Hogwarts Card System Chapter 454

Chapter 454 Sacrifice to the Balrog

 Smaug the dragon!

 The last dragon in Middle-earth in the world of The Lord of the Rings once occupied the Lonely Mountain, a kingdom of dwarves, wiped out the dwarves there, and took a large amount of gold treasures for himself.

It turned out that more than two years ago, this giant dragon had already come to this world due to the intrusion from another world.

However, at that time, because the process of entering the other world was too smooth and gentle, it did not wake up the sleeping Smaug.

 Just like that, he slept on a pile of rocks from a pile of gold.

The foreign goblins who are now in charge of Gringotts are all remnants from various countries. They don't care if their hands and feet are dirty. They are really greedy!

How do you say that? Scared of poverty! I didn't dare to spend a penny! They all had their leeks cut off!

In order to prevent the matter from being exposed and Voldemort taking a big bite out of them, they wanted to settle the accounts.

I heard there was a dragon!

 The idea came to me at that time.

 There used to be a dragon in Gringotts. If there was another dragon now, wouldn't it be a restoration of tradition?

That would make sense if he caused a big commotion due to the dragon and suffered a lot of losses.

 So it was arranged: You, go and attract the dragon!

 Good guy, it really attracted me!

 The result was a bit unexpected—a big surprise.

I had thought about finding a dragon to cause trouble before, but I didn't expect it to be too big. Hundreds of goblins were killed and more than thirty of them were killed. Gringotts was overthrown by Smaug and directly occupied it!

 When people come, they don't leave.

The Voldemorts are in Hogsmeade and are about to go to war to eliminate these guys who are still stubbornly resisting.

 In the end, this kind of news came to me from the rear?

The expression on Voldemort's face at that time was terrifying. No one around me dared to speak.

After half a minute, Voldemort said: "Don't worry about those goblins, knock down Hogwarts first. When I return to London, I will make them look good! Don't you like gold? Then stay with gold forever." !”

Voldemort has been very strategically determined after so many years. He didn't change his mind because of the unexpected dragon robbery.

The boy named Epiphanes could no longer be given time to grow up.

 Signs of this kind must be eliminated as soon as possible.

 As for Gringotts, losing some gold is nothing.

Voldemort brought with him manpower, monsters of all sizes, dementors, giants, vampires, everything they could find, to complete the battle.

Forgetting that little bit of unhappiness, he grinned on the high hill and looked at Hogwarts with great interest, where the magic shield had been put up.

This place where I went to school has brought me so much happiness.

Just when the war was about to start in the UK, Grindelwald, who was far away in Africa, also did something very important.

 At the beginning, there was a large-scale alien invasion here. It was a mountainous area, and there was a huge and complex mountain tunnel kingdom.

 This place also came here from the world of Lord of the Rings, and is called the Mines of Moria.

 At the beginning, this place was filled with various orcs, goblins, and trolls, numbering in the tens of thousands!

 Grindelwald completely sealed the place after cleaning it briefly. Because he discovered that there was an evil and powerful magic wave in the depths of the mine. There must be some terrible monster.

At this time, when the war was about to start, Ted and Grindelwald appeared here.

 “This is the Balrog you are talking about?” Grindelwald asked.

 “That's right.” Ted nodded.

 “Albus needs it?”

 “It needs to be killed. The world of the living and the world of the dead are balanced. If someone wants to come out from that side, they have to send someone similar in from this side.”

 “Then do it quickly. Don't delay the battle at Hogwarts!”

 Even among the Lord of the Rings, this Balrog is not considered low-level, it is also a legendary monster.

It and the dragon Smaug may be the strongest individual units in the alien world so far.

Of course, there may be others, but they have not been discovered yet, such as that in the vast sea...

Hogwarts is a magic school with a thousand-year heritage.

Although it is a school, when the site was selected for construction, it was very particular. Because the witch hunt became more and more intense, the castle was designed to be easy to defend and difficult to attack.

