Chapter 515
: The Game is in Progress 2
Chapter 515: The Game is in Progress 2
Antoine and Delain were both outstanding wizards, and their magic level was stronger than most Aurors, but their detection spells fell on the tree and failed to find any traces of magic on it.
Wade knew why - every time they cast a monitoring spell, a circle of magic patterns would light up at a height of one person near the roots of the tree, and the spell would be attracted to the magic patterns like a moth to a flame, and then dissipate.
This was a scene that only Wade could see. In the eyes of Delain and the others, "everything was normal."
Wade was thinking about how to convince the two when he heard Antoine say again: "Let's go. This forest has indeed never seen magic. It's just an ordinary forest."
As soon as the words fell, Wade's eyes lit up, while Delain frowned.
"You've never seen magic? How is that possible?!"
Delain said solemnly, "How many Muggle Ignore Charms has the Ministry of Magic cast around here in the past year? How many people have Apparated in this forest in the past few days?"
Antoine suddenly realized: "...That's right!"
Wade touched the spot on the spruce tree where the magic pattern was drawn, and his fingertips felt the rough bark.
He said: "Perhaps the person who cast the spell originally only wanted to hide the abnormality of these trees, but the large number of identical spells superimposed throughout the forest formed a strange field, completely covering up even the traces of magic that should have existed."
"So," Antoine laughed, "the preparations that guy made to ensure success actually exposed himself?"
"You can't say his preparation was a mistake, because if it wasn't Wade's dream, no one would have checked this place." Delain said, "Let's check it again."
The three of them explored forward separately, keeping a distance of several meters from each other. In order to avoid being attacked by the dark wizard who cursed the forest, Wade walked in the middle.
From time to time, detection spells would light up on both sides, but Vader cast spells much less frequently.
After all, he only had to look to know which trees were under the spell.
Suddenly, Wade stopped and looked at a very thick oak tree in front of him.
The oak tree is one of the largest and longest-lived tree species in the world. In the Forbidden Forest of Hogwarts, there are some oak trees that are over a thousand years old. Their huge crowns are as big as a square, and their trunks have a circumference of more than ten meters.
When Wade turned into a peregrine falcon, he looked down at the magnificent treetops from above more than once and was amazed by them.
Although the oak tree in front of us is not that huge, it is also very visually impactful. It takes at least three or four people to hug the trunk.
The point is, there are gaps in the magic patterns around it, as if they were not drawn in one go, but instead of being redrawn, they were repaired in a clumsy way.
Wade's eyebrows twitched, but he didn't look happy, but rather a little dissatisfied.
The dark wizard was well prepared, his plan was rigorous, and he was cautious. His level of cruelty made Wade have a vision of the Joker in Gotham.
But such a mistake suddenly occurs, just like a lump of sauce falling on a perfect work of art, or gorgeous silk being stepped on by someone's dirty feet.
The illusion of Gotham's Joker was suddenly shattered, and was replaced by a miserable middle school student who was forced by his parents to do homework and turned a blind eye to the mistakes he knew were made.
But no matter what, the enemy's mistake is good news for us.
Wade threw the detection spell at the oak tree. The light of the spell was still attracted by the circle of magic patterns. After a moment, a faint silver light emanated from the fault.
Like a river bursting its dam, the silver light extended up and down along the tree trunk, making the entire tree brighter.
A few seconds later, the silver light became darker and darker, like a cloud of black smoke spreading continuously, and there was a faint crunching sound like chewing. After another two seconds, the detection spell failed and all the strange phenomena disappeared.
Antoine and Delain had already been attracted by the scene here and looked up at the series of changes.
There was no moonlight tonight as usual. Because he didn't want to attract other people's attention, only the wand in Antoine's hand emitted a dim light, which was projected onto the faces of several people, casting shadows of varying depths.
"It is indeed an extremely evil and powerful black magic." After a moment, Delain concluded.
"Nonsense, we can all see that." Antoine rolled his eyes and said, "The point is... is this really the curse that can enchant trees?"
"How should I know? I have never seen that spell before, just like you." Delane said, "I need to inform Mr. Grindelwald."
Wade said: "Then I will contact Dumbledore too..."
"No, we can handle it." Delain interrupted him, paused and added: "Didn't you say that Dumbledore and his Order of the Phoenix have to deal with another group of Death Eaters? If they transfer people over, there may be some fish that slip through the net."
"But if there are many cursed trees..." Wade was not very reassured.
"That's Grindelwald," Delain said calmly.
This statement is inexplicably convincing.
When it comes to dealing with trees, even cursed and demonized trees, the most powerful spell is still the fire spell - who can doubt Grindelwald's ability to set fire?
"Besides, what if Dumbledore and Mr. Grindelwald meet and start fighting each other?"
Antoine said with lingering fear: "It was not easy for us to survive the last battlefield."
Upon hearing this, Weed couldn't help but laugh.
Delain went to contact Grindelwald, and Wade looked at the oak tree in front of him that was as tall as a ten-story building, and his heart sank slightly.
It is not easy to completely destroy such a huge and majestic life, even if it is a tree that does not move. Even if you use fierce fire, it will take a long time to burn it all.
During that time, if the tree was awakened, it could rush into the gymnasium with the burning fire, spreading the flames to all places within sight and causing heavy casualties.
What's more, there are not just one or two such trees, but they are spread all over the forest.
There was not much time left for them to act. One hundred thousand spectators were already seated in the stadium. If the dark wizard wanted to achieve the maximum killing effect, he could awaken the forest at any time.
The dark wizard should be nearby, waiting for the best time to act.
So if they started cutting down and destroying trees without being fully prepared, the other side might notice it immediately, wake up the forest in advance, rush into the stadium, and start the massacre.
At that time, the choice left for them is not how to prevent the tragedy, but how to survive.
—Do we really want to entrust everyone’s lives to Grindelwald?
Wade felt that this was not possible.
A faint silver light appeared at the tip of his wand, and then disappeared.
(End of this chapter)