The Periodic Table of Words at Hogwarts

Chapter 258 The Defense of Hogwarts

"You spent a whole day just engraving a single rune on my sword"?

At noon the next day, Gryffindor looked at the flashing blue rune on his sword and his eyes widened.

"What do you think? If alchemy was really that simple, people from the Holy See would have already entered the castle."

Zhang Qi snorted with his nose, and then swung the long sword in his hand towards the dining table.

Click!

With a crisp sound, a corner of the long table was cut off by the sword blade without any resistance.

"Isn't this much sharper than what you sharpened before?"

"But if there is only one rune, this sword will not achieve the expected effect at all."

Gryffindor took over his sword strangely and began to test the sharpness with some scrap wooden boards nearby.

"I can only carve one in a day. This sword is now a semi-finished product. When you are free, I will continue to complete the remaining runes."

Zhang Qi coughed and stuffed his bread into his mouth.

"By the way, the Holy See's army will be arriving soon. How are you preparing now?"

"It's much better than expected, but I'm still not fully prepared. It would be better if I had more time."

Gryffin let out a sigh.

"Volga's magic can confuse them for a while, but soon the soldiers will be able to find the approximate location here, and then they only need to start the trebuchet in the general direction."

"In later generations, Hogwarts had a very complete defense system, and it was probably built into the castle. Didn't you discover this system?"

Zhang Qi asked with some confusion.

"It was probably built after the war. Apart from camouflage, this castle is basically undefended. If we really need to activate the defensive array, we can only rely on the magic power of the four of us to hold it up first. ".

Gryffindor threw the last piece of beef into his mouth and stood up with his sword in hand.

"I'm going to inspect the city defenses. Do you want to come with me?"

"of course, I"……

"Clang clang clang"!

Before Zhang Qi finished speaking, the tallest astronomical tower in the castle rang a rapid bell.

"What's supposed to come is coming, there's no way to escape it."

Zhang Qi sighed and then stood up.

"Yeah, but with you this time, we should have fewer deaths, right?"

Gryffindor smiled bitterly, holding his sword, and walked towards the outer wall of the castle with Zhang Qi.

"There you are, Godric."

On the towering outer wall, Slytherin was nervously playing with a crystal ball.

"How is it going"?

Gryffindor asked.

"Look there".

Slytherin raised his hand and pointed to the distance, which was the boundary of the Forbidden Forest in later generations.

A black line gradually appeared on the horizon, but it was difficult to see clearly from this distance.

"That's the Pope's Knights of Judgment, and the black line you see is the infantry phalanx behind them."

Slytherin said calmly.

"It's about 15 kilometers away from here and can be reached in a few hours."

Zhang Qi frowned.

"When they attack the city, organize the students to throw fireballs collectively. This should cause them a lot of trouble."

Gryffindor said.

"What do you recommend"?

Slytherin turned to look at Zhang Qi, his posture unusually low.

"There is a proverb in the far east, which is that to capture the thief first, capture the king. I think if you can kill the bishop or general leading the team, the enemy's troops will instantly become a mess."

Zhang Qi thought for a moment and then said this.

"Your idea is indeed good. Unfortunately, the knight commander and the bishop will be hiding in the center of the square. It is difficult to kill them directly with our ability."

Slytherin shook his head, seeming a little regretful.

"That's not necessarily true. If the opponent is stupid enough to call in front of the castle, we will have a chance to kill them."

Zhang Qi shook his head, then lowered his head and began to fiddle with the things in his hands.

"Time is indeed the most magical thing. I can no longer understand the weapons you had at that time."

At this time, Ravenclaw passing by smiled at the people who were nervously preparing on the city wall.

"Classmates, I know you are scared. Most of you have even lost your own family members and were forced to flee your destroyed homes and come here with us."

"However, our current situation is much better than a few months ago. Now we have a strong castle, a far richer food and medicine reserve than imagined, and we also have allies from the distant east."

Having said this, Ravenclaw patted Zhang Qi on the shoulder, and his oriental face made many wizards below begin to whisper.

"So, compatriots, please stop dwelling on the sorrows of the past. For the sake of the children huddled in the basement of the castle, we must win this time"!

"well said"!

"Well said! I'm really fed up with those bishops wearing human skins"!

Below, many wizards who had been persecuted were shouting angry and angry curses.

"You are really suitable to be a qualified nobleman."

Zhang Qi said with some sigh from the side.

"No, I am not a qualified noble"...

Ravenclaw sighed, and then continued:

"In my territory, there was originally a harmonious scene, but when I first met the church, I chose to compromise with it."

"You may be thinking this - how could the smartest one among the four founders do such a stupid thing? But it is indeed the case. I was deceived by their hypocrisy at the time."

"So I lost my territory, and my knights and peasants were slandered by the church as the people of the devil, and they were all sent to the stake."

"If I hadn't been so knowledgeable, I probably would have died in that war."

Lady Ravenclaw looked at the setting sun and sighed.

"Here they come."

"Volga's camouflage magic is very powerful, but they will find us soon, and it will be a hard battle then."

"The gap in strength is so suffocating that it's despairing. If I hadn't known the future outcome from you in advance, I wouldn't even be able to believe that we would win."

Slytherin also came over at this time, and several people silently looked at the brightly lit infantry phalanx, slowly moving towards it.

"With all due respect, in the future, there will be a group of people who despaired of the huge gap between us and the enemy, but they still won in the end, drove all the invaders out of their homes, and established a great nation".

Zhang Qi said slowly, with a hint of pride in his tone.

"We will definitely win today"!

Burning boulders pierced the sky, and the first trial attack of the Judgment Army began.