Harry Potter Returns from Baldur's Gate

Just as Harry grasped the sword with his backhand and stabbed it at the shadow.

A bunch of twisted, smelly vines suddenly grew out of the mud, entangled Harry's feet, and formed a shield to block the dark shadow.

When Harry swung the Holy Slash, it glowed as it struck the vines.

The shadow ran towards the woods just as it had come, pouncing on the unicorn.

Just as Harry was staring at the dark shadow running in the woods and was about to use Phantom Step again.

Qiu Zhang's shout rang out in the woods, "Ten Thousand Swords Technique!"

The next second, countless long swords fell from the sky like a rainstorm. The silver long swords pierced through the trees that had grown in the forbidden forest for who knows how many years, and fell evenly on the ground like a carpet.

Looking at the woods covered with swords, Harry swallowed silently.

When he turned his head to look in Qiu Zhang's direction, envy flashed in his eyes.

We all play with swords, why are you so showy?

Qiu Zhang, with a sullen face, walked up to Harry and looked him over.

"Are you OK?"

Harry shook his head.

"What about you?"

"I'm fine too."

Qiu Zhang stared seriously at the woodland that had just been covered by the sword.

The swords nailed to the ground were now beginning to slowly dissipate like morning dew.

"What on earth is that thing? The Ten Thousand Swords Technique didn't hit me at all."

Hearing Qiu Zhang's words, Harry shook his head.

"I don't know. I've never seen anything like it. We need to go find Hagrid and see how he is."

"Roar!"

As Harry was speaking, Hagrid rushed out of the woods again, holding a thick tree trunk.

"Where's that thing? Did you guys get rid of it?"

After discovering that the black shadow had disappeared, Hagrid put down the tree trunk in his hand and looked at Harry and Cho Zhang who were standing together.

"It ran away."

Harry shook his head.

"I don't know what happened, but when it was gaining the upper hand, it suddenly screamed and ran away."

"We must tell Dumbledore about this."

Hagrid dropped the tree trunk in his hand and looked at the forest that was riddled with holes like cheese after being covered by Qiu Zhang's Ten Thousand Swords Technique.

"What a terrible guy, he is able to destroy the forest like this..."

Just as Harry was hesitating whether to tell Hagrid that the riddled forest in front of him was actually Qiu Zhang's masterpiece.

There was a rustling sound in the forbidden forest, and it was obvious that a large group of things were approaching.

Harry immediately raised his sword and stood together with Cho Zhang and Hagrid, carefully guarding against possible attacks.

As if they noticed that Harry and the others had become alert, the owners of the "rustling" sounds stopped when they were still some distance away from Harry and the others.

The two sides began to confront each other in silence.

After more than ten seconds of deathly silence, Harry asked Qiu Zhang in a low voice.

"Can you attack like that again? If we continue to be in a stalemate, it will be disadvantageous to us. We must return to the castle as soon as possible."

Qiu Zhang nodded.

"Where do you want me to attack with the Ten Thousand Swords Technique?"

"Hagrid! Is that you?"

At this moment, a man's voice suddenly sounded in the forbidden forest.

"it's me!"

Hagrid responded, thought for a moment, then turned and said to Harry and Qiu Zhang.

"Put down your weapons, these are friends."

Then he turned around and shouted loudly into the forbidden forest.

"Ronan! We were just fighting that thing that attacked the unicorn here!"

After a while, a group of centaurs with bows and arrows came out of the woods. Hagrid walked up and shook hands with the centaur.

"Hagrid, we came here when we heard the noise. Where's that thing? Did you defeat it?"

Hagrid shook his head.

"It ran away."

Hearing Hagrid's words, the centaurs stamped their hooves nervously.

Ronan sighed and looked up at the dark sky.

"Mars is bright tonight."

"Yeah, Mars is bright tonight."

Hagrid nodded.

"Things are beyond my control, so I will ask Dumbledore to intervene. If possible, I would like to ask you to help me see if that thing has left any clues."

"Of course we'll help Hagrid."

With the help of the centaurs, Harry not only recovered the three guns that he had thrown away after the shooting because he didn't have time to reload.

Even the bullet casings were picked up.

Apart from these, the centaurs only found a few torn pieces of cloak hems.

Apparently, this was the only result of Qiu Zhang's Ten Thousand Swords Technique.

Holding the hems of the cloaks, Harry and his companions left the Forbidden Forest and headed for Hogwarts Castle under the escort of the centaurs.

Along the way, Harry and Qiu Zhang reviewed the battle.

In the end, Harry and Qiu Zhang came to the conclusion that half of the reason why the fight turned out this way was because the black shadow was indeed very strong.

The other half of the reason lies in the lack of cooperation between Harry and Qiu Zhang.

Since Harry has short arms, he is used to using Phantom Step to jump to the enemy's face and then use his long sword to hit its bear face as soon as the battle starts.

But this made Qiu Zhang, whose hands were longer than Harry's, very uncomfortable, because apart from the insufficient power of the Heavenly Master's talisman and the ordinary sword-wielding technique.

Whether it is the Ten Thousand Swords Technique or skills like Sword God, Qiu Zhang's are all area attacks.

Therefore, unless Qiu Zhang intends to kill Harry as well, he cannot use this powerful skill of large-scale attack.

But after Harry thought about it, he felt that this was not a big problem.

As long as Qiu Zhang gives him a few more of the Resurrection Pills he received last time, Harry's spell slots won't be so stretched.

Harry could fully utilize the Phantom Step to jump onto the opponent's face and entangle him, and then when Qiu Zhang used the Ten Thousand Swords Technique or other powerful moves to sweep the ground, he could use the Phantom Step to run away and show off to the opponent.

However, to do so, Harry and Qiu Zhang need to have enough tacit understanding to be able to play this kind of cooperation.

Just as Harry and Qiu Zhang were whispering about how to achieve this kind of cooperation, Hagrid pushed open the door of the headmaster's office.

In the headmaster's office, Dumbledore and Quirrell were sitting at the coffee table.

Dumbledore glanced up at Hagrid.

"Wait a moment, Rubeur, I have a few more words with Quirinus."

098 Hermione: Harry! I'm the captain!

After Professor Quirrell left, Hagrid told Dumbledore what happened in the Forbidden Forest and gave Dumbledore the fragments of the cloak.

After examining the pieces of cloth, Dumbledore's expression became more serious than ever.

"Harry, how did you feel when you fought it?"

Hearing Dumbledore's question, Harry organized his words.

"Darkness, like real darkness, gives me the feeling that I am not fighting against something else, but fighting against darkness itself."

"Is it darkness..."

Dumbledore stroked his beard.

"It seems that we have all encountered some opponents that we have never met before."

As Dumbledore spoke, he walked to a cupboard in the office and took out the broom that almost killed Harry.

"Harry, come here and feel it."

Dumbledore raised his broom and the piece of cloth towards Harry.

Harry felt the corrupted broom, and the energy remaining in the cloth.

"They are...very similar..."

Harry looked at Dumbledore in surprise.

"Yes, it's very similar. I even think it's the same energy."

"That's right... It's the same energy, but the core is darkness and corruption, not chaos..."

Dumbledore put the cloth and broom back into the cupboard.

"This proves that this 'thing' can enter Hogwarts, or at least it can touch your broom on the Quidditch field without us noticing... and it is far more dangerous than the basilisk. In any case, this is not good news."

Dumbledore closed the cupboard door and turned to look at Harry.

"So Harry, as a victim, what do you think now?"

Harry thought quickly and it was obvious that the situation was on the verge of getting out of control, although when he arrived at the headmaster's office, Professor Quirrell was already there.