Chapter 436

Evolt's red figure was unusually flexible. In the third stage, he possessed rabbit-like agility, and for a time, he circled between Sacred Blade and Cronus, actually not falling into a disadvantage. If it weren't for Sirius's quick reaction, he would have almost snatched the unconscious Bella away.

Fortunately, this encirclement operation was well prepared. Just as Evolt flashed to Sacred Blade's side again, preparing to give him a punch, a white figure suddenly appeared and firmly grabbed Evolt's shoulders.

"Caught you!" Elena said confidently, then shook with force, and a large burst of sparks immediately erupted on Evolt's armor. And just as he swung his fist to counterattack, she flashed again and appeared in the open space five meters away.

At this moment, Harry noticed very clearly that there was already a diagonal crack on Evolt's chest armor, and his pace had become chaotic.

Flames ignited on Sacred Blade's sword, and he turned around to slash solidly on Evolt, beating him until he flew backward. Immediately after, Elena flashed behind his back again, preparing to launch another attack.

In this desperate situation, Evolt made a very risky move. He suddenly canceled his transformation, then exploded a group of strange red mist. At that moment, no one had time to see his face, and that figure immediately hid in the smoke.

Elena immediately pounced forward, but she grabbed nothing. As the red mist slowly dissipated, there was no one in the woods, and they could only regretfully accept the fact that "Evolt ran away".

Harry looked at the two who had canceled their transformation and said anxiously, "We must hurry back to school; Draco is calling for help, and I don't even know what happened there!"

"We're going back." Snape said calmly, "Sirius, watch our prisoners, be vigilant!"

"Set up an Anti-Apparition Ward! The musketeer squad works in two shifts!" Sirius said loudly, "Double the pension!"

The members of the musketeer squad regained their fighting spirit under the effect of money. Snape nodded slightly when he saw this, then put his two hands on Harry and Luo En, and with a crisp sound, the three appeared at the entrance of the Great Hall.

Just after they Apparated, Zhang Qiu also appeared, followed by Elena—but she didn't get school recognition and could only appear outside the distant gate.

Harry, relying on a habitual way of thinking, walked quickly up the stairs. He thought this battle was still in the Room of Requirement, but when he walked up the stairs, he found that the orientation of the ring was a bit wrong.

"That direction is... Torchwood?" A chill hit him from the top of his head. With deep worry about the diary, he ran toward that room with all his might.

The corridor had long been evacuated. He saw Draco slumped in the corner from far away, his left hand tightly covering his right shoulder, covered in blood.

Immediately after, a white figure crashed through the phantom wall and flew out, directly shattering half of the guardrail, with more than half of his body extending outside the corridor, almost falling off.

Fang Joker struggled to get up, holding a thorn-shaped bone blade in his hand. At this moment, a red figure suddenly appeared, and the blade wrapped in sharp sword energy slashed on the bone knife, splashing a burst of sparks.

Double supported the ground with one hand, jumped up taking advantage of the momentum, and kicked toward Decade's head. But his power had been exhausted, and this attack was easily blocked by Decade. He swung his sword backhand, and Double barely blocked it, but the huge impact made him fall heavily to the ground, the floor tiles of the corridor were also smashed, and gravel splashed everywhere.

"Hehe, reinforcements are here." Decade wiped the sword in his hand very arrogantly, "I'll take the diary. In exchange, I'll give you a piece of advice: stop playing Double alone."

He looked at Luo En and Zhang Qiu who had rushed over behind Harry again, then touched his waist lightly, and his whole body immediately fell into an invisible state, and his figure could no longer be caught.

"Cough!" The Double on the ground canceled the transformation, but the revealed figure was Lu Na. She sat up with some difficulty, her calf was scratched by gravel, and a bright red bloodstain looked very glaring at this moment.

"Diary..." she said with some difficulty, "He snatched the diary."

"What's going on?" Harry walked up. He saw at a glance that the room was a mess, the furniture was broken, and both Cui Ge and Pan Xi were lying on the ground, unconscious.

"That pink knight defeated Draco, and then grabbed him. Pan Xi had no choice but to bring him here." Lu Na said weakly, "Cui Ge couldn't beat him. The situation was urgent at the time, so I wanted to try, but I didn't expect I could also transform into Double."

Harry looked at Draco again. He was covered in cold sweat, his eyes closed, and his breathing was a bit weak.

"He shattered the display cabinet with one punch. Our spells didn't work, and he directly took the diary." Lu Na continued, "I couldn't beat him either, and the power of Fang Joker wasn't enough."

"Let's send them to the hospital first." During the conversation, Snape and Madam Pomfrey also arrived at the scene. Madam Pomfrey waved her wand hurriedly, and Draco's blood stopped immediately, but he also fainted.

