Hogwarts starts with stealing power.

The moment the "armor protection" was broken, Draco and Lucius sensed it at the same time, but their actions were completely different.

Draco struck while the iron was hot and continued to punch him again and again.

Lucius did something unexpected. He did not quickly raise his wand to cast defensive magic again.

He knew that at such a close distance, he would not have enough time to cast magic. If he wanted to dodge, he could only take a step back as quickly as possible.

Lucius took a step back and Draco took a step forward. The two sides fought back and forth, and it was hard to separate them.

Lucius, the experienced veteran, was forced into a state of panic by Draco for a moment. Looking closely, he found that he was actually being beaten by Draco.

Draco took advantage of his physical body, and when his magic reserves were not enough, he could only resort to close combat.

After being tempered by the "Purple Gold Mysterious Records", his body is much stronger than that of his peers, and his physical strength is no less than that of an adult wizard.

To be precise, many adult wizards may not be as physically fit as Draco.

Because wizards use magic and rarely engage in close combat, most of them are fragile wizards.

But Lucius also performed better than other adult wizards.

The Malfoy family provides comprehensive training for each heir. They not only value each person's magical talent and let them learn advanced magic, but also pay attention to each person's physical fitness.

If you have a strong physique, you won't be unable to do anything after losing your magic.

While Draco was attacking fiercely, Lucius kept looking for opportunities to distance himself from him.

The more the fight went on, the more shocked Lucius became.

He found that his son had a strong talent in close combat, so he deliberately left some space for Draco to come over so that he could grab him.

Draco was sharp enough not to be fooled.

In the end, he was able to distract himself while dodging. While dodging, he quietly put his hands behind his back, raised his wand, and silently cast an "armor protection" on himself!
With the defensive magic, Lucius immediately resisted Draco's fierce attack, and then seized the opportunity to use a simple magic missile to send Draco flying.

"That's all for today's battle."

Lucius looked at Draco lying on the ground with great satisfaction, his eyes full of relief.

"How come your talent for close combat has become so strong? And your physical strength is already far beyond that of many adult wizards, but I remember that you didn't show any talent in this area when you were a child."

Draco was a little hesitant, not knowing whether to mention the Linxia family's practice of martial arts to him.

While he was practicing, he signed a relevant contract with Lin Xia.

However, this contract was signed in the name of the Malfoy family, and he thought his father would know about it.

It seems that his father had no involvement in his cooperation with Lin Xia.

So Draco said cryptically: "Father, my physical strength was helped by the Lin family. I signed a relevant contract with Lin Xia. I can't say it out loud. This was signed in the name of the Malfoy family."

Lucius thought about it for a moment and understood what was going on.

"I understand. The Lin family has a legacy of Eastern sorcerers. The family has been a bloodline wizard for generations, inherited from the bloodline of the Eastern dragon. They have a unique secret method that can make people strong and healthy.

Since the secret method of cultivation was given by the Lin family, then you should continue to cultivate it well. The Lin family is a very powerful ally of the Malfoy family. "

Not knowing what he was thinking of, Lucius slightly revealed his fear of the Eastern country, which also indirectly illustrates his attitude towards the Lin family.

"Although the Malfoy family has been active in the British Ministry of Magic for many years, they have never set foot in the East. But in fact, their ancestors once did business in the East."

Draco was stunned. He had never seen this part in his family history.

Lucius seemed to see what he was thinking and smiled faintly.

"But within a few years, the family business failed and we were driven back. The East is a very magical country. Our ancestors said that there has always been the power of dragons there."

Draco understood, no wonder he didn't know about this.

On the other side, here is Mikel.

He had been hiding underground for two days, and only three drops of clean water were left in his body.

During these two days, the force of each collision underground became weaker and weaker, until the last two or three hours, he had not felt the pressure of being squeezed by the ground once.

According to his thinking, when the squeezing force disappeared, he should be exposed to the ground and quickly run out of the village.

But every time this thought came to his mind, he would feel a stabbing pain in his heart, as if some great terror was about to befall him!

