He raised his head and looked at the sky. The trees were swaying, and leaves were falling. Many branches were broken for unknown reasons, and the air was filled with a faint stench.
Suddenly, Hoffa thought of the terrible story that the tavern owner told him. The missing hunters, and the corpse that was found in the feces.
He slowly lowered his head, as if he was in an ice cellar, and his hair stood on end.
The feeling of anxiety was like a flood, and instantly broke the dam of rationality that was just born.
Aglaia …
Hoffa did not hesitate to enter the state of meditation. He increased his HP to 8, and ran with big steps.
In the blink of an eye, he ran a few kilometers. He could feel Aglaia's magic waves, but they were getting weaker and weaker. This meant that either she was getting weaker and weaker, or she was getting further and further away from him. It could be a combination of both.
Damn it, what happened to this girl?
The anxiety was getting worse, and at this time, a trace of doubt appeared in his heart.
(Why do I have to find her?)
(Target … Sorcerer's Secret Realm)
This voice quietly sounded in his mind. Hoffa, who was running wildly, suddenly hugged his head and fell to the ground like a madman. He struggled violently.
A few night owls perched on the tree heard the noise. They pulled their heads out from their wings and saw a strange young man rolling on the ground with his head in his hands.
He sometimes hit the tree, sometimes he lifted a rock and smashed it on his head, but he threw it away halfway.
A sense of confusion appeared in Hoffa's mind. His instincts told him that there was something extra on his body. Otherwise, there would not be so many thoughts that did not exist before appearing out of nowhere.
Aglaia …
(Sorcerer's Secret Realm …)
What's going on?
He hugged his head and crashed into a tree trunk. The night owls perched on the tree fluttered and flew up. They stopped on another tree trunk and looked at him coldly.
He finally realized that something was wrong. Those words were not what he should have said.
Something was rapidly affecting his body's condition, causing him to undergo an almost irreversible transformation into an unknown state.
He looked at his hands and found that his hands were flowing with colorful colors. It was very strange.
Cold sweat dripped down, and he immediately sat down cross-legged and entered a state of meditation. Only meditation could solve mental problems.
Just as he entered the state of meditation, Hoffa almost vomited. He found that his Sea of Consciousness was like a pathological change. It was filled with densely packed faces. They were colourful, big and small.
Countless faces grew from every corner of his sea of consciousness like bubbles. They had different expressions. Some were smiling, some were sad, some were wild, and some were ambiguous.
But their eyes were incomparably indifferent.
Hoffa immediately recalled the colorful egg he saw in Hagrid's house. His scalp went numb.
What exactly was that thing that Norb Hagrid had taken away? It was so strange that it could affect people's minds without them noticing. He had never seen such a magical product before!
Before he could think further, the densely packed faces began to divide like cells.
His memories, his life, and all his secrets were like drawers that had been opened. They were all exposed to these strange faces.
Every time he looked at one of the faces, he found that they looked more and more like him.
They were assimilating him.
Hoffa shuddered. At this moment, he thought of the monsters he saw in the Underworld Hörheim when he was in his first year. This thing seemed to have the same characteristics as them.
He saw that his spiritual world was almost completely swallowed by those disgusting faces. Hoffa gritted his teeth and entered a deep state of meditation.
He cut off all his perception of the outside world, and his mind completely returned to his body. The Thunderbird pattern on the back of his hand quickly covered his whole body.
Lightning flashed in his Sea of Consciousness, and sharp blades appeared. Hoffa began to cut in his Sea of Consciousness as if he was performing a surgery.
Every time he cut a little, he felt a sharp pain in his brain. It was almost as if he was really cutting his flesh with a knife.
What was even more frightening was that as soon as he cut a face, it took root and reappeared. It even began to divide at an even faster speed.
In his mind, the faintly discernible consciousness was like a school of fish that floated to the surface of the water to breathe. They opened their mouths and kept opening and closing.
This terrifying scene almost made Hoffa, who was in a state of meditation, absent-minded. His scalp went numb.
What exactly was that egg?
The needle on the Magic Watch quickly fell. He converted all his Magic Power into Thunderbird's Magic Power.
