"Screw you!"
Lynn let out a roar so powerful that the surrounding clouds surged.
His arm thrust forward violently, and the four-colored flames in his hand erupted.
The flame had originally been no larger than a fist, spinning in his palm like a miniature sun.
But at Lynn's roar, it suddenly expanded by several meters.
Gold, red, blue, and white intertwined, the four colors spinning and merging like a blooming flower.
BOOM—!!!
The four-colored flames passed directly through Umbridge's body, erupting from her chest and exploding in the night sky like a blooming firework.
Yet nothing happened to Umbridge's body.
Lynn's eyes widened.
Umbridge slowly turned her head.
The moment she faced him, she gave Lynn a smile filled with mockery.
"Same… won't… twice…"
Translation: I will not fall for the same trick twice.
She would not let Lynn sneak up on her from behind again.
She would not let Lynn win.
After speaking, Umbridge's body shifted from solid to transparent before transforming into a cloud of black mist, like a dandelion scattered by the wind.
The black mist spread outward, vanishing into the air in the blink of an eye.
The remaining mist instantly clung to Lynn's arm and began crawling across his body.
Starting from his palm, it crept up his arm, over his shoulder, along his neck, and onto his face.
It writhed across Lynn's skin like countless crawling ants.
It was trying to devour him.
Meanwhile, dozens of meters away, the real Umbridge manifested.
Her body appeared out of nowhere, changing from transparent to solid and from blurry to clear.
Umbridge watched Lynn, who desperately waved his wand in an attempt to shake off the black mist.
The corners of her mouth curled upward once more.
The black mist seemed to have grown onto Lynn's body. No matter how he moved, it would not come off.
Umbridge stretched her arms straight out, palms facing upward, as though embracing something.
Her head tilted back slightly, her eyes closed, and her lips curved into a smile.
She waited.
She waited for the black mist to drain Lynn's magic and reduce him to an empty shell.
At that point, she would become stronger.
Much stronger.
Far stronger than she was now.
Boom!
The four-colored flames suddenly exploded behind Umbridge.
Boundless fire instantly engulfed her entire body.
For the first time, terror appeared on Umbridge's face.
Her eyes widened, and her pupils shrank to pinpoints.
She looked down at the burning flames covering her body, with only one thought in her mind:
How is this possible?
Umbridge copied what "Lynn" had just done, desperately waving her wand to urge the black mist to disperse the flames clinging to her.
But the result was unsatisfactory.
The moment the flames touched the black mist, they produced a series of electric crackles before erupting into an even greater conflagration.
The instant the flames came into contact with the black mist, it was as though oil had been poured over them.
They surged upward, burning higher, brighter, and more viciously.
They devoured the black mist.
They devoured Umbridge's magic.
They devoured her body.
Looking back at the "Lynn" being swallowed by black mist in the distance, he had already turned into flecks of light and completely dissipated.
Sizzle, sizzle, sizzle~
A sound like water splashing onto a raging fire rang through the air.
The flames and black mist twisted around one another, biting and consuming each other.
The black mist wanted to extinguish the flames.
The flames wanted to incinerate the black mist.
Neither yielded.
Neither was willing to lose.
But ultimately, the flames were stronger.
They devoured the black mist bit by bit and burned Umbridge's body inch by inch.
Umbridge's form could no longer bear the burden.
It dissolved into debris that scattered across the sky and dissipated into the air.
Only a basketball-sized black orb remained, floating in midair and facing Lynn from a distance.
"What are you looking at? Live or die—take your pick."
The moment he finished speaking, the Obscurial fled into the distance at extreme speed.
Its body streaked through the night sky, leaving behind a black trail.
In the blink of an eye, it was already far away.
Lynn shook his head, thinking that this thing was truly stubborn.
He had given it a chance, but it had chosen to resist.
He flicked his wand, and his figure flashed forward instantly, leaving a ring formed by a sonic boom in his wake.
The ring expanded from where Lynn had just been standing, growing larger and fainter until it disappeared.
Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!
