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- MWM Chapter 114
“Have the doctors been relocated?” Leo asked.
Xiao Liu nodded. “They’ve already been moved to a safe location. The lab dormitory is now occupied by our people.”
“So it’s him. Looks like General Ross hasn’t given up.”
Leo immediately recognized the leader on the surveillance screen—it was none other than Blonsky, who had previously been in charge of capturing Banner in Virginia.
“So… he’s already been injected with the Super Soldier Serum?”
On the screen, Blonsky had already led his team into the lab dormitory and engaged in combat with Xiao Liu’s men.
Xiao Liu’s men were all seasoned fighters who regularly took a special strength-enhancing pill, making them top-tier combatants. Yet Blonsky took them down effortlessly, sending a 200-pound man flying seven or eight meters with a single kick—clearly beyond the limits of a normal human.
“Boss, let me handle him,” Xiao Liu said, frowning as he watched his team being taken out.
Leo shook his head, a cruel smile appearing on his face. “I’ll take care of this personally. I’ll make sure these guys understand just how annoying it is to disturb someone’s sleep at night.”
With that, he Disapparated.
Xiao Liu shuddered, then made the sign of the cross in the air, muttering, “Amen, may God have mercy on you ignorant fools and let the boss blow off some steam.”
He had once been a devout Christian, but not anymore. Now, this gesture was just a habit.
Meanwhile, Leo had Apparated to the entrance of the lab dormitory.
He didn’t let Xiao Liu intervene because he wasn’t sure if Xiao Liu could take on Blonsky, who had been injected with the Super Soldier Serum. Plus, Leo wanted to test how magic would affect different types of humans.
And besides, he had promised Wanda he’d be back in twenty minutes.
“Good evening, gentlemen. Don’t you have any respect for the laws of your country?” Leo said with a shrug as Blonsky and his five men stepped out of the door.
Blonsky narrowed his eyes when he saw Leo. He had suspected his infiltration had been compromised when they were ambushed upon entering the dormitory, but he hadn’t expected the CEO of Li Corporation to show up alone at the entrance to confront them.
“Leo, hand over Bruce Banner, and we’ll leave immediately. Otherwise, I can’t guarantee your safety,” Blonsky said, his tone laced with a confident threat.
Since being injected with the Super Soldier Serum, Blonsky had felt an unprecedented strength, far surpassing what he had experienced in his prime.
And it showed—those security personnel, who might have been a challenge for him before, were now no match at all.
The imitation Super Soldier Serum had not only given him a powerful body but also amplified his arrogance and overconfidence.
If it weren’t for Leo’s status and influence, Blonsky would have already taken him down and forced him to reveal Banner’s location.
Of course, that was assuming Leo didn’t cooperate, in which case the outcome would be the same anyway.
However, Leo didn’t take Blonsky’s threat seriously at all. He looked at him with a pitying gaze, as if observing a fool.
“It seems that injecting that inferior Super Soldier Serum has made you arrogant. Remember when I went to rescue Banner last time? You didn’t even have the qualifications to stand in my way.”
“It was you that day!”
Blonsky’s eyes flashed with a manic glint as he remembered the mysterious, powerful figure in the golden mask from Virginia.
“Let’s see who’s stronger!”
Blonsky slung his tranquilizer gun over his shoulder and lunged at Leo with a punch.
Leo didn’t bother to dodge. He caught Blonsky’s punch effortlessly and then countered with a powerful roundhouse kick that sent Blonsky flying.
Though Blonsky had been injected with the imitation Super Soldier Serum and was stronger than a normal human, Leo’s physical body was already beyond the peak of human capability. With the added boost of chakra, his raw strength surpassed Blonsky’s.
“You think you can challenge me?”
Leo sneered as he watched the five other men aim their tranquilizer guns at him. He quickly formed hand seals and pressed his hands to the ground.
“Lightning Style: Ground Surge.”
Before the five men could fire, they were immediately electrocuted and knocked unconscious.
“I’m going to kill you!”
Despite being hit hard by Leo’s kick, Blonsky’s enhanced body allowed him to recover quickly. Enraged by the perceived insult, he drew a tactical knife from his boot and charged at Leo again.
But Leo had no intention of engaging in a hand-to-hand fight with him. He pulled out the Elder Wand from his mission space and pointed it at Blonsky, casting a spell.
“Verraverto.”
A blue light shot out and hit Blonsky, who was mid-attack with his knife.
*Clang!* *Ribbit, ribbit!*
Blonsky’s tactical knife clattered to the ground as he transformed into a toad, croaking in fear as he turned and hopped away from Leo.
When a living being is transfigured by a spell, they adopt the basic instincts of the creature they’ve become. Just as a table turned into a pig would behave like a pig, a human turned into an animal would adopt that animal’s instincts.
Leo had transfigured Blonsky into a toad, so he now had the instincts of a toad—seeing a human, he instinctively turned to flee.
“Let’s see if the Super Soldier Serum makes any difference.”
Leo followed the toad-Blonsky, keeping track of the time.
He was using Blonsky as a test subject for his magic, gathering data that would help him in future battles against different types of enemies.
The duration of a Transfiguration spell varies depending on the target and the transformation. The larger the original form and the greater the difference in size after transformation, the shorter the duration. More complex transformations also have shorter durations.
For example, with Leo’s current ability, turning a matchstick into a needle might last half an hour, while turning a cupboard into a table might last only ten minutes, and a cupboard into a telescope only five minutes.
Transforming a human is even more difficult, and the duration is usually shorter.
From his previous experiments in the small world, Leo knew that turning an ordinary Muggle into a toad lasted about thirty seconds, while transforming the dark wizard Old Manu into a toad lasted only one second.
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