The blades in his Sea of Consciousness were all covered in lightning.
Those lips that kept opening and closing finally stopped endlessly replicating after touching the blades of lightning.
They quickly turned black and fell off. Every time one fell off, it coiled up like a beetle and disappeared without a trace.
In the real world, Hoffa felt like he was being electrocuted. His muscles twitched all over.
A minute later, his face was as pale as paper. He opened his eyes with cold sweat. He shook his head hard and got up like a seriously ill patient.
He took a step and the other voices in his mind disappeared.
Hoffa let out a sigh of relief. He wasn't sure if he had completely eliminated those terrifying things, but that was all he could do now.
He held onto the tree trunk and panted for a while. He took out the bloody cloth from his pocket and grabbed his hair. The regret and pain in his heart could be imagined.
He personally pushed his companion into a completely unknown abyss. If it led to some unknown consequences, what should he do …?
He looked at his watch. There was only 0.3X of Magic Power left.
Without hesitation, he entered the activated state. His body grew taller and started running again. If something happened to Aglaia, he would probably live in regret for the rest of his life.
In the forest, he was like a phantom that shuttled back and forth. Every step he took covered a distance of almost ten meters.
Because he stopped to meditate for a minute, Aglaia's mental position had become untraceable.
But fortunately, the creature that captured her was very large and left a lot of traces on the ground.
After chasing the traces for twenty minutes, he heard the sound of wings flapping in the sky. Something flashed across the sky. He stopped on the tree trunk and looked up. In the mist, there were more and more leaves floating in the sky.
The branches in front of him were knocked away by a transparent shadow. But he couldn't see what that thing was at all.
He closed his eyes and only touched the sky with his mental force field. Yes, something big did pass by.
"Aglaia!"
Hoffa shouted anxiously on the tree trunk. There was no answer. The sound of wings flapping in the sky was getting farther and farther away.
He chased after it relentlessly. This time, he even used Ghost Walk. His speed was extremely fast. The gray shadow world wasn't affected by the night. Moving left and right, Hoffa finally caught up with the creature that took Aglaia away.
He came to a towering cliff. A huge transparent shadow flashed across the rocks high above. It was blurry, like a chameleon, like a water shadow. It also looked like an inaccurate illusion spell.
Hoffa had never seen such a thing before.
He clung to the rock wall and climbed up. While climbing, he once again sneaked into the shadows.
In the activated state, his nails were very sharp and could dig into the rocks every time.
Finally, the moment he leaped to the top of the cliff, a huge and transparent tail swept past his head. The air was filled with a strange fishy smell.
He looked around. At this moment, he was on a platform on a cliff. There were some messy branches on the platform, and among them were the bones of some creatures.
This scene made Hoffa's heart jump. He looked across.
Shrouded in mist, Aglaia fell on the platform, motionless. Her eyes were wide open, and she was trembling slightly. She wasn't dead yet, but she was extremely frightened.
"Roar!"
The water-like transparent creature raised its head and let out a cry, slowly returning from its transparent state to its normal appearance.
This time, Hoffa clearly saw the thing that took Aglaia away.
After removing its camouflage, it was about twenty feet long. It had a flat and thin upper and lower jaw, shiny green scales, a raised horn crown on the top of its head, thick hind legs, some webbed membranes at the joints, and a hook-like sharp claw on its wings.
It was a green dragon.
Hoffa was shocked. Finding a dragon less than twenty kilometers away from a Muggle town was no less than encountering a lion in the middle of the road while buying supper at night.
What was going on?
The green dragon pushed Aglaia with its claws, and its whole body coiled up. It seemed to want to eat to its heart's content.
Hoffa slid in the direction of the dragon like a sharp arrow, but just as he reached Aglaia's side, the green dragon became alert without warning and roared at the sky.
Hoffa was shocked. He was hiding in the Shadow World. How could he be discovered?
But immediately, he understood that the dragon wasn't alert to him.
The dragon raised its head and roared.
