harry potter book of crimes

To be honest, Maka flew a little unscrupulously today because he felt that he might have to rush for time.

Although it was already dark in London, it was still bright in New York. When Maka passed over the city with a disembodiment spell, she also caught a glimpse of a group of Aurors apparating in the shadows on the street corner.

Obviously, they have been very busy during this period.

After all, the Obscurial Ones are still very powerful in their destructive capabilities. If they were flying in the air, they would be nothing more than a group of black fireworks. But if they wanted to dig through walls and dig into the ground, the Muggles would have no fun.

It's grown up.

"...Oh, I remember, they are called 'No-Majs' in the United States?"

Maka muttered casually, while increasing the flying speed by another level, heading straight towards the north of New York.

His destination was the River Edge area of ​​New Jersey that came from Joshua's mouth.

Not long after, he suddenly turned around, grabbed the magic book at his feet, jumped directly from the sky, and landed on a bare lawn.

The more magic spells are cast on a building, the easier it is for complex magic waves to spread. If you don't pay attention, Maka will naturally not be able to find it at once, but now he has obtained it from Joshua.

Approximate location.

When he was close to the ground, he instantly waved his staff downward, and a majestic updraft quickly offset his falling speed.

And when Kankan landed smoothly, he walked straight towards the empty front.

"This should be the right place."

Maka stretched forward his left hand that was not holding the staff and groped for a while in the air. After a few minutes, he seemed to have grabbed something and gently pulled it out.

Then he took a step forward without hesitation and submerged into an invisible barrier like a fish entering water.

In fact, it would definitely be faster to use some brute force cracking methods, but in fact, Maka also needs this barrier to help him cover up, lest the American Aurors arrive too quickly and affect what he wants to do.

After entering the barrier, on the empty lawn in front of him, there was immediately a small private manor that was not too large but was quite luxurious in decoration.

"There are quite a lot of magic spells arranged..." Maka crossed the iron gate directly in front, sensed the big house inside from a distance, and thought to herself, "It's not too troublesome."

In this manor, not only defensive magic is solidified on the buildings, but also many warning spells are cast in the front garden. However, in Maka's view, these spells are not out of the normal scope, and it is difficult to crack them.

It won't take too much effort.

At present, the other party still has hostages in their hands, and he doesn't want to alert them by being too rough. If someone threatens him with the girl named "Zoe", should he take action? Or should he not take action?

Woolen cloth?

"...If we really get to that point, let's talk about it later!"

Maka pointed the staff in her right hand toward the iron gate. As a wave of magic power vibrated forward, the door opened silently in the blink of an eye.

He looked around, and after making a little judgment, he stepped forward step by step.

It was during the few steps Maka took that his entire body began to enter an Animagus transformation very quickly. After only three or four steps, his huge body suddenly shrunk into an inconspicuous one.

The hummingbird suddenly flew into that condition.

Although the warning spells in the garden are quite complicated, within Maka's sensing range, the threads and symbols composed of magic appear quite clear.

Yes, whether it is clever analysis or forced destruction, it is a way to break into it. But other than that, there is also a way to selectively avoid this method.

Maka's Animagus form is surprisingly small and can hover extremely stably in the air. Except for a few of the spells that exist in the form of "faces", he can almost get through them directly.

No matter how familiar you are, cracking will always take a certain amount of time, but avoiding them can save you some time-consuming steps.

But I saw that little hummingbird jumping up and down rapidly in the garden. Although it occasionally paused for tens of seconds or a minute or two, it kept flying forward most of the time.

Not long after, Maka came to a window on the first floor of the manor.

After he returned to his human form, the staff tapped directly on the window frame. The moment the spell was quietly broken, the window suddenly opened, and he nimbly turned over and got in.

Once inside the house, movement will be much smoother. After all, no one will set too many spells in an interior that needs to be moved around frequently.

After applying another magic spell to herself, Maka walked quickly along the corridor.

