Chapter 202 Dracula is playing with himself

According to Nico Flamel, even though a hundred years have passed, the time-turner now launched by the Department of Mysteries is still not a complete version.

The energy of time is too mysterious and unpredictable, and it has been difficult for wizards to fully grasp it from ancient times to the present.

If you misuse the energy of time without fully understanding it, the most likely thing that will happen is that like the silent person at the end of the 19th century, Eloise Mintumble, the timeline will completely collapse and she will die. In the long river of time.

For this reason, the Ministry of Magic had to impose various restrictions on the application of time turners to ensure that the timeline would not have as big an accident as it did back then.

However, the Department of Mysteries is unwilling to abandon the huge treasure of time energy and wants to continue to promote the research on time energy.

Therefore, they need more time travel samples for deduction.

It is precisely because of this demand that the Silent Man of the Department of Mysteries thought of a way to increase research samples through young wizards.

Those young wizards with excellent academic performance have been guaranteed by Hogwarts professors and principals, and are confirmed to be good students who are willing to abide by the rules and obey the school's arrangements. This can ensure to the greatest extent that they use the time turner within the strict regulations.

Of course, it is not enough to rely solely on the consciousness of the little wizards and the guarantee of the professors.

The Ministry of Magic made a second insurance for this: a one-hour reversal spell was applied to the Time Turner to increase stability during use. The number of times the hourglass placed on the time turner is turned corresponds to the number of hours the little wizard has returned to the past. Each turn can go back one hour.

The time turner can rotate up to five times, which means it can go back up to five hours.

Five hours is the maximum amount of time the Department of Mysteries Time Chamber can go back to ensure a stable state of the timeline.

It has been calculated that within five hours, the self-repairing ability of the timeline can restore the vast majority of changed events and make those events logically consistent.

In addition, because the little wizards are not fully developed yet, the magic power in their bodies usually does not naturally grow to its peak level. Driving these wizards back in time can save a lot of time and energy.

So giving little wizards access to time turners is a great idea!

But the silent people had never imagined that there would be such an unreasonable professor in Hogwarts, who actually deceived the time turner from his own students...

Dracula was leaning on the bookshelf in the office, chuckling and playing with the time turner in his hand. Then he stretched out his long index finger and casually moved the hourglass placed in the metal circle of the time turner pendant five times. Second-rate.

The next moment, although he was still leaning quietly on the bookshelf without making any movement, he felt like he was flying backward very fast.

All kinds of cloud-like shapes passed before Dracula's eyes; at the same time, something seemed to be tapping in his ears, which even made him a little annoyed.

So he blocked some of his senses, and then turned his head to look at the scene outside the window.

Dracula vaguely saw that the blue sky outside the window was changing like a fast-forward movie, with countless magnificent clouds flying rapidly.

Gradually, the sun high in the sky retreated silently, and gradually set at the end of the black lake in the distance. It was blocked by the low hills of the Scottish Highlands, leaving only a golden flash in the end.

The bright sky gradually darkened, and the stars quietly pushed away the white clouds, occupying the sky that should have been illuminated by the sun.

After a long while, the clouds and mist over Lake Mo disappeared in front of me, and the pounding in my ears stopped.

Dracula held the time turner in his left hand, pushed open the office door with his right hand, came to the corridor, and looked at the distant scene of Hogwarts.

It was just dawn, and at the end of the black lake there was a golden light that broke through the patchwork curtain of stars, quietly illuminating the darkest hour of the day.

The sky is still dark, and this is the most appreciative moment of Dracula's day.

There is neither dazzling sunlight nor eternal darkness, and the best balance is reached between light and darkness.

Dracula, who belongs to this time period, should be standing on the shore of the Black Lake now, admiring the giant squid in the lake and the games of the little wizards playing all night in the Slytherin common room...

Dracula happily put the time turner into his pocket, then jumped directly over the railing of the corridor, preparing to fly to the black lake to surprise his past self.

However, in the process of jumping down, Dracula suddenly saw the black and red cloak flying behind him, and couldn't help but fell into deep thought...

If you were to meet your past self while wearing your own representative clothes, wouldn't you be instantly recognized?

It was a trivial matter to violate the image of the hooded man he had seen before. Dracula didn't care about complicated and difficult things like the laws of time; but if his past self discovered in advance that it was his future self who traveled back to fight with him, it would be a serious matter. That's a big deal.

Dracula understood that with his acumen, as long as his past self discovered a little clue, he would immediately understand the truth of the matter "telepathically".

In this way, he can also guess the various magics he will use and take precautions against them.

Even if the idea of ​​​​fighting him will not change, if his past self knows that the attacker is himself, then the fun of this kind of sneak attack will immediately become much less fun.

Not only that, Dracula has already fought once and has the advantage of foresight of his past actions.

If his past self were to discover the truth of the matter, he would definitely change his strategy for dealing with the enemy. If a single move affects the whole body, the original advantage of foresight may no longer exist.

Without the advantage of foresight, coupled with the inability to use the signature magic that exposes himself, and the inability to use the spooky wooden wand that he has become accustomed to, under this disadvantageous situation, Dracula may really lose to the past. of myself.

This was something he couldn't accept at all.

It would be so shameless to lose to my past self!

Dracula looked up at the sky and saw the golden light at the end of the black lake in the distance slowly moving up. Knowing that there was not much time left for dawn, he couldn't help but feel a sense of urgency in his heart.

He summoned a dark moon and teleported it to Madam Malkin's clothing store in Diagon Alley, preparing to pick out a set of clothes that could hide his identity.

The fat Mrs. Malkin was as dedicated as ever. She got up early in the morning and came to the store. She was humming a song while sorting out the various wizard costumes in the store, looking very relaxed.

