Chapter 447: Merged into One

After entering the Ultimate Form, the narrow slit that had originally joined the center of the Cross-Z body opened, and a large, silver-bright strip running from top to bottom appeared in the center. The W-shaped decoration, which had previously resembled arched eyebrows, also separated and adorned both sides of the helmet, adding a sense of sharpness to the emotionless compound eyes.

But what was truly wonderful was that at this moment, Double was not transformed by Cui Ge or Lu Na alone. They merged into one. Harry really couldn't imagine how the two controlled this body.

Perhaps this was the wonderful thing about magic. When you don't understand science, it also means you have no restrictions on your imagination. You only need sincere emotions to create miracles that are hard to describe in words.

When the Extreme form of Double fought Kiva again, he was already completely not at a disadvantage. His power and speed were even above Kiva's. If it weren't for some uncoordinated movements appearing from time to time, Kiva would probably be even more difficult.

"Let's go, your plan probably won't work," Kiva said somewhat helplessly after blocking another attack.

Decade launched the Final Attack Ride toward Magma Dragon again. The card box sword swung toward the opponent's shoulder with a trace of afterimage, while Magma Dragon clenched his gauntlet with his right hand, blocked the sword edge with his left forearm, and through a clever roll, borrowed force to effectively hold off the attack, albeit wolfishly.

"The force has become weaker."

Ma Erfu straightened up somewhat happily, calculating whether he could launch a counterattack. However, this blow from Decade was just a cover before he ran away. At this moment, he had already activated his invisibility ability again, disappearing from everyone's field of vision.

On the other side, Kiva also disappeared after releasing a cloud of red mist with the cover of light bullets shot by Decade.

Double's Extreme form slowly disassembled, golden moonlight and blue metal fragments shattered and drifted around him. With the disappearance of the last bit of special effects, Lu Na's figure appeared in front of everyone again. Her face carried a dreamlike smile, her eyes revealing pride that couldn't be hidden, and her left hand held the belt and that big bottle that created the miracle lightly.

With a thud, Cui Ge, who appeared behind her, sat on the ground, panting and saying: "I still feel, this isn't scientific."

As soon as the words fell, he laughed first, and Lu Na followed, the two sitting together, laughing until they leaned forward and backward.

Ma Erfu also disassembled the transformation. His face carried a trace of jealousy that was there or not, and his hands didn't know how to place them. Finally, he just rubbed his nose and sat on the box next to Harry with Pan Xi.

"Today was too suffocating," he complained. "This abominable Decade, he seems to be targeting me."

"But, don't you think it's strange?" Harry hadn't spoken yet, but Pan Xi spoke first. "Why could he choose to come when Luo En and Zhang Qiu were away, and he didn't attack Harry at all, as if this trip was just to target you? But what do you have that's worth him targeting? If the guess is because he has a grudge against you, but didn't you notice that every attack of Decade wasn't fatal?"

"Who knows," Ma Erfu waved his hand impatiently. "I only know I want to defeat him. Magma Dragon's basic strength is higher than his. Just one more time to let me deal with this guy wholeheartedly, one more time will definitely work!"

"Ma Erfu, why have you become like this?!" Pan Xi grabbed Harry's shoulder anxiously. "Harry, don't you feel something is wrong?"

Harry felt very unhappy about Pan Xi's little actions of deliberately forcing Hermione, but what she said did have some truth. So he also analyzed along this line of thought, "Yeah, Ma Erfu, I feel your personality has become belligerent and impulsive, and your thinking isn't as... comprehensive as before."

He almost just said, Ma Erfu has become stupid.

"Seems like there is a little bit, but I think it doesn't matter," Ma Erfu said nonchalantly.

Harry recalled carefully. It seemed his change started from obtaining the Jelly Dragon. He looked at Pan Xi somewhat uncertainly and said in a low voice: "Could it be a problem with the Jelly Bottle?"

"Please call it the Gel Bottle," Ma Erfu corrected angrily.

"Perhaps this is the side effect of using other people's Rider systems," Cui Ge interjected from the side. "We still don't know what you used as extracts for these Energy Bottles, and we don't even know where they came from. It seems they were all sent to you directly by that mysterious person."

"So the basic extract of the Energy Bottle affected your personality," Lu Na added.

"But aren't your extracts also other people's?" Pan Xi said. "Why didn't your mental states get affected?"

"Strictly speaking, although the other four bottles were made using alchemy, the Moon and Trigger are actually from ourselves. If not for this, we wouldn't be able to enter the Extreme form," Lu Na answered first. "And, I feel this still has a little influence on our mental states, which is—"

"We are becoming more and more tacit," Cui Ge picked up the second half of the sentence.

