The years of welding at Hogwarts

However, the Internet is not very popular nowadays, so the fact that "wizards really exist in this world" is only spread within a limited range.

Of course, as long as this matter can reach the ears of those in power who can influence the direction of the world situation, it is better than spreading it to the insignificant masses.

The only problem wizards are facing now is, after the Muggles know the truth of this matter, what attitude will they have towards their fellow wizards who have been with them day and night?

Even though wizards usually belittle and discriminate against Muggles, when they realize that the wall separating the two worlds has really disappeared, the entire magical world is shrouded in the fear brought about by the witch hunt launched by Muggles back then.

It was in this context that the doctrines that Grindelwald and his wizarding party believed in were once again elevated to the supreme position by wizards.

Like declaring war on the Muggle world before the Muggles could react, and bringing the Muggles under wizard rule.

It is also because of this that the crimes that Grindelwald committed against the wizarding world more than 50 years ago were almost deliberately forgotten by people within just a few days.

Instead, he was praised and followed by countless insecure wizards.

Then, under the instigation of some people with ulterior motives, the International Confederation of Wizards had to reopen the trial of the crimes committed by the previous generation of the Dark Lord under pressure from public opinion.

The result is not surprising...

Not guilty.

Due to insufficient evidence, Gellert Grindelwald was found not guilty.

No matter which world it is, the non-magical world or the magical world, the politicians who occupy the center of power have the same morals, and there is no difference between the two because of magic.

When it suits their interests, a tube of washing powder can become decisive evidence, and a Bible that is little more than nonsense can become a symbol from ancient times.

By the same token, let alone just whitewashing Grindelwald, what if one day Dumbledore, the greatest white wizard in the magical world, has become an obstacle to their pursuit of profits?

Then even sending Dumbledore to Azkaban or even to Nurmengard is something these politicians can do.

After whitewashing the crimes he had committed, Grindelwald quickly bewitched a group of new generation wizards who were unaware of the history of the past, and gathered a large number of fanatical followers again.

In just four short months, from the disintegration of the Soviet Union, almost half of Eastern Europe has once again fallen into his control.

Listening to the girls' stories, Noah couldn't help but look up at the ceiling of the castle, which was more than ten meters high.

Own……

After only being away for four months, has the world become so unfamiliar to him?

The wizarding world is in danger of being exposed.

Grindelwald and his wizard party occupied half of the European wizarding world.

Dumbledore refused to take action for some undisclosed reason.

The president of the International Confederation of Wizards resigned not long ago and a new president has not yet been elected.

The non-magical world is in a state of false peace, but in reality it is lingering in the shadow of a world war, with the masterminds hiding in the dark and fanning the flames with malicious intent.

Why does Noah always feel like he has arrived at the wrong time?

Is it really the summer of 1993?

Why does he always feel like we are on the eve of World War II, and that it only takes a small opportunity for the world to become a complete mess?

Chapter 393 The temptation to go home

After learning about the current situation in the magic world and the non-magic world from the two girls, Noah, who looked like an old man on the subway, felt that the current situation was...

Seems like I've seen it somewhere?

The trigger for that war was the Führer's order to launch a surprise attack on Poland. Now the magical world and the non-magical world, which are destined to be in opposition to each other from their standpoints, are also in a strange state.

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In fact, long before the conflict between the Scourers and wizards was fully exposed, many countries in the non-magical world had already known about the existence of wizards.

For example, with Ying.

But that only applies to the Prime Minister.

Another example is the mysterious ancient oriental country that has been passed down for thousands of years.

In that mysterious country, wizards are called alchemists, and of course there are also titles such as monks.

The most famous among them are the cultivators from Longhu Mountain.

They have been cooperating with the Muggle government of their country for many years without the knowledge of other countries.

The confidentiality laws formulated by the International Confederation of Wizards to protect the living space of wizards have not had any restraining effect on the monastic world of that mysterious country.

