章 92: 092 Daily Life (Part-1)
It was a pitch-black night, with only a bright round moon hanging on the branches like a silver lantern. The furious waves, driven by the strong wind, slammed against the reef with a thousand pounds of force, creating huge splashes of water. The thunderous roar could shake one's soul, but it still could not overpower the murderous aura in the air of a huge palm forest not far from the coast.
Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!
Several red lights, accompanied by shrill screams, tore through the silence of the night, and made the deep night roll up like a curtain. The flashes of light illuminated the faces of fear and anger on both sides of the battle.
"Damn it, it's the Aurors, we've been ambushed!"
In the forest, seven or eight wizards in black robes were immediately thrown into panic. They looked around frantically, trying to find a way out. At the front of the crowd, a tall wizard with a scarred face shouted.
One after another, more than twenty Aurors from the British Ministry of Magic came out from behind the sparse palm trees. They wore dark blue robes with their badges shining on their chests. The commander of the operation was Drexel, a veteran Auror with a calm and confident expression. He looked at the panicked dark wizards with a cheerful smile.
"If you are willing to surrender, scums, the Wizengamot might show you some mercy. Before you are locked up in Azkaban, they will give you enough time to say goodbye to your loved ones!"
Splash!
The area had been sealed by an Anti-Disapparition Spell, so there was no hope of escaping by Apparition. In the midst of the chaos, a wizard suddenly turned into a ghostly shadow and shot straight into the sky, disappearing into the unfathomable dark night.
His departure made the trapped dark wizards curse angrily, and also made Drexel and his fellow Aurors gloomy.
"Kingsley, Robards, you take a team to the left. Savage, Tonks, you go to the right. Let's send these despicable smugglers to prison!"
The dangerous battle started immediately. The intense explosions turned this palm forest that had been cleared of Muggles into a sea of fire. The ground was shaking, the night was swaying, and in the scorching air, there were occasional whistles of curses tearing through space and wails of pain from wizards.
The well-trained Aurors cooperated tacitly, gradually devouring the living space of the dark wizards. But these brutal dark wizards were not some who would willingly wait for death. They fought separately, but they did not hesitate to use some magic that could easily take one's life. The situation was stalemate for a while. In a short time, no one could do anything about each other.
Floating one mile above the ground, Bryan stared coldly at the battlefield below, wondering what he was plotting.
Two months ago, Gringotts' treasure hunting team unearthed a large number of ancient artifacts and alchemical items from the Eleventh Dynasty in a pyramid buried deep in the desert.
The pure-blood families in the British magical world who were superficially glamorous but rotten behind their backs moved upon hearing the news. They issued a commission to intercept the artifacts through Kakus Fawley, a notorious dark wizard who had connections with many smugglers and mercenaries.
Because they had to cross many countries along the way, and the number and scale of artifacts were large, eventually, a 'large' 'transportation team' was born.
Bryan and his party entered the Mediterranean from Sidi Barrani, a coastal city in Egypt. When they rested in Heraklion, the largest city on Crete Island, they had a fierce fight with the Egyptian Ministry of Magic's Aurors who followed them. Then they crossed the Mediterranean and entered the Aegean Sea from the Tunisian Strait.
In order to avoid disturbing the magical departments of those countries along the way, Bryan and his party traveled along the coast all the way. Originally, their plan was not to enter any country. They would enter the Atlantic Ocean from the Strait of Gibraltar and cross the Bay of Biscay directly to London.
But this long journey made most people mentally exhausted. Some people even burned several flying brooms due to overuse. When they arrived at Montpellier in the Gulf of Lion, most people in the team changed their minds. They hoped to cross France and cross the English Channel back to London. In this way, the journey was almost halved.
The journey within France was uneventful. Even Bryan mistakenly thought that the European side of the magical department had not received the notification from the Egyptian magical department. But unexpectedly, as soon as they entered the British territory, they were blocked by their own people. It seemed that the French magical department should have learned some information early on. They knew that the final target of this group of powerful 'bandits' was not France, so they were happy to be idle.
Boom!
The violent roar drowned out all the noise on the battlefield. The tall wizard named Thanatos Hood raised his wand high, and powerful and ominous magic lurked in the clear crystal ball at the top of his wand.
"You bunch of scums who have sold your soul, are you ready to accept the punishment of death!"
As soon as Thanatos's words fell, the sand under everyone's feet suddenly fell into violent tremors. Under the shocked eyes of everyone, the sand cracked open a large crack, and the black crack spewed out a foul wind, as if it led directly to hell.
Crack!
Immediately afterwards, a bone-white hand stretched out from the unfathomable darkness, and directly clasped the edge of the crack.
"What the hell is this monster"
Tonks, who had only been an Auror for two years and was not very experienced, was scared and her hair changed color like a neon light, murmuring to herself.
