Hogwarts: From Selling White Peppers to Becoming a God

Chapter 261 This is my father's head

But at that moment, the body of a beheaded wizard suddenly turned into soil, and then a figure suddenly emerged from the ground on the other side.

Sophie was indeed still alive. As soon as he appeared, he was holding a doll in his hand. He reached up and wiped his bleeding neck, smeared the blood on the doll, and then pointed the doll at Murphy.

The latter sensed something was wrong and immediately flashed in front of the other party, preparing to chop off his head with a sword, but the other party was faster and slapped the doll against himself.

"Thump!"

Murphy felt a thud in his heart, and then his body suddenly froze on the spot.

On the other side, Sophie Christian stood there stiffly, motionless, just like him.

The two stared at each other from less than a meter apart, but both seemed to be petrified, unable to move even a finger.

Murphy even felt that he was unable to mobilize his own magic at all, and the other side seemed to be in the same situation. In Murphy's magical vision, Sophie Christian's magic was like a stagnant pool.

curse?

This curse is activated much faster than Alexei's curse, and it doesn't seem to have as many prerequisites. However, perhaps for this reason, its side effect is that the person who cast the curse is also "frozen".

This is probably why the other party didn't use this curse from the beginning.

But now, from the other side's perspective, he undoubtedly has the upper hand.

After all, this was Duke Ivan's residence, and everyone except Murphy was one of his own. Even the soldiers lying on the ground weren't entirely powerless; any one of them could pick up a sword and shave Murphy's head off.

But at that moment, with a "bang," the door leading from the courtyard to the inner hall was suddenly pushed open.

Two teenagers rushed out, both covered in blood, but their eyes gleamed with fanaticism.

Upon seeing Murphy, they immediately cried out, "Lord Murphy! We've brought you the heads of Father and Elder Brother!"

Sophie Christian was startled; he recognized the voices as those of George and Alexander.

How did they end up here?

And, Lord Murphy?

What head?

But his doubts were immediately answered when George Frederick and Alexander Frederick, each carrying a dripping head, came between Murphy and him.

He immediately realized that the head in George's hand was none other than Ivan Frederick.

The Grand Duke... is dead?

"Lord Murphy, look, this is my father's head. I just cut it off." George Frederick held up the head as if to show off. "He was shocked before he died, as if he didn't understand why I was killing him. Alas, it's heartbreaking. I still loved him, but he posed a threat to Lord Murphy and had to die."

Sophie Christian was almost going crazy.

Why?

How is that possible?!

He watched George and Alexander grow up, and they had a good relationship with Ivan and Ras. How could they possibly kill their father and brother?!

But at that moment, Murphy suddenly moved. At first, his arm only trembled, but in the next instant, his right arm, which was gripping the greatsword, swung violently and slashed into Sophie's neck.

The doll fell from his hands, and the curse was immediately lifted.

Murphy breathed a sigh of relief. He took the head from George Frederick's hands and waved it in front of Sophie. "You probably don't understand a lot of things, but it doesn't matter. Go and reunite with your brother."

After saying that, he exerted force with the greatsword again, severing the other's head.

Then, with a whoosh, countless lightning crows flew out from the inner hall door, one by one applying electrotherapy to the wounded soldiers still struggling in the courtyard, sending them to their deaths, and then all of them turned into lightning and disappeared into Murphy's body.

Murphy glanced at George and Alexander. "Well done. Do you know what to say to others later?"

"I know. Father and elder brother were plotting a rebellion. We overheard their plan to kidnap the Empress, and we had no choice but to kill them."

"Can."

This chain looks like this:

First, the Queen wanted to use Grandma Jaga to restrain Felipe Carlos so that Murphy could kill Duke Ivan. But for some reason, Duke Ivan knew a great deal about their plan, so he had Sophie Christian kill Murphy—because Murphy was the Queen's only trump card to turn the tide.

