"Hammer!"
After Minister Peter let out a loud shout, he fiercely waved his wand at Clement, and a giant battering ram made entirely of magic shot straight out. From the looks of it, if it landed, not only Clement but also the Aurors beside him would suffer.
Just then, a silver-blue stream of light trailing a fiery tail shot out from the side, blocking the battering ram's attack at the last second. However, the violent collision still caused a fierce shockwave, and the explosive sound interrupted the surrounding battles, drawing everyone's attention. As the smoke gradually cleared, everyone found that Clement was unharmed, and in front of him, a metal sword flickering with electric light was stuck in the ground.
A figure then appeared next to the sword, lightly drawing it out and holding it gently in his right arm. He then chuckled, "Minister Peter, I didn't expect our next face-to-face encounter to be in such a setting. I'm sorry, but I cannot sit idly by and watch you do as you please."
"Alan, are you sure you want to oppose me?" Minister Peter looked at the young man standing in front of him, his gaze sharp and piercing.
"You can't blame me for this," Alan shrugged helplessly. "You just said you were going to silence everyone in the venue. I'm just protecting myself." After speaking, Alan turned his head to look at Director Andre. "Director Andre, I will hold Minister Peter off. You quickly organize people and evacuate the innocent!"
"Understood!" Director Andre knew Alan's strength, so he didn't hesitate, immediately giving a look to several Aurors and Edmund, and then retreated. The Aurors responsible for protecting Clement also reacted very quickly at this time. Two of them, one on each side, lifted Clement and ran straight toward the side door.
"You think you can stop me?" Minister Peter sneered after hearing Alan's words. "Since you're going to block my path, don't blame me for being impolite!"
"Whether I can or not, don't I have to try to find out?" Alan grinned, then whispered, "Overload!"
Boom!
From Alan's position, a magical fluctuation no weaker than Minister Peter's previous one instantly exploded. Then, Alan, who had originally looked like a young gentleman, suddenly erupted with thick plasma tendrils all over his body, and his eyes glowed with silver light. The sheer aura he exuded caused a stinging pain in the eyes of those who looked at him.
Alan knew that Minister Peter was Golden Knight, and his strength must also be on the level of Phoenix and Thunderbird, so he used his full power from the start! His posture was so terrifying that not only the surrounding wizards but even Minister Peter found it unsettling. Could this really be a young man under twenty? Was there something wrong with him, or had he grown so old that he was out of touch with the world?
Alan, however, had no habit of wasting words with his opponent. He knew his overload form couldn't last long. Alan plunged Eclipse into the ground, then swung it heavily toward Minister Peter.
"Thunder Sword - Earth Run."
The sword, swung upward, carried a captivating power, unleashing a crescent-shaped sword wave that sped across the ground toward Minister Peter.
The killing move is underground! In an instant, Minister Peter perceived the tricky nature of Alan's sword wave. If he directly blocked the frontal attack, he would fall into a trap. The more powerful magic surging underground was the true offensive. *Is he attacking from underground after seeing my previous defense mode? It seems that besides his astonishing aura, his combat instincts are also very sharp!*
Minister Peter sneered after a brief thought, then lightly pushed off the ground with his legs, and he flew high into the air as if defying gravity, soaring over the incoming sword wave. Sure enough, when Alan's Wild Lightning sword wave reached Minister Peter's previous position, it suddenly exploded, and a bolt of lightning as thick as a bucket shot out from underground, striking the ceiling dozens of meters high! A violent roar followed, and even a large chunk of the roof's stones was blown open, the falling debris forming a shower of stones.
Minister Peter, who had ascended to evade the attack, ignored the tremors behind him. Instead, he flew above Alan, pointed his wand fiercely downward with his right hand, "Repel!"
With his soft shout, an invisible impact instantly formed, just like when he had previously repelled the attacks of Director Andre and others. However, this time he was exerting force in one direction, and its power was also much stronger than before.
Bang!
Only about a second after he began casting the spell, the entire ground suddenly caved in over a large area, as if violently trampled by a giant beast. The rock floor seemed like flour, instantly pulverized into dust and stone debris, and a thick cloud of smoke was stirred up by the violent tremor. Everyone, already far against the wall, watched this scene and couldn't help but swallow their saliva. In fact, they had stopped their fighting long ago. There was nothing they could do; the two people fighting in the center of the venue were just too terrifying. Every move they made seemed to be aimed at destroying the world. Although those division-faction wizards had been persuaded by Minister Peter to act, that didn't mean they wanted to die. If they stayed there any longer, they might die from the aftershocks of these two's battle before the others were even dealt with.
