#736 - The Messenger of Doom (asking for monthly ticket recommendation ticket)

“Humans… why have you awakened me?”

After a slight moan, the demon giant suddenly opened its mouth and asked. Its muffled voice was like a low, rumbling thunder, and just hearing it made one feel heavy pressure.

“Who are you? Why…”

Harry, standing in the front row, suppressed the tension in his heart and wanted to know why they couldn't see the other party's data, but he quickly felt that this seemed inappropriate, and as a result, he could only stop abruptly as if someone had grabbed his throat.

“Don't know my name? And dare to mess around here? Heh heh heh…”

The giant demon grinned and laughed wildly, its voice as muffled as shouting into a water tank, causing ripples in the mud beneath its feet.

“But seeing as you have offered me so many sacrifices, I might as well let you die knowing why!”

The giant demon straightened its chest and pushed hard, and then two equally huge fleshy wings stretched out from its back with a 'bang', allowing them to spread out arbitrarily.

Immediately afterwards, everyone saw it reach to its waist with its right hand, pull out a long whip with a 'whoosh', and then whip it **** the ground with a 'smack'.

“I am the former Lord of Fear! One of the seven great lords under Satan, the King of Hell! The Harbinger of Doom—Doom!”

As the Harbinger of Doom announced his name, a cloud of faintly burning blood flames gradually rose from his body, causing Doom to glow red from head to toe, and the long whip in his hand was also covered in flames as if it had been ignited.

This change caused the air to be filled with the smell of sulfur, as well as sparks that were still burning like volcanic ash.

“Harbinger of Doom? Doom?”

Harry and the others were all stunned when they heard this, and couldn't help but look at each other.

“Have you heard of this Doom?” Ron carefully leaned close to Hermione and asked in a low voice.

Hermione shook her head decisively when she heard this. “No, I know about the Satan he mentioned, but isn't that just a legend? Could this guy be a real demon?”

“Anyway, this posture doesn't look fake at all!” Neville was sweating profusely from the heat, and they were already about to collapse before they even fought him.

Doom in the distance didn't pay attention to these little wizards at this time. He was just stretching his body and wings as much as he could, and breathing the fresh air around him as if it were a luxury.

Harry and the others didn't dare to disturb him casually after seeing his performance, and were even happy to see it happen, because time was still passing, and the [Exorcism Book] next to them was still counting down.

In fact, from the appearance of the mutation to Doom's appearance, more than two minutes had passed, and there was less than a minute left before the end of the fourth stage.

So everyone was hoping that the stage would end and then quickly escape this hellish place.

There was no way, the pressure brought to them by the Harbinger of Doom was too great and too real, so real that they couldn't detect even a trace of possibility to defeat him.

Snape next to him also quietly leaned close to the others at this time, and then said in a solemn voice, “You guys be careful later, if the situation is not right, run quickly, don't think about holding on, I will cover you.”

“Professor, is… is this big guy not a construct created by Professor Wilson?”

At this critical moment, the little wizards had forgotten their grievances with Snape, and Harry asked with a trembling voice to verify.

“Construct?” Snape shook his head with a wry smile. “Impossible! Let me just tell you this, the intensity of the magic power that can be perceived from him now is not even in the same dimension as those toys before. I'm afraid even I can't do anything about this guy in front of me. This doesn't seem like an artificial product at all.”

“What?”

Harry felt a chill in his heart when he heard this. They had previously held a glimmer of hope in their minds, hoping that the other party was actually just a hidden boss in the dungeon, but could this guy really be a demon? But why would it appear in Anduin's dungeon?

“Harry!” Hermione, who had been carefully timing next to him, leaned over tremblingly. “The countdown of the [Exorcism Book] is about to be completed. As soon as the return channel opens, let's run quickly, no matter what the Harbinger of Doom is!”

Everyone, including Snape, breathed a sigh of relief when they heard this, and then nodded in unison. They didn't want to fight this scary guy.

