Chapter 343: Star Fall

In the machine room corridor, there was a pool of flesh and blood on the ground.

The human named Jackson had been cut into pieces by the laser network Murphy had created by imitating Resident Evil.

But a small pendant was still floating in the air.

A dense layer of pale blue light condensed into a sphere with a diameter of only about five centimeters outside the pendant.

Letting the lasers capable of melting steel focus on the sphere, they were still unable to destroy it.

"Truly astonishing," the female voice in the loudspeaker said. "Somewhat similar to the protective spells of Horcruxes, but undoubtedly more powerful. Especially after being condensed to such a small size, these lasers could easily destroy any of my Horcruxes, yet they cannot break through your defense."

"Tom Riddle." A voice came from the pendant.

"I no longer use that name," Lukas said. "Say something, Holy Mother. Who exactly are you? And what is your purpose? Perhaps after getting a satisfactory answer, we will let you go."

"Why did you guess I would come here?" the pendant asked.

"Ah, you also have curiosity? But I can answer this question for you. Professor Murphy discovered earlier that you can locate his position, and he even suspected that you can detect his thoughts to a certain extent. So, to avoid all his arrangements being leaked to you, he had me prepare a backup battle plan."

"Only I knew about this Plan B," Lukas said.

"Although we don't quite understand your motivation for acting, we could guess that you wanted to stop our antenna from being built. And the two key steps of building the antenna, one is the main body of the antenna, which you left to Professor Dumbledore to execute, and the other is the computing power department of the antenna, which is 'Athena'. Destroying either one would greatly delay our project progress."

"Professor Murphy himself is responsible for the defense of the antenna part, while I am responsible for blocking your other sabotage actions here."

"Originally, I also prepared many plans to deal with your possible methods. But I didn't expect you to just adopt the most primitive method. You perhaps felt that by controlling Jackson with your ability, you could bypass the constraints of the Magic Research Institute's magic contract and easily destroy Athena's machine room."

"But you probably didn't expect that there are many magic detection devices installed in the Magic Research Institute, and your magic level is unique. Almost the moment you appeared, we locked onto your existence."

The Holy Mother naturally couldn't have imagined these things, because it didn't know about the existence of so-called magic detection devices at all, and couldn't imagine that there existed things in this research institute with only ordinary wizards and Muggles that could discover it. It even less expected that the other party could actually trap it with some "magic shielding."

"With these attacks of yours, you can't kill me," the pendant said.

"No, you misunderstood; this is just a small experiment to test your various resistances."

"There are still... let me see, about sixty more experimental items remaining. Good luck."

……

Leaving the console, Lukas came to a lightning crow. "Ordinary physical means are very difficult to kill it. In fact, I suspect its existence is completely on the magic side. Now we can only control it first. If we want to eliminate it, perhaps we still have to wait until the antenna is built."

"Caw, before that, let's go solve the Phoenix Society," the crow said. "Try to catch them all in one net. As long as they are still there, the antenna is in danger."

"Understood."

……

"Sirius, don't get entangled with them; reinforcements will only come one after another. Destroy that thing!" Moody pounded his cane, knocking an Auror several meters away. "The Aurors of today are really getting less and less useful, but it's a good thing for us. I'll hold them off; you go blow it up."

Sirius glanced at the huge building behind the Aurors.

It was built on a piece of rock that had been leveled by magic. On a concrete base several meters high, a huge metal creation was erected. It looked like a giant pot, only this pot was still just a skeleton, and only a few pieces of the silver-white metal that made up the pot surface had been installed.

This thing is too big; how can it be destroyed?

"Use this," Kingsley squeezed over from the side and took a cloth bag from his bosom, handing it to Sirius. The latter reached in and took out a jar. "What is this?"

"Dumbledore gave it to me; inside is a spell, a powerful Fiendfyre spell. I don't know how he turned the spell into this. Just throw it down from above at that antenna. But before it shatters, you had better run far away. There are two inside; you only have two chances."

In the past, similar work was done by James, because James's flying skills were the most superb; he always did the most dangerous assault missions. As long as he got on a broomstick, no one could catch him.

But now, only Sirius was left to do it.

Pity, the flying motorcycle wasn't brought over.

But it didn't matter; he was also pretty good at flying broomsticks.

Taking the flying broomstick given by an Auror, Sirius took off directly. He flew left and right in the air; this was to avoid the snipers in the distance—just now fighting on the ground, they and the Aurors were Apparating back and forth, and the snipers were probably afraid of accidentally hurting friendly forces and didn't fire much, but now he flew into the sky alone, naturally becoming the best target. The other side would definitely fire.

Sure enough, a gunshot rang out, but because the bullet was faster than the gunshot and hit the air, he didn't know where the bullet hit at all. Anyway, he didn't feel pain, wasn't hit, but he still Apparated in the air, pulling himself to a very high altitude, getting rid of the other side's field of vision.

Then he Apparated again, appearing in the air on one side of the antenna. Immediately, someone on the ground raised their wand at him. Sirius Apparated again, appearing in the air behind the antenna.

Through these few Apparitions, he was confident he had shaken off everyone's sight. Then he pressed his body and dove downward.

The hundred-meter distance was crossed in an instant. He took both Fiendfyre jars out of the cloth bag and threw them out separately using a throwing spell.

"Reducio..." Someone below had sharp eyes, saw his action, and prepared to chant a spell to stop the jar. Sirius hit him right in the forehead with a Stupefy spell while flying.

"Boom!"

"Boom!"

Two Fiendfyre jars, one hit the center of the antenna pot, and one hit the base, instantly exploding. Peerless firelight rushed into the sky, and the wind pressure of the explosion blew him so hard he almost couldn't hold his broomstick, but he still Apparated to the Phoenix Society side, was pushed forward a few steps by inertia, and then was hugged by someone.

"Well done, Sirius!"

It was Lupin. He glanced at the antenna that had turned into a giant torch behind Sirius and breathed a sigh of relief. "Mission accomplished, well done!"

"We have to slip away quickly..." Sirius also laughed excitedly. "James would definitely applaud if he saw my move just now."

However, at this moment, a green light shot down from the air, hitting Sirius right in the back.

Sirius was stunned for a moment, then laughed at himself, and his body fell backward powerlessly.

"Sirius! Sirius!" Lupin hugged Sirius's body. Looking up, he saw a girl with short brown hair floating in the air without any support, with a black aura dissipating around her.

Then he saw the wand in the girl's hand point to the ground. "Space Anchor!"

(End of Chapter) ===== CHAPTER 344 =====