The Mightiest Badger at Hogwarts

This is a narrow passage that can only allow three adults to pass through side by side. Except for Link who leads the way with a compass, Snape, Old Kled and the other hunters only have to reserve space for fighting. Able to line up in pairs and move forward.

In Link's team, the atmosphere among everyone has actually slowed down a lot.

The hunters all had smiles on their faces, and some of the more seasoned ones had even started whispering to their companions about where they were going to take their commissions and bonuses to have fun after the mission.

This was the confidence brought about by the successful destruction of the Despicable Alliance camp and the elimination of the remaining Despicables without any injuries.

Of course, this is also because the interior of Nurmengard Prison is too ordinary and far less dangerous than they imagined.

As for Link's previous warning, they just regarded it as a routine speech by the big boss and had no real meaning.

Unlike them, Link, Old Kled and Snape were always on high alert.

Only three of them in the entire team received detailed information about Nurmengard Prison from Beckmann.

Only they know that Nurmengard's reputation for terror is well-deserved.

Under the non-stop work of wizards and craftsmen who were inspired by Grindelwald's ideas, Nurmengard was filled with all kinds of terrifying traps.

Maybe some people have some misunderstandings about how scary these things are.

But if you put it like this, everyone should be able to understand it - under the influence of these traps, the difficulty of escaping from Nurmengard Prison is the legendary human forbidden zone, the strongest wizard prison in Europe, with massive cameras More than twice as many soul monsters are stationed in Azkaban!

In the past few decades, no prisoner has ever emerged from Nurmengard prison alive.

Even when the International Federation of Wizards tried to liberate Nurmengard Prison, it paid a heavy price of nearly a hundred lives before it could completely conquer the empty Nurmengard Prison.

Such a dangerous place, without Beckman as a guide, even Link wouldn't want to come in even if he killed him!

The team continued forward and soon walked out of the long and narrow passage and reached the second floor through a spiral staircase.

Compared with the first floor, the light on the second floor is much brighter.

This was entirely due to the corroded iron bars windows on the second floor. Sunlight and moss spread along the window edges into Nurmengard. Link even saw an unknown gray-brown bird. It lands unscrupulously on the windowsill, poking at the little bugs that survive on the moss, and from time to time it makes a crisp and sweet chirp. It is such a refreshing sight!

It's a pity that Link and others in this scenery don't feel happy or relaxed at all.

On the contrary, tension and fear were rising rapidly from their hearts, rushing straight to their foreheads, making their scalps numb and their whole bodies trembling with chills.

Because not far from these green and beautiful scenery, there is another hell!

Dozens of fresh corpses embroidered with the Hartmann family crest were seen lying quietly on the platform on the second floor.

There are no scars on their appearance, and there are no signs of battle around them. There are even bright smiles on the faces of these dead people. Combined with their skin colors that have not changed much, it is like a large group of people sleeping together. It's like having an erotic dream here.

But everyone, including Link, knew that these people were dead.

This is a bit unacceptable, considering the number alone, this is already nearly half of the manpower brought by Old Hartman.

That means that just after entering the second floor, half of their group of wizards, who were at least as strong as the striker level, were directly destroyed?

Or in this weird way?

"Boom!~"

The unknown bird on the windowsill seems to be tired of the difficult process of catching bugs.

It flew in along the light projected from the window, landed on the face of a corpse, and began to peck at the soft, moist eyeballs.

One, two, three...

"Gollum—"

The sounds of swallowing in Link's team were heard one after another. Even the hunters who had killed countless people couldn't help but feel sick when they witnessed such a scene. This is the instinctive empathy of human beings.

Unlike them, Link and Snape's eyes only stayed on these corpses for a moment, and then went directly to another opening on the side of the platform.

That was the passage leading to the prison area. Compared to the platform where Link was now, it was still absolutely dark.

What is disturbing is that there seems to be something hidden in the darkness that is far thicker and deeper than the darkness. They hide in the darkness and look at Link and others with malice, as if they will swallow them whole in the next moment. generally!

"……what is that?"

Snape asked with a frown. His mental power was as strong as Link's due to Occlumency. The powerful perception brought by these mental powers allowed him to perceive the disturbing things in the passage more clearly than ordinary people. thing.

"The doorman."

Link explained calmly.

Snape on the side suddenly turned his head to look at him when he heard this, his expression was a little angry, but Link shook his head innocently and said:

"They are the gatekeepers, a kind of terrifying creature created by Grindelwald's group of saint madmen using black magic blood type rituals and various blood fusion experiments to guard the portal of Nurmengard. Oh no, to be precise, they should It’s not a living thing anymore, but a weird creature between ectoplasm and matter. Its attributes are similar to those of dementors. Judging from the current situation, it seems that the attack effect is somewhat similar to that of dementors.”

"So we need to use the Patronus Charm to deal with them?"

Snape said with a serious expression.

Although Link said that this unknown creature is similar to a dementor, in fact, these creatures feel at least several times stronger than a dementor.

This terrifying feeling makes even a strong man like Snape very uneasy.

"Patronus Charm? What are you thinking about? How many people do you think can cast the Patronus Charm with the mentality of our group?"

"Then what do you say?!"

"Of course we're leaving," Link explained. "I've told you before, they are guards. Didn't you see that they are all guarding the entrance to the prison passage? We just don't want to think about those fools walking past like that. ."

Hearing this, Snape's expression was a little startled, but Link did not continue to talk nonsense to him. He turned around and issued instructions to the hunters behind him to continue moving forward.

The hunters gritted their teeth after hearing this, and then started to move forward with most of them.

