Hogwarts: Dirge of Magic

During the long and anxious waiting period.

The time had finally come for Nico Flamel and Dumbledore to arrive on Salisbury Plain.

Maybe it's because things go against each other, and Cassandra, who can't be idle, also squeezed on the sofa with Luna.

The two put their heads together.

Luna stared at the cross in front of her in a daze, while Cassandra had traces of crystal liquid hanging from the corner of her mouth.

"Hey?!"

Luna suddenly exclaimed excitedly.

"What happened!"

Cassandra was disturbed and woke up from her sweet dream, opened her emerald green eyes and shouted indiscriminately.

"Sifa has released the seal! Let's start working quickly!"

Luna jumped off the sofa, moved her stiff limbs and joints, and beckoned Cassandra to start working.

Cassandra also woke up at this time, she wiped the saliva from the corner of her mouth, and immediately joined the action.

She is so soft and boneless that she doesn't need to warm up!

"correct."

After moving Alice into the silver bucket that had been prepared earlier, Luna slapped her head and came to the portrait on the desk.

"Ariana..."

Following Luna's soft cry, the sleeping girl in the portrait slowly opened her eyes.

"The seal is lifted! We are going to start removing the parasitic demons for Alice!"

Arianna in the painting didn't answer, she just nodded slightly.

Then he opened a wooden door next to the painting, got into it and disappeared.

After seeing off Ariana, Cassandra also took off her coat for Alice, who was like a plastic model.

Luna steps forward and joins her in unleashing the physical Patronus.

Under the guidance of Lady Diana, the devil's egg in Alice's body was removed step by step.

At some point, Ariana, who left from the wooden door in the painting, came back again. She quietly looked at the busy figures of Luna and Cassandra, with a smile on her lips.

It seems that she is very happy to do something for her elder brother.

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Dumbledore, who was looking down at his pocket watch, was in a daze.

Suddenly, the girl he had been thinking about day and night appeared in the portrait.

The girl didn't speak, just smiled and nodded at him.

He trembled with excitement.

"Nico... let's get started..."

Dumbledore was so excited until the girl Ariana disappeared from the portrait, he stabilized his body and said in a trembling voice.

"Okay!" Nicole Flamel replied concisely.

The death of Ariana back then may have been its calculation, otherwise Gellert Grindelwald and Albus Dumbledore joined forces, and this era might really be changed by them.

On the day Xifa was born, I witnessed the change with my own eyes.

Although I was kicked out of the tomb by the two of them at the time, I didn't know what they discussed afterwards.But after living for so many years, it is normal to make guesses based on experience.

The one who manipulated Grindelwald was the culprit that caused the tragedy of Dumbledore's life.

Now, Dumbledore wants to intervene in its plan and complete part of its revenge!

Soon, a silver-white hexagram formation appeared over the Salisbury Plain.

A virtual frame building full of Gothic style is slowly presented.

In this dark night sky, it is like a small sun.

But because of the small means of two top wizards.

Residents in the vicinity expressed indifference to the miracle.

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On the European battlefield, flesh and blood flew everywhere.

The smoke and flames of war enveloped the border where Germany and France hand over.

The soldiers here don't know.

On the Salisbury Plain on the Scottish Isle across the English Channel.

The two great wizards who should lead them to 'victory' are silently collecting their dead souls.

In the Alps, in the nameless valley.

A small mechanical clock is keeping silent by the lake that Sifa has dived into.

Suddenly, the water of the lake stirred up waves, and a figure emerged from the water, and then he swam to the shore with difficulty.

Turning over, Yang Tian gasped for breath.

"Merlin, I must be crazy, because you handed me this scepter, I believed you and brought you out of the sealed place!"

As soon as the words fell, I saw a golden scepter with a length of more than ten centimeters trembling slightly around Xifa's waist, and then the bright blue gemstone on the top shone for me.

Merlin's ghost slowly floated in the air against the light.

"I'm crazy too, I decided to change my fate."

As soon as Merlin appeared, he laughed at himself.

"I didn't expect to bring you out, and the altar swallowed up so much magic power of me!"

Sifa struggled for a moment, trying to sit up, but eventually he gave up.

Just lying there, he put his hand into his pocket, trying to take out a potion that could replenish his strength.

"Heh—" Merlin snorted lightly. "The magic power didn't bring me out, but stayed behind to maintain the stability of the magic circle."

"Ah?" Xifa, who was about to pour the energy potion into his mouth, couldn't help but wonder.

"When the magic power you left behind disappears, if I don't return to the sealed land, then I will be sealed and sleep in the scepter." Merlin explained.

"That's okay. After all, there is half a day. Where do you want to go first?"

After drinking the energy potion, Sifer regained a little strength, got up from the ground, and looked around.

"I don't know, but I'm going to the battlefield!" Merlin said with a gloomy expression.

But Xifa ignored him for a long time.

"What's the matter?" Merlin floated to Xifa's side and asked.

"Something's wrong..." Sifa murmured, and then he bent down and took the motionless mechanical watch on the ground into his hand.

Check it out...it's not damaged, it's because the mainspring has run out.

"Merlin! Why did it take me three days to go to the sealed place once?" Thinking that there was a tool man beside him, Xifa asked in a low voice, panicked.

"This..." Merlin frowned, the scepter glowing all over.

After a while, in Xifa's feelings, it seemed that an invisible shackle opened from his body.

The severed connections around him were reconnected.

It's too late to experience it in detail.

"Crack-"

It was the sound of the shattering resonance ball at the waist.

Elise has been healed!

Seeing this, Xifa breathed a sigh of relief from the bottom of his heart.

The biggest goal of this trip has been achieved, but I just don’t know how to do it, so I really want to go back soon!

"Young man, you were deceived just now... I don't know who he is. But the flow of time after you meet me is no problem."

In other words, was there something wrong with my perception of time between the time I put down the clock and the time I saw Merlin?

Xifa's heart sank, but he was completely unaware of this matter, and even Merlin only felt it, and couldn't explain why.

Forget it, go back to Hogwarts first to see how Elise is doing, just ask Professor Dumbledore about it.

Even, Merlin should have a lot in common with Professor Dumbledore!

After finishing speaking, Xifa crushed the resonance ball in his hand that he returned safely.

In the Hogwarts Transfiguration Office, seeing the shattered resonance ball, even Elise, who was so weak lying on the sofa, cheered with Luna and Cassandra.

On the desk, Arianna, infected by laughter, reluctantly left the portrait.

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"Niko! The time has come! You come and cast the wraiths in Nurmengard, and I'll go see Gellert!"

After the words fell, Dumbledore disapparated and disappeared in front of Nico Flamel.

"You have to extract the labor force of the elderly who are hundreds of years old..."

Nicole Flamel waved his wand tremblingly, taking Dumbledore's place and complaining dissatisfiedly.

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Make a quick decision and try to finish writing this volume tomorrow and go to work tsk——