Hogwarts Raven's Claw

Chapter 190 Unlimited Defense Rights

The tip of Mike's staff flashed with fire, and a fireball the size of a fingernail flashing faint red light shot out and directly hit the leading Centaur.

The fireball did not explode after hitting the Centaur captain, but directly penetrated into his body.

Then a terrifying scene happened.

The Centaur captain scratched his body desperately as if he had been subjected to some horrific torture, and at the same time opened his mouth and let out miserable howls.

A faint glow of fire could be seen coming out of its open mouth.

As time went by, the fire became brighter and brighter. In just a few breaths, the strange fire began to emit from all seven orifices of the Centaur captain.

Finally, flames burst out from his body, and the Centaur Captain began to self-ignite, and his entire body turned into a burning torch.

This burning from the inside out obviously brought unimaginable pain to the Centaur captain. He fell to the ground howling and rolled over, trying to put out the flames on his body in this way.

However, it was in vain. The source of the flames was inside his body, and he was doomed from the moment the flames penetrated his body. His internal organs had long been burned to ashes. The fact that he still had the strength to roll on the ground was entirely due to the centaur's strong vitality. If it were an ordinary person, the flames would not have had time to penetrate his body and he would have been burned to death.

But his strong vitality now became his nightmare, forcing him to endure this inhuman torture for a while longer.

Finally, under the horrified gazes of the surrounding Centaurs, the Centaur captain who was bathed in fire finally stopped moving.

The Centaur Captain's originally exquisite bronze skin, like that of an ancient Greek gladiator, had now turned to charcoal. His hands were protected in front of himself like a boxer, a posture often seen by people who were burned to death.

Unlike those centaurs, the tense expression on Mike's face was now relaxed.

He now had less than 30% of the magic power left in his body. Facing dozens of sturdy centaurs holding strong bows, it was obviously not possible for him to use magic lavishly as before. So Mike tried a new variant of the fire spell he had learned from "Master of Fire": Bone-attached Magic Flame.

The name of the Bone-Attached Demonic Flame contains the word "magic", which made Mike think it was black magic when he first saw it, but in fact it has nothing to do with black magic.

The reason why it was given such an evil name is because this curse is so vicious.

Just as its name suggests, the bone-attaching demonic flame will directly enter the human body and attach to the bones and burn. This process will bring unimaginable pain to the enemy.

Because this spell is so cruel and its power is too small to break through the protection of armor, few people use it now. Even if they use it, they only use it for killing and torture.

But other than that it's almost a perfect spell, quick to cast, low cost, and instant death, making it Mike's best choice in the current situation.

Let's talk about the Forbidden Forest again. The death of the Centaur captain obviously stimulated the Centaurs, but the strange thing is that although they all retreated in fear, no one turned around and ran away. Just when Mike was feeling strange, a loud voice sounded in the Centaur team.

"Warriors! Kill that evil human pony and avenge Lubenwei!"

"Kill him! That hypocritical old man with a white beard in the castle won't do anything to us. We are the weaker party!"

"That's right! Kill him! This is the compensation they should give us. Why do they own the world while we can only squeeze into such a small forest?"

Influenced by this voice, the centaurs who originally had some fear on their faces reacted together and glared at Mike with their bloodshot eyes.

Mike didn't waste time talking to them, and shot out "Bone-attached Demonic Flame" one after another, slaughtering all the centaurs standing in the front row in an instant.

However, blood and death did not make the remaining centaurs retreat. On the contrary, stimulated by the death of their companions, they seemed to have gone crazy and raised their spears in their hands and launched a suicidal charge towards Mike.

Mike shook his head with a sneer on his face. It was really stupid to charge with a spear instead of a bow and arrow.

He tapped the magic wand in his hand repeatedly, and the bone-attached magic flame flew towards the rushing Centaur team like a will-o'-the-wisp. Combined with the barricades formed by the ground spikes, the Centaurs were wiped out before they could rush to Mike.