 Although entering from the school entrance, it is also a flat plain, but that is the part of the campus that was later expanded. If we only count the castle, the terrain is really dangerous.

There is a rift valley cliff in front of it, which requires a long covered bridge to pass.

To the side and back is the huge and vast Black Lake, and on the other side is dozens of kilometers of forbidden forest.

 The castle is located on a man-made hill cliff, which can be said to be quite safe.

If an individual enemy infiltrates, they can still choose to sneak in through some secret passage, but if there is a large group of people, they can only attack from the front.

 However, these are all said under conditions of equal strength.

If the opponent has a legendary wizard like Voldemort who has broken the world's upper limit, then these conditions are not enough to rely on.

However, Voldemort is proud of his status now, so naturally he cannot be the pioneer and lead the way for these rotten cloves of garlic under his command.

 He is being reserved now, no! He has always been extremely arrogant and reserved. Although he is often moody and difficult to understand, most of the time, he is very concerned about face.

For example, now, with a wave of his hand, the blood-colored Dark Marks on the foreheads of the monsters under him stood out, as if they were breaking through their flesh and blood and jumping out of their foreheads.

Those giants, vampires, ogres, trolls, trolls, etc. immediately held their heads and roared like crazy, and then rushed towards the distant castle desperately.

 The school has already prepared for this battle. It can be said that it is a desperate effort.

 The monsters rushed out of the formation here, and there was action on the other side of the castle.

The magic power in the giant protective shield that enveloped the entire castle moved along a certain route. The hundreds of statues and stone carvings around the castle came to life one after another, jumping down from their respective walls and stone platforms, and standing in front of the castle. They formed a formation in front of the long covered bridge.

At the same time, on the land around the castle, small pebbles trembled on the ground, and a large amount of soil began to wrap those specially treated "pebbles", and soon formed clay figures one by one - the lower body was a ball of mud. Connected to the earth, it has very good resilience.

After all, the activated statue is an old method left over for thousands of years. Even if it has been strengthened, it is already outdated.

This emerging clay figurine can be said to be advanced, integrating runes, magic, magic circles, and alchemy. Although it is not high-end, it is a highly complex new type of magic puppet.

Compared to the hard and tough stone sculptures, the clay figures are feminine and difficult to deal with. When the two work together, the effect is very good.

The five-meter-tall giant with long legs and long steps, holding a big mallet made of a tree trunk about three meters long, and wearing simple rags, was the first to rush over.

These monsters have been driven to the point of losing their minds by the pain of Voldemort's spells. They can only follow the guidance of the Dark Mark. There is no possibility of cheating, and of course there is no possibility of cooperation.

The giant was the first to rush over, and was also the first to be hit. He stepped on the covered bridge, and countless rock spikes suddenly shot up from the entire covered bridge. They were as thick as an ordinary person's thigh and more than half a meter long.

 Hit the giant's big feet directly through!

"Uh ah ah~" The giant still felt pain, but the mark on its head hurt more, and the pain on its feet was not so obvious. It actually pulled out the pierced big feet and stepped on the spikes all the way. With dirty blood, they rushed toward the stone man on the other side of the bridge!

Behind it are several other giants, two or three trolls, and a few trolls, all of which have long legs and can run fast. Further away are other monsters, so vast!

A rune suddenly gathered on the magic shield, and then a large number of ice cubes, ice knives, ice arrows and ice spikes flew towards the covered bridge.

These large ice cubes and skates, which would be fatal to ordinary people, were not fatal to the giant. Even though dozens of ice cubes hit him in a few seconds, their skin and flesh were almost torn apart, and all the blood flowed out. Hanging on the body and freezing.

 But this sharp pain and coldness seemed to relieve the terrible pain on his forehead, making it much more comfortable.

 Giant: More to come! Hit me! Hit me hard!

The other two giants behind it did the same. They just stepped on the rock spikes on the ground and rushed over. Under the baptism of the ice and snowstorm, they moved forward with difficulty.

