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Chapter 351 Capturing Saruman

Saruman, who possessed Edward, clearly had Edward's memories.

He knew all the magic Edward had learned, and he used it with great power, not much less than Dui.

Perhaps taking advantage of Dui's reluctance to kill Edward, she recklessly swung her wand at Dui.

However, the wand in his hand, as Edward's companion who shared his heart, also possessed Edward's will and fiercely resisted Saruman, unwilling to serve him.

Saruman's face immediately darkened as he looked at the wand in his hand. "Damn wand!"

The wand's resistance made it very difficult for him to cast spells.

But then he pulled out a wand from who-knows-where and continued to try to attack Dui.

However, Dui wasn't the only one present; Elrond also drew his elven sword, and the Ring of Air on his finger gleamed brightly.

Gandalf and Galadriel also attacked Saruman from behind.

Other professors also drew their wands and aimed them at Saruman, who was possessing Edward.

It was only out of consideration for Edward that they did not choose a spell with destructive power, but instead opted for a spell to bind and trap him.

Gandalf, staff in hand, emitted holy light and calmly looked at Saruman: "Surrender, Saruman, you cannot escape today!"

Galadriel did not speak, nor did she choose any destructive magic; she simply raised her hand to activate the Ring of Water.

The enormous magical barrier surrounding the castle shrank instantly, passing through the walls and Dui and the others, and heading towards Edward, who was possessed by Saruman.

Facing the combined attack of a large group, especially the three powerful figures of Middle-earth—Gandalf, Elrond, and Galadriel—Saruman was clearly struggling.

Forced to defend passively, the super-strong armor activated with maximum magic power was constantly compressed by Galadriel's magical barrier, becoming shaky and on the verge of collapse.

Seeing this, Saruman surprised everyone by instantly ceasing his resistance and instead pressing his wand against his own neck, threatening, "Stop if you don't want this body to die with me! Otherwise, I'll kill myself right now!"

Seeing the madness in Saruman's eyes, Galadriel's magical cage instantly stopped contracting and squeezing.

Gandalf and Elrond were forced to halt their attack, convinced that Saruman was not merely a threat, but someone he was truly capable of doing.

Dui lowered his wand, and the professors behind him lowered theirs as well, but still watched Saruman warily.

Dui said calmly, without any expression on his face, "Saruman, I'm willing to let you go as long as you leave Edward's body."

"Principal!" The other professors were startled and looked at Du Yi in disbelief.

Gandalf, Galadriel, and Elrond were also surprised, not expecting Dui to make such a decision.

After all, letting Saruman go would be tantamount to releasing a tiger back into the mountains, especially since he was a powerful enemy filled with endless malice towards Hogwarts and Duy. It would be even more difficult to capture him in the future.

However, Saruman clearly didn't believe Duy. He sneered coldly, "Ha, Duy, you cunning black-robed wizard! You think I'd believe you? I'm afraid the moment I leave this body, you'll kill me without hesitation!"

Dui's eyes turned cold. "If you don't believe me, I can make a magical contract with you to guarantee your safe departure from Hogwarts without harming you in the slightest."

Saruman scoffed, his sinister eyes filled with disbelief: "Your magical contract, like your words, has no credibility with me whatsoever."

Then he glanced at the crowd surrounding him in the corridors before and behind him, and at Smaug, the giant dragon outside the window, who was watching him intently, ready to unleash its dragonfire at any moment.

He then pulled a spatial bag out of his pocket, and as he poured it out, a huge vanishing cabinet squeezed out of the small bag opening and landed on the ground.

There is also a rotating colored button on the cabinet door, labeled "Hogsmeade", "Buri", "Eisengard", "Rivendell", and "Lorraine".

Saruman turned the dial to Aisengard and then said smugly to Dui:
"I must thank you for your portrait, which allowed me to access the Dragon Treasury and obtain this treasure. Rest assured, once I leave safely, I will leave your servant intact, as long as you don't cause any trouble!"

