Raven's Claw at Hogwarts

Chapter 402 Time Hall

"Boom!~"

As the sound of a burst of flames reverberated, Mike, Arthur, and several members of the Order of the Phoenix appeared in the magic hall.

It's just that this time the phoenix fire didn't go out like the previous few times, but continued to rotate in mid-air.

Immediately afterwards, as the rotation of the phoenix fire accelerated, the fifty Los Santos wizards brought by Mike had all been swallowed up by the flames one by one.

So far, except for Dumbledore, all members of the night raid have arrived.

And the reason why Dumbledore did not appear here is also one of the plans that everyone had previously discussed.

Dumbledore will not act with the large army, he will hide in the dark and give everyone support in critical moments. Besides, he will not take action in tonight's operation.

Mike expressed his understanding of this very well. Now that Voldemort has not appeared, if he acts directly with the large army, it will easily attract Voldemort to come and attack.

According to what Dumbledore said before, his own strength is not as good as Voldemort's. If he is attacked again, although Dumbledore himself will be fine, the accompanying personnel will be different.

You must know that Dumbledore has no time to take care of them if they are really going to be attacked by surprise. In this way, they will not talk about whether they can weaken the power of the Death Eaters this time, and their own personnel will be greatly reduced.

It's just that Mike is still dubious about Dumbledore's words that he will act in times of crisis. He believes that if he and the members of the Order of the Phoenix are in danger, Dumbledore will definitely act, but if Arthur and the wizards of Los Santos It's not necessarily a case of being in danger. You must know that the two of them had some unpleasant experiences not long ago.

In the magic hall, the wizards of Los Santos who had just landed quickly stood up in a guard formation, and began to observe their surroundings vigilantly. Two senior Aurors, Moody and Tonks, were doing the same thing with them. .

As for Mike and Arthur, the two of them looked at the entire magic hall indifferently. With the strength of the two of them, as long as it wasn't for Voldemort who came tonight, there would be basically no danger.

There is a significant difference between the magic hall at night and during the day. Not only is it silent, but the fountain of 'Magic Brothers', which is composed of centaurs, goblins, witches and wizards in the center of the hall and symbolizes the power of wizards, is still emitting light. There is no light source other than the twilight.

However, the dark environment is not a hindrance to Mike and others. All of them drank the night vision potion provided by Snape before coming here, and now they can see things in the dark except for a little color difference. There is no difference from daytime.

After careful observation, the Los Santos wizards and Moody did not find anyone in the magic hall, and even the security checkpoint, which was usually on duty 24 hours a day, was unattended.

A smile appeared on Mike's face when he saw this, and this strange situation was undoubtedly telling them a piece of information - the Death Eaters had already entered the arena first!

Thinking of this, Mike raised his hand and made several complicated gestures, and then saw all the surrounding Los Santos fighters, including Arthur, pull up the hoods that matched their battle suits, and pressed on his chest Los Santos trademark.

Immediately afterwards, the figures of Arthur and the others gradually faded away, and finally merged with the pitch-black night, almost completely invisible.

"Is this the invisible monster fur coat?"

Moody stared at Mike in shock with his mouth open.

Seeing this, Mike also pursed his lips and nodded. The Galleon he dropped on this wizard army was an astronomical sum. Apart from the conventional combat equipment, he also mixed a large number of invisible monsters into his combat uniform. Leather, the skin of this magical creature that is the raw material for making invisibility cloaks, is now endangered due to an imbalance between supply and demand, which has also caused the price of their skin to skyrocket.

And the result of Mike spending a lot of money is that now all combatants in Los Santos have acquired the ability to be almost invisible!

This ability is not completely invisible, it is still very obvious during the day, but at night, they are definitely a stealth weapon!
But most importantly, this invisibility doesn't cost mana!
Moody's jealous eyes were about to pop out. Even the most elite Auror army in magic is definitely inferior to the Los Santos wizard army in front of them in terms of equipment!
"It's getting late, let's go straight away!"

Mike didn't mean to talk nonsense, he directly pulled the switch on the combat uniform, and entered the stealth state together.

Seeing this, Moody finally put away his greedy eyes for the time being, and walked forward with some reluctance to clear the way.

The destination of their trip is the Department of Mysteries on the ninth floor of the Ministry of Magic. This department can be said to be the most mysterious department in the entire Ministry of Magic. At the same time, it can be regarded as the scientific research department of the Ministry of Magic. The Reticent Man, in which he studies the deepest and most mysterious things in the entire wizarding world.

For example: time, thought, memory, prophecy, death, power, longevity...

Mike is actually no stranger to this place, he had come here to listen when Harry was sued for the first time.

If you want to go to the Department of Mysteries, you must take the magic elevator. Moody and Tonks agree that there are definitely dangers and ambushes in the sealed and small environment of the magic elevator, but Mike doesn't care. He is very clear about Voldemort's trip. The purpose is to let Harry take down the prophecy ball.

Then it would be impossible for him to arrange any obstacles on the way to the hall of prophecy, because with Harry Potter's IQ, it is very likely that he will be blocked from the hall of prophecy.

"Ding! Department of Mysteries!"

As a cold female voice sounded in the elevator, Mike, Arthur and others breathed a sigh of relief. Their guess was correct this time.

Mike then used the instant messaging leader to notify the remaining Los Santos wizards, Moody and others who stayed on the top and left the elevator with Arthur and others.

Different from the hall of magic, a large number of torches are lit on both sides of the corridor leading to the Department of Mysteries. Those torches are crackling and burning, and as the magic elevator goes up, the breeze blows, and the flames on the torches are also lightly burning. It was shaking slightly, which made the faint shadows of Mike and others tremble continuously with the trembling of the flames.

"The flames are extinguished!"