Director Andre, who was organizing people to clear the stone pile at the side door, immediately shouted to these division-faction wizards who were in a dilemma, "If you don't want to die, hurry up and help clear the way! You wouldn't think an organization like the Silver Spears would truly accommodate you, would you? Have you forgotten how Minister Peter treated Michelle and Bayer?"
Upon hearing these words, the wizards immediately fell into hesitation again. They also knew that Director Andre was right. In fact, it could be seen from the hundreds of imprisoned wizards that the club didn't care about the lives of others. Even Clement, who had served Minister Peter for more than ten years, was forced to betray him. One could imagine how poor the Silver Spears' credibility truly was. But if they just surrendered like this, their fate would probably be miserable too, right?
Seeing that these people were still hesitant, Director Andre went a step further, "I guarantee you, on the honor of the Director of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement, that as long as you are willing to surrender, I can give you lighter sentences in the subsequent trials. After all, most of you were either deceived by Minister Peter or coerced and lured. For those with shallower involvement, I can even let you atone for your crimes by rendering meritorious service. The Ministry of Magic also needs your contributions to continue operating! Even for serious offenders, the most they'll do is prison time, which is better than dying here!"
After this persuasion, everyone's eyes immediately lit up. It was well known that Director Andre's credibility, compared to Minister Peter's, was quite reliable. Especially since many of them had simply been following orders all along, and at most, they were accessories.
"I surrender! I am willing to atone for my crimes by rendering meritorious service!" Just as everyone was still muttering, a voice first rang out from the crowd. Everyone looked over and found that it was Mike, who had previously been at odds with Director Andre during the hearing. This fellow, who had clearly seemed so loyal to Minister Peter before, was now the first to defect.
Mike rushed out of the crowd and ran along the outer wall toward Director Andre. "Lord Andre, I'm coming to help now. Please don't attack me! I only ask that you reduce my sentence by a few years in the future!"
With Mike leading the way, these division-faction wizards, who were not particularly united to begin with, no longer hesitated and flocked toward him. Even those die-hard loyalists to Minister Peter despairingly dropped their wands. They knew the tide had turned. With Minister Peter, the strongest combatant, being held back by Alan, they couldn't possibly stop the nearly hundred people in front of them.
Just as Director Andre had finished persuading these wizards, Minister Peter on the main battlefield also finished casting his spell. The power of his magic could be described as world-shaking; everyone thought he would directly bore through the ground. And as the thick dust on the ground gradually dissipated, everyone also saw the true scene of the site clearly.
On the floor, centered around Alan's original position, there was a circular pit about ten meters in diameter and over a meter deep at its deepest point, with smooth and even walls, as if it had been specially polished. However, within this huge pit, there was no trace of Alan!
"Tsk, did you dodge it? I didn't realize that besides your sharp offense, your ability to escape is also first-rate." Minister Peter wasn't too surprised that he failed to hit Alan with that attack. Given the strength the opponent had displayed, it would be too naive to think he could be dealt with so easily.
"While that's true, your spell just now was quite terrifying. I almost didn't react in time." At this moment, Alan's voice came from beside Minister Peter, who was high in the air.
When everyone looked in the direction of the sound, they found that at some unknown point, the opponent had suddenly gained a dark black, high-collared cape, and like Minister Peter, he was floating in the air about twenty meters above the ground. The cape behind Alan billowed without wind, slowly spreading out like wings, and he smiled as he looked at Minister Peter. "The spell just now, while it looked very much like a high-intensity control magic, if I'm not mistaken, you seem to be wielding pure gravity, right?"
Regarding the magic Minister Peter used, Alan had already had suspicions when the other party first deflected everyone's spells. It was like Shinra Tensei; the effect was simply too overbearing. And after experiencing the opponent's attack at close range, Alan was basically certain. Minister Peter, or rather Golden Knight, specialized in controlling gravity!
To be honest, this was quite unexpected for Alan. He hadn't thought there could be magic in the world that could control gravity. Should he say that he truly was one of the club's four elders? His methods were no weaker than the other three!
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