From Hogwarts to Strixhaven.

Chapter 304 Revitalization
Ariana is a fighter who believes that "strong force works miracles".

Her attacks were direct and each one was pure violence. The ball of oily magic flew back and forth in the air, hoping to knock Ivy down.

Judging from the sound waves formed by the oily magic power pushing out the air, each one is not much different from a fully-safe semi-hook that is a teleporter to another world.

But for Ivey, this attack was still not enough.

Although the power is indeed good, it will not cause any damage if it misses the target.

"It seems that the level of those shadow monsters in the spirit world is not that good—" His figure suddenly disappeared from the air and reappeared behind Ariana. The nerve reflex speed brought by high agility allowed Ivy to use Apparition to evade continuously during the battle.

Five minutes had passed since the battle began, and Ariana's Obscurus hadn't yet touched the corner of Ivy's clothes.

"How can such a slow attack speed hit..." Before Ivy could finish the second half of his sentence, another ball of magic emerged from behind Ariana and launched an attack like a battering ram.

Ivy smiled silently, and disappeared again: "Not bad, you have learned to predict."

Previously, Ivy's movements were traceable, and he basically only appeared behind Ariana. He wanted to see what this recently resurrected girl could do, whether she was a battle-hardened warrior or a child wielding a sledgehammer.

Now it seems that she is more like a combination of the two. Although her attacks are disorganized, she is growing rapidly.

The black obscurus magic split in two in the air, surrounding Ivy from both sides, like a huge hand coming together.

"It's starting to get interesting." This time, the magic Ivy used was no longer a simple Apparition, but a grand debut that he had improved upon. Bright light and loud noises erupted not far from Ariana, causing a huge impact on her senses that were slightly weaker than those of normal people.

"Ah——" The unexpected blow obviously made Ariana crazy. She screamed loudly, and the black magic that was originally like liquid changed again. If the Obscurus magic was sticky grease before, it was now a black storm, stirring the surrounding air restlessly.

Ivy manipulated several reefs to fly up from the ground and faced the black storm in the sky head-on.

The reef weighing more than a thousand pounds encountered the black storm in the sky and could not even survive for a breath. It turned into flying dust and floated in the depths of the sea.

Ivy watched the storm blow past the shore, turning the reefs that had been eroded by sea breezes and tides for tens of millions of years without being shaken into soft tofu, and easily carved off a large piece.

A black whirlwind suddenly blew up from the sea and swept towards Ivy in the air.

The wizard snapped his fingers calmly, and Ariana's obscurus magic suddenly stopped in the air, then dissipated.

Ariana herself also came back to her senses from the previous bright light and loud noise, and once again manipulated the magic power of Obscurus to launch a new round of attack.

After the loss of control just now, she seemed to have recalled some tricks of the battle, and her magic power began to switch back and forth between the two forms of storm and grease.

The storm is fast and has a large killing range, but it is very susceptible to other factors. Even Ivy's silent and wandless "Spell Stop" can stop its attack. The grease form obviously has a higher resistance to magic, and spells such as fire and explosion are basically ineffective, but it is difficult to hit Ivy if it is too obvious.

"Is this all the power you have?" After playing hide-and-seek with Ariana for a while, Ivy continued to put pressure on her. "You can't even kill a fly with this level. How did you let your family fall apart?"

"Shut up!" Ariana shouted meaningful words for the first time, and the speed at which the magic power of Obscurus moved in the air suddenly increased to a higher level.

Through the battles during this period, Ivy could already see that Ariana's experience in the spirit world after her death had indeed brought her real impact. Even if the Obscurus magic was on the verge of being out of control, she could still influence it with her will to a certain extent, and as the battle progressed, this influence continued to grow.

But Ivy didn't think this was a good thing. Her magic power had never been liberated. Even though she could control the Obscurus magic with her own will, this alien magic power was still a tumor parasitic on her witch magic power, and would continue to grow stronger as she grew, and one day it would be completely out of her control.

When Ariana was in the spirit world, the Obscurus's magic could not harm her spirit body, so the two individuals could naturally fight side by side in peace for hundreds of years. But now that Ariana has been resurrected, this alien magic has begun to threaten her health.

"So you're still holding back." Ivy nodded in understanding. He wanted to let this ball of Obscurus magic go completely out of control along with Ariana's anger. "It seems that you have a strong control over it. But why did I hear that you accidentally killed your mother? Judging from your control, was it intentional or accidental?"

"You don't understand anything!" Ariana burst into tears, and the Obscurus magic that had been pestering Ivy suddenly disappeared and reappeared around Ariana.

