From Hogwarts to Strixhaven

"Thief! Shameless thief!"

Smaug's rumbling voice echoed in the halls of the Kingdom under the Mountain. The sound waves reflected back and forth, overlapping and expanding each other, making other creatures in the cave feel that their internal organs were shaking.

Ivy, who walked into the secret passage, did not hear Bilbo's voice, but judging from Smaug's rage, he must be safe and sound.

The Kingdom under the Mountain is undoubtedly an architectural wonder in Middle-earth. It is a kingdom built in the belly of the mountain. The dwarves dug in this mountain for an unknown period of time and hollowed out the entire mountain. They were not satisfied with this and continued to dig down along the traces of gold and gem veins until they dug out the Arkenstone, the Heart of the Mountain, which was buried deep underground.

But the dwarves of the kingdom under the mountain do not live in the mines. They have built countless halls embedded in the rocks, connecting all the halls with stairs and railings. Although they are called dwarves, their architectural style is surprisingly tall and majestic. Giant stone sculptures holding various weapons are arranged around the halls. Even if some have been knocked down and broken by Smaug, it does not affect the shock they bring to visitors at all, but rather a sense of broken epic.

"... Let's talk about your dwarf friends?" Smaug's attack must have failed, otherwise he would not have suddenly turned from anger to persuasion.

"They sent you in to die, but they hid outside..." In addition to Smaug's voice, Ivy also heard an endless stream of metal objects colliding, they were like waves surging on the seashore, one wave after another.

It must be the sound of Smaug moving in the gold.

Ivy quickened his pace, he could already see the faint golden-red light deep in the hall.

"...I am very familiar with the smell and taste of dwarves. For gold, they will chase like flies smelling blood..."

"...Do you think I don't know that this day will come sooner or later?" More pillars were pushed down by Smaug, "...A group of greedy and hypocritical dwarves, in order to get my wealth, secretly crawled back to the lonely mountain?"

"Revenge!" Smaug blew a breath, blowing up a large amount of gold coins and gems, "Revenge! The king under the mountain has been dead for so long! Which of his descendants dares to take revenge? Lord Girion of the Valley was burned to death by me, and his people were used as snacks to fill my stomach. Who dares to approach me without eyes? Life and death, as I wish!"

Smaug's voice seemed to be a little farther away, and Ivy guessed that Bilbo was leading it deeper. Looking at the steps that continued to extend downward, Ivy sighed and decided to jump down. The feather-falling effect of the Ravenclaw crown can prevent him from falling from a height, so Ivy chose this more time-saving and labor-saving way to travel.

"My scales are stronger than ten layers of fine steel armor, my fangs and claws are comparable to all the magic weapons in the world, my tail can cut off the mountain, the wind under my wings can change the weather, and even my breath is enough to bring death!" Smaug continued to brag about his abilities, not noticing Ivy getting closer and closer.

Across the stone pillars and covered bridges, gold like a beach appeared in front of Ivy. Every grain of sand was a gold coin. This was an ocean made of gold, and it was bottomless. The floor built by the dwarves was completely invisible.

The gold reflected the red light emitted from Smaug's abdomen, coating his dark red scales with a layer of gold. This is really a huge monster!

Smaug is not the four-legged and two-winged dragon in the DND world view. Instead, he is similar to Norbeta, the little dragon that Ivy raised in Hogwarts, with a wide wing membrane connected to the forelimbs. His huge head is comparable to the town hall of Long Lake Town. Even if a dozen Ivys squeezed together, they couldn't fill the gluttonous mouth. The wide and smooth inclined plates and spikes protruded above the eyes. The short and sharp golden red horns were divided into a series of sections, extending backward from the inclined plates. There were also swept-back thorns and frills on the back of Smaug's slightly protruding jaw.

His tongue, which he relied on to bewitch people, was long, sharp, and very flexible. He could speak obscure and exquisite sentences with a vocal organ completely different from that of humans. The tongue was hidden behind two rows of teeth as sharp as razors, but Ivy knew that the size he saw now was because he was still far away from Smaug. In fact, each of his teeth was at least half the height of Ivy.

In the DND world view, real dragons are divided into many different levels according to their age. Each age means that the dragon's body size and natural scales will undergo a huge enhancement. Their body size will start from a super-small egg, spanning seven levels, and gradually grow into a super-giant behemoth. But even if it is a Great Ancient Dragon that has lived for more than 1,200 years, it is definitely not half the size of Smaug.

You should know that the red dragon, which is known for its size, will reach an astonishing 120 feet in total length after reaching the super-giant Great Ancient Dragon stage! This means that Smaug's total length is at least 200 to 300 feet!

Compared with the black arrow that is as tall as a person, it can be said that it is like using a toothpick to kill a dragon.

Smaug stopped, and Ivy saw Bilbo standing in front of it, looking up at the tree like a sesame seed.

