"... No problem? No, I wouldn't think so if I were you."
Haierbo's voice was still echoing around, saying some slightly insignificant words, but he himself never appeared.
In fact, the "wizard" with dark eyes was also walking towards this side step by step, so that Maka had to pay attention to him while resisting the flames.
Isn't this situation an excellent opportunity for Haierbo to make a sneak attack
But Haierbo seemed to have made up his mind to continue hiding, and still refused to appear. This made Maka suddenly have the suspicion that "Helpo is not actually around here at all."
Could it be that... that guy just deliberately created this illusion to deceive him, trying to make him dare not act rashly
Maka knew that this possibility was not impossible. And it's not just that, because when Haierbo needs to slow him down in this way, that might mean...
"The ceremony...maybe it's about to be completed?"
Regarding the demon summoning technique, Maka only learned some information that was unknown to be true or false from Charlotte's father. He didn't know many things clearly, including "the surrounding fog is a precursor to the start of the ceremony."
And now, has the ritual been completed? Or when exactly will it be completed? He obviously had no idea of these actual circumstances.
Of course, whether Haierbo is here now or not, what he has to do is the same. At least until Hermione and Luna returned to St. Mungo's, he had to stay in front of these girls and not leave at all.
The next moment, Maka waved her staff, and a stream of cold air that originally went straight into the air suddenly separated from it, and quickly circled around and turned towards the black-eyed wizard who was walking this way.
The extremely low temperature left pieces of ice crystals in the air it passed through, rushing towards the opponent from top to bottom.
To say that this is the product of the power of rules after all, although the black unknown substance summoned by that guy is magical, the speed of resistance is also amazingly fast. But the cold air still froze a layer of white frost on the opponent's condensed spherical shield.
"Click—"
This was the first time that the opponent's black substance had failed. Even though the shield also had extremely strong resistance to magic and physical defense, a crack appeared this time.
It's a pity that that kind of material can obviously change back and forth between liquid and solid state, and just one or two cracks can be easily repaired again.
This didn't seem to cause much harm to the unidentified guy.
However, Maka doesn't have to hurt or even kill the opponent now. It just forces the opponent to stop and defend, which is enough.
However, after a small part of the cold air was separated, Maka's power to resist Haierbo's flame creatures naturally became slightly weaker. At first, he had some slight advantages, but now it is obvious that he can only barely maintain an even balance.
"Look, if another person who can interfere with you appears now, you can only continue to distribute your power. But I will never have this kind of trouble..."
Haierbo was still talking about these useless nonsense, as if he was putting pressure on Maka, but he also seemed to be delaying time.
But in fact, because these collectors born from the ceremony not only do not directly obey Haierbo's orders, there are only two of them in total. It is no longer an easy task for him to find a way to guide such a person to deal with Maka.
Although Maka hasn't discovered this yet, it can be seen that Haierbo is still just talking in the dark again and again, and naturally she feels more and more that the other party may not be nearby.
"You really want to delay my actions in this way?"
Although Xianggui thought so, Maka did not relax because of this. Even though he was speculating again and again in his mind that the other party was most likely still at the venue where the ceremony was taking place, he was still vigilant about all the movements around him on the premise that the other party was indeed gathering momentum in a corner.
At this moment, right behind Maka, Pansy seemed very nervous.
She clutched the handle of the wand so tightly that her fingers and knuckles turned white - even though she knew very well that no matter what happened next, it was impossible for her to do it, but she still endured it. I couldn't help but review the spells one after another in my mind several times.
But right next to Pansy, Luna, who was also holding a wand, was in sharp contrast to her.
Because Luna can also sense magic, although she is extremely restricted in this fog at the moment, she has been in London for so long, so she will naturally gradually adapt to it.
Not to mention anything else, when Maka sensed Haierbo's magic power, Luna said it almost at the same time. And that was obviously more than just a coincidence.
At this time, while Maka was distractedly searching for the exact location of Haierbo, Luna seemed to be concentrating on catching that special fluctuation.
As for Hermione, she was originally studying the sealed entrance of St. Mungo's with the windbreaker wizard. But as the sounds of fighting behind her continued, she became obviously more and more anxious.