The giant at the front was once the chief of a giant tribe. He had the highest physical fitness and magic resistance.

It came to the other end of the covered bridge with all kinds of blows, raised the huge mallet in its hand, and smashed it hard towards the living statue.

But those clay figurines took the lead in blocking the way, and even under the influence of magic power, several of them gathered together and turned into a large clay figurine about three meters long, and they took this stick!

How heavy was the club that the giant chief struck when he was in so much pain? A thousand pounds of strength is not enough to describe it.

The upper body of the clay figure was almost smashed, and a large amount of mud was splashed more than ten meters away in an instant.

 But at the same time, several clay figures swarmed up to the giant's legs and pounced directly upwards, turning into large pieces of sticky mud and sticking the giant's calves in place.

The animated statue knew no fear, and did not hesitate even when faced with such a five-meter-tall giant. Immediately, three or four slender stone men jumped into the air. Like the nimble swallow, he jumped directly to the height of the giant's face, and stabbed him in the face with the spear in his hand!

Although the giant waved and slapped two of them away, a stone man still stabbed one of the giant's big eyes with a spear, and blood and strange liquid suddenly burst out amidst the screams...

At this time, a magic structure like a magnifying glass suddenly appeared on the protective shield. A bright light appeared on the magnifying glass. In the blink of an eye, a blazing light flew out and penetrated the chest of the other giant.

 A hole as big as an ordinary person's fist would not be considered a serious injury to a giant, if it had not penetrated and scorched the heart.

The giant fell with a crash, and then fell headlong off the covered bridge into a crack dozens of meters deep below.

This huge blazing light, even a giant can't stand it for a while!

Within just five or six minutes of the start of the battle, Voldemort and others were on a high hill in the distance and saw four or five changes and usage methods of this huge protective circle, which made them dumbfounded.

Even Voldemort kept silent - no wonder these few cloves of garlic failed so miserably. These mediocre and incompetent British wizards actually came up with such amazing things?

 In fact, this magic circle can be said to be the master of the magic system after the alien world entered!

The concept of mythical locks in elven magic, the rune strengthening system of dwarves, the magical engineering of dwarves, the moon-shaped magic workshop and enchantment structure provided by Ted, the runes of Valoran continent and the Hex core - are still being used. Hundreds of thousands of players have been studying and pondering the improved version for more than a year, which combines the original protective magic of Hogwarts with the largest magic network hub in the UK under the school.

This thing can already be said to be war magic! Its functions are so powerful and diverse that it is almost impossible for an individual wizard to handle them.

  But how should I put it, this thing still has a fatal weakness, which is strength.

 There is a limit to the magic power it can withstand and output. If it is under the limit, it will be difficult to defeat the saturation attack, because there is a continuous supply of magic power from the magic network below.

 But if there is extremely powerful magic to break the surface, it can be easily broken.

Of course, this point is not easy to find.

 Didn't Voldemort also send out a large number of cannon fodder to test the changes in this magic circle, hoping to see through the core and flaws of the magic circle from the sidelines?

Ten minutes have passed. Almost all the large cannon fodder that rushed quickly have been eliminated. The huge corpse fell to the ground and can be used as a bunker.

At Hogwarts, everyone's confidence has greatly increased. After all, this magic circle looks much more powerful than the one built in Hogsmeade.

The other side lost one to two hundred monsters, and more than thirty stone men were smashed to pieces on our side. Although the clay figures suffered greater losses, they are all recovering.

As long as the "stone" the size of a chess piece is not completely shattered, this thing can rely on the school's magic power to continuously recover!

The blue hemispherical magic shield is like a bowl, holding Hogwarts Castle in it. Magic spells are hitting it every second outside, but it can only cause a little ripple.

In the one-meter-thick magic barrier, there is magic power running along the same route as a circuit board. Various runes appear and disappear in series, achieving various magic effects.

 Ice, fire, storm, various blessings and debuffs...give people an extremely powerful sense of security!

 This is simply a magical miracle!