"I almost want to give it to you... As long as you can make Oakenshield feel pain... until he is destroyed... let him be eroded... mess up his mind, drive him crazy..." Smaug whispered, and the scales under his chest and abdomen began to emit hot flames from the gaps.

"But I changed my mind...our little game should be over...maybe you should think about which way of death would make you happier?" Smaug lowered his long snake neck and looked at Bilbo on the ground with difficulty, "Let me guess...burned to death by the fire I exhaled?"

"Maybe...respected Smaug, great Smaug! Can you spare my life?" Bilbo had already seen Ivy approaching the dragon from above, and stood there trying to delay time.

"Hahaha..." Smaug laughed in a low voice, "I refuse! Let me choose one for you!"

The fire surged from Smaug's belly and condensed in his throat in the blink of an eye. Even if he approached from the top of Smaug's head, Ivy could feel the overwhelming heat wave.

"Run!" Ivy raised her sword and aimed at Smaug's head, while shouting to the hobbit below.

The hobbit, who was the target of Smaug's attack, suddenly disappeared. The dragon was stunned, and then looked up to find Ivy who made a noise above his head.

However, it was this action of looking up that added a new wound to Smaug's body, which had not been injured for a hundred years.

The beast-biting sword surged with the power of three-color elements, with the paleness of the netherworld, breaking the horny spikes around the dragon's eye sockets and fiercely nailing it on the narrow pupil of Smaug's huge eyeball.

Ivy was originally aiming at Smaug's huge head, because Ivy had no experience fighting in the air, in order to get the first drop of blood as much as possible, he aimed at the target that was least likely to miss.

Who knew that Smaug's subconscious behavior actually sent the weak eyeball directly in front of him, so if he didn't strike him with a sword at this time, how could he have a chance next time?

"Roar--"

The orange eyeball spurted out hot blood, and Ivy kicked Smaug's eyelids with one foot, using the force to pull out the beast-biting sword.

Before Smaug's roar stopped, raging flames spurted out of his mouth. Since the right side of his vision was lost, Smaug only sprayed his anger in a general direction. He shook his neck as much as possible to make the flames burn as wide as possible, because he knew that even the strongest rocks could not resist the burning of the flames in his belly, so as long as a little spark touched the attacker, it would be enough to ignite the attacker.

Unfortunately, he met Ivy, a wizard who was well prepared.

The flames he was proud of did hit Ivy, who was unable to gain leverage in the air, but could not cause him any harm. Just because he had deeply connected himself with the flames, this blazing power could not hurt him at all.

Smaug did not hear the expected screams. He spread his wings and jumped back swiftly, while twisting his head to observe the situation on the battlefield with his intact left eye.

A young man in an elegant green robe, holding a staff and a sword, was standing there, looking at him with a smile.

"A human! Dare to face the great Smaug alone?" Smaug raised his head as high as possible, on the one hand to bring psychological pressure to the opponent, and on the other hand to stay away from the weapon in Ivy's hand as much as possible. He had been stabbed in the eye by a toothpick-sized object, and he would never let that thing get close to the weak part of his body again.

"You are wrong! Smaug, I..." Before Ivy finished speaking, Smaug launched an attack, which was the tail hidden under the pile of gold coins.

The gold coins swept up by the tail hit Ivy like a rainstorm. The cunning dragon didn't even think about chatting with Ivy, but wanted to kill Ivy when Ivy lowered his vigilance.

However, the dragon's tail swept across with the force of thunder but missed. As a sword master, the most unlikely thing to happen to Ivy was to be ambushed. Besides, Ivy had already taken the initiative in this battle.

After a burst of silver mist, Ivy appeared under Smaug's dragon claws, and then chopped a sword between the solid scales. The scales with gems and gold coins in the gaps failed to block Ivy's blade for a moment, and a huge wound was cut. Such a wound might be enough to cut a person in half, but for a giant like Smaug, it was just a scratch.

The wound between the dragon's claws no longer gushed out hot blood, but instead, many crystal ice fragments appeared. Ivy hit a heavy blow with this sword, and it was the additional effect of the heavy blow that created these ice crystals to hurt Smaug.

Since Ivy knew that the evil dragon was immune to fire damage like himself, when he used the arcane ability to enchant the beast bite sword, he did not choose the old three options of blazing flame, freezing cold, and electric shock, but chose ice explosion as a replacement for blazing flame and freezing cold.

Ice Explosion is a superior enchantment of Frost, which consumes two points of weapon bonus from arcane ability. For normal attacks, Ice Explosion, like Frost, will add an additional d6 of frost damage, but for attacks that cause critical hits, Ice Explosion can also evoke the power of frost to cause a second damage, and the damage dice is d10, and if the weapon's critical hit multiplier is tripled, then this additional damage will be increased to 2d10.

