While Tom was thinking that, the Nundu charged forward, carrying a thick cloud of poisonous gas with it.
Before long, another three wizards died beneath its claws and poison.
The bloody scene made Anne and Nagini avert their eyes, unable to continue watching.
Only the final wizard had cast a clearly modified Bubble-Head Charm on himself in advance, preventing the poison from killing him.
But the Nundu was ferocious, and he could only struggle to keep fighting with the limited oxygen inside the Bubble-Head Charm.
Clearly, this battle memory belonged to him.
And from what they could see, his combat experience was indeed far greater than that of the others who had already fallen.
Unfortunately, the beast moved far too quickly. He barely had any time to cast, and even when he managed to fire a Killing Curse, he could not hit it.
The Alliance member used the terrain, the knockback effect of a wide-range Banishing Charm, and a fragile Shield Charm to barely keep the Nundu at bay for a long time.
In the end, before he completely ran out of strength, he relied on his calmness and extensive combat experience and adopted a desperate strategy of trading injuries for injuries.
Only then did he finally manage to kill the vicious Nundu with a Killing Curse while already badly wounded himself.
Of course, he paid a terrible price for that victory.
He lost an arm and a leg.
"That was... incredible..." After witnessing such a terrifying battle from beginning to end, everyone present was deeply shaken.
This was what a true life-and-death battle looked like, where a single mistake could mean death.
Clearly, Grindelwald had chosen this particular memory on purpose.
Because that night, Tom had never truly experienced what a real fight to the death felt like, and he had not handled the battle calmly enough.
"Ready, Tom?" Wade suddenly turned toward him with a smile.
"Huh? Ready for what?" Tom asked in surprise.
"Didn't I tell you? This is an improved Pensieve. What you just did, watching the battle from the outside, is only what an ordinary Pensieve can do. Don't you want to see what I improved?"
"No!" Tom refused immediately, without the slightest hesitation.
He had no idea what Wade had changed, but based on instinct and his understanding of Wade...
Whenever Wade smiled like that, something terrible was about to happen to him.
So refusing immediately was clearly the best choice he could make.
"That's not up to you... I'm doing this for your own good."
Wade lightly waved his wand.
Then Tom felt that same dizzy, weightless sensation again.
When he came back to his senses, he realised he was running and had just burst out of a patch of tall grass.
Hearing the rapid footsteps behind him, Tom's face turned green.
Because he had somehow become the Alliance member who was being hunted by the Nundu.
While Tom was still stunned by this sudden change, a sharp pain suddenly exploded across his back.
Then he reappeared beside Wade and the others.
"Tom, why are you so bad at this? You actually got killed instantly?" Wade stared at him in shock, seemingly unable to believe it.
"Huh? This Pensieve can actually let someone enter the memory and personally participate in the battle?" Miravia asked excitedly.
Wade nodded.
"Exactly. A Pensieve already allows someone to experience another person's memories as though they were really there. You can sense what the person saw and heard. So with a few modifications, you can let the person viewing the memory directly inherit all of the original person's sensations."
He continued, "Then, by borrowing a few characteristics of nightmare magic, you can temporarily alter the memory and make the viewer experience it from the memory-holder's perspective."
An ordinary Pensieve could only replay memories without changing what happened.
Wade's Pensieve, however, could temporarily alter them.
Every time the viewer made a different choice while experiencing the memory, it was effectively creating a temporary variation of that memory.
But those temporary changes could be restored immediately afterward, leaving the original memory unaffected.
So the Alliance member Tom had possessed, who had originally killed the Nundu, had now instead been killed almost instantly.
"I... when I 'died' just now, I felt the pain..." Tom looked at Wade in fear.
"Didn't I tell you? You inherit all of the original person's sensations. Naturally, that includes pain."
Wade looked delighted with the results of his invention.
"This is basically the magical version of full-dive virtual reality!"
Tom turned and ran without another word.
But in the blink of an eye, he found himself back inside the memory, once again becoming the wizard being hunted by the Nundu.
Wade's voice echoed beside his ear.
"Good luck! I'll let you out when you can defeat the Nundu too!"
"You bastard!"
After shouting that, Tom once again "died" miserably beneath the Nundu's claws.
Outside the Pensieve, Wade dabbed at nonexistent tears with a tissue.
"Sigh... I don't have a choice, Tom. This is all for your own good. Even if you die ten thousand deaths in there, you'll be the one who benefits in the end..."
Anne and Nagini both took several steps backward at the same time, afraid Wade might throw them into the Pensieve as well and make them experience that same hell firsthand.
"Relax. Those memories were given to Tom by Grindelwald, and I made this Pensieve specifically for Tom. So if you don't want to go in, I won't force you."
Anne and Nagini both sighed in relief, then looked worriedly at Tom's body leaning over the Pensieve.
"He'll be all right, won't he?" Nagini asked.
"Tom's smart, and he already watched the model answer once. He'll definitely be able to get out. Don't worry," Wade said calmly, seemingly without a care in the world.
Miravia looked at him suspiciously.
"You keep stabbing him in the back like this every day... Is Tom really your comrade?"
"Merlin entrusts great responsibilities to those it has chosen..." Wade said "sadly." "It hurts me too, you know."
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