Chapter 498 Excessive Vitality
"Aurors are not omnipotent. On the contrary, because we don't focus on a certain field like experts, and often have to deal with events caused by extreme magic, we have to often ask experts for help."
A group of people walked towards the mountain outside the valley. Scrimgeour led the two Aurors at the front, followed by Remus Lupine, Anton and Montgomery walked behind, and finally there were two Aurors on guard at any time A threat from behind.
"This is the first time I've heard of a black magic creature like Alemi." Montgomery looked at Anton helplessly, "Sometimes you think you've accumulated countless experiences, but there are always times when we can't do anything. "
"The point here is..."
Montgomery leaned over and whispered to Anton, "Don't keep absolute trust just because the other party is an expert. Sometimes they won't say anything when they're not sure, and sometimes they have ulterior motives. It is so complex that it is beyond the domain of experts, and their analysis will go wrong."
"so……"
He gestured to his hand, "Hold the wand tightly, keep entering the fighting state at any time, and don't relax."
Anton nodded seriously.
The Auror office dispatched two Auror combat teams for this case, one of which followed Lupine to the mountain.
The other team guarded the factory with Lyle Lupine, guarding against Alemi who might appear at any time.
Scrimgeour temporarily joined the team under the guise of being an apprentice.
Soon, they came to a cave.
"That ritual magic is arranged here." Montgomery passed the crowd with a serious expression, "Be alert, release the detection magic!"
"Life detection!"
"Nowhere to hide!"
"Phantom sound configuration!"
A series of spells were released from the magic wands of several Aurors, quickly detecting the surroundings and the situation in the cave.
As long as Scrimgeour hadn't made it clear that he would take over everything here, Montgomery was now the leader of the team.
"Accompanies by the bright moon!" Montgomery released a spell, and the tip of the wand lit up with a light similar to the "Illumination Charm". In an instant, it floated in front of him like a firefly and swelled into a football-sized moon. It exudes a soft white light.
Lupine looked at the bright moon with a complicated expression, and followed the Aurors into the cave without saying a word.
The cave is not big, and it is dark and damp. From time to time, drops of water drip from the gaps in the stones above the head, hitting the stone ground in the quiet and dark, making a dull sound.
From time to time, the mountain wind whizzed past the irregular hole, blowing out the strange whining sound of 'woo woo woo'.
Creepy.
Anton frowned, vaguely feeling the 'emotion' mixed in the wind, so sad, so desperate.
"Be careful, the dark magic power here is too strong, and some strange black magic creatures may breed, maybe not just Alemi!" Lupine pulled out his wand, took a few steps back, guarded Anton's side, and looked around carefully with.
Under the hazy magic moonlight, the ground of the cave was covered with red runes, and various distorted symbols presented a sense of order.
Following the traces of the runes, all the way forward, you can finally see a hexagram drawn in the middle of these red patterns.
The six corners of the hexagram respectively draw a plate full of flowers. On the plate, there are horseradish ghost eyes, an unknown animal heart, a bunch of rice, a bottle of water, an oil lamp, and a bloody dagger.
"We extinguished the oil lamp, destroying this ritual magic." An Auror opened the folder in his hand, flipping through it for a while with a serious face, "The information given to us by the Department of Mysteries said that this is an ancient tribe to continue Ritual of a warrior's life."
"They prayed to the earth to give strength to the heroes of the tribe, so that the heroes could grow stronger, live longer, and never sleep."
"At the same time, Ethan Amphier, an international expert in ritual magic, gave us a piece of information. She found a ritual very similar to this ritual magic, which came from the method of the ancient Egyptian guards refining mummies."
"Pray to the god of death for strength, sacrifice the soul in exchange for the freedom of the body, and they will get..."
The Auror flipped. "Incomparable will!"
"The sacrifices of ritual magic are similar: the heart of the slave who has been restrained for a long time, the knife that breaks free from the bondage and kills the slaver, the food and water that help him escape and live, and the wooden spikes that fall into the trap of a desperate mechanism."
He gently closed the file, "Except for the last one, everything else matches."
"No, it's the same." Anton was thoughtful. "Wasabi ghost's eye is a magical plant. In herbalism, it is said that it is the spy of the devil in the mountains, so it has the ability to trigger the excavation of other herbal ingredients."
"In potion science, this kind of potion material is often used to prepare some potions that 'need to be attached', such as the 'Eye of the Dead Gaze Potion', such as the 'Soul Companion Potion'."
"It's kind of like..."
Anton thought about the explanation, "In the book "The Language of Herbal Medicine and Flowers of Potion Science", the wasabi ghost's eye is described like this, a kind of pain that can't be shaken off."
Scrimgeour had a strange look on his face, "So that... um, Mary... was turned into... um, an inferi? That's why it didn't die?"
Anton shook his head, "The ritual magic in front of me has obviously been changed. Mary has an extremely strong vitality, and the joy of life has been so full that it looks extremely active."
"It's so active, it doesn't look like a living thing."
Montgomery took the file from his teammates and flipped through it, "That is to say, maybe it's Adams, the manager of the factory, who used this ritual magic to renew Mary's life in order not to affect the factory's production?"
His teammate shrugged, "Maybe so, capitalists can do anything for profit."
"If he is doing it for profit." Scrimgeour rubbed the red runes on the ground with his feet, "then it is impossible for him to make the chocolate frog highly poisonous."
"It doesn't make sense!"
"three years ago……"
He frowned and paced around the hexagram, "Could it be that this ritual magic drained the vitality of this land, so after three years, it finally completely changed this ritual magic?"
"It's impossible!" Lupine shook his head, "Although we wizards claim to be the spirits of all things, in actual research, we found that wizards have the least magical power. The magic power is stronger. And the nature that has bred countless magical animals and plants contains a lot of magic power that is beyond the imagination of wizards."
Seeing everyone's attention, Lupine explained, "For example, herbs, even the simplest white fresh grass, can easily connect a broken arm. If a wizard wants to release healing magic to this level, perhaps only Dumbledore Such a great wizard can do it."
"For example, moonlight, the light that shines on the earth every night, is accompanied by extremely mysterious magic power, which is also an inexhaustible magic creation of nature."
"It is impossible for the earth to be exhausted by the absorption of a living being." Lupine reached out and plucked a fern leaf from the cave wall. "Look, the earth can still give birth to such vigorous plants."
"It just expresses anger at excessive greedy demands, such as turning a certain place into a place with strong negative emotions and a high concentration of black magic, so as to breed black magic creatures to solve these creatures that excessively ask for its magic power."
Scrimgeour frowned and looked at Montgomery, and Montgomery shook his head, "After we arrived here, we checked everything nearby, except for this ritual magic, and found no problems, including the black magic creature that Mr. Lupine said earlier. Remy."
"Simply a headache!"
Scrimgeour pinched the bridge of his nose, glanced at Lupine, then at his subordinates, and finally at Anton.
"Huh? What are you doing?"