After roughly assessing the enemy's danger level, Glenn and Hermione began rapidly closing in. Once they entered range, Glenn tried attacking the blood giant with anti-materiel sniper rifles and rocket launchers, but these had no effect whatsoever.
So physical attack methods could basically be ruled out.
Currently, Glenn had devised three possible countermeasures after consideration. Now it was time to implement them and judge their feasibility.
The blood giant, split in two, struggled to maintain its balance, desperately trying to reunite its halves. But due to Yaolin's technique, no matter how it tried, the two body halves could hardly recover quickly.
Suddenly, the sound of massive wings flapping filled the air. Near the blood giant's feet, white birds fluttered their wings in flocks, flying upward and throwing themselves one after another into the gap between the giant's severed body parts, separating the cross-sections.
Now the creature's hope of repairing its body was completely shattered.
Realizing it was being obstructed by external forces and couldn't repair its body, the blood giant howled. Abandoning the idea of self-repair, its two halves began losing their original shape, gradually transforming into two blood giants identical in form to the original but drastically reduced in size.
The enemy's numbers had increased, but the coverage area of their attacks had also significantly decreased. The overwhelming waves of corrosive blood that had required enormous effort and stamina to block or dodge could now be handled more easily given the average strength of those present—undoubtedly good news for Glenn's side.
Battle was a game of strategy. One's efforts, losses, and the benefits gained from actions all needed careful calculation. Only this way could one improve their chances of surviving combat.
So, to confirm something, Glenn prepared to take a risk.
During their approach, Glenn and Hermione had already discussed their plan. Upon reaching a suitable distance, Glenn's form vanished while Hermione continued forward—they immediately split up.
After running just a few steps, Hermione had reached the battlefield leveled by the previous fighting. Her forward view was clear and unobstructed, while the two blood giants were currently entangled with constantly flashing lightning in the sky and white origami swirling like a storm, too busy to notice her arrival. So Hermione raised her wand, its tip pointing directly at the blood giants.
"Fiendfyre!"
Golden-red flames erupted like a volcanic explosion, shooting straight forward in a column of fire. The golden-red flames formed a fireball in the air, beginning to condense and take shape until finally, a majestic lion burst from the fireball, treading on trails of flame as it pounced toward the nearest blood giant.
Hermione channeled nearly half her magical power into the Fiendfyre Curse, but the Fiendfyre lion was still only a quarter the height of the halved blood giant, appearing quite small. The blood giant merely glanced at the little girl's Fiendfyre, casually waving its arm to splash blood from its limb, trying to extinguish the golden-red flames.
But Fiendfyre was not magic to be underestimated.
"Hissssss—"
The highly corrosive blood began exerting its erosive effect upon contact with the Fiendfyre lion, but before it could corrode much, it was completely evaporated by Fiendfyre's inherent extreme heat. The evaporated blood vapor couldn't escape either—it was instantly devoured by the rolling flames. The Fiendfyre lion raised its head and roared, not shrinking but growing even larger.
"Excellent! Just as we thought—Fiendfyre works!"
Hermione excitedly pumped her fist, then focused even more intently on controlling the violent Fiendfyre.
There were allies around here—what if her little lion devoured them too?
Seeing that the Fiendfyre lion, now very close beneath its feet, had taken no damage from its attack but had actually grown larger and begun constantly gnawing at its body, the blood giant finally began taking this strange thing that had suddenly joined the battle seriously.
Swatting away an incoming paper drill with one palm, one of the blood giants seized this opportunity to bring both hands together at its chest. Then, a blood column far more ferocious than any previous attack shot out at high speed from between its hands.
Like a high-pressure water gun, the blood column splashed directly onto the Fiendfyre lion's face. Even though the Fiendfyre lion was working hard to burn and devour the blood, under the blood giant's full-force attack, the nearly endless stream of corrosive blood eroded faster than the Fiendfyre lion could consume and recover. The Fiendfyre's power began gradually weakening, as if it might be extinguished.
The big lion was getting annoyed from the dousing, roaring continuously while still charging forward against the blood column.
The creatures created by Fiendfyre weren't highly intelligent—they only knew to follow instinct and devour all combustible materials. But this didn't mean their caster lacked adaptability.
Seeing that direct confrontation wouldn't work, Hermione immediately changed tactics, directing the Fiendfyre lion to engage the blood giant in hit-and-run combat, doing her best to attract the giant's attention.
This would allow Glenn to safely close in and conduct the experiment he wanted to perform.
The Fiendfyre lion's suddenly changed behavior successfully drew the blood giant's gaze as Hermione had hoped. Under the little girl's manipulation, the originally violent Fiendfyre suppressed its natural savage behavior, beginning to nimbly leap across ground and air, bursting with flames to attract the giant's attention.
The time was ripe. Glenn, who had been lying in wait, appeared like a specter behind one blood giant's head, his pale wand already beginning to glow with an ominous dark green light.
Glenn wanted to confirm whether this bizarre creature transformed from a human still possessed a soul.
The most direct and fastest way to examine this was to cast soul-attacking magic on the test subject.
"Avada Kedavra."
Green light illuminated Glenn's face hidden in his hood's shadow. The dark green beam shot forth, and at this moment, Glenn was only ten meters from the blood giant. In an instant, his Killing Curse reached the back of the giant's head.
The slow-moving blood giant could never dodge this lethal attack under such circumstances.
What awaited it was nothing but the obliteration of its soul and death on the spot.
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