[Soul Strength: 21]
[Soul Strength: 17]
Actually, Cohen didn't need a wand to fight these two. At this distance, he could devour their souls—it would only take a moment.
But he chose a more fun way to fight.
Come on, the "Mother's Charge" move is super cool, can anyone else do it?
The two Aurors were stunned by Cohen's sudden shout of "Mom.
" But Cohen and the jet-black unicorn "Mom" behind him didn't show any mercy for the two Aurors' momentary daze.
The unicorn Alexia was subjectively unwilling—but helplessly, it was part of the "unbreakable oath" she had just made with Cohen.
When Cohen needed it, it had to help Cohen solve problems, and these two Aurors in front of it were obviously problems.
It could clearly feel the power of this spell; breaking the oath would really mean death.
So it aimed its spiraling horn at the tall Auror standing in front of it, and a black binding curse erupted from the tip of the horn, piercing straight through the Auror's armor-piercing spell.
The tall Auror struggled to roll to the side to avoid the unicorn's charge, but his legs were frozen by the strange unicorn's magic.
Most proud wizards always looked down on the magic of non-human creatures, such as house-elves, fairies, or... evil versions of unicorns.
But when they actually fought these creatures, they would be horrified to find that they didn't remember, or hadn't studied, any spells to deal with them.
"Expelliarmus!"
Just as the two Aurors were about to Apparate, the Earl, who had been watching the show from the sidelines, intervened—as the spell struck the two, Cohen withdrew "Avada Kedavra" to see how powerful his mother's attack was.
Three wands shot into the air in an instant, the Earl precisely aiming them mid-air—
"Damn it, I'll make sure God gives me a hundred hands in my next life."
Because his two claws needed to grip his own wand, the Earl couldn't catch the wands being pulled and flung by the spell, and could only watch them fall to Cohen's feet.
"Then you'll look like a centipede," Cohen warned, picking up his own wand from the ground.
"How can an owl—" The tall Auror chose this as his last words, but unfortunately, they arrived just after the Earl had made his Unbreakable Oath, so neither of them knew the bird could talk.
Otherwise, they could have struggled a little, at least they wouldn't have been ambushed by the Earl.
"Help!" The short Auror, who had been playing a supporting role the whole time, cried out in terror, uttering his first and last words.
*Thud*
—Alexia's horn pierced through both of their bodies, like a string of meatballs.
The two were lifted high into the air, but due to the basement ceiling, they crashed into the hard stone ceiling and fell heavily to the ground.
A dark death curse exploded instantly on them; the holes in the two Aurors began to visibly rot and decay, and the area of decay was rapidly expanding.
The mother's aggression was intense.
Cohen immediately devoured their souls—this mother's killing speed was a bit too fast; he almost couldn't finish them off.
However, after his soul strength had surged to 27% due to the "Cohen fragments" in the ruins, further improvement became much more difficult.
These two only increased by about 0.2%—that would require devouring all seven graduating classes of Hogwarts to reach that level—not even counting the few slackers or those with poor talent, as a large portion of ordinary wizards only had soul strength in the teens.
Perhaps settling scores with the Ministry of Magic people who had attacked him ten years ago would be a good idea—Cohen felt those people might share the same views as the Auror who was already dead in front of him.
Hmph, he's already chosen his own path to death.
The remaining missing piece—the integrity of his soul—will probably have to be bought with sin points or obtained by finding the scattered fragments of Cohen…
"Hiss—"
Alexia brayed at Cohen, her hooves pawing restlessly at the floor.
[I killed someone for you, hurry up and finish that spell you were casting.]
"I didn't say I only wanted you to do one thing for me," Cohen innocently winked at Alexia. "You said you'd stay with me forever, Mommy Number Two."
[What's Mommy Number Two?!]
"Rose is my real mother, you guys are just… uh—" Cohen raised an eyebrow, "Composition?"
"Blending oil," the Earl added.
"Are you going to insult me again?" Cohen glared at the Earl with deadpan eyes.
[You have indeed become what they wanted you to be,]
Alexia said coldly.
"Who are they? The dark wizards who died here before?" Cohen asked curiously, "Did they also know I would learn the 'Mother's Charge' technique today?"
[...]
It's hard to describe how a unicorn could show such a helpless expression.
"I'm not going to argue with you anymore. I didn't finish what I was saying earlier—I didn't actually intend to use you as a slave. After all, I'm just a weak, pitiful, and helpless eleven-year-old student. I can't do anything…"
[You're still talking nonsense]
Alexia calmly reminded him.
"You'll be staying in this bag of mine from now on. There aren't any black unicorns outside. If you go out, you'll definitely be captured and studied." Cohen said bluntly, waving the bag in his hand. "I can give you a safe and relatively free environment."
[Thank you, little %&.]
Alexia said dryly.
"Can I join your private chat?"
The count stopped on the bars above the cage and urged Cohen rather boredly:
"I can only hear you balabalabala—"
"Chatting time is over. I need to quickly search this place—I'm hungry."
Cohen used the light from the tip of his wand to probe around the room.
On the table piled with alchemical liquid, there was a row of bookshelves embedded in the wall. Because of the dense demonic net that had been covering it before, Cohen hadn't noticed it at first glance.
"Blazing flames!" Cohen lit a fire in the center of the room, and the surrounding demonic net shrank into the cracks in the walls due to the sudden light and heat.
Now Cohen could properly study the materials here—
"Hey, by the way, what's your name—" Cohen suddenly turned to Alexia and asked, "Alexia, right?"
[Weren't you going to call me Mom?]
Alexia shook her jet-black ponytail.
"I only call her that when I need my own mother to charge in." Cohen said matter-of-factly, "Then I'll call you Alex, you know, it saves words."
[Alexia]
"Okay, Alex."
Cohen ignored Alex's nonsensical insistence and continued to ask the question he had just wanted to ask:
"You've been a test subject here for so long—how much do you know about the previous experiments here?"
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