Chapter 126 Mike's Weakness

"The stone spear appears."

An inaudible sound rang out in the room of requests. A very thin stone spike with barbs like arrows emerged from the feet of a training dummy, pierced directly into the vital parts of the training dummy, and then passed out from the top of the head.

Although the stone spike was thin, it was very tough. The dummy shook a few times involuntarily after being pierced by the stone spike, but the stone spike did not move resolutely in the face of the dummy, which was about 75 kilograms and perfectly restored to the weight of an adult male, and showed no intention of breaking.

Mike, who was sweating profusely, panted and looked at the dummy who was tortured by the piercing, and a smile appeared on his face. After a whole day of hard work, the attack power of the ground piercing technique has been greatly improved.

And now the Earth Spike is no longer the Earth Spike that Cedric could easily see through. After research, Mike found that the release of the Earth Spike is completely based on Mike's own mental power to guide the magic power underground. By improving this mechanism, the current Earth Spike is more concealed than before.

However, as if he thought of something, Mike's smile suddenly disappeared, and he said with a distressed look: "Not yet! This level can't break through Cedric's defense at all!"

As he spoke, Mike cast the Earth Spike again.

That's right, Mike is now studying how to break through Cedric's tortoise shell.

After enjoying the food specially prepared by the house elves for this celebration with only two people with Professor Flitwick yesterday, Mike went into the Request Room and began to improve his spell system.

Previously, Mike was very satisfied with his existing tactical system. The damage includes AOE Fire Spell and Single-target Divine Skill Death Spell. Defense includes Armor Protection, Pseudo-displacement includes Wind Speed ​​Spell, Concealment includes Illusion Spell, Sneak Attack includes Earth Spike, and Control includes Obstacles.

In addition, Mike has a large number of spells such as Shatter to pieces and Disarm for attack and harassment. It can be said that it is an invincible tactic that can fight and run.

However, Cedric taught Mike a real lesson that night.

Damage spells such as Fire Spell and Earth Spike Spell were all eclipsed by the stone shield transformed by Cedric, and the Killing Spell cannot be used in front of people.

If it were an actual battle, Mike could still rely on the concealment and high mobility brought by the Wind Speed ​​Spell and the Disillusion Spell to carry out the tactics of retreating when the enemy advances, advancing when the enemy retreats, harassing when the enemy stays, and attacking when the enemy is exhausted.

Anyway, Cedric's attack range is not large, Mike can easily run away, and Transfiguration does not require magic to maintain. In the long run, Cedric will eventually be exhausted by himself.

But this is not an actual battle, but a wizard duel in the public eye.

It's not that Mike is afraid that using this tactic will be looked down upon by the audience, but that the venue of the wizard duel is limited, and his tactics cannot be used at all.

And Mike knew without thinking that Cedric's Transfiguration could not only be used for defense and attack. If he turned the whole venue into a quagmire, Mike's proud high mobility would become useless.

Now Mike also understood his weakness, lacking a powerful single-target damage spell that could be shown to others. In the final analysis, what bothered him was that his most lethal "Fireball" serial bombing could not break through Cedric's defense. As long as he could hurt Cedric in that turtle shell, all problems would be solved.

For this reason, Mike thought hard for a long time and even thought of directional blasting, but finally chose to start with the ground spike. After all, he was not a professional in his previous life and knew nothing about explosives.

In addition, Transfiguration is also a good breakthrough. As the saying goes, if you can't beat them, join them. Since you can't break that stone turtle shell, then everyone will be turtles together. At most, it will turn an exciting wizard duel into a boring urine holding battle.

Thinking of this, Mike regretted that he had not studied Transfiguration well. Whether it was Cedric's superb absolute defense or Dumbledore's terrifying power that killed the basilisk in one second with a wave of his wand, it proved that Transfiguration, when applied to a high level, was definitely a power that surpassed most spells. Although

Mike always said that he had not learned Transfiguration well, in fact, with his deep magic power and huge mental power, Mike's Transfiguration was also relatively excellent among the young wizards of the same grade. After all,

the Transfiguration of the second grade did not have too advanced content. It was nothing more than turning a button into a mouse or a beetle, which was very simple.

Just recite the Transfiguration spell Vera Verto and imagine what you want to change in your mind. The more specific the imagination, the higher the probability of successful transformation. But this is

only the most basic Transfiguration. After the experiment, Mike found that this level of Transfiguration could not be used in actual combat at all.

Not to mention that he could not control the floor to become a shield at will, even the lions, tigers and other beasts he transformed were just for show. With just a light punch, they would return to their original appearance.

Mike had no choice but to give up the idea of ​​fighting poison with poison. He really couldn't figure out how Cedric could control everything around him to transform freely.

Dumbledore was amazing for being able to do this. After all, he was the strongest white wizard, and he was also the professor of Transfiguration at Hogwarts before. He must be proficient in Transfiguration.

But it's a bit exaggerated for a student like you, Cedric, who hasn't graduated yet, to be able to do something similar?

"Hu~Hu~"

Mike, who tried the ground spike twice, stopped panting and came to the rest area in the training room, and collapsed on the sofa chair.

Looking at the training dummies opposite him that were pierced by stone spikes with lifeless eyes, Mike just felt very thirsty.

He reached out and fumbled on the desk next to the sofa chair for a while, grabbed a glass and raised it to his mouth. However, the water in the glass had been drunk by Mike a long time ago, and no matter how hard Mike tried to pour it, not a drop of water flowed down.

He threw the empty glass away, and the glass fell on the carpet with a dull sound, but did not break.

The expected sound of glass breaking did not come, and Mike sighed deeply.

The improvement of the Ground Spike Technique still failed.

Although his efforts have turned the Ground Spike Technique into a terrifying sneak attack spell, the most critical penetration is still not enough. If this continues, he will definitely lose when he meets Cedric again in the duel tournament.

Suddenly, a stomachache pulled Mike back to reality from his contemplative state. He looked up at the wall clock and saw that it was already half past ten in the evening. Mike realized that he had been in the Room of Requirement for two full days and had not eaten anything since this morning.

"Go and take a rest. There will be no progress if I continue in my current state. Besides, I have classes tomorrow."

Mike thought so in his heart, turned his head and looked at the bread and sausages that Franklin and Penelope brought for him on the desk, and stood up with a pout.

He decided to go to the Hogwarts kitchen to see if there was anything good to eat, because he really couldn't eat the cold sausages and bread.