Volume 4: The Sea and the Ship Heading North Chapter 257 Delaying Time
The dim candlelight flickered in the narrow secret passage.
Dumbledore stared intently at the extremely dense runes on the stone wall. These runes were far more complicated than the stone slab that John got from the tower. Nearly tens of thousands of runes were arranged on the square stone wall, as if providing some kind of protection for the space inside.
Except for the sound of flickering candles, the secret passage was completely silent.
It was unknown how long this silence lasted. Dumbledore looked at the magic words and tapped them with the wand in his hand. From time to time, a dim fluorescent light lit up on the words.
"He's been here..."
Dumbledore whispered softly.
At this moment, a flashing golden-red light suddenly appeared in front of him, and Fox pierced through the barriers that blocked the space in the secret passage.
Dumbledore turned around and looked at Fawkes with a serious expression. Without any verbal communication, he already knew the information that needed to be conveyed.
"There are more than twenty Death Eaters surrounding the students?"
His voice didn't sound nervous at all.
"Have they followed my advice and are they sailing close to the Norwegian coast? How far are they from the northernmost coast of Norway?"
Fawkes tilted his head, as if to convey to Dumbledore something about someone he had discovered.
Dumbledore couldn't help but chuckle and turned around to continue studying the stone wall.
"Since he's here, there's no need for me to go over. He's actually always wanted to see Jon since he enrolled in school."
In the dark secret passage, I returned to the loneliness.
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On the Hogwarts , Jon had no idea what Dumbledore had planned.
But Fox had been gone for a while and had not brought any reply, which made him feel a little uneasy.
"Everyone is petrified!"
The Death Eaters led by Rabastan did not give him any time to wait. Dozens of petrifying spells shot out from the tips of their wands, targeting John on the deck and other students who had just walked out of the cabin!
But their spell had no chance of hitting the deck. When it was still four or five meters away from the entire ship, it was blocked by a film of light in the color of the spell itself.
The protection originally possessed by the carriage was also inherited on the Hogwarts. The variant magic of the Shield Charm was extremely effective in protecting the students.
John and the others were not surprised by this, nor were Rabastan and the others who used spells to attack.
It would be strange if such a magic ship did not have any protection.
It is actually very simple to deal with such protection. The Killing Curse without an antidote can completely ignore all the Armor Curses. However, Rabastan is just arrogant, but not stupid.
Now they just think that this ship is suspicious, and it is normal .
If he ordered everyone to use the Killing Curse directly, then killing everyone on this ship would be meaningless to him and his brother.
The order Voldemort gave them was to find the person who was doing tricks behind the scenes on the sea and capture him alive or kill him. Now they were not sure whether this ship was the one they were looking for, so they naturally could not kill him.
Of course Jon could understand this, but he couldn't gamble on his enemy's sanity.
There are so many students on the ship. What if one of the Death Eaters loses control of himself and uses a killing curse?
Moreover, even the Shield Charm set up by Dumbledore himself has its endurance limit. Once the attacks of these Death Eaters reach saturation point, the spell protecting the entire ship will be shattered.
Therefore, he actually planned a backup plan at the beginning. Jon didn't know what happened on Fox's side and why there was no reply until now, but if he just dragged it out, he still had some ways.
"How long do we have until we reach the Norwegian coast?"
Jon whispered to Fred, who was in charge of controlling the direction beside him, and Fred spoke quickly.
"Two to three hours is enough time for us to reach the shore. It's a deep-water port next to a cliff."
Two or three hours was not a long time, but it was also a short time. Jon took a deep breath, looked at Fred seriously and gave him instructions.
"Then get to the shore as quickly as possible! If they sink the ship on the sea, no one on board will be able to escape! Only by returning to land will there be a chance. I will try to delay them during this time!"
After hearing what he said, not only Fred, but also George and Neville had expressions of disbelief, as if they couldn't accept why things had turned out like this.
"Didn't Fawkes go to see Professor Dumbledore? Why hasn't he come back yet?"
"Perhaps it was blocked by something and failed to find the professor. Or perhaps the professor's current environment made it impossible for him to rush over to help us. But we can't always pin our hopes on the professors."
John turned and looked at Rabastan and the others who were always standing side by side with the Hogwarts. Even if they did not intend to kill people with the Killing Curse, they would not stop there. There was a wave of explosive magic brewing at the tip of each Death Eater's wand.
The best way to deal with the Iron Armor Curse is undoubtedly to use a large-scale blasting attack on every point of its defense in order to consume its saturation.
Even if the Ironclad Charm on the Hogwarts could withstand one or two 20-odd Explosive Curses released at the same time, it could not withstand more than three times. Unless Dumbledore himself was there, the ship's protection could not be maintained at all due to the combined power.
Jon did not wait any longer, he had already explained everything to Neville and the others. The next moment after Rabastan and the others chanted "Thunder Explosion", Jon also grasped the ring that had always been hanging in front of him and absorbed all the magic power on the stone slab. The gem that was already saturated to the point of not being saturated anymore played its due role!
"Stop the curse immediately!"
John's magic power was mobilized by the universal spell to break the curse, but the source of the surging magic power was not the wand in his hand, but the ring that remained cold at all times.
His own magic power triggered the external magic power stored in the second gem, so the effect of the universal spell-breaking was applied to him and amplified infinitely!
The moment the universal antidote was used, John stood on the side of the ship, blocking Rabastan and all the Death Eaters' explosive spells!
This move was even crazier than that of a madman, and made all the Death Eaters open their eyes wide.
No one can withstand so many explosive spells without any defense, not even Dumbledore and Voldemort!