With a flick of the wand in Mike's hand, a lights-out spell was thrown out.

All the torches on both sides of the corridor were extinguished in an instant, and the entire corridor returned to darkness, and the only shadow that could reveal the whereabouts of Mike and others finally disappeared.

At this time, the elevator behind them made a crisp sound again, and Moody and the others finally arrived.

"What's the situation?"

Moody said while looking around.

"No," Mike nodded and said, "Let's go."

After speaking, Mike took the lead and walked deep into the corridor.

In the innermost part of the corridor is a black lacquered stone door. This is an automatic door driven by a mechanism. sound.

Immediately afterwards, the stone door slowly opened, revealing the same huge dark space inside.

This is a large circular room, and on the wall of the room, there are eleven black stone doors that are exactly the same as the previous door.

After everyone entered the room, the stone door they originally came in closed automatically, and at the same time, the surrounding scene suddenly changed. Everyone felt that everything in front of them began to spin and jump for a while, and everyone was surprised when all the abnormalities disappeared. They found out that the stone door behind them had changed positions, and they could no longer find the stone door leading to the outside of the magic!

The Los Santos wizards immediately became vigilant, and at the same time Mike looked at Moody behind him with dissatisfied eyes.

The current situation is something that I and others have never encountered before. As the former commander of the Auror office, Moody has no reason not to know the arrangement of the Department of Mysteries, but he has never told himself.

Sure enough, there was a smile on Moody's face, and that smile, combined with the hideous scar on his face, looked very vicious and unworthy of a beating.

Mike's expression became more and more unfriendly, and he was almost sure that Moody did it on purpose!

"Don't be nervous, everyone. This is just a general anti-theft measure. In fact, there are hidden marks on every door to indicate their function!"

Tonks walked towards a stone door, pointed to a tiny circular mark on the right side of the stone door and said:

"Look, this clock mark indicates that behind this door is the Hall of Time, and as long as we pass through the Hall of Time, we can reach the Hall of Prophecy!"

Mike calmed down a little, and nodded to Arthur, and the latter went forward to open the stone door expressionlessly.

On the other hand, Moody snorted coldly with a grim expression, and it seemed that he was very dissatisfied with Tonks' behavior of leaking the secret in advance.

It's just that Tonks obviously wouldn't buy into him, and after making a face at him, he hid behind Lupine again.

"Kaz Katz!"

With the sound of gears turning, the stone door finally opened.

Behind the door was another huge room, but it was different from the original dim room. There was a huge crystal chandelier hanging from the ceiling of this huge room, and it was emitting bright light to the surroundings at this moment.

And under the huge chandelier, there are rows and rows of neatly arranged containers, on which there are a lot of oddly shaped clocks, ranging from the smallest pocket watches, common Muggle alarm clocks to huge cabinet pendulum clocks.

And these clocks were still running, which caused the whole room to be filled with the sound of ticking time.

This weird scene made Mike, Arthur and others a little stunned, while Tonks on the side explained in time:

"This is the Hall of Time, where the Silent people will study the secrets of time. Although I don't know their specific research process, there is no doubt that everything here is very dangerous, everyone must be careful. Oh! By the way, this is also the storage location of the time converter, and most of the time converters in the whole of Europe are stored here for the silent people to study."

Mike nodded. In fact, without Tonks' explanation, he basically guessed that this room should be the laboratory where silent people study time.

Because he saw a huge experimental device at the end of the room!
It was a huge bell-shaped crystal shade almost two meters high, it was placed firmly on a table, and there was a churning, shimmering mist in it.

And there is also a small, gem-like beautiful egg floating in the cover.

It quickly floated up in the cover, cracked open, and then a hummingbird broke out of its shell.

But as soon as the juvenile hummingbird appeared, it was lifted up by the surrounding magic power together with the eggshell, and flew towards the glowing mist above it.

During the flight, the hummingbird that just broke its shell seemed to be pressed the fast-forward button to help it start to grow extremely fast. The wet feathers on its body were dried in an instant, and its body began to continuously expand!

But the moment it came into contact with that dense breath, a scene that made Mike's pupils shrink suddenly happened.

Just like a video tape playback, the little bird that had just turned into an adult hummingbird was sealed back into the eggshell again, and then the cracks on the eggshell quickly healed, and when Mike fully reacted At that time, the hummingbird was already falling for a bird's egg, slowly falling downwards.

The hairs all over Mike's body stand on end. At this moment, he has been completely conquered by the power of time, and at the same time, he has a little awe of the silent people!
That's a bunch of real lunatics!

"Tonks." Mike calmed down and said, "Lead the way."

The latter also seemed to see Mike's nervousness, and she responded quickly and led everyone towards the bell-shaped crystal.

And as the distance shortened, the rest of the people also noticed the horrible scene in the bell-shaped crystal, including where Moody was, everyone stayed away from it at the same time—no one wanted to change suddenly like that poor hummingbird. Be an old man or a baby!
Behind the large bell-shaped crystal was a large door, and Tonks was the first to push it open.

Then a room with a large number of shelves appeared in front of everyone, just like the Hall of Time, except that the light in this room was extremely dim, and there were no gorgeous chandeliers on the ceiling at all. The only source of light is the faint blue candles scattered around the walls, and the items placed on those shelves are also different from those in the Time Hall. They are actually full of all kinds of dusty crystal balls.

After everyone entered the room, the door behind them closed automatically again. Tonks turned his head and smiled and said to everyone:
"Welcome everyone to the prophecy hall."

At this point, everyone was relieved. What they saw in the Hall of Time just now was beyond everyone's imagination. If they hadn't seen it with their own eyes, they would never believe that someone would do such a terrifying experiment again!

But when everyone just relaxed, there was a sudden indistinct human voice from a little farther ahead!

(End of this chapter)