Hogwarts starts with stealing power.

"Can I use your powers to destroy the pollutants?"

Mikel consulted with the system in his mind.

[Cannot actively attack, can only activate defense.] The cold mechanical sound of the system sounded in his mind.

This extinguished all the thoughts in Mikel's mind, and it was cold.

The so-called energy of the system was not what he had accumulated with great difficulty in his daily life. Every time he activated the defense, his experience points in the system would be consumed.

He felt that his luck had been bad since he entered the third grade.

Every time when he was about to accumulate experience points and upgrade to the next level to unlock a talent magic, one or two dangerous things would occur at the critical moment when the accumulation was about to be completed, forcing him to use the experience points to protect himself.

This time too.

He was just a little bit short of enough experience points to level up. He only needed to complete this assessment and then do the daily tasks issued by the system for two or three days to level up.

As a result, a high-level pollutant appeared in his assessment of outstanding students.

Mikel cursed in his heart, what are the observers in the Ministry of Magic doing? How could they mistake high-level pollutants for low-level pollutants?

"Can I just stand still without activating my defenses?"

A cold mechanical voice came from my mind: [The host has been targeted by high-level pollutants. ]

Mikkel was unwilling to waste his experience points. "So I can just do nothing. I won't get close to the pollutant, and it's obvious that the pollutant won't move to me on its own."

There were no more system prompts in his mind, as if the system had given up communicating with the host and let him do whatever he wanted.

This made Mikel worried again, and he kept calling the system in his mind.

The abnormality on his side was also discovered by the two Aurors who were observing secretly.

"Seeing that he kept moving closer to the pollutant, he must have locked onto the pollutant. Why did he suddenly stop?"

"Are there any new discoveries?"

"Impossible. From where I am, the pollutants are still there, and the smell is very weak."

After observing silently for a while, the Auror stared at Mikel's increasingly pale expression and felt something was wrong.

"He looked very nervous, with sweat dripping down his forehead, completely different from the relaxed look he had before."

These words alerted another Auror. He hesitated for a few seconds and said, "Let's get closer. Maybe he has discovered something."

As the two Aurors moved, the contaminants that had been staying in place also began to move.

The pollutant was wrapped in yellow sand, and a small storm blew around it, obstructing everyone's vision and making it difficult to see the appearance of the pollutant.

But the Ministry of Magic had records left by observers, and the two Aurors knew that this low-level pollutant was in the shape of a bowl.

As the pollutants moved, the wind around became stronger and stronger. Every time I took a breath, my nasal cavity was blocked by a handful of sand.

As the contaminants began to move, the system's warning sounded again in Mikel's mind.

[The pollutants are approaching, should we activate the defense? ]

Mikel gritted his teeth and wanted to run outside, but he found that his body had frozen at some point.

Seeing that the yellow sand formed a huge storm and was gradually approaching him, Mikel finally chose to start defense.

[Defense is on]

As soon as these words flashed through his mind, Mikel found that his body could move, and at the same time a spell appeared in his mind - "wake up and clear your eyes".

This spell allows a person to maintain vision in extremely bad weather conditions, to find and track people or objects at a glance, and also to refresh the mind and keep calm.

Although he had never learned this spell, after activating the defense, a large amount of experience related to this spell was instilled into his mind by the system.

Mikel's joy was only momentary, because he found that this spell still required him to expend his own magic power to cast it, instead of the system actively providing it to him.

All the system did was restore his mobility.

A thought flashed through Mikel's mind: This system is becoming increasingly useless.

The situation was urgent, so he could only wave the wand hanging on his waist and shouted loudly: "Wake up and keep your eyes open!"

A magical power emanated from his wand, forming a transparent cover that wrapped around his body and blocked the flying sand and stones.

After just a moment, Mikel felt that his magic power was being consumed very quickly.

But at the same time, his eyes became sharper and he could see the pollutants hidden in the flying sand at a glance.

Sparks of inspiration flashed in his mind, and he soon realized that he couldn't hold on. With his current magic power, he could only support this spell for a few minutes at most.

He needs to get out of the pollutant area as soon as possible!

