HP: The Root of Everything - The Magician

Guns are the most dangerous weapons in human history, and no one would not be afraid of such danger.

Even Lockhart, who didn't know what a pistol was, felt a sense of threat and fear the moment Hermione Granger pointed it at him.

Wizards have far more acute senses than ordinary people. Realizing the extreme danger, Lockhart immediately tried to use his half-baked defensive spell, which he had learned in his student days, but it was too late. Waving his wand and chanting the spell both required time, and Hermione had already targeted him.

In desperation, Lockhart could only raise his hands to defend himself.

'Bang!' The trigger was pulled and the bullet was fired.

Lockhart didn't know what Hermione had done with her silver thing (the pistol), but he felt his left hand, which he was using to protect his head, being knocked away by a huge, tiny force, and then... a burning pain shot through his arm, which was pierced by a bullet.

Instantly, he was in unbearable pain, his mouth clenched so tightly that he could only utter trembling breaths.

Looking down, Lockhart saw a bloody hole the size of a pen, from which blood was flowing freely. In an instant, Lockhart panicked.

Losing focus in battle can be fatal. Hermione recovered from the recoil of the pistol and aimed at Lockhart again, prompting Tom Riddle to desperately try to wake Lockhart in a mental scene.

Actually, Tom didn't need to wake him up; Lockhart was already awakened by the sense of danger of being targeted by a gun once again.

Lockhart, his face covered in cold sweat, rolled over and hid behind a desk.

Hermione watched this fake conman make such a fool of himself in front of her and laughed mockingly: "Did you think I couldn't do anything to you just because you hid?"

On the path of magic, anyone who obstructs or attempts to obstruct a magician's pursuit of truth is an enemy.

Hermione Granger perfectly inherited this line from Teach Carr.

Therefore, once Hermione confirmed that Lockhart, who wanted her life-giving 'Life Analysis Transmutation Circle,' was an enemy, she would absolutely not hold back.

Just as Hermione was about to use Blink to get around the desk and shoot Lockhart, the cowardly Lockhart suddenly popped out from behind the desk and used a dark spell on her.

This spell is a heart-piercing wrist bone.

Hermione was careless. She thought she had seen through Lockhart's hypocrisy and believed that Lockhart would have no choice but to hide under the threat of her pistol. So the piercing wrist bone struck her.

Ultimately, this was Hermione's first life-or-death battle, so it's no wonder she was careless.

Hermione is only a twelve-year-old child, not yet thirteen.

Fortunately, Lockhart's dark magic, lacking any real talent, was haphazard and ineffective. When the piercing wrist bone struck her, Hermes only experienced a splitting headache, without the soul-wrenching torment of being unable to live.

Hermione was able to endure this pain through sheer willpower.

Then, Hermione cast a levitation spell on the desk where Lockhart was hiding with her wand in her right hand, and after moving the desk away, she immediately fired the pistol in her left hand.

In the mental imagery, guided by Tom Riddle, Lockhart hid again the moment the desk was moved.

The bullets emptied, and Lockhart, who had hidden himself again, was nowhere to be found.

At this point, Hermione dared not swagger into the classroom. She endured the excruciating pain in her brain and painstakingly concealed her body.

The piercing wrist strike only lasted five minutes. After five minutes, Hermione's mind returned to normal. She then took out the mercury and drew a transmutation circle in an inconspicuous corner of her desk.

The formation was completed in less than a minute, thanks to Teach Carr's extremely strict instruction of Hermione.

In battle against the enemy, he won't give you time to practice your formation.

Teach wanted to train Hermione to the point where she could use her thoughts to activate her life magic, and then draw a chakra circle with a flick of her finger.

After Hermione finished drawing the small transmutation circle, she used Blink to draw another transmutation circle on another desk.

Then, repeating the process until more than half of the desks were carved, Hermione once again picked up her wand and used the Levitation Charm to throw the transformed desks into the area in the classroom where Lockhart was hiding.

Instantly, the drawn array was activated, and the desk exploded.

The explosive power was no less than that of a high-explosive hand grenade.

Hermione wanted to use this indiscriminate throwing of 'practice bombs' to force Lockhart out, and then deliver a fatal blow to him with her pistol.

......

Lockhart lay huddled on the ground, clutching his head in terror, amidst Hermione's ruthless, high-altitude bomb-like attack.

Tom Riddle was so enraged by this pathetic display that he wanted to die on the spot: "Idiot, stand up and fight back!"

"Do you want to die?"

Tom's new life plan has reached a critical juncture. If he can subdue Hermione, he can obtain the Life Analysis Alchemy Array. At this point, he doesn't want to fail at the last minute.

Seeing Lockhart unmoved by the life-threatening warnings, cowering in a ball clutching his head to survive, Tom, in a fit of anger, could only anxiously coax, "Fool, if you don't fight back, you're going to be blown up!"

"Since you don't have the courage to fight back, then hand your body over to me to control. I will make sure you survive that little witch's attacks."

Upon hearing that there was hope for survival, Lockhart relinquished control of his body without much thought.

From then on, Lockhart's soul and consciousness settled in the mental scene, and the owner of this body was Tom Riddle.

Tom appears amidst the explosion, and immediately uses an extremely tough 'armor shield' to protect himself.

Hermione's barrage of explosive attacks had absolutely no effect on Tom's defensive shield.

Hermione was surprised that Lockhart dared to show himself, but she didn't pay too much attention to it. She took the opportunity to raise her gun and shoot.

The bullet hit the shield, causing Tom inside to take a small step back.

The explosion of a bomb is an area-of-effect attack, while a bullet is a penetrating attack that concentrates power on a single point. The effects of these two attacks are different.

Tom's tough protective shield developed tiny cracks as the bullets penetrated it.

Seeing this, Tom quickly used his magic to repair it, and then launched a dark magic attack on Hermione behind the desk.

The black magic emanating from Tom's wand was clearly visible and extremely concentrated.

Hermione was shocked and instantly activated her Blink spell.

She blinked away and then blinked back, retrieving her wand from ten meters away. Then, she opened fire on Garrett (Tom) with both guns in her hands.

In less than two seconds, a magazine was emptied.

At this moment, Hermione Granger casually lifted her wizard robes, took out a fully loaded magazine from the pocket at her waist, quickly reloaded it, and fired again.

At the same time, while shooting, he also kicked a desk with bomb formations drawn on it at Tom Riddle, who was inside the defensive shield.

Teach Carr didn't hold back on the 'great magic,' because he was Hermione's teacher.

The principle of equivalent exchange does not exist in the master-disciple relationship, so whatever Teach has, Hermione, as her disciple, will also have.

On Hermione's feet are 'arrays' drawn by Teach in magical script and 'pseudo-giant magic circuits' connected to them.

If Teach Carl were present during this fight, witnessing Hermione's violent side would likely elicit a gasp of shock...

What a cool fighting loli!