Chapter 56 - Level 27[p10]. Mysterio (1/2)

People who found me and Bucky started leading me towards the monster which was rampaging in the middle of the city while conversing about something in Greek. This is problematic. After I get some free time I need to spend time learning different languages. Although not speaking their language fluently is alright, but not understanding anything people around you talk about is a serious complication for future BS'ing to these people.

However, for now, with my current level in ”Speech” and ”Occlumency”, I should be able to easily fool anyone in this backwater city. I mean how big is a possibility of a Boss on the level of Dumbledore appearing in this city? Plus, looking at how destructive my Animagus was to this city, it is obvious there are no truly strong wizards here. Not at the moment at least. Not sure about what's is going to happen in the future.

Speaking of my Animagus form, we reached the place where the fight was happening and honestly I was magnificent indeed. Spells were raining on top of my form, yet they had very little effect. Thanks to all the attributes I gained from killing various magical creatures, I had high resistance to both magical and physical attacks.

Nonetheless, high resistance doesn't mean invulnerability, so I need to finish this show as fast as possible, plus I was wasting a ton of magic and mental power to upkeep this illusion. And if you are still confused about how can I be in 2 places at the same time being in Animagus form and be here playing a victim, the answer is simple. I am not.

I am physically here only in the Animagus form. The other me is only a simple but realistic illusion, which becomes only more believable thanks to it riding Bucky previously. Moreover, nobody touched me or had any physical contact, which made fooling even easier. As for the inspiration for this whole plan, it was a villain from Marvel, called Mysterio. His main powers were illusions and mind manipulation, so I decided to do something similar but with magic. Previously, when I transformed I couldn't use magic, because the form was a manifestation of raw magic source and without body, there was nothing to channel that magic through. However, after I acquired tier 3 ability ”Magic Rule”, I can manipulate magic with pure thoughts. But there is always a catch. It is super taxing on my mind. Even now my head is splitting from a headache and it will only become worse than it is now.

Therefore, now that I infiltrated the city's magical community and got a little trust, I need to move towards the second act of this show, before I passed out because of exhaustion. My illusion self addressed the leader of the people who led me here.

”Dear sir, what's your plan on subduing this creature?”

”How do I know? That's the first time we met this sort of creature. However, looking at the situation at hand, it is obvious that the creature has resistance to charms similar to that of the dragon. So, I am thinking to try tactic we use on dragons.”

”You mean collective stunning spell? Nice idea.”

The tactic the man was talking about is for multiple wizards to cast the strongest stunning spell they are capable of at the dragon or another creature with a high level of the magical resistance. This will stack the effect of spell making it stronger and hopefully bypass resistance. One of the reasons manticores are so hard to kill. They are smaller and nimbler than dragons, which makes them harder targets.

Anyway, I digress.

The leader whose name I already forgot, gave a command to wizards around him and everyone started charging the spell, my illusion self included. That's when my Animagus self, looked at the leader issuing commands.

*Screech*

After monster's cry, hundreds of shadows spikes sprang from the ground intercepting the majority of stunning spells flying into the eagles. Then spikes have dissolved and eagle lunged at the leader, but that's when my illusion had to step in.

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Aegeus, commander of the wizards' department located in the city of Patras, for the first time in his life felt what true despair is like. This giant monster blocked all the stunning spells with some terrifying spikes coming from the depths of Hell and then lunged at him. At that moment he was frozen by both the fear towards the creature and understanding that he will die.

But at that moment, somebody rushed in front of him and cried:

”Bombarda Maxima”

Then the ground beneath the lunging eagle exploded and the monster was tossed upwards, disrupting momentum and direction of the lunge.