Hogwarts and the Holy Grail War

A flash of inspiration came to Ethan's mind, and he pointed his wand at the ground under the troll's feet and cast the spell again.

"Ice frozen."

A thick layer of ice instantly formed from the ground, trapping the giant's left foot again.

The troll fell to the ground, shouting angrily, and struggled to pick up a huge rock beside him with his free left hand and threw it at Ethan.

"Shock reduction and speed stop!"

A spell hit the rapidly approaching boulder, and it stopped in the air in front of Ethan, swaying slightly up and down, as if it would fall to the ground at any time.

"Everyone fly away!"

Ethan cast another spell at the boulder, and the boulder began to rush back towards the guy who threw it, hitting the troll's chest armor hard.

Ethan looked at the dent in the troll's chest armor, and the corners of his mouth curled up in understanding.

Sure enough.

Although that layer of armor can be immune to the effects of the spell itself, it is still impossible to be completely immune to the damage caused by magical creations or physical attacks.

In this case, use the wreckage of the buildings destroyed by the giant around it to attack it. You should be able to accumulate enough damage to it little by little until it falls.

"I see, Ethan," Alanna said suddenly, with a glint of insight in her eyes. "Somehow the giant monster is immune to all direct effects of magic, but using magic to control other objects to attack it indirectly can cause an effective blow."

Ethan looked at Alanna's sparkling eyes and felt a sense of relief in his heart.

As expected of a top student, he has strong observation skills. Maybe he can cooperate with Alanna now.

"Okay, in that case, let's split up. I'll attract its attention, and you'll trap it with a spell like Ice Freeze behind it." Ethan arranged a simple action plan, and at the same time reminded Alanna worriedly, "Remember to keep a distance from the troll to prevent accidental injury. Don't rush into the danger zone just because you're worried about me, as you did just now."

"But your body..." Alanna tried to refute, but seeing Ethan's resolute expression, the words of dissuasion could not flow out of her lips. She nodded and warned, "Then you must be careful, don't force yourself."

"Don't worry, I know what I'm doing." Ethan smiled at her and gave her a thumbs up to let her relax. He then murmured quietly in a voice that only he could hear.

"Even if it's to prevent you from being sad again, I won't force myself."

"Hey? What what?" Alanna was keenly aware of Ethan's whisper, and looked at him with a little excitement and a slightly red cheek, "Speak louder, I didn't hear it clearly just now."

"Nothing, you heard it wrong." Ethan's face flushed, and he turned to look at the giant monster that had broken free from the ice and was rushing towards them, "It's coming, get ready!"

"Okay!" Alana decisively retreated to a safe area, waiting for the opportunity to take control.

Ethan dragged his exhausted body and ran in another direction. The giant monster that was chasing him was soon trapped by Alanna with an ice freeze.

"Well done, Alanna!" Ethan turned around and shouted, and used a levitation spell to control several stones and blasted them towards the troll.

The stone hit the troll's bald head accurately. The strong impact caused the troll to feel pain. He roared like mad and increased the speed of breaking the ice.

The two men coordinated their attack in perfect harmony. Alanna was in control behind the enemy lines, while Ethan was in the front row, throwing stones or wood at the troll's face. Soon, there were obvious scars on the troll's face.

But at the same time, Ethan also found that his method didn't work.

The reason was that he was too weak. With his current energy, he could not sustain more than a few spells with this attack method. If he continued like this, he would probably fall down due to exhaustion before the giant monster fell down.

We have to think of another way.

Ethan looked at the giant monster's metal armor that was glowing red, and suddenly he understood some important connection in his mind.

A certain Master Fang, whose name is unknown, once said that magic must be used to defeat magic. If it is something that only you can see, then it must be related to ancient magic.

I decided to use you, ancient magic!

With a trial mentality, Ethan raised his hand and swung a ray of energy from ancient magic towards the troll's right wrist holding the mace.

The metal on the giant monster's wrist flashed red again, but the moment it was touched by the silver-white light, the red light on the right wrist armor went out completely.

Then, the metal layer was pierced by the damage caused by the magical energy, and a deep hole was punched in the troll's wrist.

Ethan grinned and looked at the troll's right wrist which was bleeding profusely.

efficient!

Now that we know how to break the defense, the next step will be easy.

but……

Ethan frowned and watched the injured troll pick up the mace with his other hand and roared towards him again, ignoring the bleeding wound on his wrist. A familiar and uncomfortable sense of déjà vu came to his mind.

