Chapter 169 Past Events

? Ryan looked up at the place where the sound was made, and was surprised to find that Fernando, the principal of Castro Brusso magic, came hurriedly on a broom.

Seeing Principal Fernando who flew to the yard to greet Ryan and immediately walked over to the shopkeeper, Ryan asked in surprise, What's the misunderstanding you just said about yourself? After he brought me here, I He was attacked directly, and now you say it was a misunderstanding, what the hell is going on?

At this time, after Principal Fernando rubbed some herbs on the wound, he started to treat the owner's wound with a wand. Ryan could feel the strong force of nature released. Soon, the wound on the owner's waist slowly healed. Principal Fernando stood up and was about to answer this question when the shopkeeper next to him stopped him and said, Let me answer this question. My attack on you just now was a test, and the thorns are just ordinary sleeping pills.

Testing? After saying this, Ryan suddenly thought that the shopkeeper seemed to have given up several opportunities to attack just now. At that time, he thought that the shopkeeper was too old to keep up with the action, but this was a battle-hardened warrior. It's kind of unreasonable. But now this explanation makes more sense.

Yes, it's a test. But I didn't expect you to react so strongly, and you still have such a dangerous magical weapon in your hand. I have to admit that I'm still old and careless. The shopkeeper said weakly. But I just want to know one thing, your reaction is completely outside the normal range. Can 35xs tell me why?

Well, because I saw the saint's logo on your notebook, I suspected that you were trying to kill me at the time. Ryan replied helplessly.

Ah, there are not many young people who still know about saints. Yes, I was indeed a saint when I was young. But you seem to have misunderstood one place, saints don't need to hide themselves, at least in The saints don't need it here.

What? The information I checked was that after Grindelwald's defeat, the saints also disappeared, so I always thought it was because they were hunted down that they went anonymous. Ryan said in surprise.

At this time, the owner of the old man was almost recovering. After he helped Principal Fernando to stand up slowly, he tried to straighten his chest, then lowered his head to look at Ryan and said, Before answering your question, can you tell me what you think of Grind? What kind of person is Wo?

Grindelwald? Ryan felt that it might be important for the owner to ask this question, so he went through all the information about Grindelwald in his mind for two lifetimes. Then he said, I think Grindelwald's starting point is correct. When the development of the wizarding world can not keep up with the development of the Muggle world, if you do nothing, you will sit still.

From a historical point of view, after the outbreak of the first industrial revolution, the world of ordinary people entered a period of rapid development, and this development has achieved far more achievements in just a hundred years than the previous decades. Watson was born in those times and obviously saw this. 35xs in this context, I believe his original intention should not be for personal gain, but for the future of the entire wizarding world.

In addition, the overly strict international secrecy law system at that time made many wizards have strong dissatisfaction. When Grindelwald first announced that he wanted to break the shackles of the secrecy law, he gained the support of a group of wizards.

But I think the solution he chose to solve the problem was wrong from the beginning. He thought that by provoking a full-scale war between wizards and Muggles, he could gain a head start when the Muggles were not fully developed, and use the war to hinder the development of the Muggle world. Finally, let the wizards come out to rule the Muggles to solve the problem once and for all. To put it bluntly, when the opponent is developing rapidly, he does not choose to follow the development, but chooses to kill all the possibilities of development.

In action to achieve this goal,

He is full of quick successes, instigating wars, fanning the flames, killing wizards who don't support him, and trying to cause a massacre in Paris. This situation naturally sparked resistance from wizards, and when the world war broke out in the Muggle world, the wizarding world was also at a world war.

Fortunately, Dumbledore stopped Grindelwald in the end, so that the wizards were not wiped out due to internal wars before Muggles discovered themselves. After synthesizing a lot of information he had read in the past life, Ryan was in this former The presence of the Saints expressed his opinion of Grindelwald. However, when looking at the owner's face a bit ugly, Ryan added.

But I don't think what Grindelwald did was useless. After all, it was precisely because of Grindelwald's actions that the magic world was forced to modify the secrecy law and cancel those harsh regulations, so today's magic world can absorb new blood and let magic The world comes alive.”

I'm surprised you know so much about Grindelwald, especially for your age. I couldn't have hoped for better. But here's something you don't know. Would you like to hear an old man ramble now? The owner said after listening to Ryan's summary.

Ryan nodded excitedly. After all, there were not many opportunities for him to learn the secrets of the magic world. Seeing Ryan's excited expression, the shopkeeper cleared his throat and said, I, Frank Korzeny, a second generation saint. My father was one of the first wizards to follow Grindelwald, and later became a few saints. Commander of one of the elite operations squads. Even when I was born in 1925, Grindel presided over a baptism for me.

When Grindelwald tried to destroy the city of Paris in 26 years, my father was there. I saw clearly what Grindelwald predicted for them in World War II, because there was a conflict with the Aurors. So then entered Stages of openly violent conflict.

But like you just said, Grindelwald's policies sparked a backlash. By the time I joined the Saints as an adult in 1942, we were in complete decline. Tobruk, Volgograd, Kursk, Palermo, Rome, Cherbourg, Paris, Bastogne. I went through every major battle of the Saints in the latter stages, but we had fewer and more opponents. Beginning The excitement and excitement have also transformed into a deep exhaustion and helplessness.”

The most important thing is that our leader Grindelwald also discovered the biggest loophole in his plan. In this total war, Muggles have not stopped their development, but accelerated their development. His war in the wizarding world was It further weakened the wizards as a whole. According to my father's memory, Grindelwald was no longer the passionate leader from '44, he was just doing things in a routine manner.

In '45, he chose to duel Dumbledore because at that time he had discovered that his dream would never come true, so he hoped that he could stop the wizard's bloodshed through a duel. And also for the remaining loyal saints. We found a way out.

After the duel, Grindelwald chose to isolate himself in Nurmengard. Most of the saints were pardoned, and many joined the Ministry of Magic in Europe and the United States after the war. My father and I and some of the saints were in the war. The saints who killed too many in the midst chose to go into exile and vowed never to return home.

Speaking of which, the shopkeeper glanced at Ryan and said, Don't look at me with that kind of eyes, I swear we are only killing in battle, and there is never any record of attacking non-combatants. Otherwise, the Ministry of Magic of various countries after the war will not Let us go. But we test you this time, and we do have some relationship with those former saints.

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