Chapter 131: The First Appearance of Strategic Magic

Wake up, wake up. Ryan felt someone shaking him in the dream, and a female voice sounded in his ear.

I opened my eyes, and my vision gradually became clearer. The face of a young black woman appeared in front of him, and Ryan finally came to his senses. Thinking that I just asked the railway agent to call me when the time was up.

Okay, I'm awake. Thank you for your reminder. After speaking, Ryan got out of his sleeping bag, took out a bottle of water, washed his face, and woke up.

Pulling out his pocket watch, Ryan found that the time had reached 3:30 in the morning, and it was time to start.

After asking the agent to wait in the middle of the tunnel, Ryan walked up to the altar and pulled out his wand. Xiaoqing, who had been wrapped around her left arm as an armband, got off her arm and fell onto the altar. Then he turned into the size of a python and circled around the altar, stood up with his upper body, and stretched his head to the same height as Ryan's head.

After Xiaoqing was in place, Ryan began chanting spells while waving his wand. And Xiaoqing's body slowly turned around the altar with the rhythm of the mantra.

As the incantation was chanted, the runes inlaid with gold and silver on the altar were lit one by one, emitting a hazy white light, which became brighter and brighter, and finally even overshadowed the brightness of the emergency lights on the wall.

At this time, the light on the rune no longer continued to brighten. Under the command of Ryan's magic spell, the runes composed of white light slowly detached from the altar, and then began to rotate around the altar with Ryan's wand, forming a white light band flying in the air.

Different from the ritual magic that Ryan used to soothe the undead, Ryan now uses strategic magic that is almost lost in the modern magical world.

The release of strategic magic requires preparation in advance, and requires a long period of immobility to cast the spell when it is launched. If this world was a magical world, Ryan would never use this kind of magic. Because when the spell is cast, the place where the spell is cast will show an abnormal magical response. If there is no large number of people to help cover the release of strategic magic, the person will become a living target to be focused on.

In the world of Harry Potter, this magic used in large-scale warfare is gradually lost as wizards isolate themselves from the Muggle world. After all, the wizarding world is not very populated, and the wars that lead to pure wizards are often small-scale battles. Therefore, this kind of strategic magic used for a large range has gradually faded out of the wizarding world.

In the legacy of ancient Viking wizards that Ryan acquired, he was fortunate to retain a lot of strategic magic. However, compared with the large-scale magics such as the undead army and the restoration of holy places recorded in the inheritance. The fog of exhaustion that Ryan uses today is just a weakened version of some original magic.

After all, if it is the original version, it will either require a large amount of precious magic materials, or a powerful wizard as a spellcaster, or a sufficient number of trained wizards will be required to release it together. So for the sake of convenience, the wizards back then developed a number of shortened versions of strategic magic that a wizard could use regularly.

Naturally, this abridged version has far less magic power. For example, the original Mist of Exhaustion can release a magical fog covering a small city a few kilometers away, while the shortened version can only cover a base size at close range.

Since it was Ryan's first time to use this kind of magic today, out of serious consideration, he used the segmented spellcasting technique in the inheritance. This technique can inject the magic power that needs to be injected at one time in stages without affecting the magic power. It's just that the overall consumption of magic power will be more, and the casting time will be greatly extended.

For example, today this magic can theoretically be released in only ten minutes. But Ryan was worried that his magic power reserve could not be completed in one go, so he pulled the entire casting time to 30 minutes. In this way, Ryan has enough time to recover the magic power and release the magic.

This also causes this technique to be unusable in wizarding battles in most cases in the Harry Potter world, because several times the casting time is enough for the opponent to beat the segmented caster into a sieve.

Halfway through the time, Ryan's spellcasting also reached its climax. With the chanting of the magic spell, Xiao Qing also opened his mouth and spit out a light green mist that filled the basement.

Slowly following the command of the wand, the mist began to merge with the white glowing characters in the air. The characters also transform into an ominous green glow.

Finally an emerald green light filled the entire basement. Xiaoqing stopped spraying the mist, and the whole snake showed a tired feeling. Sweat also appeared on Ryan's forehead, bursts of soreness came from his arm, and his throat was burning.

But he gritted his teeth and insisted, because the magic was about to be released successfully. In the chanting of the incantation, one green light rune after another went up through the ceiling to the ground. When these characters were exposed on the ground, all the colors quickly faded into a faint white mist, and then slowly drifted towards the airport.

If it is daytime, this abnormal phenomenon is likely to be detected by sentinels. But it was night, and the Sentinels weren't as vigilant as they were during the day. Not to mention that the airport is on the seaside, and there is often heavy fog here at night.

Fortunately, it happened to be a foggy day today, so the mist generated by the magic was mixed into the sea fog. No one noticed this unusual situation. Over time, a magical mist completely enveloped the Brotherhood's base. At the moment when Ryan's magic was completely released and ended. The members of the Brotherhood suddenly found themselves paralyzed and unable to move, and then passed out in blackness.

After the ceremony, Ryan sat down on the altar and felt a strong sense of exhaustion from the body to the soul, and Xiaoqing was also tired and paralyzed to the side of the altar, motionless. But he knew there was still something to do at this time, not the time to rest.

So Ryan made Xiaoqing shrink to the size of an earthworm and put it in a bottle full of sunlight crystals in his jacket pocket. Then he pulled the rope on the wall as agreed.

The other end of the rope is attached to a bell in the safe house. Lane had previously told others that if the bell rang, it meant that his magic was successful, and that anyone who was attacked by magic within eight hours would be in a state of drowsiness that could not be woken up. They just had to deal with the automatic weapons set up by the Brotherhood.

After sitting against the wall for a while, Ryan packed everything in the basement. Then slowly walk along the passage to the direction of the safe house.

Crawling out of the tunnel with difficulty, Ryan found that everyone in the room was sitting there nervously looking at the door. After hearing the sound in the tunnel, a militiaman pulled Ryan out of the tunnel.

What are you doing? Ryan asked in a low voice.

We sent the detectives out, Knight said, nodding. Hopefully he can bring us good news.