harry potter book of crimes

This is a tomb chamber.

I mean, it's not a bar that was opened up and reinforced with modern materials like the outside. It's a real tomb that has only undergone ordinary cleaning and was used as a wine cellar.

After clearing away the debris at the door, Maka pushed the door open without hesitation, and then he came to the tomb made only of bricks, stones and soil.

If you can adapt to the dim environment here, it will not be difficult to find that in addition to a large number of wine barrels stacked here, there are even clear marks on the ground after the coffins were removed.

It can be seen that the owner of this "Tomb Bar" did not lie. Presumably a few years ago, this place was really a real underground tomb.

However, this is actually not that important to Maca today.

From the beginning, he just followed the traces of magic power and came here. As for the specific place here, he didn't care at all.

In fact, he now understood that he had indeed found the right place!

Just by closing his eyes for a moment, Maka clearly observed the huge anomaly in this tomb through his perception of magic power.

He can "see" that the magic here is obviously orderly in chaos. They are intertwined with each other like a ball of messed up silk threads, but they are intertwined, curled up and moving extremely smoothly.

From time to time, one or two threads would poke out from inside. They penetrated the walls of the tomb without any hindrance and extended all the way to the outside world. No one knew where their destination would be.

But at least Maka understands - he knows that the thing woven by the many magic threads tangled like a ball of wool is called "bad luck".

But is this really just creating and spreading misfortune?

No, I'm afraid it's not that simple.

However, Maka suddenly took out his staff and drew out a soul rule rune on the spot. Under the rejection of the soul rules, those magic threads were immediately "squeezed" apart, hiding the magic threads. A group of runes in the center were exposed to Maka's perception.

This source of misfortune, which spreads misfortune and leads to the mysterious deaths of many Muggles, is obviously arranged here by a wizard with evil intentions.

And since the dark wizard did this, there must be a further reason.

Otherwise, there is no benefit to be gained from just spreading misfortune and causing death, so why would the other party do it? Is it really just to satisfy their own pleasure?

"Is it to create fear and collect negative emotional energy? Or is it simply to collect the souls of the many dead?"

Based on many black magic materials since ancient times, it is not difficult for Maca to come up with these two most likely conjectures.

"Needless to say, this is probably the 'masterpiece' of that guy Herbo."

Before he finished speaking, he waved the staff in his hand, and the power of soul rules surged away. Although the combination of runes used to create bad luck was special, it was not a regular rune. How could it withstand the real runes? Rules invade.

In just a few seconds, the entire structure was shattered by Maka's soul rules, turning into a sudden burst of chaotic magic waves and disappearing.

The magical threads that had been entangled in the tomb had lost their foundation and soon began to disintegrate.

However, Maka, who quickly solved the source of misfortune, did not just relax.

As far as the observation just now is concerned, although the threads woven with doom look terrible, they are not enough to cause the death of so many Muggles.

In this way, it is not difficult to think that the source of the misfortune obviously does not end here.

After thinking about it like this, Maka naturally didn't want to stay here and waste time anymore.

You know, maybe in the few minutes he was thinking about it, a few more Muggles were suffering from misfortune and lost their precious lives for some boring reasons.

…

Since the afternoon of that day, Maka has devoted himself to the task of eliminating the source of the misfortune. Not only that, in the process of pursuing the misfortune again and again, he has never forgotten to pay attention to the traces that Haierbo may leave.

So far, apart from Haierbo, there are no dark wizards who can do all this and still have such motives.

And he had been immersed in tracking for such a long time, and unknowingly he was busy until the next morning.

To be honest, a whole night of research cannot be said to have yielded anything. But it was the only discovery during this period that made Maka have more doubts in her heart.

Of course, the details start from the moment when Maka first directly saw a Muggle being "entangled" in the thread of doom.

At about two o'clock in the morning, Maka was flying over a street.

It was an ordinary street with only the street lights still on, and on both sides were families who had already slept peacefully. Where the street lights could not reach, the darkness at night became the main color here.

