Chapter 431: Wu Cui Party Banquet

The fire in the fireplace was burning, making the room warm.

Wade threw a few pine logs into the fireplace, poked them with the tongs, then curled up on the sofa and started reading.

After he helped Moro edit the video and taught him how to use it, Wade's treatment quietly increased a lot. Delain not only changed him to a suite with a fireplace, but also asked someone to send him a lot of magic books.

The bad thing is that most of the books are in German, and some are even written in ancient ways.

Wade has never learned German, so he asked for a dictionary and read it while understanding it, which was a bit difficult for him to read.

Fortunately, English and German had the same roots a long time ago, and there are similarities in writing. Some words are even exactly the same, which makes it not as difficult for him to learn a completely new language.

When Moro is free, he will come to him, sometimes helping Wade translate German books into English, and sometimes teaching him some German writing and reading methods. When Wade reads a word wrong, he often sees this guy holding his belly and laughing and pounding the floor, and he doesn't know what associations he has.

The book in Wade's hand recorded some famous witchcraft events in ancient Germany, and even included events that were mistaken for witchcraft but were actually persecutions between Muggles.

In Britain, or in Hogwarts, it is rare to see such books. Most of them may have been hidden and students are prohibited from accessing and reading. Wade had seen some in the Black House, but not many.

But here in Grindelwald, he didn't mind young wizards knowing about the dark history of the past.

For example, in the 16th century, the archbishop at that time ordered the purge of witches, Protestants and Jews. Hundreds of people from 22 villages in Trier, Germany were burned alive. Many of them were local sheriffs, judges and councilors, and even priests were not spared.

The author had personal experience in the witch-hunting movement. At the end of his record, he wrote:

[The poor Weber family was the only real wizard who died in this incident. When the neighbor knocked on the door, he might have thought that the other party was inviting him to drink two glasses of beer as usual, but he didn't expect that a sharp axe was coming towards him. 】

【After Weber was killed, his wife and his two children under the age of ten were not spared. Even more tragically, the neighbor who attacked them first did not gain any benefit from this betrayal. Instead, he was suspected of being possessed by the devil and sentenced to immediate death. 】

【From the capital to the mountain village, from Trier to Saxony, from the archon to the shepherd, no matter what their identity and where they lived, as long as they were suspected of being a witch, they would be sentenced to death. 】

【Hanging, burning, quartering, slow slicing, dismemberment, explosion... People used any torture they could think of to deal with their own kind. Even if there was only one witch among a thousand people, or even none, they still resolutely carried out this massacre. 】

【They didn't worry about killing their own kind by mistake, or this was one of their original purposes. 】

【The execution scene was cruel and terrible, but the onlookers applauded. They cheered and laughed, as if they had forgotten that they would become the next victim. This collective madness made me feel deeply afraid, as if everyone had turned into a devil and the world was a terrifying hell. ]

[The Ignore Charm doesn't always work. Squibs and gifted people hiding among Muggles can see through the disguise of magic. ]

[I dare not use magic anymore. I burned all the magic books and hid my wand in the deepest part of the basement. I luckily escaped this round of cleansing, but when will the next round come? ]

[The Schmidt family has been out of contact for more than two months. I don't know if they are still alive. This evening, I accidentally used wandless magic to repair the broken wheel. I don't know if Miller next door saw that scene. I always feel that he looked at me in a strange way. ]

[Perhaps hiding among Muggles is not a rational approach. The only way to protect us is to stay away from them completely, or even live underground like the ancient wizards, so as to avoid the same tragedy. 】

【Life will definitely become inconvenient away from people, but compared to the fear of waiting for the butcher's knife to fall, being able to sleep peacefully is better than anything else...】

"Knock, knock."

The door was knocked a few times. Wade put down the book and said loudly, "Come in!" while adding a few more firewood to the fireplace.

In fact, the house was very warm, but the content he just read made him feel an inescapable chill all over his body.

"Hi, Wade!"

It was Morrow who came in. He smiled and said, "You are reading again! They are all back and are holding a banquet in the hall. Come with me to join in the fun!"

"Banquet?" Wade shook his head and said, "I won't go."

"I know you don't want to reveal your identity. Don't worry, I'm ready!"

