Chapter 402 Time Hall

"Boom ho ho ho!~"

As the sound of flames reverberated, Mike, Arthur and several people from the Order of the Phoenix appeared in the Magic Hall.

However, this time the Phoenix fire did not go out like it did several times before, but continued to rotate in mid-air.

Immediately afterwards, as the rotation of the Phoenix Fire accelerated, the fifty Los Santos wizards brought by Mike were all swallowed up by the flames.

At this point, except for Dumbledore, all members of the night attack had arrived.

The reason why Dumbledore did not appear here was also part of the plan that everyone had originally discussed.

Dumbledore will not act with the large army. He will hide in the dark and provide support to everyone in critical moments. Other than that, he will not take action in tonight's operation.

Mike understood this very well. Voldemort has not yet appeared. If he directly follows the large army, it will easily attract Voldemort to attack.

According to Dumbledore's previous statement, his own strength is not as good as Voldemort's. If he is attacked again, although Dumbledore himself will be fine by then, the same will be true for those accompanying them.

You must know that if there is really going to be a sneak attack, Dumbledore will have no time to care about them. If they don't talk about whether they can weaken the power of the Death Eaters this time, their own personnel will be greatly reduced.

However, Mike still maintained a dubious attitude towards Dumbledore's words that he would take action in times of crisis. He believed that if he and the members of the Order of the Phoenix were in danger, Dumbledore would definitely take action, but if Arthur and the wizards of Los Santos It's not necessarily the case that they are in danger. You must know that the two groups of them had some unpleasant experiences not long ago.

In the Magic Hall, the Los Santos wizards who had just landed quickly stood up in a guard formation and began to observe the surroundings vigilantly. Also doing the same thing as them were two senior Aurors, Moody and Tonks. .

As for Mike and Arthur, they looked at the entire magic hall with indifferent expressions. With their strength, there would be basically no danger tonight unless Voldemort came in person.

There is a significant difference between the Magic Hall at night and the day. Not only is it silent, but the "Magic Brothers" fountain in the center of the hall, which is composed of centaurs, goblins, witches and wizards, and symbolizes the power of wizards, is still emitting light. There is no light source except the dim light.

However, the dark environment is not an obstacle to Mike and others. All of them drank the night vision potion provided by Snape before coming here. Now, except for a slight color difference, they can basically see things in the dark. There is no difference from daytime.

After careful observation, the Los Santos wizards and Moody found no one in the Magic Hall. Even the security checkpoint, which was usually manned 24 hours a day, was unmanned.

Upon seeing this, a smile suddenly appeared on Mike's face. This strange situation was undoubtedly telling them a piece of information - the Death Eaters had already entered the scene first!

With this in mind, Mike raised his hand and made a few complicated gestures. Then he saw all the Los Santos combatants around him, including Arthur, pull up the hoods of their combat uniforms and press their chests. Los Santos trademark.

Immediately afterwards, the figures of Arthur and others slowly faded, and finally merged with the dark night, becoming almost completely invisible.

"Is this an invisible monster leather suit?"

Moody looked at Mike with his mouth open in shock.

Seeing this, Mike pursed his lips and nodded. The amount of gold galleons he smashed on this wizard army was an astronomical amount. In addition to the conventional combat equipment, he also kneaded a large number of invisible monsters into the combat uniforms. Leather, the skin of this magical creature is the raw material for making invisibility cloaks. They are now on the verge of extinction due to the imbalance between supply and demand, which has also caused the price of their skin to skyrocket.

The result of Mike's big spend is that all combatants in Los Santos now have the ability to be almost invisible!

This ability is not completely invisible, it is still very obvious during the day, but at night, they are definitely a stealth weapon!

But the most important thing is that this invisibility does not require magic power!

Moody's jealous eyes almost popped out of his head. Even the most elite Auror troops in magic could never compare to the Los Santos wizard troops in front of them in terms of equipment!

"It's getting late, let's go directly!"

Mike didn't mean to talk nonsense anymore, he directly pulled the switch on the combat suit and entered the stealth state together.

Seeing this, Moody finally temporarily put away his greedy gaze, and reluctantly walked forward to clear the way.

The destination of their trip is the Department of Mysteries on the ninth floor of the Ministry of Magic. This department can be said to be the most mysterious department in the entire Ministry of Magic. At the same time, it can also be regarded as the scientific research department of the Ministry of Magic. A large number of top wizards have all turned into The Silent Man studies the most profound and mysterious things in the entire wizarding world.

For example: time, thought, memory, prophecy, death, power, lifespan...

Mike was actually no stranger to this place. He had been here to observe when Harry was first prosecuted.

If you want to go to the Department of Mysteries, you must take a magic elevator. Moody and Tonks agreed that there are definitely dangers and ambushes in the sealed and small environment of the magic elevator, but Mike didn't care. He knew very well what Voldemort was going to do. The purpose is for Harry to remove the prophecy ball.

Then it is impossible for him to place any obstacles on the way to the Prophecy Hall, because with Harry Potter's IQ, it is very likely that he will be blocked from the Prophecy Hall.

"Ding! Department of Mysteries!"

As a cold female voice sounded in the elevator, Mike, Arthur and others breathed a sigh of relief. This time their guess was correct.

Mike immediately used the instant messaging president to notify the remaining Los Santos wizards, Moody and others who had not come down. He, Arthur and others left the elevator first.

Different from the Magic Hall, there are a large number of torches lit on both sides of the corridor leading to the Department of Mysteries. Those torches are burning cracklingly, and as the breeze blows as the magic elevator goes up, the flames on the torches also light up. Shaking slightly, this caused the faint shadows of Mike and others to tremble continuously with the trembling of the flames.

"The flames go out!"