The next moment, Dracula in black and red robes suddenly appeared in the store, startling her.

"You...who are you? Do you...robbery?" Mrs. Malkin tremblingly raised her wand and pointed it at Dracula.

Then, she saw Dracula's long silver hair and handsome and charming face.

Her face immediately relaxed and even turned a little rosy, "Ah, sir, I guess you are not a bad person."

She put her wand down and quietly looked at Dracula out of the corner of her eye.

"Well, hurry up, get me a hooded cloak that I can wear now." Time was running out, Dracula said in a hurry.

"Ah, are you in a hurry?" Mrs. Malkin asked in surprise, "Let me tell you, for a handsome and tall clothesman like you, of course you would be most handsome in a custom-made wizard robe... Although you wear Whatever clothes you wear must look good.”

"Stop talking nonsense, hurry up and get a suit of clothes that suits me. I need it urgently now." Dracula interrupted Mrs. Malkin's flattery irritably and quickly ordered, "It's best to have something that can cover the whole body. The kind that makes others unable to recognize me at all.”

"Uh...huh?" Mrs. Malkin opened her eyes wide.

She was starting to get a little scared now.

Who is it that he wants to hide his image? Is this a dark wizard who is preparing to go out to commit murder? After he gets the clothes, will he kill himself to keep it secret?

It's no wonder that Mrs. Malkin is timid. A man in black appeared in her shop before dawn. As soon as he entered, he aggressively asked for clothes that could cover his whole body and make others unrecognizable. He didn't wait for a moment. No, who wouldn’t be afraid of this?

Of course, if that person is handsome, it may alleviate the fear a little bit...

"What are you still doing here, go find it quickly." Dracula impatiently took out a large bag of gold galleons from the pocket that had been casted by the Traceless Stretching Charm, and threw it on the counter of Mrs. Malkin's clothing store. "Is this enough money?"

"That's enough!" Mrs. Malkin immediately beamed when she saw the weight of the bag of gold galleons. "This money can almost buy all the clothes in our family!"

"Then go quickly and remember my request!" Dracula said coldly.

"Okay!" Mrs. Malkin nodded and happily went to find clothes for Dracula.

As for whether this is a dark wizard about to commit murder?

Do not make jokes! Such a handsome man, he is so rich, what can't he do? Why do he have to do bad things?

Driven by her power, Madam Malkin moves very quickly.

In less than two minutes, she used magic to take out a gorgeous red wizard cloak from the warehouse. The cloak was embroidered with complicated patterns and had a large hood on the back, which could completely cover her face.

In addition to this cloak, Mrs. Malkin also thoughtfully prepared matching gloves, shoes, masks and linings for Dracula, which can prevent any skin from Dracula's body from being exposed.

Satisfied, Dracula changed into his gorgeous red cloak in the fitting room, put on his mask and gloves, and stood in front of the fitting mirror to take a look.

Sure enough, the hooded man he saw before appeared in front of him again.

"Dear guest, with your temperament and this outfit, you are like a leader in the magic world!" the fitting mirror said flatteringly.

Mirrors in the magical world all look like this. They always like to talk to the people looking in the mirror and point out their image problems.

The clothing store is different. The mirror prefers to praise others and urge them to pay the bill.

Dracula glanced sideways at the dressing mirror, not knowing how the mirror could reveal his temperament and appearance when he was wrapped so tightly...

Ignoring the dressing mirror who was speechless and Mrs. Malkin who was waiting outside and wanted to chat with him for a few more words, Dracula walked straight out of Mrs. Malkin's clothing store and left the opposite corner with the dark moon. lane.

Then, he randomly picked up a pine tree branch on the high ground where Hogwarts is located, stuffed a piece of his own hair into it, and it became a simplified wand.

Dracula originally didn't want to use a wand, but this simplified version of the wand was not easy to use.

But wizards in the entire magical world are more accustomed to using wands to fight. There may not be many wizards like Dracula who can cast spells without a wand at a higher level than fighting with a wand.

If he put down his wand and cast spells without a wand, he would reach the top level of a great wizard. Then Dracula in the past would have realized the problem without even thinking about it.

Fortunately, Dracula gained a lot of wand-making experience due to his previous study of Ron's ash wand that fired spells backwards, so this improvised wand is not completely unusable...

The starlight slowly faded, and the golden light at the end of the black lake gradually filled the entire horizon.

Before the end of dawn, Dracula, wearing a gorgeous red cloak, finally caught up with the duel between his future and his past self.

With his hand covered with thick gloves, he waved the ordinary wand in his hand——

A crimson blade of light shot towards the silver-haired figure who was watching the scenery by the lake.

He had to admit that there was indeed a trace of murderous intention in his heart.

Dracula wanted to try to see how his current self would be affected if he really killed his past self...

However, the figure by the lake became alert at the moment when the murderous intention emerged, and suddenly turned sideways to avoid the attack.

The end of the light blade narrowly missed his throat and flew into the water without any hesitation, splitting the lake in half in an instant. The dividing line drawn by the air on the lake did not spread for a long time. .

On the dividing line, many swimming fish are cut into two sections, and the cut surface is as smooth as a mirror.

"How many years..." The figure by the lake turned over his palm and looked at the slender fingertips, his eyes a little blurry.

There was a drop of bright red blood on his pale fingertips, and the drop of blood seemed to be emitting a strange luster.

"It's been so many years since I've experienced what it feels like to be injured." He gently licked the blood from his fingertips, revealing the two side teeth near his mouth.

"Then I would like to know, who are you?"

Dracula didn't speak, just stood there quietly.

He was worried that once he spoke, even if he changed his voice, his past experiences had created his unique way of using words and language habits, and his past self would be easily discovered.

So, Dracula proved his intention with actions——

He slowly raised the ordinary wand in his hand.

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