Looking at the centaurs who were struggling and rolling on the ground after being hit by the devil's flames, Mike withdrew his gaze expressionlessly, took out a knife and planned to continue collecting the venom of the eight-eyed giant spider.

But at this moment, Mike caught a glimpse of a centaur at the edge of the jungle, looking at the hellish scene in the open space in horror.

Perhaps knowing that he had been discovered by Mike, the Centaur turned around and tried to escape.

However, it was too late. Papi, the raven who had been watching the fight on Mike's shoulder, might have been itching to fight, or might have wanted to prove his strength to Mike. He flapped his wings lightly and turned into a ball of black mist. He caught up with the centaur at an extremely unscientific speed and drilled directly into his body.

The running Centaur's body suddenly stiffened, and he fell heavily to the ground, being thrown several meters away by inertia. But then he climbed up in an extremely twisted and stiff posture, and slowly walked to Mike.

"Humans, see, this is my power!"

Mike curled his lips helplessly, raised his wand, pointed it at the centaur's head and was about to cast a spell.

However, at this moment a familiar voice came.

"Stop! What are you going to do to Firenze!"

Listening to Hagrid's somewhat anxious voice, Mike was slightly surprised. He didn't expect that the ordinary-looking Centaur in front of him was the Firenze who became the professor of the Hogwarts Prophecy class in the original book.

But, so what? If you tell me to stop, I will stop. Wouldn't that make me lose face?

"Torn to pieces." As Mike recited the spell slowly, a white light flashed, and Firenze's head exploded. Red blood mixed with a milky white unknown liquid splashed towards Mike, but was caught by the translucent shield surrounding Mike, and finally could only slide down slowly along the shield weakly.

"What have you done!" Hagrid pulled his hair in pain, tears streaming from his little eyes, "You actually killed Firenze!"

Hagrid's huge body struggled to get out of the dense jungle and came to the open space where Mike was, but everything in front of him made him freeze in place.

"Merlin, you devil." Hagrid murmured, "Not only did you kill Firenze, you also killed so many centaurs, and Aragog's family. You even killed Percy!?"

After saying that, Hagrid's body shook violently, as if he had recovered from the shock. The originally sad expression on his face instantly became extremely ferocious. He rushed to Mike, grabbed Mike's collar and lifted him up.

"You devil! You deserve to go to hell!"

Mike looked at Hagrid with disgust. He was nearly 3 meters taller than him. The wand in his hand flashed with blue light and a shock wave was emitted with Mike as the center, directly blowing Hagrid away.

"Hagrid, Percy is not dead yet. As for these centaurs and Acromantula, they all have their own fault." Mike straightened his collar which was a little messed up by Hegra and said, "Who is Aragog you are talking about?"

"It's the Centaurs! You idiot! Don't call them Centaurs, which is a discriminatory term!" Hagrid roared, stood up, pulled out the umbrella he carried with him, pointed it at Mike and said, "My poor Aragog, I want revenge for him!"

Mike raised his wand expressionlessly and pointed it at Hagrid. He knew that Hagrid's wand was hidden in the umbrella, and he was ready to attack as soon as Hagrid made any move to chant a spell.

"Stop it, what are you doing?"

Dumbledore's somewhat stern voice came. When Hagrid heard it, he hurriedly put away his umbrella and explained: "Principal Dumbledore, he is a monster! He killed the centaurs and Aragog's family, and even Percy!"

Dumbledore slowly walked to the open space, followed by Professor McGonagall and other professors, who were all attracted by the sound of fighting in the Forbidden Forest.

"What's going on, Mike?" Dumbledore asked with a frown as he looked at the open space in front of him that was littered with corpses.

"Professor Dumbledore, Percy just led me into the Forbidden Forest, and then controlled the Acromantula and the Centaur to attack me." Mike replied, "After a hard fight, I defeated Percy who was controlled by the Horcrux and destroyed the Horcrux. Don't worry, Percy is fine, he just fainted."

