"Is that Neos? Didn't we take him down already?" Sirius asked in astonishment.
"Let's go take a look. Stay alert," Kasenhis murmured as he stepped forward.
Eh..?!! The next moment, the group seemed to trigger some kind of mechanism and were instantly teleported back near Hogwarts Castle.
"What the hell is he doing!" Kasenhis cursed under his breath and immediately used Ender teleportation to jump alone to the spot where Neos had been. Sirius and Lupin tried to follow, but Snape grabbed them by the sleeves.
"Let go, you greasy bat!" Sirius shouted back.
"If the two of you want Kasenhis to get himself killed because of you, then go ahead. What makes you think your combat strength is on the same level as his? He'd probably have to spare time to protect you instead," Snape sneered.
"Hmph. It's just a Neos. Even Voldemort—" Sirius was halfway through when a massive burst of light erupted behind him.
He turned around—and saw something that absolutely should not exist in this world.
At the very least, in this world, a creature of this size was completely unscientific.
Grrr~~!!
A three-headed dragon nearly a hundred meters tall was staring down at Hogwarts. A few three-headed Withers flickered into existence around it, only to be swallowed whole in a single bite.
"What the hell is that thing…" Lupin muttered blankly.
"How would I know? Get back inside Hogwarts right now. That three-headed dragon has a special deflection field on it—magic attacks won't work!" Kasenhis appeared beside them in an instant, Ender energy wrapping around the group as he carried them back inside Hogwarts.
"Then what do we do?" Sirius asked once they were back in the Great Hall.
"Magic won't work? Then we use physics," Kasenhis replied casually as he headed straight for Professor McGonagall.
"Professor McGonagall! You see that big thing out there?!" Kasenhis shouted.
By now, the Great Hall was already in complete chaos.
After all, a dragon over a hundred meters tall standing up and walking toward them could honestly pass for a low-budget earthquake.
And the Great Hall wasn't without windows. Anyone who lifted their head could see that terrifying behemoth in the distance.
"What about using a composite Killing Curse?!" Professor McGonagall suddenly shouted.
"Useless. This is flesh alchemy, and it has a deflection field. Even if we could hit it, it'd probably just end up as a scratch," Kasenhis said, shaking his head.
"Then what do we do?" Madame Maxime strode over and asked.
Kasenhis merely glanced at her, then turned his gaze back to Professor McGonagall.
"For our sake… activate the Hogwarts Titan."
Professor McGonagall, who had still been wearing a tense expression just moments ago, suddenly calmed down. "(★‿★) That's right!"
As she spoke, she took off her necklace, opened its casing, and gently pressed a button inside.
The next instant, Professor McGonagall was swept away by a specially designed Ender force field and vanished.
"Where did she go?!" Karkaroff asked in terror.
Kasenhis shrugged and lifted his gaze upward. Inside the massive gyroscope hovering above the Great Hall, there was now an additional figure clad in emerald-green robes.
"What's going on?" Madame Maxime asked.
This time, no one answered her question.
Well—no, in the end, it was answered.
A terrifying tremor rippled through the ground.
Outside the Forbidden Forest, another Death Eater who had come to stir up trouble alongside Neos stared blankly at Hogwarts.
"It… stood up?" Barty Crouch Jr. said from behind Neos, utterly stunned.
"Your Hogwarts really is…" Neos took a deep breath and murmured, "…a land of outstanding people."
"This has to be that alchemy professor's doing… I knew that man couldn't be left alive. When I get the chance, I should put a Killing Curse in his back," Barty Crouch Jr. muttered.
"Have you ever fought him?" Neos suddenly asked.
"No. But an alchemist—someone who could beat me shouldn't be that common," Barty Crouch Jr. said.
"When you can beat me, then go look for that alchemist," Neos replied.
"What, are you two on the same level?"
"No. What I mean is—when you can beat me, then go find him. At that point, you might be able to last more than three minutes against him," Neos explained.
"You're joking," Barty Crouch Jr. murmured.
"Mm-hm." Neos merely shook his head calmly, watching as the hundred-meter-tall dragon faced the surging Hogwarts Titan.
Inside the Great Hall, people were even more terrified than before—especially a few Beauxbatons students.
Not long ago, they'd been smugly mocking Hogwarts' castle for not being as beautiful or refined as Beauxbatons'.
And now Hogwarts had gone and dropped a big one on them.
After all, what kind of normal person turns their own castle into a war machine?
And what kind of normal person can actually pull something like that off?
While everyone in the Great Hall was still frozen in terror, the Hogwarts Titan had already closed in on the dragon and swung a punch straight at it.
Boom!
Flesh alchemy was still flesh alchemy. It sounded more advanced, sure, but in terms of raw power, it wasn't actually stronger than traditional alchemy—if anything, it was excessively fragile.
After all, even if you dragged back every powerhouse from some ascended, steroid-pumped planet and had them all possess Ronnie Coleman, his strength still wouldn't surpass that of the most basic tractor.
Flesh alchemy followed the same logic.
And so, the hundred-meter-tall Mr. Dragon was blasted straight through by a single punch from the Hogwarts Titan. The point where its abdomen was struck caved inward completely.
But the massive hand of the Hogwarts Titan, pressed against the dragon's belly, didn't withdraw. Instead, its four fingers suddenly snapped straight.
Ra-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta!!!
In the next second, they spun like Gatling gun barrels, spraying out countless alchemical bullets that instantly riddled the dragon full of holes.
"What the f—" Barty Crouch Jr. stared at the scene in utter disbelief. "What the hell is this?!"
"As the Dark Lord's favorite subordinate, shouldn't you maintain some composure at all times?" Neos glanced at Barty Crouch Jr. and said.
"If you think making Hogwarts stand up and then blowing through an alchemical golem we made by fusing a three-headed dragon and countless rare alchemical materials is 'normal,'" Barty Crouch Jr. muttered.
"It really isn't normal. At this point, forget sneaking into Hogwarts during the chaos—if we stay here any longer, we're going to get caught," Neos said, pulling out a Portkey. Just as he was about to hand it to Barty Crouch Jr., the next moment his chest was suddenly pierced straight through from behind.
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