HP: The Root of Everything - The Magician

Little Hermione Granger also wanted to ask the same question.

Hermione had never met the four people from Andrei, but judging from the dragon arm, they were clearly related to Shake.

Just as Hermione was about to ask a question, Teach slowly flew to her side and explained, "Little Hermione, these dragon-armed wizards are all your older brothers and sisters. They... are members of my Karl family."

"I will explain everything to you in detail after this is over."

Teach patted Hermione on the head and told her to stand aside and watch. With Andre and the others going to capture Lake, Hermione's contribution was negligible and insignificant.

After Lyke, who had fallen to the ground, drank a healing potion to heal the claw wound on his back, he raised his hand and summoned the magic carpet that stood motionless in mid-air.

But the magic carpet remained motionless, which terrified Lake: "How could this be? Why doesn't my magic carpet obey its master's call?"

The "bestowing" ability in treasure hunting magic imbues ordinary objects with corresponding folk legends.

Once the gift is successfully granted, Lake will automatically become the owner of this extraordinary item.

But now, it seems that some unseen force has blocked Lake's summoning of the magic carpet, leaving it temporarily ownerless.

This was unacceptable to Lake.

Lake was decisive; seeing that he had lost the magic carpet, he turned and ran without hesitation: [I can't beat them all. I can't beat any of them here.]

I can only run, as long as I get out of Hogwarts' territory.

After losing the magic carpet, Lake took out another item from his bag: a pair of shoes, a pair of leather shoes with small white feather wings.

After Lake put on the leather shoes, the white feather wings on the shoes flapped and carried Lake into the air.

This... made Teach Carl, who had been paying close attention to Lake, light up again, and he speculated with great interest: [Shoes with wings, shoes that can fly?]

Is this yet another magical item with some legendary power?

“Andri, Sibilan, Kiraro, Yeva, you guys go after him and have some fun. Let me see how many more amazing gadgets this Lake can pull out of his bag,” Teach ordered.

Andri nodded, rolled up the magic carpet that had lost its owner and threw it to Teach, then led the Kiraro and Sibilan sisters to launch a leisurely encirclement and attack on Lake.

Teach looked at the magic carpet in his hand, unfolded it, and carefully examined the patterns and textures on the carpet, as well as the silk threads used in its weaving.

The more Teach looked, the more a guess surfaced in his mind: "Could this be... Aladdin's magic carpet?"

"But if it really is the magic carpet that exists alongside the magic lamp in the legends, then why is the energy essence that my analytical array analyzed just simple wizard magic?"

Teach was puzzled, as was Hermione, who was groping him.

Hermione read the storybook of 'Aladdin and the Magic Lamp' when she was very young, and to this day, she still believes that stories are just stories and not reality.

But the magic carpet before them, in terms of its abilities and appearance, was exactly the same as the magic carpet described in the legend.

This made Hermione wonder if Aladdin really existed in this world a long, long time ago.

Seeing Hermione looking somewhat doubtful, Teach shook his head indulgently and laughed, "If you want to know what's going on, we'll just interrogate that Lake after we catch him, won't we?"

After saying that, Teach glanced out of the corner of his eye at a spot in the Forbidden Forest next to him.

His right eye was ordinary black and invisible, but the golden petrified demon eye in his left eye allowed Teach to see a mass of biological magic hidden by something.

But right now, Lake is the top priority, and Teach has neither the time nor the inclination to deal with the unknown spy that the Magic Eye has spotted.

After secretly dropping a craft grenade, Teach, holding Hermione's hand, flew off in the direction Andrei and the other three were chasing.

The ethereal creature seen by the Petrifying Eye was none other than Harry Potter beneath the Invisibility Cloak.

Seeing Teach and Hermione leave, Harry hurriedly caught up with Nagini, his excitement barely concealed on his face.

Think about what he just saw: an unprecedented chase.

In the mental imagery, Tom Riddle is just as excited as Harry, with Lake's numerous magical gadgets, the immense strength of the Andrei Dragon's body, and the extraordinary talents and abilities of Kiraro and Sibyl.