As soon as Hermione finished speaking, the [Exorcism Book] next to them moved!

The azure blue book suddenly flashed, and then disappeared into the air while spinning, and as the book disappeared, a round space door slowly opened in the void. From the gap, they could see the stone house decorations inside, as well as the Mirror of Erised.

At the same time, they heard the dungeon notification sound they had been waiting for.

[Fourth stage - Base defense has been completed. The return portal is now open. This portal will only last for 3 minutes. Please all survivors leave the dungeon as soon as possible!]

“Nice!”

Seeing that the portal had indeed opened as the dungeon notification sound had said, everyone clenched their fists excitedly, and then rushed towards the space door in unison.

“Space door? Want to leave? Have you asked for my opinion?”

The Harbinger of Doom [Doom], who was still reveling in himself in the distance, smiled coldly after seeing the opened portal, and immediately stretched out the index finger of his left hand and pointed it at the portal.

Immediately afterwards, under everyone's gaze, the round portal that had already been opened halfway shattered with a 'bang' like a mirror that had been hit hard.

“What?”

Everyone, including Snape, showed a look of astonishment in the face of such a change. They didn't expect that the other party could destroy the space door from such a distance.

As the portal was destroyed, everyone's hearts were filled with despair.

At the same time, they could now be sure that this suddenly appearing Doom had nothing to do with Anduin. If the other party was one of the links in this dungeon, it would be impossible to do something like destroying the portal.

“Humble ants, you actually dare to make small moves under my nose, you are really courting death…” Doom smiled involuntarily, admiring the astonished expressions of the wizards.

“We have no grievances with you, we just want to leave, why are you doing this?” Hermione roared loudly with a trembling voice. Her heart was filled with fear and despair, as well as the anger that came with it!

“Why? Ridiculous…” Doom raised his chin and stared at them mockingly. “Daring to enter my territory without permission is your greatest sin, and…”

Doom's eyes suddenly became extremely dangerous. “I smelled a very annoying smell from that door. You are probably in cahoots with that bastard Anduin, right?”

“Anduin? You know Professor Wilson?”

“Hahahaha…” Doom seemed to have heard a joke, or something he hated, and he clenched his fists with a ferocious expression.

“Of course I know him. If it wasn't for that damn guy messing around two years ago, my sacrificial ritual would have been completed long ago. The entire Hope Town, full of 30,000 fresh human sacrifices, would have become my gift to Satan.”

“As a result… that trash called Anduin! Ant! He actually dared to destroy my ritual, causing so much life essence to be wasted in vain, it's simply unforgivable!”

Everyone couldn't help but feel a chill in their hearts after hearing Doom's description. This guy actually planned to sacrifice tens of thousands of humans as livestock?

As for unforgivable? Does the other party have a problem with their understanding of this word? Clearly what you did is the real unforgivable thing!

Snape cursed secretly in his heart. Damn it, Anduin actually provoked such a monster back then? Why did he never mention it? And he used this hellish place to create a dungeon?

Harry next to him mustered up his courage and shouted at Doom, “Impossible! Since Professor Wilson discovered you were doing evil, how could he not kill you completely?”

“Heh!” Doom smiled coldly. “Am I so easy to get rid of?”

“But… I have to admit, Anduin's strength is indeed powerful. I will never forget that thundercloud that almost enveloped the entire Hope Town.”

“Two years ago, I fought Anduin fiercely for three days and three nights. At first, I had the upper hand, after all, I had the energy sacrificed by tens of thousands of human sacrifices.”

“But as time went by, that man was like a tireless monster, not only exhausting all my magic power, but also completely destroying the ritual formation I had set up in Hope Town.”

“However, no matter how powerful Anduin was, he could only wound me, but could not completely destroy me. That man confidently thought he had everything under control, but he actually knew nothing about the power of demons!”