Normally, any creature that received this level of damage would be afraid of the pain, or would be vulnerable. However, the giant monster in front of him that was charging fearlessly did not seem to have that feeling. It was as if—

"...Super beast." Ethan muttered softly, and dodged the mace thrown by the giant monster.

Or to be more specific, someone is completely controlling the actions of this giant monster through some means, causing it to completely lose its biological instincts.

However, since it won't back down due to the pain, then we should just go all out and deal enough damage to it to knock it down.

In a flash, Ethan thought of a solution again and shouted to Alanna: "Alanna, close your eyes!"

Although she didn't know why, out of trust in Ethan, Alana turned around and closed her eyes obediently.

Ethan took a deep breath, drew out his wand and shouted at the troll:

"Lumos Solem!"

A strong light radiated from Ethan's wand. In just a moment, the entire street was engulfed by the dazzling light.

Chapter 69 A1 High Flash

"Bright as day!"

The entire street instantly became brighter than the exploded L77.

Even if it can be controlled to be immune to the negative buffs brought by pain, the troll is still a normal creature after all. After its eyes are stimulated by such strong light, it will naturally lose its vision temporarily.

This gave Ethan time to catch his breath and charge up his ultimate move.

The light faded. Ethan panted heavily, sneered at the troll who was fumbling around helplessly and furiously, and quickly retreated a few steps backward. After making sure that he was out of the troll's attack range, he retracted the hand holding the wand, put it at his waist and began to accumulate power.

My condition is too bad now, and kiting is not going to work. I can only gather all my magic power into a powerful attack to knock down the giant in one move.

The silvery-white ancient magic energy gathered at the tip of the wand. The troll was now free from the blinding effect of the strong light and rushed towards Ethan desperately.

"Ethan, run!" Alanna shouted anxiously from behind the troll.

The troll took only two or three steps to get Ethan within its attack range. It swung its long arm and raised the mace inlaid with metal rivets, hitting Ethan hard on the head.

"Hah—" Ethan drained all the magic power he could mobilize in his body as quickly as possible, and put all his remaining strength into this attack. Just before the giant monster's mace was about to fall on his head, he stretched out his right hand and sent the magic wand forward, "Sine!"

"Failure humiliates the light!"

The ancient magic energy gathered at the tip of the wand turned into a silver-white energy beam that shot out from the tip of the wand and hit the troll's chest exactly.

The giant monster was instantly blown away by the powerful impact, and he and his stick flew across the street and fell heavily to the ground.

The giant monster struggled to stand up, and let out a cry that was not sure whether it was a roar or a wail. Suddenly, as if it had lost its strength, it fell forward. The moment it fell to the ground, its huge body exploded and broke into countless tiny fragments that flew away in the wind.

"Oh my god!"

Ethan looked at the giant monster in front of him, which was smashed into pieces by his beam of light, leaving only a few pieces of metal armor fragments scattered on the ground. He couldn't help but smack his lips and sighed.

Originally, he had expected that his almost powerless attack could only send the giant monster flying into coma, but he did not expect that it could directly blow the giant monster to pieces. This was really beyond his expectations.

Even though he knew from various channels that ancient magic was much more powerful than ordinary magic, he was still shocked when he saw with his own eyes that the attack he made when his mana was almost at the bottom still had such powerful destructive power.

I really have mastered something extraordinary.

Ethan looked around vigilantly, and after making sure that there was no third giant monster, he finally breathed a sigh of relief. His tense nerves suddenly relaxed. He took two steps back and used the wall of the house facing the street to support his body. His legs softened and he slid to the ground.

He was so tired.

First, he took a hit from the melon eater and was covered in debuffs. Then, in a very weak state, he started to fight wits and courage with the giant monster. At the last moment, he launched a full-body nuclear attack, which was nine or even ten times more exciting than running away from the poison with only a little health.

While panting, Ethan took out a bottle of invigorating potion from his pocket, bit open the cap with his mouth, and drank it in one gulp.

After taking the emerald green liquid, Ethan felt that the fatigue in his body was only slightly relieved to the point where he could stand up and walk. He pulled the corners of his mouth helplessly and barely raised his hand to wave at Alana who was running towards him in small steps.

"Ethan, what happened just now?" Alana squatted down in front of Ethan and checked his physical condition with some fear. "Are you not injured? Are you feeling unwell? And why did the giant monster suddenly explode just now?"

"Don't worry, there's nothing wrong with my physical condition now. As for the troll...it's a long story, but it's not convenient to explain it here. I will tell you everything after we return to Hogwarts." Ethan answered Alana's questions one by one, slowly stood up with the support of the wall, let Alana support his arm, and stretched out his wand towards a piece of metal armor fragment on the ground.

