Chapter 426
Grindelwald: Stay with Me
Chapter 426 Grindelwald: Stay with Me
Lockhart and Gar said in unison, "Phoenix!"
Gar was so panicked that his legs went limp and he sat down, saying in despair, "Dumbledore is here?"
How could they deserve Dumbledore to arrest them?
Lockhart also fell down in shock, but he quickly discovered the difference: "No... No, I saw Dumbledore's phoenix in Hogwarts, and it's not the same as this one."
Mabel looked at the firebird and felt that it looked very familiar. It took her a while to remember its name.
"…Michal?"
Michal nodded, chirped twice, and turned his head to signal.
Mabel asked, "Did Weed Grey send you to see me? Where is he?"
Michal didn't answer, but flew out, landed on the wall, and looked back at her.
Mabel understood, and she opened the door without hesitation. Gal couldn't help but shout, "Wait! What if it's a trap?"
As soon as he finished speaking, he immediately covered his mouth, looking very regretful for saying it. Lockhart also glared at him with a fierce look.
Mabel paused, turned around at the door, and suddenly smiled.
"I should go now. Thank Mr. Trocca for taking me in."
Her expression looked no different from that of an ordinary, carefree little girl, which made both of them stunned for a moment.
Then, the girl picked up her skirt and ran out quickly. The firebird flew in front of her, sometimes stopping and sometimes flying, leading her away.
The room was quiet for a while.
"...Strange." Gal rubbed his nose and whispered, "Why do I suddenly feel... a little worried about her..."
"You can worry if you want. I just hope she never comes back."
Lockhart slowly stood up with the help of the wall, and said with a painful expression: "My whole body aches now. I just want to lie in bed for a while. Don't call me for lunch..."
Gal watched him slowly move into the bedroom, every step seemed like torture, and he couldn't help but reveal a look of sympathy.
"Alas... Humans are so fragile. Fortunately, I am a vampire..."
He licked his lips and said with a look of longing: "Where can I go to steal some blood at noon? Forget it, Mabel just left, and the Dementors may still be around. It's better to be cautious..."
……
Mabel followed the Firebird and ran all the way to an abandoned building. Seeing the eerie appearance inside, she couldn't help but feel a little scared.
Fortunately, Michal did not fly too deep. He quickly stopped and landed on the dusty railing on the second floor.
"Um...Mr. Grey?"
Mabel asked softly as she slowly walked inside.
The abandoned building was so empty that she could even hear her own echo.
Then she heard a voice.
"I'm sorry, Miss Mabel." A figure came out from behind a pillar and said, "It's not convenient for us to show up, so we can only let Michal bring you here."
Mabel stepped back and said warily, "You're not Weed Grey! Who are you?"
Black mist rolled out, climbing up along the ground and the pillars on both sides.
Michal, who was on the railing, raised his head and spread his wings, with flames blazing on his body. The bright flames illuminated the eerie and dim building, and also allowed Mabel to see the "figure" next to the pillar.
Her eyes suddenly widened.
It was a square, colorful-looking box with a pair of tentacles with eyes on top, thin metal arms on both sides, and several wheels at the bottom.
It looks like a strange toy, but the sound does come from it.
"Don't doubt it, it's me who's talking." The box "walked" two steps closer to her and said, "Hello, I'm the Rubik's Cube Doll. Vid Grey is my master, and he gave me life with his own hands. The situations of the others are the same as mine."
Following the direction it pointed, Mabel saw the firebird Michal, a broom floating in the air and nodding, a cloak waving, and what seemed to be a human figure underneath the cloak.
She stared at the short, fat figure for a while, confirmed that it couldn't be Wade, and asked, "Who is this gentleman?"
"I am also a puppet." Peter No. 2 added: "A humanoid puppet."
Mabel nodded calmly, as if this was a common occurrence, but she was actually filled with amazement.
During this time, she relied on newspapers and was no longer as ignorant of the magic world as she was at the beginning. However, most of the puppets she saw in the newspapers were in the shape of small animals, and she had never seen such a strange shape.
Humanoid puppets are actually rare, because some wizards believe that such puppets will endanger the safety and ethics of the magical world, and are very resistant to this. They also encouraged the Ministry of Magic to list them as banned items in newspapers and prohibit their production and sale.
