Volume 7: A World with Bad Consequences Chapter 478 Big Fish
John, who was still in the Department of Mysteries, had no idea what happened at Carrow Manor.
He was still conducting a detailed reconnaissance of all the magical items in the Time Hall one by one, and those pure-bloods who stayed here were gathered together by Slughorn on the pretext of holding a banquet, so no one would disturb John at this time.
As the time entered the second half of the night, Jon had already checked all the hourglasses in the Time Hall and even absorbed some of the more suspicious magic to see if he could open the door.
But without exception, all of them failed.
In the end, Jon could only focus his attention on the bird ornament, which was the most conspicuous thing in the entire time hall because it was more obvious than the hourglasses that were constantly ticking away.
At first, Jon didn't look into it carefully because it was too conspicuous, so conspicuous that if someone just came to the Time Hall, it would definitely be the first thing they noticed.
According to common sense, if you really want to use something in this room to make a key to open the door, you generally won't choose such a conspicuous item.
But Jon really couldn't think of anything else suspicious in the room, and it was possible that Voldemort used the most dangerous place as the safest place.
So Jon focused on the bird-shaped ornament and began his own research.
To be honest, this is actually an alternative hourglass, but it does not express the passage of time according to the movement of certain objects like an hourglass, but rather shows the advancement and regression of time through the bird hatching from an egg and then retreating from a bird back into an egg.
At first glance, you might feel that it is magical, but after careful observation, Jon discovered that this bird ornament actually does not have any deep magical secrets.
The bird that hatched from the egg was just an ordinary bird specimen, and although the liquid that contained it was a special potion, its effect was only a potion that helped objects transform, and there was nothing more profound about it.
The only thing to note is that the egg from which the bird hatched is a real and living egg.
The medicine in the ornament is constantly helping it to change, and the form of this change is the process of a bird breaking out of its shell. Then the change effect ends, and the bird evolves and degenerates back into an egg.
The egg was not affected from beginning to end. It was still a living egg. It was just that the transformation potions that wrapped it, while causing it to undergo magical changes, also suppressed its actual hatching.
Jon stared at the ornament in front of him for a long time. He did not easily absorb the magic power contained in it. On the one hand, it was because the strength of the magic power absorbed by the gem in his ring had reached a limit. On the other hand, he always felt that he could not destroy this thing violently, as that would lead to very bad consequences.
Just as Jon was trying various things with the ornament, he suddenly discovered that it was not completely embedded in the table. There was a loose buckle under the table, which allowed him to remove it smoothly from the table.
“Crack!”
The crisp sound echoed in the quiet time hall. Jon easily took the ornament off the table. At the same time, he could see a hole under the base that could be used to open it!
This is a very important discovery. Generally, after this kind of thing is made, there should be no need to open it again. Just like the other hourglasses in the Time Hall, none of them are designed with a way to take out the sand normally.
But this bird-shaped ornament is an exception.
Without much hesitation, Jon turned the ornament upside down and opened it from the bottom.
The moment he opened it, the transformation of the egg into a bird in the potion suddenly stopped. Then, like water drops on a hot pot, the transformation potion evaporated quickly and disappeared in the blink of an eye. Only the lonely egg was left inside.
Jon tilted the cylindrical transparent tube and took out the egg. It was only the size of a normal bird egg . It didn't look like anything special on the outside, but one could clearly feel that there was a tiny life still alive inside.
After weighing the egg and observing it for a moment, Jon tried to bring it to the door that was not easy to be found.
There was no special phenomenon at first, but Jon soon discovered that every time he brought the egg close to the door, there would be a concave area in the lower middle of the door!
This discovery immediately made him excited. He held the egg and carefully moved it close to the concave position. When he completely attached the egg to the door, a round hole appeared at that position that could perfectly fit the egg.
Jon accurately inserted the egg into the hole, and in the next second, the door that had been tightly closed seemed to be given a special kind of magic by the egg, and then it gently opened inward to create an entrance for people to enter and exit!
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"Get up! Get up quickly!"
Amid the roars around him, Lucius pulled up an Auror whose arm and leg had been blown off.
He knew this Auror. He was a half-blood backbone who Lucius had commended when he was still the director of the Auror Office at the Auror Command. At that time, he had encouraged the young man to work hard and said that a bright future was waiting for him. But now he was dying, breathing more out than in.
Lucius didn't care whether he lived or died. He needed to know the information of these people outside. He wanted to know how many people were sent by Wu Pingxian and who was their leader!
"Tell me! How many people did you see? How many of them ate up their team!"
The Auror team is usually composed of three people, and now next to this Auror with a broken arm and leg are the bodies of his other two teammates!
"Six... there are six people..."
Blood foam kept gushing out of the corners of his mouth, and he reported to Lucius in a weak and dying voice.
Such news made Lucius's already ugly face even darker. He angrily threw the Auror, who was already on the brink of death, back to the cold ground.
Six people surrounded three, which meant that the people sent by the Wizarding World this time were definitely more than the Aurors guarding here. And after the unexpected attack at the beginning, coupled with the Weasley Ball's quick and swift killing methods, many Aurors died in the killing curse and explosion before they even saw the enemy!
