Black American Comics: Start with a Snap

Chapter 169 Duel!

The clue ended at the Room of Requirement.

Before dawn, Suze and Rocket Raccoon returned to the staff room with Voldemort's Horcrux notebook. At the same time, without the influence of the chaotic space force, the burnt Room of Requirement was buried again on the other side of reality.

For some unknown reason, the Horcrux Voldemort fell into silence after coming out of the Room of Requirement.

It seemed that even he had never come into contact with such terrifying energy, and coupled with seeing the destroyed Horcrux, he probably couldn't accept it for a while.

Although Suze and Rocket Raccoon have been trying their best to find information about the Aether particles, it is as if this thing does not exist. There is no trace of it except in the Room of Requirement.

For the next period of time, life was calm. Except for the news about Slytherin's Chamber of Secrets described in the Daily Prophet, Hogwarts returned to its former tranquility.

"Come closer, come closer!"

In the Hogwarts wizard dueling classroom, Professor Lockhart built a huge blue platform and created a battle arena.

He was wearing gorgeous aristocratic clothes, with Attila's jacket on his shoulders, also known as a one-shoulder cloak. It was the military uniform of European knights a long time ago, and was later highly praised by the nobles and evolved into a kind of wizard duel costume.

"Can you all see me, can you all hear my voice?"

Lockhart walked across the dueling platform with a smile, as if the place under his feet was not for dueling, but a model catwalk specially prepared for him.

Glancing around at the faces of the students on both sides of the dueling stage and watching their gazes towards him, Lockhart couldn't help but smile.

"Excellent gentlemen."

After a pause, Lockhart raised his voice and spoke louder.

"In light of some of the horrific events that have occurred during this period, after discussing with Professor McGonagall and Professor Flitwick, I have decided to open this dueling club to fully train you so that you can defend yourself in the future."

The students who appeared here now were all second and third graders. After experiencing the basilisk crisis, these little wizards obviously had a very high interest in magic duels.

Harry Potter stood with Ron and Hermione, their heads just reaching the height of the dueling stage.

"This guy only knows how to put on some fancy clothes." Ron looked at Lockhart's extremely exquisite clothes with contempt on his face.

You know, Lockhart can afford these things because his mother "put in a lot of effort", so it would be a miracle if Ron was happy.

"I think Professor Lockhart's idea is a good one. If it weren't for Professor Su, who knows how many people would have been injured by the basilisk, and some might even have died." Hermione couldn't help but speak.

"But are you sure that Lockhart can really teach us any useful skills?" Ron turned and looked at Hermione.

"This?" Hermione was speechless.

At this time, Professor Lockhart raised his hand and spoke again.

"Let me introduce my assistant. I believe you are all familiar with him - Professor Kaia Black Su."

As soon as these words were spoken, the students in the audience suddenly became agitated, especially the second-year students, who had been hearing rumors about Su Ze for some time.

However, because they are not able to take elective courses yet, they basically have no contact with Su Ze. At this moment, seeing the professor who killed the basilisk teaching them in person, they instantly became excited.

Under countless gazes, Su Ze slowly stood up from the corner opposite the duel stage, climbed the stairs and stood on the stage.

Smiling and waving, the students in the audience immediately applauded, especially Harry and his friends, whose hands had afterimages and their palms were red from clapping.

As if he saw that Su Ze had stolen his limelight, Professor Lockhart waved his hand, suppressed the applause, and spoke.

"Originally, I was planning to ask Professor Snape to be my assistant, but he has been investigating the matter of the Slytherin heir recently. Professor Su should be the one with the least time."

Lockhart smiled again. "Of course, you don't need to worry. This is just a simple demonstration. After the demonstration, I will return your Professor Su to you intact."

Listening quietly to Professor Lockhart's chatter, Su Ze didn't say anything. Just as Lockhart said, he was indeed here to serve as an assistant.

The students at Hogwarts are under a lot of pressure, and the professors are also under a lot of pressure. The professors of the main courses are very busy every day, and there are not many people who have time to assist Lockhart in running the Dueling Club.

In fact, the person who should come most is Professor Flitwick, because he is a duelling master himself, but many of his graduates apply to be Aurors, so he needs to concentrate on giving special training to his students.

In this case, Suze, the professor of the elective course and the person who killed the basilisk, is Lockhart's best choice.

After all, Su Ze was also the one who put the advertisement in the newspaper, so Lockhart was sure to take advantage of this wave of traffic.

