Chapter 126 Mike’s Weakness

"The stone spear appears."

An inaudible sound sounded in the response room, and an extremely slender stone thorn with barbs shaped like arrows emerged from the foot of a training dummy, directly from the vital part of the training dummy. Pierce it in, and then pierce it through the Tianling Gai.

Although the stone thorn is slender, it is very tough. The dummy shook a few times involuntarily after being penetrated by the stone thorn. However, this stone thorn refused to shake when faced with the dummy, which perfectly restored the weight of an adult male and weighed about 75 kilograms. It moves without any intention of breaking.

Mike, who was sweating profusely on the side, gasped and looked at the dummy that had been tortured by puncture, with a smile on his face. After a whole day's hard work, the attack power of the ground stab technique has been greatly improved.

And now the Ground Thorn Technique is no longer the Ground Thorn Technique that Cedric could easily see in the past. After research, Mike found that the release of the Ground Thorn Technique is entirely based on Mike's own mental power guiding the magic to be cast underground. By improving this mechanism, the current ground stab technique is more subtle than before.

However, as if he had thought of something, Mike's smile suddenly disappeared, and he put on a distressed look and said, "Not yet! There is no way to break through Cedric's defense at this level!"

As he spoke, Mike used the ground stabbing technique again.

Yes, Mike is currently studying how to break through Cedric's turtle shell.

After enjoying some delicious food specially prepared by the house elves for this celebration party with Professor Flitwick yesterday, Mike dived into the Room of Requirement and began to perfect his spell system.

Previously, Mike was very satisfied with his current tactical system, which included AOE fire spells and single-target magic spells for damage. For defense, there is armor protection, for pseudo-displacement, there is wind speed spell, for concealment, there is illusion spell, for sneak attack, there is ground stabbing spell, and for control, there are many obstacles.

In addition, Mike also has a large number of magic spells such as Shattered Bones and Expelliarmus that can be used to attack and harass. It can be said that it is an invincible tactic that can fight and run.

But Cedric taught Mac a real lesson that night.

Damage spells such as fire spells and ground stabs were all eclipsed in front of the stone shield transformed by Cedric, and the life-killing spell could not be used in front of others.

If this were used in actual combat, the microphone could still rely on the concealment and high mobility brought by the Wind Speed ​​Curse and the Illusion Body Curse to carry out tactics such as the enemy advancing and we retreat, the enemy retreating and we advancing, the enemy stationed and harassing us, and the enemy lacking and we attacking.

Anyway, Cedric's attack range is not large, so Mike can easily run out, and the transformation spell does not require magic power to maintain. If things go on like this, Cedric will eventually be consumed by himself.

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

It's not that Mike is afraid that using this tactic will be looked down upon by the audience, it's just that the scope of the wizard's duel is limited, and he can't use this tactic at all.

And Mike didn't need to think about it to know that Cedric's transformation technique could not only be used in defense and offense. If he turned the entire field into a quagmire, Mike's proud high mobility would also become useless.

Now Mike also understands his own weakness, which is the lack of a powerful single-target damage spell that can be exposed in front of others. In the final analysis, what I am worried about is that my most lethal "Fireball Technique" serial bombing cannot break through Cedric's defense. As long as I can hurt Cedric in that turtle shell, then all problems will be solved.

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

In addition, transfiguration is also a good breakthrough point. As the saying goes, if you can't beat it, join in. Since you can't break the stone turtle shell, then everyone can be a turtle together. At most, it will be an exciting wizard. The duel turned into a boring fight to hold back the urine.

Thinking of this, Mike regretted not learning Transfiguration properly. Whether it was Cedric's superb defense or Dumbledore's terrifying power of instantly killing the basilisk with one wave of his wand, it proved that Transfiguration can be applied to a high level. Definitely a power that transcends most spells.

Speaking of which, although Mike has always said that he has not learned the art of transformation well, in fact, with his deep magic power and huge mental power, Mike's transformation art is relatively excellent among the young wizards of the same grade.

After all, the second-year transfiguration technique didn't have too advanced content yet. It was just about turning a button into a mouse into a scarab beetle. It was very simple.

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

But this is only the most basic deformation technique. After Mike's experiment, he found that this level of deformation technique cannot be used in actual combat at all.

Not to mention that he can't control the floor to turn into a shield at will, even the lions, tigers and other beasts he conjured are just appearance, and they will return to their original appearance with just a light punch.

In desperation, Mike could only give up the idea of ​​fighting fire with fire. He really couldn't figure out how Cedric could control everything around him and transform.

It is a must that Dumbledore can do this. After all, he is the strongest white wizard, and he was also the transfiguration professor at Hogwarts before, so he must be proficient in transfiguration.

But is it a bit exaggerated that a student like you, Cedric, who has not yet graduated, can do something similar?

"Hu~hu~"

After trying the ground stabbing technique twice more, Mike stopped panting, came to the rest area in the training room, and collapsed on the sofa chair.

Looking blankly at the training dummies opposite that were pricked to pieces by stone thorns, Mike felt extremely thirsty.

He reached out and fumbled around on the desk next to the sofa chair for a while, grabbed a glass, lifted it up and poured it into his mouth. However, Mike had already drank all the water in the glass. At this moment, no matter how hard Mike poured it, not a drop of water came down.

He threw the empty glass out. The glass hit the carpet with a dull sound but did not break.

The expected sound of breaking glass was not heard, and Mike sighed deeply.

The improvement of ground stabbing technique still failed.

Although with his efforts, the ground stab technique has turned into a terrifying sneak attack spell, the most critical penetration is still not enough. If this continues, he will meet Cedric again in the duel competition. I will definitely lose.

Suddenly, a cramp in his stomach brought Mike back to reality from his state of contemplation. He raised his head and glanced at the wall clock. It was already 10:30 in the evening. Mike then realized that he had been in the Room of Requirement for two full days. , and haven’t eaten any rice since this morning.

"Let's go take a rest. There won't be any progress if we continue in the same state as I am. Besides, I have to go to class tomorrow."

Mike thought so in his mind, turned his head and glanced at the bread and sausages that Franklin and Penello had brought for him on the desk. Mike curled his lips and stood up.

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