Only now did he understand why the original Obscurial attack caused almost no decent damage.
Although there was some reason for this to be prevented by him, even the Ravenclaw Tower was hit with a huge hole, but it only caused minor injuries to several students. It seemed to be too much of a coincidence.
Thinking about it now, this was simply a good show he directed and acted.
boom!
While Maka was thinking about it, his subordinates did not hesitate, controlling the black mist transformed by the transformation technique to directly break through the wall of the school hospital, and rushed straight into the air outside the castle with great momentum.
But he didn't immediately go to trouble Ravenclaw Tower. Instead, he directed the black mist to fly up and down under the night sky, making the scene extremely huge.
Of course he knew what he had done. He couldn't call himself back at this point in time with just one move. He had to let the owl Mafa parked at the top of the astronomy tower see him first.
After the black mist hovered in the air for several weeks, he gritted his teeth and guided it to rush towards the Ravenclaw Tower quickly.
He knew clearly that Luna was sleeping inside, and also knew that his other self would arrive in time, but he couldn't help but feel a little timid this time. Although the black mist looks overwhelming, in fact, it always retains two or three points of strength, just in case.
Fortunately, rules are like an insurmountable wall when it becomes an obstacle to you; but once it becomes your partner, you will definitely trust its reliability.
"coming!"
Maka was currently suspended in the air with the Disguise Charm. Taking advantage of the height advantage, he immediately caught a glimpse of the space distortion outside the main entrance in the distance. Immediately, his expression calmed down, he no longer hesitated, and he accelerated the sprint speed of the black mist ball by one point again.
At the same time, he himself retreated towards the back entrance of Hogwarts Castle.
Although this feeling of fighting against my past self is indeed quite novel, and seeing another identical person appear in sight is also quite strange. But he understood that there was nothing wrong with taking a look from a distance, but if he noticed it, something big would happen.
Just as he has always been troubled, although the ability to sense magic power provides him with a lot of convenience, it can sometimes be a troublesome thing.
At this moment, several obstacle spells instantly blocked the impact route of the black mist, so that its speed suddenly slowed down a bit. Immediately afterwards, a silver-white giant eagle proudly cut through the sky and slammed into the side.
Maka immediately controlled the angle of flight, guided it to the side, and passed by the outer wall of the Ravenclaw Tower.
With a muffled "bang" sound, the wall on one side of the tower instantly shattered, and several figures immediately fell out of the wall, falling down together with the hanging masonry fragments.
When he saw a large-scale levitating spell holding those students together, he secretly breathed a sigh of relief and concentrated on fighting with the Silver Eagle Guardian Saint that followed.
At this moment, a strong wave of magic power suddenly appeared from the castle vestibule. In Maka's senses, it was as bright as a beacon in the dark night. It could be easily felt from such a distance.
He knew that this step of action finally came to the end safely.
Sure enough, a dazzling blue-white light pillar suddenly appeared, passing through the black fog from bottom to top without any hindrance, and then cut through the night sky and shot straight into the sky.
The black mist seemed to be unable to hold up any longer, and in the blink of an eye it turned into crystals that filled the sky, and was silently blown away by the night wind.
It was only then that the light pillar formed by the power of rules quietly disappeared, leaving only countless ice crystal fragments falling down like snowflakes.
By now, everything that needed to be done in this step had been completed. Maka no longer delayed, turned around and flew towards the back door of the castle. While flying on the magic book, he subconsciously glanced behind him, which was in the direction of Ravenclaw Tower.
Although he really wanted to take a look at Luna, after all, it had been a long time since he had met Luna. But it is obviously not the time yet, so we can only give up for now.
However, when he flew to the back, next to the doorway leading to the underground port, he suddenly stopped.
"I actually forgot that there is this one..."
After the Obscurus attack ended, the back door was already under surveillance by the Silver Eagles he sent. Although he was invisible at this time, he could not deceive the patron saint who could detect spiritual power.
This road is obviously unworkable.
Seeing the silver-white giant eagle hovering in the direction of the back door, he decisively turned around and left.
