"Holy crap!" Kayson exclaimed, quickly dodging the incoming spell, then his mechanical arm swiftly stabbed towards Nios's chest.
Seeing this, Nios struggled to dodge in one direction, preventing the mechanical arm from directly piercing a large hole in his chest, but the damage caused was not much less.
The destructive magic crawling out from the ancient trident, along with the mechanical arm, directly blasted most of his shoulder into a bloody mess.
"Kayson, we need him alive!" Lupin, standing behind Nios on the other side, shouted loudly.
"As long as he has a head, he's alive!" Sirius, on the other hand, didn't bother with idle chatter; an unknown, shimmering magic continuously flowed from his wand towards Nios.
The latter just maintained Protego at all times, resisting this strange attack.
"Wands are weapons for the weak! I'll show you what a true powerhouse looks like right now!" Nios took a deep breath and roared, stomping his foot hard, and he shot towards Lockhart at low altitude like a cannonball.
"Holy crap! Save me!" Lockhart frantically waved his spells at Nios, but the latter simply punched them away.
"Holy crap! That's too ridiculous! Is this how battles are fought in this world?" Lupin's eyes nearly popped out watching this scene; he even forgot his magic, only remembering to instinctively complain.
Fortunately, Kayson was always paying attention to Lockhart and appeared in front of him almost instantly.
Bang!
He and Nios collided with a loud bang, and Kayson's two palms, which could break a four-meter circumference tree in three seconds, barely managed to block the punch.
"Oh my, you dare to get close to me? I see you don't want your other shoulder either!" Along with Kayson's words, his mechanical arm behind him also moved, and these words also served as a warning to Nios.
After all, this person was somewhat prone to forgetting pain after a short while; he had just lost one shoulder, but a few seconds later, he had forgotten the pain and charged over again.
What else could that be but forgetting pain?
Bang!
However, at least from Kayson's perspective, Nios was indeed an idiot, but he was strong and fast enough. Just as the mechanical arm was about to pierce his body, he suddenly lifted his foot and kicked Kayson in the chest.
The two were instantly separated; the former panted heavily with a look of lingering fear, while the latter, along with Lockhart behind him, crashed through two large trees before finally stopping.
But in just an instant, he flew back from the forest, carrying a series of Wither Skeleton Heads.
"I told you, only the weak challenge the strength of my body with those ridiculous magic spells." Nios smashed two Wither Skeleton Heads with two punches, and before he could finish his taunt, Kayson appeared before him, grabbing his neck with one hand and pressing down on his remaining shoulder with the other.
"Who knows how much Nine Dragon Power you've 'krypton'd." Kayson took only a second to utter a taunt, then with a tearing sound, Nios's other arm was forcibly ripped off by him.
"It's not just physical destruction that's failure; mental failure is!" Nios, having lost both arms, still charged at Kayson, refusing to believe his bad luck.
"Look at you, you're like a Tyrannosaurus Rex now; I don't even want to say much about you." Kayson rubbed his temples somewhat helplessly, then a ball of spider web appeared in his hand, which he casually threw onto the ground.
"...."
"Nios, you're a fool." Kayson rolled his eyes. What else could it be but a problematic mind for a middle-aged chuunibyou with only some strength to fight a PVP master like himself?
Then Kayson used the spider web to bind Nios completely, and finally used iron bars to make a cage to contain him.
"Sirius, please go into the forest and rescue Lockhart. I'll take him to Dumbledore." Kayson finished speaking and directly enveloped Nios's body, cage, and spider web with a force field, arriving directly at the Headmaster's office.
Dumbledore, startled yet again, looked helplessly at Kayson, who had finally taken action against Nios, and took a deep breath: "...Why didn't you just pull his head off too?"
"Honestly, I really should let Fudge come and see. You showed him mercy back then; you used a sword, not just ripped off his entire arm."
Kayson rolled his eyes at Dumbledore's complaint: "So, can our Principal please properly examine this hanging man? Veritaserum had no effect on him."
Dumbledore nodded then, becoming serious again: "Let me see." He pulled out his elder wand and traced it across Nios's infuriated face.
Soon his expression became somewhat complex, on one hand giving a feeling of helpless sorrow. On the other hand, there was a feeling of satisfaction.
"What's wrong?" Kayson asked.
"I didn't expect you to have this day," Dumbledore said with a smile in his eyes.
"Huh?"
"He's an Alchemy puppet. As the greatest Alchemist in all of England, you didn't even realize?" Dumbledore teased.
Kayson's eyes widened slightly. He looked at Nios, then at Dumbledore, then he turned to look at Nios again.
"This is an Alchemy puppet?" he asked, bewildered.
"You've become a bit too isolated at the top, forgetting the basics of Alchemy. The transformation of matter, turning watermarks into gold and Alchemy materials into flesh and blood, are all fundamentals of Alchemy. And this Nios, is clearly an Alchemy puppet," Dumbledore explained.
"Now I can't show my face," Kayson muttered, looking at the ceiling in despair.
"...Ahem, please rest assured, I will keep this secret for you," Dumbledore said.
"Actually, this is a small matter. I... as an Alchemy puppet, he must have memory storage tissues... Give him to me." Kayson quickly adjusted his mindset and spoke again.
"Logically, that should be the case, but unfortunately, it's too late. On the way you brought him over, he probably self-destructed his memory storage. And he used the method that the body fears most... high temperature, just like a child with a fever, you know." Dumbledore shrugged.
"Oh...Our lead is broken." Kayson sighed, sitting weakly on the sofa.
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