Hogwarts Card System Chapter 311

Chapter 309: Zodiac Undead

After that, Ted changed direction. Instead of continuing forward, he moved against the zodiac to find a new path.

Sure enough, as he suspected, he encountered another undead monster.

A giant scorpion made of white bones!

[Twelve Zodiac Death Messenger · Bone Giant Scorpion], Level 13…

Ted had already gleaned some clues from the name of the Skeleton Archer, and seeing this bone scorpion confirmed his suspicions.

This scorpion was composed of various sizes of white bones, with special protection at its joints, and covered in barbs and bone blades, making it look incredibly ferocious!

Not to mention its two large pincers, the tip of its long tail was actually a skull the size of a washbasin!

The skull was open-mouthed, spitting out a curved black scythe!

Putting everything else aside, just this design alone was incredibly cool!

Regardless of anything else, Ryan’s aesthetic sense was truly that of a big boss!

Moreover, this giant scorpion could move freely through the mud, which gave it a significant home-field advantage!

If it were a regular enemy, even three to five opponents of the same level would suffer heavy losses.

However, it had fallen into Ted’s hands—Ted had a spell to turn mud into stone!

The giant scorpion tried to ambush Ted from underground, but it slammed headfirst into a rock. It barely managed to consume magic to drill through the stone, and halfway through, Ted used a spell called “Steel Earth”!

This spell was a Taoist technique simulated by magic.

It was a move developed by Eastern Taoist priests specifically for those who used earth-遁 (earth escape) techniques. The ground became as hard as steel, making it impossible to drill through, no matter how tough one’s head was.

The giant scorpion was thus stuck on the ground… You’ve all seen those female leads stuck in small movies, right? The rest of the content requires payment~

Ted picked up the card, examined the bone scorpion’s core and structure, and found the combination very technical and worth emulating.

He believed that Ryan must have used the twelve zodiac signs to set up a magic array for some kind of magical ritual.

Performing a zodiac ritual underground to utilize stellar energy? Playing reverse psychology?

Ted couldn’t understand the reasoning behind it, as it was a field he wasn’t familiar with.

However, he knew that whatever the enemy was trying to do, he just needed to disrupt it.

He still had plenty of time, enough to eliminate all these peripheral guardian monsters, and then he would call Old Dumbledore to deal with the big boss, while he just watched the show.

Honestly, this wave of experience gains was quite substantial!

And the cards too!

The number of monsters in this underground tomb was truly immense. If it weren’t for over a hundred classmates helping to eliminate them, he alone wouldn’t have been able to clear them all in three days!

However, this was only a part of it. According to Ted’s estimates, he and his classmates had only killed four to five thousand undead monsters, which was probably just a drop in the ocean. More monsters were on the verge of awakening at any moment.

Sometimes, he could even hear strange bone-grinding noises from nearby tunnels—that meant skeletons were standing up!

If one were to count the entire hundred-plus-kilometer-long tunnel system, dozens to hundreds of undead would awaken every minute.

And the speed would only increase!

He needed to figure something out!

Ted pulled a small red-and-white ball from his pocket and threw it on the ground: “It’s you, Squishy~”

“Bang~” Squishy, appearing like an apple-flavored jelly, emerged, almost filling the entire tunnel.

“Go, Squishy. Eat! Eat all the undead and things infected with death magic you encounter! Eat, eat, eat~”

What could Squishy say? It had no mouth! It could only turn its grief and indignation into appetite~

Squishy: I’m gonna eat, eat, eat, eat, eat!!!

Meanwhile, Ted continued to deal with the Zodiac Undead monsters.

“The next one up should be Libra, right? What kind of monster will it be?” Ted now felt like he was opening a blind box.

However, upon arriving, he found that it wasn’t a monster, but rather a flesh factory!

A massive area composed of white bones and rotting flesh and sinews, with strange, foul things like white bones and gore appearing on one side of a scale. Death magic was continuously injected into them, and they would quickly slide to the other side, transforming into various strange undead!

There were already over a hundred undead piled up here, each one different! Their levels were around 8 or 9, and Ted even saw a Level 10 one!

It was actually a “Broodmother” type monster! Awesome!

Ted pulled out a handful of cards: “Let’s battle!”

Armored Giant!

Mud-to-Stone Golem!

Gnoll Armed Squad!

Raptor Squad! (Mounts dropped by undead fairies~)

And his pets, including the big white horse Cabbage, Brother Chicken, Ansu, and others!

Ted immediately started with a greeting—a powerful one, an Explosion spell!

With one blast, at least twenty undead monsters were pulverized, and over twenty more were blown away and set on fire.

The tunnel immediately began to drop rocks!

Fortunately, the entire area was covered by a layer of flesh membrane, which held up, otherwise they would have had to change battlefields.

