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Chapter 172, 169. A punch, a severed hand, utter bewilderment.

Ivanov stared intently into Lynn's eyes, speaking to him in a seductive voice, trying to lower his guard.

"Sayk is just a traitor to the Soviet Union. What can she give you if you help her? She can't give you any promises. But I'm different. I represent the Soviet Union's Magic Committee. As long as you tell me where she is, I can make the decision to forgive and forget what happened before. And whatever you want to know, I will definitely tell you."

Ivanov used Legilimency very smoothly. Lynn seemed completely unaware of his intentions, continuing to stare at him without any defenses.

However, just when he felt he had successfully peered into Lynn's brain and invaded his thoughts, Lynn's mind was completely blank, with nothing in it!

Ivanov was taken aback, and this was exactly the opportunity Lynn had been waiting for.

Divine Sharpness (Triple Amplification + Dark Magic Spread)!

Countless invisible blades suddenly appeared in the rain, moving as fast as teleportation, leaving trails of rain in mid-air, and instantly slashing ten meters away, heading straight for Ivanov's limbs.

He was jolted awake the moment Lynn waved his wand. Without any hesitation or thought, he activated the Apparition spell, which he had been using to silence people. His body twisted and disappeared from the spot, only to reappear five meters away.

However, his reaction was still not as fast as Shen Feng Wu Ying's speed. The invisible blade flying in front had already touched his skin before his body disappeared.

Along with Ivanov's phantom appearance came a large amount of black and red blood!

He dodged a large portion of the Divine Strike Without Shadow, but some still struck his right leg. However, although Lynn's Divine Strike Without Shadow was amplified threefold, its power was significantly weakened due to its wide spread.

Ivanov's thigh was left with only a deep, bone-revealing wound; his right leg was not severed.

The wounds left by the Shadowless Blade will not heal and will continue to tear and expand. This is a dark magic created by Snape, and only a handful of people know it. Therefore, Ivanov has never seen such a spell before.

The intense pain caused him to groan involuntarily, and rainwater mixed with his dark red blood pooled on the ground, forming a conspicuous puddle.

Lynn had finally seized this opportunity, so of course he wouldn't give it up.

With a wave of his wand, a thunderous explosion spell was unleashed, and a bright red flame, accompanied by a deafening roar, ignited beside Ivanov.

The constant, excruciating pain in his leg prevented Ivanov from using Apparition in time. Fortunately, Lynn's Explosive Spell was poorly aimed at him, missing him and veering to the side.

He rolled on the ground as much as he could to avoid it, but he couldn't escape the shockwave that spread outwards from the explosion. Just as Ivanov finally stopped rolling, covered in mud, and knelt on the ground to steady himself, a hand suddenly grabbed his collar.

Lynn appeared silently beside him without anyone noticing!

At such close range, Ivanov instinctively refrained from using magic, instead clenching his fist and swinging it hard at Lynn's head.

Judging from appearance and physique alone, the two are quite different. Ivanov is a traditional Soviet man, tall and strong. Although he is a wizard, he has never neglected physical training. Once he takes off his robe, you can see his muscular body.

During the battle, Lynn transformed from Yelena's appearance back into his "original" form.

The Death Eater he was impersonating, who had been killed by Professor Fox during his freshman year, was extremely thin due to years of hiding in the Forbidden Forest. Even if he wasn't emaciated, he looked frail and weak, like a man with depleted kidneys whose body had been hollowed out.

Ivanov had no doubt that if magic were abandoned, Lynn would be his opponent in pure hand-to-hand combat.

So, with that confident punch, he landed hard on Lynn's head, who didn't flinch at all.

"Snap!"

Ivanov threw a punch.

Ivanov's hand was broken.

Ivanov was stunned.

Lynn didn't even shake his head. With a ferocious expression, he snatched Ivanov's wand, snapped it in two, and then pointed his own wand at Ivanov's head.

"If you don't want your head to explode like a watermelon, don't move!"

Ivanov seemed not to hear him and continued to struggle under his grasp.

Lynn did not use petrification or stun spells on him. His ultimate goal was to force-feed Ivanov the truth serum and get him to talk. So, the only way to keep him in line without killing him was to use the simplest method.

He raised his foot and stomped hard on Ivanov's injured leg!

"ah!!!"

A pitiful howl, like that of a wild beast, rose from Ivanov's throat. He struggled violently like a fish out of water, but soon became weak and dragged his arm, fainting from the pain.

Lynn looked at Ivanov's right leg, which he had broken off and was now only connected by a bit of skin and flesh, and his eyelids twitched involuntarily.

He didn't soften his heart; if he fell into their hands, things would only get worse.

Suppressing his discomfort, Lynn raised his wand and cast a resurrection spell on Ivanov, which roused Ivanov from his coma.

The constant pain and emptiness in his right leg told him that his right leg was completely broken.

Lynn didn't give him time to react. As soon as he woke up, she took out the truth serum she had been keeping in her pocket, bit off the stopper, and poured it into his mouth.

Lynn only threw away the glass bottle after he had poured the entire bottle of truth serum into Ivanov's stomach.

Just as he was about to breathe a sigh of relief and begin questioning, the body of the Su Guo Aoruo Director suddenly underwent a strange change!

He slumped his head listlessly, staring blankly ahead—normal behavior after drinking the truth serum. But then, faint, barely perceptible black mist emanated from Ivanov's body.

At the same time, his previously dull eyes began to turn white at an extremely rapid pace, and soon, his eyes became pure white.

Suddenly, Ivanov convulsed, raised his head, and countless black wisps of smoke poured out from his ears, eyes, nostrils, mouth, and all parts of his body!

The black mist contained immense and astonishing magical power. The black mist gathered more and more until it enveloped Ivanov's entire body!

Caught off guard, Lynn was blasted away by the sudden appearance of magic.

He scrambled to his feet, looking at the faint black mist floating in the sky with a grim expression.

He never would have guessed that Ivanov, the Auror Director of the Soviet Magic Committee, was actually an Obscurial who had lived past the age of ten!

I'm going to eat now. If I can write two chapters before 11 o'clock, I'll post three chapters today.

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