Chapter 1254 ? The Arson Case of the Ministry of Magic's Underground Building

Chapter 1254: The Arson Case of the Underground Building of the Ministry of Magic

As anyone could have predicted, law and order in Britain's wizarding community has been in trouble following the Scrimgeour strike.

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In just a few days, with the deliberate support of some domestic and foreign forces, the number of cases filed by the Department of Magical Law Enforcement has increased rapidly, which has had a very bad impact on the reputation of the Ministry of Magic in the magical world.

Wizards dare not go out alone at night. Even if they go out during the day, they try not to go to relatively remote places, and they will not bring pocket watches and other items used to show off their wealth when they go out.

In relatively remote streets or alleys, if it is a single Auror or striker, it may even be provoked by criminal gangs. At present, only the floating city belonging to Harris, because it can be justifiably maintained by the armed force of the umbrella, maintains all normal scenes.

The part of immigrants who started to gather and protest because of their beliefs and inequality issues has become one of the key targets of stability maintenance under the umbrella. Under the unprecedented vigilance of the floating city, those immigrants had no way to hold protests in the floating city, so they focused on the British mainland, and used this time to patrol the Aurors to strike and try to spread their ideas to the world. other people.

This kind of behavior compared with the safety outside the floating city, which aggravated the dissatisfaction of the wizards who stayed on the ground and deepened their antagonism.

Until someone even crazily set his target on the Ministry of Magic building itself, which was insufficiently guarded by the armed Aurors.

It was three o'clock in the morning on the seventh day of Scrimgeour's announcement of the strike.

A few armed Aurors who were still in the Ministry to patrol, noticed strange noises coming from the main hall area located on the eighth floor underground of the Ministry of Magic, so they ran to check immediately, and there were rolling and rushing sounds everywhere. Suddenly he had an ominous premonition, and what he saw later proved this bad omen, which made the members of the most elite Auror Guards who belonged to the armed Aurors terrified.

In all the fireplaces connected to the floo network, raging magical flames that do not belong to floo fans are burning. The raging flames turned into beasts and monsters are raging in the main hall, devouring everything they pass by, and turning everything they go into Some flame monsters crawled down the elevator, and some just came out of other elevator shafts.

"Fiendfire! Someone set fire to the Ministry of Magic!"

The Aurors did not choose to extinguish so many Fiercefire monsters at the first time, but quickly passed the news through their bow ties. The armed Aurors were dispatched to maintain order in those key places. The current guards of the Ministry of Magic The power is much weaker than before.

Then, these left-behind Aurors began to tacitly formed a team and rushed into the main hall. After casting Fiendflame for a while, there was enough time to use the devoured things to strengthen themselves. When they noticed the approach of living creatures, the magical energy immediately Pounced on.

More flames began to metamorphose into a horde of beasts of fire: serpents, chimeras, and dragons that rose, fell, and rose again, devouring everything with their fangs and sharp Claw's feet tore it all down, and the hellish fire consumed all the decorations the Ministry had amassed over the years.

The Aurors tried their best to use End of All Curses and Fiendfire Counter-Curse to keep the group of Fiendfire in place as much as possible, making it more difficult for them to drill into other floors to develop themselves.

It's just that in this predicament, the 'Magic Brothers Fountain' located in the main hall of the Ministry of Magic was inevitably attacked.

Those flames were reflected in the eyes of the centaur, goblin and house-elf who were originally infinitely adoring, and looked very strange. Fiery fire snakes sprang out from the top of the wizard's wand, hung on the centaur's arrowhead, and then shot from the tip of the goblin's hat, The house-elf squirted out of both ears.

The group of larger-than-life pure gold statues erected on it were also burned by fierce flames,

The tongues of fire turned into serpents, and as they passed down the tip of the wand held aloft by the noble wizard, melting all the gold they passed, burned the wizard beyond recognition. The molten gold fell on the face of the pretty witch beside him, as if tears of blood were being shed.

There were sounds of ding dong, ding dong, splashing water, and popping and popping sounds accompanied by the scorching flames, occupying the entire hall, and soon the wizard's chaotic footsteps could be heard.

