Chapter 78.4- Doom Days

“And what makes you think I would not be able to make it out of here on my own?” I asked, quirking my eyebrow at him. He looked to be in his mid-teens. Probably about sixteen or so. Gellert Grindlewald had been one hell of a prodigy, but he hadn’t been so strong as to say that I wouldn’t give myself good odds if we were to face ourselves in combat.

“You are what? Fourteen? Fifteen? While I myself am only a few years older, I can tell you that there are no wizards like me out there. Just because I can do something doesn’t mean you could” he said with not a small amount of self assurance. I would enjoy watching that look flee his face.

“Then I guess it’ll just be up to me to prove you wrong” I said, and over his protests, I sent two more blasting curses straight at the wall.

“On your head be it then” he said, fading even further until he was little more than an apparition. He distortion in the light that I had to focus to catch. And I couldn’t do all that focusing for that long when my attention was drawn to a completely different matter. The monsters in the chamber. I heard them before I saw them. The screeches and screams.

There were two options, wait for them in here or go out there and face them. This room was plenty big when it had just been Grindelwald and I talking, but now the we were going to have company, it was far from that. The first creature to make it through was feminine. A woman’s face and breasts with a bat’s wings and lower body. I smashed it back whence it came with a bludgeoner so powerful I heard bones crack as it flew. A bat’s bones then. That explained the flight at the very least.

The next halfling was a man with a snake’s tail. Him I tore in half with a cutting curse, before turning those halves into javelins that I tossed further into the darkness. With a twist of my wand, a ball of light formed at the tip of my wand before I fired it off into the darkness. Making a dozen more that I sent all about me to make sure that there was no chance of me getting caught by surprise. I had better night vision than most thanks to the ritual, but that didn’t mean I’d be as comfortable fighting in the dark as creature s that had been here basically all their lives. I turned to look at them now that they were revealed.

There were basically four different breeds of creatures. These had once been people, humans. But every pair of eyes I met had nothing in it but a crazed hunger. Looking about the room also told me how they had been surviving here. Cannibalism. Each of these ones had eaten one, most likely, more of their brethren to survive. They had given in to their inner beasts. There was nothing to do but put them down now.