In order to get rid of Murphy, Sophie devised a plan to have Felipe Carlos turn the tables and restrain Grandma Jaga, while she herself set up a series of traps to kill Murphy.

He had trained a literally "invisible" army through his mastery of invisibility magic, and he believed that this army, along with poison and a triple trap of curses, would be enough to kill Murphy.

In fact, he did a pretty good job.

However, what he didn't expect was that before his plan could be implemented, Murphy had already transformed George and Alexander into his puppets using the Imperius Curse, the Enchanted Sound, and the Mind Seed.

They were the ones who actually carried out the assassination of Duke Ivan in Murphy's plan.

Murphy himself was used as bait to attract Sophie Christian's attention and create opportunities for George, Alexander, and his lightning crows.

In this phase, the Queen is on the first level, Sophie is on the second level, and Murphy is in the stratosphere.

As for how Murphy broke free from Sophie's curse—the moment he realized he was cursed, he used the Seed of the Mind to control the genetically modified adenovirus in his body, which was originally used to repair cells and delay aging. Using this virus, which was now spread throughout his body, he stimulated the nerves in his arm and completed the interrupted slash.

However, George and Alexander acted faster than he expected; otherwise, he could have waited for them to arrive and wouldn't have needed to activate the adenoviruses.

This might cause some inflammation, and my arm could be sore for a while.

They found the antidote for the poison on Sophie, and after drinking it, Murphy's discomfort immediately improved.

"Find me a box, put these heads in it, and have those who are loyal to you in the manor clean up this place and appease them. The Grand Duke is dead, and you are the only two heirs. You will be the ones to inherit the title from now on, and you also need to manage the relationships with your subordinates well." He instructed the two young masters who had become loyal servants.

"You really are... too thoughtful. We'd be willing to die for you."

"Only by keeping yourself useful can you do more for me."

"We understand, Lord Murphy."

After collecting the severed heads, Murphy took a few empty boxes and left the Duke's mansion. Moments later, a great battle broke out at the ancestral mausoleum. Ten minutes later, Murphy appeared on the rooftop terrace outside the Spring Palace.

He headed straight for the palace. Halfway there, Azir rushed up to him. "Mr. Murphy, are you alright? I heard..."

Before he could finish speaking, Murphy suddenly swung his right hand, his fingers like knives, and slashed at Azir's neck.

But the latter seemed to have anticipated his attack, instantly using earth magic to dodge more than ten meters away. But before he could catch his breath, Murphy suddenly hooked his hand, and with several hissing sounds, Azir was cut into several pieces by an invisible blade.

"Wind... Wind Blade?" Azir died with his eyes wide open.

"I just watched Mrs. Yaga use it a few times, and she probably learned it by now," Murphy said.

Under the magical vision, the way magic works is presented to him in an unprecedentedly intuitive way, and he can learn a spell with just a little imitation.

"You... how come..."

"How did you know you were the mole?" Murphy sighed. "Who else could have known the whole plan so thoroughly besides you? And, Sophie got her curse on my blood from you, didn't she?"

Although he had been struck by wind blades during his battle with Sophie, he was already wary of the curse techniques of the Su Kingdom shamans. Almost the instant he was injured, he used lightning to evaporate the spilled blood. According to his understanding of the principles of curses, for a curse to take effect, the body tissue of the cursed person must serve as a medium.

After arriving in Al-Kai'm, I thought about it and realized that the only thing that came to mind was the blood and hair that Azir had taken when he performed the shamanic ritual. At the time, it seemed that he had burned them all, but he probably still kept some for himself.

However, Murphy still didn't quite understand, "Why do you do this? The Queen trusts you a lot."

"To conspire with a tiger...you are more...than...Ivan..."

But he died before he could finish speaking.

Murphy decapitated him again with a wind blade, put it in the box, and then walked into the Spring Palace.

The battle is over; now it's time to demand our pay.

(End of this chapter)