Of course, such a proposal was not passed, but it is said that there are very few people who own humanoid puppets.
"Why are you wearing a cloak?" Mabel asked curiously.
"Because my appearance would scare people and cause a commotion," said Peter No. 2.
——How ugly does one have to be to cause confusion just by appearance?
Mabel subconsciously had this thought, and wondered why Wade would create such a weird and ugly puppet when he had so many options.
Then she remembered why she ran out and asked, "Where's Mr. Gray?"
"That's why we're looking for you, Miss Mabel." The Magic Cube Golem said seriously, "The master has been captured by the evil black wizard, and we need your help!"
Mabel's expression changed slightly and she asked, "What's going on?"
……
Vader was unaware that his aesthetic reputation was being quietly harmed. He looked at a cloak that Delain had sent over.
The pure black cloak with long sleeves is very plain, with only a witch party logo on the front and back. The spacious pockets can easily hide the entire wand, and there are several hidden pockets on the side for storing things.
"Try it on." The witch with a serious look and a bun said, "It should be just the right size."
Vader did not refuse. He put on his cloak, pulled up his hood, and prepared to look at himself in the mirror, but was surprised to find that he could not see his own face!
The wide hood cast his entire head in shadow. Even though the surrounding light was bright, Vader could not look himself in the mirror, let alone see his specific appearance.
The cloak also blurred his figure. Apart from the approximate height, it was impossible to tell whether the figure in the mirror was male or female, or fat or thin.
Wade is now over 1.6 meters tall, and with his cloak on, no one can tell that he is still a minor.
The witch behind him reached out and tugged at the hood twice from behind, but failed to pull it off. Wade pulled off the hood and looked at her silently.
"You see, no one can force the hood off. You have to take it off yourself."
The witch explained: "The power of the Witch Party is now incomparable to that of the past. It is very important to hide our identity during operations - this is also a lesson we have learned from previous painful experiences."
She put away her sewing kit and basket full of fabrics, and sighed as she looked at Vader, her eyes revealing a hint of sympathy and pity.
"You are so young, and you want to join their actions... No matter what, follow that gentleman, and never doubt him under any circumstances - even if he asks you to walk into the fire! Remember my words!"
There was a knock on the door. The witch quickly put away the expression on her face, picked up the basket, lowered her head and walked out of the room.
Delain stood at the door. He looked at Wade with a satisfied look and said, "Let's go. The gentleman is waiting for you."
The two men put on their hoods and walked out along the corridor, and Vader saw what the place looked like for the first time.
This was a stone castle that was perhaps as big as Hogwarts. Huge gray-brown stones formed thick stone walls, and the corridors were covered with soft and exquisite carpets that made almost no sound when one stepped on them.
The windows at the top were small and dim, with countless candles on the walls on both sides, and the candlesticks below were distorted but extremely lifelike human-shaped carvings.
There were some portraits hanging on the wall, but none of them moved. They seemed to be ordinary Muggle portraits.
As we walked forward, people from other rooms gradually joined us, and the crowd around us grew larger and larger. They all wore identical cloaks, their faces could not be seen, and they made no sound, like a group of ghosts wandering the world.
Wade followed everyone into the hall and saw Grindelwald standing in front of a huge portrait, looking up at the scene in the painting.
It was a painting about hell, with countless people struggling and suffering in layers of hell. On the top layer, the angels bathed in bright light had indifferent and even mocking expressions. Even the innocent and cute little angels looked evil.
Grindelwald was the only one who did not use a cloak to hide his appearance.
Everyone stood behind him quietly, not saying a word.
Grindelwald turned around and said, "There is only a thin line between hell and heaven, so much so that we often cannot tell the difference between the two. But in the human world, we can hear the painful cries of souls."
"I know that some people may come here just because of their parents' wishes, some come to me with the idea of destroying me, and some have lost hope in real life, so they are eager to find the meaning of existence here."
"Kids, I don't care... I don't care why you are standing here, but today I want to tell you - why I am still here?"
"Why should I stir up chaos and shed blood when you have bread, jobs, Gobstones and Quidditch?"
