Loki thought for a few seconds before an idea struck him.
With a quick wave of his wand, he expelled his spirituality and controlled it to form a rather complex rune. This was Loki's prised magic that he'd been working on after Nicholas had taught him about runic spell casting, training to perfect it with Cedric and co..
Loki was using the principle that Gods used to answer the runic call to cause a spell but with himself, or at least, close to himself. Loki targeted the soul inside the Ring of Harvest and forced it using coercion to agree to answer his spell by tightening the leash around the souls of those who were trapped inside.
The target of his latest rune was Mr. A whom he used to cause the shadows underneath all his teammates to thicken and wrap around them.
The shadows slithered around their limbs like a sleeve before tightening around their bodies.
Everyone in the audience including Bagman was confused by the spell Loki had used, but he didn't give them time to think.
"Move where the shadow wants you to!" Loki shouted for all of them to hear.
Suddenly, Harry who was standing in the same place since the beginning while fighting the Lethifold, began to take steps forward, closer and closer to the opposing team.
Fleur rushed back to mount the Wampus cat while Krum started to close the distance between the golem and himself even though he was a little afraid of being struck by it and getting knocked out.
Mounting back onto the Wampus Cat, the shadows forced Fleur to grab her beautiful nine-and-a-half-inch rosewood wand and stick it into its ear before she took charge of what was happening and shouted, "Bombarda Maxima!"
The Wampus cat's head instantly exploded and its body went limp before collapsing.
The body stayed still for a few seconds before it began to disappear from their sight. None of the participants cared much about it, thinking it was some advanced magic, but Loki was the only one who recognised it for what it was.
'Adam used his abilities as an author to bring his thoughts into reality?'
'So that out-of-control Beyonder isn't real after all…'
'I guess 'Adam' is afraid of corrupting his golden boy too.'
With Fleur freed and having gotten her first kill, Loki directed her directly towards Krum. But this time, instead of making her go up close to the lava golem, as she rushed by him, Loki whispered to her, "Use Glacius!"
Fleur nodded and the moment she was beside Krum, she shouted with her wand pointed at the Lava Golem's feet, "Glacius!"
A wave of frost left Fleur's wand and solidified as it reached the Lava Golem's legs. Within moments of contact, the golem's legs were encased in ice which Krum broke after casting a bombarda.
The golem fell to the ground with a heavy *thud* sending tremors but thankfully everyone remained standing because of Loki's shadows that helped everyone balance.
At this point, Harry had walked out of the capture point but he'd also sent out the Lethifold which was trying its best to return back.
The only one left in the capture point was the Druid which had remained relatively passive throughout the match for now.
And Fleur and Krum quickly burnt it away using Incendio.
With no one from the enemy team on the point, a halo lit up around the capture point, it was white at first but soon they noticed part of it turning a natural royal blue by the second.
"I guess we now have to keep the point protected until we're done capturing it.", Loki explained. "Why don't you guys go back ahead and attack them where those guys respawn?"
Fleur and Krum looked absolutely confused about what Loki meant by respawn which caused Loki to feel a little silly, so he explained in a little detail.
"I have a hunch they're not dead yet, not permanently at least. I think they'lll be coming back from their side of the map, why don't you go stop them so that we can capture the point quicker."
Fleur and Krum's eyes widened before they looked at Harry for a second, seeing him fight a Lethifold they stopped their hesitance and they rushed out of the capture point together.
As they went further, Loki's shadow slipped off of them and returned back to being inanimate under their feet, until they finally vanished around a corner.
While Loki stayed on the point for a couple of minutes, he helped Harry by casting a patronus that stood around him so he could be more aggressive with his own patronus, while several explosive tremors resounded around the arena.
The tremors that both Loki and Harry felt were similar to when the Lava Golem had collapsed onto the floor. Each tremor made them happier since it seemed like Fleur and Krum had finally gotten the hang of killing these creatures.
'We're halfway there.' Loki said glancing at the capture point underneath him whose outer ring had turned blue halfway through.
'If Fleur and Krum keep this up, in another few minutes we'll have the point and spawn in the payload.'
Soon, however, they began hearing loud *thuds* followed by a loud *roar* before they heard Fleur *scream* as she and Krum ran around a corner to find Loki and Harry and returned to the point.
A few minutes earlier.
Fleur and Krum arrived at the spawn area for the monsters and looked around, waiting for the Druid, Wampus Cat and the Lava Golem to respawn.
As soon as the first one did, the Wampus Cat, Fleur used the same tactic she'd just used, she killed it by sitting on its head and jabbing her wand down its ear to explode its head while Krum cast damaging spells like Bombarda on the cat to keep it distracted from attacking Fleur.
Then they worked together to takedown the Lava Golem after which they burnt away the Druid.
Since each monster spawned in after they killed the previous ones, they had no trouble fighting at all.
This carried on for a few more minutes until when the Wampus cat finally respawned and FLeur tried to do the same thing.
She jumped on the cat while Krum kept it distracted before sticking her wand into its ear and shouting, "BOMBARDA!!!"
Not only did nothing happen to the cat this time, but it also turned all its attention to the intruder on its head.
Being unable to kill the Wampus Cat, they were already burdened further when the Lava golem spawned along with the Druid a few seconds later when they finally realised their spells had gotten weaker on the monsters.
Because of this, Fleur and Krum ran back since they had almost gotten trapped in a sticky situation where they were about to get pinched.
"Ze cat is unkillable!" Fleur complained while Krum spoke as soon as she stopped, "The Golem is unfreezable!"
And then they spoke simultaneously, "And ze Drooid is inflammable!"
Fleur continued to speak, "Ze monsters are evolving!"
Loki was confused for a second before his mind clicked with a thought.
'They're improving the enemies depending on how we kill them to not make it boring?'
'What the hell!?'
Loki didn't have the time to think, his body worked on autopilot and stuffed a healing potion in Fleur and Krum's mouth, while a shadow tentacle pulled Harry away from the Lethifold and parked him in front of a very angry 'cat' and large stone 'robot'.
Harry *gulped* looking at the two enemies and suddenly felt that fighting the Lethifold was much easier.
"Harry hold on!!!" Loki shouted to get his voice to Harry as he pushed Krum to face the Lethifold trying to get on point while he turned to Fleur and told her his plan.
"I'll help Harry keep the attention of the Wampus Cat and the Lava Golem. I want you to assassinate the Druid by using the Glacius charm on it. After you kill the Druid do this…"
After Loki was done informing Fleur, she took a different route to walk around the arena and flank the Druid directly while Loki turned to Harry.
Harry had done remarkably well for the time Fleur and Loki were talking. He didn't let either the Cat or the Golem enter the Capture Point by using a simple spell, "Flipendo!"
The spell did no damage to the two animals but it sent them flying back when Harry used enough spirituality.
But it was of no use since almost immediately as the Druid got closer to the capture point, it dug its hands deep into the floor and caused vines to spread all over the surface until it reached the Capture Point.
Stopping Loki from being able to capture the point so freely anymore.
'I swear…that thing keeps looking more and more alive by the minute.'
'Did 'Adam' capture an out of control Druid or what?'
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