But after all, Maka didn't just rely on his eyes for observation. No matter how dark the environment was, he still found a Muggle man lying there sleeping soundly among the trees in the garden beside the street.

Immediately, Maka, who was passing by at low altitude, turned back and quickly landed next to the bushes.

"I have been just following the traces of the magic thread for so long. I was lucky this time. I found an object that was entangled by the thread..."

With this thought in mind, he stepped over the trees that were not too tall and leaned down to look at the dark grass.

Lying here is a man in pajamas.

I don't know who brought him here, or whether he sleepwalked here on his own. In short, he was either sleeping before he came here, or he must have been on his way to sleep.

And because he was being entangled by the thread of misfortune, Maka was actually not surprised by his current situation - no matter how he got here, it was obviously not surprising.

What Maka cares about most now is actually the state of this man.

After leaning over and checking carefully, Maka discovered that this man was indeed alive and well! The bad luck that befell him for no reason, even though he lay in the bushes in the middle of the night, did not

Let him die miserably.

Well, if he is allowed to continue lying here, the most he will do is catch a cold from the cold tomorrow.

So, will he die next?

Maka straightened up and looked around a few times - he didn't know when this man would die, he only knew that he probably wouldn't die in a short time.

However, when it comes to such things as "luck", there are obviously no signs to follow.

Just as he was thinking this, unexpectedly, the thread of doom wrapped around the man's body suddenly loosened at this moment!

"What?"

Maka watched as the magical thread separated from the man's body bit by bit and dissipated on its own. In just a moment, it lost its original form, leaving only vaguely discernible residual fluctuations in the air.

.

"Is this... the end?"

This is just a product condensed by a combination of runes, and it will not dissipate just because of the appearance of Maka - it has no self-awareness!

In this case, it seems that there is only one answer left.

"Is it possible that I was preconceived from the beginning? In fact, what this misfortune caused was just 'disappearance', not 'death'?"

In Mundungus's report, people disappeared and people died, and the two almost accompanied each other.

But if this misfortune only reaches the level of causing people to disappear, then what is the purpose of Halport doing such a unnecessary thing?

To confuse people? Obviously not.

Because only a small number of wizards can sense magic, and probably only Maka is the one in London. If Haierbo did this, not only would it not mislead Maka, but it would also provide him with traces for free.

clues.

If Haierbo wanted to confuse Maka, then he succeeded, but what's the point?

Maka looked very confused about this, but he didn't worry too much about it. After throwing the man in the bush to the door of a certain house, he followed the remaining magic power fluctuations and continued to do what he wanted.

of cleanup work.

And by continuing this, he reached dawn in one fell swoop.

…

At dawn, Maca temporarily stopped her busy schedule in and around London and returned to St. Mungo's.

No matter how capable he is, he is just a normal person. He also needs rest and sleep to replenish the energy consumption that the magic potion cannot completely replenish.

After sending a sealed letter to the Order of the Phoenix, he returned to the temporary bed in the potion preparation room and slept honestly.

During the few hours he sleeps, Lupine will gradually distribute the investigation work to more members of the Order of the Phoenix.

Although it is difficult for ordinary wizards to track such vague magic fluctuations even if they have alchemical tools, it is still no problem to secretly pay attention to Muggle cases like Mundungus.

The most important thing now is that there are not enough clues, especially those that Haierbo may leave behind.

However, just as some members of the Order of the Phoenix and Maka gradually began to get busy, the last few days of the Christmas vacation seemed to be gradually disappearing.

In the current state, even Maka himself is not sure whether he can go back to teach everyone after school starts.

But what made him even more unexpected was that on the last day of the Christmas vacation, he encountered a powerful wizard whose identity was so suspicious that it was even difficult to distinguish between friend and foe.

If Haierbo is a huge hazard that has already been determined, then this other wizard who suddenly appeared in front of him is a sign of a new danger. (To be continued)