"Because wizards still have no freedom and no dignity! Because you wear a mask of peace and pretend that you have a happy life, but you are just wild animals locked in a cage in a zoo! Because you are still afraid, still terrified, and even still being hurt!"
"When it's not you who's bleeding, can you pretend you can't hear it? When it's not your loved ones who are killed, can you pretend you still have peace?"
"Wake up, wizards! This world is no different from fifty years ago, it's still dirty and ugly!"
“Pale words are empty and powerless, but today, I will show you the truth of the world!”
Grindelwald waved his wand, and the outermost ring of the chandelier suddenly spun and grew larger, rapidly descending. Some wizards hurriedly dodged and watched the ring land among them, slowly rotating in circles.
A moment later, Delain walked forward, touched the ring, and his body disappeared instantly.
Then one, two, three... countless wizards came forward one after another, faster and faster, and the originally crowded hall quickly became sparse.
Wade hesitated for a moment, and also touched the ring. His body was hooked suddenly and flew off the ground. There was a blurry afterimage all around him, and he only felt that he was flying very fast.
Wade fell to the ground suddenly, and just as he stood firm, he was pulled over by a magical force.
"You stay with me, boy," Grindelwald said.
Wade didn't know how this person recognized him from a large group of identical figures. After seeing the surrounding environment clearly, he quickly cast layers of protective magic on himself.
The other side of the portkey was a completely unfamiliar place, but the white building not far away gave people a sense of déjà vu. The Muggle soldiers were startled by the sudden invasion of this group of wizards, but when someone shouted, they quickly took out their guns.
There were also weapons moving in the buildings, pointing their guns at the many wizards.
The wizards in black robes look very intimidating, but not everyone has a quick enough reaction, and many people don't even know how to cast the Shield Charm.
After a few gunshots, several wizards fell to the ground with blood gushing out of their bodies and screaming.
Grindelwald waved his wand vigorously, and blue flames appeared out of thin air, expanding rapidly, passing over many wizards and rushing towards the terrified Muggle soldiers like a raging flood.
"Fire! It's on fire!"
"It's the devil!"
"Shoot! Kill that man!"
The soldiers were in chaos, some wanted to escape, some wanted to fight back, but in the blink of an eye the flames were in front of them. Dozens of people who were either defending or running were instantly turned into a pile of black ash.
The remaining soldiers completely lost their fighting spirit, dropped their guns and ran away.
The weapons on the wall also twisted and deformed under the influence of magic, and exploded with a loud rumbling sound.
Wade saw that even some black-robed wizards were burned to death by the blue flames, but there were always some people who moved forward fearlessly and firmly in the flames, and they were not hurt at all.
Perhaps it was the blood and wailing of their companions that gave them courage, perhaps it was because they were forced to do so and had no choice, or perhaps it was because they were afraid of Grindelwald... Many black-robed wizards stepped forward in the fire and cast spells at the fleeing soldiers.
Not everyone can kill as recklessly as Grindelwald, but even if they are just hit by a stun spell, they will be engulfed by the flames that follow.
"I know you participated in the operation not long ago." Grindelwald suddenly said, "Are you familiar with this place?"
Vader asked, "Is this another research base of that organization?"
"Research?" Grindelwald chuckled. "No, this is a place for transformation."
He waved his magic wand like a conductor, and the blue flames became like a raging beast, engulfing everything in front of it, as if even the air was burning, making people suffocate.
Wade followed behind Grindelwald, holding his wand tightly in his hand. He looked at the back in front of him, who seemed to be defenseless, and looked away expressionlessly.
With a wave of the magic wand, the invisible armor blocked a stray bullet, and layers of translucent ripples appeared in the air.
"boom!"
With a deafening roar, the thick wall was blown down and the wizard who walked in first was stunned.
He is one of Grindelwald's most loyal followers, well-trained, strong-willed and determined.
But at this moment, he was stunned on the spot, his pupils contracted violently, and he even completely forgot to react.
"This... what is this?" The wizard couldn't help but step back in fear.
Behind the wall, a tragic scene of hell on earth appeared before everyone.
(End of this chapter)