Rose looked up at the night sky and frowned, they had been waiting for fifteen minutes, but there was no sign of another participant approaching. "That's strange, even though Astrology isn't a very popular class, everyone can still recognize Ursa Minor, there were supposed to be more participants heading north at this time, but there aren't any."
Asterion frowned at this. Just as Rose had said, there were supposed to be a lot more people heading north at the moment, but there was no one around within a ten-kilometer radius.
"Luna didn't show up either." Rose's expression was worried at the thought of the delicate blonde-haired girl. Especially Luna's dragon wasn't exactly the most gentle of dragons, even if he was drugged like other dragons, it wasn't an easy task to control such a large and temperamental being.
"I'm not worried about Luna, if she wants to escape, not even a special grade wizard can stop the girl from escaping successfully." Asterion commented nonchalantly about the seer's situation. He really didn't see how the participants could hit Luna with her powers, she could escape before the ambush even happened.
After all, if it were that easy to ambush a seer, Grindelwald would probably have been arrested decades ago. However, as you may have noticed, the Dark Lord was free and doing as he pleased.
With this in mind, Asterion no longer waited for Luna to arrive, he turned and looked at the largest tree in the oasis, and as he had imagined, the shape of the Little Dipper was reflected in the moonlight.
"It looks like it's further north." Asterion said, his eyes shining as he thought of something. "What if it's under the sand?"
Rose, standing next to her fiancé, couldn't help but be surprised by his words. "If that's true, how could dragons navigate the sands?"
"That's the million-pound question, we won't know until we get to the North." Asterion spoke, walking towards Ancalagon. Rose shook her head and headed towards the dragon itself. There was no point in thinking about it now, they had to get to the north first, as Asterion had said earlier.
Both dragons rose from the ground and shook their bodies, scattering the sand trapped in their bodies. Rose and Asterion were fine, firmly stuck in their cells while the dragons shook.
On top of the dragon, Rose looked at Asterion and saw that he was much taller than her, which was understandable given Ancalagon's size, but, as someone who was competitive, she didn't like the feeling that her dragon wasn't as powerful as his.
"You have to eat a lot to get bigger, Oberon. You won't be able to find a wife with Ancalagon around, all the females will just look at him. You have to work hard, you lazy dragon." Rose muttered to the dragon she had named Oberon, the king of the fairies.
The dragon let out a high-pitched trill and ignored her words, his eyes fixed on Ancalagon like an extremely hot gaze, as if he were seeing a beautiful woman, or in his case, a beautiful male dragon.
This action made Rose's smile stiffen, and she stared at the dragon in disbelief. She hadn't expected her dragon to like men!
If Rose had read more about dragons, she wouldn't have been surprised at her dragon's sexuality. Ancient dragons didn't care about the gender of a race, as long as it had a hole, they had a purpose. As descendants of these dragons, modern dragons, although not as sexually active as their genitors, have still retained some traces of their ancient lineage.
Shaking her head, Rose put these thoughts aside for the moment and watched as Asterion took off from the ground riding Ancalagon. She followed right behind without wasting any time, they both had to find the Golden Path and maybe Luna, if she met her on the way.
Asterion looked down and saw that they were at least a kilometer above the desert, a height not allowed in the Tournament, but as it was night, even if there were Muggles in the desert at that moment, they would only see a small black dot in the night sky. They might even be mistaken for birds.
Looking back, he saw the silver dragon with grayish tones behind him and in the cell, there was Rose with her short hair fluttering in the wind. In her eyes, she was having fun flying the dragon.
Suddenly, Asterion and Rose's faces turned at the same time, looking north with expressions clearly showing surprise. They both felt an aura of a Special Grade cursed spirit!
Then, under his surprised eyes, an orange mushroom cloud rose into the sky. If he hadn't felt the negative magical energy, Asterion would have thought he was seeing a nuclear attack.
A heatwave swept through the surroundings a few minutes after the explosion, turning the desert into a plain wherever the shockwave passed, destroying the huge golden sand dunes. At the same time, a sandstorm began to form on the horizon, heading north!
Glancing at each other in the air, Rose and Asterion saw each other's intention and sped even faster towards the north. They sensed that the Golden Path was where the Special Grade Cursed Spirit was located.
As they both went deeper into the desert, gradually the landscape began to change. Glass began to appear on the surface of the desert, showing that the impact of the previous explosion was getting closer and closer.
And when they arrived at the site of the explosion, Asterion noticed a huge building rising from the golden sands, or rather the glass around it.
It looked like a huge city from ancient times. In the center of the city, two pillars held up a huge gold ring in the shape of the sun. Even at night, the whole city was illuminated by the gold ring that did the sun's work.
But whether it was Rose or Asterion, they didn't care about the city, their eyes were entirely focused on the huge monster entrenched among the city. It looked like a huge grotesque worm with rings on its huge soft and sticky body.
