Chapter 497 Leslint: With great power comes great responsibility
Chapter 497 Les Lint: With great power comes great responsibility
"Cedric?!" When Rice saw Cedric, his pupils dilated.
Cedric now has too strong a breath of life.
He was not wearing a wizard robe, but a white vest and a pair of baggy shorts, with a straw hat on his head. He was sitting on a small stool, eating a watermelon split in half.
A talisman was pasted on the bottom of the watermelon, which seemed to have a cooling effect. Even in midsummer, there was a slight cool breeze coming out of the watermelon.
Looking at Cedric who was eating watermelon and Yang Qingyue who was sitting opposite him eating watermelon together, Rice couldn't help but sigh that Cedric really adapted to the local customs.
Seeing Rice coming over, Yang Qingyue enthusiastically brought a small stool for him and gave him a slice of watermelon.
"Uh..." Rice wanted to refuse, but seeing that the two were eating happily, he joined them.
Taking a bite, the melon is indeed crispy and sweet.
The three of them finished the watermelons in their hands in no time at all, and then started chatting.
"Have you finished talking with grandpa?" Yang Qingyue asked curiously.
Rice nodded and told him that he had gotten what he wanted. Cedric keenly felt from Rice's words that he was likely to return to England.
Sure enough, after a few words, Rice said he was leaving.
After this, Les looked Cedric over and asked him if he wanted to go with him.
Cedric thought about it for a moment, and finally declined Les's kindness.
The scenery of Penglai and the other side of the river these days made him reluctant to leave, and he wanted to stay here for a longer time during the summer vacation.
As for the so-called invasion of the underworld, Cedric felt that he could handle it. Rice was right, the invasion of the underworld was a disaster for ordinary people, but for people like them, they were the disaster of the underworld.
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While Les and Cedric were staying on Penglai Island, the outside world was undergoing tremendous changes.
The news of the breached border has spread to every corner of the underworld. Countless undead souls are ready to move, and have inappropriate thoughts in their hearts.
They long to return to the world of the living.
After a brief lull, the first undead soul bypassed the underworld guards and crossed the fence, followed by the second and third...
Countless undead broke through the defenses and headed into the world of the living, just as they had done thousands of years ago.
The guards of the underworld wanted to stop them, but there were too many undead crossing the border, some of whom were extremely powerful. In addition, some guards chose to join the group of undead crossing the border. For these reasons, the reorganized borders of the underworld were ineffective.
Muggles suddenly discovered that times seemed to have changed.
People around him either changed their temperament overnight or disappeared. The public security in the surrounding area also began to deteriorate rapidly, and murders in the streets were common.
There are even rumors that the criminals are possessed by monsters!
Panic is spreading rapidly.
After encountering such a change, most Muggle governments showed amazing insensitivity and hypocrisy. They all adopted the same rhetoric: the so-called supernatural events did not exist, and the current chaos was caused by the Albanian mafia.
The dramatic changes in Eastern Europe and the subsequent disintegration of the Soviet Union caused the security environment in Eastern Europe to deteriorate rapidly, among which the problems in Albania, the fortress country, were the most serious.
After the economic collapse, Albanians turned their attention to the military equipment donated by their brother countries. Then the Albanian gangs swept across the European underworld - other gangs could only take out some Chicago typewriters, but the Albanians had armored vehicles and rocket launchers, and their firepower was not at the same level.
The Muggle governments blamed the Albanian mafia, and many people believed it. But a few days later, the politicians were slapped in the face.
Mount Olympus was shrouded in a flash of lightning, and then a sound covering the entire Balkan Peninsula completely pierced through the window paper.
Zeus and the Olympians have returned.
Seven hours later, the Greek government announced that it had changed its faith and converted back to the Greek pantheon.
The whole world was shocked, and the ancient legends came back to life, tearing apart the tranquility of the past in just a few hours. Now everyone knows the source of the chaos: the seal of the underworld is broken, and the dead have returned again.