…

While Ted was clearing the elite monsters, the magical struggle between Ryan and Dumbledore began to intensify.

Ryan never had much patience; he liked immediate results.

So, facing Old Dumbledore’s delaying tactics, he immediately became restless.

He began to contend with Dumbledore for magical control, mutually attacking each other’s magic.

However, Dumbledore’s own strength was superior, he just lacked Ryan’s overly sharp and ruthless killing methods.

In the magical realm, the century-old Dumbledore had far more seasoned experience. Not to mention, he was subtly showing signs of a breakthrough.

So, although he didn’t gain a significant advantage, he still infuriated the proactively attacking Ryan.

At this time, more and more wizards were gathering outside, and they were no longer just holding meetings.

Many ancient magical traditions began to use their unique skills to address the underground problem.

Although none of them had a huge impact individually, their combined small effects became a significant force. After all, this was the elite of European wizards, and their collective power was not to be underestimated.

Ryan, already at a disadvantage against Dumbledore’s harassment and provocations, was now being annoyed by a swarm of fly-like nuisances.

All sorts of messy things were interfering with his ritual, even causing it to get a little out of control!

Ryan was also feeling a bit uncertain at this point, feeling that he had underestimated the spellcasters of this world.

If he continued to wait, it wouldn’t be a matter of the ritual completing in a few days, but rather the ritual failing due to continuous interference from these people.

Since things had come to this, he had no regrets, but he couldn’t sit idly by. He might as well go all out!

Indeed, killing, fighting, and ambushing were more suited to him. Hiding behind the scenes to cause trouble wasn’t for a lone wolf like him.

He had paid the price for his inexperience!

Ryan directly began to absorb the existing death magic, and then, using undead materials and a large amount of magic, he shaped a body similar to an “outer avatar.”

His main body remained at the ritual, while his avatar flew into the sky to seek out Dumbledore, intending to fight that old man to the death!

…

At this point, Ted had already eliminated the Virgo undead monster, which was a death nun.

She had been a blind nun in life, but was falsely accused and murdered, then hastily buried. Her resentment ran deep, and her remains still existed years later.

She wore tattered nun’s robes, and the upper half of her face was covered by a solid white bone mask…

The Leo monsters were a swarm of corpse lice, each no bigger than a baby’s fist!

They numbered in the thousands, gathering into monsters of arbitrary shapes, and scattering into endless waves of death insects…

The Cancer monster was a crab in a huge pool of blood. The entire battlefield was filled with viscous, foul blood, which had strong toxicity and curses. The giant crab never showed itself, only stirring up waves and blood rain in the blood.

Or rather, it had no physical form; it was a crab shape made of blood. As long as the blood pool didn’t dry up, the giant crab wouldn’t die.

Ted was surrounded by a spherical shield, drifting through the sea of blood as if floating! The environment was even more dangerous than the monster itself!

Gemini was a deformed child’s corpse, glued back-to-back. This stage was very evil, somewhat sanity-draining. Many watching wizards threw up. Even Ted frowned after passing it, feeling physiological discomfort.

At this time, Ryan had already begun fighting Old Dumbledore.

Although Old Dumbledore seemed on the verge of a breakthrough, Ryan had made even greater progress during this period!

Due to the nature of his abilities, it almost seemed as if he was the one in control and at an advantage, launching continuous attacks!

Sky-high bone spikes, bone teeth, bone spears… bone shields circling his body, bone walls scattered at will!

A French wizard tried to ambush Ryan in mid-air, but Ryan simply pointed a finger, and the wizard immediately mutated into half a monster!

If it weren’t for seven or eight white-bearded old wizards working together to suppress him, he probably would have completed the mutation on the spot, and then there would have been no saving him!

Even so, it was uncertain if he could ever return to normal without sequelae.

Some sensible wizards quickly organized people to evacuate.

In such a battlefield, they didn’t even have the right to watch, let alone help.

Their only role now was to pray!

Ryan’s avatar looked very human, tall and handsome, like his original self.

But layers of magical aura encircled him, constantly affecting the surroundings, causing plants, fish, and insects to die.

And the spells he blocked would transform into magical beasts that would randomly pounce on living creatures nearby.

The death magic around him was like a giant, long cloak, floating in mid-air, occasionally exploding like blooming death flowers, causing even stones to weather and crumble upon contact!

The earth itself withered and decayed, beginning to rot.

Now, merely looking at his current form would cause a shiver from the soul, the fear of living things towards death!

In reality, he had many passive abilities that enhanced the undead, but those undead couldn’t help him in his battle with Dumbledore.

However, he still effortlessly raised an eight-meter-tall white bone gate from the ground.

The white bone gate opened, and a large number of various skeleton soldiers, skeleton knights, wraiths, zombies, and other creatures poured out!

(End of Chapter)