Mike flicked the wand in his hand and threw out a lights-out spell.

All the torches on both sides of the corridor were extinguished in an instant, the entire corridor returned to darkness, and the only shadow that could reveal the whereabouts of Mike and others finally disappeared.

At this time, the elevator behind them made a crisp sound again, and Moody and others finally arrived.

"What's going on?"

Moody said as he looked around.

"No," Mike nodded towards him, "Let's go."

After saying that, Mike took the lead and walked deeper into the corridor.

There is a dark stone door at the end of the corridor. It is an automatic door driven by a mechanism. When Mike and others came to it, there were waves of gears turning in the walls on both sides. sound.

Immediately afterwards, the stone door slowly opened, revealing an equally dark and huge space inside.

This is a large circular room, and the walls of the room are separated by eleven black stone doors that are exactly the same as the previous door.

After everyone entered the room, the stone door they originally entered automatically closed. At the same time, the surrounding scene suddenly changed. Everyone felt that everything in front of them began to spin and jump for a while. When all the abnormalities disappeared, everyone was surprised. They discovered that the stone door behind them had changed its position, and they could no longer find the stone door leading to the outside of the magic!

The Los Santos wizards immediately became alert, and Mike also looked at Moody behind him with dissatisfaction.

The current situation was something that he and others had never encountered before. As the former commander of the Auror Office, Moody had no reason not to know the arrangements of the Department of Mysteries, but he had never told him.

As expected, Moody had a smile on his face, and that smile combined with the ferocious scars on his face looked very ferocious and in need of a beating.

Mike's expression became increasingly sinister, and he was almost certain that Moody did this on purpose!

"Don't be nervous, everyone. This is just a general anti-theft measure. In fact, there are hidden marks on every door to indicate their function!"

Tonks walked towards a stone door, pointed to an insignificant circular mark on the right side of the stone door and said:

"Look, this clock mark indicates that behind this door is the Time Hall, and as long as we pass through the Time Hall, we can reach the Prophecy Hall!"

Mike's expression softened slightly and he nodded to Arthur, who then stepped forward and opened the stone door expressionlessly.

Moody on the side snorted with an unkind expression. It seemed that he was very dissatisfied with Tonks for leaking the secret in advance.

But Tonks obviously didn't buy his account, and after making a face at him, she hid behind Lupin.

"Katzkatz!"

With the sound of gears turning, the stone door finally opened.

Behind the door is another huge room, but it is different from the original dark room. There is a huge crystal chandelier hanging from the ceiling of this huge room, which is emitting bright light all around.

Under the huge chandelier, there are rows and rows of neatly arranged containers, with a large number of strange clocks placed on them, ranging from the smallest pocket watches, common Muggle alarm clocks to huge cabinet-type pendulum clocks.

And these clocks were still running, causing the whole room to be filled with the sound of ticking time passing.

This weird scene made Mike, Arthur and others look a little dumbfounded, while Tonks on the side explained in time:

"This is the Time Hall, where the Silent People will study the secrets of time. Although I don't know their specific research process, there is no doubt that everything here is very dangerous, so everyone must be careful. Oh! By the way, this is also the storage place for time turners. Most of the time turners in Europe are stored here for the silent people to study."

Mike nodded. In fact, without Tonks explaining, he had basically guessed that this room should be the laboratory where the Silent people studied time.

Because he saw a huge experimental device at the end of the room!

It was a huge bell-shaped crystal jar that was almost two meters high. It was placed firmly on a table, and it was filled with a churning, sparkling mist.

There is also a small, gem-like egg floating in the cover.

It quickly floated up in the cover, split open, and then a hummingbird broke out of its shell.

But as soon as the young hummingbird appeared, it was lifted up by the surrounding magic power together with the eggshell, and flew towards the luminous mist above it.

During the flight, the hummingbird that had just broken out of its shell began to grow rapidly as if someone had pressed the fast forward button. Its originally wet feathers were dried in an instant, and its size began to expand continuously!

But the moment he came into contact with that dense breath, a scene happened that made Mike's pupils shrink sharply.

Just like a video tape was played back, the little bird that had just turned into an adult hummingbird was sealed back into the eggshell again, and then the cracks on the eggshell healed quickly. By the time Mike fully reacted, At that time, the hummingbird had once again become an egg, slowly falling downwards.

The hairs all over Mike's body stood up. At this moment, he was completely conquered by the power of time, and at the same time he also had a sense of awe for the silent people!

That's a bunch of real lunatics!

"Tonks." Mike calmed down and said, "Lead the way."

The latter seemed to notice Mike's nervousness. She responded and led everyone towards the bell-shaped crystal.

As the distance shortened, everyone else also noticed the terrifying scene inside the bell-shaped crystal. Everyone, including Moody, invariably stayed away from it - no one wanted to be like the poor hummingbird. Become an old man or a baby!

There was a door behind the large bell-shaped crystal. Tonks was the first to rush forward and push open the door.

Then a room with a large number of shelves appeared in front of everyone, just like the Time Hall. However, unlike the Time Hall, the light in this room was extremely dim, and there were no gorgeous chandeliers on the ceiling. The only light source was the faint blue candles scattered around the walls, and the items placed on the shelves were different from those in the Time Hall. They were filled with all kinds of dusty crystal balls.

After everyone entered the room, the door behind them automatically closed again. Tonks turned around and said to everyone with a smile:

"Welcome to the Prophecy Hall, everyone."

At this point, everyone was relieved. What they saw in the Time Hall just now was beyond everyone's imagination. If they hadn't seen it with their own eyes, they would never have believed that someone would do such a horrific experiment again!

But just when everyone was relaxing, a vague voice suddenly came from a little further ahead!