Chapter 482: The End of the Road
As mentioned before, the Thunderbird is a magical creature with the ability to sense danger and extremely fast flying speed.
Logically, the Thunderbird, which has both abilities, should be extremely difficult to hunt, but the fact is that this rare animal has been hunted to the brink of extinction by magical creature hunters.
The reason for this result is the character flaw of the Thunderbird.
The Thunderbird is an extremely proud creature. Just like the introduction of the Thunderbird Academy students in Ilvermorny School of Magic, the Thunderbird and those Thunderbird students have extraordinary courage and adventurous spirit.
These two qualities seem to be positive comments at first glance, but sometimes, courage and adventurous spirit are also equivalent to recklessness.
Based on this point, those magical creature hunters don’t need to consider other issues at all. They just need to find the Thunderbird, set a trap, and then the Thunderbird will obediently get into the trap, because compared to fleeing like a coward, the Thunderbird prefers a tragic death!
Now the thunderbird in front of Mike is thinking this way. This highly intelligent creature is actually very clear that as long as he runs now, he still has a chance to escape, because Mike's target is not him at all, but the human who just climbed on his claws.
But he still chose to fight with Mike. It's not because he is loyal to Clark, but because he simply doesn't want to run!
"Zizizizi!"
The terrifying noise formed by the huge electric current is echoing in the air. Mike is holding the holy sword and just looking at the thunderbird quietly, without any intention of taking the initiative.
The thunderbird on the other side doesn't dare to take action. At this moment, every cell in its body is screaming, wanting it to escape.
But the thunderbird doesn't want to run. You know, this is the sky, its main battlefield. It doesn't believe it will lose here!
"Ying!~"
A piercing scream cut through the sky. The thunderbird, bathed in golden lightning, finally mustered up the courage to take the initiative. It waved its three pairs of wings violently, and the huge figure disappeared on the spot, turning into a golden lightning and rushing towards Mike!
However, Mike was well prepared for its attack.
Without seeing Mike move, a black and purple fireball floating beside him flew out with a whistling sound, accurately intercepting the flight path of the Thunderbird!
The Thunderbird's pupils shrank suddenly. It was too fast now, and it was too late to change direction!
"Boom!"
With a loud noise, a large amount of black and purple flames completely engulfed the Thunderbird. But the next moment, the Thunderbird, with a golden glow all over its body, rushed out!
A very humane sarcasm flashed in the Thunderbird's eyes in the air. Because it was often bathed in lightning, its feathers had very strong high temperature resistance. In addition, it was now covered with a natural shield formed by high concentration of golden lightning, so it had no problem to briefly contact Mike's flames.
But it still couldn't avoid the shock wave brought by the explosion. Although the fireball just now didn't cause any substantial damage to it, it also blew it dizzy and even slowed down its speed.
However, these are all minor problems!
The Thunderbird was very sure that as long as he could get close, the wizard's small body would not be able to withstand his claws!
Thinking of this, it shook its head and prepared to adjust its body shape to continue attacking Mike.
However, before it could speed up again, several black and purple fireballs fell in front of it again.
"Boom boom boom!"
A series of loud noises came from the Thunderbird's body, and the black and purple magic flames raged wildly in the air. In the dense flames, you can vaguely see some golden lightning flashing!
The next moment, the Thunderbird rushed out again, but this time its speed became slower, and the golden light emanating from its body dimmed a little - just now it took the initiative to stimulate the electrical energy in its body for defense. Under the protection of the high concentration of electrical energy, it was indeed not injured, but its internal capacity was also consumed a lot!
The most important thing is that Mike's fireballs were all aimed at its head. The terrifying impact almost knocked the Thunderbird unconscious, and it was still a little dazed until now.
It raised its head, and its golden eyes were full of fighting spirit!
It didn't believe that Mike could instantly cast such a powerful fireball. Now that the fireballs floating around Mike had been used up, it was its turn next!
Thinking of this, the Thunderbird raised its head and screamed to the sky, ready to continue its attack, but its high-pitched cry became extremely terrified halfway through, because at this moment, more than a dozen fireballs appeared around Mike, which were a few points larger than before, and a huge amount of magic power was constantly gathering towards the magic wand in Mike's hand, condensing into new fireballs!
Mike in the air smiled. He knew very well that the Thunderbird in front of him wanted to fight him in close combat. That was its only winning point, but...how could he give it this opportunity?
"Go."
With Mike's whisper, the dozen fireballs surrounding it suddenly turned into meteors and flew towards the Thunderbird!
The Thunderbird on the other side couldn't bear it anymore. It was covered with lightning and several golden spherical lightning were slammed out by it!
The lightning seemed to have taken away a lot of computers in its body. After throwing out the ball lightning, the golden light around the Thunderbird completely disappeared. The originally golden body had returned to gray-brown, and the lightning flashing between the feathers was slowly disappearing.
Obviously, this was already its strongest attack!
But to be honest, although it consumed a lot of physical strength and energy, these ball lightnings were definitely worth the money. They rotated and flew towards Mike. The fireballs along the way were detonated by the huge electromagnetic around them before they came into contact with them, turning into large sparks that slowly fell to the forest below.
Seeing this, the Thunderbird's body, which had entered a weak state, was also shocked, and it looked at the golden ball lightning expectantly.
Mike's mouth corners rose even more. For some reason, he felt that this Thunderbird was a little silly. If the other party used normal lightning directly, it might still pose some threat to him. After all, that thing was too fast, but the other party actually chose to release ball lightning.
That was too bad, because as a professional Muggle who had lived two lives, Mike had some knowledge of the strange physical phenomenon of ball lightning.
