From Hogwarts to Strixhaven.

Chapter 271 Ring Spirit
Under the dark clouds shrouding Dol Guldur, the howling of the strong orc came to an abrupt end, as his head reinforced with rivets and iron plates shattered again, this time not because of a heavy blow from a certain warrior, but because of a close contact with the earth.

"Am I late, Gandalf?" Ivy quickly stepped forward to help the old wizard up, preparing to move him to a safe place.

"Very timely..." Gandalf showed a blood-stained smile, "Where are the other members of the White Council? ...I don't think I saw them?"

"I have already told them about your setback here, but I don't know the specific circumstances." Ivy took out a golden cup from her body and handed it to Gandalf. "Drink, Gandalf, this will make you feel better. Maybe we still need your strength to fight our way out."

Gandalf said nothing more, but stammered as he moved closer to the golden cup. He had not had water to moisten his throat or food to fill his stomach for several days.

The amount of recovery from the gold cup is linked to Ivy's level. When the [Scribe Mage/Ancient Fighter] profession level is 14, drinking a big sip of the liquid in the gold cup can heal 14d8+7 health points, provide an equal amount of temporary health points, and treat deafness, blindness, poisoning, disability and coma, and also reduce one level of exhaustion.

Therefore, after drinking the holy water, Gandalf's complexion improved visibly. The old wizard was lying on the ground gasping for breath one second, and was ready to swing his staff to smash the heads of a few orcs the next.

"This is amazing!" The old wizard moved his hands and feet, still unable to believe it, "I can't even feel that I've been injured!"

"That's great." Ivy put the golden cup away again, dragged Gandalf outside, and said, "We must leave here quickly..."

Just as Ivy and Gandalf walked down the dark stairs and saw the Golden Horn standing on the platform, a dry and cold voice suddenly sounded in their ears.

It comes from all directions, just like a cold wind that penetrates every pore.

Golden Horn neighed uneasily, Ivy drew out the Beast Bite sword and stood on guard, and Gandalf also looked around intently.

The voice chanted: "Under the sky, the elf kings have obtained three..."

Ivy could tell that it was not a solo voice, but a chorus of many dead souls singing in perfect harmony.

The dead souls continued to chant: "In the stone hall, the dwarf lords took seven..."

"Give me a weapon!" Gandalf whispered to Ivy. "The Nazgûl! They are coming!"

"On earth, nine out of ten mortals must die!" The chorus of the Ringwraiths suddenly became louder, black cloaks appeared everywhere on the platform, and dark silver armor reflected an ominous light.

"Glamdring come here!" Ivy paused the staff in her hand on the dark stone bricks and recited the wizard's flying spell loudly. Under the darkness of Sauron, Ivy's spellcasting ability was somewhat liberated.

A lightning-fast sword flew out from the darkness, and the shining blade directly pierced through a Ringwraith holding two swords.

The wailing of the Ringwraiths turned into a clarion call for war. Without further ado, they picked up their weapons and attacked Ivy and Gandalf who were surrounded in the middle.

The agile old wizard leaped forward, dodging the sweep of the Ringwraith's giant hammer, and also caught the sword summoned by Ivy with a spell.

Ivy overlapped the staff and the Beast Bite Sword together, and poured all the arcane energy in his body into the blade. The energy of the three elements flowed on the blade, and the golden light emitted from the hilt then joined in, making this magic weapon forged in Gondolin in the First Age even more majestic.

The weapons of the Ringwraiths attacked from all directions. Ivy did not intend to stay and fight them in close combat. Instead, she disappeared on the spot surrounded by a silver mist.

This is a second-level spell, Phantom Step, which allows Ivy to move 30 feet as a bonus action.

Ivy chose to land next to Golden Horn, who was high up. When the Ringwraiths came singing, Golden Horn, who had keen senses, used the magical power of the West Wind Horseshoe to jump to the highest point of the broken wall to avoid the evil spirit emanating from the Ringwraiths.

At this time, Ivy flashed to its side, and Jinjiao immediately put his face close to Ivy, signaling the latter to ride on him to fight.

