Hogwarts and the Holy Grail War

With Ethan's deliberate and active transfer, a huge amount of magic power directly poured into Xiao Mo's body, giving her an unprecedented sense of fullness.

"I am not a king, but I am the one who follows in the footsteps of a king."

Magic power continuously gathered on Clarent's sword, and the sword was gradually wrapped in red lightning, turning into a red lightsaber with an extra-long blade.

"For the peace of my king, I will drive out all enemies!"

The lightsaber was swung down violently, and a stream of light wrapped in red lightning burst out.

"Rebellion against my magnificent father (Clarent Blood Arthur)!"

Xiao Mo understood what Ethan meant, so even though the target was only Hercules, she did not use her anti-personnel Noble Phantasm "Sword of the King of Brilliant Light", but directly released her anti-military Noble Phantasm, intending to inflict the highest damage in the shortest time.

The light stream of the red thunder engulfed Hercules and the fire lion, and also blasted a large hole in the wall behind them. At the same time, Alanna had already summoned the next spiritual shadow.

The hero holding the bow and arrow tightened the bowstring in his hand, and the arrow turned into a meteor and shot out, blasting through the room from the other direction. The magnificent Greek maze gradually became illusory and slowly turned back into the original underground cave scene.

Well, due to its great penetrating power and coverage, the meteor accidentally flew a little far and affected too many maze rooms. The calf, who was diligently maintaining his treasure in the center of the maze, was accidentally injured and was directly eliminated.

Asterios, who was caught in the crossfire for no reason: Do you think it's easy for me? I was ordered to maintain my treasure from the moment I was summoned, and I didn't dare to move even a step! 007 works all day, and the donkeys in the production team take longer rests than me! And then I left the stage before I even showed my face, I'm #*@$＆%*@%$#...

After shooting the arrow, the illusory blue figure never returned to the book, but turned into light and dissipated.

Hercules was half-kneeling on the ground intact, but that didn't mean he hadn't received any damage. On the contrary, he could clearly feel that in just a few seconds, the two light cannons had directly eliminated nearly half of his chances of resurrection in the twelve trials. Now he only had two chances of resurrection left. If they could defeat him three more times, he would be out.

And judging from the means they showed, they must not have used their full strength in the previous fights with me. And they even penetrated Asterios's treasure, which was a maze that even Theseus could not penetrate with brute force and could only walk along the maze route! I believe it would be easy for them to kill me with three different attacks.

Hercules rarely felt helpless in the current situation. His attacks were no longer a threat to them, even though he had just used the power of the 'Hydra Poison' and 'God of War Belt' from the Twelve Glories to bless his Noble Phantasms. However, their attack methods could actually cause effective damage to him, and the gap in combat power between the two had already formed.

In this way, wouldn’t I become a big wooden stake?

(Jason: How dare you insult Hercules? You... It's nothing. Nothing.)

So he had the idea of ​​retreating for the first time. This was not because he was timid, but because he wanted to replenish his energy and come back again. Although doing so would seem like cheating, this was the Holy Grail War, and as long as he could win, this kind of trick was still within his acceptable range.

But Ethan and the others would not give Hercules a chance to return to the city to replenish his health. As early as Ethan gave Xiao Mo the order, he began to accumulate his ultimate move. Silver smoke-like energy flowed out from every inch of his body, and silver-white energy gradually gathered on his chest, condensing into a light ball nearly as high as a person, in which you could vaguely see a few strands of red light flowing at high speed.

"Collapse Star Roaring Cannon!"

The ball of light turned into a white energy torrent and was completely released from his chest. The white light stream surrounded by dense red thunder swept towards Hercules with a breath of destruction.

This move was something he learned when he was fighting the colossus in Percival's trial. It was more powerful than all the moves he had mastered so far and was the purest form of energy bombing.

Although the output was strong enough, the side effects were also obvious. Such a high-power energy output would certainly require a lot of magic power. If Ethan did not have too much magic power, he would have died directly because of the drain of magic power. Moreover, mobilizing and controlling such a huge amount of energy at once would not be a negligible burden on the body.

In a sense, this move is similar to the Seven Injury Fist, which hurts oneself first and then others. This may be one of the reasons why it was not included in ancient books.

