Surrounded by a large number of flame monsters, even though the cold current was constantly resisting it, Maka could still feel the heat waves coming one after another outside.
Yes, he has cooling rules, but those flames of Haierbo are not the same.
However, Maka's expression was still calm.
Under the protection of the ultra-low temperature cold current, he blocked the flames as much as possible. At the same time, he was still waiting silently in his heart.
"...Stop struggling...experience the mystery of death for yourself!"
At that moment, Maka caught a glimpse of Haierbo's figure from the gap between the flame creatures, and also saw the miserable green magical light that suddenly lit up from the opponent's palm.
It was unmistakable, it must be the color of the Death Curse, the smile of death.
Normally, a straight-forward modern curse like the Death Curse would definitely not touch Maka at all, just like Haierpo just now.
But now, surrounded by the airtight flame creatures, he must continue to maintain high-intensity cooling rules. Obviously, he has no spare power to guard against the light of death that will come from unknown angles.
At this moment, looking at the cause and effect, a life-killing curse cast by Maka was about to become the last thing that took away his life. This would inevitably make people feel ironic.
But in the next second, when the green light was about to emerge from Hai Erbo's palm, Maka's face showed a smile that seemed to be sighing.
Because it turns out that sometimes the twists come as a surprise.
"Abra-cadabra!"
This word, which sounds quite similar to the incantation Avada-Kedavra, was clearly spoken in Maka's mouth. And almost at the same time, the green light in Haierbo's hand suddenly...
exploded!
In an instant, the flame creatures around Maka stopped moving, and Haierbo was immediately completely submerged by a bright green light.
At this moment, the white of the ice crystals and cold current, the red of the blazing flames, and the green of the exploding curse of death, all the colors appeared extremely bright. It seems that at this moment, this world only needs these three colors to completely fill the reality, and all other colors have become redundant.
When the green light particles dissipated in the blink of an eye, Haierbo was already lying on the cold ground covered in gray.
"Young man..."
Maka knew that because the old guy used some kind of soul magic to resist at the last moment, he did not die on the spot. But his body obviously couldn't maintain its vitality for too long.
The Death Curse was terrifying, and Maka had never underestimated this modern curse. Perhaps in the face of ancient magic, its practicality is too low, but as mentioned before, the broken death rules are still the spokesperson of death.
Magic with the effect of instant death was unheard of in ancient times. It's no wonder that even Haierbo couldn't suppress the excitement in his heart just now.
"Why… "
Halbo, who was lying on the ground, managed to turn his head. It could be seen that half of his cheeks had been eroded by the rules of death, and one of his eyes was completely blind.
"Why can you control it, but I... can't..."
His expression was unusually calm, but there was endless desire in that calmness.
He originally thought that after deliberately avoiding death for nearly two thousand years, he would finally have the opportunity to touch that taboo with his own hands. If he succeeds, he will no longer have to rely on Horcruxes to survive, but will be able to truly hold the rules of death in his hands.
"Young man... what on earth did you... do..."
Just when Haierbo was asking questions intermittently, Maka waved the staff in her right hand casually. Suddenly, the cold current mixed with ice crystals swirled up again, clearing a path through the still stagnant flames in front of him.
And then, with the smile still remaining on his face, he walked towards Haierbo step by step.
"Your Excellency Haierbo, you asked a good question," Maka nodded, "Actually, the answer is very simple -"
Before he finished speaking, Maka, who had just walked halfway, suddenly used her staff, and a pure white beam of regular power reached Haierbo's location in an instant, depriving him of all his remaining vitality.
"But I just won't tell you."
Immediately, a phantom suddenly rose into the sky from Herbo's body that had completely turned into white. Maka subconsciously raised the staff, but soon put it down again.
This time, Maka really didn't have the extra energy to choose other options.
Just putting Haierbo to death took a lot of effort from him, and he even took a risk. And now, he could only watch the other party's remnant soul leave quickly.
Because he understands that with his level of control over the rules of the soul, it is really difficult to keep the remaining soul.
“What a bad day…”
Maka watched the soul fragment go away quickly until she could no longer feel it, then she turned around and looked around a few times.
