"I knew it was you, Professor Kasenhis…" Voldemort said hoarsely. "And what is it this time? Here to rescue a Death Eater and his family again?"
"And what's wrong with that?" Kasen raised an eyebrow.
"The problem is that this time you came alone, while my servants will swarm you and tear you to pieces!" Voldemort said. As his voice fell, Death Eaters from throughout the castle flooded in, surrounding the two of them completely. Within the circle, only Kasen and Voldemort remained at the center.
"Meh.. That's not difficult." Kasen shrugged. The new magic book instantly appeared beside him.
The slowing rune, extension rune, invisibility rune, stasis rune, shield rune, binding rune, and delay rune fused together in an instant. In the end, a tiny white point of light condensed at the tip of Kasen's finger.
"Stasis Field, activate!"Woosh!
The small point of light instantly expanded into a massive stasis field, enveloping the two of them inside.
Seeing this, Barty Crouch Jr. immediately pulled out his wand. Voldemort, inside the shield, gave him a glance, and the next moment an Avada Kedavra shot out from Barty Crouch Jr.'s wand.
The Killing Curse struck the stasis field and simply stopped there.
"So, what do you think now? Just the two of us… one on one." Kasen raised an eyebrow at Voldemort.
Voldemort did not reply. Instead, he looked at the Avada Kedavra suspended on the stasis field, now flattened and shortened into a thin layer, then looked back at Kasen.
"Allow me to applaud your magic," Voldemort said slowly. "But the impure thoughts in your heart still disgust me. If you are willing to embrace true power and truth, I am willing to give you a chance."
His answer was a gravity spell as heavy as a thousand tons.
"Urg!" As Voldemort paused for an instant while resisting the gravity spell, three Wither skulls and two mechanical arms shot toward him at high speed.
"Neahhh!" Voldemort roared. Magic surged violently from his body, blasting the gravity spell away. In the next moment, he used Transfiguration to turn himself into a mass of flame. After evading the Wither skulls and the mechanical arms, the flames suddenly dispersed and rushed toward Kasen.
"You've improved, little Tom!" Kasen waved both hands, and a massive wall of water enveloped him entirely. The moment the flame-transformed Voldemort touched the water wall, the flowing water instantly solidified into rock-hard ice.
However, the ice held Voldemort for less than half a second. The entire wall shattered violently the next moment. Voldemort reverted to human form and immediately raised his hand, firing an Avada Kedavra.
"Don't say that name!"
Kasen slightly turned his body and raised an eyebrow. "You know perfectly well that little tricks like that are useless against me."
"Oh… is that so?" Voldemort smiled faintly. The Avada Kedavra that had just been dodged suddenly shifted direction, turning at a sharp ten-degree angle and flying toward Kasen once again.
This time it wasn't so easy to block. Kasen simply extended one of his mechanical arms.
With a loud bang, the mechanical arm was blown into a short, charred stump by the explosion caused when the Killing Curse struck a nonliving object. It looked like a small stick that had just been pulled out of concentrated sulfuric acid.
"Sometimes the power of little tricks is beyond your imagination," Voldemort said with a grin.
"Oh… that's very true." Kasen nodded. At this point he stopped using his mechanical arms altogether.
If Voldemort's control over the trajectory of the Killing Curse had truly reached that level, he could fire a whole barrage of them. And when that time came, the only thing Kasen would have to rely on to face such a barrage would be his mechanical arms.
Now only nine of the ten mechanical arms remained, which meant he had nine lives left… no, still ten.
As for whether Voldemort could control large numbers of Killing Curses… if it didn't work once, he could try several more times. And what if he actually could?
Kasenhis wasn't going to gamble his life on something like that.
The next moment, the new magic arts book opened again. The flame wind blades expanded in range, surging toward Voldemort like a wall of fire.
Mixed within the fire wall were countless Wither skulls. The wind blades led the charge, slicing apart every piece of cover in their path.
Behind them came the fire wall and the Wither skulls, delivering the main attack.
Rushing forward with the fire wall was Kasen himself. He held a staff in his hand, mysterious elements dancing constantly at its tip, crackling as they flew forward alongside the flames.
Voldemort slowly stepped back.
A sarcophagus resembling that of an Egyptian pharaoh appeared behind him. He retreated inside, and the coffin closed, blocking all of Kasen's attacks.
It had to be said, the coffin was absurdly tough.
"But is it tougher than this?" Kasen seized the opportunity and charged toward the sarcophagus. The mechanical arms behind him bared their claws and stabbed toward it.
Carrying a disintegration field, the mechanical arms pierced straight through the coffin like knives through tofu.
But before the sarcophagus could be torn apart, several of the mechanical arms began to crumble like matches touching flame, corroding away until only the mechanical bases remained.
"Bahaha! You've fallen into my trap!" Voldemort instantly flung the sarcophagus open.
The large holes the mechanical arms had stabbed through his body were already being filled by wriggling things like maggots, slowly healing until only the skin remained unfinished.
He stepped out of the sarcophagus. With a flick of his wand, he prepared to cast a Killing Curse and finish Kasenhis once and for all.
Kasen simply tilted his head, dodging the curse. Before Voldemort could spare the attention to control the curse's trajectory, Kasen swung a punch straight at his face.
Seeing this, Voldemort merely cast a silent Protego Charm on himself and sneered. "Using such a Muggle-like method? You really can come up with anything."
But in the next moment, it felt as though a hundred-ton truck had slammed straight into his face. He and the shattered fragments of the coffin behind him were blasted flying.
Fortunately for him, the coffin fragments struck the stasis field first, allowing Voldemort to barely come to a temporary stop in safety.
Meanwhile, Kasenhis continued walking slowly toward him. Since Voldemort kept breaking through his magic, then he would give him something more basic… a shock of pure strength.
Another punch came smashing down. Voldemort instantly transformed into a mass of flame and surged toward Kasen.
"You want to die together with me? That's a good thing!" Kasen shouted excitedly as he felt Voldemort's soul aura almost pressed against his own.
"Come on! Let's make it a big one! If I kill you, even if I die too, that's still a huge profit for me!"
"If you die, then even if I die too, I still come out ahead! After all, you are the big bad dark lord! But do you have the balls?"
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