Hogwarts: My name is the Unforgivable Curse...

Chapter 320 I Need to Guide the Fire Dragon's Mindset

"The green light... is it one of those stone pillars that can be broken and contains hidden items?"

The moment he saw the green light, Avada immediately dispersed the white mist that had been almost burned away by the dragon's breath, allowing himself to reappear in the dragon's sight: "That pillar has a high resistance to ordinary magic, and probably only black magic like the Thunder Explosion Spell can destroy it—but that's obviously not something that can be used in a competition."

"Or I could use Transformation to create a heavy object for a physical attack, but I don't have any suitable Transformation materials on hand right now... Let's just guide the dragon properly for now."

"Five, four, three..."

Mentally counting down from five, Avada accelerated sharply, leaping across the area emitting the green glow. The Iron-Belly Fire Dragon in the distance finally recovered from the acrid white mist. Its eyes, now bloodshot, scanned the area before locking onto Avada. Then, with a loud roar, it swung its limbs, propelling its massive body forward…

"Two, one!"

boom!

A massive, gray stone pillar, as thick as a giant tree, suddenly burst forth from the area emitting the green light, soaring upwards by more than ten meters in just a few seconds. The enraged fire dragon, seemingly oblivious to the green light from the start, was now only a few meters away from the pillar and had no time to stop…

Click...

There wasn't even a loud sound. As the fire dragon slammed solidly into the stone pillar, the part that was hit first made an ominous cracking sound, and then in the next moment it turned into a shower of flying pebbles. The stone pillar, which was more than ten meters high, slowly tilted down and then crashed heavily onto the reinforced ground, breaking into countless pieces.

"roar!"

The poor stone pillar didn't even hinder the fire dragon's speed at all. Iron-bellied dragon, on the other hand, slowed down in fright when it saw the obstacle suddenly appear in front of it. After smashing the stone pillar, it stopped and looked around in anger, only to find itself surrounded by thick fog again...

"Next time, maybe I can try controlling the direction the stone pillar falls and see if I can make it smash directly into the fire dragon. That should cause some damage..."

The aftershocks of the collision had no effect on Avada, who had already set up his armor spell. He even had the leisure to create a thick fog to conceal himself while the fire dragon's attention was drawn to the pillar, intending to make further observations. Then, the next moment, he saw a small ball of light quietly floating in mid-air where the stone pillar had originally stood.

"That's the prop inside the stone pillar? Luckily I took cover beforehand..."

He decisively accelerated and approached, grabbing the small ball of light before the fire dragon could react—it was actually a small glass bottle filled with magic potions, with a conspicuous label on it…

"Bone Spirit?"

Avada frowned – judging by the size of the bottle, the amount of bone spirits was only enough for one sip, and the cap could be easily pried open. It was probably designed for warriors who had been struck by the flesh of a dragon, so that they could drink it after breaking several bones to sustain their fighting spirit.

"We won't need it for now... and we probably won't need it for the entire match."

He quickly put the small bottle away, then continued to probe the dragon's attack patterns while constantly observing the changes in the light on the field. However, to his surprise, shortly after he began observing, four or five patches of closely spaced blue light suddenly lit up the ground in another area not far from him and the dragon…

"blue?"

Avada raised an eyebrow: "Those indestructible, solid stone pillars—and they appear in groups?"

"Speaking of which, that fire dragon just smashed a stone pillar, and now it probably thinks that these stone pillars can be easily destroyed by itself... So should we make it smash into a sturdy stone pillar again to teach it a lesson, so that when the charged stone pillar appears, it probably won't mindlessly rush upwards... Yes, let's do that."

"Three, two, one..."

Avada cast several speed-boosting spells on himself, instantly creating a significant distance between himself and the iron-bellied dragon. He then arrived in the middle of the blue areas, waiting for the dragon to crash into him...

Then he was met with a terrifying dragon's breath that was a hundred feet long.

"..."

With lightning speed, he unleashed an Ironclad Spell before the dragon's breath could strike, blocking a wave of impact. Then, a sturdy stone pillar in front of him quickly rose from the ground, shielding him from the remaining attacks.

"Alright, at least we've figured out a way to guide the fire dragon to breathe fire."

After frowning slightly, Avada immediately deactivated his Ironclad Charm and retreated a considerable distance to the side—he remembered that the solid stone pillar only existed for a mere five seconds, and he didn't want to stand there foolishly, only to find himself face-to-face with that Ukrainian Ironbelly after the pillar disappeared…

However, it turned out that Avada had worried too much; the Ironbelly Dragon didn't seem to have the habit of breathing fire while approaching its target. Even after the dragon's breath, which lasted for several seconds, gradually subsided, the fire dragon remained coiled in place like a small mountain. Then, realizing that its breath attack had achieved no results, it angrily pounced again.

"Should I try to boost this dragon's confidence?"

While continuously dodging Ironbelly's attacks, Avada also guided it to smash through a fragile stone pillar, acquiring a one-time-use dragonhide cloak that could withstand one breath attack from a fire dragon. Avada pondered with some concern: "Breath attacks must be very tiring for a fire dragon, and it's already breathed fire twice without any effect. Instead, its close-range attacks have shattered several pillars… Could this gradually change its mindset, causing it to reduce the frequency of its breath attacks? This would increase the probability of it smashing through the charging pillars?"

"Could this be one of the challenges of this match? The Warriors not only need to defend themselves against the Fire Dragon's attacks, but they also need to consider the Fire Dragon's mentality?!"

"But if we really want it to think that its fire-breathing is more effective than melee combat, what should we make it burn? The stone pillars appear randomly, and they're not necessarily fragile ones..."

"etc?"

As Avada was thinking, he suddenly caught a glimpse of the two fragile stone pillars that had been smashed to pieces and were now scattered on the ground. After being shattered by the fire dragon, the protective magic that had originally contained them had completely failed, and they were now just ordinary stones without any magical properties...

"Isn't this just readily available deformable material?!"

(End of this chapter)