To be honest, Ethan had never thought of playing it this way before. After all, with his strength, even if he didn't use this trick that would hurt the enemy by a thousand and hurt himself by eight hundred, it would be enough to kill most of the enemies.

But to put it bluntly, this is just a way of using ancient magic energy. It can be released even if you change your posture, such as crossing your hands vertically or extending your index finger. Moreover, he can also make this move less taxing on him by reducing the scale of the energy used.

But this time it was different, he was facing Hercules who had multiple lives, plus he was now furious because he almost lost his wife, so he subconsciously used all his strength, hoping to break all of Hercules' health bars in one breath, leaving him with nothing left and no longer threatening Alanna.

Anyone who dares to attack my girlfriend must die! They deserve it!

Even though Hercules had just complained that he was like a wooden stake, he was not a wooden stake that could not move and just stood there to take the beating. Facing the huge jet of light that was coming at him quickly, he immediately prepared to transform into a spirit and run away.

puff-

However, the blue shadow holding a scarlet spear had already touched his back without him noticing. The cursed spear pierced his soul core directly from behind, causing him to fall into the stiffness of the Twelve Trials again, and his spiritual transformation that was halfway through was thus interrupted.

Cu Chulainn's real body in the Throne of Heroes: Yes! That's the feeling! This is what I want to see!!

The total amount of spiritual strength that Alanna possessed was fixed, and 90% of it had dissipated along with the meteor, so the strength of Cu Chulainn, who had sneaked up from behind, was only at the level of his Hundred Faces clone.

However, since his Noble Phantasm is of the curse type, the damage will not be reduced due to the weakening of the spiritual strength, and it can actually kill Hercules.

At the last moment when the light cannon was about to hit his face, the shadow of the spirit holding the gun quickly turned into a blue stream of light and returned to the pages of the book, avoiding the fate of being destroyed by the light cannon.

After being swallowed by the light cannon, Hercules never appeared in the crowd's sight again. The light cannon fired by Ethan completely knocked him out of the scene and dissipated. Moreover, under Ethan's precise control of his power, not a single bit of energy escaped from it. It just dissipated after swallowing Hercules, and the underground cave did not tremble or even collapse because of it.

It's a pity to think that Hercules only fought with them for a few minutes before all twelve lives were destroyed. The speed was so fast and the attack was so fierce that he didn't even have time to use a few of the twelve glories he possessed.

It’s terrible. Young people nowadays are really terrible.

At the same time, old Rosier, who had just had a fit, got up from the bed, wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes, and habitually called out Hercules' name in his heart, but received no response.

He raised his hand again and saw that the Command Seal on the back of his hand had dimmed, which was proof that the Servant had already left.

Old Rozier: ???

Where is I, Archer? Where is an Archer this big and strong?

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Today is the heroine's picture~

Chapter 227 There is nothing to be afraid of anymore

Naturally, the two girls watching the game in the corner were also shocked by this scene.

Xiao Mo closed his lips which were slightly opened in surprise, swallowed his saliva with a trembling hand, and his heart was beating fast.

My goodness, the attack just now by the Master, in terms of destructive power alone, is definitely stronger than her Noble Phantasm. No, she can conclude that it is much stronger than her father's holy sword.

How did Master do it? Even if he asked a spirit to possess him, it wouldn't be as outrageous as this.

Alanna blinked blankly and began to wonder in her heart.

It was not until that moment that she truly realized that what Ethan had said before about how strong he was was definitely not arrogance, and it was also the first time she witnessed the true destructive power of the so-called ancient magic.

This level of combat power is even stronger than that of the Dark Lord Grindelwald who was active at the beginning of the century. No, it is more accurate to say that with Ethan's strength, it might be strong enough to inflict a dimensionality reduction attack on Grindelwald.

However, people with such great power seem to be easily led astray by the slightest thing. According to gossip, Grindelwald became so upset after a breakup that he started to take revenge on society.

Then I have to keep an eye on Ethan and never let him become the second Grindelwald because of a broken heart.

But it was too possible. I wanted to spend my whole life with him, so why would I break up with Ethan?

Ethan retracted his attack and stumbled twice, but he quickly stood firm. He took back the dagger stuck in the ground with his left hand, turned around and made a peace sign to them.

