The Wind and the Wings of Hogwarts

"Wait for me!"

Helena also flew out at top speed.

At the same time, Scott's phantom disappeared completely.

"How exactly did you do that?"

After arriving next to Scott, Helena asked curiously.

Scott pointed to the studio door.

"Do you see that magic lamp?"

"When I crouched down to put the lamp down, I used the magic rune circuit to create an illusion."

"One method is to use illusion to create a phantom clone to enter the room in my place."

"Secondly, I used illusions to cover up the fact that I left."

Helena suddenly realized, "So you used Apparition to leave back then?"

"It's not apparition."

Scott said with a smile.

"The commotion was too great, and Apparition should be prohibited here."

He smiled and looked down.

At this moment, Golza's enormous head emerged from the ground below.

“I hid inside Golza’s mouth; it can penetrate walls and floors.”

Upon hearing this, Mr. Jeffrey slowly floated forward a short distance, meeting Scott's gaze through the hole in the wall.

He sighed softly.

"I never imagined that the trap I meticulously prepared during my lifetime would ultimately fail."

Scott said, "Maybe you shouldn't have told me the story in the first place."

Mr. Jeffrey laughed.

"You are a very smart child, and you are very talented."

"I'm getting better and better with you, Scott."

"So it's not over yet?"

Scott had expected this, but he was still somewhat unhappy.

"Is there anything else you have prepared for me, Mr. Jeffrey?"

Mr. Jeffrey said in a hoarse voice, “I have lived here alone for seventy years, and I have spent more than half of that time perfecting my plans.”

Scott added, "So there's a backup plan even if it fails?"

Mr. Jeffrey nodded.

"It's no trouble telling you, because what follows is no longer a trap or conspiracy, but a contest of raw strength."

"Oh?" Scott smiled slightly. "That's fine too."

Helena asked, "He's not a ghost, why not just attack him?"

In the painting, Ravenclaw says, "The most direct way to harm a wandering soul is to use the Killing Curse."

Scott shrugged. "I don't know the Killing Curse, and I don't want to use it."

He had never studied it.

Because killing someone with the Killing Curse would have a negative impact on one's own soul, he had no interest in learning it.

“That’s not a pity,” Ravenclaw said. “Some advanced black magic comes at a price.”

Scott said, "And Mr. Jeffrey has Horcruxes, so there's not much point in attacking his spirit unless I can find and destroy them."

“You’re right. For you, the best option is to eliminate all my power.”

Mr. Jeffrey said in an appreciative tone.

Scott responded, "Thank you for your suggestion."

"So……"

Mr. Jeffrey began to recite a difficult and obscure incantation.

As the incantation was chanted, his soul began to glow.

Soon, a sound came from the ruins surrounding the pyramid.

Scott looked in the direction of the sound and saw that the giant statues that had been destroyed in the ruins had come to life.

The scattered fragments of the statue pieced themselves together to form a complete colossal image.

As Mr. Jeffrey finished chanting the incantation, the pieced-together cracks disappeared.

A rumbling sound of footsteps arose, and the colossus began to move.

Clearly, they were heading in the direction Scott was.

"Just these stone statues? Isn't he underestimating you?"

Helena's tone was dismissive.

"That can't be a simple stone statue?"

Scott looked at Mr. Jeffrey, whose soul had become much thinner.

“I know you’ve acquired the [Ring of Herwagmill], Scott.”

Mr. Jeffrey's voice also sounded distant.

"Ymir is very powerful, isn't she?"

“Yes,” Scott said.

Helena asked in surprise, "Are these all works of Ymir's caliber?"

"Although not as strong as Ymir."

Scott calmly commented as he watched the approaching colossi.

"But it's already a very good work."

At this point, Mr. Jeffrey began to mock Scott's composure.

"Oh, you're planning to summon Ymir to resolve the crisis? Sorry, you can't summon Ymir here."

Scott was not surprised.

“That’s normal. After all, the [Ring of Hwagmir] comes from 'Agasd,' so it’s only natural that you’d be wary of anything I could get from 'Agasd.'”

Mr. Jeffrey laughed and said, "So you're going to defeat my soldiers with your own strength? What a courageous boy."

As soon as he finished speaking, cracks reappeared on the surfaces of the walking colossi.

As they took a step forward, the rocky outer shell of their bodies began to peel away piece by piece, revealing the true outer skin that shimmered with a metallic sheen.

Before long, all fifteen colossal statues turned into a gleaming, bright silver.

Their bodies are perfectly smooth, without any gaps, like a flowing mass of human mercury.

“This is my creation, a different alchemical technique from Ymir’s.”

Mr. Jeffrey talks a lot.

"They are not afraid of any form of magical attack, not even 'Gungnir'."

Upon hearing this, Scott immediately raised his hand and unleashed a "Gungnir".

The golden light suddenly shot forward, flashed by, and then instantly retracted into the wand.

A hole appeared in the head of a silver colossal statue.

But this did not stop it from continuing to operate.

As it took two more steps forward, the hole in its head was filled again amidst the flowing silver metal.

Mr. Jeffrey's voice rang out again, "Of course, please rest assured, I will not let them harm you, you will be handed over to me intact."

Scott ignored him and made Horus, who was carrying him, flap its wings forward, creating countless transparent wind blades.

The scattered wind blades easily severed the hands and feet of several colossi.

But the next moment, the severed parts merged with their bodies like flowing liquid.

New hands and feet then grew out.

“It’s no use,” Mr. Jeffrey said. “Now they’re going to speed up!”

The colossi stopped walking and started running at an increased speed.

At the same time, their arms were stretched out like dough, whistling through the air, and lashed out at Scott.

Horus let out a cry and unleashed countless transparent wind blades once again, slicing the incoming "whips" into several pieces.

Then it spread its wings and flew into the sky, soaring higher and higher.

"They're coming!" Helena shouted.

All the silver colossi raised their hands high, and their limbs and bodies stretched longer and longer like noodles.

The colossus surrounding Scott and his crew had transformed into a long, thin strip resembling ramen noodles.

Instead of attacking Scott, they converged on the same point in the air.

Scott could see clearly that once their hands came together, they would form a giant birdcage that would trap him completely.

Perhaps to guard against the Golza hiding underground, the colossi's legs are also elongating, converging towards the center point, attempting to form the bottom of the birdcage.

Helena cried out anxiously, "Jump down quickly! Oh no, it's too late!"

"There's still time."

Scott's body suddenly shrank.

He had transformed into a peregrine falcon, swooping down like lightning and flying towards the gap between the two colossal statues below.