harry potter book of crimes

I don’t know since when, the entire Xibohe Magic Academy suddenly became quiet.

Obviously the breeze blowing in from nowhere is still stirring the treetops, and obviously there are still birds chirping softly in the front yard from time to time. Aren't all these the vitality given by nature?

But if someone is in this school, an inexplicable dead silence will suddenly rush into their heart, making them want to turn around and escape.

Where does this strange feeling come from?

In fact, people are sometimes slower than they think. Especially when they are anxious, their thinking often becomes sluggish.

And only when you slowly adapt to this feeling and calm down, you may find that——

"Oh, it turns out this school is missing two of the most basic elements!"

That's right, if there isn't a single student or teacher in a campus, can it still be called a "school"?

The suddenly deserted Xibohe Magic Academy seems to have lost its soul and meaning. Once people step in, they will soon feel the strange emptiness...

By the way, it's like going to a deserted school during vacation. It won't take long before a sense of strangeness will engulf you in an instant.

Then the problem comes...

Where are all the teachers and students of Xibohe going now?

The answer to this question is actually very simple - they are all in the recently opened large underground secret room, standing next to each other in the shadows.

It is not difficult to see from the pair of eyes that fear and panic are tumbling in their hearts, but they cannot even move a little finger even half a minute.

Without the old man's next order, they would have no choice but to stand stiffly in place until they died.

"Are we... going to die?"

They have been standing in this darkness for a long time. From the anger, panic, worry, and fear at the beginning, to the almost unanimous confusion now.

Most of them have thought about this issue for such a long time.

If we say that everyone is mortal, there is not much choice. But almost every one of them is still young. At this age, who would want to die like this?

But when they all watched helplessly as the formation diagram on the ground in front of them gradually became complete, and watched as the symbols symbolizing terrible things in the formation diagram were added one by one...

The breath of death evaporated with the mystery of magic, and touched the hearts of each of them.

Suddenly, the old wizard who was carefully drawing patterns and lines put aside his pen and carefully checked the entire magic circle several times before nodding slightly.

"come here."

But he suddenly stretched out his hand and pointed, and the male student he pointed at randomly took steps forward involuntarily and walked from the darkness to the torch.

"Stand right there."

The old wizard pointed again and asked the boy to go to a designated position in the magic circle.

"And you, go and stand there...you, on the other side...you..."

This time, he named more than ten people in succession and asked them to stand silently at the corresponding nodes in the magic circle. Before long, there were nearly twenty students standing in the magic circle.

These students are all different in height, short, fat, and thin, and even in age. But if you look carefully, you will find that the younger students are basically on the periphery, while the senior students are mostly near the center of the array.

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As the students filled up the magic circle one by one, the old wizard stopped. And at the next moment, he suddenly waved his skinny hand, and the magic power in his body poured into the mysterious building in an instant.

Magic circle.

Immediately afterwards, the arcs and runes began to glow with a light color, coating the students' robes with a layer of fluorescent green.

They couldn't speak, let alone scream at the top of their lungs. The only thing they could do was to open their eyes wide and express the fear in their hearts with their eyes.

It's a pity that even if they stare out their eyes, the old wizard will not be shaken in any way.

He has been accustomed to this kind of scene since many years ago.

"rise!"

He used this word in ancient Greek, in order to achieve the highest degree of response to magic power. The ancient language of the magic world is highly practical here.

Just as the words had just settled down, the gleaming light green light suddenly burst out with astonishing brightness. At that moment, it was almost blinding to the point of piercing the eyes.

After more than ten seconds, the green light became soft again, as if nothing had happened just now.

But when the students in the magic circle were still in shock, the boy standing in the middle suddenly started to tremble all over.

A lot of foam quickly flowed out of the corners of his mouth, and transparent tears welled up in his eyes. Immediately, the foam between his mouth and nose began to be mixed with blood, and the tears gradually turned a faint pink color.

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When his throat began to beat continuously, his saliva and tears turned completely dark red, and blood began to pour out of his ears on both sides.

