Chapter 494: Trapped
The creature was boiling in anger by the time it finally landed on the shore as it cut a sorry figure with nearly no muscles and dark bags under it's sun burnt skin. Without a steady source of magic to feed off of the creature had resorted to self consumption as well as the sporadic meal in the form of foolish magical creatures that it ran across to maintain it's existence. This caused the creature to truly appear like a walking skeleton with dark cracked skin stretched over it and sunken eyes that radiated madness and wrath.-
The witch or wizard holding the viewing orb from the sky allowed Nick to see this grotesque scene through the ball in Dumbledores office. "Honestly I am pretty sure it's close to death already so maybe just shooting it would finish it off." Nick said with a frown. Something about this bothered him , like it was just way too easy for the level of danger the creature should hold. "Indeed though i admit the ministry has not helped the matter for the creature by diverting most magical beast away from it's path." Dumbledore said calmly. -This chapter was first shared on the Ñøv€lß1n platform.
It was a slow and gruesome end to witness and neither Nick or Dumbledore dared to look away since they were the ones that set this in motion and thus were determined to witness it to the finish. "Leave the formation up for a month before lowering it. Keep the box as I will clearly not need it." Nick said seriously before leaving the office deep in thought. During this event he had witnessed several unique and unknown forms of magic from the abomination and he wished to learn what they were and how they were done.-
The most important was the wave of pure destruction that seemed to erase matter in a stable manner that seemed directly to be the antithesis to divine mana that created matter from nothing. Nick knew that the abomination likely used it instinctually and didn't understand what it was doing but it still inspired him. He didn't know what it was called or even what the requirements to use were but Nick did know that he wanted it. He was hopeful that it would allow him to counter divine mana to a degree.-
Generally from what Nick could tell magic was extremely balanced in that typically the counter to something was usually on the same level it was but there were a few exceptions. The most well known was the Fiendfyre curse that could be countered with magical intent in a Protego shield. The evil flame seeks to devour everything and yet if sealed within a barrier infused with the wizards willpower it is stopped somehow despite clearly being higher grade.