It seemed that there were quite a few people staying in the room, because he could actually sense the rather unusual fluctuations in magic power. But most of those people stayed in the room honestly—some stayed together in several groups, and some stayed together.

But there were only one or two people.

Maka didn't know why the old wizard Lenny distributed it like this, but he knew that those strange magic fluctuations must be from the Obscurus.

As for the two people he was looking for, one was an ordinary witch named Zoe, and the other was a dark wizard named Lenny. This meant that he only needed to find normal magic power fluctuations.

It's obviously not difficult for him, is it?

Maka walked around the house. He didn't see any of the Obscurials controlled by the old wizard, and every corridor seemed a little empty.

Even though those people were in the room, no one dared to leave their room casually, which showed that the old wizard's control over them was still very firm.

"You put a lot of thought into it, right?" Maka stood in front of a descending staircase, looking at the underground floor submerged in darkness, and silently muttered to herself, "After preparing for so long, it is natural to want to do it properly.

It’s not surprising to have a big fight.”

The vast majority of powerful dark wizards also have their own beliefs. But this belief always deviates from the order, which can cause all kinds of disasters.

Although Maka disagrees with their intentions, their firm belief is still worth affirming.

Now that you have chosen your own path, you can only believe in yourself and keep going. The scenery ahead of the magical journey is usually unknown.

The only thing to blame is that they took the wrong path from the beginning, that's all.

Maka just paused for a moment, letting herself be more vigilant, and quickly walked into the darkness under the stairs.

This was a Z-shaped stone staircase. After turning a few turns, some faint light came from below. When Maka walked across a platform again, he saw some low-brightness torches.

Side stone wall.

The flames on those torches were cold blue flames, still swaying slightly in the windless underground. Maka knew that those magic flames were swaying so much because of the flow of magic power.

From the direction in which the flames swing, we can know that there seems to be something interesting hidden underneath, which is constantly absorbing the magic power in the air, forcing them to flow in the same direction.

Maka turned her head and looked at the flames, but her feet did not stop at all. Soon she stepped onto a long underground corridor.

From here on, the number of curse traces began to increase significantly. Maka moved forward carefully. At first, she untied a few trap curses, and later she simply turned into Ani again.

The Magus form passed directly through the gap in the corner.

There were very few rooms on both sides of this corridor, and a stone door would appear after a long distance. Behind those stone doors were mostly empty rooms. Maka cracked several of them in succession, and then she was too lazy to open them and observe.

Thinking about it, this is only the second stronghold after all. The old wizard just moved from the mirror space of the monastery not long ago, so naturally he will not use all the places so quickly.

"Well?"

Maka, who was flying forward, suddenly stopped in mid-air. After he sensed the space in the stone door next to him again, he released his Animagus form.

And in the next second, as if he no longer wanted to conceal his existence, he pointed at the stone door with the staff in his hand.

"boom!"

The powerful crushing spell burst out, completely blowing the thick stone door into pieces, and even the magic spell attached to it was destroyed.

When stone chips were flying, he walked in against the rising dust, and immediately caught a glimpse of the slender figure with his hands hanging in the air.

Other than that, there is nothing else in this underground stone chamber.

"Looking at her clothes and appearance, she should be the Zoe described by Joshua, but..." Maka quickly stepped forward and stretched out her hand to check, "...as expected, the magic power collapsed and she died?"

He suddenly waved his staff, and a black skull flew straight at the woman, but passed through the woman's body easily and dissipated behind her.

"……Hopeless."

Maka frowned, thought for a moment, then turned around and walked out.

As Dumbledore said, don't pity the dead too much, because the living are more in need of help. Now he must go to the source of the abnormal flow of magic power as soon as possible, and maybe he can gain something.

To put it bluntly, even the Obscurials here are not bad guys. What he is looking for is just the culprit that caused all this to happen.

But just as he walked to the door, a strange wave spread from the depths of the corridor outside. The magic power in the air that had been continuously flowing inside suddenly increased in speed at this moment.

"...What exactly happened?"