Chapter 501 Manchak Swamp
Manchac Swamp, near New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. This wetland, which is soaked in stagnant water and sapropel mud for most of its area, has a name that is widely circulated in the Muggle world-Ghost Swamp.
Since ancient times, there have been many people who have been buried in this strange swamp, whether they are Muggles or wizards, there have been many unfortunate victims.
For this reason, the U.S. Ministry of Magic has already sent Aurors there to cast a spell to drive away Muggles.
After all, wizards usually stay away when they know that there is inexplicable danger there. But Muggles are always like a curious cat, knowing where there is danger but just wanting to go there.
Of course, sometimes don't take everything wizards say seriously. Because they often talk about it, and when they turn around, they may run to find out what happened!
Just like recently, there was an elderly wizard on the edge of this ghost swamp. Maybe it's because he's old and has nothing to do, or maybe he's playing with his spare heat... In short, he is obviously just such an old adventurer who wants to go in and feel the mysterious atmosphere.
It's just because he knew that the abnormality in it couldn't be judged by common sense, so he just entrenched on the periphery and didn't dare to get involved in it for a long time.
In the past few days, it was the period when the swamp was full of miasma. Looking in from the outside, there was a vast expanse of green everywhere, and it was almost impossible to see the distance.
...It's been several days since the time to do it, is there something wrong with the plan?
The old wizard stood on the edge of the swamp, staring directly at the miasma in front of him, his deep and sharp eyes almost penetrated into the center of the swamp.
This old wizard is not an old adventurer, but the first generation of Dark Lord, the powerful dark wizard who turned the entire European magic world upside down - Mr. Gellert Greenwald.
But now he is not a strong person. After losing to his old friend and opponent Dumbledore, all the magic power in his body was completely imprisoned by Dumbledore, and even he was imprisoned in Nurmengard Wizard Prison For more than fifty years.
Now even though he left the prison tower, the curse that imprisoned him was automatically lifted. But that magic power has been unable to flow for many years, and has already lost most of its activity. Even if it can use magic, it only has the ability to cook a meal and so on. And this is because of his strong talent and abundant magic power. If it were someone else, he would be a squib who can't use magic at all.
But his powerful magic can't be used, but his brain is not bad. For such a rare hero in the world, the shrewdness of the mind may be far more terrifying than magic.
Let's look at Maca, who has a powerful strength that is unparalleled in a million, and his brain is not slow, but he still unconsciously falls into his way. The depth of his wisdom can be seen from this.
This time, his purpose is actually very simple.
The long life in captivity made him understand many things and some of his mistakes in the past. It's just that he is not repenting for the killings and ambitions of the past years, he just feels that everything he has done in the past is superfluous and ridiculous.
He and Dumbledore, once close friends, may be somewhat similar in some respects, because they both have firm beliefs in pursuit. But among them, there are more diametrically opposite behavioral philosophies.
He lost that year, and after the failure, he also reflected on it, and even had the idea of moving closer to Dumbledore because of his admiration for him.
But Greenwald has always been Greenwald, even though he has turned those many desires into a desire for a personal magic path, he still walks on his own path.
A long time ago, Greenwald obtained the scraps of Helbo the mean, and deciphered some information about this swamp from it. When he knew that he might be able to catch up with Dumbledore soon with the help of that ancient mirror, he chose to leave Nurmengard without hesitation and go on a journey to pursue Dumbledore.
However,
No matter how careful the plan is, it will also change due to the actual situation. This is the unbreakable truth of the world. The scene that was originally expected did not seem to arrive on time.
Just when Greenwald hunched his back slightly and had some doubts in his heart, a change that he had been expecting for a long time happened—right in the depths of the miasma-filled swamp, there was a sudden slight vibration, and in an instant, to the ground he stepped on.
The vibrations came one after another, each time with a gap of more than ten seconds.
It's started...it's finally started...
Even with Greenwald's current state of mind, he couldn't help but feel joy right now. On the calm lake of his heart, waves appeared with each shock, and there was a tendency to intensify.
In fact, if Maca was here, he might be able to sense a strange scene—the surrounding magic power was shaking stronger than after another, like a tsunami rushing in waves one after another, but the gathering place was More than one place.