"It looks like–"
The Aurors spontaneously gathered together from the chaotic battlefield, and stared at the huge skeleton that had two black flames burning in its eye sockets, and was twenty feet tall, and looked very scary.
Kingsley gasped and said, "It should be the skeleton of a fire dragon. I'm not an expert in this field. I can't tell what kind of fire dragon it is. Hiss, they are really a group of extremely evil guys!"
"Just for this magic–"
Drexel, who came to his senses from the surprise, glared at Thanatos, his eyes burning with anger. "You will have to stay in Azkaban for ten more years!"
An even more intense battle broke out. Of course, this time, the underworld guys had the upper hand. They hid behind the huge bone dragon and shot out curses from the gaps in the bones. The Aurors were forced by the bone dragon that kept roaring fiercely onto a high slope. It seemed that they were doomed.
Whoosh!
But at this moment, a tea-brown-haired wizard with a few gray hairs in his eyebrows and a sharp look like a hunting lion suddenly appeared in a place very close to the battlefield after removing his invisibility. His wand tip spit out brilliant firelight, and the huge fire dragon was blasted into pieces of broken bones by the rapidly expanding air, and fell from the sky.
Thanatos spurted out a mouthful of blood, his face wilted and fell to the ground, his trembling fingertips and incredulous eyes pointed at the wizard who suddenly appeared, his lips quivered as if he wanted to say something, but he couldn't say a word.
"I told you,"
Rufus Scrimgeour turned his head and looked at his somewhat embarrassed subordinates on the high slope, and said in a stern voice, "Don't be scared by these scum's false strength, you have to see through the enemy's reality!"
The head of the Ministry of Magic's Auror Office, Rufus Scrimgeour, who was famous in the magical world for his courage and wisdom, appeared on the battlefield. His appearance broke the fragile balance on the battlefield. The Aurors knocked out one dark wizard after another with their renewed confidence and determination. In the end, only Thanatos was still dodging in the stormy curses, but his fate seemed to be doomed.
"Golden Viper!"
Thanatos, who was blown out by Scrimgeour's curse, rolled on the scorched sand for several times before barely stopping. His robe was torn and tattered, blood oozed from his nostrils, and seeing Scrimgeour waving his wand again, he had no way out. He suddenly raised his head and looked at the night sky above his head, and shouted angrily, "I know you are still here, Viper. As long as you are willing to save me, I will give you half of my reward!"
Author's Note: I have Rewritten the 2nd chapter too, The core story remains the same only the grammar errors and crude paragraphs have been refined.
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章 93: 093 Daily Life (Part-2)
"Golden Viper!"
Bryan's junior, Nymphadora Tonks, suddenly changed her face. Her spirited eyebrows trembled incessantly, and she stared at the night sky where there was nothing but a bright moon. She gasped urgently,
"Is he the dark wizard who killed a bunch of werewolves in the underground world, and even almost killed Greyback?"
Floating in mid-air, Golden Viper almost twisted his nose with anger. His silver mask glinted in the moonlight, hiding his true identity. If it weren't for the contract he signed when he accepted the commission, which stipulated that all the members of their temporary team were not allowed to attack each other, he might have given Thanatos a hard blow.
'This idiot, is he afraid that I won't be noticed by the Ministry of Magic?'
"Shut up, idiot!"
A shadow flashed by, and Golden Viper descended from the air like a hunting falcon. He shouted at Thanatos who was still screaming for help, and then his cold eyes swept over the Aurors opposite him. He only stayed on Tonks's face for a very short moment, and a smile that no one noticed flashed across his face behind the twisted magic vortex.
Bryan was two grades higher than Tonks. This cheerful girl was very popular among boys when she was in school, because she was a natural Metamorphmagus who could easily change her appearance. This kind of fun… ahem, this kind of talent was very rare and interesting!
In fact, she especially liked to imitate the faces of professors when she was in school. Because of this, she was locked up by several professors including Snape. Bryan had 'coexisted' with her for a period of time in the second semester of the fifth grade. The two were not friends, but they were acquaintances.
However, since Bryan graduated from school, he has never had any contact with any of the Hogwarts students.
Including Scrimgeour, those who were swept by Golden Viper's eyes felt like they were poured a bucket of cold water on their heads. The chill went from outside to inside, reaching their souls. Most of the Aurors present were experienced veterans who had gone through countless life-and-death situations. They had a much better intuition for danger than ordinary wizards. They could feel that the mysterious wizard in front of them was stronger than all those scum they had just defeated combined!
"I can't breathe."
Tonks looked shocked, her forehead sweaty, she secretly patted her chest and whispered, "Quickly go to Hogwarts and ask Albus Dumbledore!"
"Shut up, Tonks!"