Although wizards originated a long, long time ago, the discontinuous history of magic among Western wizards does not allow them to occupy an absolute position in terms of discourse power.

On the contrary, the monks of other countries have clear records in the history that can be traced back to the Zhou Dynasty more than a thousand years BC...

The differences between people cannot be generalized, let alone between countries.

Putting aside this special example, basically every upper-class person with a certain degree of power knows about the existence of the magical world, and this is the first time it has appeared in the Western world.

The most important issue facing them now, or to be more precise, is several issues.

What attitude should they adopt towards this neighbor who has been lurking around them for thousands of years?

Secondly, how will this neighbor view you?

The last and most important question is whether they can gain any benefits from it?

That's a wizard!

In fairy tales, novels, comics, or film and television dramas, the existence of magic seems to be connected with the word "omnipotent".

Does immortality really exist?

And turning stone into gold…

Well, people who can climb to their position are basically no longer interested in money.

A more important issue is whether wizards can easily cure those complex diseases that are incurable with current medical technology?

Nicolas Flamel, a legendary alchemist who was born in the 14th century, had deeds not limited to the magical world in an era when there was no statute of secrecy.

Of course, for Muggles, the existence of Nicolas Flamel may be just a rumor, but that was before ordinary people realized the real existence of the wizarding world.

Those tycoons at the top of society do not expect to live forever in this world like Nicolas Flamel.

But what if we just live in the healthiest way possible until the limit of human lifespan without any illness or disaster?

This is also something that has an extremely strong appeal to them.

Therefore, before they figure out the truth about magic, they will not commit an unforgivable crime like "genocide" that would cause devastating damage to everything against this neighbor who has been hiding quietly by their pillows and living with them day and night for thousands of years.

But how will the wizards react?

This is an issue they must take into consideration, but it is not the most important one.

Judging from the fact that those wizards used various complicated means and went to great lengths to erase their existence from this world, those wizards had no intention of provoking disputes with ordinary people.

This is obviously great news for them in the non-magical world.

From this perspective, limiting the existence of wizards to such a small circle seems to be more in line with their current and even future interests?

This led to a very strange scene -

Contrary to what the wizards feared, Muggle governments in various countries were deliberately controlling news about magic and wizards, using all kinds of specious news to blur the solid evidence that had been exposed, and portraying the conflict between the Purgers and wizards as a deliberately staged scam.

However, such a delicate situation does not conform to the strategic goals that Noah had set long ago.

and so……

After chatting with the two girls for a while at the door of the abandoned women's restroom, Noah, who always felt that it was not right to stand in this place and chat, said goodbye to them and walked into the women's restroom with a dignified manner.

Uh, this seems even more wrong?

Moaning Myrtle was still squatting in her private cubicle as usual, with her head poking out from above the door, like a pervert peeping into the women's restroom, her curious eyes looking at the washbasin that was moving away with a rumble.

It has been a long time since Noah last came to this intricate underground maze. He kicked the pebbles on the ground along the way carelessly, while sorting out the information he had just received from the two girls in his mind.

But soon Noah gave up thinking.

He is now completely different from what he was before.

If he had not completed the blood fusion ceremony, even if his brain contained almost all the books in Kamar-Taj, including the private collection of Master Ancient One and the manuscript of the Dark God Book,

A kind of knowledge that is taboo.

Extensive knowledge is only one element that constitutes combat effectiveness.

In terms of pure combat power, he is only slightly stronger than several deans of Hogwarts. However, when facing ceiling figures like Dumbledore or Grindelwald, Noah is still inferior.

But after he merged with Fox's blood and injected the super soldier serum, his martial virtues were enriched to a level that ordinary people could hardly imagine...

Noah: “Who else!!!”

Of course, before Noah experienced a battle that allowed him to use his full strength and see clearly where his limits were, he was still very restrained.

