice Stone Giant to relentlessly beat the Molten Core Giant, while simultaneously dual-casting with his other hand—controlling the ground to form an enormous stone hand that gripped one of the Molten Core Giant’s legs, preventing it from moving freely. It could only stand there and trade blows with the Ice Stone Giant.

The Ice Stone Giant, aided by Ted’s alchemy array, continuously siphoned fire magic and converted it into its own ice power. With Dumbledore’s enhancements, it only grew stronger with each blow!

The clash of ice and fire, steam rising, debris flying, it was like a bathhouse being violently demolished.

A hazy mist of water vapor rose, like the Queen Mother of the West’s Peach Banquet!

The rising and churning steam, encountering the cooling vortex above, turned into tiny water droplets and fell, only to be re-vaporized by the lava on the ground, a cycle repeating endlessly…

Now, the Molten Core Giant was covered in wounds, many of its black stones had fallen off, and lava flowed across the ground like viscous blood. It was clearly weakening, seemingly on the verge of defeat.

Ted had waited for so long, and finally, his moment came.

For the past half hour, he had been using everyone’s help to clear out the smaller monsters with blizzards. Now, there were almost no fire elementals left on the field.

Now, it was time to steal the boss’s kill!

Ted raised his left hand high, clenching his fist as if grabbing something, then pulled it down forcefully…

The swirling dark clouds above the cave, following Ted’s gesture, descended like a giant quilt, covering both the Molten Core Giant and the Ice Stone Giant.

The next moment, the alchemy array beneath Ted’s feet, which connected to the Ice Stone Giant and extended back to the sinkhole where Hermione and the others were, burst into brilliant light!

All the magic power shone with dazzling brilliance, melting all the materials within the array, then converging onto the Ice Stone Giant’s back, detonating the already descended blizzard vortex cloud!

There was no sound, but a pale blue, rapidly freezing cold surge erupted, instantly encasing both nearly twenty-meter-tall giants in a shimmering block of ice!

Ted pointed his wand: “Shatter Ice!”

“Crack~” Countless fissures appeared on the enormous ice block.

“Bang~” With a soft sound, the colossal, mountain-like ice block shattered into countless ice crystals across the ground, taking the two stone giants with it…

Due to the instantaneous cold surge, this fiery land suddenly grew cold.

The entire scene was silent, everyone staring at Ted—┌(。Д。)┐

Ron (#ﾟДﾟ): Ted is too awesome!

They had also come to reinforce the battle in its later stages, to witness the fight and gain experience.

Start training from a young age!

Ted gave Dumbledore, who was looking at him, a shy smile—My esteemed Headmaster, you wouldn’t mind your dear student stealing a kill, would you?

You wouldn’t, right?! You wouldn’t?!

…

The temporary camp on the ground was still bustling. The dwarves and demi-humans who hadn’t gone to the battlefield were exhausted from moving supplies, and even the magical robots controlled by the gnomes were smoking from exertion. Over a dozen of them had broken down!

Then, they suddenly felt the ground shake… A short while later, those who had gone down to fight underground flew up with the help of broomsticks and various other flying devices.

Everyone quickly gathered around: “Is it over?”

“We won, right?”

“Are any of you injured?”

“It’s over! It’s finally over!”

By the time Dumbledore and the members of the Order of the Phoenix came up with Ted and the other students, there was no one left in the underground sinkhole.

Suddenly, a white figure rushed towards Ted, then was effortlessly lifted by Dumbledore with a silent, wandless flick, encased in a bubble, and floated in mid-air!

“Misunderstanding! Misunderstanding!” Ted quickly tried to smooth things over, “This is my… pet! A magical creature… uh, a galloping horse. Its name is Cabbage!”

Ted hastily concocted a species for Cabbage.

Everyone: People keep cats and dogs, but you keep a giant white horse? You have quite refined taste!

“Bang~” The bubble burst, and Cabbage landed.

“My apologies, I was a bit on edge,” Dumbledore said.

The last time he had been in such an intense battle was over a decade ago. Now that the fight had just ended, he still hadn’t quite disengaged from the combat mindset.

Ted, of course, didn’t mind, but Cabbage wasn’t having it.

Cabbage: Oh, really! You treat me like a donkey, making me carry sundries all night, and now you dare to attack me?! Do you think I’m easy to mess with?!

“Old man, are you very good at fighting?!”

Cabbage instantly drew its longsword (with its mouth): Dare to spar with me?!

Its expression was extremely arrogant, its thick lips and eyebrows constantly twitching. It clearly wasn’t a normal horse.

