HP: The Root of Everything - The Magician

Hogwarts, castle rooftop.

Under the moonlight, Dumbledore unleashed his full magical power, manipulating chains of fire to strike Lake, determined to stop the villain who had kidnapped 'Griffin' before his very eyes.

We absolutely cannot let Lake get away.

'Drink up~'

Seeing Lake riding the magic carpet further and further away, Dumbledore shouted anxiously, and his own magic power surged and increased once again.

Suddenly, more than ten chains of fire appeared, and with the support of immense magical power, they split into three times their original size.

More than forty chains of fire emerged from the rooftop, shooting towards Lake in the sky like vines and tentacles.

The flames from the chains illuminated Hogwarts under the moonlight, a truly shocking sight.

Under the vision of his petrifying demonic eyes, Teach looked at the sky full of chains and was extremely surprised: [Wow~, Old Deng's magical power is so surging.]

[It seems that although his title of the most powerful white wizard of our time is a bit narrow-minded, it is well-deserved.]

Normally, an adult wizard has only about one hundred magical energy pores.

Through acquired control and refinement of magical power, and the study of magical knowledge, the energy pores can be increased by one or two times.

A magic energy pore value of 2/300 is about the average level of an elite wizard.

However, through his petrifying eye, Teach observed Dumbledore, who was at full magical power, and discovered that his energy pores far exceeded those of elite wizards, reaching a value of around 700.

Tichy simply laughed it off.

Because his magic apprentice Hermione would surpass him, Dumbledore, without a doubt a few years later.

At the age of 13, Hermione, who had been promoted to the 'youngest' magician, had her entire body radiating the overflowing magic of the Griffin myth, reaching the level of an adult wizard at a very young age.

With her body growing and being imbued with the magic of her familiar Griffin, Teach estimated that Hermione would have a thousand magical pores by the time she reached adulthood.

Afterwards, he devoted himself to studying magic and sorcery, and this magical energy will increase exponentially.

"You thief, don't even think about running away..."

Seeing that his flaming chains had reached their limit and Lake had escaped unharmed, Dumbledore roared in anger and hurriedly mounted his flying broom to give chase.

"Fuck~"

For the first time, the Grey Wizard Dumbledore, who had always maintained the demeanor of a teacher, couldn't help but swear.

He miscalculated; he was careless.

Unexpectedly, the plan they orchestrated to bind Griffin turned out to be so troublesome with these two unscrupulous dark wizards who just randomly barged in.

If Dumbledore hadn't fully understood the effects of Venus's Doppelganger spell, a spell that could resurrect a clone once, he might have been caught off guard and killed.

And then there's Lake's treasure-hunting magic, which has the magical effect of predicting escapes—it's practically a cheating ability that turns misfortune into good fortune.

Fuck, fuck, fuck~

Dumbledore grew angrier and more agitated, channeling his magic to increase the speed of his flying broom.

Meanwhile, he kept waving his Elder Wand, manipulating the chains of fire to keep up the pursuit.

"Yay! That was close! Hahahaha..."

After narrowly avoiding an incoming chain at an impeccable safe distance, Lake patted his chest on the magic carpet, speaking with complete ease about how he had almost been caught.

Dumbledore, who was hot on his heels, was instantly enraged by Lake's irritating and provocative words.

To think that he, the most powerful white wizard of our time, had ever been so easily fooled.

Hermione, who was following closely behind, couldn't help but chuckle when she saw how furious Headmaster Dumbledore was: "The Headmaster probably doesn't know that the Griffin who was taken away was a fake, hee hee!"

Although Griffin was unharmed and Wiener was still half-dead on the rooftop, Hermione wasn't going to let Lake get away so easily: [Judging from the way Hermione looked at Lake, as if he were a priceless treasure, and the longing in her eyes, she must have thought of some important role for Lake.]

For my teacher's sake, I will absolutely not let the prey in front of me get away.

With that thought in mind, Hermione channeled magic into the flight training array on the back of her hand, instantly increasing her flight speed.

In the blink of an eye, he overtook Dumbledore and arrived in front of Lake.

He raised his hand, fired a shot, and pulled the trigger.

But a second before Hermione even raised her gun, Lake had already foreseen the approaching bullet using his treasure-hunting warning magic.

The bullet left the barrel but missed, causing Hermione to frown and bite her lip: "How could it be so hard to catch? Damn it!"

Hermione watched as Lake brushed past her, a smile and a hint of mockery on his face, and suddenly felt a surge of anger.

But Hermione remembered her teacher Teach's teachings: anger is a sign of incompetence and weakness, and she couldn't let her teacher down, not even by shaking her head or sighing.

Hermione then turned around, raised her gun, and accelerated abruptly by stepping on the air: "[Since Lake has the ability to foresee attacks, we will limit his escape route to the Hogwarts school grounds.]"

Hermione reached into her bag, and a shower of magical gems flew out.

