Chapter 395: Fierce Battle in the Forbidden Forest

Daphne pulled the cabinet door, but it didn't move at all. It seemed that Professor White had locked it with a spell.

"Hey, you--" Seeing that Daphne refused to listen, Cedric immediately stood up and tried to dissuade the overly curious little witch.

"Aren't you curious about what's in the cabinet?" Daphne asked back, "Maybe it's related to the secret that Professor White is going to discuss in the meeting!"

Cedric fell silent for a moment, because he was really curious about what was in the cabinet, and this curiosity had been burning for several days.

His patience had reached its limit, and after being provoked by Daphne, he could no longer hold back.

Astoria wanted to stop her sister, but when she glanced at Les and saw that he also looked "interested", she gave up the idea.

It seems that Rice is as curious about Professor White's "secret" as himself.

Since everyone wants to see what's in the cabinet, why stop my sister? Even if Professor White comes back later, my sister will be the only one to be punished, Astoria thought rather sinisterly.

It can be seen that there is more than one "smart person" in the room. The little wizards who have shown great interest in the things in the cabinet all hope that Daphne will be the person to reveal the answer.

Only Hermione still had some sanity left.

"This isn't a good idea..." She said hesitantly.

"Is this prohibited in the school rules?" Rice asked her, leaving the little girl speechless.

After Rice expressed his opinion, Daphne no longer had any fears, and she suddenly realized the moment Rice opened his mouth: Professor White said that, but did not leave an "absolutely forbidden order to open the cabinet", which means she was hinting that they must open the cabinet!

Daphne felt like she saw through it all.

"A considerate little witch like me should be rewarded!" Daphne praised herself happily in her heart.

Daphne not only thought these things in her mind, but also expressed her thoughts aloud.

Cedric, Hermione, and Astoria all fell silent, while Les was in shock.

'Was it Legilimency, or did someone use Polyjuice Potion? Where is the real Daphne? ' A series of thoughts flashed through his mind.

But thinking that Daphne had not had anything to drink for several hours, Les could only accept this reality: Daphne really guessed Helga's thoughts.

No matter how winding the path may be, the destination is the same.

After a deathly silence, the young wizards present gradually began to be assimilated, because after thinking carefully for a moment, they found that what Daphne said was actually quite credible?

Seeing that everyone approved of her actions, Daphne no longer hesitated and directly pulled out her wand.

"Open with a click!" With a crisp click, the cabinet door popped open.

Cedric was only half-believing and half-doubting Daphne's words, but when he saw that the cabinet door could be opened with such a simple spell, he suddenly felt that what Daphne said might be true.

Everyone present, including Rice, stretched their necks to look inside the cabinet.

Then they saw a puppet wearing a suit of chain mail.

Seeing that Daphne finally opened the cabinet under his guidance, Les secretly breathed a sigh of relief: That's great, if it weren't for this girl, I would have to think of other ways. Daphne really helped me a lot.

Daphne, who was closest to the doll, saw it most clearly. She was very familiar with the chain mail, and the moment she saw it, her abdomen began to ache.

At this moment, the puppet exposed to the air suddenly opened its tightly closed eyes.

In just a moment, the originally ordinary glass eyeball was covered by a layer of blood-red light, appearing extremely strange. Just one glance at it would cause an unknown restlessness to rise in one's heart.

Rice stood up suddenly.

He rushed behind Daphne, grabbed her collar and threw her backwards. Before the other little wizards in the office could react, he yelled "Get down!"

What followed was the blast of a heavy object cutting through the air, a loud noise that shook the castle, and the sound of glass breaking. The office was suddenly in chaos.

When they came to their senses, they found that a huge sand ball, almost level with the ceiling, had suddenly appeared in Professor White's office.

The sand ball was emitting extremely strong magical fluctuations, but Rice was nowhere to be seen.

"Lace? Where are you?" Daphne yelled.

"Here." Les's slightly dull voice came from the sand ball.

"Great, I'll just--" Daphne pulled out her wand, and a faint red light appeared on her other hand. She wanted to rescue Les who was trapped in the sand ball.

"Don't worry about me. Go after the puppet immediately. Don't let it escape from Hogwarts. This is very important! You can use any means, at any cost! It doesn't matter on my side!"

"But--" Daphne wanted to say something else, but Les in the sand ball asked her to act immediately.

Astoria was the first to react. She rushed to the window that was broken by the puppet in two steps and found that the puppet had landed on the ground as lightly as a big bird and was running towards the forbidden forest.

"Go quickly! I will meet up with you after I finish this spell!" Astoria heard Les' repeated urging. She no longer hesitated and jumped out of the broken window.

Following closely behind was Hermione, who also ran to the window, took a deep breath and jumped down.

Seeing that Hermione and her sister were moving, Daphne could only suppress her worry about Les and jumped out through the broken window like them.

Cedric:? ? ?

He quickly ran to the window and found them flying in the air, approaching the fleeing puppet at a very fast speed. Seeing this, Cedric gasped: How come these three people can use flying magic? !

A hint of embarrassment flashed across Cedric's face, because he seemed to be the only one present who didn't have the magic of flying.

It seemed to be a side effect of the domain. He was like being "stuck" to the ground and couldn't fly at all. Even though his magic control level was as smooth as flowing water, he still couldn't fly into the sky through flying magic.

"Oh..." After sighing, Cedric jumped straight out of the window.

However, the moment he touched the ground, it seemed to turn into liquid and Cedric "sank" into it.

With most of his body submerged in the ground, Cedric was moving at high speed towards the Forbidden Forest like a swordfish.

