"Bang bang bang... bang bang bang..."
At five o'clock in the morning New York time, a rapid knock on the door sounded on the second floor of the riverside house, breaking the pre-dawn tranquility.
"Here we come, wait..."
Abigail drowsily climbed out of bed and opened the door in her pajamas.
"… what is the matter?"
"Something happened at Hogwarts. I have to rush back immediately." Maka stood in the dim corridor and quickly warned, "Abigail, I left you with a means of protection. , Sirius asks you to take care of him during my absence. Also, try not to leave here as much as possible, do you understand?"
Just now, Maka, who was leaning on the chair next to Sirius' bed and taking a nap with her eyes closed, suddenly felt a slight tingling on her left forearm.
He drew a magic text mark there. If another mark matching it was destroyed, the one on his arm would immediately heat up as a warning to remind him that there was something wrong with the place he was monitoring.
Right now, the monitor he sent is his owl Malfa, and the place it monitors is Hogwarts.
Because of this, when he heard Greenwald's "kind intention" reminding him, he still did not rush back immediately to check the situation. Because he had asked Mafa to stare over there a long time ago.
"Uh...ah, okay, okay."
In Maka's serious tone, Abigail quickly came to her senses and nodded quickly.
"I'll come back here as soon as I'm done."
Maka gestured to her, then her body twisted and quickly disappeared in front of Abigail.
…
It's five o'clock in the morning in New York, which is exactly ten o'clock in London time. That was the point when Hagrid's three-headed dog, Fluffy, went berserk and was wrapped into a "ball of yarn" by Professor Sprout, who arrived in time.
However, it was not the centaurs coming out of the forest and Lu Wei going berserk that made the owl Mafa peck the anklet and destroy the magic text mark to remind Maka.
Maka told it that the warning standard was a critical situation when hostile creatures, including wizards, appeared within the scope of the Hogwarts campus.
The so-called "school garden" only extends to the lawn area around the castle. Neither the centaur nor the three-headed dog Lu Wei took a single step outside the Forbidden Forest.
Just ten minutes before Maka appeared at the school gate, somewhere outside the Forbidden Forest.
"Oh—" Luna said in a daze while walking backwards under Helen's drag, "Devil's Net."
"Hmm... this kind of black vine is called 'Devil's Net'?" Helen looked at the scary plants that had covered the entire forest in front of her, and seemed to be a little scared. "This name doesn't sound very friendly!"
"Really?" Luna sat down on the ground and tilted her head and said, "I guess they just like to be close to people - as long as they don't move around, they won't be too tight."
As she spoke in a daze, she stretched out her delicate white hands and waved them beside the black vines that were worthy of stopping at her feet. The devil's vine immediately sensed the creature's aura. The black vine suddenly thrust forward, and Helen pulled her hand back.
It seems that the scope of spread has reached its limit here. When the devil's vine lost its target, it squirmed left and right for a while, and then drooped back to the ground.
"Do you want to be strangled by them?" Helen blinked and said, "I think it's best not to."
Before she finished speaking, Luna suddenly noticed that the left side of her vision suddenly lit up, and then she felt a strong force hit her side. Luna, who was still sitting on the ground, suddenly became unstable and was pushed into the large devil's net.
Those black vines immediately surged upon impact, wrapping around Luna's body in the blink of an eye.
Helen, who was squatting next to her, reacted very quickly and moved aside. The gentle expression on her face suddenly turned cold, but then it suddenly turned into panic.
"I can't stand it anymore, Miss Schon." A voice suddenly sounded from behind a certain tree trunk, with a hint of disdain in his tone, "Friendship? Love? It's simply boring!"
Helen pursed her lips and stared in the direction of the sound without saying a word.
"What's wrong? Why don't you say anything? If you don't work hard, someone will be angry!"
As soon as these words were spoken, the man hiding behind the tree took a step to the side, turned around and walked slowly this way. That thin figure and that rather elegant appearance all indicate the other party's identity.
"Sokaldis?" Helen called his name.
"Huh?" Sokas frowned slightly and said, "Don't call me that bad name! What's the matter with you? You had so much time just now, but you were still talking nonsense to the target... I was just standing by. It’s annoying enough just to watch.”
"I... I don't understand what you are talking about..." Helen seemed a little scared and took another step back, only a few steps away from the bushes behind her.
Sokas narrowed his eyes, looked at Helen and snorted coldly. He opened his mouth as if he wanted to say something, but before he could say anything, his expression immediately changed and he hurriedly left the place.
