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Third Person POV
Hogwarts.
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The explosion of attacks one after another took over the scene that night at Hogwarts.
All they could see were only blue and red lights colliding with each other at high speed, and it was something no one there could truly follow.
"By Merlin, what is that?!" The aurors kept complaining, while the students watched anxiously and worried.
"It's Severus... he's there, fighting against whatever that other creature is... it seems." Rosária murmured, though she herself couldn't clearly see. That was beyond her natural abilities, and she doubted her father could keep up with Severus at that speed either.
Meanwhile, in the midst of all the chaos, ghosts crossed walls of towers and rooftops, staring as they watched the towers being destroyed, horrified by the devastating scene before them, unable to follow the movements.
Severus and the humanoid ant continued fighting while Hogwarts' rooftop was completely devastated.
[Congratulations, you have leveled up. You have reached level 184.]
[Congratulations, you have leveled up. You have reached level 185.]
Severus kept receiving system notifications while his shadow soldiers below continued eliminating and wiping out all the other ants.
He did not take his eyes off the enemy's claws trying to cut him, counterattacking with his daggers. Severus opened the system quickly and began distributing all the accumulated points, investing the large amount gathered in recent weeks into agility, dexterity, and physical strength.
The ant, which had once been confident, began to feel worried as she realized Severus was becoming stronger and faster.
"He... is getting even faster... how is this possible?" she thought, while Severus cut off one of her arms and received a system notification informing him of the increase of his abilities, among them, Mutilation, an assassin technique raised to the maximum.
The ant tried to counterattack, pushing Severus down, but he was fast enough to dodge before attacking her again, cutting off both of her arms at the same time.
She summoned an ice wall to try to stop him so she could gain time while her arms regenerated instantly.
She was no longer fighting — she was running away.
She shot out of Hogwarts through the rooftop. Severus broke the ice wall and rushed after her, reaching her before she could gain height, throwing her down forcefully and using Mutilation, cutting off her arms and legs, making her explode against the ground near the Quidditch field.
The crowd at the school entrance could not help reacting with exclamations, while Severus walked through the destroyed area. The ant regenerated her legs quickly, staggering back as her arms reformed.
"Who... is this human...?" she murmured, her instincts screaming at her to flee. She opened her wings and tried to fly, but Severus grabbed her with telekinesis and threw her to the ground once again.
The people around could now see the creature — a giant humanoid ant buried in the soil — while Severus, moving almost like teleportation, appeared in front of her.
"I... I need to run..." the ant said, but couldn't even finish the sentence.
The next instant, it began to be mutilated.
Severus attacked using the Mutilation skill — he cut off arms and legs again.
The carapace was destroyed, green blood gushed out, and finally, the head was also removed, the body falling lifeless.
[Congratulations, you have leveled up. You have reached level 188.]
[Congratulations, you have leveled up. You have reached level 189.]
[Congratulations, you have leveled up. You have reached level 190.]
Severus watched, satisfied. The ant hadn't even been a challenge. He only wanted to see how far it would go — and, once he realized it had reached its limit, he eliminated it. He did not wish to waste any more time with her.
With a crack, Rosária appeared through Apparition, seeing that the danger had passed. She approached Severus, relieved to find him.
"Are you okay?" She asked, searching for any injury, but Severus looked perfectly fine.
"Well... I finished this one. But there are still ants down there. I'm going back." Severus said with a faint smile, turning his gaze to his fiancée.
"Hey, you! Prince! What kind of mess is this?!" Moody appeared at that moment, staring at the dead creature's body before looking at Severus as if he were a suspect of an Unforgivable. Even after everything, that man did not seem afraid of Severus.
"I'm not opening portals and breaking them if that's what you want to know. This happened the same way it did in Atlantis." Severus said.
"All in the same day, suspicious." Moody said.
"The one in Atlantis was recent, but this one has been open for some time. The ants were building an army beneath Hogwarts and no one had noticed, not even me." Severus said calmly.
"That is... a monster!? It's different from the other ants..." The aurors also appeared, followed by the professors and Dumbledore.
They all looked cautiously at the body on the ground. Even dead, the monster emanated a tremendous energy.
"It's not over yet." Severus said.
"You destroyed Gryffindor Tower..." Professor McGonagall couldn't help but lament, discouraged, while Severus looked at the broken tower from where he and the creature had come.
"I believe that can be resolved later, Minerva." Dumbledore tried to ease the moment, before looking at Severus. "Are you going back to eliminate the rest of the monsters?"
"My shadows are fighting right now, and I will help them. But..." Severus turned his gaze to the dead body. "I will summon one more help."
