Volume 8: In this Hogwarts without the Dark Lord Chapter 498: The Legacy of Nick Flamel
Bordeaux, France.
On the third day after Christmas this year, life for Muggles was still as usual, without any change, but for wizards in the magical world, the world had changed again.
The news of Dumbledore's defeat and death at the hands of Voldemort had already spread widely. Those wizards who had experienced bloodline rule and knew what the future would hold for Muggle-born wizards had already fled before the British Death Eaters and Aurors even set foot on French soil.
But even if they flee their homeland, they don't have many options. There is basically no choice in the whole of southern Europe. Anyone with a discerning eye knows that Voldemort just lacks time. Once the British Ministry of Magic begins to digest the fruits of victory after this top showdown, all the lands south of France will fall under Voldemort's rule.
There are even rumors that those small Ministries of Magic have already prepared ministerial orders, ready for the British Ministry of Magic officials to lead the pure-bloods to take over power completely.
But if they fled north to Germany or north of Germany, it would be equivalent to returning to the territory of the Wuping Line.
But now Dumbledore is dead. It seems that the Wizarding World has not suffered any large-scale casualties and still has the strength to fight, but in fact it is just like a normal person whose head has been chopped off. Even if the limbs are still there, he is already a dead person.
No one believed that after losing Dumbledore, the Wizarding World would have any effective means of resistance against Voldemort, not even John, who had become famous over the years.
Almost all wizards think that Jon will become a great man in the future, but that is in the future.
But now he no longer has any room for development. It won't be long before all of Northern Europe falls if Voldemort himself takes action, and Europe will completely become a paradise for pure-bloods.
All these Muggle-born wizards who intend to flee have almost no choice but to leave the European continent. But even if they leave Europe and go to America or other places in Asia that have not been affected by the war, will Voldemort's ambition really stop after occupying the whole of Europe?
Every wizard remains deeply skeptical about this.
It was at this time of panic that John quietly appeared on the outskirts of Bordeaux, when the British Aurors returned to France under Voldemort's instructions and began to rebuild his French Ministry of Magic.
This is a public cemetery with special gravekeepers to clean and manage it.
Jon found this place in the dark of night. Apparently there was a heavy snowfall , covering the entire cemetery. The cemetery manager had been trying his best to clean it up these days, but there was still a small part that was buried under the snow.
And Jon's final destination is a cemetery covered by snow.
He saw the name engraved on the grave——【Adrian Fox】
This is the final resting place of the creator of the ring and gem in Jon's hand, Slughorn's old friend, a master of alchemy who did not leave much record in the history of magic.
After Jon arrived at his grave, he did not take any other action but bowed deeply to the tombstone. Then he used Transfiguration to conjure up a broom. Instead of using the cleaning spell directly, he personally cleaned the cemetery for this old man who had provided Jon with more help than anyone else even though they had never met.
After finishing all this, it was already late at night. Then Jon came to the tombstone and began to grope there with his ring-wearing hand. Just as he stretched out a door handle suddenly appeared on the originally ordinary tombstone, which was just right for Jon to hold.
Jon grasped the door handle and opened it. A small secret compartment appeared behind the tombstone. In the bright moonlight, he could clearly see a blue diamond-shaped gem and a note with a red cover lying quietly inside.
Without stopping, Jon took the notes and the last gem from the secret compartment, and finally bowed deeply to the tombstone again. Then, just like when he came, he disappeared silently into the night again.
To be honest, regarding this ring, the first three gems have the greatest impact on Jon. The levitation spell allows Jon to transition to a period when his understanding of magic is the weakest and his own strength is the weakest, while the universal antidote provides Jon with the capital to defeat the strong with the weak, giving him the opportunity to fight back in many fatal situations. Not to mention the Animagus. If Jon hadn't learned this, he would have died many times.
But after that, although John's magic mastered by the gems had improved a bit, the effect was not as obvious as before.
For example, the Shadowless Ability on the fourth gem also played a big role in the battle with Voldemort, but it was far from being indispensable.
Now that he had the last gem, Jon hadn't thought clearly about which spell he would use it for.
However, he did not have time to think about it. The next day after returning from France, Iniesta came back with his results.
And this time, for what he brought, all the senior members of the Order of the Phoenix, including Grindelwald, who was now the military support for the Wizarding World replacing Dumbledore, attended the meeting together.
They also already knew the current situation in the wizarding world and Voldemort's true identity.
In front of them, Iniesta took out a strange time converter.
The surface of the converter was not golden, but had a faint blue hue. There were no pointers on the dial, only a single disk, like a semi-finished product that had not yet been completed.
"You all know my teacher, Nicolas Flamel. He is an alchemist who lived from the Middle Ages to this century. During his long life, he experienced countless innovations in alchemy, including participating in the initial improvement and research of the time converter."
Iniesta's voice turned serious.
"I once heard him talk about this in his laboratory. At that time, he was assigned the task of dealing with space disturbed by time among a group of alchemy masters who were studying time. At that time, some people had already proposed the dangers of time converters. They speculated that if a person went back to the past and killed his past self, would two different worlds appear, or would the future that had already happened be directly changed."
