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Land of Magic

Reincarnated into the world from Harry Potter, Richard Snow will learn how to become one hell of a wizard and will look how he can have fun in this world an learn all about magic. This will be a novel without a complete badass MC who is overpovered in the first second, yes he will become stronger than most others but to gain his powers he will gradually develope over time. Timeline is a few years before canon and I will not complete follow the golden trio whatsoever. There will be no copy and paste lines as I hate them. All will be written as I see it and want it to be. This is also and alternate universe and there will be some changes.

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Clash with a natural force.

Clash with a natural force.

Chapter: 29

A few minutes earlier before Richard, Kyle and Sniffy saw the sight of the biggest cave and its peculiarities was a tough time for Rodolfo, Kellam, and the two guards.

They were running away from the rolling stone with all their might, and Rodolfo and company had met up with Kellam already. While running away, Rodolfo asked Kellam where the kids were and was stunned when he answered with.

"They simply vanished. I did not see them for only a few moments and when I got around a corner, they simply were gone. I can only guess that they found some different way out, but I searched for a bit before you all came and found absolutely nothing at all."

Rodolfo heard this and hoped that Kellam was right and they could only focus back on running away and he was thinking.

'What the hell can we do about this stone? My instincts tell me I will only have a tiny chance to destroy it if I am prepared to stake my life, but do we have any other chance?'

Now, the rumbling sound sounded even closer to them, and the group could only speed up once more. This pathway seemed to be endless and all they could do was just keep running.

'If this goes on, we will be completely exhausted in no time. We cannot continue like this for much longer. The stone looks like it is enchanted in some way and it is getting faster for each second and building up more strength. It should not be underestimated with this kind of speed. The last guard couldn't put up any resistance before he was crushed and it is much faster now. What can we do?'

After Rodolfo was trying to think about a way out of this misery, it was like some higher power was mocking them and now he could see a dead-end that they would run into shortly.

It was brightly lit and telling them, with sharp stone points which were covering every inch, that this would be their end if they could not think of a way out. The people who built this trap must have had some strange form of humor to brightly light up the dead-end. Only for the people who activated this trap, to feel deep despair, at this sight.

With the speed that they were running, it was sure that they would be nothing more than a porcupine if kept running like this. But they could not slow down either, because of the rolling doom behind them.

Seeing this, Rodolfo shouted loudly to his companions when he saw this scene.

"We can only try to destroy the stone. On 3 we will focus all our strength on the same point of the rolling stone."

Steeling himself of what was about to come, he took his 2 swords out of his sheaths and into his hands, which were blood red and had a menacing aura surrounding them.

They could only try to stop the rolling stone behind them, as Rodolfo had tried to destroy the wall at some point earlier and could not leave even a faint mark behind. It was just that sturdy and when he was sure that he could cut through of it after using his entire strength, at least through a part of it. But he did not know how thick the stone wall was, could not risk that.

At least he knew when they destroyed the rolling stone that they would be safe.

Hearing Rodolfo's words and seeing the dead-end in front of them, they all knew that they would have no other choice than to use all their strength, to hopefully, be able to destroy the rolling stone.

Kellam had his ax in his hands and the 2 guards used an unknown art to turn their entire strength into one force. In front of them was blood-red energy dancing, which formed into a blood arrow.

At first, that arrow was bigger than a person, but it was shrinking with a shocking speed. With every bit, it was getting smaller, but it also grew more powerful. When it reached a certain size, the two guards trembled and sweat all over their gear. They could not shrink this arrow anymore.

They now waited for the attacks of Rodolfo and Kellam, to time it perfectly with their own.

Kellam was the one who was the first to reach an attacking position and focused all his strength into one strike. Even he knew he would not live through that situation if he did not go all out.

Blood red energy was streaming inside his ax. It was glowing with the same blood-red light that Rodolfo's swords were lit up. With his total strength put inside one strike, he let it loose into the middle of the rolling stone.

At the same time, Rodolfo's swords were charged to the extreme, and he was swinging them at the stone. Rodolfo stood next to Kellam and bellowed when he released the attack. Two intersecting sword lines were shot out of the swords. They both reached the stone alongside the blood-red arrow from the guards and hit the same spot that Kellam's ax hit. The precision, to hit the same spot at the same time could only be achieved with very much understanding all involved parties

"Boooooommmmmmmmm"

A loud noise followed the attacks reached the stone ball and they could see that it was slowing down considerably. Kellam and Rodolfo could jump back at the moment they had hit it and avoided death by this. Both used the counterforce to get away from a safe distance.