Ball lightning was of the same nature as will-o'-the-wisp, it had no mobility and was able to move only by the wind. However, unlike will-o'-the-wisp, ball lightning often appeared in stormy weather, so it was usually very fast under the influence of strong winds.
Just like those ball lightnings, they relied on the strong wind created by the flapping wings of the thunderbird to fly towards him.
And it was too easy to deal with such an attack!
Mike shook his head helplessly, and then raised his magic wand and swung it at the golden balls of electricity.
A gust of wind blew from the side, and the golden balls of electricity suddenly changed direction, flew past Mike's side, and landed on the scorched forest below, exploding a series of large holes. The thunderbird
opposite Mike instinctively flapped its wings and stayed in the air. Its eyes were wide open, and it turned its head to look at the big holes that were still emitting black smoke, and then looked at Mike, with confusion written all over its face.
The next moment, the thunderbird wailed shrilly and turned to flee.
Although it was a little reckless, at this stage, it still didn't hurt the opponent at all even though it had played all its cards. It would be a fool if it didn't run away!
And its action also made Mike a little confused. Why didn't he expect that the thunderbird, who was desperate just now, would directly choose to run away.
But Mike was not an ordinary wizard. He reacted quickly. An orange-red fireball was thrown out by Mike in an instant, and it hit the thunderbird's wing with a long tail flame.
With a huge explosion and a slight wail, the thunderbird, which had lost its lightning protection, was blown away and fell on the scorched earth below.
After landing, the thunderbird struggled to get up. Just as it wanted to take off and escape, a sword light whistled from top to bottom and pierced its left wing directly, firmly fixing it on the ground.
And this was not over yet. While the thunderbird was howling in pain, more than ten stone chains as thick as an adult's head broke out of the ground and tightly wrapped around the thunderbird.
The thunderbird wanted to continue struggling, and even forced its body to discharge electricity, but it was all in vain!
You have to know that Mike used the "Dragon Trapping Spell" used by dragon trainers to subdue fire dragons. This powerful spell specifically for large and novel creatures could not even be broken by fire dragons, let alone thunderbirds.
After waving his hand to summon the holy sword back and confirming that the thunderbird could not escape, Mike rode on his flying broom and flew towards George and Fred. He had wasted too much time to capture the thunderbird alive. Although Clark was restrained by George and Fred, the intermittent information from the Masonic gold coins showed that George and Fred's situation was getting worse and worse.
Mike's guess was correct. George and Fred were facing a tough battle at the moment.
They had limited knowledge of Ravenclaw College, so at first they thought that this so-called Clark should be a waste like Draco, and that he could only assassinate Mike with the powerful black magic props handed down from his family.
But after they really caught up with each other, they found that they were wrong, and they were wrong!
In fact, it was wrong to say that they caught up with Clark. To be precise, Clark found them, and his purpose in doing so was to snatch the flying brooms of George and Fred. This is easy to understand. In the current situation, this is almost his only way out.
So, George and Fred were caught off guard.
Clarke, as the seventh-year prefect of Ravenclaw College, is definitely one of the top students in Hogwarts. He seems to be a wizard who specializes in the universal petrification spell. He has extraordinary attainments in this simple spell. Not only can he cast it silently, but his casting speed is also amazingly fast, almost reaching the point of instantaneous casting. Fortunately, Clarke
's accuracy is not very good, which is a common problem of many academic wizards. Therefore, although George and Fred were unable to raise their heads by his continuous petrification spell attacks, they barely supported themselves with the skills of driving a flying broom that they had trained in the Gryffindor school team, and even occasionally fought back a little.
But this was of no use. Clarke was in a dense jungle at the moment. With the cover of the tree canopy, George and Fred could not find his exact position at all, and could only rely on the trajectory of the opponent's spell to fight back.
It is conceivable that such a counterattack is completely a matter of luck. George and Fred knew very well that it was only a matter of time before they were defeated.
Now they could only hope that Mike could get rid of the Thunderbird as soon as possible and come to support them. Otherwise, if Clark really snatched the flying broom and escaped, all their efforts today would be in vain.
At this moment, Mike's support arrived.
Several flaming meteors dragged long tails past George and Fred and landed in the forest in front of them.
Then, a series of roars came, and the entire forest that had troubled George and Fred for a long time under the erosion of the magic flame turned into ashes. The scarlet flames burned completely on the scorched earth. Under this terrifying high temperature, there were even a lot of crystals emitting red light on the ground in that area - that was the sand in the soil that was directly turned into glass!
George and Fred instinctively controlled the flying broom to pull up, but even so, their hair was still scorched by the high temperature below.
Clark, who was in the forest below, was in a worse situation. The place where he was now had completely turned into a hell of fire. Although he had avoided being killed instantly by virtue of his excellent reaction ability and powerful magic, the oxygen around him had almost been exhausted due to the explosion of the flames. All that remained was the magma on the ground and the endless poisonous gas!
Clark held his breath and looked up at the sky with gritted teeth.
There, Mike, holding a magic wand in his right hand and a holy sword in his left hand, was slowly falling from the sky.
The dazzling sunlight made it difficult for Clark to see Mike's expression, but he knew clearly that the other party must be grinning at this moment.
In an instant, Clark's heart suddenly gave rise to an uncontrollable fear.
Now the direction of the development of things has greatly exceeded his expectations. He originally thought that Mike would definitely find a way to capture him alive and then force him to tell him the information of the mastermind behind the scenes.
But looking at Mike's current posture, it is clear that he is planning to kill him directly!
Clark's body began to tremble slightly, and he instinctively opened his mouth to beg for mercy, but before he could make a sound, Mike threw his left hand violently, and the holy sword in his hand turned into a shadow and flew towards Clark!