As her cries grew louder, the Obscurus enveloped her entire body and began to pulsate in a rather disturbing manner.

Ivy activated his arcane vision and watched closely the completely different magical aura at the center of Mo Mo Ran's magic power.

Watching it exhaust its light bit by bit, the aura of black oily magic that enveloped it was expanding violently.

In order to fulfill Ariana's wish to defeat Ivy, the Obscure magic has begun to autonomously drain the limited magic power in Ariana's body.

As the saying goes, if you have mana, you get mana, and if you don't have mana, you get health. When all the magic power in the body is silently exhausted, Ariana's life is threatened, but Ivy has been waiting for this moment.

When the magic aura in Ariana's body was extinguished like a candle in the wind, Ivy used Apparition to suddenly appear not far from the black oil magic, but was immediately hit by the Obscurus magic because of the close distance.

Then, as the surging black oily magic revealed Ariana, Ivy took out his wand and said loudly, "Armor protection!"

A golden barrier appeared around Ariana, protecting her tightly.

Although the Obscurus was derived from Ariana's own materialized magic, it was now a separate entity, so spells like Armor of Protection could work. But if it changed its form and returned to Ariana's body, the spell would not work.

But Ivy would not give it such an opportunity. The surging ancient magic power was like a big open hand, firmly grasping the black magic power that was blocked outside by the golden barrier.

As the only ancient magic user in the world, Ivy used all his strength. Ariana's Obscurus magic was like tortoise jelly sucked by a large straw. In the blink of an eye, it was sealed in the container in Ivy's palm.

Ariana, who had been completely drained of energy, could no longer stand and collapsed. Fortunately, Ivy was beside her, otherwise Ariana, who had lost consciousness, would definitely fall on the towering rocks below.

Ivy took out the golden cup he carried with him and gave the thin girl a sip of water. Her face immediately began to turn red, and then she opened her eyes and regained consciousness.

"Where did it go? I can't feel it!" Ariana shrank into a ball in fear, and a series of goose bumps appeared on her exposed arms.

"Here it is." Ivy took out the small bottle in his hand. The Obscurus magic condensed into a small ball looked like a ball of rolling black mud. "I locked it in."

"Give it to me!" Ariana reached out to grab it, but Ivy showed no intention of dodging, so she succeeded easily.

Ariana glanced at Ivy in disbelief, then began to fiddle with the bottle in her hand anxiously.

Ariana pulled from the outside, and the magic of Obscurus pushed from the inside, but no matter how hard they tried, the small bottle didn't budge. "Why are you doing this to me? Is it for my own good?" Ariana, knowing that her efforts were in vain, collapsed and shouted, "I don't need your hypocritical comfort, nor do I need your hypocritical care!"

"I told you from the beginning, Ariana," Ivy said softly, "I study all magical phenomena for research purposes. Your Obscurus is just one of them. It is no different from any other magic in my eyes."

"I already understand its nature very well. Like all Obscurus magic, it was born from the will of young wizards to resist magic, but when it was born, it became uncontrollable. The most interesting thing about your Obscurus magic is your experience of resurrection. It and you are interdependent in the spirit world, and it has become a little different, but the essence is the essence. As an extension of your emotions, no matter how different it is, it will endanger your life."

"Don't you understand? Give it back to me! I don't need you to pretend to be doing good for me!" Ariana looked like a madman, as if she had completely lost her mind, as if she was having a withdrawal reaction from the power of the Obscurus.

"I have many ways to deal with it." Ivy's tone was not affected by Ariana's emotions at all, and he stated clearly and steadily, "Completely strip away the emotions and memory fragments you mixed in it, and restore it to the purest magic; or seal it forever in a crystal bottle, and then throw the bottle into the sea..."

"Please... please give it back to me, it will be fine... it just takes a little time..." Ariana stopped trying to open the bottle and begged by holding Ivy's trouser legs.

"We all know it won't get better." Ivy's tone remained unwavering. Perhaps others would say he was unromantic, but that was just the kind of person Ivy was.

"I will try my best to learn how to control it... or you can let me die again! After I die, my control over it will increase... In the past, I would never have been able to control it to fight with you for such a long time..." Ariana has begun to talk without thinking.

"Do you know why you can control it?" Ivy gave the answer without waiting for Ariana's answer. "If your painful memories in the past are like water in a bowl, which may spill out at any time due to the shaking of the bowl, then now you have turned the container of painful memories into a bucket. Although the pain has not decreased, it will not spill out casually. The experience in the spirit world has made you stronger, but this strength is still not enough in front of the Obscure magic that will grow synchronously with you."