In the huge swamp in front of Greenwald, there are a total of six locations that are absorbing a lot of magic power. What's even more surprising is that something invisible to the naked eye suddenly jumped out of the swamp, mixed with the wave of magic power, and swam inward at a high speed.
Those little things seemed to be wisps of tiny black smoke, but they also seemed to be tadpoles dragging their tails. Yes, they were more like some kind of unknown living thing than smoke.
Normally, most of them would lurk in the swamp and choose people to eat, but the change at this moment seemed to attract them, and they gathered in large swamps deep in the swamp.
Greenwald didn't have the ability to sense these weird scenes, but he stayed where he was, without showing the slightest impatience. Hai Erbo's notes clearly stated that at this time, one must wait patiently, and it is not yet time to go in and harvest the results.
At this moment, there was a faint click sound from the depths of the swamp. If the sound seemed to be fleeting, if you didn't pay attention carefully, you would not notice it at all.
But as this inconspicuous movement suddenly sounded, Greenwald immediately felt the vibration under his feet become even bigger! The astonishing tremors no longer appeared in bursts, but continued to shake. Greenwald hurriedly supported a big tree beside him, so as not to be knocked down to the ground all at once.
But the shock came and went quickly. In a blink of an eye, six light spots suddenly shot up in the swamp, reflecting the sunlight in the sky, turning into six arcs and gathering towards the center of the swamp.
If you get closer, you may be able to see clearly, those are the six mirror fragments that are as clean as new. Look at the posture of flying together, it seems that they are about to merge into one.
Almost at the moment when the fragments of the ancient mirror were put together, the little tadpoles who had gathered in the depths of the swamp all merged into the misty mirror as if they had found their mother.
The earthquake stopped, and the ancient magic mirror successfully escaped from the seal. The source of disaster, which was enough to create a catastrophe, reappeared in the world.
Greenwald waited calmly at the edge of the swamp, but he did not know when a silver-gray necklace was added in his hand, and the black gemstone inlaid on it still exuded a calm atmosphere.
Not long after, an invisible and obscure wave suddenly spread out from the center of the swamp, and it swept across the entire swamp in an instant, and spread out further.
Needless to say, Greenwald is also caught in the range covered by fluctuations.
However, before the weird shock and contraction occurred, he hung the necklace around his neck. Immediately, the black gem pendant hanging on his chest immediately diffused a circle of gloomy gray air, covering his whole body.
Boom!
The soul shock caused by the mysterious ancient mirror finally began to show its power, and several villages near here in the distance were within its envelope. For a moment, nearly a hundred translucent souls were shaken out of people's bodies, and they were forced to fly towards the center of the swamp under a force that only targeted souls.
Of course, they couldn't hear the sound like the beating of war drums. The only one who could hear it was Greenwald at this moment.
His necklace, which he got from nowhere, withstood the shock, protected his soul, and narrowly escaped the catastrophe.
However, it was faintly visible that the gray gas around his body also decreased a bit.
Knowing that this necklace might not be able to withstand too many shocks, in order to successfully control the magical ancient magic mirror, he must rush to the center of the swamp as soon as possible.
Greenwald did this, of course, not to use it in front of Dumbledore's body, he was never such a hypocritical person. That plan was just the icing on the cake. What he wanted was to become the master of that ancient mirror and hold that passage firmly in his hands!
It's not his Greenwald style to never go back.
...
In the deep mountains of Albania, in the stone chamber of the underground palace.
Maca stood aside, looking at the broken mirror of the Mirror of Erised, with a thoughtful expression on his face. And his left hand was gently supporting Helen who had fainted, and placed her on the spread blanket.
Just now, he took out the Mirror of Erised, and then readily handed over the rest to Helen. Although she was still hesitant at first, she quickly made up her mind as if she remembered something.
I don't know what Greenwald told her. Maca only knew that when Helen just stood in front of the mirror, it didn't take long for the power in her body to boil. And in that mirror, a group of clearly visible black mist is constantly shrinking, trembling, shrinking again...
In the end, the black mist in the mirror seemed to be about to explode, and suddenly swelled up, completely blowing the mirror to pieces!
