"I know, that sword is hidden in Gryffindor's hood... So, child, there is no need to make these unnecessary struggles."
Haierbo raised his hand, and a ball of flame suddenly surged in his palm.
The flame he condensed this time was not the same as before. This kind of black flame that can firmly adhere to the soul cannot be easily resisted!
"Based on your qualifications, I don't see any possibility of you controlling it at all!"
Just as he was talking, Haierbo suddenly threw the black flame in his hand forward, and then it exploded in the corridor between the two. Harry saw the black flames covering him like an overwhelming sky, and quickly tightened his right hand around the hilt of the sword.
However, at this moment, Harry's expression changed.
"Where's the sword?"
At that moment, Harry felt that he had been tricked by the Sorting Hat. But before he could think about it, the black flame released by Haierbo swallowed him up in the blink of an eye.
"Sorting Hat! What on earth are you doing, where's the sword? Where's the Sword of Gryffindor? I-"
"What's the fuss about? I didn't tell you earlier. Are you really going to use a sword to cut down the flames? Besides... Before blaming me, you'd better raise your head and look around! Hey, please stop trying. Take out my hood!"
Two quarreling voices suddenly sounded from the black flames, and then Herbo saw the boy holding the Gryffindor hat walking out of the flames unscathed.
"Eh? Am I okay? What... what's going on?"
"you ask me?"
In Harry's hands, the Sorting Hat twisted, his tone rather nonchalant.
"I don't know... it probably has something to do with space or something! If that stupid bird made by Rowena, maybe it would know something, right?"
"In short, you and that guy seem to be in different dimensions, but they just happen to be able to see each other."
Harry was a little confused by the Sorting Hat's irresponsible explanation. But when he looked up, he found that the expression on the other side seemed much more exciting than his.
"invalid?"
Haierbo's eyes widened as he watched the unharmed Harry opening and closing his mouth, but he didn't hear even the slightest sound.
This obviously can't be that kid performing a pantomime, so that means...
"This protective magic mixed with alchemy and astrology is simply a trap!"
His reaction speed was not bad. The moment he realized this, he jumped up from where he was on the ceiling.
Unfortunately, just as he jumped up, Maka, who was far away in France, lightly touched the blue symbol ring on his arm with her finger.
Immediately, the ring quickly turned over on his skin.
"This time I finally got in."
The moment Maka watched the blue ring light up, Haierbo hit the ceiling hard, and then fell back into the corridor with a splash.
When he raised his head again to look at where Harry was originally, he discovered that the boy's figure had long since disappeared, and only an underground corridor covered in flames remained the same.
Haierbo glanced at the ceiling again and said thoughtfully:
"It turns out that this 'loophole' is connected to the 'front' of the coin... No, perhaps it is more likely..."
In fact, although Sarah was asked to work with Professor Sinistra to study this formation, Maka did ask them to work in the direction of "protection and concealment". And his purpose of obtaining this alchemical technique was to strengthen the protection of Hogwarts Castle.
But he also understood that if he wanted to use a newly-made gadget to deal with Haierbo's invasion...even if this was definitely not the other party's expertise, it was probably a bit forced to think about it.
Therefore, Maka simply used this refining formation in reverse.
He used the "back side of the coin", the space that should have been reserved for the object of protection, as bait, but instead let the real St. Mungo just stay on the "front side" without moving.
Once Halbo entered, he only needed to tell Sarah who was guarding the sixth floor of St. Mungo's to turn the "coin" over, and then cut off the connection between the front and back of the coin.
There is no doubt that forcibly "turning over" will inevitably lead to instability in the immature formation, but Maka does not need it to persist for too long - as long as it can last until he returns.
And being trapped in a space that is completely sealed by the power of stars, even Haierbo probably won't be able to escape from the constraints in such a situation in a short time, right
"Now does this count as... 'The most dangerous place is the safest place'?"
After looking at the blue ring on her arm again, Maka gently shook off her sleeves, and then continued to get involved in the busy work in front of her.
Now, he could finally feel a little more at ease.
…
“Little Sarah, I’ve never heard of such a thing!”
"Because you didn't ask."
