Chapter 443 Suspicion

"... Luna... Luna?"

As soon as he ran to the lawn under the Ravenclaw tower, under the moonlight, Maca immediately caught a glimpse of a familiar pale gold.

Luna fell sideways on the ground, wearing a rather strange set of pajamas. At first glance, there seemed to be no obvious injuries.

Maca hurried forward, half-kneeling and helped the girl's upper body, letting her lean on her lap. Immediately, he checked her a little anxiously.

"...Fortunately, it should just be hit on the head and passed out."

After a while, Maca finally breathed a sigh of relief. After carefully feeding her a few sips of the potion, he picked Luna up in his arms.

Until then, he had no time to observe the situation of other students.

Roughly counting, there were a total of nine little wizards who fell from the tower. Three of them were obviously scratched directly by the black mist, and some parts of their bodies had already appeared gray-black shrinkages that had been eroded by their vitality.

Fortunately, when the black mist was heading straight towards the tower, Maca's patron saint deflected its flight direction a little, otherwise it would have been even worse.

Just as Maca cast another floating spell, intending to bring them all back to the castle first, McGonagall and other professors also rushed over.

"McLean?" Professor McGonagall asked anxiously, "What happened just now? Is your Patronus dealing with something—"

She was asking quickly, but when she saw Maca's appearance clearly, she was taken aback.

"...You... Maca, are you okay?"

Upon hearing this, Maca looked at Professor McGonagall with some doubts, and then he followed the other's line of sight and looked down. The set of wizard robes he was wearing was covered with dark red dripping blood, and there were even some sticky fragments that could no longer be distinguished.

"Oh, it's okay! It's not my blood..." Maca said quickly, "I'll talk about the specifics later—I don't fully understand it now. In short, let's bring all the students in first, and conduct examinations and treatment immediately."

He supported the little wizards who were mostly in a coma with a floating spell, and with Luna in his arms, he walked quickly to the gate of the castle. Behind him, Professor McGonagall and Professor Sprout had the same concern on their faces.

The little Professor Flitwick seemed quite calm, he just frowned, as if he was thinking about the word "obscure" that Maca just mentioned.

And Snape, who was standing at the back, still had his expressionless face. He stared at Maca who was striding ahead, and the girl in Maca's arms, and then followed after a short pause.

Probably because the commotion just now was a bit loud, many students were awakened one after another. At this moment, some students have already ran out of the dormitory, passed through the common room of their respective colleges, and came to the hall.

Professor McGonagall immediately scolded them severely and drove them all back.

In a hurry, Maca caught a glimpse of Hermione and the three of them. Perhaps they not only saw themselves, but also saw Luna who was unconscious in his arms.

But Maca obviously didn't have time to explain anything to them.

After rushing all the way to the school hospital, Madam Pomfrey was waiting by the corridor—her office was on the other side of the corridor, and she was safe and sound at this time.

It's just that the ward is a mess.

Not only was there a big hole in the outer wall, but even the interior seemed to be swept by a hurricane, making it extremely messy. Joshua shrank in the corner of the room, seemingly fainted.

Professor Flitwick, who came over, quickly cast a repair spell, and all kinds of damaged objects immediately flew up, and they began to piece together one by one.

The collapsed hospital bed creaked and straightened the bed board, and the torn sheets and bedding automatically closed the cracks.

The fallen portraits were spun and hung back on the iron nails on the wall, and the broken bedside tables were joined together piece by piece...

When the last brick in the damaged wall was automatically filled into the hole, everything became intact as if nothing had happened.

Of course, except for the big spider lying in a corner of the ward.

After Maca glanced at the dead "Little Eleven", he placed the little wizards floating behind, Joshua in the corner, and Luna in his arms one by one on the empty hospital beds.

"...There is actually a spider here," Professor Flitwick stared cautiously at the little Eleven with four pairs of spider legs, and said hesitantly, "Could it be that we missed one before?"

"No, that's what I raised." Maca said with some seriousness, "In fact, I stayed here to monitor it, but I never thought about it..."

"Surveillance?" Professor Sprout on the side suddenly looked sideways, "Surveillance of what?"

