The Prisoners of Hogwarts

Chapter 25 Potion Effects and Ambushes

There wasn't even time to swallow; the potion's effects erupted the moment it entered the mouth.

It was as if an invisible behemoth had swallowed you whole and chewed you repeatedly, grinding every muscle fiber into a pulp and every bone into dust.

Then a ball of heat, like magma, exploded inside his body. As if nourished, the heat expanded rapidly, melting his internal organs, melting his flesh, melting everything.

Besides his own brain, Lynch could only feel his own brain, and that was all he could feel.

He soon understood why the brain was still intact.

Thousands of extremely cold needles pierced his brain instantly, bringing endless chills and turning his mind upside down.

In a daze, he saw the killings again and again in the mist, the little elf who reached out to help him, the little girl who died by the lake, and the dimly lit, old shoe shop...

A deafening roar exploded inside my brain.

Lin Qi suddenly opened his eyes, his pupils contracting sharply due to intense pain.

His gaze was fixed on the clock on the wall, noticing that the second hand had just completed a tick.

Lin Qi took a trembling breath, feeling excruciating pain all over his body, as if a fire dragon had just performed a tap dance on him.

"Phew... that's a bit too powerful... Snape... you call this a burst of power that's not fierce or deadly..."

After taking a few deep breaths to calm himself down, Lin Qi was still in excruciating pain all over his body, but he gradually regained his ability to move.

The first thing he did was close his eyes and feel the potion's effects.

Soon, he opened his eyes in surprise.

Snape did his job brilliantly.

The potion was even more potent than expected!

If the original magic was a net, it was spread out evenly from itself as the center.

So the magic power, temporarily tempered by the potion, is like pulling out every thread from this net and twisting it into a rope.

Not only has the strength in one direction been improved, but the distance that can be extended has also been increased several times!

Consciousness connected to the raven on the windowsill, feeling the powerful link between them, which had transformed from silk threads into hemp ropes.

As he estimated the maximum range of his magic power during the potion's effect, a satisfied smile appeared on Lin Qi's lips.

Looks like I'll be able to have a great time tonight...

The hands of the clock continued to tick forward, and Lynch continued to take deep breaths, trying to get used to the physical pain.

Finally, when the clock struck 19:35.

The crow flew down to Lynch.

Lynch pointed a finger at its head, and the crow turned into a raven again.

The raven leaped off the bed, spread its wings, and glided onto the windowsill.

The raven's claw stepped on the brass key.

The next instant, space twisted and spun, and the raven vanished into thin air, leaving only a brass key spinning on the windowsill.

Lynch closed his eyes, focusing all his attention on his connection with the raven.

My vision was spinning rapidly, everything was distorted into a jumbled mess, and I couldn't make out what it was originally.

The next instant, the raven's feet touched the ground.

Looking up, a figure dressed in a gray robe stood before me.

He sized up the raven standing before him, then asked in a hoarse, flat voice, "Are you going to use this bird to solve our problem?"

The raven suddenly spread its wings, but did not take flight.

Instead, the entire body begins to expand, stretch, and reshape.

Soon, a figure appeared in front of Reggie.

The figure turned its head, looked around, and realized that they were on the roof of a building.

The figure was dressed in a black trench coat and wore a round-brimmed hat. On his face was a long bird-beak mask with a dull gleam at the edge of the metal beak.

"Not just any bird, Reggie, but the deadliest one—the Mist Hangman."

Lynch spoke to Reggie, his voice hollow and slightly echoing due to the mask, carrying a strange sense of dread.

Ignoring Lynch's declaration, Reggie pragmatically asked, "It's over 300 kilometers from Hogwarts. How much power can you possibly unleash?"

Lin Qi stretched out his hand, and a tiny glow appeared at his fingertips before extinguishing.

"That's enough to handle the current situation!" He gently opened and closed his palms. "Snape's skill in potions has exceeded my expectations. The potion he made is very effective, much better than I anticipated. This is a truly unexpected surprise."

"Good." Reggie praised in a flat tone, it was unclear whether he was praising Snape's superb skills or Lynch's absolute confidence in the situation.

Reggie turned and walked forward, and Lynch followed.

I stopped at the edge of the rooftop.

Reggie pointed to a factory in the distance.

"Because the factory has a guard, they can't get in, so they can only set up an ambush around the factory. I've checked, there are thirty-two wizards in total, and none of them are easy to deal with."

He then looked at Lin Qi: "But it shouldn't be a big problem for you, right?"

Lynch didn't answer Reggie immediately, but instead asked, "Where's the wand I told you to bring?"

Reggie pulled a wooden box from his pocket: "It was made by Ollivander as you requested. I hope you'll be satisfied with it."

Lynch flicked his hand, and the lid of the wooden box opened, revealing a pure white magic wand inside.

He held up five fingers to the wand, and the wand flew straight into his hand.

He waved his wand twice in the air.

Lin Qi sighed: "It has some effect, but not much. However, it's better than nothing."

As he spoke, he slowly exerted force on the wand, and the wand's shape changed accordingly.

The already straight staff began to expand and grow, making a series of crisp "crack" sounds.

The pristine white surface peeled away instantly, revealing the smooth, black wood underneath.

The staff's end stretched horizontally to form a T-shaped handle. Then, the dark silver luster at both ends spread rapidly as if alive, forming cold, hard metal hoops at both ends in the blink of an eye.

Lin Qi felt a weight in his hand as he grasped a cane that was entirely black with silver tips.

Then he answered Reggie's earlier question: "If it's just about killing them, then there's really no problem."

But the problem now is that, bound by an unbreakable oath, I cannot take another's life, either directly or indirectly.

This increases the difficulty, but it only makes things more interesting.

Let's greet them in a different way.

"How?" Reggie turned to look at Lynch.

A smile tugged at the corner of Lynch's mouth beneath the bird-beak mask: "Of course—to scare them!"

Reggie stood still: "Then I'll wait and see."

Lin Qi didn't continue speaking. He tapped his cane twice on the rooftop, and gray mist began to rise from the street below.

He stood at the edge of the building, took a step forward, and with a light push from his toes, he floated up into the air above the factory as lightly as a feather.

Only the lingering words reached Reggie's ears: "You won't see anything, and neither will they."