HP: The Root of Everything - The Magician

The Venerable Black Wizard can transform and upgrade ordinary flames into something as powerful and controllable as 'Fiendfire'.

The development and invention of this fire magic made Albus Dumbledore, who was observing from the shadows, feel a little ashamed of his own abilities.

Hermione Granger, at the age of 13, was able to fight such a powerful dark wizard without being injured or killed. Her fighting talent and ability made Dumbledore, the old man, feel gratified, but he also shook his head frequently.

Shaking his head in regret.

Unfortunately, he, the absentee manager of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, failed to discover Hermione's extraordinary talent in time.

Unfortunately, he missed the opportunity, allowing Teach Carr to take Hermione as his apprentice.

He shook his head in regret.

It's a pity that Hermione lost her innocence after following Teach Carl.

Unfortunately, Hermione became ruthless under Teach's magician's guidance.

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the other side.

To protect Hermione's safety, Shake hovered above Hogwarts Castle.

After seeing Venus's purple-black Fiendfire, she did not praise it like Dumbledore did, but instead felt contempt.

[Hmph~ It's just a fake flame, will it even kill anyone?]

Xia Ke, a perfect human-dragon hybrid, possesses the racial innate ability of [Fierce Fire].

When it comes to understanding Fiendfire, she can confidently say that in this magical world, no one understands it better than her.

Xia Ke raised a finger, and a flame appeared at the tip of her finger.

Under Xia Ke's control, the Fiery Flame could change into various shapes at will, the shapes of plants, animals, and people.

Then came the change in temperature.

The flame was initially a deep red color, but after Xia Ke infused it with her own human-dragon magic, the temperature of the fiery fingertip began to rise steadily, and its color changed accordingly.

Deep red, dark red, bright red, orange-red...

Bright yellow, yellowish white, grayish white, silvery white, dark white...

The temperature of the Fiery Blaze depends on the amount of human-dragon magic power that Xia Ke infuses into it. In other words, as long as Xia Ke's magic power is limitless, the temperature of the flames can rise infinitely.

Xia Ke's control over the Fiery Blaze extends not only to its temperature but also to its form.

Although Xia Ke is a human-dragon, she is essentially a wizard, and she did not lose her magical abilities due to her human-dragon identity.

Therefore, under the idealistic magical power, Xia Ke's Fiery Blaze has more than just simple attributes like temperature and burning.

After showing off and playing with the Fiery Blaze for a while, Xia Ke withdrew her fingers.

A pair of dragon eyes looked down through the clouds.

......

Within his own purplish-black fireball, Viner watched as the grenades he had mastered were slowly tossed toward him.

Under the bombardment of warnings in her mind, Venus waved her wand, dispelling the Fiendfire that enveloped her, and then gathered the purplish-black Fiendfire in front of her, forming a thick wall of flames.

'Boom/Bang~~'

An explosion rang out, echoing across the tower's rooftop in the dim moonlight of the dead of night.

The violent explosion did not wake Griffin from his sleep, but it caused Wiener, who was standing nearby, to instantly lose his hearing and bleed from his ruptured eardrums.

They practiced making shrapnel fly out after a grenade explodes, shooting into the flames of the city walls, which were ablaze with purplish-black fire.

Under the extremely penetrating power of the shrapnel, Venerer desperately poured out his magic to make the Fiery Wall more solid and compact, but there were just too many shrapnel projectiles hitting him, making it difficult for him to defend himself.

The shrapnel, heated to a branding iron by the purplish-black flames, pierced through the fiery city wall.

Seeing this, Venus immediately gave up resisting, lay on the ground and covered her head to avoid it, while waving her wand to switch positions with her clone who was standing in the safe zone.

But to her surprise, Hermione, who had teleported away, had already drawn her enchanted silver gun and, after calculating the right moment, pulled the trigger on Venus, who had switched positions.

'Bang~~'

The gunshot was loud and crisp.

The sound of a bullet entering a skull was also very loud and crisp.

As Vena collapsed to the ground, as thick blood flowed from his pierced skull, and as the purplish-black flames he manipulated dissipated, everything settled down.

Hermione put down the silver gun and, after examining it, was immediately filled with regret: "Damn it, I blew his head off with one shot!"

[This dark wizard is dead. I shot his brain through. His doppelganger spell... is gone.]

But despite her regret, the life lost could not be brought back, and Hermione was able to accept it.

When Dumbledore, the headmaster, witnessed young Hermione shoot and kill someone, even though the person she killed was a dark wizard whom everyone wanted to kill, Hermione still killed a person, a living person.

Furthermore, after the killing, Hermione showed no discomfort about having killed someone with her own hands; instead, she remained calm, as if...

It was as if she had shot and killed an ant.

Dumbledore couldn't accept Hermione's behavior, and while Teach Carr was away, he wanted to correct Hermione's psychology, which he considered completely 'abnormal'.

Then Dumbledore emerged from the invisibility cast by the Illusion Charm, took out his flying broom, and flew towards the rooftop.

But the next second, a blood-red demonic light suddenly shone on the rooftop.

A voice filled with intense hatred rang out, chanting a bloody incantation: "Blood dissolves like water... Die, you wretched evil witch."

Vener is still alive? He's actually still alive?

Just as Dumbledore was about to mount his broomstick and take off, he was shocked: [What's going on? That dark wizard isn't dead?]

The moment Xia Ke saw the red magical light flash, her dragon wings extended urgently, and she swooped down towards Hermione at a speed exceeding her limits: [How is this possible? She was shot through the head by an enchanted bullet, how could she not be dead?]

[She can't die, Hermione absolutely cannot die.]

Shake couldn't imagine what the consequences would be if Hermione died.

"Hurry, hurry... my dragon wings~ fly fast!" At this moment, in order to get there before the red spell hit Hermione, Shake was flapping her wings with almost all her might.

【how......】

[She's not dead?] Hermione, who had already let down her guard and was in a state of combat readiness, was stunned.

The fact that Venus was alive left Hermione's mind reeling. Her sharp and quick wit couldn't comprehend why Venus, who had been shot in the head, hadn't died.

Not only did he not die, but he also caught her off guard and shot her with a spell that would kill anyone who touched it.

Hermione stared at the red light shooting from beneath her feet. At such close range, with her brain frozen and her mind blank, little Hermione just stared blankly.

As Xia Ke swooped down, she shouted anxiously at the stunned Hermione mid-air, "What are you standing there for, you idiot? Use the Blink spell your teacher gave you!"

"Do you want to die? Do you want your teacher to destroy the world to accompany you in death? Hurry up and use it~".

"Hahaha~, don't even think about it! I told you, you can't run away!" With blood streaming from her head, Viner grabbed Hermione's ankle.