In the next moment, they could see the arrow create an opening in the stone ball after grinding away very much force. After which, the intersecting lines of the sword energy and the ax attack penetrated it. The two lines were as long as the whole stone ball and if Rodolfo had not been this precise, then Kellam would be dead right now.

The sword lines were cutting through it with very much difficulty, but with the help of the force from the ax attack and all the force of the attacks was depleted, they could cut through it completely and dispersed.

The spinning motion remained on the stone and added so much force onto it could not handle its own pressure anymore after it was cut and burst apart into many stone particles.

The group did not wait to see if they could destroy the stone and backed up in the same moment that they let loose their attacks and retreated at full speed towards the end of the tunnel.

Turning his head around to see if they had succeeded, Rodolfo then broke out into a cold sweat. In the place where the stone ball burst apart, could now be seen an enormous crater full of destroyed stones. The force of the rolling stone had turned all of itself into a weapon of destruction.

If they would have been slower, they would be dead right now. Coming to a stop right in front of the dead-end, Rodolfo was shouting a warning at them.

"Defend against the stone parts." He held his swords parallel in his hands, in a defending position, and faced the parts of the rolling stone that almost reached them.

All that they could now do was resist against the hail of stone parts and defend their vital areas. They only had their physical strength left and no blood energy to support them in any way.

All of them did their best, and it was their luck that it only lasted for a good second and it was over. All of them were bloodied all over and each and everyone was hit by many stone parts. Rodolfo's group could only defend like this against that many projectiles flying at them, and they were injured badly.

One guard had it worse and because he only specialized in offense with his blood energy, he could almost do nothing faced with this and was slumping dead to the ground in the next moment.

Now only one guard remained, and he got quite lucky because he was shielding himself with a shield and only his legs got damaged badly. He was specialized in defense and therefore lived through this onslaught, but could not react in time to shield his companion.

Rodolfo could divert many of these flying stone parts with his swords and only got superficially wounded all over his body but could not be hurt in any vital area.

Kellam, on the other hand, got not so lucky, and his right hand was gone from his body and the rest of himself got seriously injured. Even his ax got destroyed, too.

Rodolfo sighed when he saw this and took some medicine and some bandages out from his pouch and helped Kellam and the remaining guard to not die of blood loss. He also distributed blood-red crystals, which would help them by restoring their strength in about a day.

The constitution of a vampire came in handy at such a bad time and when they had enough energy reserves, then they could heal themselves completely. Albeit they were not able to regrow any lost limbs and could only heal their damaged ones.

That was a huge misconception of the magical world, that vampires could regrow anything as long as they had enough energy to support them and they would also die of blood loss or organ failure. However, the constitution of vampires was much stronger than that of a normal human or wizard, and they could heal almost any damaged part of their whole body if they remained somewhat intact.

Knowing that they would not be able to get out of here in a short time anyway, therefore Rodolfo healed themselves to a solid degree and regain most of their lost blood energy.

The blood crystals helped with that a lot and they would only need about a day to regain their abilities to move and regain their fighting strength up to a bearable degree. These crystals were limited in stock, and the entire city only had so much. They were handed down from their ancestors and the ability to make them was lost in time. Therefore, they could only use them in situations such as this, where they did not know when danger would find them again.

Feeding his companions, the blood crystals brought forward immediate change in their expressions and they healed at a speed visible to the naked eye. But since they were injured to a degree that even the healing power of the blood crystals could only help so much, all they needed now was time.

After Rodolfo could only do that, he looked at the place where the rolling stone got destroyed and found a pathway that the destruction of the stone laid free.

'At least we are not completely unlucky. Maybe we will reach our ultimate goal and find the kids. A good thing that they could get away from this rolling stone, or they would be all dead right now.'

Rodolfo let out a sigh of relief and got back to his companions and sat down on the cold stone floor to restore his lost strength.

Meanwhile, back at the giant cave.