"This is too bold, directly using wizard individuals as extracts?" Harry was shocked by this sentence. He finally understood why the two were unwilling to reveal the source of Double's power before.

"Such bottles may not be the strongest, but they must be the most suitable for us." "And, perhaps it's an accidental gain, I feel my own body has also become better."

"Speaking of this, since the bubble bottle has the ability to strengthen the connection of basic elements," Harry summarized, "merging is not completely unscientific; it still has a theoretical basis."

"You call this metaphysics a theoretical basis?" Hermione interjected, her tone carrying extreme disapproval. "Two people merging into one Rider, who controls the body? If one side each, how to complete coordination? How do they communicate? And how does magic power flow? This is a fantasy no matter how you think about it!"

"We, heart-to-heart," Lu Na gestured, "is, can easily read and understand each other's thinking. This feeling is very wonderful."

"A resident-type Legilimency, I think it's probably like this. Then our subconscious seems to be connected, merged? I don't know, perhaps you can try what it feels like for two people to use Legilimency on each other at the same time," Cui Ge tried to explain in a scientific way. "As for the body, we can clearly feel there is still some uncoordination. As for magic power, it's all charged into the armor, no need to worry extra."

"Sounds quite reasonable. I haven't tried Legilimency; that's too difficult," Harry accepted this explanation very generously, while Hermione rolled her eyes. "The good news is, the ability of Extreme Double should still have room for improvement."

Ma Erfu stood up. He patted his wizard robe to show his presence, then said with some pride: "Then, since the danger has been lifted, let's go back first."

"Can't we wait for Luo En and Zhang Qiu to come back together?" Lu Na asked, turning her head.

"I don't really want to continue sitting in this room, because..." Pan Xi took a little time to weigh her words, "this might affect Harry's secret plan. Yes, he has to do that thing without interference. Anyway, Decade's target is Cross-Z, Harry won't have any danger."

"Are you sure it's not because—" Lu Na wanted to ask again, but Cui Ge covered her mouth, smiled apologetically, and took her out.

The moment the door closed again, Harry was still feeling embarrassed for Hermione, but Hermione clearly didn't care about the identity issue anymore. She had been biting her nails and pondering. Suddenly, she slapped her thigh and said as if she had a sudden realization: "Tail! Decade must have followed us in, so he doesn't need to guess what room we opened. He just needs to hide at the door of the Room of Requirement and wait for us to open the door! Because the door of the Room of Requirement takes a while to close, so he can easily do this with his invisibility ability!"

"And he knew we were coming here by Legilimency. We set the plan to come to the Room of Requirement to recite the spell long ago, so he had many opportunities this week to determine the location of the 'Room of Requirement'!"

Harry nodded along, and then he quickly realized what Hermione wanted to say.

"And the casting of Legilimency requires eye contact, so unless the four of us—no, Harry and Zhang Qiu both have Occlumency, and Luo En and you haven't left the school, right?"

"Yes, although high-level Legilimency masters don't need eye contact, they must stand near the target of the spell. And, magic cannot be used in Rider form, which means Decade must have appeared around us in his original appearance. Since we didn't find any strange people, we can conclude from this... the person who transformed into Decade is in the school!"

Harry and Hermione were incomparably shocked by this conclusion just reached, because almost everyone who appeared in their minds couldn't possibly be Decade. Originally, the person with the biggest suspicion, Mr. Shouichi, had the identity of Agito, so the people worth suspecting were nothing more than Professor Haipu. After all, he was the only one who missed the movement of Snape uniting professors, and other professors were their own people.

"If we exclude students, then there is only Haipu," Harry always felt this conclusion was unbelievable. "But if Haipu can transform into a Rider as powerful as Decade, why would the Magical Congress go to the trouble of engaging in the thankless Herrscher project? But if it's a student, how could he practice Legilimency to the point of not needing eye contact? Unless it's a student who has made eye contact with you or Luo En, who can we think of suspecting?"

Hermione also looked at Harry with an expression of breaking her head and not being able to figure it out. After a long time, she said slowly, "Then it can only be said that it is also possible that it is an adult who is proficient in the Disillusionment Charm and can sneak into the school quietly, and it is also possible... Decade has another student or professor accomplice."

"Sneak into the school? A wizard who can break through Hogwarts magic doesn't exist. The only possibility is that he is an alumnus who has attended school here... but all of Britain is this kind of person, at most helping us exclude foreign wizards," Harry frowned, the clue he finally caught slipped away. "As for an accomplice, he can even send house-elves. Hogwarts' protective magic can't stop house-elves." ===== CHAPTER 448 =====