Hogwarts starts with stealing power.

After Mikel came underground, he quickly felt the squeezing force.

This force was even stronger and more terrifying than he had imagined.

He originally thought that the magic power he had left could last for two hours.

But now it seems that, let alone two hours, even half an hour is a bit uncertain!

Mikel didn't want to wait until all his strength was exhausted before using his trump card. This was too dangerous, like walking a tightrope in the air.

If you are not careful, you may completely exhaust your strength and die.

When he realized that the force was very strong, he immediately took out a bottle of water from the Traceless Retractable Ring.

The water in the bottle is all produced by the strange cups he collected. After drinking this water, it can increase his magic power and enhance his ability to use magic.

Originally, he was planning to save this water for use when upgrading, to strengthen his foundation in one fell swoop.

Mikel gritted his teeth and drank it.

Only by preserving the present can we talk about the future.

The clear water flowed into his body, turning into a warm current that immediately flowed around his body.

After a while, his physical strength was fully restored and his magic power was overflowing.

Mikkel could even feel that the total amount of his magic power had increased slightly, which made his heart even tighter.

He closed his eyes and concentrated on fighting against the squeezing force around him. Many spells went through his mind, but he couldn't find any that could effectively resist.

So he asked the system again, hoping to get the corresponding spell from the system.

[Do you want to consume experience points to obtain the corresponding spell? ]

Mikel said silently in his heart: "Yes."

On the personal panel that only he could see, he found that his experience points were rapidly consumed and cleared and dropped to the previous level.

This had already consumed all the experience he had accumulated in the third grade, and he even lost experience points in the second grade.

If the progress bar hadn't left him some time, his experience points would have returned to the level of the first grade.

Mikel didn't care about the pain, and the curse given to him by the system emerged in his mind.

[Power of the Earth]

He looked at the instructions in detail. The spell "Power of the Earth Veins" borrowed the power of the earth veins to enhance the effect of the spell.

Therefore, after the "Power of the Earth" is cast, it is often followed by another spell to enhance the effect of the other spell.

However, when he used this spell, he was leveraging the power of the earth veins to reduce the pressure he was suffering.

This is actually using the power of the earth veins to fight against external oppression.

The first time Mikel performed it, he was not very skilled, but with the powerful teaching of the system, he still performed it successfully, and immediately felt that the pressure from the surroundings was reduced a lot.

At the same time, a small amount of the magic power in his body was consumed.

With the help of his personal panel, Mikel estimated that with his current magic power, the "Power of the Earth" could only be used 10 times. He had just used it up once, and there were 1 more chances left.

But this is just an ideal state.

After casting the "Power of the Earth", he did not stop casting other magic at all. He also had to cast some defensive magic to protect his body.

"So there may only be 5-6 chances. I have to seize them and not waste my magic power on other spells."

The amount of clean water that Mikel collected was limited, and according to the system's calculations, this sandstorm caused by high-level pollutants would not end for at least a day.

Because it takes a whole day, you have to use water sparingly.
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While Mikel's outstanding student assessment task was in dire straits, Lin Xia also collected all the newspapers published in the past few days to find out how the outside world viewed the battle of Hogsmeade during her retreat.

As expected, this terrorist attack launched by the Death Eaters could no longer be hidden from the rest of the wizarding world.

The Death Eaters were publicly revealed in the newspapers, and the black Death Eater tattoos on their wrists caused many wizards to have nightmares that night.

But even so, this fact is too obvious to be kept secret any longer, and everyone has to face the fact that the Death Eaters have returned.

However, at the same time, the newspapers only mentioned the Death Eaters in passing, and all the arguments were focused on exaggerating the key role Harry played in this battle.

More than a decade ago, in order to eliminate the hurt in people's hearts, all newspapers called Harry the savior who defeated the Dark Lord.

More than a decade later, the Death Eaters reappeared, and Harry was still brought to the public, causing many wizards to place their hopes on Harry.