Lynn moved as though teleporting, leaving another ring behind with every burst of speed.
"Hahahaha~ You can't run away! Just surrender quietly!"
Lynn's voice suddenly appeared behind the Obscurial.
The next second—
He was already in front of it.
Before the Obscurial could even turn around, Lynn flicked his wand.
With a twist of his wrist, the wand traced a circle in the air.
The circle was not large, but it was perfectly round, leaving behind a silver-white trail.
The trail lingered in midair for a moment.
Then the Spell took shape.
In the blink of an eye, a white disc appeared in midair.
The disc spun at high speed and slashed toward the Obscurial, intending to cleave it in two.
Wherever the disc passed, it cut a rift through the clouds.
Just as the disc was about to strike—
A Knockback Jinx hit the white disc.
The Obscurial, as though it had seen a savior, immediately turned and flew toward the source of the attack.
Lynn turned his head, and a familiar figure came into view.
Hogwarts' Defense Against the Dark Arts professor—Ellis.
He wore a dark traveling cloak and hovered in midair on a broomstick.
In his hand, he held something resembling a Dowsing Rod.
It was golden, with two prongs and a small sphere at the end.
At that moment, the needle of the device pointed directly toward the Obscurial flying at him.
"Professor Ellis, why are you stopping me?"
Lynn's voice carried across the distance, but Ellis did not appear to hear a word he said.
From beginning to end, his eyes never left the Obscurial.
Suddenly, Ellis opened his arms, allowing the Obscurial to merge into his body.
The moment it touched him, the Obscurial disappeared.
Ellis's body shuddered violently.
His skin began turning black from the inside out, while something seemed to slither beneath it.
"I feel great now."
His voice had changed, sounding as though a stone was lodged in his throat.
After saying that, Ellis turned to look at Lynn.
"Why…? That's a good question. Don't you think the Obscurial is cool?"
His gaze moved from Lynn's face to his own hands, then to the black patterns still slithering beneath his skin.
Lynn's mouth twitched.
Damn it. What kind of magical-creature maniac is this?
The moment Ellis spoke those words, Lynn knew that communication with this man was pointless.
Reasoning with a madman was like talking to a stone, arguing with the wind, or saying goodbye to a dead person.
Lynn was not a madman, and he did not intend to waste words on one.
Just like people consumed by scientific research, Ellis was now beyond listening to anyone's advice.
Lynn directly flicked his wand, and the rapidly spinning white disc appeared in midair once again.
This time, it was not just one.
It was many.
His wand traced several circles through the air, and every circle became a high-speed spinning white disc.
They hung in the sky in a row, spinning and emitting a low humming sound.
Lynn waved his wand.
The discs traced arcs through the air like winding snakes, lunging toward Ellis from every direction.
Their trajectories were chaotic, but every one of them targeted Ellis's vital points—his head, neck, chest, and abdomen.
Lynn intended to kill this man while the Obscurial had not fully merged with him.
The Obscurial had only just entered Ellis's body and had not completely taken control.
This was the best time to kill him.
Once the fusion was complete, the Obscurial would become more powerful and more difficult to deal with.
Lynn did not want to fight it a second time.
Just as Ellis was about to have his head sliced off by the circular blades—
"Heh!" Ellis sneered. "Child's play."
Ellis took a deep breath.
His abdomen rapidly inflated, and his entire body expanded several times over.
Immediately afterward, a stream of gray air erupted from his mouth, sweeping toward the discs like a tornado.
The discs collided with one another inside the tornado and were all destroyed in the blink of an eye.
Lynn stood in place, his gaze toward Ellis becoming solemn.
It was not because of his strength.
It was because he had only ever seen this method of attack used by one type of magical creature.
The Tornatoad, a magical creature that lived in regions frequently plagued by storms.
Its body was grayish-blue with dark patterns, and it was roughly the size of a water buffalo.
Its method of attack could not be said to be merely similar to Ellis's attack just now.
It was exactly the same.
Only its power was far inferior.
[Ding! Mission issued!]
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