As for why the seal was broken, the Muggles found the answer themselves - isn't it almost the millennium, isn't it normal for some unusual events to happen?
When the ancient Greek gods first returned, Muggles were just surprised and even a little curious, because these were gods in mythology and legends.
It is said to bring countless benefits to people - stories of mortals offering sacrifices to gods and then gaining powerful powers often appear in ancient Greek mythology.
Just when people were talking about the changes in Greece with great relish, the refugees who escaped from Greece gave them a heavy blow and poured a bucket of cold water on everyone.
The gods brought only endless disasters.
In order to regain power, they launched a blood sacrifice without any hesitation. The whole of Greece has become a hell on earth, and the same is true for other countries in the Balkan Peninsula.
The cruel gods forced a large number of Muggles to flee their homeland, and in return, a large number of undead began to invade the world using it as a base.
The Greek gods showed amazing tolerance in this regard. As long as the undead verbally acknowledged that their faith was that of the Greek pantheon, they could land in their sphere of influence and restore their strength by harvesting human lives.
For a time, the entire Balkan Peninsula became a den of evil, and spread to the surrounding Apennine Peninsula and Asia Minor at a terrifying speed.
The returning undead chose the weakest link in the magical world to break through.
Miraculously, Britain was generally peaceful, with even minor fights among the undead rarely seen. After the returning undead realized that they were born in Britain, they all chose to quietly slip away and run to the European continent.
The reason why they were so tactful and polite was simple: none of the four people who were famous even in the underworld had returned to the underworld...
Don't say they were reincarnated! To say that is really a lie. Even they can resist the erosion of the reincarnation mist. With the strength of those four people, it is impossible for them not to be able to withstand it.
The fact that they didn’t appear in the underworld only means that they are still alive!
That was horrible.
They are the ruthless people who caused Ragnarok and established the seal of the underworld. The undead are not crazy yet, so they naturally try to stay away from the hometowns of these four people as much as possible to avoid being caught by them when they are doing bad things.
After leaving Penglai, Rice learned about the changes on Earth.
He had anticipated this, but these things could not slow him down in his rush back to Hogwarts.
After receiving the Shenyou Taixu Pill from the nameless old man, his heart had already flown back to the Scottish Highlands.
As a wizard, Rice naturally didn't need to take a plane or train back home like a Muggle - he took a plane before because he was very interested in this Muggle technology, but now that he had a full understanding of airplanes, he naturally had no need to take one.
However, in choosing the return method, Rice decided to refer to the formation used by Yang Qingyue before.
After carefully drawing a magic circle on the ground, Rice walked into the circle. With a flash of light, his figure disappeared.
The next moment, he fell into the cold sea water.
To ordinary people, this would undoubtedly be a disaster, but to Rice, it was not a big problem.
After floating out of the water and onto the surface of the sea, Rice began to determine his direction. He then determined that he must have deviated from the target location by several hundred kilometers and suddenly teleported himself to the Atlantic Ocean.
Fortunately, this place is not far from the land, and Les can even see the coastline with his naked eyes.
"I need to practice more." Rice sighed in his heart. Although a few percent of error may not seem like a big deal at ordinary times, when the number is expanded to the level of ten thousand, the error is still extremely shocking.
The Scottish Highlands are nearly 10,000 kilometers away from Penglai Island. This "small error" directly caused Rice's position to deviate by hundreds of kilometers.
"Is it possible that Hogwarts' defensive magic is misleading my new teleportation magic?" Les thought about this question seriously.
At this time, a plane flew over Rice's head. Rice felt something and looked up, and immediately found that the plane seemed to be in trouble - an evil spirit from the underworld was targeting it.
Les could sense that ferocious feeling even from thousands of meters away.
"Poor passengers." Les did not feel sad for the passengers' plight. He just wanted to go back to Hogwarts.
"Huh?" Just as Rice was about to give up the new teleportation magic and use Apparition instead, he suddenly realized a problem he had overlooked.
The definition of "territory" in modern society seems to be different from that in their time. Not only land, but also the sky and the sea are also territories.
