The Shopkeeper of All Worlds in the British Wizarding World

Chapter 751 Stalemate
Finally, after saying the name of the man he had admired all his life and had felt guilty about for half his life, Snape sighed as if relieved. Then, something in the depths of his black eyes seemed to disappear. They became blank, dull, and empty. At the same time, the head that had just been raised fell to the ground, and the whole person was motionless.

"Betrayal, deception." Voldemort said angrily to Snape's body, "You admitted in front of me that there are other women in the world, with purer blood and more worthy of you - this is all deception. You actually deceived the great Dark Lord for a mudblood woman who did not choose you."

At this point, Voldemort, with his eyes blazing, angrily fired a spell that hit Snape's body, turning him into ashes that mixed with the blood on the ground and the silver-blue substance. Then he swung his robes and raised his wand to smash the roof and flew up.

After floating into the air through the hole in the roof, Voldemort waved the wand in his hand and chanted a spell. As the last spell fell, a beam of blazing white light flew out from his wand and shattered the protective shield of Hogwarts Castle. At the same time, he raised his head angrily and shouted in Parseltongue: "Nagini!"

"Long live the Dark Lord!" The Death Eaters who could not understand Parseltongue cheered after seeing the magical shield of Hogwarts being shattered by the Dark Lord's blow. Their morale, which had been low due to various setbacks, also rose a lot.

Hearing the cry of "Long live the Dark Lord", the Hogwarts defenders immediately became nervous. Especially after the most important protective shield disappeared, this cry meant that the decisive battle was about to begin.

"Charge!!" After a leading Death Eater carefully confirmed that the magical shield of Hogwarts had completely disappeared, he stood in front of everyone and shouted, and then a black crowd rushed up.

"Now..." Professor McGonagall turned around and faced everyone, raised her wand, and was about to say something to boost morale, but when she raised her head out of habit, her eyes suddenly widened and a look of extreme astonishment appeared on her face.

Seeing Professor McGonagall's expression suddenly change, the others subconsciously turned their heads to look at the top of the castle, and they saw a scene that shocked them extremely: a castle floating in the sky was now hovering low above Hogwarts Castle.

"I am glad to introduce you to the secret weapon I prepared for this war, the floating fortress." Ryan raised his lips slightly, and then used magic to amplify the sound so that everyone present could hear it, regardless of friend or foe. "And I have also prepared a large army to block those obsidian puppets that almost cover the entire open space."

As Ryan was talking to everyone, ten holes appeared on the hemispherical bottom of the floating fortress, and then black dots were ejected from it. As the black dots got closer and closer to the ground, everyone saw that they were actually quadrupedal robots that were two people tall.

Under the effect of magic, the speed of these robots' descent slowed down when they were close to the ground, and then they landed safely on the ground. They quickly built a steel defense line between the Death Eaters and Hogwarts Castle.

At this time, the Death Eaters who had recovered from their shock launched a charge, but the resistance in the castle also fought back with spells. In an instant, various spells filled every inch of the open space outside the castle.

A few seconds after the two sides exchanged fire, the group of obsidian monster puppets on Voldemort's side that ran in the front collided with the defense line built by Ryan's steam robots. These huge guys made a violent sound during the collision, and mushroom clouds formed by explosions rose from time to time on the battlefield.

These explosions were caused by the steam robots that rushed into the Death Eaters' camp after the counterattack. After they were made, Ryan installed self-destruct devices filled with bomb cherries on them. Obviously, the Death Eaters hiding behind the puppets did not think of this trick at all. Ryan saw that many Death Eaters never stood up again after being hit by the magic metal fragments formed after the explosion. Unfortunately, these high-speed enchanted metal fragments did not have a good killing effect on the obsidian puppets, and could only leave some scratches of varying depths on their hard surfaces. So after the first round of raids, the Death Eaters who discovered this also learned a lesson and slowed down their pace, and then let the puppets form a dense formation to the front.

However, the slow-moving Death Eaters also created an opportunity for Ryan's steam robots to land. As time went on, more and more robots descended from the floating fortress, and they also received reinforcements from the statues of Hogwarts. The defense line became thicker and stronger with the naked eye.

Shortly after the fight, if the Death Eaters didn't destroy the floating fortresses, they couldn't even get close to the city walls, let alone rush into the castle and kill people as originally planned. However, due to the distance, only a few spells hit the floating fortresses, but they were easily blocked by the fortress's own protective shield.

Of course, Ryan's side was not without losses. As cheap consumables, the steam robots did catch the Death Eaters off guard at the beginning, but the exchange ratio for the rest of the time was a bit horrible. Even with the help of a large number of wizards, it took an average of five or six of them to fall in exchange for the destruction of one obsidian puppet.

In addition, because there were indeed more Death Eaters than defenders, the defenders of Hogwarts also had a very hard time. Ryan saw the two stone beasts that usually guarded the entrance to the teacher's office were hit by the oncoming evil curse when they were about to rush out to reinforce the front line. They turned into four or five pieces and squirmed weakly on the floor, moaning weakly: "Oh, don't worry about me... Just let me lie here and fend for myself..."

"How lucky." Lupin said with a thankful look on his face. He had cast a spell to stun a Death Eater a few seconds ago, and then hid behind a wall and watched several dangerous spells fly over the wall. It must be said that he hid in time, because the position he occupied just now was hit by at least three or four dangerous spells at this moment.

"What did you say? Lucky?" Ryan waved his wand to block a spell flying towards him, and then used a pink light to disintegrate an extremely active obsidian baboon on the battlefield. The group swayed left and right to avoid the concentrated fire of the Death Eaters. Then he leaned against a solid stone wall and shouted to Lupin a few meters away. "I think it is the greatest misfortune that we were ambushed today."

"What I mean is, it's a good thing that Dora just gave birth today and can't come, otherwise I would definitely be worried about her at a time like this--" Before Lupin finished his words, he saw a werewolf being hit directly in the chest by a killing curse, and then fell from the city wall into the castle.

"Luckily, the protective suit blocked this attack for him, but he won't be able to join the battle next." Ryan stuck his head out and looked under the city wall. He saw Zhang Qiu quickly ran to the fallen werewolf, checked him, and then used his magic wand to float him towards the castle. At the same time, he made an OK gesture to Ryan.

"That's good," Lupin breathed a sigh of relief, and then continued to fight. As the focus of the Death Eaters' concentrated fire, Ryan ran in the opposite direction, firing spells to destroy those powerful obsidian puppets.

Ryan did this to lure out Voldemort. Just as he knew that destroying Voldemort was the core of the war, Voldemort also knew that he could only rush into Hogwarts Castle and kill Harry if he destroyed Ryan. But now Ryan has been hiding in the castle with others. Although Voldemort is conceited, he is not arrogant enough to think that he can rush into the castle alone and defeat Ryan under the siege of a large group of people after being blocked by his men.

So for Voldemort, he must break the stalemate and kill Ryan in the shortest time possible, otherwise he will be completely defeated when Dumbledore returns.

(End of this chapter)