With the level of tacit understanding between the two, even without communication, Glenn could clearly tell if Hermione was ready, and Hermione also knew when Glenn would come to her side.
"Transmute: Stone Wall Stand Firm." Using a dodge and roll maneuver, Glenn touched the ground with her right hand while evading the Basilisk's biting attack. The long-prepared alchemy activated instantly, and a thick stone wall rose from the ground behind Glenn.
"Power Amplification." As her right hand activated the alchemy while her body was upside down, Glenn's left hand simultaneously cast an amplification spell on herself. With the spell's enhancement, Glenn pushed forcefully with her right hand, propelling herself into the air to avoid the black lines of...
...the neatly arranged sniper rifles forming a dark formation.
Yes, before Glenn began to draw the Basilisk's attention and move her steps, the pile of black metal creations she had taken out were sniper rifles she stored in the black ring specifically to deal with the Basilisk.
Anzio mag-fed 20mm anti-material sniper rifles, using 20mm sniper barrels, with a total barrel length of 1.3 meters and an overall length exceeding 2 meters, equipped with heavy shell-type muzzle brakes, detachable box magazines, using large-caliber special armor-piercing sniper ammunition, commonly used against armored vehicles and ground equipment. The caliber is so large, it approaches the category of artillery, with a maximum range of up to five thousand yards.
To further enhance its power, Glenn modified them into disposable weapons, concentrating all the gun's performance on firing the bullet.
At this moment, these black reapers stood quietly on several piles of peculiar statues, with their dark, thick muzzles already adjusted by Hermione to aim at the spot where the Basilisk was about to appear.
Earlier, Glenn had discussed with Hermione the offensive strategy combining transfiguration and firearms. Although the young girl couldn't yet transform statues directly and control them to perfectly replicate the series of intricate tactical maneuvers Glenn described, she could barely generate abstract stone blocks capable of performing the simplest actions of holding a gun, rotating the viewpoint, and pulling the trigger.
Hermione had already retreated over ten meters from the sniper rifle formation she set up. Seeing Glenn had left the gun line and was pushing off the ceiling towards her side, the young girl immediately swung her wand.
"Boom!" The stone wall Glenn transmuted was almost instantly shattered by the Basilisk's headbutt, but the peculiar objects Hermione transfigured, clutching the triggers of those Anzio mag-fed 20mm anti-material sniper rifles with what could barely be called fingers, all pulled the triggers in unison.
"Boom!!!!" The sound of the sniper rifles, far louder than the Basilisk's previous collision with the stone wall, exploded in the space like it was going to blow Hogwarts away. The strange stone piles Hermione transfigured were instantly shattered by the recoil of the sniper rifles, and the dust that had settled on the ground rose again, spreading in all directions from the point of firing. The Anzio mag-fed 20mm anti-material sniper rifles, having fired their 20mm bullets, disassembled, their internal components flying apart, only to be blocked by an invisible barrier before hitting Hermione.
At this moment, Glenn was crouched beside Hermione in a half-kneeling position, maintaining a Shield Charm large enough to cover both herself and Hermione, blocking the debris and dust from the shots, while firing the rifle at the Basilisk's wounds.
Meanwhile, Hermione dispelled the Muffliato Charm she had cast on herself and Glenn before the sniper rifles fired and was now using a whirlwind spell to clear away any debris that might affect them.
The echo of the booming sound gradually faded, but the Basilisk's wails of agony persisted. As the dust settled, despite its desperate efforts to turn its head at the last moment before the shooting began, avoiding instant death by headshot, several gaping wounds had nonetheless appeared on its body, blasting flesh and blood pits behind it.
Feeling its life blood rapidly draining from its body, its vitality ebbing away bit by bit, the enraged and mindless Basilisk regained its senses.
It was afraid.
The survival instinct inherent in living creatures screamed in its consciousness, urging it to flee from this place!
The Basilisk had never imagined that it could be damaged to such an extent by these weak and fragile creatures.
And within the diary, the little Tom, who had been watching with crossed arms and a sneer, was dumbfounded. Whether it was the bizarre black mist released by that person or the Muggle world's deadly weapons he had never encountered in his short sixteen years, everything was continuously shattering his worldview.
In just a few decades, what the hell has happened to this #Hogwarts profanity# world?!!!
Originally, he had hoped the Basilisk would quickly eliminate these two and then take him out, placing the diary in a place easily discovered by young wizards to continue his grand cleansing plan. But now, the Basilisk was on the verge of being killed!
Faced with this scene, Tom no longer harbored any thoughts of relying on the crippled Basilisk to kill these two mysterious beings. He only wanted to escape from here, away from these damned individuals, away from this damned Hogwarts castle!
After the Basilisk's death, it would be his turn, and he didn't even want to think about what awaited him.
He didn't want to endure that person's cruel Cruciatus Curse torture again!
Having recovered some energy, Tom immediately projected his phantom soul into reality, hiding his form under the cover of shadows, while anxiously communicating with the Basilisk in Parseltongue.
In front of Glenn and Hermione, the hesitant Basilisk, wailing and using its less severely injured body to shield its heavily wounded areas from Glenn's gunfire, immediately acted upon receiving instructions from the heir of Slytherin, turning slightly and rushing towards the location where Glenn had thrown Tom Riddle's diary.
Although the soul fragment projected by Tom Riddle was a phantom semi-entity and tried its best to hide in the shadows, how could this escape the notice of Glenn, who had been paying attention to the movements there and had her heightened perception continuously active?
Seeing Tom Riddle's soul projection appear and the Basilisk's actions, Glenn put away her gun.
"Hermione, get ready. The plan is entering the second phase."
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