Mikel turned and ran out, and just at this moment the Auror hiding in the dark appeared and ran towards him.

The Auror took the initiative to ask, "What happened? You are taking the test. If you leave without removing the contaminants, you will be judged as a failure!"

However, Mikkel did not answer him, but rushed to them quickly with a magic shield on his head.

The Aurors were about to strike up a conversation with Mikel, but Mikel left them behind without even looking back.

Just as the Aurors were confused and chased Mikel to ask what was going on, one of the Aurors also felt that there was something wrong with the flying yellow sand.

"This kind of magic fluctuation... This is not something that low-level pollutants can emit. This is the magic fluctuation of high-level pollutants. How could this village hide high-level pollutants?!"

The two Aurors hurried to the exit of the village.

They realized that the observers from the Ministry of Magic must have been lazy and did not go through the entire observation process. They simply judged that this was a low-level pollutant based on the energy fluctuations emitted by the pollutant.

But some advanced pollutants are very smart and have learned how to camouflage themselves, deliberately hiding energy fluctuations as low energy.

The Ministry of Magic has established very strict observation procedures to prevent this kind of situation from happening.

However, the wizarding world has been peaceful for more than ten years. Since the death of Voldemort, there have been very few pollutants, which has caused observers to become increasingly lazy.

One of the Aurors cursed bitterly, "When I return, I will definitely bring this village's observer to court, because his laziness caused me to suffer great harm during my mission."

"You'd better save your energy. We need to escape from the high-level pollutants. This is not an easy task."

Mikel's magic power was not as much as the two Aurors, but because he was under a magic shield to block the wind and sand, he gritted his teeth and added speed magic to his body, so he fled the fastest.

But when he was about to rush out of the village, the exit of the village was suddenly surrounded by wind and sand, forming a solid wall of sand!

Mikkel reacted quickly and pulled out his wand: "Split into pieces!"

The sand wall was attacked by magic and there was no reaction.

Mikkel quickly asked the system in his mind: "Can I break this obstacle?" [With the magic that the host has learned now, it cannot be broken]

"Then can you break the magic for me? Your database also contains powerful magic, right?"

[Yes, but the host cannot learn it quickly]

"So what should I do now?"

The experience points have been consumed, and the "Awakening the Mind and Clearing the Eyes" has been used. I can't learn how to break it. It's impossible for me to be attacked to death by high-level pollutants, right?

The system didn't say anything, as if it was helping him think about the best existing way to solve the problem.

After a while, the system prompt popped up in Mikel's mind again.

[Do you want to consume experience points to obtain survival methods? ]

Mikel hesitated. If he continued to consume experience, his experience points would regress to the level of the second grade.

If he hadn't completed a few tasks in the third grade that allowed him to directly obtain improved magic, and magic cannot be returned once learned, he would have fallen back into poverty.

While he was thinking, the two Aurors behind him arrived late. They did not realize that it was the yellow sand that hindered their movement.

The two Aurors kept attacking the sand wall with offensive magic, not realizing how dangerous their situation was.

"Damn it, my attack spell can't break the sand wall's defense!"

"This is not an ordinary sand wall. It should be the ability controlled by the advanced pollutants!"

"Gotta try dark magic!"

Mikel asked the system in his mind: "There are two Aurors around me. Can I leave the village with just the two of them?"

[Both Aurors are junior Aurors. Although they have strong combat awareness, their magic power storage cannot compare to the evil power of the high-level pollutants. Under the attack of high-level pollutants, their survival rate is only 10%]

Mikel trusted the system's judgment and his expression became more serious.

With the help of the "Wake Up and Clear Eyes" magic, he instantly realized that he could not count on these two Aurors, and perhaps the Aurors would need his help instead.

So he stopped hesitating and said to himself: "Use experience points to gain survival methods."

After a while, the prompt given by the system emerged in his mind.

The power of this advanced pollutant is actually not very strong, but it can pollute a wide range and its ability is more inclined towards climate change.

As long as he can survive this round of extremely harsh environment and when the pollutants are in dormancy and recovering the power of the evil god, he can take the opportunity to leave.