Tom had never seen these things before, and after the magic array was mastered, it undoubtedly opened a completely new door to his magical worldview.

"Chase after him, I, Tom, will see it all."

Without Tom needing to control Harry's body, Harry started taking steps on his own.

But the next second, a violent explosion erupted from beneath Harry's feet, blasting the frail Harry away and leaving him severely injured and unconscious.

The explosion drew the attention of Dumbledore, who was in hot pursuit, and he discovered Harry Potter, who had been blown out of the Invisibility Cloak, severely injured and on the verge of death.

......

Teach didn't care who got hit by the grenade trap he casually tossed.

His attention was entirely focused on the escape contest between Lake and the other three.

There stood Lake, wearing white feathered boots and holding an ancient knight's sword. Undoubtedly, this was another magical item imbued with legendary power by 'treasure hunting magic'.

"Cut~"

Seeing Andri catch up to him, Lake grabbed the ancient knight's sword in his hand, let out a loud shout, and slashed down with force.

Andri parried with his dragon arm, sparks flying as the dragon scales on his arm collided and rubbed against the knight's sword.

"Oh, what a sharp sword!" Andri exclaimed in amazement as he watched the knight's sword cut more than three inches into his dragon arm.

"Fuck~, that dragon arm is so hard!" Lake cursed angrily when he realized that even after using all his strength and wielding the knight's sword imbued with some legendary power, he still couldn't cut off the mere arm of the person in front of him.

The dragon's arm collided with the sword, then quickly separated.

Under Andri's [power], Lake was thrown away.

He spun around several times, adjusting his movements with the white feathered leather shoes, before finally dissipating the force that Andri had thrown at him.

Lake had no desire to fight, nor was he capable of fighting, so he used the force of Andri's throw to quickly change direction and escape.

However, before Lake could fly very far, a dragon claw suddenly attacked from the shadows ahead.

It was Yeva who launched the surprise attack; Yeva had been looking for an opportunity to capture Lake in one fell swoop.

Seeing this, Lake did not panic, because his 'premonition' had already presented the scene of being attacked in his mind.

'Hmph~' With a disdainful snort, Lake raised his ancient knight's sword and sidestepped to collide with the attacking Yeva: [Heh~, you despicable sneak attacker, you've run into my knight's sword, die!]

However, the knight's sword sliced ​​through Yeva's skin and body, but no blood gushed out.

Moreover, Lake didn't feel any sensation of his knight's sword cutting into anything: [What... is going on?]

[My eyes clearly saw the knight's sword slice through his body, how...?]

Before Lake could be filled with doubt, a deadly pain and a feeling of suffocation came from his neck.

"Kid, how much did you look down on me just now?" Yeva asked with a contemptuous grin, grabbing Lake by the neck and lifting him up.

Lake, who was about to suffocate, finally understood why he had failed and why he had been captured.

It turns out that the Yeva he just collided with with his knight's sword was a 'double image'.

Now, the double image returns to Yeva itself, merging with Yeva into one.

Teach, with Hermione floating nearby, finally understood what Yeva's ability was after seeing it clearly: [It wasn't just a visual illusion after all.]

Instead, it's a double image.

That's right, Yeva's ability is simply [double image].

Although it is a very simple ability, if used properly at the right time in battle, its practicality will be terrifying.

Yeva's [double image] creates a 'false' self within a two-meter radius around him, which has no physical presence but is visually and sensorily perfect.

When the real illusion appears, the ability user Yeva will hide behind the illusion, or in any location, or even within the illusion itself.

Thus, they enter a state of 'invisibility' that cannot be detected by any magic.

Under Yeva's vicious questioning, Lake roared angrily, "You... you despicable bastard, all you do is launch sneak attacks. If you're so capable..."

Yeva exerted force, preventing Lake from finishing his sentence.

Under Lake's resentful and angry gaze, Yeva shook his head with a smirk: "To achieve victory in battle with minimal strength, minimal action, and the simplest steps—that is my way of the assassin."

As the saying goes, all's fair in war.

"How dare you call me despicable, you brat!"