"Fly here."

The armor fragments flew into Ethan's hands.

"Is this... the armor on the giant monster just now?" Alana tilted her head as she looked at the palm-sized fragment in Ethan's hand.

"Well, that giant monster just now was too strange. I always feel that something is wrong here. Maybe it's the problem of the armor. Take a sample back to Professor Figo or someone to take a look and analyze it." Ethan carefully put away the fragments in his hand, turned to Alana and smiled, "But it should be fine now."

Snapped--

A man and a woman used Apparition to appear in front of them, with their backs to them, looking at the streets destroyed by the trolls and the maces left behind by the trolls.

"What's going on?" The two turned around and asked Ethan and the others at the same time.

The woman was the Auror who had left earlier, and the man was——

"Tony?"

"Ethan?"

A moment ago, on a meadow not far outside Hogsmeade village.

“Aiya!”

A huge sword nearly as tall as a person pierced into the troll's left chest. The troll groaned, the light in his eyes gradually dissipated, and he fell backwards.

"Well done, Tony!" The female Auror who had met Ethan and the others before shouted, holding her wand.

"It's a small matter." Tony waved his hand with his back to her, walked forward and pulled out the big sword that was stuck in the troll's chest, shook off the blood on the blade, and slightly opened his hand holding the sword, and the big sword disappeared out of thin air.

"How about you guys? Are you okay?" Tony turned to look at the female Auror standing beside him and asked, "Sarah, you just took a beating from the troll. Are you okay?"

"It's okay. I used the Shield Charm in time to defend myself. I didn't suffer much damage." The Auror named Sarah smiled and continued, "It was just that Douglas was accidentally hit by a stick and has gone back to recover."

"Douglas' luck is as bad as ever." Tony laughed, turned his head to look at the troll's corpse, and thought, "But this is all too coincidental. I just noticed the movements of the Salamanders and followed their trail to the vicinity of Hogsmeade, and I ran into you and this out-of-control troll."

"Then do you think this has something to do with the Salamander Party? Did they release this giant monster?"

"It's hard to say. After all, I've never seen them use this kind of method before, but they are definitely related." Tony shook his head, looked in the direction of Hogsmeade, suddenly opened his mouth, and blurted out a British accent.

"Merlin's pants!"

"What's wrong?" The female Auror frowned, followed Tony's gaze towards Hogsmeade, and made the same exclamation as him.

"Merlin's beard!"

There was a strong light emanating from the sky above Hogsmeade, and the two were almost blinded by it.

The light faded, and the two came back to their senses, looked at each other, and nodded.

"Let's go and have a look!"

Chapter 70 He runs, he chases, he can't fly away

"Merlin! You two students actually defeated a full-grown giant monster?"

Auror Sarah's eyes twitched as she looked in disbelief at Ethan, who was scratching his head with an awkward smile, and Alanna, who was standing quietly and well-behaved beside them.

"It's just luck, it's not that great." Ethan smiled wryly and tried to get away with it.

After all, if they find anything abnormal, I might be taken away for slice-up, so I have to maximize my desire to survive.

"Are you lucky?" Tony gave Ethan a meaningful smile. "Anyway, if your hard power is not up to par, just being lucky is not enough to support you in killing this giant monster. Not to mention blowing it up to pieces."

"You can eat whatever you want, but you can't say that. It really can't be considered as my doing! I just beat it to its knees, and then it exploded on its own." Ethan blinked and began to quibble without blushing or beating his heart.

After all, the giant monster wasn't exploded by him directly. After being knocked away, didn't it stand up and take a few staggering steps?

This wave tells the truth, but not the whole truth.

Anyway, I didn't lie to them, so let them figure out the rest themselves.

"That's pretty impressive too. You know, even if we want to defeat an adult mountain giant head-on, it's not easy to do, especially since you're in such poor physical condition now." Sarah squatted down, examined the scattered metal armor fragments on the ground, and smacked her lips.

This kid is really aggressive.

"'In very poor health'? What does that mean?" Tony raised an eyebrow.

"Uh... probably... I seem to have been accidentally hit by an Avada Kedavra curse before, so my physical condition is not very good now, and my magic power is not very abundant." Ethan scratched his ear and organized his words carefully.

I don't know why, although Tony appears to be much kinder than the female Auror, he always feels that she is not easy to fool.

You must be careful when talking to him, or he may lead you into trouble.

"hiss--"

Tony gasped, and circled around Ethan as if he had seen some rare species, looking at him carefully.