Originally, Lin Xia just thought that Dumbledore wanted to use Hogsmeade as a stage to hone Harry and strengthen his courage and determination.

But now, she suddenly felt that Dumbledore was also deliberately building momentum for Harry, so that Harry could gradually become the savior who could replace him, the new god.

This is a bit strange.

Dumbledore has been the greatest wizard for so many years and a wizard who can defeat the Dark Lord. He seems to have plenty of life left and is not in danger of death. Why is he so eager to train his next successor?

Yes, Lin Xia could obviously discover Dumbledore's intention. He tried to build Harry's fame and make Harry the next "Dumbledore", or even surpass him and become the next greater wizard.

After all, when Dumbledore was young, he might not have been like Harry is now, with so many halos around him. He was just an excellent student.

What exactly is Dumbledore planning, why is he so eager, is he afraid of something?

These thoughts suddenly flashed through Lin Xia's mind.

More investigation is needed to know what is in Dumbledore's mind.

But compared to spying on Dumbledore, she had a simpler way, which was to keep an eye on Harry.

After all, Dumbledore was behind every step Harry took.

Lin Xia was reading a newspaper in the Hufflepuff common room. While she was thinking, a flash of magic suddenly appeared in front of her and fell into her palm.

After a while, Professor Babel's voice appeared in her mind, "Come over to my place, Lin Xia."

Lin Xia's eyes flickered slightly, and she carefully restrained all the aura on her body, especially the aura of "Nine Heavens Mysterious Yang Secret Record", and then walked to Professor Babeling's office.

She recalled what happened in Hogsmeade village, and from beginning to end, she did not see Professor Babbling.

But based on her understanding of Professor Babbling, such a powerful wizard, there is no way Dumbledore would not call her over.

And Professor Babel was still in Hogwarts. At such a close distance, there must have been many secret battles in the battle of Hogsmeade that she could not see.

Lin Xia originally thought that Professor Babel asked her to go to her office to talk about the battle of Hogsmeade village.

But when she arrived at the office, she found that the professor was not in the office. On her desk was a thick magic book with the words "Ancient Magic Spells" written on it. Lin Xia's eyes lit up. Over the years, she has been trying to collect spells cast with ancient magic, but because these spells are too old, not many have been passed down to the present day.

Even if there are some that are circulated, they are basically kept in the secret vaults of the nobles and are not spread out.

So all she could collect were some very common ancient magic spells, which did not have much effect.

But even so, it helped her a lot in understanding the ancient magic runes. She was able to decipher many magic runes arrays related to the ancient magic runes with the help of these spells.

When Lin Xia's hand touched the book "Collection of Ancient Magic Spells", the magic that had remained in the magic book was activated, and the voice of Professor Babeling was heard in the office.

"I have set up time magic in the office. You can stay in the office to learn these spells. The flow of time outside will be slowed down for you. But there is one thing, you cannot take the magic book out."

This meant that when she decided to go out, she would no longer be able to learn the spells in the magic book.

This made Lin Xia realize that this "Collection of Ancient Magic Spells" should be a very precious book, so Professor Babeling had to make some arrangements.

Time magic is too profound for her. She cannot feel this advanced magic at all in her normal state. Perhaps she needs to adjust to the "Magic Rune - Semi-Eternal Life" form to get a glimpse of it.

But this is Professor Barbling's office, and everything she does would probably be known to the professor, so Lin Xia just thought about it and did not switch to this form.

She didn't want to expose her cards to others.

Lin Xia first sensed it carefully and felt that there were a lot of defensive magics arranged in this space, which was a bit strange.

If you were in Hogwarts, there would be no need to be so cautious because there are a lot of defensive magic set up in the castle.

Even when the situation was at its most dire more than a decade ago, the Death Eaters and the Dark Lord were unable to break through the defenses of Hogwarts.

And this office.

Lin Xia did not feel any spiritual energy from it.

But in her impression, Professor Babel's office was very mysterious, and every time she entered it, the world would change into a different one.

If you encounter a dangerous world, there is a chance that you will get hurt.