Originally, Lucius thought that the Aurors might have just been dispersed, and actually still retained a lot of manpower, so he could take over the command. With the addition of these pure-bloods who came out later, there might be a chance to maintain the situation and then wait for the magic world's detection network to discover the situation here and wait for support.
But now I can't hold on at all!
When Lucius ran down from the manor with the pure-bloods, the Aurors who had retreated from the wall into the yard had already suffered heavy casualties. The situation now had fallen into a completely defeated street fight. The people of the Wizarding Horizon were not in a hurry to rush directly to the place where the pure-bloods gathered and wipe them out in one fell swoop. Instead, they eliminated the remaining Aurors who were still lingering one by one and eliminated the Ministry of Magic's manpower.
Obviously, this is the best solution for Moody's.
Almost all means of leaving the manor have been blocked, with only one Floo network that is accessible to one person. It doesn't matter even if a few more pure-bloods escape. The more of these rubbish that only dare to run away and not fight escape, the better it will be for the attack behind the Wizard Horizon. Those who dare to stay and resist will all be eliminated, including the remaining Aurors in the manor.
The Wizarding World has no intention of completely wiping them out. The situation has come to this point. Anyone who is not a fool can see that if they continue to resist, they will basically die. It is not certain how loyal these half-bloods are to the current Ministry of Magic, because after all, Voldemort's rule over Britain has only been less than twenty years. Twenty years is not enough for the old people who have experienced the previous wizarding system to die, nor is it enough for newcomers who have received brainwashing education to completely replace all positions.
So after hearing the people from the Witch Line advancing forward and shouting "Throw away your wands and you won't be killed", many half-bloods threw their wands to the ground without much ideological struggle, and then squatted down with their heads in their hands.
The wands of all the Aurors who gave up resistance were broken, and they were temporarily placed in the rear. Two teams were left to guard, while Moody led the rest to continue advancing deeper into the manor.
The purebloods led by Lucius were hiding less than twenty meters away from Moody!
They were separated by a ten-meter-wide open-air hall, in which was placed the Magic Brothers Fountain, which had previously been placed in the Ministry of Magic. The Carrow family secretly retained this precious antique and placed it in their own home.
Lucius and his men hid in a corner in front of the hall. He had served as the director of the Auror Office for a good reason. Based on his rich experience, he judged the progress of Moody and his team and found that they were not far away from their group. As for whether there were other people behind them and where they were if there were, he no longer cared.
It was not that he could not guess Amycus's little thoughts. If there were other people behind, they would definitely run into those who left with Carlo's family, and that would be none of his business.
"We only have this one chance!"
Lucius stared at all the purebloods present and said with a fierce look.
"Whether we live or die depends on whether we dare to fight! They want to surround the entire manor. To form such an encirclement, the personnel must be dispersed! According to normal practice, they will arrange two teams, that is, six people in a group, and each group will be no more than 30 meters apart, and then continue to compress the space inwards!"
"At this point, the distance between the two groups should be less than 20 meters. No matter how fast they are, they can only gather everyone within 50 meters in a short period of time, which means three groups with a total of 18 people. We have far more people than them now. As long as the action goes smoothly, we still have a good chance of rushing out!"
Lucius' words inspired the surrounding purebloods. If it was true as he said, then there was indeed a good chance.
But in fact, there are some possibilities that Lucius did not say directly. Generally, this kind of encirclement will not have only one layer. The innermost layer is now a group of 20 meters. If an experienced person leads the team, there will definitely be two more layers of "big nets" arranged along the 20-meter gap on the outside. So once they really attract the attention of these wizards on the Wizarding Horizon, there will definitely be more than three groups of 18 people encircling them.
But now is the time when the purebloods need morale and confidence. Lucius will certainly not tell such a truth. He can only hope that everyone here has a strong desire to survive, then maybe a miracle will happen.
In the distance, the voice that was constantly shouting through the loudspeaker spell, asking the Aurors to put down their wands and surrender, was getting closer and closer. Through the Magic Brotherhood Fountain, Lucius could vaguely see the figures of the two Wizard Horizon teams, and he gave the order to charge!
"rush!!!"
The purebloods around were on full alert, and the moment they heard Lucius' voice, the desire to survive occupied the minds of all of them, so they raised their wands without hesitation!
"Avada Kedavra!"
"Fainted!"
Those who could use the Killing Curse naturally used it without hesitation, while the pure-bloods who had not yet learned the Killing Curse and knew that they could not kill anyone even if they used it used the Stunning Curse instead.
Almost in an instant, green and red lights intertwined in the hall!
At the same time as the spell was released, the purebloods, led by Lucius, rushed out of the corner where they were hiding, using the Magic Brotherhood Fountain as a cover, and began to attack the Wizard Horizon team!
The target they chose was very clever, this group of six people happened to be the team led by Moody and Tonks!
The moment he heard the sound of the killing curse, Moody's experience as a professional Auror came into play. He shouted "Get Down" and at the same time waved his wand and used Transfiguration to immediately transform a stair railing in front of him that was shattered in the explosion into an iron shield across the ground!
Killing curses and stunning spells hit the shields like raindrops, and Moody had roughly estimated the number of people in Lucius' group from the density of the spells.
Now that the Aurors have been completely cleared out, there is only one kind of person who can organize such a resistance force in the manor!
Moody knew that they had encountered a big fish!