Lockhart gently took off his one-shoulder cloak and threw it among the students. He smiled and walked towards Su Ze's seat.

Su Ze understood what he meant, and the two of them walked towards each other and soon arrived at the center of the duel stage.

At the same time, he took out his wand and held it upright in front of him. This was a ritual left over from medieval wizard duels, similar to fencing.

It is worth mentioning that Professor Lockhart was wearing special gloves similar to fencing on the hand holding the wand. It seemed that he had prepared everything related.

What's this? Do poor students have more stationery? Su Ze raised his eyebrows. He just said these words in his heart.

The two waved their wands and bowed slightly. These etiquettes were rehearsed by Suze and Lockhart last night. After all, Suze was not from the British magical community, so he still had to learn the proper etiquette.

After the salute, both parties turned around at the same time, with their backs to each other, and started moving in opposite directions.

When the distance between them was pulled to a certain extent, Suze and Lockhart turned around again and assumed their most familiar spell-casting preparation postures.

Lockhart adopted a completely aristocratic posture, similar to fencing, with one hand behind his back and the other holding his wand in front of him, lowering his center of gravity.

Putting aside other things, just looking at this posture, people who don’t know would really think Lockhart is an elegant duel master.

On the other hand, Su Ze casually placed Mjolnir across in front of him.

Actually, there is no other way. Although Su Ze has magical energy, he does not know any spells. All he can use is the lightning shot by Mjolnir, so any posture makes no difference.

"Professor Lockhart will never be able to beat Professor Su, I guarantee it." Harry muttered softly.

"Not necessarily. Professor Lockhart has traveled far and wide and dealt with countless kinds of dark creatures, while Professor Su only killed a basilisk." A Hufflepuff student retorted behind him.

Just killed a basilisk?
Harry rolled his eyes, not sure what to say.

Even Hermione, who had always liked Professor Lockhart, slowly shook her head at this moment. Ever since the previous Cornwall elf incident, Hermione's fan filter for Lockhart had been shattered.

"It's started, it's started."

At this time, Ron spoke, and everyone quickly turned their eyes to the stage and looked at the two professors standing opposite each other.

Professor Lockhart had counted down to three, two, one, and was ready for battle.

And Su Ze, of course, would not play fast attack like Professor Snape. He was really worried that he would be blasted out with a bolt of lightning and all of Professor Lockhart's exquisite clothes would be ruined. After all, those things looked quite expensive.

Seeing that Su Ze did not cast the spell directly, Lockhart's smile became even brighter.

After graduating for so long, Lockhart has abandoned most spells except the Oblivion Charm. He is really worried that Su Ze will embarrass him in public.

But judging from the current situation, Professor Su Ze is still a very good person. Thinking of this, Lockhart smiled even more and then waved his wand violently.

"—Expelliarmus!"

Before he finished speaking, a red light suddenly burst out.

Su Ze was just about to raise his hand to release lightning to block Lockhart's magic, but when he heard this spell, he froze in place.

Just when Su Ze hesitated, the red light came directly in front of Su Ze.

The Mjolnir in his hand suddenly burst out with an extremely powerful force, like a repulsive force, and even Su Ze couldn't control it.

In an instant, Mjolnir flew out of his hand and flew towards Lockhart.

"No!"

Harry screamed.

As the future master of the Expelling Weapon Charm, Harry Potter knows too well the power of this move. Although this magic is not lethal, it is the key to turning defeat into victory.

When Lockhart saw that his magic had accurately hit Suze, he smiled like a winner with victory assured.

With an elegant grab in the void, Mjolnir fell steadily into Lockhart's palm.

The next second—

Bang! !
The terrifying pressure and weight came instantly, and Lockhart still had a smile on his face. Then he was pressed heavily to the ground by Mjolnir.

"Oh"

In the audience, seeing Professor Lockhart, who seemed to have won the victory, suddenly fall to the ground in this position, many students subconsciously sighed in empathy.

Even Hermione couldn't help but gasp. On the other hand, Harry and Ron, after a moment of surprise, immediately broke into happy smiles.

Standing on the dueling stage, Su Ze did not make any action from beginning to end.

"Are you kidding? Expelliarmus?"

Looking at Lockhart, who was like a turtle lying on its back and couldn't get up no matter how hard he struggled, Su Ze shook his head innocently.

"How dare you."

(End of this chapter)