Raven's Claw at Hogwarts

Chapter 52 Claw Marks

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The instantaneous change of scene made Mike's heart beat wildly, and the blackthorn wand hidden in his cuff appeared in his hand with a thought.

"Armor protection!"

The newly learned protective spell was released, and with this layer of invisible armor around him, Mike finally gained some confidence and began to observe his situation.

Everything he saw was light blue. Since there was no reference object, Mike couldn't tell the difference between east, west, north and south.

Suddenly, in the sea of ​​light, a dead tree that was more than ten meters high and required two people to hug it appeared not far from Mike. The branches of the dead tree were covered with ravens, all of them staring at Mike below. The raven at the top was particularly huge, and Mike immediately recognized it as that sculpture.

Now it still looks like a sculpture. There is a cold light in its dark brown pupils. It twists its neck flexibly and looks at Mike in turn with its eyes on both sides of its head.

This weird scene put a lot of pressure on Mike, and he waved the wand instinctively, and another layer of armor was put on his body.

Unexpectedly, this move seemed to anger the largest raven, which suddenly opened its wings and made a hoarse and unpleasant cry towards Mike. This was like a signal, and all the other ravens on the dead tree flapped their wings and flew towards Mike like arrows.

Looking at the flock of crows rushing toward him like dark clouds, Mike couldn't help feeling like he was dead.

Raising the wand high, blazing white flames shot into the sky.

The expected scene of the flames devouring the crows did not appear. The crows seemed to have no entity, rushing out of the blazing white flames one after another, ignoring the two layers of armor protection, and continued to attack Mike. .

The first raven quickly bumped into Mike's body. What was strange was that the raven turned into a wisp of black smoke and penetrated into Mike's body.

As this wisp of black smoke penetrated, Mike felt that the magic power in his body began to become uncontrollable, and the fire spell being released could no longer be maintained.

And this is just the beginning.

One after another, the ravens turned into black smoke and penetrated into Mike's body. Soon, Mike's whole body was enveloped in a rich black color.

The magic power in the body could be suppressed by mental power at first, but as time passed, the magic power soon began to boil like boiling water.

The runaway magic power brought Mike unbearable severe pain. After a while, Mike's consciousness began to become blurred and he was about to pass out.

At this moment, a biting coldness came from Mike's chest and rushed straight into his brain, forcibly pulling his consciousness back from the edge of coma.

As we all know, coma is a protective mechanism of the body, but under the influence of that cold breath, Mike's protective mechanism failed.

So, Mike finally understood today what life is worse than death.

Every inch of his body was feeling severe pain, like being bitten by bullet ants, but his consciousness was extremely clear.

What Mike didn't know was that the Greedy Pendant on his chest was emitting a dazzling blue light at this moment, and the black energy on his body quickly faded and disappeared under the illumination of this blue light.

The giant raven on the top of the dead tree saw this scene in its eyes, and a trace of surprise flashed through its very human eyes.

Mike found that he had lost feeling in his limbs, and a numb feeling was spreading from his limbs toward his torso. Suddenly I knew that I couldn't sit still and wait for death. If this continues, I may die here today, didn't the old man Carter, who sells batches, say that the test will not be dangerous?

Mike endured the severe pain and began to try to control the magic power in his body. When the cold breath saw Mike begin to shrink his mental power, it actually seemed to have sanity and actively attached to Mike's mental power.

The mental power with this cold breath seems to have the effect of cooling down the magic power. The originally unruly magic power began to calm down after being swept away, and Mike's limbs slowly regained consciousness.

I don't know how long it took, but the magic power became soft again, and the cold aura attached to the mental power was also exhausted. Without the refreshing effect of the cold breath, Mike only felt that his consciousness began to become confused.

Faintly, he could only hear the familiar chirping, and a huge bird's claw quickly enlarged in the blurred field of vision, followed by burning pain on his face.

"ah!"

Mike covered his face and let out a scream before finally passing out.

When he opened his eyes again, he saw four old faces looking down at him. Mike punched out instinctively, and one of them screamed and fell backwards.

Hearing this scream, Mike realized that he seemed to have escaped from the sea of ​​light. He hurriedly sat up and groped for his face, but he found it was smooth with no scars at all.

"What happened to your face?" Professor Flitwick asked strangely.

"I just saw a giant raven scratch my face!"

"It's okay. The damage you suffered during the test was not real. It was just an illusion created by the raven statue." Carter said with a smile while stroking his goatee. "Congratulations, you passed the test."

"What? I passed? How did I pass?" Mike looked confused.

"You pass when you are pulled into the illusion by the raven statue. Only those with outstanding talents can trigger the raven statue. The illusion you enter is more like a reward. The longer you stay in it, the more benefits you will get. Big." Mario, who was hit in the left eye by Mike's punch, got up and said, "I have to say, you are quite strong."

"That's right, feel it carefully. Your magic capacity and mental strength should have improved." Carter added, "In addition, the meditation method should have been imprinted in your head. This is the effect of the raven statue on underage wizards." benefits.”

Mike turned on magic perception, and sure enough he found that his perception range had increased nearly three times, and his magic capacity and magic control had also been significantly improved. Not only that, but passages of esoteric words began to appear in his mind.

Mike didn't recognize these words at all, but they seemed to have a magical power. As soon as Mike focused his attention on them, he fell into a deep state of meditation.

Not long after entering, Mike was awakened by a severe headache.

This meditative state consumes a lot of mental energy. In addition, Mike has already consumed a lot of mental energy in the illusion. At this moment, there is an overdraft phenomenon.

"It seems that our banquet will be postponed. Filius, please take this kid back to rest quickly. His mental energy is exhausted." Mario said helplessly to Flivi, "Next time you can There is absolutely no escape.”

"Don't worry, I will definitely get drunk with you next time."

Upon hearing this, Professor Flitwick hurriedly stepped forward to help Mike and walked out of the hut. The space restriction was released and apparation could not be used.

Mike did not lose consciousness. This time's mental exhaustion was nothing compared to the time in the Forbidden Forest.

The two walked out of the hut quickly. The little animals that had gathered around the hut to play around saw Flitwick and Mike and ran away as if they had seen something scary.

Flitwick felt strange in his heart, but he didn't care. The top priority now was to settle Mike as soon as possible.

What they didn't know was that in a tree not far from the cabin, a raven did not run away like other animals, but instead stared at Mike curiously.

In its field of vision, there was a huge claw mark on Mike's left face that was glowing dark blue at the moment.