“Hahahaha!” Doom laughed wildly as if no one else was there, and at the same time stretched out his hand and pointed fiercely at the void, cursing the former enemy angrily. “Anduin, you thought that destroying my body completely would kill me? You didn't expect it, right? I still have a backup plan and a last bit of life energy left under Hope Town!”

After venting to his heart's content, Doom lowered his head again and looked at the five people in front of him with a sinister gaze. “From what you said, Anduin is your teacher? That's good, I'll use your blood to wash away the shame I once suffered!”

Even Snape was shocked when he heard Doom's words. This guy was actually comparable to Anduin in strength?

Snape was very clear about how powerful Anduin was. Although he didn't get along with Anduin very well, he never doubted the other party's strength.

If what Doom said was true, then they were probably in real danger today!

Harry next to him was already so frightened that his legs were weak, but he still mustered up the courage to shout at Doom, “This is Professor Wilson's place now, he's not far away, if you dare to attack us, he will definitely not let you go!”

But Harry's intimidation had no effect on Doom. “He's here? Hahahaha, the fear in your mind is as conspicuous as a torch in the night in front of me. I did sense Anduin's existence before, but that was on the other side of the portal.”

“So you should give up as soon as possible. Even if Anduin discovers me, he won't be able to come over for a while. This town itself has extremely strong space blocking ability, not to mention that I'm here, he can forget about reopening the portal!”

However, after scornfully refuting Harry, Doom still sniffed hard with his nose just in case.

And with this sniff, he actually discovered something!

Doom turned his head and cast his cold gaze into the distant jungle, then raised his right hand and whipped the long whip in his claws fiercely in that direction.

“Who is it, daring to spy on me in the dark?”

The scorching whip turned into a headless fire snake, constantly stretching and lengthening during the whipping process, and then whipped fiercely into the jungle like a hundred-meter-long fiery stick, leaving a conspicuous fiery path along the way.

As the fire whip struck, a dozen trees that could only be embraced by one person were blasted into charcoal and debris, and even forced the figure behind the tree that the end of the whip had crossed out.

“Wait!”

The figure who was whipped by the fire whip and had nowhere to hide shouted urgently, but Doom's long whip wrapped around him as if it had a life of its own, and was about to strangle him alive! Burn him to death!

“Finite Incantatem!”

A golden magical aura suddenly flashed, and the circular shield supported by the magical light bounced the fire whip away fiercely with a 'whoosh', and at the same time extinguished all the flames attached to the long whip.

Then the figure took advantage of this gap to rush forward, and after a while, he arrived at the open space where Doom and the group of five were, and stopped at a position thirty or forty meters away from both sides.

The figure who appeared at this time was naturally Quirrell himself, whom Snape had been searching for for a long time.

However, Quirrell at this time looked very embarrassed, with several cuts in the robes on his body. Only the turban on his head was wrapped neatly and tightly, obviously he was not very successful in Despair Town before.

After coming closer, Quirrell slightly adjusted his clothes, and then bowed slightly to Doom, and said with a slightly respectful smile, “Respected Lord of Fear, I am not with this group of people in front of you, nor with that Anduin. I am also an enemy of Anduin, so there is no need for us to be hostile to each other.”

Doom did not immediately express his position when he heard this, but just stared at Quirrell quietly.

Harry and the others on the other side were surprised by Quirrell's appearance, and Hermione couldn't help but shout loudly, “Professor Quirrell? Have you really betrayed Hogwarts? Betrayed Dumbledore and Professor Wilson?”

“Betrayal?” After bowing to Doom, Quirrell turned his face and smiled coldly. “Ridiculous, I was never on the same path as Dumbledore and Anduin from the beginning, so how can there be betrayal?”

“So you are really a Death Eater? Why? Why did you join Voldemort?” Harry was so angry by Quirrell that he forgot his fear for a moment, and just pointed at the other party's nose and cursed angrily.