"You can control it to fight me today only because this ball of magic has fought alongside you in the spirit world for a long time. Unlike the easily decaying spiritual memories in human souls, the information recorded by this ball of physical magic will not decay with the resurrection of the host. But as you grow, it will go berserk again sooner or later. If you really want to keep it, not only can you not stop your own growth, you must also suppress its growth."

"You have a way, right?" Ariana stood up from the ground, wiping her tears. "You definitely have a way!"

"It's possible to fail?" Ivy said with a smile, "Don't blame me for not reminding you."

"What happens if we fail?" Ariana asked, clutching the crystal bottle.

"It will go away." Ivy looked at the girl who saw the disease as a cure.

"I don't have any other choice!" Ariana said bitterly, "You'd better succeed in one go! Otherwise, I'll die in front of you!"

"What a childish behavior. You just want to punish others with your own death." Ivy completely ignored Ariana's threat. He came here to study magic, not to be friends with this girl. "I thought you would say that you would work hard and defeat me completely in the future."

Ariana said nothing more, just stared at Ivy with hatred.

"What I'm going to do next is to fully activate this ball of your magic power." Ivy explained, "In other words, create an activation spell."

Animation is a very powerful magical effect, usually applied by the caster to ordinary objects. After being activated, these objects will be given corresponding perception and the ability to act independently, just like a real living creature.

The activation effect is usually used by mages to attach to tools, allowing them to perform some simple repetitive tasks. I don't know which genius applied it to weapons, creating a living killing machine in the literal sense.

In extremely special cases, the activation effect can also act on the magic itself, and the activated magic is the activation spell.

Animation spells are a very magical phenomenon that often appear on battlefields where magic is used extensively.

It is possible that a spell that is used frequently may become sentient due to the clustering effect, and instead of disappearing from the world like other magic after completing its effect, it will transform into a new life form.

For example, an animated fireball looks like a giant flaming slime or mud monster, but it does not have any other external organs, and cannot fly like a normal fireball, but instead rolls forward.

The only purpose of a naturally born animating spell is to continue to exist, that is, to kill other lives in order to obtain the magic to continue to exist.

Because of the change in the form of existence, these revived magics can exist independently away from the caster. If Ariana's Obscurus is activated, it will obviously change from a parasitic magical force to an independent entity, no longer affected by the host.

Although the Animation Spell itself has no concept of good or evil, as a strange thing that has accompanied Ariana in the spirit world for many years, it is possible that it will remain friendly to Ariana after becoming an Animation Spell.

This is the part that Ivy mentioned before that might fail. If it cannot be guaranteed to be friendly to Ariana, then Ivy will never hand over the Obscurus, which exists as an activation spell, to Ariana. So to a certain extent, it can also be regarded as being destroyed.

Ariana didn't quite understand what the activation spell Ivy was talking about was, but Ivy had already started casting the spell.

The animation spell is not a particularly difficult spell. In the wizard's spell list, there is a first-level spell that can create an animated rope, and a third-level spell can create an animated weapon.

But if you want to apply the activation effect to magic, you must go through a period of research. Fortunately, the activation effect also has a corresponding spell in the wizarding world. The bludgers and golden snitch in the Quidditch field, and the various portraits hanging in the corridors of Hogwarts are the application of the activation spell. It is not too difficult for Ivy to study it.

The only troublesome thing is that you need to cross the barrier between abstraction and concreteness.

Brilliant magical light emerged in the air, forming circles of glowing spells that were bound to the crystal bottle in Ariana's hand.

The liquid magic power in the bottle began to boil, with bubbles of varying sizes bubbling up wildly.

The boiling state only lasted for a short while before the Obscurus calmed down and no longer responded to Ariana's calls as before.

The magic aura faded, and Ariana asked nervously, "Did it work?"

Ivy shook his head: "I don't know, but you can open it."

Ariana grabbed the cork and twisted it gently, pouring out the increasingly sticky Obscurus magic.

Like a never-ending puddle of mud, Ariana poured it out for more than a minute before there was nothing left in the crystal bottle.

A few more bubbles appeared in the black mud and began to gradually bulge upwards until it was as high as Ariana.

The black mud hesitated for a moment, and suddenly wrapped Ariana in it.

Ivy was about to cast a spell when she heard Ariana stop her loudly, "You succeeded! It has no ill intentions!"

The black mud that submerged Ariana kept changing its shape and left the girl's body, surging and becoming a clay sculpture of Ariana.

"It's just like my twin sister..." Ariana reached out and poked the clay statue's face, but found that her fingers sank directly into it. She smiled nonchalantly, "I'm going to call you Albella! You will be Albella from now on!"

(End of this chapter)