But this time when she came in, everything around her was normal, and it looked like a very normal office.

Lin Xia suddenly thought of a possibility. Perhaps after she entered the office, she had come to another place from Hogwarts, a space that was not within the school.

If this is the case, then it explains why Professor Tong has set up so many defensive magic here.

Lin Xia gathered all his thoughts and read the "Complete Collection of Ancient Demonic Spells" carefully and attentively.

She wanted to know how many ancient magic spells were recorded in the book, but she could only start from page 1.

When she wanted to turn the page before finishing reading the content of this page, she felt a huge force coming at her, preventing her from turning the page.

It seems that only if she fully understands the content on page 1 can she continue to study.

This way of reading is a bit like the banned books she had read before.

While Lin Xia was studying, he also kept a little of his mind focused outside.

If this magic book is really a banned book, then when reading it, it will attract the evil god's whispering.

But gradually she discovered that whenever the evil god's muttering seemed to want to emerge, it would be dispersed by a force that suddenly rose in the room.

Therefore, the layout of this room also has the effect of resisting the evil god's whispering.

While Lin Xia was immersed in her studies, on the other side, the British Ministry of Magic also investigated Cassio's identity information.

Based on the name of Cassio provided by Dumbledore, the Ministry of Magic found Cassio's information among a group of deceased wizards.

Decades ago, he entered the battlefield node where the evil world and the wizard world intersected, and he has not returned for a long time. He has been missing for more than ten years and was automatically considered dead by the Ministry of Magic.

The reason why Dumbledore was able to recognize Cassio was because Cassio was a genius of the same era as him.

He had also heard of Cassio's name when he was studying at Hogwarts.

It's just that Cassio was studying in Slytherin at that time, and the relationship between Slytherin House and Gryffindor House has always been bad.

Although Dumbledore had heard of his name, he did not have much contact with him and only met him in some magic competitions.

After graduation, the two took different paths.

Cassio chose to join the Ministry of Magic and become an Auror. Because of his outstanding combat performance, he was transferred to the battlefield jointly opened up by the magic world and the evil world a few years later. He fought excellently and won many military exploits.

But Cassio disappeared during the final, huge battle.

In that battle, most wizards disappeared, and only a small number escaped.

All the wizards who escaped were infected by the evil god's whispers, and went mad one after another over the course of several decades, choosing to self-destruct.

Dumbledore was different from him. He was not interested in power or fighting all the time.

Although he had an excellent talent for fighting, he was more interested in academics, so after graduating from Hogwarts, he stayed at the school as a professor of Transfiguration.

After investigating Cassio's information, the top officials of the Ministry of Magic held an emergency meeting.

Based on the information revealed by Cassio, they had reason to suspect that many of the missing wizards in that huge battle were still alive.

They are still staying in the world of evil gods. In order to survive, they have to assimilate the magic power in their bodies into the power of evil gods in the world of evil gods. The two powers coexist.

As for what Cassio said about the wizards having betrayed the magical world, providing many clues to the evil world and becoming a force to deal with the magical world, everyone selectively forgot this sentence.

When faced with a life-threatening situation, not every wizard can face death calmly.

And betrayal is not necessarily due to hatred, it is more likely to be helplessness.

"If we can find this group of wizards, it will be of great help to our research on the coexistence of the two powers."

Over the years, the magic world has come up with many ways to fight against the evil god of time, and one of them has been very popular -

It is to put both forces together in the wizarding world.

Rather than rejecting, it is better to integrate!
But this method has a drawback. The power of the evil god is greater than the power of magic. If the two powers coexist, the power of the evil god will often swallow up the power of magic.

Unless the magic power is dominant and the power of the evil god only penetrates a little, it is possible not to be infected by the power of the evil god.

But it is difficult for everyone to grasp this degree.

Moreover, once a wizard possesses the power of an evil god, his temperament will basically change.

Without long-term observation, it is difficult to judge whether the wizard will gradually become a person from the evil world. (End of this chapter)