Chapter 259 257 Delaying Time

Chapter 259 257. Delaying Time

The dim candles jumped in the narrow secret passage.

Dumbledore stared at the dense runes on the stone wall. These runes were much more complicated than the stone slab that John got from the tower. Nearly tens of thousands of runes were arranged on the square stone wall, as if they were protecting the space inside.

Except for the sound of the candles jumping, the secret passage was quiet.

This silence lasted for an unknown period of time. Dumbledore looked at the runes and tapped them with his wand. From time to time, dim fluorescence lit up on the words.

"He has been here."

Dumbledore whispered softly.

At this moment, a flashing golden-red light suddenly appeared in front of him, and Fox pierced the barrier that blocked the space of the secret passage.

Dumbledore turned around and looked at Fox with a serious expression. Without verbal communication, the information that needed to be conveyed was already known to him.

"More than 20 Death Eaters surrounded the students?"

His voice did not sound very nervous.

"Did they follow my advice and sail along the coast of Norway? How far is it from the northernmost coastline of Norway?"

Fawkes tilted his head, as if to convey to Dumbledore something about someone he had discovered.

Dumbledore couldn't help but chuckle and turned to continue studying the stone wall.

"Since he is here, I don't need to go over. Since Jon entered school, he has always wanted to see him."

The dark secret passage returned to the loneliness.

On the Hogwarts, Jon didn't know what Dumbledore had arranged.

But Fawkes had been gone for a while, but he didn't bring any reply, which made him feel a little uneasy.

"Petrify all!"

The Death Eaters led by Rabastan no longer gave him any time to wait. Dozens of petrifying spells shot out from the tips of their wands, targeting Jon on the deck and other students who had just walked out of the cabin!

But their spells had no chance to land on the deck. When they were still four or five meters away from the entire ship, they were blocked by a light film with the color of the spell itself.

The protection originally possessed by the carriage was also inherited on the Hogwarts. The variant magic of the Armor Curse was extremely effective in protecting the students.

Jon and his friends were not surprised by this, and neither were Rabastan and his friends who used spells to attack.

It would be strange for such a magic ship to have no protection.

It is actually very simple to deal with such protection. The Killing Curse without a spell can completely ignore all the Armor Curses, but Rabastan is just arrogant, but not stupid.

Now they just think that this ship is suspicious, and it is normal for the people on the ship to be unwilling to cooperate and want to resist.

If he orders everyone to use the Death Curse directly, then killing the people on this ship will be meaningless to him and his brother.

Voldemort's order to them was to find the man behind the scenes on the sea and capture or kill him. Now they were not sure whether the ship was the one they were looking for, so they could not kill him.

Jon could understand this, but he could not bet on the enemy's reason.

There were so many students on the ship. What if a Death Eater could not control his hand and used a killing curse?

And even the armor spell set by Dumbledore himself had a limit. Once the attack of these Death Eaters reached the saturation point, the spell protecting the entire ship would also break.

Therefore, he actually planned a backup countermeasure at the beginning. Jon did not know what happened to Fox and why he had not replied until now, but if he just dragged the time, he could still have some ways.

"How long do we have to reach the Norwegian coast now?"

Jon whispered to Fred, who was in charge of controlling the course beside him, and Fred said quickly.

"Two to three hours is enough for us to reach the shore. There is a deep-water port next to a cliff."

Two or three hours is not long, but it is short. Jon took a deep breath and looked at Fred seriously and warned him.

"Then reach the shore as quickly as possible! If they sink the ship on the sea, no one on the ship will be able to escape! Only by returning to land can we have a chance. I will try to delay them during this time!"

Hearing what he said, not only Fred, but also George and Neville were all in disbelief, as if they couldn't accept why things had turned out like this.

"Didn't Fox go to find Professor Dumbledore? Why hasn't it come back yet?"

"Maybe it was stopped by something and didn't find the professor, or maybe the professor's environment couldn't help him coming to help us, but we can't always pin our hopes on the professors."

Jon turned and looked at Rabastan and others who were always on the side of the Hogwarts. Even if they didn't plan to kill people with the Killing Curse, they wouldn't stop there. There was a burst of magic brewing at the tip of each Death Eater's wand.

The best way to deal with the Iron Armor Curse is undoubtedly to use a large-scale blasting attack on every point of its defense in order to consume its saturation.

Even if the Iron Armor Curse on the Hogwarts can withstand more than 20 explosive curses released together once or twice, it cannot withstand more than three times. The combined power of that would be so great unless Dumbledore himself is here. Otherwise, the protection on the ship cannot be maintained at all.

Jon didn't wait any longer. He had already explained everything to Neville and the others. The moment Rabastan and the others chanted "Thunderbolt Explosion", Jon also held the ring that was always hanging in front of him and absorbed it. All the magic power on the slate, the gems that have been saturated and can no longer be saturated, play their due role!

"Stop the curse!"

Jon's magic was mobilized by the universal curse-breaking magic, but the source of the surge of magic was not the wand in his hand, but the ring that always remained cold.

His own magic power affected the external magic power stored in the second gem, so the universal curse-breaking effect was applied to him and amplified infinitely!

The moment he cast the universal curse, Jon stood on the side of the ship, which was equivalent to standing in front of Rabastan and all the Death Eaters' explosive curses!

This move, which was even crazier than a madman, made all the Death Eaters widen their eyes.

No one can withstand so many explosive spells without defense, not even Dumbledore and Voldemort!