Numerous gems passed over Lake, exploding in front of him, and the resulting smoke and dust blocked his path.

Looking at the barrier made of gem dust ahead, Lake immediately stopped the magic carpet. The warning magic he had placed on his forehead urgently reminded him that if he entered it, he would be in grave danger of being torn to pieces.

"No, I have to take a detour," Lake said, patting the magic carpet he sat on and changing course downwards, rushing towards the Dark Forbidden Forest below. "Although my precognitive magic in my treasure-hunting spells can help me escape danger and stay safe, shaking off pursuers will still be very difficult."

[But, as long as I can escape the territory of Hogwarts Castle, I can use Apparition to get away completely, haha~]

Dumbledore saw the direction Lake had fled in and, chasing after him on his broomstick, anxiously waved his Elder Wand: "No, we can't let him into the Forbidden Forest."

However, despite Dumbledore's efforts to manipulate the chains of fire to stop him, the prescient Lake still entered the Forbidden Forest.

Dumbledore watched as Hermione chased Lake into the forest, and he hesitated.

The Forbidden Forest is home to intelligent magical creatures, the centaurs.

The centaurs are very xenophobic; they consider the Forbidden Forest their territory, and indeed it is, with Hogwarts being the outsider.

Since its founding, Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry has maintained a non-aggression pact with the centaurs in the Forbidden Forest, and successive headmasters have always adhered to this agreement.

Dumbledore was now in a dilemma, looking at the situation before him.

Rushing in to chase Lake would inevitably trigger the aftermath of the battle, thus breaking the peace pact maintained with the centaurs for generations. At that time, Hogwarts would face the incompatible exclusion of the centaurs.

But if we don't go in, are we just going to let Lake and Griffin escape?

"Professor Teach Carr, how long are you going to keep watching from that rooftop?"

Frustrated and annoyed, Dumbledore channeled some of his anger onto Teach.

Thinking that if Teach had intervened from the beginning, Lake would have been caught long ago, and he wouldn't have been allowed to escape into the Dark Forest.

Meanwhile, Dumbledore was also thinking that because of the pact with the centaurs, it wasn't convenient for him, as the headmaster of Hogwarts, to cause trouble, but Teach Carr, as an unofficial professor, could: [Let Teach break in and arrest Lake]

If things escalate and the centaurs investigate, I, as the principal, can easily pin all the blame on Teach. Then…

【Wouldn't that make it perfectly legitimate to expel Teach from Hogwarts through reasonable means? Haha~】

Teach flew to the edge of the Forbidden Forest and looked at Dumbledore, who was standing still.

Whether Teach wanted to know or not, Dumbledore was determined to get his hands on Lake.

[It's good that Old Deng isn't going after him, so he won't be competing with me for Lake.] After thinking this, Teach stood in mid-air, his right hand emerging from his robes, and waved his hand with imposing force.

With a wave of his hand, Teach summoned four figures that descended from the sky.

They descended into the air as if walking on flat ground, then knelt on one knee behind Teach, bowing their heads and saying, "I am Andrisen Carl..."

“I am Sibyl Karl…”

“I am Kira Karl…”

“I am Yeva Karl…”

"I have come as ordered to pay my respects to the patriarch and request his command."

The force of Andre's four companions descending from the sky caused Dumbledore, who was on a broom, to lose his balance and nearly fall off.

After he steadied the broom, his eyes widened in terror, and he stammered in disbelief, "You, you..."

"How did you get here at Hogwarts? Answer me, how did you get here?"

The prohibition against Apparition at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry must not be violated.

As the headmaster of the house, Dumbledore absolutely could not allow this prohibition to have any loopholes; he had to protect the safety of the young wizards in the castle.

"I'll ask one last time, how did you get in?"

Seeing that Andre and the other three were still kneeling on one knee and ignoring his question, Dumbledore asked Teach with a mixture of fear and murderous intent, "Teach Carr, answer me, how did they get in out of thin air?"

Andrei could not tolerate Dumbledore's murderous questioning of the head of the Teach family, but he did not receive Teach's permission to get up.

So, with a chill in his heart, he softly communicated with the dragon girl An Moli in the sky, and she appeared.

They wanted to use this method to make Dumbledore realize how insignificant he, the most powerful white wizard of his time, was in front of them and their patriarch, Teach.

Just as Dumbledore's questioning yielded no results, he pointed the Elder Wand at Teach.

A dark shadow, completely obscuring the moonlight and blotting out the sky, broke through the clouds and appeared above his head.

Dumbledore looked up and saw a dragon.

A dragon he had never seen before, nor had it ever appeared in the history of magic.

As Amori's enormous body, over forty meters long, descended, the resulting dragon-like shadow enveloped most of Hogwarts Castle.

Her dragon eyes, a mix of purple and black, now radiated an aura of boundless tyranny as she stared intently at Dumbledore.

death.

The feeling of death emanated from Ambrosial's dragon eyes and enveloped Dumbledore.