The addition of John undoubtedly relieved a lot of pressure. Kingsley could free up his hands to cast more advanced spells, and Xing Ze no longer had to huddle behind the sculpture and wait for death.
"Hey, Charlie, when your mother died, did you smile so happily?" John strode forward without any fear of the oncoming tentacles and magic.
His wand flew rapidly, and magic was released one after another, but such frequent spellcasting would seriously damage the life of the wand.
"J——" Charlie growled.
Taking advantage of this opportunity, Kingsley completed a high-level magic spell and hit Charlie unceremoniously. The sharp ice pick pierced Charlie's body, but it still had no big effect.
The thick tentacles hit Kingsley, and Charlie laughed even more crazily, "Haha, hahahaha, come on, mortals, become a part of my path to ascension."
The ice pick was squeezed out of the body, and more tentacles emerged. John blocked a magic, and his wand turned into powder under the load. A tentacle swept over and slapped him hard on the altar.
"Fuck!" He cursed, and saw another tentacle hitting him. Xing Ze jumped out from behind the statue, blocked the blow with all his protection, then grabbed John and used Apparition, following closely.
The tentacles shattered the sculpture.
"His head should be the weak point." Xing Ze, who escaped, said to John.
"Hell, does it have to be that high?" John stood up, "Let me see if I can hold him back for a while."
After that, he took out a new wand from his arms and went into battle again.
Xing Ze took out a cigar from the ring and found the opportunity to rush towards Charlie. Even in the blind spot of his vision, those tentacles could still sense the danger. They turned their attack and turned towards Xing Ze.
John quickly cast a magic blade and cut off part of it. He poured magic into the wand and threw the wand at the remaining tentacles. Then he took out another tentacle like a magic trick.
The previous wand exploded with a bang, and the magical energy blew off many tentacles. Kingsley's armor protection caught up just in time, and Charlie's black magic failed to cause harm to John.
"Stop resisting fearlessly. You will all become sacrifices to the underground king. Accept your fate, mortals!" Charlie roared, and without any obstruction, Xing Ze approached him as quickly as possible.
A scarlet tentacle came out of Charlie's mouth and quickly wrapped around Xing Ze's hand. A huge force came and Xing Ze was dragged into the air.
John and Kingsley wanted to rescue them, but unexpectedly, a dozen ghouls emerged from the passage and rushed towards the two of them as if they were desperate.
Xing Ze was hit hard on the ground, and the pain in his back almost made him lose his breath. A green light flashed on Charlie's wand.
"What a pity. You could have accomplished a lot, Messenger of God." He whispered, "It's a pity that you chose the wrong path."
"I think... you were the one who chose the wrong path." Xing Ze laughed, and the blue beak transformed into a black cat and jumped away from Charlie's body. The cigar was wrapped into Charlie's neck by the twisting tentacles.
"No!" Charlie opened his eyes wide and pointed the wand at Xing Ze. A red light met the green light directed at Xing Ze.
The exploding cigar blasted a hole in Charlie's neck. He could no longer maintain the killing curse. Tonks' disarming spell knocked the wand out of Charlie's hand.
Xing Ze ignored the pain in his back and jumped up from the ground. The blue beak attached to his hand and turned into a sharp blade.
"Haha, hahaha, for the underground king!"
With the knife in hand, Charlie's head flew into the sky, and the blue beak penetrated Charlie's body.
The corpse twitched a few times and fell to the ground. Xing Ze took a few steps back and let out a long breath.
Although there were many ghouls, they were still no match for John and Kingsley. They cleaned up the group of ghouls as quickly as possible, but found that Xing Ze had already killed Charlie.
"Good job, boy." John smiled and took out the wine bottle from his arms.
Kingsley cast a complicated look. He looked at the body on the ground and said, "He won't get up again, will he?"
"What the hell do you mean by that?" John put the flask down to his mouth again.
"We knocked him down three times, but every time he got back up, and it got trickier every time. You saw the changes in his body, too."
Forced to evolve? Xing Ze speculated in his heart that the impending death accelerated the pollution in Charlie's body, causing him to develop this terrible mutation.
Obviously, Charlie's left half and right half have become two living entities, like the blending of two worlds, the combination of dream and reality.
But Kingsley's worries are unnecessary. Blue Beak is constantly absorbing those twisted things. In addition to magic power, it seems to like to devour dream things.
As soon as John raised his hand, the wand shot out a ray of light, and Charlie's head immediately shattered. He took a sip of wine and said, "I don't think he can do it anymore."
What caused the initial mutation? Xing Ze turned his attention to the altar, and the starry sky on the dome quietly dispersed, leaving only the broken statue.
…
Xing Ze and John walked into a cafe, and Tonks made an appointment to meet them here.
The mess in the Colosseum and the basement has been solved by Scrimgeour. At this point, it was only a matter of time before the Ministry of Magic intervened.
Scrimgeour mercifully let them go and agreed to share information. Kingsley needed to direct the work at the scene, so Tonks became their contact person.
"I really can't understand how you can still have such a good appetite after seeing that kind of scene." John looked at Xing Ze in disbelief as he wolfed down the food.
"It's dinner time now, and I'm hungry too." Xing Ze raised his head and said, he ordered a maple pancake and a caramel pudding. He was in urgent need of sugar to replenish energy.
Although Blue Beak absorbed Charlie's dream objects, it mostly used them on itself.
"So, John of Thousand Rods?" Xing Ze tried to change the subject.
John waved his hand and said impatiently: "Can't even pancakes and pudding stop your mouth, boy?"
"How many wands do you have?"
"It's a secret." John replied with some pride, "Secrets should be kept in the heart."
When Tonks arrived, Xing Ze had just finished finishing his third serving of pancakes. The girl's appearance changed a bit. Her hair was no longer so gorgeous, but turned into an ordinary dark brown.
She sat down and ordered a latte, then went straight to the point, "Shall I start?"
"I don't mind." John poured some wine into his black coffee.
"It might take a while," Tonks warned.
"Thank you Merlin." John praised, "I just need time to rest and recuperate now."
"Go ahead, Tonks, even if you want to go into detail, we don't lack time." Xing Ze also agreed.
"Sage and Alvin, those two missing Aurors, do you know about them?"
John nodded, "Are we also investigating this matter?"
Tonks looked confused and asked, "Why? Director Scrimgeour did not seek help from the Department of Mysteries."
"It's believed," John took a sip of coffee, "that the missing Auror will allow us to find the fragment."
"A shard? A shard that brought the plague?"
"Yes."
"It seems that we have thought of working together." Tonks smiled helplessly, "I don't know why things have become so complicated. If our goals are originally the same, why didn't we cooperate from the beginning?"