He raised his hand. He did not bother hiding his necromancy — everyone there already knew what he was capable of. There was no point in hiding anything now.
"Arise."
With that word, Severus felt the power he held over the creature. The next moment, everyone took a step back as a sphere of black and blue light formed over the dead body — like a cocoon opening.
The creature resurfaced — the same ant, but now in black and bluish tones, opening its wings and releasing its aura. A shiver ran through everyone present except Severus, as they took steps back, distancing themselves as much as they could from the creature.
Most of them didn't even know how he could use his powers, and now all watched in shock at what had just happened, as the creature lowered itself to land over its own dead and mutilated body.
"Well, don't be so frightened. You already know my abilities."
Severus shrugged, ignoring the horrified gazes of professors, aurors, and even some students approaching, who swallowed hard, almost running away.
"Let's go back down there." he said, walking toward the castle and ignoring the rest.
"My king."
Severus stopped walking when he heard the voice, and everyone around also looked at the shadow creature. Severus raised a brow, wondering if it had actually spoken.
"You speak?" he asked openly, and everyone noticed that even he seemed surprised.
"Yes, my king," the ant replied, with the same voice it had in life.
Severus paused again, touching his chin, wondering if that had something to do with its rank in the system. It was a general-rank.
"A name, please. Give me a name, my king," the creature requested, remaining kneeling since it had been reborn as a shadow.
"You know I killed you, right?" Severus asked. "Is that alright with you?"
Silence filled the place. Not even the spectators breathed as they waited for the answer.
"I was reborn, my king. I may have died, but you gave me another chance to live. I am happy to serve you. I have never felt my heart so joyful, and I want to be with you, with all my strength, in your journey," the creature replied.
Severus remained silent for a few seconds and nodded in the end, satisfied.
"Beru. That will be your name."
As soon as he spoke, the system began announcing the name change. Ignoring the looks around him, Severus turned.
"Let's go. We still need to eliminate the rest of the ants. Come on, Beru."
"Yes, my king," Beru replied. He stood and walked behind Severus. Soon, both disappeared, running back into the castle, entering through the destroyed sections and quickly heading to the third floor.
When they reached the underground, chaos still ruled everything. Flames consumed half the space, shadows eliminated as many ants as possible, died, regenerated, and returned to battle.
"Do you think you can help?" Severus asked.
"Of course, my king."
In the next instant, Beru vanished, carving a line of massacre through the area at high speed.
Severus watched, satisfied, and jumped to the lower level, where Kargalgan was still unleashing his flames. He began releasing other shadows he had kept — the three giant creatures and the broken dungeon boss from Atlantis. They emerged from his shadow with deep roars and massive bodies, advancing against the ants and destroying dozens with each movement.
Severus only made sure none of the ants could escape. He stayed there for over two hours, eliminating all that remained.
[Congratulations, you have leveled up. You have reached level 199.]
[Congratulations, you have leveled up. You have reached level 200.]
As the ants died, leveling up became more difficult. Even after killing almost the last ten thousand of them, he gained nothing beyond level 200.
"Seems like the ants aren't giving me experience anymore..." he murmured, a little discouraged.
Anyway, people slowly began to return, while Severus raised his hand and used "Arise", filling all the possible shadow slots in the system with the ants that could still be transformed.
He did not take the ant-queen, as she would have no use other than commanding the other ants — something he could do himself.
After that, he returned to the surface. He walked to Salazar's destroyed room, where Salazar stood in front of the portrait, clearly in a bad mood.
"Boy, are you going to tell me what exactly happened here? What on earth was that thing you were fighting?" he muttered, displeased at the countless ant corpses scattered across the Chamber of Secrets.
"If you ask nicely, maybe I'll talk to you," Severus replied with a joking tone, making Salazar frown even more.
"Anyway... it's been a few weeks since I last saw you, so let's summarize my current routine. I eliminated the Dark Lord, became the head and Lord of the Prince family, an old and prestigious pure-blood family — which is not from your era. I also announced to the entire world that I am a necromancer and an alien. Even so, I was absolved of all my crimes, despite almost having destroyed part of London in my fight with Voldemort. Today, I saved Hogwarts from a crisis, just like I did with Atlantis earlier this afternoon." Severus said, summoning a glass of firewhisky.
Salazar's portrait remained silent, absorbing all of that, before frowning even more.
"You're joking with me, aren't you, boy? I can believe all these absurd things, but hearing that you displayed your necromancy to the entire world... How are you not being hunted by every living wizard?" he retorted, crossing his arms.
Severus only laughed. "Because this world is in danger, Salazar. And I am the only one who can fight against what is coming." He took a sip of the whisky, indifferent to the heavy silence that followed.
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