From Hogwarts to Strixhaven.

Chapter 363 Mobilization Meeting at Gongmo Tavern

In the always noisy Archend Tavern, Fort was having a party with his friends.

"I still can't believe that the new professor at Strixhaven is actually an expert swordsman! I thought this was a magic university!" The young elephant man flapped his big ears, "You didn't see it at the time! He chopped off all the heads of the multi-headed lizard in an instant!"

“In a split second?” Grayson of the Silver Mill repeated incredulously. “You’re exaggerating. I admit that Professor Doom may be a skilled wizard, but swordsmanship is an entirely different realm.”

Grayson was born into a prestigious family in the Akaiwe Woben spacetime. For him, entering Strixhaven was a means to an end. In order to gain the upper hand in future business negotiations, he joined the Silver Mill Academy and became a boaster.

In this small student group, Grayson always competes with Bastion, who has a tactical sense, for leadership for various reasons. Perhaps even he himself does not realize that being an opponent of Bastion is his own way of expressing recognition. Because of this, whenever Bastion expresses an opinion to the team, he always subconsciously questions it first.

“You have to believe me!” Bastion threw a piece of delicious snack into his mouth and started to chew it. “I wasn’t the only one who saw it! He added some very cool magic to his sword, and then he flashed in front of the multi-headed lizard in an instant. Every snake head that tried to attack him was dodged and then chopped off by his sword!”

"So... he used five swords in total?" Grayson continued to ask.

"Maybe ten swords..." Bastion shrugged, "Because that hydra has so many heads! And it's not afraid of fire! My fire spell failed to suppress its regeneration ability."

"Ten swords?" The distrust on Grayson's face was almost overflowing.

"Okay, we're not here to discuss Professor Doom's swordsmanship." Half-blood Aurora stopped another quarrel that was about to happen. As a half-vampire, Aurora studied the subjects of life and death in Strixhaven, but her best spell was not to take away the vitality of the enemy, but to give birth to plants as her companions.

"Does anyone know why Kemina wants us to come to the tavern?" Aurora brought the small group's topic to another direction.

"Morgasso!" said the dwarf Ruth triumphantly, raising her arms. "I found the magical signature of Mogasso on the crates in the Detention Swamp! He must have been responsible for the accident in the swamp! Of course, I guess you all know that he has been working against us for the past three years...poisoning the food, placing the Mage Hunter in the lounge of the Battle Tower, using the orb to control the Dean's Assistant, and now stealing the school's goods from the Detention Swamp..."

"Shh..." The minotaur Dradromir raised a finger and said softly, "Keep your voice down! The rats under the Rose Stage can hear your shouting... Now Mogasso's name has reached the ears of the deans of Strijhaven... I think it won't be long before he is no longer a threat to us. With the Dragon Guard and the Founding Dragon, we are safe."

"Then you should know that the Founding Dragon has not shown up for a long time." Bastion complained, "How I wish to meet the great Velomachu Heightening! It is said that she was the first dragon to propose the establishment of Strixhaven!"

"So you're saying that the Dragon Guards are unreliable? You know, there are many outstanding graduates who will choose to join this group." Grayson raised his eyebrows and asked with a smile.

"You know that's not what I meant." Bastion absentmindedly clicked the badge on his plate chest. He was almost immune to Grayson's behavior.

"Then you..." Grayson was interrupted by Aurora. Only when the beautiful half-blood spoke would Grayson be quiet and listen. He knew that he was captured by her charm, but he had confirmed that this kind of relationship happened between men and women, not between food and predator. Because there are rumors that vampires will unconsciously exude a kind of charm that makes their human victims fall in love with them and willingly provide food.

Half-blood Aurora can walk under the two suns of Aquavivo and can eat normal food, so of course she doesn't have to treat her friends as food.

"We all know that Mogaso has some intentions, but it is unwise to leave this matter entirely to the faculty." Aurora said in a calm and hoarse voice, "We should take our destiny into our own hands, just as we have done in the past three years."

"Well said!" Ruth was always the first to agree. She loved excitement, whether good or bad, as long as it was not on the sports field where she was the referee.

Grayson cursed inwardly. Once again, he was so immersed in the dangerous smile on Aurora's lips that he forgot to be the first to respond to her suggestion.

"Morgasso has failed every time he has tried to work against us, and we can succeed this time, too."

"Do we really have to do something so dangerous?" The Minotaur looked very nervous. All the muscles in his body were tense, even the masseter muscles above his cheeks. "Okay, okay." Under the gaze of his companions, he compromised, "Maybe I can go to Maodian Pavilion to find some spells that can be used..."

"Fortress." Aurora's call caught the Elephant Man's attention. "Except when you were describing Professor Doom's amazing swordsmanship, you've been distracted today. What's bothering you?"

"Oh." Bastion's long nose stretched out unnaturally. "I'm just... a little distracted..."

However, his companions did not buy into his argument.

After a somewhat awkward silence, Bastion touched the giant sword behind him. Even among the students of Dean Hengjian Chaos, who was keen on studying war behavior, the young elephant man was an outlier.

After all, no one would wear the same set of gold-plated armor and carry a gorgeous giant sword 365 days a year in order to simulate the scenes on the battlefield, except in the fortress.

"I was thinking..." Bastion felt his face getting hot. Fortunately, he seemed to be born with thick skin, so no one could tell what he was feeling just by looking at his face. "Maybe I can make this sword really work, instead of just keeping it on my back as a decoration..."

"You want to learn swordsmanship from Professor Doom?" Grayson's eyebrows raised and lowered, with a strange expression on his face. "Is this the problem that has been bothering you for so long?"