Following its gaze, Hoffa saw transparent ripples flashing across the sky. They landed heavily on the ground, causing the platform to tremble. The ripples disappeared, and the creatures that were the same color as the background slowly revealed themselves. It was a group of green dragons.
There were five or six of them, and each of them was twenty feet long. They landed on their hind legs and slowly walked towards the coiled green dragon. They looked like they had just returned from a hunt.
Suddenly seeing so many dragons, even though Hoffa had experienced so many battles, he couldn't help but tremble in fear. Standing in front of them, he was as small as a groundhog in front of a pride of lions.
What was going on? Did he fall into a dragon's nest?
The green dragon that caught Aglaia immediately stood up, looked at its own kind warily, and roared threateningly.
After the dragon stood up, its lower abdomen revealed a large gap, and Aglaia was lying on her side behind the green dragon.
Hoffa saw an opportunity. He swallowed his saliva and quickly stepped forward, wanting to take the opportunity to take Aglaia away.
But at this moment, something strange happened again.
A huge black shadow descended from the sky, completely blocking out the moonlight.
The wind blew away the mist.
Hoffa's pupils shrank as he saw the visitor clearly.
It was a larger black dragon. The black dragon was more than thirty feet long. Its scales were rough, its purple eyes were bright, and there was a row of ridges on its back that weren't deep but were as sharp as a razor. At the tip of its tail was a sharp arrow, and its wings were like a bat's.
It was a completely different breed from the green dragon just now.
It wasn't over yet. After the black dragon landed, a figure jumped down from the dragon's back. He wasn't tall, wore a black leather coat, wasn't tall, and wore a strange crow mask.
Seeing this, Hoffa was speechless.
Who was that? He was actually riding on the dragon's back so casually. When did the dragons in the HP world become so pure and kind?
The man walked leisurely toward the anxious green dragon, then stood in front of the green dragon, bent down, and looked at Aglaia on the ground.
Aglaia closed her eyes and began to play dead.
The man's actions caused the green dragon to have a violent emotional fluctuation. It struggled for a moment and opened its mouth that was full of sharp teeth. It tried to prove the ownership of the prey on the ground.
But the man didn't even raise his head and raised a finger.
"Shh."
At this moment, the black dragon turned its head, and the other green dragons also turned their heads. The green dragon that tried to prove its sovereignty immediately lowered its head and unwillingly twisted back two steps.
At this time, Hoffa's ten seconds of Ghost Walk ended, and he was forced to exit the state of Ghost Walk. But then, he immediately re-entered the state of Ghost Walk.
But it was less than a second after Hoffa escaped from Ghost Walk and re-entered Ghost Walk.
The man with the crow mask who was observing Aglaia turned his head very quickly and immediately locked onto Hoffa's position. A strange magic circle immediately appeared under Hoffa's feet. Steel knives pierced out of the magic circle, densely packed. The place where Hoffa stood was pierced into a sieve.
Then, the black dragon that was entrenched on the ground opened its huge mouth, and orange flames shone in its mouth.
Boom!!
The scorching hot dragon breath sprayed on the magic circle, and this time, the defense was a sea of fire within ten meters.
In the state of Ghost Walk, Hoffa was sweating cold sweat. The other party's perception was very strong. It had only been less than a second, and he had actually sensed the abnormality.
If he had entered Ghost Walk a second later, he would have been a corpse now.
In his mind, he no longer dared to recklessly save Aglaia. Instead, he took advantage of the remaining time of Ghost Walk to quickly retreat to the edge of the cliff.
The black dragon ended its breath.
The steel knives in the magic circle were burned red and turned into little magic in the night sky, disappearing without a trace.
The man in the crow mask grabbed Aglaia in the palm of his hand.
Aglaia no longer pretended to be dead, and she immediately twisted and struggled.
The man exerted a little force with the back of his hand, and she straightened her body and anxiously shouted, "Who are you? Let me go! "
The man didn't answer, and directly chopped Aglaia's neck with his hand. This time, she really fainted.
The man grabbed the girl with one hand, glanced around, and didn't say a word. The dragons also stopped moving, and the surroundings fell into silence. It was so quiet that only the sound of the fire dragons could be heard.
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