"Eh? I... I didn't ask, but you should mention such an important thing to me! McClain too, why did you just..."
"Okay, I made a mistake. It's not because you didn't ask, it's because Maka asked me not to tell anyone else."
On the sixth floor of St. Mungo's, Sinistra and Sarah were standing face to face next to the formation formation, arguing about a certain topic.
Near the stairway leading to the sixth floor, many RA members and injured people had already arrived, but they were told that entry was temporarily prohibited.
"Then am I 'someone else'?" Sinista said dissatisfiedly towards Sarah, "I also helped to complete the formation, and I also came with you. Don't you think I should know everything about it? Effective?"
Sinista obviously didn't know much about alchemy. In fact, the structure of the alchemy array was completely completed by Sarah referring to the astrological circle array given to her.
However, Sinister's role cannot be said to be insignificant - without her knowledge of astronomy and specific star maps, Sarah would not be able to start.
But this also led to Sinista not fully understanding the formation itself.
But Sarah shook her head and said:
"It's precisely because the professor has come with us that I can't let you know... Maka said that it's best for only me to know about this plan. And before the plan succeeds, I can never leave the vicinity of the formation. "
In fact, the reason why Sinister was so unhappy was just because he was worried about everyone. To be honest, the situation just now shocked her - she thought that the formation formed by herself and Sarah had been destroyed by the Haierbo!
At this moment, Hermione, who was maintaining order on the other side of the stairs, suddenly turned around and asked Sarah:
"So, Harry will be fine, right?"
When Sarah heard this, she immediately nodded towards Hermione.
"Yes," she said calmly, "from the beginning, we were not in the same space as each other - you can think of what you just saw as 'looking in the mirror', although you can see each other , but all you can see is the other party’s shadow.”
"Then, can that Haierbo still come over?"
This issue is obviously also very important. If the other party can come over soon, then it seems that there is much less meaning in doing so.
And Sarah's slight shake of her head made Hermione feel a little relieved.
"There is no guarantee that we will never get over. After all, the other party is the 'despicable Herbo'. But even he can't escape easily... Of course, we can't leave St. Mungo's right now." She said lightly. , "—This is what Maka said, I think it's not wrong."
"That's good… "
After looking the petite Sarah up and down a few more times, Hermione temporarily put aside some irrelevant doubts and turned around to let everyone go back.
But soon, her expression suddenly froze, as if she thought of something bad.
"No, not good at all!"
Halbo was not with them, which was naturally good news, but Harry, who was left in the underground corridor, didn't know it at all!
"The Sword of Gryffindor!" Hermione thought about it and said with great anxiety, "We still have to leave St. Mungo's immediately... No, seal the stairs leading to the underground first!"
She didn't know whether she was saying this to the other RA members or to herself. Seeing her whisper to herself, she hurriedly pushed aside the crowd in front of her and hurriedly squeezed downstairs.
"Hermione, what's wrong?"
On the stairs between the fourth and fifth floors, Sirius met Hermione who was running down, but Hermione had no time to explain.
"Keep calling everyone, don't stop! I'll be here to help soon—"
When she said the last word, she had already descended to the third floor of the stairs, leaving only a faint final sound to Sirius.
However, when she came to the stairs on the second floor, the person who could not have appeared here suddenly appeared from the floor below and broke into her sight.
"Harry?" Hermione quickly stopped and said quickly, "It's great that you're okay - did you take back the Sword of Gryffindor within the time limit?"
To be honest, because Harry could hold the sword for so short a time, Hermione was not sure that he could really put the sword away on time without knowing the facts.
But when Harry heard this, he couldn't help but shook his head with a grimace.
"Take it back?" he said helplessly, "I couldn't even take it out - the Sorting Hat wouldn't let me! You know, I almost thought I was dead just now!"
"Are you still complaining? Aren't you doing well now? Not a hair is missing..." On Harry's head, the Sorting Hat said lazily, "If you are not satisfied, take control of it quickly and completely! Don't just follow others. complain!"
"Oh... ok, ok, I get it."
Watching Harry bickering with the Sorting Hat, Hermione finally really settled down. But he saw her shaking her head, ignoring their nagging, and went straight upstairs.