He then opened the disappearing cabinet door, faced Dui and the others, and backed away into the depths of the cabinet, closing the door behind him. He wasn't worried at all that the group would damage the cabinet.

Seeing the somber faces of Dui, Gandalf, and other formidable enemies before their departure, and the frustrated expressions of the professors who wanted to stay but dared not, Saruman felt only pleasure.

As he passed through darkness, Saruman sensed subtle spatial fluctuations and knew he had entered another Vanishing Cabinet.

Deeply envious of Duir's creative craftsmanship, Saruman simply pushed open the cabinet door.

But when he saw the environment outside the cabinet, his expression changed instantly. Just as he raised his wand, a huge snake head hung upside down from the top of the cabinet, its huge, yellow-orange eyes, like those of the Grim Reaper, instantly meeting his gaze.

“No…!” Saruman’s face flashed with terror, resentment, and anger.

He gripped the wand tightly, struggling to lift it in some way to resist, but his entire body quickly turned to stone, becoming ashen and gray.

This is different from the petrification curse, which only freezes a person in place, while Saruman, who possessed Edward, turned him into a complete stone statue.

The reason for the petrification was that the basilisk monster Helpo was wearing a pair of giant diving goggles that had been sealed with a sticky spell.

"Well done, Herpo!" Dui's voice came from the doorway.

He was accompanied by Gandalf, Galadriel, Elrond, and a host of professors.

Upon seeing Dui appear, the basilisk Herpo closed its eyes beforehand and hissed at Dui.

To Du Yi, it sounded like she was begging for praise, but to others, it was terrifying and made them feel uncomfortable.

It turns out that Saruman left using the Vanishing Cabinet stolen from the Dragon Vault, but he did not actually reach Eisengard; he remained at Hogwarts Castle.

Moreover, they arrived at the "food storage room" of the basilisk monster Helpo, and faced Helpo, who had been waiting there all along.

This room originally contained the corpse of a giant spider from the Dark Forest as a food reserve for Hailbo, but now, ten years later, that food reserve has long since ended up in Hailbo's stomach.

Thanks to the giant spiders it devoured, Helpo became even larger and more dangerous than the Thousand-Year-Old Basilisk from another world's Hogwarts.

After praising and comforting Helbo, Dui turned his gaze to Edward, who had turned into a stone statue.

Why did the Vanishing Cabinet, which should have led to Eisengard, end up in Helbo's room? This was a setup by Dui.

After he closed all the fireplace passages in the castle, he also hid these vanishing cabinets in the vault guarded by Smaug.

Moreover, even though these Vanishing Cabinets were guarded by Smaug, Dui did not feel absolutely safe, so he specially modified the Vanishing Cabinets so that they would eventually lead to the Vanishing Cabinets guarded by the Basilisk Helbo.

This was originally just a backup plan by Dui to prevent Saruman from escaping through the Vanishing Cabinet.

After all, with the castle sealed off by Lady Galadriel's Water Ring and the fireplace shut off by Duy, the only possible way out was through the Vanishing Cabinet.

Saruman, sensing danger, possessed Edward's body and went to see the portrait of Dui, ostensibly to ask for help, but actually to take the opportunity to obtain the Vanishing Cabinet from the Dragon Treasury.

Unexpectedly, the escape route they had painstakingly obtained turned out to be a huge trap.

Seeing Edward petrified, even though he was powerless to resist, Dui still quickly disarmed him with his wand.

"Headmaster, is Professor Edward alright?" Professor Luke, who had always been on good terms with Edward, asked with concern as he looked at the petrified Edward.

Dui knew what Luke was worried about and shook his head, saying, "Don't worry, Edward is just petrified. Once Saruman is expelled from his body, Allenhis can use mandrake to make a petrification cure and restore him to normal."

Duy then turned to Gandalf, Elrond, and Galadriel and asked, "Saruman is still in Edward's body. Do you have any way to expel him?"

(End of this chapter)