Chapter 829: Rosier’s Decision
"Petrificus Totalus!"
In the forest, Kyle flicked his wand behind him—not at Vinda Rosier and the others chasing him, but at the thick trees.
First, he used a Softening Charm to knock them down across the path, then turned them to stone, forming a more solid barricade that might slow his pursuers down... for a few seconds.
Kyle had initially thought his enemies were just a group of elderly wizards and witches in their seventies or eighties, barely able to walk. Shaking them off should’ve been easy. But he quickly realized how wrong he was.
They didn’t need to run. They floated through the air like ghosts. As long as they had enough magic, age meant nothing.
To be honest, this was one of the toughest fights Kyle had ever experienced. He found it hard to even launch an effective counterattack.
More critically, their combat instincts were on a completely different level from the Death Eaters he’d faced before—their reaction times were simply too fast.
Kyle threw out every trick he had, but still couldn’t gain the upper hand. Aside from the ambush at the start that took out two of them, he’d also used the Nundu to lay a trap and lured them into it.
It worked well—one of the faster wizards, unfamiliar with Kyle’s tactics, ran straight into the poisonous fog and dropped on the spot... but that was the extent of it.
The others didn’t hesitate for even a second. The moment they realized something was wrong, they split to either side. The rearguard immediately cast Bubble-Head Charms and rushed in to retrieve their fallen comrade—quick and clean, as if they’d rehearsed it a hundred times.
Later, as they nearly caught up to him again, Kyle tossed out twenty pots of mandrakes. The cost stung, but the result was impressive—the scream radius was even larger than the poison fog, and two more enemies went down... Whether they were still alive, Kyle didn’t know. He only knew three fewer were chasing him now.
As for the Chomping Cabbages... they were useless. His enemies were airborne, and those things couldn’t fly, so he didn’t bother.