Ivy followed suit and got on the horse.

After his companions sat down firmly, Jinjiao immediately jumped down from the top of the city wall and launched an attack from above.

As a holy creature, Goldenhorn's hooves were able to touch the incorporeal Ringwraiths under the influence of magic. The Ringwraiths, who had never seen a unicorn like Goldenhorn before, suffered from the information asymmetry.

A Ringwraith holding a huge thorn hammer, who was about to attack Gandalf from behind, was stepped on hard by Golden Horn's horse's hooves and trampled on.

Ivy swung the Beast Bite Sword to parry the attacks of the other two Ringwraiths. In the gap between the Ringwraiths' attacks, Ivy used her expertise of [Backhand Strike] to launch a lightning-fast attack of opportunity. The Beast Bite Sword, which was surrounded by four different elemental powers, succeeded in one strike and severely injured the two Ringwraiths.

The Ringwraiths, who were immune to damage from many weapons with their black mist-like bodies, encountered an opponent like Ivy for the first time. The weapons in his hands could not only hurt them like weapons blessed by elves, but could even leave wounds that greatly affected their combat effectiveness.

"Be careful of the sword in his hand!" The injured Ringwraith who retreated shouted a warning, but Ivy's attack did not stop.

Golden Horn kicked away the hammer Ringwraith that it was trampling on, and charged in another direction with Ivy on its back. Ivy chanted a few spells during the break of Golden Horn's charge and raised the staff in his hand high.

The first rays of dawn pierced through the dark clouds over Dol Guldur, pouring divine wrath upon the platform teeming with evil spirits.

The radiant damage to these evil spirits trapped in the ring is undoubtedly like boiling water poured into the snow or a hot knife inserted into butter.

The Ringwraiths exposed to the positive energy field of the five-ring spell Dawn are rapidly dissipating. No one is willing to accept this fate, let alone the Ringwraiths who choose to wear the ring because of their greed for worldly power.

They howled and scattered away from the platform where the battle was taking place.

Ivy seized the opportunity and cut off the head of a Ringwraith with two invisible blows like an antelope's horn. The evil undead spirit immediately dissipated like mist.

The two Ringwraiths who were fighting with Gandalf screamed and lost their strength to attack under the light of dawn. Gandalf seized the opportunity and swung his sword horizontally, slashing hard on the leg armor of the Ringwraith, gouging out a large piece of black mist.

"Cut off their connection with the Ring! Otherwise these Nazgûl will obtain an endless supply of power from their evil master!" Gandalf warned loudly, he stepped back cautiously and stood with Ivy.

Ivy nodded silently. No wonder Gandalf's sword-wielding hand always attacked the Ringwraiths' lower body. It turned out that he wanted to cut off their arms hanging at their waists.

"Let's deal with the green-robed wizard first! This light will suppress our power!" The Ringwraiths soon discovered this fact.

"This spell can't last forever! Wait until the spell stops, then we'll attack!" The Ringwraith wearing the alien iron helmet shouted to stop the other Ringwraiths from thinking and gave his own orders. The helmet had many sharp spikes, and it looked like a crown was welded to the helmet.

"That's the leader of the Nazgul! The Witch King of Angmar!" Gandalf whispered to Ivy to explain the identity of the Ringwraiths, and at the same time asked in a low voice, "How long can your spell last?"

"It won't be long, but it will be enough for us to leave here." Ivy led Gandalf to the direction of the stairs, and the beam of light covering the platform also moved with it. The light of dawn can last for one minute, and within this minute it can move at a speed of 10 feet per second according to Ivy's command. As long as the beam of light is always covering the surroundings, these Ringwraiths will certainly be cautious. The Ringwraiths were horrified. They finally got the news of the three rings of the elves that Sauron had always coveted. How dare they let these two people escape?
So the minions of the Dark Lord had to endure the scorching heat of the dawn and rushed into the light column again to try to intercept Ivy and the other man.