The time that Rodolfo's group needed to survive their ordeal took them not long and Richards' group could be seen climbing down on some roots that Sniffy could let grow out of the wall. They did not need long to get down onto the floor of the cave.

"It looks even more mysterious down here. If I did not know that we were in a cave, then I would think we were in some kind of forest." Said Kyle as he looked around himself. They were currently standing on a field of grass and flowers, along with trees standing around them.

Richard was looking at the top of the cave and saw many stones embedded into the ceiling that they had not spotted earlier because they were completely awed by the sight of the cave and did not think one bit about how the whole place might have been lit.

The cave was brightly lit through the stones inside the ceiling. Richard then pointed at the ceiling and spoke. "It's really mysterious. These stones seem to light up the entire cave and are not too bright to look at. How is such a thing even possible?"

Sniffy and Kyle were now also looking at the strange stones in the ceiling and got confused about that, but let it slide when they thought back at the image of the whole cave.

Richard got curious now and then thought. 'It should not be like this. If these stones can light up the whole cave and let it look just as bright as on the outside, then these stones should be much brighter. However, I can only see them glow a bit and can see them completely. If they were a common light source, then I could not look at them. They would just look like glowing things and I would not be able to judge if they were stones or not. This makes it confusing as hell.

Maybe I have the chance to study them later. A light source like this could be quite helpful for many new inventions or ideas.'

Meanwhile, Sniffy and Kyle were viewing their surroundings, while Richard stood there, lost in his thoughts.

At first sight, the forest and plains full of life were beautiful to a certain degree, but after a closer look, they felt that something was out of place. After some searching, the two of them found out what was looking out of place. They concluded that it was too quiet inside such a big forest.

There were no sounds at all, other than the noise from the fights of the other elements and their own. This forest creeped them out after they were aware of this. Sniffy and Kyle were looking around but could not even spot one living being. Not even a fly could be seen anywhere.

"This forest feels so strange. It looks beautiful at first, but there is no sign of life at all. It just creeps me out." Sniffy said and shuddered as she was more in tune with nature than the other two and felt much closer to it normally. Right now, she felt completely out of place.

Upon the platform, she had felt at home because of all the magic energy, but after entering the forest, she felt not like that anymore.

Hearing Sniffy say this and looking around a bit to search for signs of life, they could find nothing at all. Kyle was more in tune with his surroundings because of his enhanced senses and he had a weird feeling, which he did not notice before Sniffy mentioned how she felt. He then said.

"This may look like nature, but it should only be some sort of manifestation. It doesn´t feel like a forest. It just looks like one. Honestly, it feels strange."

Richard heard this and voiced his speculation. "The manifestation of the elements could be through the whole concentration of elemental energy around here, but that seems not to be the case. If that was true, the platform up there would have grass on it. Therefore, the forest and its surroundings should be the product of the array or ward that works inside here.

Let's hope that we can find our goal fast and then get the hell out of here."

The trio started on the way forward, and they were searching for the magical plant, which Kyle needed. They also searched for other things that should grow in such a place full of abundant magical energy, but they could find nothing at all.

They found not even one plant that looked like it could be some kind of magical plant. All that they ever saw, consisting of the same trees that only grew bigger as they moved on, or the same grass and flowers all around.

Sniffy found a few nice-looking flowers and picked them up, but at the same moment when they lost contact with the earth, they wilted away and the only thing left was some gray substance. That freaked them all out. After that, they did not pick up anything else and ignored it.

They had almost lost all hope for Kyles's plant when they saw what had happened with the flowers and could only hope that they would find something different at the center of this place.

There was no night in this cave and after they walked for the entire day, they set up the tent for the rest of the night to recharge their energy.

This time, they spent the entire night inside the tent and did not even try to make a fireplace. The feeling that the whole forest gave them was so weird that all that they wanted to do was leave it as fast as they could.

The feeling got better when they were in the tent, but it did not go away completely. They did not sleep this night and only meditated and only wanted to regain their energies.

Richard thought it would be a bad idea to absorb any energy from this strange place and told his concerns to his friends. They agreed with him and therefore they only meditated to help their bodies regain any lost strength.

The night moved on, at least on their watches, and they packed up. After all the way they covered yesterday, they concluded they would reach the center of the cave today, somewhere in the late afternoon.