Almost every few seconds, she couldn't help but glance behind her. Although her face didn't show much, the worry in her eyes became stronger every time.
On the other side, although Maka didn't look back, he was still very clear about the status of Luna, Hermione and others. He knew that Luna was probably helping to find Halbo, and he also knew that Hermione could no longer suppress her anxiety.
But now the fact of the stalemate was before his eyes, and he didn't know what to say to comfort them.
"Don't move, stay where you are! No one can act without orders!"
Suddenly, Maka shouted - these words, he said to the team of supporters of the Federation on the street. Because the black-eyed wizard was shrouded in Maka's cold air and was forced to stop, several teams wanted to step forward to help him deal with that guy.
But Maka knew very well that the "wizard" whose magic power fluctuated severely and abnormally was not something that an ordinary team of wizards could handle.
After asking everyone to stop, Maka continued to maintain the stalemate, hoping that the windbreaker wizard could open the entrance, or that he could first confirm whether Haierbo was around.
However, if he wants to wait, Haierbo may not agree.
"Um?"
Suddenly, Maka felt a strong fluctuation in a certain direction, and then a red arc of light of the power of rules snaked towards him at an extremely fast speed.
At the same time that the arc of light was noticed, the original flame creatures no longer continued to form. He immediately swung his staff, condensing the cold air in the air and turning it into a blue-white beam of light that rushed straight away.
Whenever the opponent's blazing current tried to bypass him and attack him, he would pull the cold air to ward it off in time. For a moment, it looked like there were two giant snakes, one red and one white, entangled in the air. Not to mention the destructive nature of each collision between the two, it was actually quite pleasing to the eye.
But what Maka himself felt was that Haierbo was constantly exerting force, which undoubtedly made it more difficult for him to spare the energy to find traces of the other party.
And in just a moment, another wave of magic power suddenly intensified in his perception - that was the black-eyed wizard who was really blocked by him!
While the crimson arc of light controlled by Haierbo was slightly pushed away by him, he suddenly pulled the staff back, and a blue-white beam of light instantly hit the "black ball" in the center of the street.
Accompanied by a rapid freezing sound, the beam of light condensed by the power of pure rules immediately froze the opponent and the spherical shield into a big lump of ice.
Just looking at the escaping cold air that covered the surrounding streets with a layer of ice crystals and frost marks, you know how terrifying the temperature is.
The supporters of the International Federation of Wizards saw this, and although it didn't seem to affect them, they couldn't help but retreat a little.
However, doing this was also because Maka chose to sacrifice part of the power entangled with Haierbo. The next moment he forcibly froze the guy, the red arc of light in the air suddenly struck towards Maka.
Maka controlled the power of the cooling rules and blocked the blow with some reluctance, feeling secretly relieved.
But it was at this moment that his expression suddenly changed.
"Maka!"
At that moment, Luna seemed to notice that it was Haierbo's magic wave, which was not far to their right!
Maka decisively gave up the control of the power of rules in mid-air, and quickly reversed the staff and stabbed it to a deserted place on the right, so fast that it was difficult for people to distinguish.
"laugh-"
The handle of the staff, which was ground from basilisk horns, was extremely hard, and he easily drove the thorn into the brick wall. And the next second, a figure trembled and appeared from the place he stabbed. Who was it if it wasn't Haierbo
But at this moment, Maka's expression changed again.
There was no doubt that when he stabbed it, it felt completely wrong. Before the impact and friction when he hit the wall, he didn't feel any penetrating touch through the human body.
When he saw an inexplicable smile flash across the face of Haierbo in front of him, the figure disappeared without a trace.
"Helpo!"
Maka gritted her teeth and turned around, quickly turned around and waved her staff again, but what fell into his eyes was a scene that he absolutely did not want to see.
Right in front of the glass showcase, Halbo was standing next to Hermione, with the same calm smile that appeared before the shadow disappeared.
"McLean...I heard that this girl likes you? Is that right?"
Haierbo's words made Maka twitch the corners of her mouth slightly, unable to speak.