But what the Ringwraiths didn't know was that their actions were completely within Ivy's expectations and were exactly what he wanted.

The two people who were originally running towards the stairs suddenly turned around and rushed to the gap in the broken platform.

The sudden change made the Ringwraiths confused, because they all knew that there was no place to stay there except the air. Could it be that these two people could grow wings and fly?

The Chief of the Nazgûl once made his Kingdom of Angmar dominate the world and became the greatest threat to elves and humans. He even almost wiped out the Dúnedain in the north. Therefore, his many years of military career made him very clear that no matter how dangerous the enemy's actions were, he should try his best to prevent them from getting what they wanted.

"Chase!" the Witch King of Angmar shouted, and took the lead to chase the two wizards who had jumped off the platform.

Gandalf, who had witnessed the power of Ivy's spells in the Misty Mountains, naturally would not have any psychological burden about jumping off the platform. As a spellcaster, Ivy could concentrate on staying calm while casting the spell, and naturally would not be distracted by the whistling wind past his ears.

Seeing the Ringwraiths clinging to the outer wall of the Dark Fortress and chasing after them, Ivy ended the concentration of the Dawnlight spell in time and used Feather Fall to protect Gandalf and Golden Horn from falling damage. As for himself, he was protected by the permanent feather fall of the Ravenclaw Crown, so he would not be hurt by falling from any height.

The White Council was not sure what was wrong with them, and they did not show up at this time. Ivy could not sit by and watch Gandalf die, so she had to show up to save him. But without the other members of the White Council to attract Sauron's attention, Ivy was not going to continue to tangle with these pathetic undead. It was more important to run away as soon as possible.

The two who landed safely through the Feather Fall technique immediately ran away, both wanting to quickly get rid of the Ringwraiths' pursuit. As undead Ringwraiths would not be hurt by falling, so Ivy's extraordinary escape route actually only brought the two to a more open area, and they had not actually left the encirclement of the Ringwraiths.

"We need help! Gandalf!" Ivy looked at the Ringwraiths blocking the way and couldn't help but be alert. These guys would not die even if their heads were chopped off. He had already seen the Ringwraith that he had beheaded before reborn.

"Lothlorien is very close to here. If Lady Galadriel really received your message, they should have arrived already!" Gandalf, who had lost his staff, held the sword with both hands and stared at the Ringwraiths that were approaching in front of him.

"Wizards! No one will know about your death, but my master will return with the power of the Three Rings of the Elven Lords! The age of orcs has come, repent for your rash actions in death!" The Witch King of Angmar, holding the sword Morgul, led the other eight Ringwraiths to gradually approach, hoping to bring psychological pressure to the two.

But Ivy's magic was not affected by this. The dragon head on the ebony staff spit out a huge orange-red fireball, which exploded almost instantly.

Ivy detonated this fireball at close range, but the explosion range was just enough to include all nine Ringwraiths. However, he and Gandalf were able to survive because of the characteristics of [Element Shaping].

The nine Ringwraiths retreated due to the shock wave generated by the explosion, while Ivy grabbed Gandalf and galloped away on his horse.

They must create a gap in the encirclement of the Ringwraiths so that they can have a chance to breathe.

The direction Ivy broke through was exactly the direction of the Ringwraith whose head he had cut off before. Although the ring guaranteed that they could be reborn continuously, it was absolutely impossible for these Ringwraiths to recover to their full strength instantly, because even Sauron, the owner of the Supreme Ring, disappeared for a long time due to the loss of power after the finger wearing the ring was cut off.

These Ringwraiths are just mere humans, how can they be compared with the fallen Maia?
The Beast Bite Sword in Ivy's hand, which was constantly emitting four colors of light, suddenly disappeared into the air, leaving a constantly flickering path of light in everyone's vision. In that instant, the Beast Bite Sword had launched five attacks, repelling the Ringwraiths that came to block it one by one.

This is a new spell that Ivy had just learned not long ago, a 5th-level Steel Wind Strike. The effect is to launch a melee spell slash at each of the 30 targets within a range of 5 feet. As long as it hits, it will cause 6d10 force damage. However, Ivy replaced the force damage with light damage that is more targeted at these Ringwraiths.