“It can even talk! Impressive!” Sirius vigorously clapped Ted on the shoulder.

Magical creatures that could speak were considered higher beings, at least highly intelligent.

Dumbledore paid no mind to a horse’s provocation and turned to face the sinkhole.

They had already discussed it down below. The planar gate had been closed, but how to deal with the underground fire realm, or rather, the lava pool, was still an issue.

Not only did it appear as a vast expanse of lava pools, but over the past few months, its influence had begun to erode the earth’s crust, spreading in other underground directions.

Finally, they decided to sink it!

Cabbage: You bastard, face me!

Dumbledore, wand in hand, his long white hair and beard began to float, his entire body glowing with brilliant blue light, slowly rising into the air.

No one could hear what he was muttering, only the movement of his wand, and then the ground began to shake, growing increasingly violent!

The shaking lasted for nearly ten minutes, to the point where no one could stand on the ground anymore.

Then the sinkhole completely vanished—the earth closed up like a pair of hands, burying the sinkhole.

According to Dumbledore later, he had sunk the lava pool of the fiery land a thousand five hundred meters underground…

Everyone was stunned by the magnificent spectacle. It was as if the earth had turned over!

The entire area as far as the eye could see had completely flipped over, filling the sinkhole…

Within a kilometer radius, not a single blade of grass remained, only yellow earth and broken stones!

“Clang~” The longsword in Cabbage’s mouth fell to the ground.

It quietly hid behind Ted, muttering, “What’s the use of being strong? When you’re out in the world, you need connections…”

Ron, whose jaw nearly dislocated from gaping so wide, stammered, “He-Headmaster, that was amazing!”

Cabbage: …Headmaster?!

…

Ted and the others weren’t entirely clear on how the aftermath was handled.

They had been taken to Sirius’s home to rest.

Meanwhile, Dumbledore and the other members of the Order of the Phoenix didn’t linger either.

Instead, representatives from the Ministry of Magic and Hammerfort were discussing the subsequent arrangements and the aid the Ministry had promised earlier.

Just as Dumbledore was about to leave, he was stopped by Madam Amelia Bones, the Head of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement.

“Dumbledore, may I have a word?”

“Oh, of course. Bones, how have you been these past few years?”

“So-so, after all, under our Minister Fudge’s leadership, work doubles, but results are only half…”

After a few pleasantries, Amelia got to the point.

“Dumbledore, what’s the situation with that Ted Epiphany student…?”

Ted’s presence in this event was too strong.

Potions, alchemy, arrays, leading a joint spellcasting, and even that final Ice Seal and Shatter Ice!

The commotion was immense!

To put it simply, ninety-nine percent of adult wizards couldn’t achieve even one of those feats.

Creating his own potions, self-teaching alchemy, developing arrays, being able to control a meteorological spell cast by over a dozen wizards working together, and that incredibly powerful spell at the end…

All of this done by a student?!

“Oh, you mean that,” Dumbledore merely smiled. “Every few years, Hogwarts produces a genius. That’s not surprising, is it?”

Amelia looked into Dumbledore’s calm eyes. “Alright, if that’s what you believe.”

Not surprising, but incredibly absurd! What kind of genius is this?! This is beyond genius, it’s unprecedented!

Although Dumbledore tried to cover for Ted, his performance was undeniable. Many people would certainly notice him.

In fact, Dumbledore’s choice to handle the aftermath with the greatest possible spectacle was also to reduce Ted’s prominence, to prevent him from being noticed by even more people.

After all, compared to Dumbledore, Ted was just a small wizard.

But those with keen eyes would definitely see his potential…

However, Dumbledore didn’t have the energy to consider that matter right now.

He was contemplating something else—he actually felt a subtle sensation of breaking through a ceiling!

This world had its own limits.

Throughout history, many outstanding wizards had encountered this ceiling.

Those astonishingly talented geniuses naturally wouldn’t be content to be restricted by an invisible ceiling; they tried various methods to break through their limits.

For example, the four founders of Hogwarts, they all tried to find a path to breakthrough.

As for Dumbledore, due to a series of events with his friend in his youth, and then encountering his wayward disciple Tom causing trouble in his old age, he had never truly obsessed over this particular problem in his life.

In his view, a ceiling was just a ceiling. Endless magic wasn’t his pursuit anyway. So he had long since given up, probably for thirty or fifty years. No progress was fine; he was happy just having time to eat a couple of candies.

But now, the ceiling had suddenly loosened! Without any warning, it had loosened!

In the final earth-sinking spell today, he had almost surpassed his own limits. He felt as if he had glimpsed the scenery beyond the cracks in the ceiling!


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