It was all red while the worm's mouth resembled a hole filled with huge teeth. Every time the worm's body contracted, incredible amounts of heat spread throughout the city, which seemed completely intact despite the intense heat waves capable of easily melting iron.
[Note: Something like the Dune Sand Worm]
Rose and Asterion's eyes began to glow intensely. Asterion's eyes in particular showed two black pentagrams spinning in his eyes, both of which analyzed the entire Special Grade cursed spirit.
Rose frowned at the incredible amount of information. "This is definitely not part of the Tournament, this cursed spirit was born in this city, there's no way Dumbledore chose this place to be the Golden Path."
"No, this really is the Golden Way, the golden ring in the center of town is full of modern runes from the Flu Network." Asterion commented, looking at the golden ring erected by the two pillars in the middle of the mythical city. It was the same technology that brought them to this desert in the first place.
"How could Dumbledore not have noticed a Special Grade Cursed Spirit in that city?" Rose spoke with incredulity evident in her voice. No Special Grade Wizard could not sense a Special Grade Cursed Spirit. It was too obvious not to notice fluctuations of Negative Magical Energy in the air.
"Maybe it was sealed away and when the city was dug up, it broke free or was placed here after Dumbledore left." Rose spoke, she narrowed her eyes and looked at the Special Grade Cursed Spirit with a cold stare. She remembered the wizards who attacked Hogwarts, especially that Special Grade Wizard who wanted her eyes to fulfill his crazy dream of finding the root of all magic.
Asterion frowned and couldn't help but think of Mustafa or Herpo, whatever you want to call him, he knew the man wouldn't give up on achieving his goals. The Horcrux Maker really was a difficult opponent to face, especially when he was in the dark and he was in the sunlight.
"What are you going to do? If a fight takes place in this place, perhaps the portal will be destroyed." Rose asked, feeling a headache coming on. Whether it was her or Asterion, they both had most of the large-scale attacks, and even if they restricted the power of his attacks, do you think a Cursed Spirit would do something similar?
"Can you teleport the Cursed Spirit somewhere else?" Asterion asked, his voice also carrying a touch of helplessness; in the end, not everything could be solved with force.
Rose looked at the worm that was at least a few kilometers long and another fifty thick. She hesitantly nodded to Asterion, confirming that she could do it. "It's possible, but with the amount of magical energy I'm limited to, it's possible that I could make a mistake and start a fight in the city."
Not only did she have to accurately calculate the spatial coordinates while carrying an extremely heavy and large monster, which practically doubled the difficulty of the action. What's more, with the amount of magical energy she had, she could run out for several minutes before regenerating completely.
"Do it, I'll protect you in any case." Asterion spoke with a serious look, he looked at the cursed spirit and thought about how long he could exorcise such a being with the Grade 2 strength he was limited to at the moment.
"I can cheat if possible... Morgan could resolve the situation discreetly by becoming invisible." Asterion muttered to himself with an increasingly determined look on his face.
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Mounted on the dragon, Rose raised both hands and almost brought them together as if she were holding an invisible ball. Her eyes were brighter than ever, a gigantic equation began to form in her mind. An equation that involved manipulating space over large areas while jointly calculating the weight and mass of the object she wanted to send away.
Without the red worm noticing that it was being targeted, the space where the worm was began to shrink in a way that was almost visible to the naked eye. Each time the space shrank, so did the space between Rose's hands. Sweat began to trickle down her face as she tried to concentrate, feeling the massive headache ravaging her brain at the moment.
Seeing Rose's pained expression, Asterion's face turned grim, under normal conditions he could put an end to this cursed spirit by summoning one of his Cursed Spirits like the Fate Serpent Ouroboros or even the dimension-devouring Al-Meissa Mercury, but both of these summons were Special Grade Cursed Spirits that expended insane amounts of magical energy to be summoned into the real world.
Honestly, if he wanted to, he could summon one of the two, it wouldn't be as strong as it normally was, but it was enough to fight a Special Grade Cursed Spirit. But Asterion didn't.
He looked at Rose struggling and decided not to summon Al-Meissa Mercury. Don't misunderstand, he didn't want to see Rose get hurt, but as he had promised earlier, he had to protect Rose, who, once she had finished teleporting the Special Grade Cursed Spirit, would take a few minutes to regenerate her magical energy reserves. A period that would be no different from that of a Muggle without magical energy.
Suddenly, Rose let out a pained groan and accidentally, her hands touched, closing the ball with her hands!
As the space followed the movement of Rose's hands, it obviously moved when she closed her hands, but this time, it wasn't gentle and invisible at all, the space seemed to turn into two gigantic invisible walls, trapping the worm-like Cursed Spirit.
Naturally, sensing that it was trapped, the Special Grade Cursed Spirit did what any being would do when it found itself trapped and immobilized: it began to struggle violently in an attempt to break free. And the more it struggled, the whole city seemed to shake under the creature's enormous weight. A crimson light ran through its body extremely quickly!