"You call this nothing serious?" Professor McGonagall walked quickly to Percy's side and checked his injuries before saying, "Percy broke his arm and lost too much blood. He's going to die soon. I'll take him to Pomfret first."

After that, Professor McGonagall used a levitation spell to lift Percy up and flew towards the castle.

Watching Professor McGonagall hurriedly leave, Dumbledore walked past the corpses of many Acromantulas and Centaurs and came to the destroyed diary.

Ignoring the blood stains on the diary, Dumbledore picked it up and looked at it carefully.

"Dumbledore, he killed Aragog and Firenze, we must punish him!"

Hagrid's shrill screams echoed in the open space, interrupting Dumbledore's train of thought. He frowned and asked helplessly, "Mike, what's going on with these centaurs and acromantula?"

"I've already told you, Headmaster. They attacked me first. I was just defending myself."

"You're lying! You killed Firenze, who had no ability to defend himself, right in front of me!" Hagrid shouted with his hands and feet dancing. If Dumbledore hadn't been there, he would have rushed over to beat Mike. "And Aragog, that child would never attack humans. Why did you kill him?"

An impatient look appeared on Mike's face. To be honest, he was a little fed up with this brainless idiot.

To put it nicely, Hagrid is a kind-hearted animal lover, but to put it bluntly, he is a moron with a distorted outlook on life. Even magical animal lovers would not have much affection for an ugly, aggressive, evil creature like the Acromantula. However, Hagrid not only raised an Acromantula named Aragog, he even found him a wife and allowed them to reproduce freely in the Forbidden Forest, causing the Acromantula to become an infestation.

You know, the Forbidden Forest is right next to Hogwarts Castle. What if the eight-eyed giant spider accidentally hurts the students in Hogwarts?
"I'm just exercising my rights, Hagrid! According to Article 20, Paragraph 3 of the Supreme Law of Wizards, when a wizard is attacked by a magical creature or feels his life is threatened by a magical creature, he has the right to conduct unlimited defense. Do you understand what the term unlimited right of defense means?" Mike said coldly, "Also, I don't know who Aragog you are talking about, but what I want to ask is, why would an evil creature like the Acromantula appear in the Forbidden Forest? You are really derelict in your duty as a gamekeeper!"

Hagrid was speechless after hearing what Mike said. He stood there with his face flushed and stammered for a long time without saying anything. Finally, he let out a loud scream and rushed towards Mike.

Hagrid is a "little giant" with a height of nearly five meters. To be honest, it is quite shocking when such a huge monster rushes towards you, but Mike looked at Hagrid with a calm expression and did not move. He did not believe that Dumbledore would allow Hagrid to attack him in front of him.

Sure enough, Dumbledore just waved his left hand lightly, and Hagrid, who was charging, suddenly froze in place.

"What Mike said is correct. He did have unlimited right of defense under the circumstances at that time." Dumbledore sighed and said, "As for these Acromantulas, it was indeed our negligence. Don't worry, Mike, we will definitely give you a satisfactory answer."

Dumbledore paused here, his eyes lingering on Mike's chest for a moment before continuing, "Mr. Townley, I think it would be better for you to go to Pomfret first, because it looks like you are seriously injured."

Mike then remembered that the wound on his chest had not healed yet, and quickly unbuttoned his shirt, only to find that the thick straps tied around his chest had already been stained red with blood, and a lot of blood had even stained the black special operations uniform. However, Mike had not noticed it because the uniform was also black.

Mike nodded, and walked towards Hogwarts Castle with the help of Professor Flitwick and others.

At this moment, Dumbledore, who was still studying the Horcrux diary, said without turning his head: "Oh, by the way, Mike, please come to my office after you recover from your injury. I need to ask you some more questions about what happened tonight. The password is vanilla ice cream."

Mike turned his head to look at Dumbledore who had his back to him and Hagrid who was petrified in place. He whispered an agreement and continued to move forward.

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