A Nexus Devil

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For the first time that Jake had entered Hogwarts and started learning magic, he felt apprehension... Maybe he should have had some second thoughts about entering a death tournament that he'd never even heard of before just because there was some money to be won…

But it was too late for any regrets! Jake was here in the arena, and so was the dragon, and now he had to fight. Jake raised his palm towards the dragon and fired off a Bombarda right at its torso.

"Wow, that's amazing! He just used a wandless Bombarda!"

"I didn't even know that was possible!"

The spectators were shocked at such a display of wandless magic, something that they'd never seen before.

Let it be known that as far as they knew, only the strongest wizards could even do wandless magic, and even then, they could only do parlor tricks such as simple levitation or conjuring small flames in their hands.

A powerful spell like Bombarda was absolutely out of the question.

As the spell approached the Horntail, it didn't even bother trying to dodge. It had numerous spells cast at it pretty much its entire life living in the sanctuary, and none of them ever so much as scratched its scales.

So why would the Horntail even bother dodging something that wouldn't be able to hurt it? Or at least, that's what its tiny brain thought.

Jake's Bombarda connected right on the torso of the Horntail, and immediately there was a loud explosion.

The scales all around where the spell connected shattered, and the protruding bone spikes crumbled under the force of the blast. A bleeding wound about a foot wide was left on the chest of the Horntail as it let out a roar of pain and shock.

As Jake witnessed the damage his Bombarda caused, his hesitation slightly lessened. That was still the strongest spell that he knew, and it was able to cause a decent wound on the monstrously sized beast.

All he had to do was hit it with a couple dozen more, or maybe even just a few headshots, and he would win. Jake let out a small smile at that thought as he prepared to fire another Bombarda.

However, before he could fire another one from his hand, the dragon let out another roar, this time towards Jake. And as it opened its jaws, a torrent of incredibly hot, rock-melting fire blazed right towards him.

That fire was moving a lot faster than he thought it would. There was no time for him to dodge, so the only thing he could do was throw up a Protego shield and hold it off.

The audience held their breath as the dragon's torrent of fire connected with yet another of Jake's wandless spells. Surprisingly, Jake's shield held strong against the onslaught of flames.

After 10 seconds, the dragon's flames slowly petered out and dissipated, and Jake dropped his magical shield, slightly panting from the magic he had exerted.

Protego was a shield spell that was only meant to block smaller-level spells. It was never meant to block anything like dragon's fire, and the only way it accomplished that was with Jake throwing an absolutely tremendous amount of magic behind his shield spell to sustain it!

Jake threw another Bombarda, this time aiming for the dragon's head, hoping to land a devastating wound. Unfortunately, this time the dragon knew it could actually be injured by Jake, and despite its massive size, it dodged out of the way of his spell before it connected!

As it moved across the terrain quickly, the sheer weight of the dragon shattered rocks and boulders all around it. Jake mentally cursed that his spell missed.

He should have learned more AOE spells, but he figured his Incendio was good enough. Too bad that was completely useless in this situation. Everybody knows you can't use fire against a dragon...

It looked like Jake's only option was to rapid-fire spam Bombardas and hope his magic didn't give out before the dragon did. Feeling that the pressure was now on, Jake rapidly began casting...

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The MC thought he was gonna get an easy W…well he thought wrong Xd.

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59Chapter 14: The First Task Jake's Struggles 2

Chapter 14: The First Task. Jake's Struggles 2

Jake rapidly cast bombarda after bombarda at the Horntail. Shockingly, even with its house sized body, the beast was doing its best to dodge all of his spells! Frustrating Jake immensely.

Only about one in five of every blasting curse he fired actually connected to the beast, and even then, none of them landed on any fatal areas. Jake could also feel his vast magic pool draining at a surprising rate! This was the first time he'd ever truly pushed himself magically in his whole life!

The Horntail was growing incredibly frustrated at the tiny red-haired human who was actually managing to hurt it!

Whenever it tried to make any moves closer towards Jake to try and bite him, smash him with its powerful tail, or swipe its sharp claws at him; the spells became much harder to dodge up close! They would hit the dragon a lot more frequently, hurting the beast a lot!

Despite its massive size, the Horntail still had the small brain of an animal and therefore it equated being in close range to Jake's rapid casting as equaling more pain.

So, it had to keep its distance, and the only way it could fight back was by firing flames at Jake whenever he had to take a breather from firing too many spells so rapidly.

Up in the stands, among the cheering crowd of humans, Grok the goblin was watching the magical slugfest while nervously biting his long fingernails. "When the hell was that bloody potion supposed to kick in?" he muttered to himself in annoyance.

Grok had bribed the dragon handlers over 1000 galleons in order for them to give his potion to the dragon right before it entered the arena.

The potion was supposed to be instant with humans or goblins, but due to the dragon's size, it was clearly taking a lot longer to kick in than Grok was comfortable with. His life was on the line here!

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