HP - Shadow Monarch!

Chapter 44 - Third Week Begins.

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Third Person POV

Hogwarts.

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Snape returned to his dormitory without bothering anyone else and waited to complete his daily mission. After all, he hadn't done his exercises today and wanted to test something, now that his stats were even stronger than the first time he received the system's punishment.

As soon as he completed the schedule, he found himself in another area while his room began to disappear, giving way to a desert full of sand. It didn't take long for the ground to explode with a huge serpent emerging from it, its target none other than Snape.

He looked at it with a much calmer expression than the last time he was here. "It's good to see you again, little snake," Snape mocked, looking at the creature staring at him with fierce eyes.

The next moment, it lunged at Snape, who quickly moved as it buried its fangs in the ground, causing an explosion with the impact of its head. Meanwhile, Snape had jumped 10 meters high, landing on the creature's head.

He drew his wand and transfigured it into a dagger, a skill he had learned almost a week ago, creating a blade of pure iron. He began to run towards the front of the giant snake as it started to lift its head from the sand.

The pain in the next moment caught it by surprise as Snape leapt to its right side and drove the dagger into its eye. The creature froze, but not finished, Snape jumped back and cast Bombarda, the telekinesis explosion completing the job of destroying the eye.

The explosion made the creature let out an even louder scream of pain as it thrashed its head with one blind side. Snape fell to the ground again, satisfied that he had at least blinded the creature, which would make its pursuit much harder.

It seemed even more furious, with sand rising behind it, its enormous tail whipping upwards and crashing down towards Snape. He quickly dodged, the impact with the ground throwing him away while he was suspended in the air, but landing smoothly.

"Come and get me," Snape challenged as it roared with its enormous fangs and lunged at him, and he began to run at high speed.

It continued to attack him, while he dodged, contrasting with before, not even seeming to tire. His gaze returned upwards, to the sky, where there was a countdown for him to leave.

For the next few hours, he continued evading the one-eyed creature as it tried to kill him with all its might, but without success until the countdown finally ended. A beeping sound followed, with the entire space disappearing, and he found himself back in his room with sand scattered everywhere.

Snape wiped his brow as he saw himself a bit sweaty from what he had just gone through. "I managed to sweat a little, but it's much better than last time." He nodded in satisfaction, receiving the system bonus he sought from this punishment.

[You have received a full recovery card. Would you like to use it?]

He clicked no, letting the card fall into his inventory, almost like a second life he used the first time on that bus.

After seeing that he achieved exactly what he planned, he closed the system. Grabbing his wand, he began to cast a spell to remove all the sand from his bed, leaving the place clean.

With that, Snape decided to sleep. He woke up to start his new week of classes. He left the school as usual and did his exercises. Today he had Herbology class. As he returned to the castle, he noticed the man who took care of the grounds near the lake, Hagrid, crying as he placed a tombstone next to his house, saying things like 'Poor Horny... died so young...' Snape ignored this, also noticing even Hagrid's dog beside him looked sad.