When the armed Aurors who were maintaining law and order elsewhere rushed back to the headquarters, the ferocity of the fire was far beyond people's imagination. The left-behind Aurors had driven most of the flames into the main hall, but those who went underground from the elevator were not the left-behind Aurors. What we can only know is that even those building areas that have been cast with fire-resistant magic have not been spared. The Department of Magical Sports and Sports on the seventh basement floor of the Ministry of Magic was completely engulfed in flames. The British and Irish Quidditch League on this floor Command, the official Gobstones Club, the Comic Products Patent Office had all been destroyed, and the Department of Magical Transport's apparition testing center above it had been battered.

However, with the return of a large number of Aurors and strikers, the fire in the main hall began to be brought under control. Mother Wolf and the umbrella team greeted several Aurors who belonged to the Armed Auror Special Operations Team. They put down their beak masks, Extra use of the bubble head spell to store some fresh air, and then took the lead in riding a broom from the elevator shaft to the elevator shaft, and then they were divided into two teams tacitly - except for the wolf mother who left Victor as the conductor. The people who followed her rushed to the seventh basement floor where the fire was more intense, while Victor led the special operations team to continue to ascend to the sixth basement floor.

Since the fire on this floor was not large, Victor and the others advanced quickly in the Department of Magical Transportation, and found the culprit of the arson case in the Ministry of Magic's underground building in the Portkey Office.

This crazed-looking, stocky wizard stuck his feet in an iron barrel, and sporadic Fiendfire shot from the tip of his wand, setting the room ablaze too—which meant it was a Portkey, and the man was waiting for the start time, which was approaching, to flee.

Seeing the Aurors coming in seemed quite unexpected to the wizard, and he immediately drew his wand, shouting with some accent, and began brewing the power of the Dark Charm with the tip of his wand.

But the professionally trained Aurors spotted him immediately, and they immediately understood that the one in front of them was obviously the culprit who set fire to the Ministry of Magic and made them restless tonight.

The faster-reacting armed Aurors cast all petrification quickly and silently, trying to stop the wizard alive. But it just so happened that at almost the same time, Victor also shot an impediment spell, which precisely hit the iron barrel of the Portkey.

As for the wizard who was hit by the petrification curse and turned into a standing posture, his leg that was originally stepped on the iron barrel was closed with the other leg, which made the iron barrel under the influence of the obstacle curse drive his strength It should have been much bigger—after the wizard and the iron bucket rubbed against the ground for a certain distance, he spun around in the air several times like a straight branch being thrown out, and then plunged headlong into it. In the flames of Fiendfire ignited by himself just now...

Surprised, Victor flickered, quickly grabbed the warlock's unflamed lower body, and dragged him out of the flames that hadn't yet grown a monster—at least a part of him.

During the brief burning before Victor's Fiendfire counterspell, the person above the collarbone had been burned into something like carbon slag in a short period of time, and there was a crackling sound when Victor dragged him out. A black mark has been drawn on the ground.

The Auror who had cast the petrification spell was startled when he rushed over. He had no intention of killing the suspect at all, and other investigations behind him required him to be alive. In addition, Auror looked at Victor there, and felt uneasy, and felt a little overwhelmed with his hands. This is the son of the minister's confidant John Bartha, and he is also the best member of the Auror Guard who is responsible for protecting Harris. One of the Aurors, if they want to find out the responsibility afterwards, they will definitely not hold him who has no responsibility at all, but some of his own people who have no backstage background may be implicated.

Victor, who was frowning angrily, sensed their sight and gave them a hard look, not pursuing their faults, and scolded: "What are you doing so stupidly? Hurry up and verify the identity of the thugs." .”

The Aurors looked at each other, their tense nerves were instantly relaxed, and they hurriedly gathered around and searched the wizard very carefully——Victor's attitude indicated that he would not pursue it, and now let them find it. This person's identity can be regarded as making up for it.

Victor led most of the people to start the fire-fighting work. The Auror who cast the spell just now started the detection work with two colleagues. There is this kind of spy training to exercise their investigative ability.

According to the memory of this man's appearance just now, those relatively curved eyes and mouth corners, and the words he shouted with an Italian accent, it can be preliminarily concluded that this man is from Italy. The Aurors continued to search the wizard's pockets, sorted out all his belongings, and confirmed from the documents that he was indeed an immigrant.

Then the Aurors took off his shirt and let out a low cry, there was a mark on his arm, and a large python emerged from the mouth of the skeleton, like a tongue-this belonged to the Death Eaters of the Dark Mark.