This spell is very effective, with a wide range, and can teleport the caster to within 5 feet of any target after the attack is completed, not to mention the noble force damage. It's a pity that Steel Wind Strike can't be accompanied by weapon attack effects, otherwise the large amount of elemental damage attached to the Beast Bite Sword would be enough for these Ringwraiths to eat a pot.

Steel Wind Strike counts as a combat spell cast by Ivy during this round, and he can also use the Beast Bite Sword to launch another attack.

The glittering beast-biting sword slashed out twice quickly, one hitting the face of the Ringwraith in front of him, and the other cutting off his arm.

With a howl, the Ringwraiths that stood in front of Golden Horn disappeared into thin air, leaving only a golden ring on the ground. On the ring face was an orange gem that was flashing an ominous light, like an eye burning with flames.

Ivy hung sideways on the saddle, reached out to pick up the ring from the ground, and then followed Gandalf to continue breaking out.

"You did it! Ivy!" Gandalf shouted in surprise, "For so many years, no one has been able to stop the resurrection of the Ringwraiths. We must find a suitable way to suppress him before he recovers his form!"

Ivy didn't say much but continued to chant the spell while riding on his horse. Soon a cloud of smoke formed around the two of them and in the blink of an eye it turned into a black horse.

"The dead horse of the Nazgûl? Are you wearing the ring?" Gandalf was so shocked that he stood there in a daze.

Ivy didn't have time to talk nonsense with him. With the help of telekinesis, she picked up Gandalf and threw him on the back of the black horse.

"Let's run first!" Ivy spurred his horse and rushed out first.

"Run southwest! After crossing the Anduin River, you will reach Lothlorien! As long as we enter the Golden Forest, the Nazgûl will stop chasing us!" Gandalf knew that this was not the time to talk too much, so he did not hesitate any more and followed Golden Horn on his black horse.

The black horse is of course not the Ringwraith horse summoned by Ivy wearing the ring, but the shadow horse summoned by the three-ring spell Phantom Steed. This illusion spell is a ritual spell, which normally takes at least one minute to cast. However, as a scribe wizard, Ivy's Grimoire of Destruction allows him to ignore the preparation time of the ritual spell once a day and complete the casting with one action.

It was also because of this that Ivy was able to complete a series of actions in a short period of time and escape on horseback with Gandalf before the Ringwraiths could react.

The Phantom Horse's movement speed was 100 feet per round, almost twice Goldhorn's normal movement speed. Therefore, not long after the two started running, Gandalf caught up with Goldhorn from the side.

Ordinary horses have the awareness of racing, let alone a noble and proud creature like a unicorn? As soon as the big eyes of the golden horn noticed that the nose of the phantom horse was ahead of him, he immediately broke into a gallop.

As a sentient creature, Goldenhorn can sprint, which allows it to immediately close the gap and even overtake Gandalf.

"They are right behind us!" Gandalf looked back a few times and immediately warned Ivy.

Ivy gripped the ebony staff tightly, and after reciting a few phrases loudly, he waved it behind him. A brilliant golden light curtain instantly blocked the Ringwraiths who were also riding horses to chase after him.

Several Ringwraiths who were unable to dodge rushed in, and the horses under their crotch soon turned into a pile of dry bones and disappeared.

This was a brilliant version of the Four Rings Fire Wall. Ivy didn't expect it to completely kill the Ringwraiths, but just to stop them for a while and buy some time. Therefore, melting the Ringwraiths' mounts was a pleasant surprise.

Blocked again by Ivy's wall of shining fire, it became even more difficult for these Ringwraiths to catch up with Ivy and Gandalf who had the first-mover advantage, so they had to linger far behind.

The two groups of people, one chasing and one fleeing, soon came to a place where they could hear the sound of the rushing river.

"We are approaching the Anduin River...ah!" Gandalf fell off his horse before he could finish his words.

(End of this chapter)