#204 - Protective Circle

After that, Dumbledore calmly took over the trial and, with the votes of the Wizengamot, made a judgment on the spot.

Igor Karkaroff was released in court for providing extremely valuable information!

After the trial, Anduin bid farewell to everyone and returned to the Longbottom Manor with Augusta.

In the following days, the Wizarding Wireless Network and various newspapers continuously reported on the news of the celebration banquet.

"Battle Hero Deserves the Name, Anduin Wilson Challenges Ten Adult Wizards on the Spot at the Banquet and Achieves a Complete Victory!"

"Minister Bardoe Delivers a Speech, Vowing to Fight the Death Eaters to the End!"

"Shocking! Barty Crouch Jr., Son of the Head of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement, Confirmed to be a Death Eater, Arrested on the Spot!"

"Barty Crouch Resigns, Steps Down from the Position of Head of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement, Now Replaced by Amelia Bones!"

"Exclusive Report! The Unknown Secrets About Battle Hero Anduin Wilson, An Exclusive Interview with His Close Friend, Vivian!"

Hmm? Anduin seemed to see a strange piece of news while reading the newspaper, but he was in no mood to pay attention to these things at the moment.

After returning to the Longbottom's house, Anduin spent a few days visiting the surrounding neighbors, including the Weasley family, the Diggory family, and the Lovegood family, catching up with them and giving them each a defensive charm as a gift.

At the same time, he also accepted an interview with Rita Skeeter. Of course, it was said to be an interview, but in fact, he just gave the other party a copy of the written press release and took some photos.

Rita Skeeter was already very satisfied with this. Anduin not only held her little secret in his hands, but was now also a battle hero of the Ministry of Magic. Others wanted to interview him but had no chance. Her exclusive report had already gained her enough status.

After finishing these things, Anduin officially bid farewell to Augusta and moved to Diagon Alley to live.

He was going to spend the next period of time completing the security system of this house, and then properly digest the gains of this period.

The first thing to start was the protection work. He had to ensure his own safety first. Although the Ministry of Magic's prestige was at its peak during this period, no Death Eaters or dark wizards dared to run out and wander around.

But with Anduin's character, he would feel uncomfortable if he didn't make it foolproof.

He gave priority to arranging the protective magic array for the entire house. The material chosen was paraser brass. Although this material was cheap, there was enough of it. What he had on hand was enough to cover the entire outer wall of the house, and it was enough as a magic power pipeline for the magic array.

Anduin first used magic to engrave the rune array he designed on the wall, and then melted the paraser brass into thin wires and inlaid them along the lines of the array.

Like completing a cloisonné enamel artwork, all the lines were continuous and transparent.

Finally, after spending five days, Anduin engraved the magic array on all the walls, ground, including the fireplace and sewer entrance of the entire house, which almost exhausted all the paraser brass he had on hand.

The function of this set of magic arrays was to serve as a magic power output pipeline, and secondly, there was also the coordination rune he had just learned. The center of the magic array was arranged by him in the bedroom in the basement.

With this layer of magic array as a foundation, multiple layers of runes can be covered on it, and it can be ensured that the output of magic power can support the operation of the runes, so there is no need to re-cast spells every once in a while like those Death Eaters.

But supporting the magic array requires magic power. In order to solve this problem, he planned to enchant the 'energy absorption rune' that he had experimented with and improved on inside and outside the house to absorb the free magic power from the outside world.

At the same time, the magic power released when he did experiments and cast spells in the house could also be absorbed and utilized again.

The excess magic power could also be guided to the storage runes he engraved.

This completes a complete magic power circulation magic array.

Next was the arrangement of protective runes. According to the layout diagram he had drawn before, he began to inscribe various protective and warning runes on the rune array.

It took another three days to complete the arrangement of all the protective units, and even the protective runes at the entrance of the basement were all updated.

The protection aspects include 'Protego Maxima', 'Fidelius Charm', 'Anti-Alohomora Charm', 'Anti-Apparition', 'Anti-Intruder Jinx', etc.

The warning aspects include 'Hominum Revelio', 'Track Charm', 'Confundus Charm', 'Quietus', 'Malice Detection', etc.

It almost turned this house into a miniature fortress. People outside could not see or hear the situation inside, and anyone with malicious intentions monitoring nearby would trigger an alarm.

And it could not be entered by Apparition or unlocking spells, only by force.

"In the future, I will take some time to add some active and passive defense props to the house, such as landmines, traps, defense constructs, etc. For now, let's just make do with it."

Anduin was quite satisfied with the current level of protection.

At this moment, the house's warning rune suddenly alerted him. Someone appeared in front of his door, but no malice was detected.

Then the door on the first floor was knocked on.

"You finally decided to come over. I thought you were going to run away," Anduin said with a smile, looking at Karkaroff in front of the door.

"Master, I am only loyal to you and dare not disobey your orders." Karkaroff, wearing a cloak, nervously looked around, "It's just that I was just released, the Ministry of Magic doesn't trust me, and the Death Eaters regard me as a thorn in their side, so I can only hide in the dark for a while."

"Alright, come in," Anduin opened the door and stopped listening to the other party's nonsense.

Leading Karkaroff into the house, he went directly to the living room on the second floor to sit down.

"Master, I have reported the list to the Ministry of Magic according to your order. What do you think?" Karkaroff pointed to his stomach and looked at Anduin with some hesitation.

He knew what happened to Toquil. He just suddenly died in public, and the metal pill that killed Toquil was fed to Toquil by Anduin in front of him.

There was still one of these things in his stomach, which was why Karkaroff had been restless and completely dared not betray Anduin.

"Don't worry, let it stay in your stomach first. The quality of that capsule is very guaranteed. That thing won't have any problems for ten or twenty years. I'm not the kind of person who kills people indiscriminately, as long as you are honest," Anduin said with a smile.

You can tell that to Toquil, I don't think you were soft-hearted at all when you killed Toquil, Karkaroff muttered to himself, while looking at Anduin with a bitter face and some helplessness.