Chapter 440 Deep into the Secret Manor

To be honest, Maca flew a little recklessly today, because he felt that he might be in a hurry.

Although it was dark on the London side, it was still brightly lit on the New York side. As Maca glides over the city under the Disillusionment spell, he catches a distant glimpse of a group of Aurors Apparating in the shadows on a street corner.

Obviously, they have been very busy during this period of time.

After all, the Obscure's destructive ability is still very strong. It’s okay if it’s flying in the air, at most it’s just a group of dark fireworks. But if they wanted to dig through walls, then the Muggles would have a lot of fun.

...Oh, I remember, they were called 'No-Maj' in America?

Maca muttered casually, while raising the flying speed by another level, heading straight towards the north of New York.

His destination was the River Edge area in New Jersey that Joshua had told him about.

Not long after, he turned around abruptly, grabbed the magic book under his feet, and jumped down from the sky, falling far away to a certain piece of bare lawn.

The more buildings cast a lot of spells, the easier it is to spread complex magic waves. If you don't pay attention, Maca naturally won't be able to find it all at once, but right now he has already obtained the approximate location from Joshua.

When he was close to the ground, he swung his staff instantly, and a majestic updraft quickly offset his falling speed.

And when Kankan landed smoothly, he walked straight to the empty front.

It should be right here.

Maca stretched forward his left hand without the staff, groping in the air for a while. A few minutes later, as if he had grabbed something, he pulled it out lightly.

Immediately, he took a step forward without hesitation, sinking into an invisible barrier like a fish in water.

In fact, it would definitely be faster to use some brute force methods, but in fact, Maca still needs this barrier to help him cover it up, lest the American Aurors come too fast and affect what he has to do.

After entering the barrier, on the lawn with nothing in front of him, there was immediately a small private manor that didn't occupy too much land, but was quite luxuriously decorated.

A lot of spells have been arranged... Maca passed the iron gate directly in front of him, sensed the big house inside, and said to himself, It's not too troublesome.

In this manor, not only the defensive magic was solidified on the buildings, but also many warning spells were cast in the front garden. It's just that in Maca's view, these spells are not out of the normal category, and it won't take too much effort to break them.

At present, the other party still has hostages in his hands, and he doesn't want to alarm them by being too rough. In case someone threatens him with that girl named Zoe, should he do it? Is it better not to do it?

...If you really get to that point, let's talk about it!

Maca pointed the wand in his right hand towards the iron fence door, and moved forward with a surge of magic power, and the door opened silently in a blink of an eye.

He looked left and right, and after a little judgment, he took a step forward.

It was between those few steps Maca advanced that his entire body began to enter a rather rapid Animagus transformation. After only three or four steps, the huge body suddenly shrank into an inconspicuous hummingbird, and flew into the premise.

Although the warning spells in the garden are quite intricate, within the sensing range of Maca, the threads and symbols made of magic power are quite clear.

That's right, whether it's clever analysis or forcible destruction, it's a way to break into it. But in addition to this, there is a way to avoid this selectively.

Maca's Animagus form is surprisingly small and hovers remarkably stable in the air. Except for a few spells that exist in the form of faces, he can almost drill through them directly.

No matter how familiar, cracking always takes a certain amount of time, but avoiding them can somewhat save these time-consuming steps.

But I saw that little hummingbird jumping up and down quickly in the garden. Although it would occasionally pause for a few tens of seconds or a minute or two, most of the time it kept spinning forward.

Not long after, Maca came to a window on the first floor of the manor.

After he transformed back into a human form again, the staff tapped lightly on the window frame. At the moment when the spell was broken quietly, the window suddenly opened, and he nimbly rolled over and got in.

Once inside the house, the movement will be much smoother, after all, no one will put too many spells in the room that needs to be walked around from time to time.

After applying the Disillusionment Charm to himself, Maca walked quickly along the corridor.

