Hogwarts Raven's Claw

Chapter 126 Mike's Weakness

"The stone spear appeared immediately."

An inaudible sound was heard in the Request-Granting Room, and an extremely thin stone spike with barbs shaped like an arrow emerged from under the feet of a training dummy, pierced directly into the dummy's vital parts, and then exited from the top of his head.

Although the stone spike is slender, it is very tough. The dummy shook involuntarily a few times after being pierced by the stone spike. However, the stone spike remained motionless and showed no sign of breaking even when shaken by the dummy, which weighed about 75 kilograms and perfectly restored the weight of an adult male.

Mike, who was sweating profusely, panted and looked at the dummy who was tortured by piercing, and a smile appeared on his face. After a whole day of hard work, the attack power of the ground piercing technique was greatly improved.

And now the Ground Spike Technique is no longer the one that Cedric could easily detect. After research, Mike discovered that the release of the Ground Spike Technique is completely based on Mike's own mental power to guide the magic power to be performed underground. By improving this mechanism, the Ground Spike Technique is now more concealed than before.

However, as if he had thought of something, Mike's smile suddenly disappeared, and he said with a distressed look: "Not yet! This level can't break through Cedric's defense at all!"

As he spoke, Mike used the ground spike technique again.

That's right, Mike is currently studying how to break through Cedric's turtle shell.

After enjoying the delicious food specially prepared by the house-elves for the celebration for two people with Professor Flitwick yesterday, Mike went straight into the Room of Requirement and began to perfect his spell system.

Previously, Mike was very satisfied with his existing tactical system. He had AOE fire spells and single-target killing spells for damage, armor for defense, wind speed spells for pseudo-displacement, phantom spells for concealment, ground spikes for sneak attacks, and obstacles for control.

In addition, Mike has a lot of spells like Shatter to pieces and Expelliarmus that can be used for attack harassment. It can be said that he has an invincible tactic of being able to hit and run.

However, Cedric taught Mike a real lesson that night.

Damage spells such as Fire Curse and Earth Spike were all overshadowed by the stone shield transformed by Cedric, and the Killing Curse could not be used in front of others.

If this were to happen in actual combat, Mike could still rely on the concealment and high mobility brought by the Wind Speed ​​Spell and the Disillusionment Spell to carry out the tactics of retreating when the enemy advances, advancing when the enemy retreats, harassing when the enemy stays, and attacking when the enemy is exhausted.

Anyway, Cedric's attack range is not large, Mike can easily run away, and transfiguration does not require magic power to maintain. If this goes on for a long time, Cedric will eventually be exhausted to death by himself.

But this is not a real fight, but a wizard duel in public.

It's not that Mike was afraid that he would be looked down upon by the audience if he used this tactic, it's just that the area of ​​the wizard duel was limited and he couldn't use this tactic at all.

And Mike knew without a doubt that Cedric's transformation skill could not only be used for defense and attack. If he turned the entire field into a quagmire, Mike's high mobility, which he was proud of, would become useless.

Now Mike also understood his weakness, lacking a powerful single-target damage spell that could be used in front of others. In the final analysis, what bothered him was that his most lethal "Fireball" serial bombardment could not break through Cedric's defense. As long as he could hurt Cedric in that turtle shell, all problems would be solved.

Mike thought about it for a long time and even thought of directional blasting, but he finally chose to start with ground stabbing. After all, he was not a professional in his previous life and knew nothing about explosives.

In addition, transfiguration is also a good breakthrough. As the saying goes, if you can't beat them, join them. Since we can't break the stone turtle shell, then we should all be turtles together. At most, it will turn an exciting wizard duel into a boring pee-holding battle.

Thinking of this, Mike regretted not learning Transfiguration well. Whether it was Cedric's superb absolute defense or Dumbledore's terrifying power of killing the basilisk in one wave of his wand, it proved that Transfiguration, when applied to a high level, is definitely a power that surpasses most spells. Although Mike always said that he didn't learn Transfiguration well, in fact, with his deep magic power and huge mental strength, Mike's Transfiguration is also relatively good among the young wizards of the same grade.

After all, the Transfiguration in the second grade is not very advanced. It is nothing more than changing buttons into mice or beetles. It is very simple.

Just recite the Transfiguration spell Vera Verto and imagine in your mind what you want to transform into. The more specific your imagination is, the higher the probability of successful transformation.

But this is only the most basic transfiguration technique. After experiments, Mike discovered that this level of transfiguration technique could not be used in actual combat at all.

Not to mention that he couldn't control the floor to transform into a shield at will, even the lions, tigers and other ferocious beasts he conjured up were just for show. A light punch would turn them back to their original form.

Mike had no choice but to give up the idea of ​​fighting poison with poison. He really couldn't understand how Cedric was able to control everything around him to transform so easily.

It is amazing that Dumbledore can do this. After all, he is the most powerful white wizard and he was also the professor of Transfiguration at Hogwarts. He must be proficient in Transfiguration.

But isn't it a bit exaggerated that Cedric, a student who hasn't even graduated yet, can do something like this?
"hu~hu~"

After trying the ground stab technique twice, Mike stopped panting, went to the rest area in the training room, and collapsed on the sofa.

Staring blankly at the training dummies across from him that were pierced by stone spikes, Mike just felt extremely thirsty.

He reached out and fumbled around on the desk next to the sofa for a while, grabbed a glass and lifted it up to pour it into his mouth. However, the water in the glass had already been drunk by Mike, and no matter how hard Mike tried to pour it, not a drop of water flowed out.

He threw the empty glass away. The glass made a dull sound when it hit the carpet, but did not break.

The expected sound of glass breaking did not come, and Mike sighed deeply.

The improvement of the ground thorn technique still failed.

Although thanks to his efforts, the Earth Spike Technique has become a terrifying sneak attack spell, the most critical penetration is still not enough. If this continues, he will definitely lose when he meets Cedric again in the duel competition.

Suddenly, a pain in his stomach pulled Mike back to reality from his contemplative state. He looked up at the clock and saw that it was already half past ten in the evening. Mike then realized that he had been in the Room of Requirement for two whole days and had not eaten anything since this morning.

"Let's take a break. I won't make any progress if I continue in my current state. Besides, I have classes tomorrow."

Mike thought so in his heart, turned his head to look at the bread and sausages that Franklin and Penelope brought for him on the desk, Mike curled his lips and stood up.

He decided to go to the Hogwarts kitchen to see if there was anything good to eat. He really couldn't eat the cold sausages and bread.

(End of this chapter)