Extraordinary in Reality Through Magic Games

428: Chapter 414 (Anti-theft Chapter) (Main text will be updated in one hour)”Ha—ha—”

Two figures, one large and one small, leaned against the corridor wall, gasping for breath.

Misha wiped the sweat from her forehead, moved a few steps toward the corner, and carefully poked her head out.

Wino clutched his violently heaving chest with his right hand: ”Is... is it, is it coming?”

”Probably not.” After confirming the Three-headed Dog wasn’t chasing them, she let out a deep breath and pulled back behind the wall.

Hearing this, Wino’s grim expression relaxed. He looked down at the young girl’s head: ”Didn’t I tell you to run? Why did you come back?”

”Tch.” Misha rolled her eyes in annoyance. ”If you hadn’t been frozen in fear and had coordinated with me to cast magic, maybe we could have...”

”I’m asking—” Wino raised his voice, then suddenly remembered the Three-headed Dog might be wandering nearby and lowered it again, ”Why did you come back?”

”?”

Misha looked up at him in confusion, thought for a moment, and then realized: ”As a student of Hogwarts, it is my duty to protect the weak.”

Wino’s thoughts were somewhat dazed. He knew Misha was clever and sharp, but he found it hard to imagine where a child barely ten years old got the courage to face a terrifying monster, especially after having already escaped danger.

After a long silence, Wino suddenly pressed down on her head: ”I am not weak.”

”Please, out of the five of us, my test scores are first every single time!”

Smiling, Wino straightened up and walked deeper into the corridor: ”That’s because I held back my strength during every test.”

”Hah.” Misha smiled disdainfully and followed behind him. ”Students at the bottom of the rankings always make excuses like that. Mm, no exceptions.”

”Hahaha, we can compare during the next exam.”

”Compare exam scores? Misha won’t lose!”

”Is that so?”

”Of course!” As if to bolster the credibility of her declaration, she quickened her pace to walk side-by-side with Wino.

After chatting and walking for about half an hour, the two suddenly noticed several dark silhouettes appearing in the gloom of the corridor ahead.

The two became alert, reaching into their sleeves to pull out their teaching rod staffs. However, as the approaching figures became clearer, they were pleasantly surprised to find it was Ryan’s trio.

Reunited with his teammates, the faint unease in Wino’s heart—having nearly died in the monster’s jaws—finally receded.

”Ryan.”

”Eh? Wino?”

After confirming each other’s identities, they turned on their flashlights and walked toward one another.

Once they met, Ryan looked over the disheveled clothes of the tall and short pair with confusion: ”You guys... were you attacked by a Lurker?”

”Half right.” Wino spread his hands.

”What do you mean?”

Misha helped explain: ”Wino found a secret hall, and after entering, we encountered a magical creature.”

”Which kind?”

”A Three-headed Dog.”

Leon was startled: ”I remember that thing is very strong. You’re lucky to have escaped!”

Klaisi asked curiously: ”Based on its performance in the original work, it didn’t seem that powerful, did it?”

”You guy.” Leon chided him somewhat helplessly and then said, ”The Magical Creature Encyclopedia in the library has a detailed introduction.”

The Three-headed Dog is a Elementary magical creature. Besides its natural physical strength, it also masters several types of offensive magic.”

After hearing this, Ryan asked in surprise: ”How did you escape?”

”We...” Wino paused for a few seconds. ”Our luck was good. That fellow was quite cautious and didn’t attack with full force right away, but tried to test our depth first. We took the chance to escape, and afterward...”

”For some unknown reason, it didn’t chase us.”

Misha gave him a strange look but didn’t say anything more.

”Uh, maybe its goal is to escape the basement,” Leon said.

”Very likely.”

”It probably knows the way out. If it really escapes...”

”Don’t worry, the academy has guards patrolling all day, and professors and teachers will be on duty. It will eventually be locked back in the hall.”

Wino scratched his cheek: ”I’m more interested in why it was locked in the hall in the first place.”

”We can ask the teachers after this is over. Right now, we need to save people.”

”Speaking of saving people.” Wino’s gaze swept over the three of them. ”Did you guys have any luck on your end?”

”Regrettably, we’ve only seen walls and stone paths all the way.”

”Is that so... things have become troublesome.”

”Hmm?”