After all the little wizards on the scene ran to chase the puppet, Les stopped acting. He ran his domain at full speed, allowing the moisture in the air to adhere to the surface of the sand, and soon eroded the sand completely, and he also got out of the sand ball.

"It's amazing." Looking at the wet sand that had condensed into lumps on the ground, Les gave his heartfelt praise to the doll that Helga had transformed.

This sand ball binding magic alone can kill most wizards instantly.

Wizards without domains will be trapped directly and at the mercy of others, and wizards with domains will take some time to break the spell - it can even delay oneself for three to five seconds. It is truly an amazing control spell.

You know, after being trapped by the sand ball, the expansion of the domain is quite slow, but the wizards in the outside world will not be disturbed. This will gain several seconds of initiative, which is of strategic value.

Even if the puppet's owner didn't have a domain, these few seconds were enough for him to escape. With such a function, it was truly the strongest puppet. My work that night was not in vain.

What's funny is that this field is more powerful when it is installed on the puppet than on the monk. This man is not even as good as the puppet.

Les cast a vanishing spell to clean up the wet sand on the ground, and then used a restoring spell to restore the messy office to its original state.

After doing all this, Les walked to the window and quietly watched the four people and their puppets chasing each other as they ran into the Forbidden Forest.

Now it's time for the kids to perform, Les thought, patching up the hole in the window.

……

"There are many obstacles!"

"Thunderbolt explosion!"

"All petrified!"

Daphne and the other two flew rapidly at low altitude while casting some simple spells at the puppet.

I don't want to destroy the puppet, I just want to slow it down a bit.

But the girls' efforts were in vain, because several translucent shields appeared around the puppet in succession, blocking all their attacks.

After sensing that someone was catching up, the blood-red light in the puppet's eyes became brighter, and a sword blade stretched out from its palm, with flames burning on it.

"How many Shield Charms are on it?" Hermione couldn't help but complain after another of her spells was deflected. "Also, if we keep doing this, we'll all be expelled!"

"Lice said that we must do it at all costs. Anyway, we must get rid of this puppet today. At the very least, we have to drag it here until Les comes." Astoria ignored Hermione's complaints and responded to her fear of being expelled.

Since Rice said so, they would rather be expelled than not keep the doll in Hogwarts, at any cost.

Daphne did not join in the conversation between her sister and Hermione. Her eyes were fixed on the sword blade and the dancing flames on it, and a not very pleasant memory came to her mind.

"Be careful!" After realizing what would happen next, Daphne immediately warned her two companions to be careful of the puppet's telekinesis.

Daphne's reminder was timely, because before she finished her words, the flame on the long sword in the puppet's hand peeled off the blade, forming a three-foot-long crescent-shaped flame.

The puppet's hand shook, and a crescent-shaped flame flew towards Daphne and the others.

The flaming sword blade expanded rapidly in the air, and by the time it flew in front of Daphne and the other two, it was already more than ten feet long.

The three of them worked together to cast defensive magic in front of them while falling to the ground in an attempt to avoid the flaming blades.

boom!

The fire blade hit the defensive magic of the three people heavily, shattering it into pieces, but the power of the fire blade was also completely consumed by the triple spell, turning into a bunch of scattered sparks.

At this moment, a silver light flashed, and a dagger flew out from the sparks and went straight towards Hermione.

While launching the telekinetic slash, the puppet also quietly threw out a hidden weapon, in order to take advantage of the moment when the girls relaxed and give them a ruthless killing blow.

At this moment, Hermione was in a stiff state with her movements changed, and the situation was extremely urgent.

Seeing this, Daphne and Astoria were about to use the defensive magic in their magic items to rescue Hermione, but a ball of mud suddenly flew up from the ground, accurately hitting the dagger and knocking it away.

The three of them looked down and found that Cedric had also arrived.

"Thank you!" Although Hermione also had a trump card to save her life, she still thanked Cedric.

The crisis was resolved, but the puppet took advantage of the few seconds that the few people were delayed and ran into the forbidden forest.

Cedric did not hesitate, and directly controlled the mud to take him to the forbidden forest. Before leaving, he also prepared a ball of mud for each of the three girls.

With them, everyone can run much faster in the forest.

Daphne and Astoria both stepped on the mud and let it wrap around their feet, but Hermione didn't do that and instead flew a distance into the air.

"I'll guide you in the air and provide support." Hermione's voice came from the sky.

Daphne and Astoria looked at each other and nodded, thinking that Hermione's idea was a good one.

The four of them started chasing the puppet in the forbidden forest.

The puppet ran into the forbidden forest for a while and found that it had made a wrong decision: the ground of the forbidden forest was full of tangled tree roots and shrubs, making it difficult for it to speed up.

The thick trees became a natural cover for the young wizards, making their telekinetic attacks ineffective.

Although Hermione's vision was blocked by the branches of the trees, she could still determine the approximate position of the puppet through the flow of magic power, and then use area attacks such as the explosion spell to restrain it.

With so many factors interfering, the distance between Cedric and the others and the puppet became shorter and shorter. After a few minutes, he even surpassed the puppet and sneaked in front of it underground.

The puppet slashed out a flaming blade with its backhand, and then used the Armor Charm to block Hermione's magic from the sky. At this time, a figure appeared in front of it, raised his hand and used a "Smash to Pieces" spell, which hit the puppet head-on and was unable to react, sending it flying.

The person who rushed to the puppet and attacked it was naturally Cedric. After the attack, he did not hesitate at all and directly controlled the mud to wrap the puppet that fell to the ground.

"Did it succeed?" Daphne also arrived. The girl held the magic wand in one hand, and the other hand was wrapped in a ball of red magma.

Cedric looked solemn and shook his head slowly - he felt the restlessness in the soil, that puppet had its own territory!

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