Harry, Luo En, and Zhang Qiu helped float the fallen people and walked slowly toward the school hospital.

"That's Decade," Zhang Qiu spoke first, "a very dangerous guy, but I can't understand, how did he sneak in here?"

"Qiu, how can we become stronger?" Lu Na didn't follow her train of thought at all, just asked her own question, "How can we obtain the Full Bottle?"

"Eh right, you have a Full Bottle." Harry suddenly remembered that one of Zhang Qiu's bottles used for transformation was golden.

"Ah right, my Platinum Gamer." She admitted flatly, "I cleared all games on the highest difficulty, so the 'Gamer' bottle evolved into the 'Platinum Gamer' bottle as a matter of course."

"In other words, your understanding of video games is closely related to Cronus's strength?" Harry asked with furrowed brows, "This is a bit too outrageous, right?"

"Doing something you like to the extreme, this is my answer." Zhang Qiu shrugged, "Of course, I was forced by some other reasons and had to choose the limited-future Cronus, but you all still have a chance."

"What chance?" Lu Na asked with burning eyes.

"If both bottles become Full Bottles, you can reach the strongest." Zhang Qiu repeated her theory, "Luo En is the same; you have to consider this problem carefully."

"Extreme?" Luo En looked confused, as if he didn't understand at all, "Whether it's swords or storybooks, I don't understand what they have to do with the extreme at all."

"That should just be a metaphor. I mean, there are still traces to follow. You can try to practice swordsmanship to perfection; maybe you can evolve the 'Sword' bottle." Harry suggested.

"I feel that swordsmanship is already very difficult to improve." Luo En was a bit distressed, "I finally unearthed the hidden power of the Elemental Dragon, but this is only a tie with the third-stage Evolt. I'm afraid I'll have to deal with the fourth-stage Evolt next time, right?"

"Very likely. Decade himself shouldn't need the diary; it must be that he and Evolt reached a deal." Zhang Qiu sighed, "Elemental Dragon alone is not enough. Although you still lack the thunder element to be unearthed, even if you fully exert the elemental power, facing the fourth-stage black hole form Evolt... the chance of winning is still slim."

"Evolt has already been seriously injured today." Snape said, "We can still get more information from Bella's mouth. Now you can go rest."

"Can I go together?" Harry asked.

"No, if Evolt raids again, the musketeer squad may fall into a melee, which is too dangerous." Snape refused with a cold face, "I don't hold much hope for the interrogation either; you guys should just stay at school."

Harry also didn't hold much hope for the interrogation. He felt Bella was already in a semi-crazy state. He estimated that she vaguely knew Evolt was not Voldemort, but she was unwilling to admit it. So, it was very likely that nothing could be asked from Bella, so he didn't insist on going.

"Why is there a thunder element?" Walking on the way back to the dormitory, Luo En suddenly asked, "How many elements does the Elemental Dragon have?"

"There should be five, right." Zhang Qiu was stunned for a moment and answered seriously.

"But why are these five?" Harry asked, "The four elements of ancient Greece should be earth, air, water, and fire, while the five elements of the Celestial Empire replaced air with metal and wood. No matter how you think about it, it can't be these five elements, right?"

"Probably a coincidence," Zhang Qiu scratched her head, "First of all, theoretically, we can't use power other than extracts, so the elemental concept of the Elemental Dragon actually comes from that sword of Gao Wen."

"What?" Luo En looked at his hands, "I thought it came from a storybook!"

"The Bard Beedle certainly didn't mention 'elements'." Harry analyzed, "But I thought it was from the Seven Deadly Sins at first."

"No, the main power of the Seven Deadly Sins is Fiendfyre, so Sacred Blade is still mainly fire," Zhang Qiu explained, "And the Sword of Gao Wen was made with the concept of the 'Hero's Sword', which should contain six attributes: water, fire, wind, earth, light, and dark. And light and dark don't have specific magic manifestation forms; they are just theoretically existing alchemical attributes."

"Then where did thunder come from?"

"Maybe because, it was struck by lightning?" Zhang Qiu said while frantically winking at Harry, "I think seven is a number with magic; it's right for the Hero's Sword to have a seventh attribute."

Harry suddenly realized that although he had guessed it, and Zhang Qiu had also admitted it, the Sword of Gao Wen was an alchemical product forged by the Celestial people. But Luo En still thought it was the sword left by the ancient British hero Gao Wen in the Avalon hidden realm. If he rashly told the truth, it would shake Luo En's state of mind.

"Is it because the sword blank used by the Celestial people to forge the magic sword had thunder and lightning as its basic attribute, so it was brought into this Sword of Promised Victory?" Luo En suddenly spoke the truth, which stunned both Harry and Zhang Qiu.

"Don't be so surprised; Donald told me about Avalon last year." Luo En shrugged, "It's not a bad thing, right?"