At this moment, the eyes of the students in the magic circle showed incomparable fear, and a few girls couldn't help but blush.

But they still couldn't move an inch, they could only watch everything in front of them, and they were constantly worried about whose turn it would be next.

A sense of panic that was stronger than before spread quietly in this underground secret room.

I don't know how long it took, but the student in the middle who was bleeding from all his orifices probably couldn't hold on any longer and fell to the ground with a thud.

However, he still did not stop moving even though he suddenly fell to the ground.

It could be seen that his chest and abdomen were still beating again and again, and large mouthfuls of blood poured out as if endlessly, flowing everywhere in the magic circle.

The light green light emitted by the entire magic circle was gradually dyed a tragic dark red by the blood.

"Hmph, good... very good!" Seeing this, the old wizard couldn't help but sneered, "Then... let's get started!"

After that, he waved his hand again, and several runes flew up from the formation covered with fresh blood, each one shining with blood-colored light.

At the same time, the remaining ten students in the magic circle began to tremble, and a vague "click" sound was made involuntarily in their throats.

"soul!"

In an instant, the old wizard spoke again, chanting in ancient Greek.

And almost at the same time, a shadow suddenly appeared on the student who was lying on the ground and still vomiting blood, and rose up little by little.

"soul!"

He chanted this word again, and then, translucent shadows began to appear on the bodies of other students in the magic circle.

But if you observe it yourself, you will find that the soul shadows on the periphery are obviously more sinister than the one in the middle, almost as scary as hungry beasts.

On the contrary, the true forms of those souls had their eyes slightly closed and their faces were calm, as if they had just fallen asleep temporarily.

At this moment, at that very second...

"Swallow!"

The old wizard pointed towards the middle of the magic circle, and those ferocious soul shadows rushed over. Looking at the scene, it was like directing a group of cruel wild wolves to kill a poor goat.

In just the blink of an eye, one soul was eaten away by other souls, leaving not even a trace of residue behind.

Seeing this, the old wizard nodded with satisfaction, and then waved casually.

Those souls with fierce faces returned to their bodies one after another, and the eyes that were originally closed opened one by one, but the panic in their eyes turned into some kind of violence and greed.

Vaguely, it seems that you can still see slight translucent distortions around its body, which looks extremely terrifying.

When they automatically walked to the other end of the secret room and stood silently, the old wizard stopped looking at them and continued to light up the next batch of students who entered the magic circle for soul transformation.

"You, there...and you, go there..."

Before today, Haierbo had already transformed a small group of people, and it was one of those people who seriously injured Lupine a few days ago.

However, the transformation at that time was done by Haierbo himself one by one. Not only was the efficiency very low, but it was also prone to "inferior products" that were not highly completed.

And now, with such a magic circle here, the improvement in transformation speed in the future will not only be the difference in the number of people transformed each time?

But, to be honest, Haierbo didn't actually want to create such a magic circle.

Due to the extinction of many species, the painting materials he used are now difficult to find, and he currently does not have the time to find modern substitutes for the materials.

As a result, it would be quite laborious for him to draw a magic circle.

When he thought that the ink prepared by the Witte family was originally reserved for demon summoning, Haierbo couldn't help but feel a twinge of pain.

Unfortunately, Sirius caused a chaos for him, which forced him to use it first to stabilize the situation.

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Maka still doesn’t know what Haierbo is currently doing.

Of course, that was Halper's back-up plan that was deliberately hidden. Not even the wizards who were still paying close attention to the Israeli wizarding community knew about it, and it was certainly impossible for him who was far away at Hogwarts to know about it.

But the coded note sent by Lupine and Sirius today made him aware of the chaos last night.

At this moment, Maka was still holding the quill in his hand, working on a series of calculations at his desk. He had been a little tired from work recently, but at least Ron's bad thing made him relax a little.

Suddenly, he suddenly lifted the pen and gently put it back into the ink bottle. After flipping the paper and checking some data, he finally breathed a sigh of relief.

"Is this...complete?" Maka nodded slightly, "At least theoretically it can be said..." (To be continued)