Currently, there is a patron saint guarding the back of the castle, and a detection spell is attached to the school's wall. The only place left to leave Hogwarts is the school's main entrance.
The protective spell there was the most powerful one around Hogwarts, but at the same time, it was also the weakest for him who had the method to remove it. The key now is how to avoid the self in the school hospital.
…
This night was a night with a bright moonlight, and the clear silver light fell on the front lawn, illuminating everything.
At this time, in the ward of the Hogwarts hospital, a group of professors and injured students were gathering together.
Snape, who hurriedly caught up, also came here with them, following Maka at that time. He looked at the scene in the ward expressionlessly, his eyes a little gloomy, and he didn't know what he was thinking.
"Professor Snape," Maka said suddenly at this time, "Has she already taken the antidote you prepared?"
When Snape heard this, he didn't show any hesitation and nodded quickly. Although there was a gloomy expression on his face, no one would think he was suspicious because he was always like this.
"Yes, but the effect of the antidote takes time to dissipate. She shouldn't wake up that night."
The person they were talking about was, of course, the Greek refugee student who had just been "killed" by Maca, Miss Helen Schon.
"Maybe... there are other reasons?" Maka thought for a while and said casually, "It may be related to the special physique of the Obscurus, or it may be something else..."
When he said this, he was obviously a little absent-minded. In his opinion, the action he took just now in anger was too cruel. Although he would not regret it, it was still a precious clue after all.
But how could he know at this time that the truth behind it was actually complicated, and even his future self was involved in it.
At that time, Maka thought about it, then put aside these thoughts and focused on the injured student. Needless to say, his level of potions was good, and working with Snape so that the injured students could get help as soon as possible.
However, when he was standing next to a student to check, he seemed to catch a glimpse of a dark shadow from the corner of his eye, darting across the lawn in the front yard.
The shadow was moving very fast, and the moonlight tonight was really bright enough. He could actually see the dark shadow disappear with only his naked eyes.
"… what?"
At that time, Maka immediately turned her head and looked at the lawn carefully, but she couldn't find any signs of suspiciousness at all. It was as if he had just been blinded.
However, the lawn of the campus is very flat, and the view from the window of the campus hospital can be said to be unobstructed. Where can one hide someone
Maka thought that she would have to go outside and check carefully in case there were any enemies hiding in Hogwarts. But he didn't know that at the moment when his attention was attracted by the direction of the black shadow, the real "intruder" had already left silently from the main entrance of the school.
…
Although it sounds fun to lie to yourself, if you actually do it, you will find that even if you succeed, there is no sense of accomplishment at all.
Apart from being able to lament my own stupidity at that time, I can only feel the sadness of cursing myself.
After Maka sneaked out of the school's main entrance, she did not use the door key to leave immediately. Although the movement on the spatial level was very fast, there was still a possibility of being discovered. In order to prevent accidents from happening, he chose to stay away from it before using it.
At this point, this step can almost be considered successfully completed. He deceived himself at the time, and also deceived the entire Hogwarts teachers and students. The whole process can be said to be relatively smooth.
But the reason why I use the word "almost" to measure it is because every step in this plan is closely related to the overall situation. And any step among them will affect the real ending at the end.
Next, he must seize the time to go to a place and do something he has done again. But after a total of hundreds of days of immersed research, what he can do now is much better than what he was back then.
If this plan succeeds, not only will the disaster at Hogwarts disappear without a trace, but his long-standing goal will also be solved.
Of course, the idea is good, but he has no idea whether it can succeed or not. His vision can be appropriately far-sighted, but he still has to be down-to-earth in doing things - the culprit that caused the destruction of Hogwarts was always the primary purpose of his trip.
Maka ran for a while in the woods in front of the main entrance. She felt that the distance was about the same. Then she took out one of the door keys from the pocket on her waist and silently activated it.
Along with the distortion of space that he had long been accustomed to, he and Helen Schon, who was floating beside him, disappeared from the same place and went to some inaccessible deep mountain.
That night, the silver moon rose in confusion in the sky, as if there was an invisible hand playing a song that intertwined time and space.