"Did you forget?" Professor Flitwick immediately revealed a pensive look when he heard Maca say this, "There should be a patient lying in this ward before."

Maca nodded slightly.

"Professor Snape, did you take the antidote you prepared?" He turned his head and asked.

"That's right." Snape's expression was a little gloomy, "But it takes time for the antidote to work. She shouldn't wake up tonight."

"Maybe there are other reasons?" Maca seemed a little absent-minded, and replied casually, "Maybe it's because of the physical problems of the Obscure, or something else..."

He paused for a while, but immediately waved his hands: "Professor, Madam Pomfrey, let's check the students first, and think about the rest later."

After that, he took the lead and walked to the bed closest to him.

The moon is quite bright tonight, and the cold silver light not only illuminates the vast campus outside the castle, but even the wards seem transparent.

While carefully examining a student who was corrupted by the energy of the Obscure, Maca seemed to catch a glimpse of some dark shadow from the corner of his eye.

He immediately turned his head vigilantly and looked out the window on the lawn, but found nothing.

"……what?"

Maca frowned, thinking that he shouldn't be delusional. But the lawn of the school yard is so flat, and it can be seen from here, and it can't hide people at all.

He was still a little worried, and decided to go outside to check carefully after confirming that these students were fine.

...

In the middle of the night, Maca, who searched several times inside and outside the campus, returned to the ward again.

After careful inspection of those students before, the casualties caused by this accident have been determined.

Except for Helen Schoen, among the ten students including Luna, three of them were seriously injured because of the erosion of the obscurant's energy. Others, on the other hand, only received varying degrees of physical damage.

If this happened in the Muggle world, those students who were covered in bruises would have died young. They had to be thankful that this happened in the magic world after all.

As long as it is purely physical damage, in most cases, as long as there is still breath, it is very likely that it will be healed quickly with the help of powerful healing potions and restoration spells.

And those few students who were hurt by the terrible magic were obviously even more fortunate.

Because there is not only Snape, the heavyweight potion master, but also Maca, who already knows a little about the Obscure.

Maybe it will take a lot of hands and feet, but it is mostly just a matter of time to recover.

As for the fainted Joshua, he was surprisingly unscathed. Judging from his physical state, it would be more reasonable to say that he fainted from fright rather than fainting caused by the injury.

However, at this moment, Maca obviously didn't have much thought to concentrate on treating them. He was more concerned about Miss Lovegood who was lying on the hospital bed and sleeping soundly.

Well, even if the girl wasn't really hurt too much.

In fact, Luna woke up once before Maca left the ward to search. She is in pretty good condition, except for a faint bruise on her forehead, probably from a bump somewhere.

When she saw Maca with a worried face, she still had the dazed look on her face, and she smiled leisurely at Maca, asking him dreamily if he wanted to go to the mistletoe to find gnats together for Christmas. hook.

Right now Maca is sitting on the round stool beside her hospital bed, quietly looking at the soft outline of her face. The delicate long pale golden hair was spread out between the pillows, and accompanied by the clear moonlight, there was a misty illusory brilliance.

This calming picture made the restlessness in Maca's heart slightly quiet.

Until now, he had the time to organize his thoughts, and repeated everything that happened tonight in his mind several times.

First of all, there was the secret manor where the Obscure was hiding. Zoe, who appeared during the replay spell phenomenon, seemed to want to say something. It's just a pity that before she could finish speaking, she was dismissed by Greenwald who suddenly controlled the old wizard Lenny.

There is no doubt that Zoe obviously knows the truth, or some clues close to the truth. And these things, Greenwald absolutely does not want Maca to know.

He still remembered that Zoe said that he had read part of the memories of the old wizard Lenny.

However, Lenny himself was blown to pieces extremely decisively by Greenwald, which directly led to Maca having to change all his clothes.

Well, let's not mention such insignificant things as changing clothes. The point is that at the same time that Lennie turned into a cloud of blood, Hogwarts was suddenly attacked by the Obscure.

That Helen Schoen was indeed not a good person, Maca had always had a vague guess about this. However, just in this situation, he couldn't help but feel an inexplicable feeling in his heart.

just like……

"I always feel that... there must be something missing." Maka's brows became slightly tense again.

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