This made Mikel's heart tremble. Could it be that the high-level pollutant was waiting in wait, silently observing this area without leaving?

“Could advanced pollutants be so smart?”

Mikel pondered in his heart and hesitated for a moment.

He had hardly ever dealt with advanced pollutants and did not understand their characteristics.

If the system hadn't reminded him that he was being targeted by high-level pollutants, he would probably have been the first to die.

Mikel's face changed, and after thinking about it, he finally decided to follow his sense of crisis and continue hiding underground.

As time passed, his lips became drier and drier, his face became haggard and he looked exhausted.

After two days of confrontation and consumption, his body had shrunk compared to before. He was originally a little fat, but now he had become a thin man.

He stored a lot of food in the Traceless Retractable Ring, but he didn't dare to take it out to eat, for fear of attracting the attention of the high-level pollutants above.

Who knows if high-level pollutants have a dog's nose, maybe it's very sensitive?
Although his physical condition was not good, the magic power in his body was abundant.

As a wizard, sufficient magic power is more important than anything else, so he did not continue to drink the water.

It would be a waste to use clean water to replenish moisture.

He allowed his condition to deteriorate little by little, and his thoughts became much clearer during this invisible confrontation.

People can survive for a week in a hungry environment and three or four days in a water-deficient environment. Mikel felt that he could still hold on.

On the contrary, this current state made him free of all distractions, and he suddenly realized that the system was not omnipotent.

Every help given by the system requires him to pay experience points, and the experience points he gives have to be completed through tasks one by one.

The experience value from daily tasks is very low and cannot solve his crisis at all.

Often you have to do some dangerous tasks before you can get the system to take action.

Danger and opportunity coexist.

If he is not brave enough to fight and strive hard, then the system's help to him will be useless.

"So in the end, you still have to make yourself stronger!"

Mikel pondered in his heart, constantly recalling the benefits he had gained from borrowing the system over the years.

The improved attack magic given by the system requires a large amount of experience points. According to this consumption method, he would probably use up all his experience points after learning three improved attack magics.

But the problem is that those three attack magics are not enough for him to resolve a larger crisis.

And if his magical talent is good enough, he can improve the magic by himself instead of relying on the system to give it to him.

There are also many powerful offensive magics that can be learned in Hogwarts. The system improvements are indeed powerful, but they are not irreplaceable.

So instead of asking the system to give him new and improved magic, it would be better to let the system improve his magical aptitude.

Mikel had a vague feeling that what the system could give him was actually all earned by himself, and the system did not play a big decisive role.

For example, in this crisis, the system can only give him spells and let him cast them, instead of actively popping up a protective shield to protect him.

This looks like an auxiliary system.

How far he can go with the help of the system is more of a determining factor in how far he can go, rather than whether he can become a genius by relying on the pull of the system.

After Mikel realized this, many thoughts flashed through his mind.

He needs to change his use of the system and cannot rely entirely on it.

Apart from some tasks that can bring benefits to yourself, the rest ultimately depends on your own hard work and study.

While thinking, Mikel suddenly felt a strong squeezing force hitting him hard.

This force came suddenly, without warning, and was extremely powerful.

The squeezing force was much stronger than the one he encountered at the beginning. It seemed that the high-level pollutants had mobilized a lot of power and took the initiative to launch a fierce impact on this area.

His expression changed slightly, and he instantly mobilized all the magic power in his body, casting the magic of "Power of the Earth Veins" to bless himself, integrating himself into the force of the collision, using the force of the other party to counter attack, and consuming each other's force.

The vibration lasted for about half an hour before it completely ended, and at this time the pressure on Mikel's heart slowly eased.

When he had the idea of ​​going out, his mind no longer gave him any warnings, and he thought that the high-level pollutant must have really left.

But just in case, Mikel decided to stay for a while.

About two hours later, he finally emerged from the yellow sand.

He looked left and right, and the surrounding environment was different from when he first arrived.

When we first arrived, there were some remaining buildings around, but this time they were all buried in the yellow sand.

And the stone walls that blocked their progress when they escaped have all disappeared.

