"Protego!"
At the critical moment, a semi-transparent light shield blocked the ice spear that attacked Link.
Blue light flickered in Link's eyes, and the corners of his mouth curled up.
He had long felt that Richard's tower had problems, and now, the other side finally couldn't hold back and made a move.
With a sinister grin, Link carried the semi-transparent shield and walked toward the door.
The top priority now was to check on Emily and the others. After all, although wizards have strong destructive power, their physical bodies are almost no different from Muggles.
This meant that if attacked in their sleep, they would still be extremely vulnerable.
However, just as Link pushed open the door, he was stunned.
What appeared in front of him was a solid wall of ice.
'The door was frozen shut?'
That was Link's first thought, but he quickly rejected this judgment.
Because with the perception granted by the Super Sensory Charm, Link was shocked to find that not just his doorway, but all the corridors on the residential floors of the entire tower had been filled with ice!
Under the effect of this ice, endless cold air was spreading into the rooms at an astonishing speed, and wherever it reached, everything became covered with a layer of frost.
This clearly showed how low the temperature was.
And these chills were also strange, even normal anti-cold measures and even warming charms were completely ineffective against them.
"Ha! What a grand display!"
Link gritted his teeth and exclaimed, then swung his wand hard. A formless power of curse replaced the Shield Charm, wrapping around his entire body.
The power of curse was far more potent than ordinary magic. Wrapped in it, the cold was instantly isolated outside the energy layer.
And most importantly, curse power was extremely corrosive and destructive.
Ssshhh!~
Link stepped forward, and the curse power around him let out a bone-chilling corrosive sound the moment it touched the ice.
Under the corrosion of the curse, the solid, transparent ice was like butter sliced by a hot knife, instantly melting into liquid.
Thus, Link passed straight through the ice, heading directly to Emily's room next door.
At this moment, Emily was still lying on the bed, sound asleep.
A thin layer of frost had already spread onto her body, but she remained unaware, and looked like she was sleeping even more sweetly.
Without hesitation, Link wrapped Emily in curse power as well. Only then did he step forward and lightly pat her shoulder, saying, "Emily, wake up, quickly wake up!"
"Mm…"
Emily opened her eyes drowsily, and when she saw it was Link, she wasn't surprised. Instead, she brushed away his hand and complained, "You came too late, I'm so sleepy now, let's talk tomorrow."
Hearing this, a few dark lines appeared above Link's forehead, speechlessly.
He really couldn't understand why someone Emily's age could have such messy thoughts.
Of course, now wasn't the time to focus on this.
Link muttered internally and then explained the changes around them to Emily.
This made Emily a bit embarrassed, but she still put on her clothes and followed Link out, head lowered, her face red.
Then Link and Emily went to the rooms of Newt, Professor Kettleburn, and the others one after another, and rescued them all.
Among them, Kettleburn and Rolf were in the best condition. They hadn't been attacked by the cold wave, only their doors had been blocked.
But Newt's situation wasn't so good.
The corridor near his room wasn't frozen, but it was filled with a large number of red puffballs.
These magical creatures, synthetically bred, were just floating quietly in mid-air, blocking Link and the others' path.
Anxious Rolf, worried about Newt's safety, immediately wanted to rush forward.
But he had barely taken a few steps when Link grabbed him.
"Don't rush! There's something wrong here!"
Hearing Link's shout, Rolf's body shuddered.
Professor Kettleburn beside him cast a spell toward one of the red puffballs.
The next moment, a series of violent explosions echoed through the corridor. Those red puffballs exploded instantly upon contact!
Looking at the crumbling corridor and the many more red puffballs drifting toward them, Rolf's face turned pale.
He couldn't imagine what would've happened if Link hadn't stopped him just now.
The group blew their way through and finally reached Newt's room.
And the situation there was even worse.
The terrifying cold air had almost frozen Newt into a solid block of ice.
At first glance, even Link thought Newt was dead, and Rolf cried so hard he nearly fainted.
But the truth was, once they melted the ice, Newt quickly regained consciousness, and he didn't even have any frostbite on his body.
This strange situation felt as if Richard hadn't been trying to kill them at all, but only wanted to trap them.
Of course, the situation wasn't over yet.
After rescuing the squad members, Link led the group to search the entire tower, hoping to find Richard, the most suspicious one.
But just as Link expected, Richard had already vanished.
Not only that, even the magical creatures in the underground laboratory were completely gone.
In the top floor office of the tower, Newt was wrapped in a blanket, shivering nonstop, and Rolf leaned tearfully in his arms.
Across from them, Professor Kettleburn sat with his head lowered, silent.
In the daytime, he had spoken up in defense of Richard, but that very night, not only were they attacked, but Richard himself ran away, this was a slap to his face.
Luckily, Newt was too cold to make fun of him right now, or else Kettleburn would be dying of embarrassment.
Of course, Kettleburn wasn't someone who couldn't tell right from wrong. He knew very well that the person who had put him in this awkward position wasn't Newt, but Richard!
But the problem was, they were on Richard's turf.
How were they supposed to catch him now?
Thinking this, Professor Kettleburn instinctively looked at Link and said in a low voice, "Link, what do you think we should do now?"
The incident at Hogwarts last semester, as a professor, he knew a bit about it, and in his view, Link's deductive skills should be able to come up with something.
But to his surprise, upon hearing this, Link directly waved his wand and blew open the outer glass wall.
Piercing cold wind and snow instantly rushed into the office, making Newt tremble even harder.
And in the middle of the wind and snow, Link turned his head, smiled at everyone, and said, "What else can we do? Of course, we charge in head-on!"
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