They were not new recruits who had never seen the world. Although the strange scene just made them feel uneasy, it was far from making them timid.

But under the influence of this uneasiness, they still lost their previous relaxed state. Each of them tensed up and stopped talking to each other.

This nervous tension becomes more intense the higher the stairs one climbs.

Because almost every time they reached a new floor, they could find several corpses of Hartmann family wizards on the spacious platform. Although the higher the floor, the fewer the dead bodies, no one thought that this place would be better than the second floor. Building safety.

You must know that after passing through the screening on the previous floors, those who can pass are those ruthless people who are powerful, resourceful and even lucky.

But even such cruel people died here.

So the dangers of these high-floor areas can be imagined.

And the most important thing is that the death signs of these corpses are more weird and horrifying than the last. They bit themselves to death, they were deformed as if they were contaminated by nuclear radiation, they were covered in long black hair and were poisoned...

Compared with these horrible guys, those smiling corpses on the second floor are simply in heaven.

At the very least, they could keep the whole body.

Unlike others, Link was in a very good mood.

Looking up at the stairs that could already see the end, Link couldn't help but marvel at Beckman's excellence again.

The other party not only provided them with a complete Nurmengard strategy, but also helped eliminate most of the personnel from Hartmann and Lange.

This is simply the most perfect leading party.

On the other side, as if he heard Link's inner praise of him, the muscles on Beckman's face twitched twice.

Then he returned to his original dazed appearance.

His expression was intoxicated and pious, with a hint of pain and sadness. He was alone, slowly walking at the front of the team and climbing towards the top floor where Grindelwald was.

It was as if he had already forgotten the true purpose of his trip and only regarded it as a pilgrimage.

This state has existed since Beckman entered Nurmengard Prison, and has remained until now.

At first, although Lange, Hartmann, Schwartz Jr. and other family wizards who followed him found it a bit strange, they also enjoyed hearing it.

After all, although Beckman behaved a little strangely, by voluntarily walking in front, he was basically helping them pioneer the way to prevent disaster.

It was only as time passed that they realized how wrong they were.

Just on the first platform on the second floor, they lost nearly half of their manpower!

Hartman could see clearly that the culprits were some nearly transparent, terrifying creatures that only revealed their outlines when illuminated by sunlight.

Their killing speed is extremely fast. Once they emerge from the darkness, any living creature still existing on the entire platform will be attacked by them indiscriminately. Moreover, this attack is so weird that it will basically die if touched!

However, Beckman, who was leading the way, and those who followed him closely, did not receive any attacks.

This time, Hartmann and the others reluctantly convinced themselves that they could avoid the attack because of their fast passing speed.

But on the floors behind, things were getting weirder.

There are many paths that Beckman has just walked through without incident, but if they take them again, they will encounter violent attacks or accidents.

This situation became more frequent later on, and in the later stages, it even reached the point where they had to throw away several corpses every time.

Seeing that only two or three big cats and kittens were left in the large group of more than 50 people behind him, Hartman felt that the anger in his heart was constantly burning his reason, and was almost on the verge of exploding. .

The end of the spiral staircase has finally arrived.

Beckman, who was in a trance, was unafraid and stepped forward to push open the sealed stone door without any hesitation.

crunch--

The long-abandoned stone door had long lost its lubrication, and there was a harsh friction sound when it was opened.

Lange and others who were following Beckman had already turned into frightened birds after experiencing so many attacks. When they heard the sound, they were suddenly startled and waved their wands to deal with the attacks that followed.

But strangely, nothing happened.

The stone door opened so simply.

Beckman simply walked into the darkness.

It was as if there were no enemies or traps inside, and it was extremely safe.

But Langer and others still refused to step into the stone door. The painful experiences on the previous floors could no longer make them believe in Beckman.

It wasn't until Beckman lit the torch inside the door and soft orange-red light shone on their faces from inside that Lange boldly walked in with gritted teeth.

Then came little Schwartz, then old Hartman and his family wizards.

It wasn't until everyone arrived that Beckman lit all the torches here.

With the help of the not-so-bright light, everyone was surprised to find that the space on this floor seemed to have been blessed by the traceless stretching spell. The length, width and height of the space here reached an astonishing level, and it was simply an indoor square.

The only unreasonable thing is that there are only two exits in such a large square.

One is the stair exit when they came, and the second is the pure black single door at the end of the square, which seems to be made of black gemstones.

Beckman, who lit all the torches in the square, rushed to open the last small door.

And this time.

Perhaps it was the soft light around him that gave Hartman courage, or perhaps the aura emanating from the small black gem door was too unsettling.

In short, old Hartman finally couldn't stand it anymore.

With a sudden wave of the wand in his hand, Beckman was pulled back by an invisible force.

At the same time, old Hartman kept moving, stepped forward and pressed him against the rough wall!

"That's enough!" Old Hartman got close to Beckman and roared, "What the hell is going on? You have to explain it to me!"

Not far away, Lange and Schwartz, who were as embarrassed as the others, just watched quietly.

They had no intention of stopping old Hartman.

In other words, they were very happy that Old Hartman did what they most wanted to do.

After all, what happened along the way was really weird.

But when faced with the angry old Hartman, Beckman showed no fear at all.

He gently wiped away the saliva that Old Hartman had sprayed on his face while he was speaking, and said in a calm tone:

"You ask me what's going on? Of course this is Lord Grindelwald's counterattack! It's impossible to only allow you to kill him but not allow him to fight back, right?"

"You fart! Grindelwald..."

Old Hartman retorted instinctively, but he stopped abruptly just as he finished speaking, and the anger on his face was instantly replaced by panic.

That little black gem door,

It actually opened by itself!