It seems that there are quite a few people staying in the house, because he can indeed sense those somewhat abnormal magic fluctuations. But most of those people stayed in the room obediently—some stayed together several times, and some only stayed with one or two people.

Maca didn't know why the old wizard Lenny made such a distribution, but he knew that those strange fluctuations of magic power must be silent ones.

As for the two people he was looking for, one was an ordinary witch named Zoe, and the other was a dark wizard named Lenny. This means that he only needs to find the normal magic power fluctuations.

It's obviously not difficult for him, is it?

Maca wandered around the house, but he didn't see any of the silent people controlled by the old wizard, and every corridor seemed a bit empty.

Even though those people were all in the room, no one dared to walk out of their room casually, which shows that the old wizard's control over them is still very firm.

Have you spent a lot of thought? Maca stood in front of a descending staircase, looking at the underground floor submerged in darkness, and said to himself silently, After preparing for so long, I naturally want to take a good look at it. It’s not surprising that it’s a big fight.”

The vast majority of powerful dark wizards also have their own beliefs. It's just that this belief always deviates from the order, which leads to all kinds of disasters.

Although Maca disagreed with their intentions, his firm belief was worth affirming.

Now that you have chosen a path that belongs to you, you can only believe in yourself and keep going. The scene ahead of the magic journey is usually unknown.

If you want to blame, you can only blame them for going the wrong way from the beginning, that's all.

Maca just paused for a moment to raise his vigilance, and quickly raised his legs and walked into the darkness under the stairs.

This is a Z-shaped stone staircase. After turning a few turns, some faint light came from below. After Maca passed a platform again, he saw some low-brightness torches propped on the side stone wall.

The flames on those torches were all a bluish cold flame, still flickering slightly in the windless underground. Maca knew that those magic flames were so swaying because of the flow of magic power.

From the direction in which the flame swung, we could tell that there seemed to be some interesting things hidden underneath, which were constantly absorbing the magic power in the air, forcing them to flow in the same direction.

Maca turned his head to look at the flames, but his feet didn't stop at all, and he stepped on a long underground corridor in a short while.

From here on, the number of curse traces began to increase significantly again. Maca stepped forward cautiously. At the beginning, he undid a few trap spells casually, and then simply changed into an Animagus form again, passing through the gap in the corner.

There are very few rooms on both sides of this corridor, and a stone door will appear after a long distance. There were mostly empty rooms behind those stone doors. Maca cracked several of them in a row, and then didn't bother to continue to open and observe.

Thinking about it, this is only the second stronghold after all. The old wizard just moved from the mirror space of the monastery not long ago, so naturally he will not use all the places so quickly.

Well?

Maca, who was flying forward, suddenly stopped in mid-air, and after he sensed the space inside a stone door next to him again, he released his Animagus form.

And in the next second, as if he didn't intend to hide his existence any more, he pointed at the stone door with the staff in his hand.

boom!

A powerful shattering curse was shot out, completely blowing the thick stone door into pieces, and even destroying the magic spell attached to it.

When the stone chips were flying, he walked in against the rising dust, and immediately caught a glimpse of the slender figure with his hands hanging in mid-air.

Apart from this, there is nothing else in this underground stone chamber.

Looking at her clothes and appearance, she should be the Zoe that Joshua described, that's right, but... Maka stepped forward quickly, and stretched out her hand, ...It really is that the magic power collapsed, and she died?

He swung his staff suddenly, and a black skull headed straight for the woman, but easily passed through her body and disappeared behind her.

……Hopeless.

Maca frowned, thought for a while, then turned around and walked out decisively.

As Dumbledore said, don't pity the dead too much, because the living need help more. Right now, he must go to the source of the abnormal flow of magic power as soon as possible to take a look, and maybe he can gain something.

To put it bluntly, even those silent people here are not bad guys. What he is looking for is the culprit that caused all this to happen.

But just as he walked to the door, a strange fluctuation spread from the depths of the long corridor outside. The magic power in the air, which was constantly flowing in, suddenly increased at this moment.

...What the hell happened?