'Strong-willed' Scrimgeour glared at Tonks fiercely. He responded to Bryan's calm gaze with a tough look, but his mind was stormy. He had to admit that he was a bit too big this time. He didn't expect that there would be such a dangerous guy among these smugglers!
"Can you please pretend that you haven't met us tonight?"
A voice full of vicissitudes and hoarseness came from behind the twisted vortex. It sounded polite, but anyone knew that this tone was disguised by magic.
There are many Aurors present, but only one has the right to make decisions. Rufus knew that Golden Viper's words were addressed to him, and he also knew very well that if he gave a negative answer, then next, this dark wizard who had fought against those brutal werewolves several times and suppressed Greyback and dozens of werewolves led by him head-on, and almost killed them all would probably not continue to ask politely.
The underground world of Knockturn Alley was a very headache-inducing existence for every generation of the Ministry of Magic.
On the one hand, most of the wizards who operated there were faction wizards. Although Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry had been the main place for wizarding education for hundreds of years, these faction wizards had a longer history that could be traced back to before Merlin.
Wizards revered tradition. If the Ministry of Magic decided to strangle the dark and mysterious underground world's wizards, they would probably get very limited support. In addition, many of the existing Sacred Twenty-Eight families had connections with some of the forces in the underground world. They would also bring considerable resistance.
There is also a very important point. Although for so many years, the Magical Law Enforcement Department has been secretly collecting information on active wizards in the underground world and has indeed dealt with some 'small characters', but for some powerful guys, the Ministry of Magic has always had no good way.
For example, Greyback committed countless heinous crimes that were too numerous to list, but for so many years, the Ministry of Magic had never been able to catch him, let alone the one in front of them who almost "annihilated" the werewolves - Golden Viper!
"The Ministry of Magic will not bow to evil."
Scrimgeour's face was cold and stern. His sharp yellow eyes glowed with a hint of red. He lifted his wand defiantly and said coldly,
"Leave this–"
Kingsley discreetly pulled Tonks's robe and said quietly, "Go to the Ministry for backup, or as you said, go to Hogwarts and ask Albus Dumbledore for help. Move as fast as you can, Tonks. We can't guarantee how long we can hold on–"
Before Tonks could reply, Golden Viper's voice that sounded like gravel scraping against metal had already passed.
"Then I can only say sorry, everyone–"
"Attack!" Scrimgeour suddenly roared, and in an instant, the dazzling curse light bursting from the tips of the Aurors' wands like sparks illuminated the night with a clear sky.
A silver slash sliced through the tense air, which easily suppressed the colorful curse light with its fleeting and bleak brilliance. The sharp buzzing that could pierce the eardrum made the space shudder as if an earthquake had struck!
The battle ended very quickly, or even in an instant.
Thanatos looked at a group of brave and skilled Aurors who fell to the ground and couldn't get up, bleeding from their ears and noses with a metallic taste in their mouths, and quietly opened his mouth.
Bryan walked towards a group of Aurors, and the spinning wand tip sprayed out strands of shiny silver mist. These silver mists between reality and illusion floated to those Aurors and entered their brains from their temples.
"What are you doing, Golden Viper? I think we'd better not kill them. That would bring us a lot of trouble."
"I'm dealing with the trouble you idiot brought me!"
Golden Viper, who was carefully doing something, turned his head and glared at Thanatos coldly.
Thanatos seemed to want to defend himself, but considering Golden Viper's strength, Thanatos didn't say anything. He shrank his neck in fear and looked down at the ground scattered with a large area of bone dragon bone ash. His distressed face was twitching and he muttered curses under his breath.
The rest of his companions were soon awakened. With Thanatos's explanation, they all understood who saved them from going to prison.
"Everyone needs to pay me 20% of the commission income as a reward, and you, Thanatos, you need to pay 50%."
Golden Viper's words in a calm tone caused great dissatisfaction among his companions. They complained bitterly against Golden Viper's 'unreasonable' demand. Only Thanatos didn't say anything. It's not that he was a person who kept his promises, but he witnessed Golden Viper's neatly defeating a group of Aurors. He thought it would be better not to provoke this dangerous guy anymore.
"Even if we don't give it, you can't do anything to us. Golden Viper, you can't attack us. This is a violation of the contract!"
In the angry crowd, a clever guy yelled angrily, and his words also reminded others,
"No one begged you to save us. Golden Viper, you are totally self-righteous!"
Another person sneered. For this scene, Golden Viper was not surprised. He was not naive enough to expect that this group of people with no bottom line would be grateful to him.
"I can't attack you indeed–"
Golden Viper cast a shimmering magic shield that glowed with blinding white light and enclosed everyone inside like a cage, while he stood outside the shield, smirking. With a scornful, twisted smile, Golden Viper said in a low, menacing voice,
"But I can wake up these Aurors from their slumber. I think they will be delighted to see you surrender voluntarily."
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