The next second, a flash appeared in the center of the city, like a second sun shining brightly! After the flash came the deafening sound that seemed to herald the end of the world and along with the sound, a gigantic wave of heat swept over everything around.
Asterion and Rose, who had already sensed the imminent danger, didn't care about anything else and retreated with both dragons.
However, as the dragons weren't as fast as the riders themselves, the distance of the retreat wasn't far enough, nor was the height, causing the heat wave to hit Asterion and Rose full on.
Rose quickly covered Oberon with her Limitless and protected the dragon in time, but Asterion let himself be hit as he made his own armor cover the entire dragon instead of himself.
At the same moment, Asterion felt his flesh burning and his blood evaporating as an extremely white flash blurred his vision.
A second later, the heat wave passed them by as everything returned to normal.
Rose looked at Asterion and couldn't help but open her eyes in utter horror and disbelief. It was no wonder she had such a look on her face.
Asterion's condition was grave to say the least, a large part of his body was covered in burns of the highest degree, his flesh was blackened and dried blood covered almost his entire body, he remained upright on the dragon, the cell had already turned into nothing at this point.
Breathing heavily, Asterion looked down at his body, but what he saw was only darkness, at that moment, he was completely blind. It was a feeling he perhaps never thought he would have in his life, the complete deprivation of one of his senses - sight.
Before Asterion could do anything, he felt himself being hugged, although he was extremely sore from the act of being hugged, it brought some clarity to his mind.
"Are you all right, Asty?" He heard Rose's voice full of concern tinged with an overwhelming guilt in her tone. A guilt that Asterion didn't understand, she had already said that it couldn't work and they had both agreed to take the risk.
Not answering Rose, Asterion muttered in an extremely weak voice as he still stood erect on the dragon's neck.
"Baskerville."
Under Rose's shocked eyes, all the skin on Asterion's body began to recover at a speed to the naked eye, second later, Asterion fully intact with no shirt and almost no pants appeared in front of her!
Opening his eyes, Asterion looked at his hands and seeing the clear, clean image again, he breathed a sigh of relief, although he knew he could regenerate thanks to the Baskerville, he still felt a little apprehensive in the face of blindness.
Asterion grabbed a couple of changes of clothes from the Baskerville space and got dressed under Rose's shocked and curious eyes. Somewhat understandably, she had just seen him almost die. At the same time, he himself couldn't help but notice how fragile humans are. Even though he was one of the strongest, in the face of a magical attack, his flesh was completely insignificant.
This feeling of helplessness for a strong man like him equally unnerving, a thought appeared in his mind.
"Should I follow that insane plan? No. I don't want to be Leto II." Asterion thought of something, but dismissed the thought the instant it appeared.
[Note: If you understand the reference and have read the Dune books, no spoilers.]
Turning to look at Rose, who was on Ancalagon still showing a guilty expression, he simply jabbed her in the forehead, making the white-haired girl hold her own forehead and show a pained expression.
"Stop blaming yourself for something normal, we knew it could go wrong, we bear the consequences of our actions, Rose." Asterion ignored the dissatisfied look coming from the girl and spoke in a calm tone.
Rose rolled her eyes and muttered unsatisfactorily to herself. "It hurt a lot, and I was only worried about you."
Ignoring an upset Rose, Asterion's eyes focused back on the Desert City, his eyes fixed on the huge Special Grade Cursed Spirit in the shape of a worm. A cold look passed through Asterion's eyes, it was the second being that had caused him to suffer such a high degree of injury in his life, the first being Salazar Slytherin.
Honestly, Asterion no longer cared if the entire city was destroyed, he would kill that damn worm.
"Rose, focus on recovering your magical energy, I'm going to exorcise that Special Grade Cursed Spirit." Making his armor return to his body, Asterion didn't look at Rose and spoke in a calm voice.
Without waiting for her reply, he flew without Ancalagon towards the city while the red cloak on his shoulders fluttered in the wind.
"You always like to have all the fun." Rose gave a disgruntled pout at Asterion's words, but didn't move and focused on recovering her magical energy. Although it wasn't empty, it was dangerously close.
"Now that I think about it, it'll probably be the first Live Exorcism of a Special Grade Spirit?" A smile appeared on Rose's lips at the thought of this, even if she wasn't the shrewdest politician in the world, she could see the benefit of something like this.
She could imagine that the status of a Special Grade Wizard will be even more dazzling in the wizarding world after this exorcism, the reason for Rose assuming something like this was simple, the population will know that all Special Grade Wizards fight against these extremely powerful and destructive aberrations, which could destroy a city so easily...
It may not sound like much, but don't forget that the witch population has rarely seen a Special Grade Wizard or even once seen a Special Grade Cursed Spirit fighting in person. Special Grade in the eyes of most people in the world was a distant scenario that they never had the chance to observe, now, they could get a taste of what it was like.
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