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The Swordmaster's mastery of slashing gave them the ability of [Full Slam], and when they caused a heavy blow, they could double the damage multiplier by paying 2 points of arcane energy. Therefore, Ivy's heavy blow not only caused triple weapon damage, but also the magic weapon bonus attached to the weapon, as well as the three weapon effects of holy, ice explosion and electric shock, and the 5 attribute adjustment values ​​brought by Ivy's 20 points of agility would be tripled (3d10+15+12 slashing damage, 6d6 radiant damage, 3d6+2d10 freezing damage, 3d6 lightning damage).

This damage number is very scary even for a Ringwraith like the Witch King of Angmar, but Ivy was facing a dragon as big as a mountain, and even a heavy blow with triple damage was just a pedicure for Smaug.

As a dragon that had never been injured and only lost a piece of breastplate when facing the black arrow shot by the wind crossbow, Smaug's experience today was simply incomprehensible to him. Ivy's first attack blinded one of his eyes, and then he dodged his large-scale fire and tail sweep, rushed to his feet and cut off a large piece of his foot skin.

"What! Who are you! What kind of weapon is that!" Smaug roared in shock and anger, and retreated again. For creatures like him, it is instinctive to seek benefits and avoid harm. Since the opponent can break through his defense with the sword in his hand, it is obviously a more appropriate strategy to use long-range strikes to destroy the opponent. Smaug does not want to risk his life, he just wants to avoid injury.

However, the underground space of Lonely Mountain is very beneficial to Ivy. Although the dwarves built the halls and palaces in the kingdom very tall, and they can even accommodate giant beasts like Smaug and a large amount of gold, the height of the underground space is limited after all. Smaug cannot use his powerful wings and cannot make himself invincible first.

The golden wave stirred up by Smaug during his action caused a lot of trouble for Ivy. As a metal with a very high density, gold is very difficult to pull out when it forms a beach, let alone being completely buried. In order to avoid the oncoming golden waves, Ivy had to use the phantom step to move again.

This time he hid behind a broken pillar, watching the golden waves hit the pillar like hitting a reef, and then rushed from both sides, almost surrounding him. Fortunately, the weight of gold caused them to lack the fluidity of water even in a very large number, otherwise Ivy would be buried in the gold pile at this moment.

Smaug, who was closely watching Ivy's actions, also discovered this. He noticed that the humans below were avoiding the golden waves like avoiding his tail, which proved that both would cause trouble to the person who was holding a toothpick to give himself a pedicure.

So Smaug began to move in a larger range, trying to roll up more gold to kill Ivy.

"Greedy invader! Arrogant person who wants to slay dragons! This is your doom, drowned and swallowed by gold! Drown here in despair!"

When Smaug roared and threatened, Ivy added new spells to himself. One was the supersensory spell from the wizard world, which was used to improve the sensitivity and perception of Ivy's reflex nerves. He needed to pay attention to the movement of gold in all directions when fighting Smaug.

The second was the second-ring spider walk, which allowed Ivy to gain the ability to move on a vertical surface or ceiling within an hour. If the gold under your feet is too hot, then moving to the top to launch an attack is obviously a reasonable strategy, and Ivy has already had a successful experience.

Ivy ran along the pillar where he was hiding, and challenged Smaug from the top section: "Are you really the evil dragon Smaug? I think you are just a lizard that can breathe fire!"

"How dare you!" Before Smaug used his remaining left eye to determine Ivy's position, a cold air wave surged from Ivy's staff and successfully hit Smaug 100 feet away.

This cold air wave froze a large area on Smaug's wing membrane. It was the fifth-ring evocation spell Frost Cone. When facing the vulnerable freezing damage, Smaug's proud defense no longer worked. He let out a piercing roar and sprayed his own flames in the direction of the freezing air wave.

However, Ivy was no longer there. The transfer route he chose was on the right side of Smaug. With one eye blind, attacks from this direction were more difficult to detect. Since the advantage has been created through the attack, it should be maximized as much as possible.

Smaug noticed the sound of Ivy stepping on the pile of gold coins, and then turned his head to adjust the direction of his breath.

But Ivy was faster. After sprinting a few steps, he hid under another stone platform with a slide.

However, Smaug's flames did not stop. He was determined to burn through the entire rock platform and turn Ivy behind him into ashes.

But after leaving Smaug's sight, Ivy had already thought of a plan to escape and launch a counterattack. He picked up a huge golden plate at his feet and opened a secret door on it. This is a six-ring conjuration spell, the effect is to create two portals placed within the caster's sight. All creatures or objects passing through one portal will appear from the other side, as if the two portals are adjacent to each other.

Ivy's target was a giant clock on a high platform in the distance. Its surface was now covered with a lot of dust, but it was still hanging on the clock base as if it had just been made. Perhaps it was a copper object, otherwise Smaug would have collected it as part of his treasure pile.

In order to be able to move between the two portals, Ivy also used telekinesis to place the golden plate on the pile of gold coins. As soon as he got in, the telekinesis would be cut off due to insufficient range, and the golden plate would roll down the slope, thus avoiding the consequence of being melted into gold water by Smaug's flames.