According to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, the maximum width of territorial waters shall not exceed 12 nautical miles, while the width of territorial waters stipulated by the United Kingdom is 3 nautical miles.
Rice made a rough estimate and concluded that if this was the case, the plane was still within British territory.
Considering that Dumbledore had once promised to ensure safety within the UK, Rice felt that he should take action.
The evil spirit chose to cause trouble in Britain to challenge the authority of Dumbledore, the current headmaster of Hogwarts.
Is this a slap in the face of Dumbledore? This is a slap in the face of Hogwarts!
Rice considered himself a man who followed the rules, so he suddenly rushed into the sky.
At the same time, the huge cabin of the Boeing 747 was silent, with only the roar of the aircraft engine.
The source that made everyone shut up was now standing at the partition between the business class and the economy class, staring at the panicked crowd in the cabin with excitement on his face.
It looks exactly like the devil in the church sculptures, with pointy ears, bat wings, tapering fingers, and fangs.
The evil spirit walked to the first row of seats in the economy class and gave a "kind" smile to the people there.
"Come on, give me a reason not to eat you - let me count, there are ten of you, so I will only eat seven, because seven is the most magical number!"
After hearing what it said, the passengers showed expressions of horror, and some people in the first row even burst into tears.
It's not that no one tried to resist before, but those people were controlled by the evil spirit in a way that was beyond everyone's understanding. It didn't kill them, because simple killing would not please it.
Of course, a little punishment is necessary, so under its feet, there are several blood-red things wriggling, which is why all the passengers are silent.
The crying could not stop the evil spirit, and it even made it more excited. It looked at the three passengers on the far left, waiting for their answers.
"I, I'm getting married soon..."
"I have a family to support and my son is only six months old."
"Please let me go, I'll do anything!"
Some stated their reasons, while others tried to bribe the evil spirits.
Just then, a voice sounded from behind the evil spirit.
"No one is going to die here today, demon."
A look of surprise flashed across the evil spirit's face. It tried to turn around to see who had the courage to do so, but before it turned around, it flew up and slammed heavily on the wall at the stern of the cabin, leaving a dent on the wall.
Before its brain could even react, it was sucked back by a strong suction force, and then a strong hand grabbed its neck.
"Such a weak thing dares to cause trouble in Britain?" Rice's eyes were full of disdain.
The demon before him was not even as good as Voldemort without his domains, and the Aurors of the Ministry of Magic might be able to defeat it.
Why is such a weak creature qualified to enter the underworld? Rice was puzzled.
"I am the nineteenth demon under the seat of Abaddon, the Lord of Destruction... You can't kill me! My lord will avenge me!" The evil spirit uttered a sentence with difficulty.
"Abaddon, Lord of Destruction?" Les heard a name that sounded familiar.
"Yes, one of the four lords of the underworld, the Lord of Destruction who symbolizes war and death! He is a great demon who has been roaming the underworld thousands of years ago!" Seeing that the tactic of introducing oneself seemed to be effective, the evil spirit hurriedly began to introduce his master to the strong man who suddenly appeared.
Les felt that a memory deep in his mind was triggered. He recalled it carefully and finally remembered who Abaddon was.
"It turned out to be the little bug that escaped a thousand years ago." Les laughed and said, "How come a coward who escaped can also represent war and destruction?"
"Ah?" The evil spirit was stunned, its brain couldn't even react to what the other party was saying.
Rice was too lazy to talk to it and simply evaporated the blood in its body.
A point of light emerged from the evil spirit's mummy. This was the evil spirit's true body, and it tried to escape - as long as it escaped back to the underworld, it would be able to recover its strength in the underworld sooner or later.
But Les was prepared. With a roll of magic power, the light spot was shattered into pieces and dissipated into the air.
The evil spirit was completely killed.
The passengers in the cabin were stunned.
It was not until this moment that they realized: Are they saved?
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Update, good night everyone
Tomorrow's update will still be at midnight
By the way, here is a picture of Cedric eating watermelon