"Stop it, Grayson." Aurora kindly helped Fort out of the embarrassment, "Fort is blushing."

"I didn't!" Bastion shouted. The noisy air in the tavern was quiet for a second because of the sudden snort. Bastion quickly buried his head under his ears and said in the lowest voice possible, "How did you know?" "I'm half vampire. I can feel the blood gathering in your face," Aurora said easily, "Oh, and now they're moving to your ears."

The boys laughed together, and Fort's embarrassment was relieved.

"I advise you to give up this idea. Swordsmanship is not simpler than magic, and the effect is not as good as the corresponding magic." Grayson gave what he thought was quite pertinent advice.

"Why not give it a try!" Rose said excitedly, "Maybe Professor Doom has some magic that can help you learn how to fight in an instant!"

The topic of the small group eventually shifted from Strijhaven's archenemy Mogasso to the question of whether or not magic existed that allowed one to master swordsmanship.

It was not until Kemina and Ivy arrived that this nonsensical topic came to an end.

"The school has decided that the five of you will form a team to stop Mogasso's evil spell." Kemina said concisely.

"We?" The Minotaur was surprised. He didn't expect that things would actually develop in the direction his companions hoped.

"It's really time to make peace with Mogaso." Grayson straightened his chest and clasped his arms again.

"That's great! It feels so good to be valued!" Ruth was already shaking with excitement. Apart from her companions, no other professor had ever entrusted her with such an important task since she was always noisy and restless.

On the contrary, Aurora, who had said at the beginning that she would act on her own, seemed hesitant: "Why us? The Strixheim people have obviously trained so many excellent spellcasters, and every professor working here is stronger than us..."

"Because you have been deeply involved in every one of Mogasso's conspiracies from the beginning, and have fought against him in every one of them." Ivy took over the conversation, "We believe you have the ability to put an end to his final conspiracy."

"The reason why we have to face Mogaso's conspiracy is because the professors of Strijhaven did not take it seriously enough. Now the whole school has heard about Mogaso and Oriko, and the professors are definitely capable of handling it all!" Aurora is obviously the most troublesome one in the five-member group, and is much more difficult to fool than Grayson, a silver-haired student who always raises objections. At least the latter can be solved with child psychology.

"Although Mogasso's plot seems to have failed, he has already let the evil magic penetrate into the water and food of the entire school. All the teachers and students in the school have been marked by Mogasso's spell." Ivy lied without blinking, "Except for me who just came to Strijhaven not long ago, Kemina, the professor who has special magic protection, and the few of you who often go against him, no one else is able to resist Mogasso's spell."

"You mean, we weren't marked by Mogasso? Why?" Bastion immediately noticed the irrationality. "We obviously caused so many obstacles to his plan... He has every reason to give priority to us!"

"You should already know that Mogasso left a magical signature on the crate, right?" Kemina explained, which was also part of the double act. "The professors in the school have cast spells on this name many times, including prophecy spells that can locate and interfere with Mogasso, but these spells cast by the professors have no effect. Two hundred years of preparation time gave him enough time to formulate a plan that can be immune to the influence of the professors' spells."

"But you still haven't explained why we can be immune to the mark of Mogasso's spell." Grayson had come to his senses by now. He narrowed his eyes, trying to convey the message of "I'm not easy to fool" to the two professors.

"Because you have been against him for the past three years," Ivy said simply, "he decided to get rid of you personally. I'm afraid he also thinks that you students can't have any impact on his plan, so he won't take the initiative to exclude you."

"He is underestimating us!" Grayson was fooled almost immediately.

It's not his fault. When every clear and stupid college student graduates from school, he always enters the society with the mentality of wanting to change everything and prove himself.

It's my nature, that's all.

It was just that he was taken advantage of by that despicable "technical secondary school student" Ivy.

"It seems we have to go..." Bastion nodded seriously. "As a student of Hengjian, I have learned a lot about war. They taught me the most important thing, which is to do a good job of intelligence work before the war! Although the professors in the school cannot be dispatched, they should at least be able to tell us something about Mogasso! Just rushing forward blindly will not accomplish anything!"

The little elephants did have some tactical vision, but they were completely unaware that the professors at the school might be out to trick them.

For the students in front of them, this action was like being conscripted and used as guinea pigs.

Since Strijhaven hopes that Ivy can give these students the necessary guidance, this is not just a temporary action to fight against Mogasso, but a test for Ivy. Perhaps Strijhaven hopes that Ivy can open a magic practice course in the school to teach students who are interested in this how to fight magic and other dangerous things.

To be honest, the academic nature of this school is indeed too strong. But this is something Ivy always wants to avoid, because he feels a very ominous sense of déjà vu.

Grooves' Defense Against the Dark Arts was still chasing him.

"Morgasso was a student from Mihua Academy two hundred years ago. He was expelled from school because he violated the rules and used excessively harmful magic many times during his time at school, which led to the death of a classmate." Kemina took out a document, which should have been given to her by Ogeta. Perhaps all the files in the school are handled by the Dean of Order. "People think he is a despicable and selfish spellcaster. According to the report of the Dragon Guard, he should be holding the final step of his magic ceremony in the ruins of Seidun. This information was obtained from a captured Oriko."

"The Ruins of Seidun!" Hengjian Student Fortress was very familiar with this name. "It is said that there are many undead wandering there. They are all soldiers who died in a tragic siege! It is said that there is also a Sorrow Devouring Demon lurking there!"

(End of this chapter)