Chapter 586: Sneak Attack and Counter Sneak Attack
After entering the Room of Requirement, they quickly came to the Vanishing Cabinet. The vanishing cabinet now looks much worse than it looked before, most of it seems to have been burned, and even one of the doors has been completely burned to char.
"Is this the trap you're talking about? Hermione said something that shocked Malfoy a little after seeing the scene in front of her.
"Of course it's good, you should believe in my level as an alchemist. Ryan said, turning his head to look at Malfoy with a shocked expression. "Who's the sixth?"
"—I don't know. Malfoy shook his head. "All I know is a dark wizard from Turkey who is good at illusion. ”
"Alright, today we took out a non-core Death Eater from Turkey. Ryan said as he examined the vanishing cabinet, and at this time Malfoy finally couldn't hold back his curiosity and asked. "What did you just say? trap?"
"Yes, traps. Hermione said, clasping her hands to her chest. "Actually, at the beginning of this semester, Ryan found out that you were messing around here, so he set a few traps on this vanishing cabinet just in case, but I didn't expect you to actually bump into it. But now it seems that the trap is working well. ”
"Y-how did you do that? Why didn't I ever find any traps when I repaired it?" he was a little shocked as someone who had been tossing around this vanishing cabinet for a whole semester and hadn't discovered the fact that he hadn't discovered it for a whole semester.
"It's weird that someone who would have spent a whole semester fixing this thing would find out what I'm doing. Ryan glanced at Malfoy with disdain, at this time he had just confirmed that his trap was fully operational, the only thing he didn't know was who had eaten three nuclear bombs in the Bogin Burke store at another vanishing cabinet location, but he should be able to get the information tomorrow. "It's all over here, let's get out. ”
"So what are we going to do next?" asked Hermione.
"Go and get this guy's mother out first, after all, we just promised him. Ryan turned his head to look at Malfoy huddled in the corner, "By the way, let's see if he's still there when he drops that hand, and if so, you can pick him up, after all, he's on our side now." ”
Thankfully, Malfoy's left hand was still lying in the doorway of the Requirement Room, just crushed under the body of the bearded Death Eater. It only took Hermione two or three minutes to pick up his hand.
"Let's go and pick it up, I think the mystery man probably knows by now that Hogwarts isn't going well. Next, we have to move fast. Ryan said, removing the protective barriers that had blocked both sides of the hallway.
Just as the three of them reached the staircase, a figure in a black robe walked up, and then a deep male voice sounded. "I didn't see any patrols on the seventh floor just now, why are you all hiding upstairs and not patrolling?"
"Professor Snape, I-" Malfoy replied in a bit of a panic when he heard the voice, but Ryan cut him off and said, "Hello Professor, there were a couple of intruders upstairs just tried to infiltrate the Room of Requirement, and they've now been cleaned up, thanks to the help Malfoy just provided us. ”
"I didn't—" Malfoy's face changed dramatically after hearing this, and just as he was about to say something, he felt Hermione standing behind him with a wand in his lower back, and then he immediately forced his expression to change his words. "I mean, that's what I'm supposed to do as a prefect. ”
"—good. Snape lowered his head to take a closer look at Malfoy's face, who was so nervous at his sight that he even broke a few drops of sweat from his sideburns. Snape didn't seem to notice that Malfoy's expression was wrong, or that he did, but he thought it was just the aftermath of the battle. So he just said to Ryan, pointing downstairs. "You can go down and rest now, and I'll take care of the upstairs. ”
"Then we'll take our leave. Ryan bowed slightly and walked downstairs, but he passed a message to Hermione through the Phoenix Brand, and Hermione received the message and clenched her wand in her right hand while her whole body became vigilant.
As Ryan and the others descended to the 1/3 of the stairs, Ryan jerked around and unleashed the Iron Charm, which blocked the sneak attack of an unknown silver-glowing spell released by Snape. At the same time, Hermione's red and black light also forced Snape to leave from the position where he had just sneaked up.
Ryan hurried upstairs as he unleashed a silvery-white ball of electricity at Snape. Snape sensed the power contained in the orb and had to give up the magic he was about to unleash and use the Iron Armor. The balls struck his magical protection with blazing lightning bolts that drove him backwards, while other deflected rubble blasted the floor into crater after crater, and the flying rubble cut through Snape's robes.
Ryan rushed to the corridor on the eighth floor and waved his wand at the chandelier on the roof, which immediately turned into a metal skeleton with only a body and limbs, waving sharp claws and grabbing at Snape, but soon Snape picked up his wand and turned the paving stones on the floor into giant snakes, shattering the metal skeleton, and then rushed towards Ryan with no relentless movement.
Ryan waved his ring-wearing left hand, and in an instant, the serpent disintegrated and reverted to a freshly paved slate floating in the air. Ryan pointed his wand in his right hand at Snape, and the slabs all turned into a wave of boiling lava and flew back to Snape.
Snape hit the ceiling with a spell, and a large chunk of the ceiling fell to block the lava and create smoke and dust that filled the hallway, and Ryan had to use the spell to get the dust down first, while looking nervously ahead for Snape's sneak attack.
Seconds later, the smoke cleared, and Ryan saw Snape running away with his back to him. He immediately chased after him, but within a few steps Snape turned into an empty classroom, from which the sound of glass shattering.
When Ryan ran into the empty classroom, he found that the window glass had been shattered, and through the hole in the window, he saw a large, bat-like figure flying through the darkness towards the wall.
"How's Snape?" Hermione grabbed Malfoy's neck with her left hand and put her wand against his chin with her right hand to the door of the empty classroom. "I just heard a lot of movement up there, so I came up. ”
"I think I won, and Snape escaped. Ryan pointed to the big hole in the window, "By the way, put your hand lightly." Malfoy had passed out now. ”
"I was still a little nervous just now, and I used a bit more strength in my hands, but I made sure he was alive. Hermione said with some embarrassment, and then put Malfoy on the ground and said "Resuscitation" to his face, which was a little purple from being violently choked by the neck just now.
Malfoy took a sharp breath and coughed violently, then burst into tears. "You're killing me, Snape will tell the mystery man that I messed everything up today, and I'm really dead. ”
"It's okay, anyway, the purpose of the mysterious man is to let you die. No matter how bad it is, you can't die twice. Ryan reassured, but as if it didn't work, Malfoy continued to weep.
"Alright, let's go. Ryan pulled Malfoy from the ground. "If you want to save your mother, I think we can't afford to delay a little more now. ”
"But how do we get there now?" asked Malfoy.
"Grab my arm. ”
Malfoy complied, and asked. "What are we going to do next?"
"Next, let's go. Hermione, old place. With a sound like a whip hitting the ground, Ryan and Malfoy vanished, and then Hermione spun around in place for half a circle before disappearing.