However, now, after experiencing the battle with the old pervert in the parallel world, Noah not only recovered from his serious injuries, but also obtained part of the power of the phoenix by chance. It can be said that he has already established himself at the top of this world.

This is why the combat effectiveness of the world he lives in is low.

If it were in the neighboring universe, the orthodox Kamar-Taj, that old witch with unknown strength could easily pin Noah to the ground with just one hand.

Amidst Noah's outrageous thoughts of "punching Hogwarts Albus and kicking Nurmengard Gellert", he soon stood in front of a thick wall.

Looking at the lifelike snake statues in front of him, Noah no longer needed to imitate the snake's pronunciation and speak the secret words to the stone wall to open the door.

With his current ability, he only needed to clench his right fist and then open it, and the protective magic covering the stone wall in front of him would be easily broken.

There was no trace of the blonde girl behind the stone wall that rumbled to both sides.

All that caught Noah's eye was the ugly statue at the end of the secret room, with its mouth wide open, revealing another, more secret secret room behind it.

Standing in the secret room filled with green and mysterious mist, Noah did not continue to move forward, but stood at the door of the secret room with his hands in his pockets.

A few seconds later, a familiar figure appeared in the tunnel in the statue's mouth.

When she saw the young man in front of her, there was a hint of disbelief in Gwen's eyes, which were bloodshot from staying up late for a long time.

She stood there in a daze for several seconds, until Noah's mouth curled up slightly and he said "Long time no see" in a casual tone, then Gwen reacted.

He took some excited steps, as if he was going to rush directly into Noah's arms, but in the end he stopped one meter in front of Noah.

Their relationship was merely that of friends and partners, and Gwen and Noah didn't seem like the type of people who could engage in intimate gestures like hugging.

But Gwen couldn't help herself and finally stretched out her hand and placed it on Noah's solid chest which had become fuller due to the super soldier serum.

The hard muscles hidden under the thin wizard robe sent a wonderful soft touch back to the brain, which made Gwen blush slightly and retract her eager hands.

"Is it the real one? Or is it just a clone controlled by Meng Xing?"

Just by looking at the unhappy expression on the girl's face, Noah knew that she had been studying the teleportation magic circle in the secret room for some time, and she had only one goal.

That is to bring back the missing self from another completely unknown world.

"It's me, I'm really back."

The height advantage made Noah want to reach out and ruffle Gwen's long golden hair that had grown to her shoulder length, but in the end, Noah did not make such an obviously presumptuous move.

He just smiled at Gwen with a bit of apology on his face, "I'm sorry that I haven't contacted you during this period of time and made you worry."

Gwen had already gotten used to the true face of the inherently evil Shafrin kid underneath his harmless appearance, so Noah's sudden apology made her seem a little overwhelmed.

According to her personality, she would definitely respond arrogantly with something like "Who would worry about a guy like you?"

But now she was a little overwhelmed, and just waved her hands in a panic, "No, I took out the imperfect space stabilization anchor without any experiments..."

Until now, she has always thought that there was something wrong with her space stabilization anchor.

But in fact, there was no problem at all with her stabilizing anchor, and of course it had no effect at all.

Apart from the fact that the final destination of the teleportation was moved from the altar deep underground to the distant surface, there was actually no change to the teleportation array at all.

Although he wanted to comfort Gwen and tell her that it wasn't her fault, it was the first time that Noah saw Gwen looking so helpless.

Even though she was imprisoned by an evil organization hidden in the shadows of the world and might have been sent to a test bench to suffer some forbidden and immoral horrible treatment, this Spider-Woman did not show her current appearance.

This made Noah, who had wanted to talk to the other party about some serious matters, suddenly fall into his old bad mood again.

The smile of reuniting with an old friend on his lips unconsciously took on a hint of bitterness from escaping death.

This was indeed something he had experienced personally.

"You almost killed me.

I almost couldn’t come back.”

Noah said this in a nonchalant manner, but it made Gwen's heart tighten.