“Alanna, you…” Ethan looked at the girl who ran towards him energetically, and with a simple move he took her into his arms. He touched her hair and muttered to himself with lingering fear, “I’m glad you’re okay, I’m glad you’re okay…”

"I'm fine, but you. I saw you almost couldn't stand just now. You are the one who is okay, right?" Alana tilted her head, showing concern openly.

"I'm fine, I just yelled too loudly and I'm a little distracted." Ethan grinned, "Look, I'm full of life now, aren't I?"

This was absolutely true. Although Ethan had thought that after using this move, the magic power in his body would definitely run out and he would be exhausted, he felt that this was not the case after using this move.

Only at the moment when he finished sending the wave did he feel a momentary emptiness in his body as if his magic power was exhausted. After that, this empty feeling disappeared, and was replaced by the same feeling of magic power filling as usual.

Although he didn't know why his magic power recovery speed had become so fast, it was not a bad thing for him. He could only attribute it to his special physique, and thought that it might also be due to his diligent training.

"By the way, Ethan. You just..." The girl stepped back from Ethan's arms, her fingertips flicking the hair by her ears. The end of her hair was curled into a small circle by her fingers. She looked up at Ethan again, her face full of expectation:

"What did you just say I am yours?"

“I said…” Ethan’s face turned red when he realized something was wrong. His eyes drifted to the side and he said vaguely, “…No, nothing, nothing at all. You must have heard it wrong.”

Although he had just blurted out the truth in his heart out in extreme anger, his sanity had now returned to normal, and asking him to say it again here would be tantamount to public execution.

Can't you wait until there are only two of us?

"Oh~, really? But I clearly heard you say..." The girl revealed a sly smile between her eyebrows and continued to ask with an innocent look.

"No! It's an illusion! It must be an illusion!" Ethan's face flushed, but he still insisted, and he changed the subject abruptly with a loud voice, "Don't forget what we came here for. Let's find the Holy Grail first, and clean up these things in front of us."

Ethan was talking about the various rare animals that the Fire Snake Party had placed in the rooms of the maze. Now that the maze had dissipated, they were directly exposed not far from them. They were slowly approaching with their teeth bared, as if they were treating the three of them as delicious prey.

Turning sideways and protecting the girl behind him, Ethan instantly put away the tenderness in his eyes, and instead made two guillotine cuts with a grim smile... No, the cutting spell directly chopped into pieces the vicious dogs closest to him.

The remaining beasts shuddered all over, huddled up and trembled, and without any hesitation, they immediately turned around, tucked their tails between their legs, flapped their wings, and squirmed their bodies to escape.

"Hmph, you want to escape?" Ethan sneered, and an eight-toothed ratchet-shaped light blade condensed in his palm, and threw it towards the beasts.

The light wheel spun towards the target, rapidly growing in mid-air, and in an instant expanded from the size of a palm to more than several meters. Under Ethan's control, it shuttled back and forth among the beasts, easily chopping them into fresh raw meat one by one.

Meanwhile, somewhere outside Red Tomb City.

crackling——

With a few slight noises, a slight space distortion appeared in front of Dumbledore and his group. The Aurors emerged from it. Sarah, the leader, stepped forward and nodded in greeting:

"It is an honor to meet you, Headmaster Dumbledore, and professors. Auror Sarah Briggs will temporarily serve as the leader of this team."

"Sarah? Why are there only a few of you? Where are Tony and the others?" Professor Figo asked, "How did you become the team leader again?"

"Tony... asked us to meet you at the pick-up location first." Sarah's face showed a trace of embarrassment when she heard this, and she said a little embarrassedly, "He met an old acquaintance and started to act alone again."

"Alone again?" Professor Figo rubbed his temple with a headache, his eyelids twitching.

How come this lone wolf guy's style of behavior is exactly the same as Ethan's? Were they brothers in their previous life?

Sarah put away the embarrassment on her face and said seriously:

"Let's not talk about him anymore. We have also brought the things Tony mentioned in the owl letter. Professors, please take a look at them."

The other Aurors each held an object covered with white cloth in their hands. They gently placed the objects in their hands on the grass and uncovered the white cloth.

They were the corpses of house elves, or more precisely mummies. The muscles under the skin had dried up and shriveled, revealing the shape of the bones underneath, and the large eyeballs were also shriveled, with deep eye sockets.