Morrow took out a bottle of polyjuice potion and put it on the small table next to Wade, saying, "Go and join. Otherwise, if you stay in the room all day, I'm worried that you will become stupid! And Mr. Grindelwald didn't say he would imprison you."

Wade looked at the bottle of polyjuice potion and his heart moved.

He had no interest in the banquet, but he did need to go out for a walk. Especially after reading the history that was more horrible than the horror story, Wade felt that he urgently needed fireworks and popularity to dispel the chill.

He put down the book, picked up the potion, sniffed it, and then drank it.

...

A few minutes later, Moreau walked through the corridor with a young wizard with brown hair and very white skin.

"How about it, the guy I chose for you looks good, right?" Moreau said, "From now on I'll call you Braun!"

"Brown?"

"Yes, you were originally 'gray', now 'brown', so you don't forget your name by accident."

They walked through the foyer and entered the hall where the banquet was held.

Unlike the bright and colorful hall of Hogwarts, the hall of this castle seemed to be gray, dimly lit, and filled with smoke.

There were long tables around the hall that could seat more than a dozen people, filled with food and drinks. In front of the fireplace, several people were holding instruments such as guitars and accordions, talking and singing.

Most people were eating and drinking, some people were walking around with wine glasses, some were holding long pipes or cigarettes and puffing, and there were more than a dozen people dancing in the open space in the middle, and there were some guys standing next to them watching and cheering.

Wade thought that Grindelwald's banquet was very serious, or elegant and polite, but he didn't expect it to be similar to the atmosphere of an ordinary tavern.

"You can eat or sing, and you can also invite a beautiful girl to dance!"

Moro leaned next to him and said, "It's okay if you want to drink two glasses of strong liquor today. I will send you back if you get drunk! Do whatever you want, my dear friend, you have a share in the victory!"

His voice was a little loud, and a brown-haired girl passing by with a plate just happened to hear it. She glanced at Wade and smiled, revealing two small canine teeth. The smile was very cute.

Wade took a glass of red wine, but he didn't plan to drink it. He walked to the fireplace, found a stool and sat down, leaning against the wall to listen to the people singing.

"The wind of magic blew through the quiet town, and the ancient bells broke the dream...Under the old oak tree, the wizard danced with the elves. The centaur guided the direction, and the brave boy embarked on a journey of search...Thousands of years of stories have been passed down, and the ancient promises protect the earth..."

"What does the promise in this song refer to?" Wade asked the person next to him casually.

"It happened more than a thousand years ago, who knows?" Moro shrugged and said.

"More than a thousand years ago?" Wade asked.

"This song is probably about Merlin's time. I heard that at that time all races could live under the sun, and wizards were very respected." A witch next to him said sadly.

"There is no need to miss the past, Mary." Another person clinked glasses with her and said freely: "We are creating a new era!"

"So I want to follow Mr. Grindelwald!" The wizard with a mustache said loudly: "I don't want to hide anymore!"

"But those guys' defenses have been strengthened recently. They all know that someone is hunting them! There are more people injured." Mary said worriedly.

"Muggle weapons are indeed terrible, but young men also lack exercise." Another older person said: "Mubby, is your armor spell always a step behind? Last time, someone broke your leg with a gun?"

"That was a sneak attack! A sneak attack!" Mubby said angrily: "Can you block a bullet shot from behind?"

"I haven't been injured. Isn't this the best proof?" The first person shook his head and said proudly.

Many people laughed and comforted Mbi: "Don't mind, scars are a man's medal! Or you can apply more scar remover?"

"It's good to just have a broken leg, but that idiot Nubel was killed!" Someone else said so.

"When fighting with the enemy, casualties are inevitable."

Delaine came out of nowhere, and after he interrupted, he looked at Moreau and said, "I'm looking for you, Antoine, where is the person I asked you to take care of? Why is he not in the room?"

Moreau patted Wade's shoulder and said, "That's it! Hey, I'm fine at ordinary times, and I finally brought someone down to have a drink, and you're disturbing me again."

He complained casually.

No mistake, one post, one content, one book, one bar!

Delaine looked at Wade in surprise, and when the two looked at each other, he finally recognized the real body of the young brown-haired wizard.

"Sorry, I have two bottles of Mosel Riesling, I'll send them to you later." Delain said seriously, "But now, please follow me."

