HP X LOTM : Please Call Me Mr. Error.

Before anyone could practically react, even Mr. X whose grazed soul was blaring a siren in his mind about the upcoming danger, failed to react to Loki's actions.

For you see, in a bid to figure out how he would fight out Voldemort should the situation arise, Loki figured it was of prime importance to find out a method that he could use to skip Voldemort's danger premonition.

And so a new method was born.

With the flick of his hand, Loki launched a spell from his wand wordlessly.

'Mens Velox Acus!!'

A hurling mass of electricity condensed around an icy needle that spun at speeds that made it look like a drill was launched at Mr. X.

For a second, as the needle slowly travelled in his direction, Mr. X became confused regarding why his danger premonition hadn't worked.

But Loki wasn't done yet!

With a simple crisp *snap* of his fingers the visible projectile turned invisible by dithering away into a hazy mist before a million more appeared randomly in all parts of the house, surrounding Mr. X in an umbrella of them.

Fleur's eyes widened when she looked at the spell. Her instincts as an assassin blared at her when she saw it all. It felt like she was surrounded by a minefield where even a single step would take her life and blow her to smithereens.

Mr. X however was visibly confused.

Multiple projectiles surrounded him, and yet his Abyss pathway companion didn't react to it at all.

All this was only possible because of a simple trick Loki had developed as a countermeasure to Voldemort's abilities.

It was a trick to hide his intentions.

Loki was performing a theft.

But this theft wasn't of another person's belongings or even thoughts.

It was a theft of his own intentions!

The first layer of this trap was to steal his thoughts so that he himself wouldn't realise what he was thinking about.

But then how did he act without thinking? Especially creating such an elaborate setup which definitely required him to calculate his intentions before hand?

That was an even simpler trick-

Loki simply layered a layer of indirection onto his actions.

Since Loki's spell, Velox Acus was one that he had made on his own, Loki redirected his spell to himself as a blessing through the Sefirah Castle!

And just like he'd allowed Hermione to divine by leaving behind an illusion of his in the Sefirah Castle, Loki blessed his spell using a different illusion!

This allowed him to use the anti-divination and anti-tracking abilities of the Sefirah Castle to his advantage which allowed him to hide his intentions and act without revealing any thoughts about attacking Mr. X since all he was doing was asking for a blessing from the Error God.

So while Mr. X was dumbfounded about why his sirens weren't blaring in spite of the dangerous-looking spell, he quickly used his defensive ability- Black Armour!

Mr. X instantly grew to become three meters tall, as a suit of medieval-looking black armour instantly shrouded his entire body, covering everything including his head, leaving for the world only two glowing crimson eyes that peered at them all through the inevitable darkness that fell around him in cascades.

Loki whose spells were all lined up and hidden strategically with illusions, only smiled simply before launching his spell at full speed, lazily with a simple flick of his wand.

Mr. X didn't remain quiet as he stretched his hands and opened his palms, causing the lengthy shadows swaying around him to flicker before coming together to condense into a boxy wall of shadows that was about a foot thick in all directions around him.

But Loki's smile only grew wider when he saw what Mr. X had done.

This wasn't due to overconfidence in his spell to break through the walls that Mr. X had created, in fact, it was the opposite. Loki knew quite well that his spell would never be able to break through such a thick wall of sludgy shadows unless he overpowered it with a bunch of spirituality.

However, he was confident that his spell could bypass the wall.

It was because of the modification he had made to his simple base Velox Acus spell.

The new spell's incantation was Mens Velox Acus!

Mens meant mind in Latin and this spell was just that, this spell was one which acted purely on the domain of the mind. It was a spell that Loki had invented based on his Sequence 5 Dream Stealer abilities.

Since the spell acted on the domain of the mind, Loki's new spell acted through the subconscious sea of the Body of Heart and Mind.

It only required access to the target's sea of subconscious after which the spell would wreak up a storm, a tsunami and a disastrous earthquake all at once inside their mind.

And since Mr. X had never protected his mind, Loki had already grabbed an anchor that isolated Mr. X's island in the sea of subconscious.

Loki had grabbed onto the thought which was sent to Mr. X's subconscious to warn him about the previous attack!

Since the spell wasn't physical, the spell would never come in contact with the shadow walls that Mr. X had set up.

They would bypass them and directly attack Mr. X's body of heart and mind.

Loki knew this and hence pretended that this spell was a purely physical spell and used this information to swindle Mr. X into protecting his physicality while leaving his mental defences wide open.

With another flick of Loki's wand, all the spinning needles of lightning and ice *buzzed* at a high pitch, catching fire, as they were launched right at Mr. X with a sudden *BANG*, further playing into the fake belief that the spells were all physical spells.

The butler who was close to Mr. X, assumed he was going to get caught up in the ability and hence quickly flicked open the lid of a matchbox and then closed it.

This was an action he amplified.

Like the box was sealed, the butler sealed himself away from the world, protected by an invisible barrier that bent space around himself to keep him away from the needles.

Yet even the butler had failed to account for the proximity of his island in the sea of subconscious to Mr. X's island.

Everyone else in the room watched with bated breath, waiting to see who would win, would it be Mr. X with all his defences and the butler with his own defences or would it be Loki's spells that seemed to be hidden behind layers of illusions and misdirections.

Fleur tightened her grip on her thin thread strands to make sure that in case anyone remained alive after the clash, she could take them out when they were down.

Meanwhile, Sirius did what he could to break through the defences of his two enemies-

He sang a poem!

With his spirituality primed and ready to vibrate outside his body to produce words, Sirius was ready to attempt to pull Mr. X and the butler into a sharp dream at the opportune moment!

He assumed that distracting them for even a single second would give Mr. World the opportunity to attack them in an even harsher way.

Loki simply smiled when he noticed all this.

And as such, the long-awaited clash finally happened.

The illusory spinning needles finally clashed against the invisible barrier around the butler and the shadowy walls around Mr. X.

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