Hogwarts Summoning Guide

The demonic ape's fist missed its target, crashing heavily onto the desert and stirring up towering waves of sand. Countless obsidian fragments were swept into the air, falling like a black rainstorm.

"I'm behind you."

Satogua's voice drifted back. Bai Lin whirled around and saw the ancient god had appeared a hundred feet away in the sky, his black robes fluttering in the wind. He opened his enormous toad mouth, and a terrifying suction force suddenly erupted, causing the surrounding space to collapse inward.

Bai Lin felt his blood rushing backward, his bones groaning under the strain. This was spatial confinement! He tried to move, but found his body seemingly nailed to the spot, unable to move even a finger.

"Damn it..." Bai Lin bit his tongue, forcibly awakening the power of order within his body.

"A barrier of willpower!"

A golden, semi-transparent barrier instantly formed around him, forcefully withstanding the terrifying pressure of the collapsing space. Immediately afterward, he raised the jade-hilted dragon high with both hands, and the dark clouds in the sky split open, allowing a pillar of light composed purely of order runes to crash down and pour into the sword.

"Order Magic - Sword of Heaven!"

The jade-handled dragon instantly grew to a hundred feet in size, transforming into a giant sword composed of pure white light. This sword carried no killing intent, yet it contained the power of absolute "order" and "correction." It ignored the spatial labyrinth laid out by Satogua and slashed down straight and unstoppably!

A hint of seriousness finally appeared on Satoguya's languid face. He sensed the power of law contained within the sword, a power capable of severing his connection with space.

"That's interesting."

Satogua no longer held back. The space behind him suddenly exploded, and a phantom hand made of countless spatial fragments reached out and actually grabbed the Heavenly Sword with its bare hands.

boom--!!!

The two forces were locked in a stalemate in mid-air, and the violent energy turbulence instantly cleared away the obsidian dust within a ten-mile radius. Bai Lin bled from all seven orifices, gripping the sword hilt tightly, his eyes as fierce as a wolf's; while in the high sky, Satoguya's black robe had been mostly shattered, revealing a strange body covered in fine black fur, and for the first time, a flame called "killing intent" ignited in his toad-like eyes.

"You have angered me."

Satoguya's voice turned low and dangerous. He suddenly exerted force, and the giant hand made of spatial fragments clenched tightly.

Click!

The Sword of Heaven let out a clear, mournful cry, and countless fine cracks appeared on its blade.

"Pfft!" Bai Lin was struck as if by a heavy blow, spitting out a mouthful of blood, and his demonic ape avatar also collapsed. He was slammed into the ground like a kite with a broken string, stirring up a cloud of obsidian dust.

Satogua slowly descended from the sky, walking step by step towards the deep pit. His steps were light, but each step felt as if he were stepping on Bai Lin's heart.

"Your order, your power, your rage... all mean nothing before me." Satogua stood at the edge of the pit, looking down at the blood-soaked figure at the bottom. "Now, tell me, mortal, what other trump cards do you have left?"

At the bottom of the pit, Bai Lin struggled to raise his head, his face covered in blood, but his eyes remained bright, even carrying a hint of...smile?

"My trump card?" Bai Lin's voice was hoarse, yet unusually calm. "My trump card is this desert itself."

Satoguya was slightly taken aback.

Just then, a strange sound of wind arose. It wasn't a howl, but a rustling sound like countless people whispering in your ear.

Satogua looked up sharply, only to see the obsidian sandstorm that he had previously cleared away was now gathering again in a strange trajectory. No longer being blown about haphazardly by the wind, it seemed to have come alive, forming intricate runic patterns in the air.

"What...did you do?" Satoguya's expression finally changed. He sensed that every grain of obsidian sand in this desert carried a faint trace of the power of order. This power was weak, but its quantity was endless.

"I did nothing," Bai Lin slowly stood up from the bottom of the pit. The jade-hilted dragon sword in his hand was covered with cracks, but the tip of the sword still pointed at Satogua. "I just... guided them."

It turned out that during the previous battles, every time Bai Lin used order magic, and every time his magic clashed with Satogua's spatial magic, a trace amount of order power would dissipate into the air and adhere to the obsidian dust. He had been waiting, waiting for the dust to accumulate to a sufficient quantity, waiting for an opportunity to detonate it all.

Now, the opportunity has arrived.

"In my name, dust of order, return to your rightful place!"

Bai Lin used his last bit of strength to shout out those words.

In an instant, all the obsidian dust in the world emitted a sharp buzzing sound. Like iron filings attracted by a magnet, they surged wildly towards Satoguya, enveloping him completely.

"No!" Satogua roared in anger. He tried to tear through space to escape, but found that the surrounding space had been completely "contaminated" by countless sands carrying the power of order, becoming extremely viscous, and even spatial rifts could not be torn open.

The sand and dust, like countless tiny blades of order, frantically cut into his body, attempting to forcibly "correct" his chaotic nature.

"ah--!"

Satoguya let out a painful roar as his body became unstable, sometimes clear and sometimes blurry, as if it would collapse at any moment.

Bai Lin looked at Satoguya, who was shrouded in sand and dust, and a tired smile appeared on his face. As his understanding of the power of order improved, those methods of condensing golden light into weapons were too rudimentary. Using the power of order to control everything in the environment was the advanced way to use this power.

Unlike chaotic power, disordered elemental energy is far too destructive. He needs to be constantly wary of the backlash, making it difficult to unleash his full power. Furthermore, in reality, dark wizards, dragons, or even the minions of ancient gods and Fujiwara Eiko's shikigami in the magical world, while not using pure disordered elemental energy, are still part of the chaotic power system. Bai Lin's chaotic magic is not particularly effective against them.

But the power of order is different. Bai Lin has opened up a whole new world for him. Now, he can almost touch the boundary of gods.

Of course, this doesn't mean that Lulu and Catherine are useless. When Lulu uses the power of order, she focuses more on conforming to religious doctrines, which is understandable. Therefore, most of her skills come from biblical descriptions, which limits her development in a sense. Catherine, on the other hand, focuses more on the salvation of souls, which is not inferior but a more noble application.

Back on the battlefield, Bai Lin looked at the seemingly teetering Satogua. He knew that this was not enough to kill an ancient god, but it was enough to severely injure him, or even put him into a deep sleep.