"I don't like drinking."

Ved put down the red wine he hadn't drunk, stood up and asked, "What happened?"

Seeing that everyone around him was looking at him curiously, Delain said, "It's some...weapon-related problems."

He carefully didn't call Vader's name, and didn't even mention the word "alchemy".

Even though they all knew that Vader didn't want to reveal his real name and real appearance, just wanted to go back to his original life, they didn't "expose" Vader, and even took the initiative to help cover it up.

This kind of respect and consideration even made Vader feel that he had become a companion with them.

The two of them walked through the crowded crowd, and Delain also fended off a few drunkards. Some young people gathered together and laughed loudly, cheering and singing for their recent victory.

In contrast, Delain, who always had a cold face, was like an alien, and Vader seemed to be more able to fit in the current environment than him.

Behind him, Moro was a step late. He drank the wine in his glass and then hurriedly caught up.

After leaving the auditorium, Moro took a deep breath of the cool air outside, shook his head, and suddenly thought of something.

"Mr. Grindelwald didn't come to the banquet... Is he injured? Or is he not feeling well?" Moreau asked.

Delain glanced at him coldly and said, "This is not something you should ask, Antoine."

Moreau was not afraid of his cold face and asked, "What do you want to do with Wade?"

"It has nothing to do with you." Delain said, "You can go back and continue drinking."

"No, you let me take care of him, so I will be his temporary guardian!" Moreau said stubbornly, "You want to trouble my people, can I just sit back and do nothing?"

Delain glanced at him coldly, and saw that Wade was also staring at him. After thinking about it, he finally decided to reveal some of the inside story.

"In tonight's operation, we encountered an unimaginable counterattack..."

...

Except for the first day, Wade did not participate in the attacks of the Witch Party, but he had to help Moreau edit videos every day, so he had a general understanding of what they were doing, even better than most of the participants.

After the island that gave birth to the Obscurus was razed, the person in charge committed suicide. The Ministry of Magic believed that the matter was over, but Grindelwald, who had escaped from prison, disagreed.

He personally led people to capture all the subordinates, family members, and friends of the person in charge, and looked through their memories one by one, and finally found the base that he took Wade to attack that day.

Then using the same method, they found the second, third, and fourth bases... and attacked the organization's five bases in a row before they stopped temporarily.

The Witch Party even encountered werewolves and vampires during the attack, but these two dark creatures that ordinary wizards are very afraid of have almost no resistance in front of Grindelwald.

In the past few days, it seems that the Witch Party seems to have stopped, but in fact it is only because their activities have become more covert, and the targets of the attack have begun to become individuals, but their identities and status are extraordinary.

Celebrities, politicians, tycoons, well-known judges, university professors... Many people that Wade is familiar with are actually members of that organization.

Wade stood by the bedroom window and saw familiar faces being dragged into the castle like dead dogs more than once. The well-dressed appearance in the past became either fearful or distorted.

These people not only contributed a lot of intelligence, but also contributed a lot of wealth, which is one of the reasons why the Witch Party has been so excited recently.

They also changed the way they killed people. They no longer announced that it was done by magic. Instead, they used the Imperius Curse to control the other party to commit suicide after digging out all the information.

Neither Legilimency nor the Imperius Curse would leave any traces on the body. The Imperius Curse was difficult to detect accurately even with magic.

In this way, except for the participants in the organization who knew that their people were disappearing in large numbers, in the eyes of others, these were all independent events. They could only sigh that the pressure of society was too great and there would be no extra questions.

Originally, this kind of operation of arresting single-digit Muggles at a time was not very dangerous. Most of the difficulties came from how to avoid the sight of others and the monitoring of modern technology, and to accurately find the target to deal with.

But in an operation tonight, the Witch Party suffered an unexpected failure.

Wade followed Delain, walked through several corridors, and went down several steps in a row. Finally, he saw Grindelwald in a wide basement.

At the same time, he saw seven or eight bodies lying on the cold black stone floor. Grindelwald was putting down a white cloth to cover the terrified face underneath.

"Sir," Delain said, "Ved Grey is here."

At this moment, Ved's eyes were attracted by the object in Wowilet's hand.

It was a small crystal bottle, shining with tiny golden light.