Hogwarts: From Selling White Peppers to Becoming a God

Chapter 367 Wrestling

The Spirit Anchor pierced Slytherin, and Voldemort was pulled away because of the Hexagram, a magic circle Voldemort set up to absorb Slytherin, thus deeply binding the two of them together.

However, the students only provide energy to the magic circle, and their connection with the magic circle is solely through magic.

As for the escape room itself, it was like soil being held by the students' magical network of "roots," and was pulled along with them.

Severing the magical connection will prevent the students from being pulled into the spirit world and will also stop the secret chamber from sliding deeper into the spirit world.

However, the magic circle now contains the magical energy of hundreds of students. Slytherin seemed to have considered the possibility of uninvited guests when designing it, so this part of the magic, in addition to being used to establish and maintain the "channel" between this world and the spirit world to resurrect him, also has a powerful protective ability.

The force that pushed Murphy away when he tried to approach the pendant came from here.

Dumbledore tried to use several spells, but none of them could sever the magical bond.

As the students' souls were about to be pulled away from their bodies, Dumbledore suddenly grabbed a magical portal.

In an instant, his magic was also incorporated into the ritual. However, unlike the unconscious students, he could still control his magic. He spread his magic and, through the magic channels, transformed it into a vast network that blocked all the students' path, like a huge dam, trying to stop the force that was about to tear their souls out.

However, this force was still too strong. The black ship was able to pull hundreds of people toward the spirit world. Even though he tried his best to stop it, he could only be dragged and pushed along, falling toward the spirit world.

"Albus!"

Behind him, Grindelwald also grabbed his shoulder, using his own magic as an anchor point to wrestle with the Black Ship.

He could disregard those students, but he couldn't bear to watch Dumbledore die here and do nothing.

Even with the two of them, they only managed to slow down the fall slightly.

"With the Soul Anchor!" Grindelwald suddenly shouted.

Dumbledore paused, but without hesitation, he raised his wand, aimed it at himself and Grindelwald, and uttered, "Anchor of Souls!"

"Bang! Bang!" Several chains pierced through his and Grindelwald's chests, but the other end was firmly rooted to the ground, using their souls as locks to forcibly hold back the souls of hundreds of students.

"Creak, creak..." The earth trembled, and the black ship was like a ship that had dropped its anchor on the dock. The chains were stretched straight, and Murphy even seemed to hear some kind of twisting and breaking sound, as if the nail that nailed the "secret room" to the spirit world and the material world was loosening.

Ultimately, however, the pull of the black ship was temporarily stopped, and the magical bond between the magic circle and the students had been stretched to its limit.

"Murphy..." Dumbledore's magic was all used to maintain the "dam," and he could barely speak. "Please..."

Murphy didn't wait for him to finish speaking.

At this moment, he could no longer afford to stand by and watch.

He raised his wand, and magic burst forth, transforming into a higher level of magic at the same frequency as the Virgin Mary's power.

He roughly condensed this magic into a large sword, then leaped up and slashed at the taut magical bond.

"choke!"

After a crisp metallic clang, Murphy was suddenly thrown back by the immense force of the counterattack. Even for him, it was still beyond his power to withstand the magic of hundreds of people.

However, in the next instant, as if it had reached its stress limit, the magical bond suddenly snapped.

With a deafening boom, a blinding magical light flashed, and the entire chamber shook violently. The students lost contact with the magic circle, and their souls were instantly pulled back by Dumbledore and Grindelwald, returning to their places.

Meanwhile, without the students' support, Voldemort could no longer hold on and was dragged along by the chains, along with all the soul fragments in the Horcruxes, into the void passage and into the Black Ship.

At that moment, the picture of the Virgin Mary, which was originally in the Slytherin locket, seemed to be blown away by a gust of wind, drifted out of the locket, and flew elsewhere.

Murphy swiftly grabbed the photograph, but before he could aim his wand at it, another chain shot out from the black ship, this time aimed directly at Murphy.

Murphy had no choice but to clutch the photo tightly and dart to the edge of the hall.

However, after the black ship appeared, the secret chamber seemed to have slid deeper into the spirit world, and Murphy couldn't find an exit for a while.

The chains chased him like pythons, while Murphy constantly changed positions to evade them in the secret room.

At the same time, a third chain was launched from the black ship, but the other end of the chain disappeared into the void, its whereabouts unknown.

"Murphy, this is Morgan's Ship," Dumbledore said weakly, leaning on Grindelwald's shoulder. "It's a ferry connecting the mortal world and the afterlife. The fairy Morgan is the helmsman, she guards the oath, and that oath may be the 'Loyalty Charm,' the hidden magic we carry in our blood. She will bring those who break their oaths back to the afterlife."

So, that's why this chain came towards me?

But at most, all I did was do things that might have expanded the scope of the secret agents; I didn't even gain any more power from it.

Why the hell do you have to hunt down the Holy Mother instead of the Holy Mother?

Its power level is clearly beyond what's possible!

Well, speaking of the Virgin Mary… Murphy unfolded the small photograph in his hand, and sure enough, it was completely empty.

That guy ran away again.

However, Murphy suddenly had an idea.

After summoning the Black Ship, the Mother of Goddess behaved extremely discreetly, which was completely different from the feeling of wielding a powerful weapon. Is it possible that she was also afraid of the Black Ship?

So, it hid in the pendant not just to deceive itself, but also to deceive the Black Ship.

Does that mean that the soul anchor also works for it?

Murphy frowned as he looked at the blank photo in his hand.

run?

It's just a portrait. You ran away, so can't I just paint one myself?

In the blink of an eye, an image of the Virgin Mary had been drawn on the blank photograph in his hand. At the same time, Murphy drew his specially made wand, aimed it at the image, and used magic imitating the Virgin Mary to "enchant" it. "The image comes to life!"

In an instant, a mysterious connection was established between the photograph in his hand and the Virgin Mary, and Murphy even seemed to glimpse some visions.

Canvas, old man, incantation...

What is this?

But the Black Ship's anchor was already within reach, and there was no time to think. Murphy zoomed in on the photograph in his hand, turned around, and threw it at the chains that were thrusting at him.

Portraits of the same person can be transferred between each other; the Virgin Mary used this trick to make herself slippery.

However, this would mean that the portraits should also be connected.

And this connection channel is very likely located in the spirit world.

Although Murphy could not use this spiritual passage to attack the Virgin Mary through ordinary means, the Soul Anchor was powerful enough. The students were almost uprooted just because their magic was connected to Voldemort, let alone the spiritual passage that already existed between the portraits.

Sure enough, the chain pierced the photograph, but did not penetrate it; instead, it seemed to disappear into a cave.

A moment later, Murphy seemed to hear a distant scream. Then the chains suddenly tightened and pulled back, and a wailing figure was dragged out of the photograph, struggling desperately in vain, but was eventually pulled into the black ship.

At the same time, many statues of the Virgin Mary around the world suddenly burst into flames and burned to ashes.

The Virgin Mary finally died.

(End of this chapter)