And in the next moment, a red light almost brushed his arm and flew past, hitting the tree trunk behind him hard, and bursting out a cloud of sparks.
"Are you okay, Helen?"
From the bushes behind Helen, two people suddenly jumped out, but they were Hermione and Ron who were about to arrive here. The one who just shot a disarming spell was Hermione who rushed out first.
"Tsk," Sokas said impatiently, "What's going on? Shouldn't you go to the more noisy three-headed dog? How could you come here? In my plan, I haven't yet It’s your turn!”
"Maka is right, you are indeed a dangerous guy." Hermione held the wand tightly in her hand and looked at him cautiously and said, "But your brain doesn't seem to be strong enough - we would like to go through it, but There is such a big devil's net over there, how can we get through it?"
Sokas was irritated by Hermione's intrusion in just two words, but when he glanced out of the corner of his eye, he had to admit that it was a mistake on his part.
But who would have thought that a professor would cast such a large devil's net? This was never part of his plan from the start.
"Hmph, it doesn't matter..." Sokas suppressed the anger in his heart and curled his lips and said, "This is just a small mistake. It is of no consequence to the entire plan... There are many obstacles!"
"Armor protection!" Hermione reacted immediately, "Shattered into pieces!"
Sokas immediately dodged again and hid behind a tree, avoiding Hermione's curse.
"Ron, take Helen and get out of here quickly!" Hermione said quickly without looking back.
"But-" "Ron!"
Hermione decisively stopped Ron from continuing to push back. While staring cautiously ahead, she urged Ron to speed up.
"Hermione!" Helen suddenly said, "Luna—Luna was pushed into the devil's net by that guy!"
"Luna?"
Hermione was stunned for a moment. She subconsciously turned her head and looked to the side, and soon saw Luna who was entangled all over her body. But at the moment when she was distracted, a silent spell shot towards her very suddenly.
Because she didn't know what kind of spell the other party was casting, Hermione jumped to the side decisively for insurance and dodged it in time.
But because the concealment of the silent spell was too high, although she barely avoided the direct attack of the spell, she fell to the ground.
If another spell hits her, she will be just a living target.
"…the flames are blazing."
The sound of chanting a curse was not that of a boy... was it Luna
"Damn it! This madman actually lit a fire in the forest!" In the midst of the flames, Sokas had to give up casting spells and hurriedly rolled away from the range of the flames.
At the same time, the devil's net that trapped Luna quickly receded out of fear of the flames, returning her freedom.
"Oh, Luna! Thank-" "Fainted!"
Sookas, who was out of the flames, did not leave Hermione any time to speak. He interrupted her words with another curse.
"Float into the sky!"
Luna, who had escaped from the devil's net, was now in a daze. She was able to control the levitation spell quite skillfully and pushed Hermione aside.
"Two people? Humph, today I will let you understand what the strength gap is!" Sokas vented his anger fiercely and gritted his teeth, "Flying sand and rolling rocks!"
"Armor protection!"
Seeing that the tip of the other person's wand was pointing at her, Luna immediately waved her wand. But the power of the opponent's spell was really extraordinary. Even though most of the impact was offset, she still sat unsteadily and fell to the ground.
"Petrify them all!" Hermione hurriedly came to support, but unexpectedly Sokas once again flexibly avoided her spell.
It seems that in terms of the concept of wizard duel, he and Maka have some similarities. Sokas also believes that physical abilities are also one of the weapons used by wizards in battle.
"Broken to pieces—" "There are many obstacles!"
Luna's spell stopped Sokas's actions very accurately, and then she didn't hesitate, raised her legs and ran quickly towards Hermione.
"… Walk."
She grabbed Hermione, who was still trying to continue fighting, and dragged her into the bushes behind.
"That guy is very powerful, it's hard for us to deal with him."
"Want to run!"
The effect of the obstacle spell only lasts a few seconds. Depending on the magical strength of both parties, this number may even be shortened to a certain extent.
After a while, Sokas, who broke free from the restraints, was already chasing them in the direction they fled.
"Go find someone."
After a quick run, just when the panting two were about to reach the edge of the Forbidden Forest, Luna pushed Hermione away.
"Armor protection!"
The moment Luna reluctantly cast an armor spell in front of her, a violent spark exploded on the invisible shield wall. With the powerful impact, she also fell out of the boundary of the forbidden forest.