When I came to my senses, I could see how the creature continues to cover itself from the attacks of the other students, the desperation is again reflected in their faces. In addition, the burning in my arm has spread to a large part of my body.
Turning to look at Lyara and Vaelinya, they have managed to pull out most of the wounded and students who have fallen fainting from the wear and tear of magic, as happened to Seraphis.
Although a part of me does not feel it is right to show such a powerful spell to the other students, I have no choice. Though this, I would like to say with more certainty if I really had the confidence to know what the true potency of this spell will be, as the first time I used it on Alphonse, the practice dummy was left in ashes.
"Everyone is attentive and follows my orders. I need you to distract him as much as you can. I will take care of this, but I need your help."
"How long exactly, Dion!"- shouts Aelric as he runs while avoiding being hit by the Cyclops.
"A minute by far."
"That's too much, Dion!"- shouts Nyxithra.
"Trust me."
"I'll make time, I know you can handle this, Dion," says Patrick.
As I grab my wand back and concentrate, I feel the burning in my wrist spread throughout my body.
The boys dodge the Cyclops' blows and cast spells with every chance they get. Right now, we are almost 18 students helping, although the exhaustion is reflected in the few spells they cast because of their level of magic, that gets more and more exhausted with each spell.
Little by little, we are less, and this is a problem, plus there is also the thing that Phylicia, one of the best mages in combat I've seen at such a young age, has not made any movement after she helped Patrick.
Patrick, on the other hand, has a hard time fighting, and his spells he is using them to keep the Cyclops away from both Phylicia and me. Phylicia is conscious, but it's like she is paralyzed with fear.
"Talrico, watch out!"- Patrick runs towards him to prevent the creature from hitting Talrico with great force, but this is predicted by the creature, and with one blow, it sends Talrico and Patrick flying towards one of the rock walls in the room.
Neither of them reacts, which is a bad sign. I know they are still alive because I can see how their bodies are still trying to move, but they must have also reached their limit.
Distracting me for a few seconds, the cyclops also removes Aelric and Nyxithra from its path in the same way. Aelric tries to stand up, but the creature threatens him with a fierce roar that makes him fall back to the ground.
The cyclops attacks again against the other students and leaves them unconscious on the floor, I am even aware that one or the other may not have resisted the powerful blows of the cyclops.
"Phylicia, react, I don't know what's going through your head right now, but I need you!"
My screams, although loud, I don't know if she can hear me.
"Phylicia, it's almost over the spell, help me make it stay still!"
Phylicia, though hesitating for a moment, takes her wand with her trembling hands and points it at the Cyclops, who is currently swinging his sword in her direction. The cyclops, upon hearing my screams, turns to look at me, and almost as if I could see his face well, I seem to see that he is smiling and ready to come and attack me.
Phylicia, without hesitation, when she sees that the creature is heading to me, she took her wand with more security and points it to the ceiling so that some rocks fall on the creature. The exact moment to take advantage of that it was still protecting itself from the rocks falling on its head, she launched a powerful fireball in the direction of the Cyclops.
"Phylicia, protect yourself fast!"
Phylicia runs fast in the direction of Patrick and Talrico's body, who are the closest to the Cyclops, and uses a protection spell.
The fireball comes out with so much power that it hits the Cyclops directly, causing the roar of the impact to cause another huge earthquake and more debris to fall everywhere.
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(Grounds near Hogwarts, minutes after Dion entered the dungeon)
Philip was flying over the grounds trying to find the place where that guy he had met at the entrance of the old woman's store was, that dwarf who was given that mysterious beast.
Philip, seeing that it was a large forest and that he was not going to find anything, decided to go down and search based on the locator, this to prevent dementor attacks that surrounded the skies.
The creature that helped Philip to escape from Filvor the hunter begins to walk for a while with Philip, but seeing the possible amount of animals to feed on, it moves away from Philip for a while, something that for Philip is not bad since it is an animal looking for food for its survival.
Philip, somewhat uneasy, feels that something is not right. he walks carefully through the forest using spells that allow him not to be perceived by the wild creatures, a spell that Rakan taught him when he became his assistant to make it easier to be attacked by surprise.
As Philip advances, a bird lands on the trees as Philip advances through the forest while he watches his locator beacon to find even the beast, something that Philip finds strange.
If the creature is with the dwarf, he doesn't see the point of it being in the forest alone unless the dwarf is a beast master and is teaching a class, which would make sense in terms of the relationship Rakan now has. Or so Philip thinks as he walks forward and tries to convince himself of the situation being so close to the academy.
"Sometimes I just wish I could take a break from all this stuff," says Philip, a bit tired from all the walking.
Although it is a plus point that this is happening in the afternoon, knowing the danger that at night can entail to be in the forest and the dark forest where there are a number of magical creatures that can end your life in seconds.
Philip, realizing that something is following him, decides to increase his speed so he can discover the location of the creature or person following him. By increasing his speed and running through the trees, he realizes by the sounds of flapping wings that what is following him is a bird.
Immediately, Philip turns around unexpectedly and casts a spell to paralyze the bird so that it falls in mid-flight. As he slowly approaches, he carefully checks the bird, noticing that it has a physical trait quite similar to someone he had recently confronted.
"Come out of wherever you are, I know you're here," says Philip, attentive to any attack that could be made against him.
"You took longer than I thought, Philip," says a voice echoing through the trees.
Startled, Philip starts to turn his head quickly to locate where the voice is coming from.
"I have to admit that your creature is fast and fierce, its claws are sharp, but on the ground, it is not as dangerous as I first thought,"- says Filvor as he emerges from behind one of the trees covered in blood.
Something that shocks Philip because although he is covered in blood, Filvor does not have any mortal wounds or visible wounds on his body, but Filvor nevertheless holds one of the creature's paws in his hand.
"You animal, how dare you?"- Philip says angrily.
"Hahaha, I wanted to take a souvenir of another successful mission, I wasn't going to waste this occasion,"- says Filvor with sinister laughter.
"I won't give you anything, you'll have to step over my dead body," says Philip with confidence.
"I was expecting nothing less, I'm looking forward to this, now start them",- says Filvor while he takes his wand.
Suddenly, in the forest, you can see how a dozen birds fly out of the place where the magic combat between Filvor and Philip had started.
"Avada Kedavra!"- you hear Filvor's cry with a little echo echoing through a part of the forest. The birds are noisy because of the uproar caused by the spells cast by Filvor, as these are more violent and explosive.
(A few minutes later, silence takes control of the dark forest again, as if nothing had really happened.)