Volume 4: The Sea and the Ship Heading North Chapter 176: The Big Pit
The raging flames instantly engulfed the entire main hall of the Ministry of Magic!
As the political center of the entire French wizarding world, the Ministry of Magic is of course under sufficient protective magic.
But Tony and his team had identified the weak points of the entire building from the very beginning, and used the most unacceptable form of dark magic, sacrificing their own bodies to multiply the effect of the explosion spell.
The Aurors' bodies continuously glowed with the protective light of the Armor Spell, but the terrifying power of the explosion shattered their defenses the moment they came into contact!
Five Aurors were turned into gas on the spot, but they were not the ones most severely affected.
The stone pillars that supported the entire structure of the Ministry of Magic collapsed with a loud bang. The entire hall was flashing dangerous red lights. Those ancient protections could not withstand such a powerful force. Dust and stones began to fall from the ceiling. The Ministry of Magic was already showing signs of imminent collapse!
Of the seven or eight Aurors who were still alive, some were supporting their teammates who were wailing in pain while holding their broken limbs, while others had already waved their staffs and used Apparition to escape from this deadly area in panic.
Tony and the other seven have disappeared.
This explosive spell of unprecedented power took effect at such a close distance that they had already sacrificed their lower bodies and had no chance of dodge at all.
Just like the five Aurors who were vaporized, their bodies have also returned to the world.
Obviously, even their deaths were planned before they came. There were only seven of them, and even if they sacrificed every part of themselves, they would not be able to kill many pure-blooded lackeys.
But if the Ministry of Magic could be destroyed less than a week after Voldemort took power in France, it would be enough to show the will of Muggle wizards.
Perhaps some people are afraid of death and silently accept a miserable future, but there must be people who would rather die than give up their dignity and freedom as human beings!
The Muggle residents around the Square Montmartre had not yet fallen asleep from the previous noise for long when an even louder explosion sounded in their ears!
Along with the explosion, the ground began to shake continuously. Their houses were shaking, making many people mistakenly believe that they had experienced an earthquake.
Residents in their pajamas ran out of their houses in panic, and then they stood there in a daze.
The originally empty Montmartre Square has now completely disappeared!
There was only a huge hole left where the square had originally been!
The brave and fearless Muggles walked to the edge of the giant pit and stretched their heads to look inside. Through the dust that had begun to dissipate, they could vaguely see a pile of building debris and an owl struggling to escape from the ruins. It was smashed to pieces by the stones like a living thing, but the legs, seat and back of the chair bounced together again and were assembled into a complete chair.
There was also a monster that looked like both a wolf and a human, crawling out of the ruins covered in blood, howling at the sky. Beside him were many broken tea sets and teapots, searching for the other half of their bodies and trying to reassemble them.
The Muggles who saw this were all stunned.
What shocked them even more was that several sonic booms like whips lashing the air were heard, and seven or eight strange men in black robes, some with missing limbs, crying and bleeding, appeared beside them.
Their clothes were all tattered, some of them could not even cover the vital parts of their bodies. Some people hesitated and wanted to go up to them to ask if they needed any help, while others had already gone home and picked up the phone to call the police.
Then, countless sonic booms exactly the same as before sounded around.
Wizards in robes appearing around the huge pit. When they saw the pile of ruins in the pit, everyone's face looked extremely ugly.
Still maintaining Roland's appearance, Bella looked gloomily at an Auror who was supporting a companion with a broken leg, and she had no intention of caring about the casualties of these people at all.
"You'd better explain to me what happened right now!"
The Auror's face was very nervous, his lips were pale and bloodless, and he stammered.
"Yes, some Mudbloods suddenly attacked the Ministry of Magic. We wanted to kill them on the spot, but they released an explosive spell..."
"Where was the explosion located?" Bella stared at him grimly, as if if his answer did not satisfy her, she would raise her wand and take the Auror's life in the next second!
"In the main hall!" The Auror swallowed and said, "We didn't let them break into the back, just in the main hall!"
Bella breathed a sigh of relief at this time.
The underground structure of the French Ministry of Magic is layered, just like the British Ministry of Magic.
The main hall is located in the middle of the floor, and the part of the floor between the main hall and the ground is occupied by departments such as the Department of Magical Law Enforcement, the Werewolf Liaison Office, and the Department of International Magical Cooperation. Although these departments are important, their importance is only reflected in their responsibilities.
The truly critical Department of Mysteries, the Department for the Regulation and Control of Magical Creatures, and the Department of Magical Transportation are all on the floors below the main hall.
In this way, even if the main hall collapses, it will not cause too horrific losses.
Bella didn't feel sorry for the property of these French wizards, but now the entire French Ministry of Magic has been completely transferred to Voldemort's hands. She didn't want the benefits that she and her people had spent so much effort to fight for their master to be destroyed in vain.
But even so, the current situation is unacceptable.
Voldemort had been in office as Minister of Magic for less than a week when the Ministry of Magic, the center of the French wizarding world, was half destroyed, which must have dealt a great blow to his prestige.
This will not have any impact on the final result, but it will definitely stimulate those Muggle wizards who continue to resist, and add more obstacles to France entering the era of pure-blood superiority.
Just as more and more employees of the Ministry of Magic rushed here overnight, the handsome man appeared silently beside Bella.
He looked at the huge pit, with no expression of like or dislike on his face.
Then he raised his hand and pointed his wand at the werewolf who had escaped from the collapsed werewolf liaison office and was still howling madly in the ruins. A dead green light shot out from the tip of his wand.
The next moment, the werewolf who survived the disaster fell to the ground silently.
"The Accidental Magic Reversal Team, the Memory Deletion Command, and the Muggle Mediation Committee will deal with the Muggles around here, take them away, and then erase all memories of tonight. Aurors will now cast Confusion Charms and Muggle Repelling Charms around the square to prevent new Muggles from approaching."