If you want to survive extremely harsh environments, you must not expose your body to wind and sand. Pollutants will attack living people when they see them.

Therefore, the best escape plan given by the system is for Mikel to bury himself in the sand and rocks, about 2 to 3 meters underground.

This distance is the maximum distance determined by the system based on the host's physical strength. If the distance exceeds three meters, his body will not be able to support it.

But if the distance is less than two meters, it will be easily exposed and searched by high-level pollutants.

In order to ensure that there are no living people in the area where it is located, high-level pollutants will repeatedly blow sand and dust to patrol the area, and even clear the sand and gravel in an area.

According to the system's calculations, two meters is the limit of the high-level pollutant clearance area.

The system also kindly reminds the host that if he is worried that his body cannot withstand the pressure two or three meters underground, he can try his luck and hide 1.5 meters underground.

After all, the clearing area was selected randomly. If he was lucky, the high-level pollutants didn't take effect in the area where he was, so he could successfully avoid it.

But Mikel knew he had no choice.

There are three wizards in this area, including him, which is definitely an area that requires key patrols for high-level pollutants.

Mikel even had some doubts as to whether the three meters underground given by the system could withstand the surveillance of high-level pollutants.

Moreover, hiding underground not only tests the wizard's physical endurance, but also tests whether the wizard has sufficient magic power. Wizards must use magic power to support themselves to survive in extreme environments.

With the blessing of "awakening the mind and clearing the eyes", a strange cup flashed through Mikel's mind!
He had picked up a cup while patrolling Hogwarts late at night. The system said that the cup was originally a pollutant, but after being refined by magic, it adapted to the rules of the magical world and became a rare object.

The cup will produce a cup of clean water every half a month, and this cup of clean water can enhance the magic power of the drinker.

Since then, he has consciously collected the clean water produced by the cup. He originally planned to find a time to take it together, preferably in conjunction with the upgrade of the system panel to expand his magic capacity.

But the situation is critical now, and I'm afraid he can only rely on the clean water from the miracle to get through this.

The two Aurors beside him were still violently using offensive magic to attack the sand wall. One Auror even expended a huge amount of magic power and used dark magic, causing the sand wall to vibrate slightly.

But it was no use, the sand wall still stood there firmly.

Mikel turned and stared at the rolling yellow sand in the distance. Because there were always strong winds here, blowing sand flying, the two Aurors did not notice that the weather here had changed.

The rolling sand dunes seemed to have turned into a giant beast, glowing a dazzling golden brown under the scorching sun, and moving towards them consciously.

Suddenly, Mikel saw the once buried village hidden under the sand and rocks in the distance.

Half-collapsed brick walls, rotten wooden beams, and one dried human skeleton after another.

Mikkel's pupils shrank slightly, and he hated the observer from the Ministry of Magic even more.

Is it that the yellow sand invades the villa too frequently, causing all the people inside to move away?

It was obvious that the yellow sand had submerged the village, and the remaining villagers in the village had been dried into skeletons!

All these skeletons were buried under the sand and no one found them.

If it weren't for the high-level pollutants realizing that there was a wizard invasion and stirring up a strong wind and sand, this hidden scene would have been exposed.

At this moment, Mikel realized that with the strength of only three people, they would never be able to escape the attack of high-level pollutants.

He took a deep breath, pointed the wand at himself, and chanted a spell silently.

The next second, Mikel's figure disappeared from the spot.

He chanted the spell very quietly, and the two Aurors did not cast any defensive magic to block the wind and sand. In the howling wind, they did not know what spell Mikel chanted, they only saw his figure disappear on the spot.

An Auror shouted excitedly: "It must be Apparition. He used Apparition to leave this damn place!"

The two Aurors tried to use Apparition, but soon found that mobility magic was ineffective.

The power of the advanced pollutant covers the village, not allowing anyone who enters its territory to escape.

The two Aurors had to use defensive magic and fight hard.

They didn't notice that a lot of yellow sand gathered around them, covering their bodies bit by bit without being noticed.

By the time they reacted, they were already unable to break free from the force of the sand squeezing their bodies. (End of this chapter)