The death of Haierbo's physical body meant that the magic power in his body was completely out of the control of his spirit, so those flame creatures that seemed to have solidified also dissipated.
At this moment, there was only a mountain forest covered by ice and snow, and it was difficult to find any greenery.
"Speaking of which, I would also like to thank Sarah..." Maka thought for a moment and couldn't help but chuckle again, "If it weren't for her, I might have had to leave first today."
In fact, from the moment Maka cast the life-killing curse, all subsequent actions were mixed with truth and falsehood.
Among Haierbo's professors, he understood the differences between ancient magic and modern spells, and also understood the importance of certain spells.
Taking advantage of the ancient wizard's desire for certain mysterious rules, he was equivalent to teaching the Death Curse directly to Haierbo... No, to be precise, he taught the other party part of the Death Curse.
Almost all modern wizards know that casting a spell consists of three parts: incantation, waving a wand, and volitional imagination. Even if a silent spell technique is used, the required steps of "reciting the incantation" will not be omitted.
However, in front of Haierbo, Maka never chanted a specific mantra once, and the life-killing mantra was naturally included in it.
Therefore, Haierbo, who only knew part of the principles through magic induction, did not know the importance of spells in assisting in adjusting the damaged rule sequences.
He wanted to directly cast the Death Curse based on only part of the principle, which was obviously extremely difficult.
Because of this, Maka set this trap based on the "despicable" character that Helbo had exposed previously.
For this reason, he also deliberately left enough time for the other party to interpret the magic fluctuations of the Death Curse to effectively increase the possibility that the other party would try to use it.
However, at the last moment, Maka found that she still underestimated the ability of Haierbo, the ancient dark wizard.
He originally thought that Haierbo would be unable to control the death curse and cause the death rule to be out of control, but the other party almost succeeded.
Therefore, Maka couldn't help but want to thank Sarah.
At that time, he realized something was wrong and suddenly recalled the scene where Sarah dealt with the bald old man.
Since Sarah can use spiritual methods to interfere with the opponent's alchemy formation, why can't he use the same form to interfere with Haierbo's life-killing curse
What's more, what he has to do is much simpler than Sarah, isn't it
"call-"
After sorting out her thoughts for a while, Maka turned around and continued walking in the direction of Haierbo's body.
This time he caught Haierbo off guard, and even cut off the opponent mercilessly at the last moment. But the old man's reappearance has still become a fact that cannot be ignored.
But no matter what, before that, he still had some work to do.
Just behind Haierbo's body, the ancient mirror still stood in the snow. Once again out of the control of others, it clearly has the tendency to show its power again.
As for Maka, she had to seal it again and then find a way to hide it somewhere where Haierbo could not reach it.
"This is really a big problem."
He was waving his staff and using magic threads to draw soul runes to frame the seal, while he was thinking about it secretly.
"I don't know how the old guy summoned this thing to his side..."
…
Just as the situation on Maka's side was coming to an end, Luna's conversation with the Bronze Eagle seemed to be coming to an end at Hogwarts.
"Little girl, Master Ying, I don't know how you got in, but if you can't prove yourself with a token, I have to send you out—"
The "token" mentioned by the bronze eagle is obviously not an Irish ghost. But what exactly it is, Luna naturally has no way of knowing.
Of course, maybe she doesn't really want to know.
"Little one, is Rowena Ravenclaw's Chamber of Secrets just a study room?" Luna didn't care what Little Eagle was saying. Instead, she happily changed the subject and asked herself, "Everything is here. What kind of books are there?”
"There are so many books here, they are all collected by Rowena... Oops! Why am I telling you this, don't you understand? You have to go out -"
"Then are there any books on the principles of magic?" Luna blinked and said leisurely, "If there are, I think Maka will need them..."
"Of course -" Xiaoying said as he jumped on top of Luna's head and stood firmly on it, "Okay, okay! Let's go, we should go out!"
As soon as she finished speaking, Luna suddenly felt her vision blur, and then she found herself back in front of the Ravenclaw common room.
"Besides, Makana kid has come to see me many times -"
After leaving the secret room, the Bronze Eagle added this casually, but then...
"Huh?"