After this area was no longer a concern for high-level pollutants, it was completely lifted from the ban.

Mikel didn't dare to relax and quickly left the place, but when he just walked out of the yellow sand area, his foot suddenly hit something.

He looked down and saw a bunch of dried corpses, who looked vaguely like one of the Aurors who brought him here.

Mikel gritted his teeth, put away his inappropriate sympathy, and quickly left the place.

When he reached a relatively safe distance, he took out the emergency communicator given by the Ministry of Magic and reported the situation here to the Ministry of Magic.

——What they encountered were high-level pollutants, not ordinary primary ones!

At the same time as Mikel's news came back, the Ministry of Magic also launched a cleansing operation against the Death Eaters.

This operation took a long time to plan and mobilized a large number of Aurors, almost two-thirds of the Auror forces of the British Ministry of Magic.

The number of Aurors this time far exceeded the force deployed in Hogsmeade at that time, because those who went to Hogsmeade were all elites, and numbers were more important than quality.

But this time, all Aurors have to participate in the cleanup operation, whether they are elite or ordinary.

The Death Eaters openly carried out terrorist attacks in Hogsmeade village and on Christmas Eve. Although the Ministry of Magic has resolved the crisis, it will not sit idly by.

They are going to launch a counterattack!
Now the Death Eaters' leader Bellatrix has been secretly imprisoned somewhere by them, and the remaining Death Eaters are scattered and fleeing everywhere, and are simply not a threat at all.

Aurors outnumbered them, and it was more than enough for several to arrest one.

"Quick! Block him in front, don't let him escape!"

A roar was heard, and the Auror who was chasing behind put his wand against his throat and used the "Voice Like a Bell" skill to shout at his companions who were also blocking the key intersection in front.

After delivering the message, he quickly turned his wand over and waved it at the fleeing Death Eaters. A bunch of magical arrows emitting sparkling cold light instantly appeared around the Death Eaters.

The Death Eater simply tilted his head calmly and dodged the attack.

However, the residual cold energy brought by the attack magic inevitably caused cold ice crystals to rise from some of his hair.

Half of the Death Eater's face was frozen, and he looked like he wanted to laugh, but because of the stiffness of half of his face, the corners of his mouth were pulled upwards and outwards at the same time, making his expression look weird.

The Death Eater stared at them coldly, "You ordinary wizards can't stop me at all!"

"It is a disgrace to the wizarding world that the Ministry of Magic would allow wizards like you to be Aurors. Under Dumbledore's leadership, the Ministry of Magic is getting worse every year!"

After the Death Eater finished his taunting, he prepared to fly in another direction.

Every Death Eater is very experienced in escaping tracking. The reason they have been able to survive over the years is that each of them is a good anti-detection expert.

However, this time, just as he was about to change direction, the Auror who had been following closely behind him suddenly took out another wand he had never seen before and swung it at the Death Eater in front of him: "Binding Cage!"

When the Death Eaters heard about this binding magic, they were prepared to deal with it.

His broomstick suddenly swayed from side to side. As long as he could avoid the binding magic, he could get rid of it.

However, this time, the Death Eaters were wrong.

The binding magic cast by the Auror was more powerful than the previous ones, as if the magic had been re-optimized. No matter how he swayed, he could not escape the fixed point of the binding magic.

Even when the Death Eater thought he had gotten rid of it, the fixed point suddenly and silently attached itself to him.

The next second, the magic was triggered, and a huge and strong vine cage instantly bound the Death Eater.

The Death Eater wanted to say something, but the moment the vines caught him, they released a poisonous juice that made him sleepy.

The next second, he fell into unconsciousness.

The Aurors who arrived later couldn't help but burst into cheers.

Sure enough, the binding magic blessed by the binding wand is much more powerful.

"The Binding Wand played a major role in this capture operation. Many Death Eaters could not escape the Binding Wand's location."

"I'm going to propose that every Auror be equipped with a binding wand. This will be very useful in a manhunt."

"It wasn't difficult to capture them before, but it was easy to cause death. With the help of the binding wand, we can capture them alive!" (End of this chapter)