"I can't see any signs of pain, nor any signs of struggle. It should have happened in an instant. And the weirdest thing is not just that..."

Sarah drew out her wand, took a deep breath, and pointed at one of the mummies on the ground with a serious expression:

"The prototype is revealed."

Thin dark red smoke slowly emerged from the seven orifices of the mummy and condensed into a head in mid-air, which looked like the elf's appearance when it was alive.

However, it had long lost the docility it had in life. Its head in the air roared silently, revealing its crooked fangs towards Sarah who was closest to it.

"Stop the curse immediately." Sarah used a spell to break the curse in time, and the head floating in the air disappeared instantly.

"As you can see, this is some kind of evil black magic." Sarah stroked the wand in her hand, "It is extremely powerful and has never been seen before. I think even with the professors' extensive knowledge, they may not be able to recognize what it is."

"No, Miss Briggs." Dumbledore shook his head, his face also solemn. "Contrary to what you said, we just saw this kind of dark magic not long ago."

As he spoke, Dumbledore drew out his Elder Wand and pointed it to the side:

"The prototype is revealed."

The dark red barrier reappeared. Although it was two completely different magics from the one on the elf's body, the suffocating and ominous feeling they gave people was extremely similar. This meant that the two magics were either cast by the same person, or the people who cast the two magics were from the same school.

“This…” Sarah was obviously surprised when faced with such a large barrier. They rushed directly to the outskirts of Red Tomb City and did not try to enter it, so they did not notice that there was such a barrier covering the entire city.

"As you can see, Miss Briggs, the same dark magic blocks our passage into Red Grave City. And while we were waiting for you to arrive, we were also busy trying to find a way to break through the barrier, but we have not been able to succeed so far."

Dumbledore's face showed a rare look of helplessness. He had not encountered such a helpless situation for a long time. Even when he faced Grindelwald a long time ago, he was not as helpless as he was now.

At least at that time, he could still solve the problem if he was determined. But this time it was different. All his methods were helpless against the obstacles in front of him. Even though he knew that his troublesome student might be staying in here with a group of dark wizards and his life might be in danger at any time, he couldn't rush in to rescue him.

This feeling of being powerless and unable to do anything is really annoying...

Just as the professors and Aurors were racking their brains over the barrier in front of them, Ethan and the other two, who were in the underground cave, were swaggering forward along the stone path protruding from the rock wall.

The directional spell has once again pointed out the approximate direction of travel for them. Looking in the direction, they can even see a golden sphere floating in the air in the distance.

They are very close to their goal this time.

Following the principle of "a thief never leaves home empty-handed"... no, make the best use of everything, Ethan searched every room and cave he passed along the way, and killed all the Fire Snake Party guards who stayed in the rooms without leaving a single one alive.

There were a few guys who knew the Lost Spell and tried to resist, but Ethan immediately made them realize that there is always someone better.

Sorry, level suppression.

A rough calculation shows that they have killed at least dozens of bad guys along the way, which can be regarded as a small contribution to the peace of the magical world.

However, I didn't meet old Rozier along the way. I don't know where he is hiding. I am really lucky.

The Holy Grail Room, as the name suggests, is where the Holy Grail is. If there is no Small Holy Grail, then this should be the most important place in a Holy Grail War, no doubt about it.

Logically speaking, since the Fire Serpents have already obtained the Holy Grail, they should not only keep a strict guard on such an important item, but they should at least send some people to symbolically guard the door.

However, the defense here is surprisingly weak. Not to mention magic traps or authentication mechanisms, there is not even a single soldier guarding the door.

Therefore, they did not rush to push the half-open stone door open, but first carefully checked the door for any traps that might cause them to be careless. Anyway, they had already come here, so they did not mind spending a little more time. Acting cautiously would avoid falling before the finish line.

"You seem to be in a good mood." Ethan, who was checking the trap on the door, glanced at Alana who was humming a little tune while checking the dome, and chatted with interest.

"Yeah, after all, it's almost over, so it's inevitable to be a little excited." Alanna's face was slightly flushed and her eyebrows were curved.

"The strongest Archer Hercules has been dealt with, and the remaining Lancer and Caster should not be a problem for you... us."