At this time, the little wizards in the school were extremely proud - this is Hogwarts! Don't even think about destroying our school!

In Africa, Ted and Grindelwald finally subdued the Balrog.

This thing looks like a roughly humanoid monster formed by shadows and flames. You can also see two curved horns on its ferocious head.

  Its weapons are whips and swords made of flames.

Even if you are motionless, the hot air around you can cause severe burns. Leaves burning footprints even on rocks!

However, what it has to face are two legendary wizards after all.

 One person is a magic web weaver who controls a small half of the world by covering the magic web network.

 One person has mastered the power of everyone and gathered the magic power of tens of thousands of wizards under his command.

It only took Ted and the two of them seven or eight minutes to subdue the flame monster.

Ted directly sealed it in a huge ice block.

 “What should we do next?” Grindelwald asked.

 “Kill it and use it as a sacrifice.” Ted replied.

“And Albus can come back to life?”

 “It depends on what the situation is over there.”

Ted and the others can only say that they have done everything they can here, but they can only help Dumbledore a little more. He dare not say whether they can return.

 After all, I don't know what the situation is over there.

Unless you go there in person one day, or cover it with a magic net, how can it be a joke to separate the yin and the yang?

 Under Nagini's guidance, Neville began to run quickly and kept running for who knows how long.

 It seems as if there is no end in this direction, just a vast expanse of white.

This reminded Neville of his first two years at Hogwarts, when he followed Ted to run around the Black Lake for fitness, and successfully ran around the lake for the first time.

 At that time, he seemed to have lost consciousness by the end of the run, and his entire thinking activities had stopped, but his body continued to run.

 When I woke up, I had already run a lap. It was an unprecedented feeling and achievement.

 Running and running, finally the surroundings seem to have changed!

At first there was a hardened roadside on the ground, which gradually turned into a concrete road, and some man-made traces began to appear around it.

Neville was refreshed and continued running.

Soon, he found that there were more and more artificial traces, just like a sketch, more and more content appeared.

 He felt that this picture was very familiar, and suddenly an idea came to him - the station! This is a train station! It's King's Cross!

When he realized that this was King's Cross Station, he didn't know when he stopped, and the surrounding area had completely transformed into King's Cross Station in London.

 It just seems like the exposure is too high, everything is too bright.

King's Cross Station, platform nine and three-quarters, this is the starting point to Hogwarts!

"Neville, you succeeded! You found the way!" Nagini's voice sounded.

"Road? Is this the road?" Neville was a little confused.

 Suddenly Nagini shouted: "There is someone! Who?"

 Neville turned around and saw a tall figure walking over not far away.

Long white hair, white beard, white robe, tall and with an old and familiar face.

 "Dumbledore?! Dumbledore!" Neville shouted uncontrollably.

"Oh, Neville, you are finally here. I have been waiting for you for a long time." Dumbledore smiled.

"You're not dead? Dumbledore, are you not dead?" Neville was so excited that he couldn't control himself.

"Oh, to be precise, you and I are both dead. But not completely dead." Dumbledore said.

He pointed to the railway under the platform in front of him: "Look, if we go over there, we will go to another world and start another journey. But if we choose to go back..."

 “We will be resurrected!” Neville replied.

"That's right. Generally speaking, the souls who come here can only go down the road, and some choose to wander around and become ghosts. But we have another choice."

 At this time, there was suddenly a faint coughing sound.

 “Is there anyone else?!” the little snake Nagini screamed in a high voice.

 She was surprised to meet Dumbledore here. Why was there still someone there?

 Neville looked at the source of the coughing sound—the long seat on one side.

In the gap between the wooden slatted seats, a red thing seemed to be visible, which was particularly conspicuous in this pure white world.

When he saw it clearly, he was startled: "What kind of monster is this?!"

Dumbledore turned his head and looked at what looked like a skinned deformed monster under the long seat, "This is poor Tom, he tore his soul into pieces, this is part of it... "

 (End of this chapter)

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