Chapter 414: The Story of the Three Brothers (Part 2)

Grindelwald held the invisible Dumbledore in his hands, and Jon followed closely behind him.

They followed the white line on the ground to the darkened room on the top floor of the tower.

Grindelwald carefully placed the "invisible" Dumbledore on his stone bed, then covered him with another layer of tattered blanket, and finally put the stone the size of a fingernail on top of the blanket.

Jon watched intently at Dumbledore on the stone bed...... Although he couldn't see anything, in his darkness, he suddenly felt a faint soul breath coming from inside the invisibility cloak.

Very, very faint, but unusually familiar—belonging to Albus Dumbledore's soul.

"Sit down, Hart!" Grindelwald gasped as he sat down on the cold floor.

Jon didn't hesitate to sit down in front of him.

After a short rest, Grindelwald slowly spoke, "Hart...... You've heard the story of the three brothers, right?"

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"Of course!" Jon nodded, "The Grim Reaper gave the three brothers three gifts: the most powerful wand in the world, a stone with the power to bring the dead back to life, and a cloak that can conceal everything...... But the wizard who got the most powerful wand in the world was killed in his sleep by cutting his throat, and the stone with the power to bring the dead back to life could not really bring the dead back to life, but only brought back the illusory ghost and made its owner depressed, and only the wizard who got the cloak that could hide everything avoided the god of death for many years, and finally died......"

After a pause, Jon continued, "But this is just a legend, after all, there are no gods at all......"

"Yes!" Grindelwald said with a serious face, "there are no gods at all, and even if they do, they are only slightly more powerful wizards......

“...... However, I have always believed in one thing: any legend has its historical origin!", and then Grindelwald added confidently.

Jon quickly lowered his head and listened intently.

"In real history, these three brothers did exist...... Antioch Peverell, Cadmus Peverell, and Ignotus Peverier...... They lived about 1,300 years ago!" Grindelwald said slowly:

"The eldest of the three brothers, Antioch Peverell, is an extremely powerful wizard and an excellent wandmaker...... He crafted a wand using elderberry and Thestrals' hair, two materials that are extremely taboo in the wizarding world...... This wand is extremely powerful and has the ability to reach the soul level, which means that after the death of its owner, it can absorb the power of its master through the soul that it has released......"

"Elder Wand?" Jon asked softly.

"That's right, the strength of the Elder Wand will get stronger and stronger!" Grindelwald glanced at the elderberry wand beside Dumbledore very casually, "When I got it, it already had the power of at least twenty excellent wizards on it......"

"What about the Resurrection Stone and the Cloak of Invisibility?"

"With Antioch's help, Cadmus, the second of the three brothers, and Ignotus, the third, also used the Elder Wand to craft a stone that summons and controls the Shadows, and an invisibility cloak that conceals the souls...... Grindelwald continues:

"But the unexpected happened, just like the legend...... Antioch confessed his possession of the Elder Wand after a duel, drunk, and then slit his throat in his sleep by another wizard and the Elder Wand was stolen......"

“...... The enraged Cadmus, after hearing the news of his brother's death, uses the Resurrection Stone to summon a large number of ghosts in an attempt to avenge his brother...... But the murderer had fled England, and he had neither vengeated nor reclaimed the Elder Wand, and Cadmus, blinded by vengeance, had lost his mind, slaughtering countless Muggles and wizards along the way in search of his enemies, turning them into ghosts enslaved by him......"

"And what about after that......" Jon frowned, recalling the legend.

"Stopped by his fiancée...... Cadmus Peverell's fiancée, Catherine Slytherin, knew that Cadmus was completely insane and hopeless, so she poisoned him with a potion, and she hid the culprit for eternity, the Resurrection Stone, in a place where no one could find him......"

After the massacre of Cadmus Peverell, the only surviving brother, Ignotus Peverell, the youngest of the three brothers, could no longer live in the wizarding world...... Ignotus was also an extremely powerful wizard like his two older brothers, so he had to choose to live in seclusion and disappear from the wizarding world......"

"From what I know about Ignotus...... It was that he had no male heir, and it was supposed that his granddaughter, Eollans Peverell, inherited the invisibility cloak of Ignotus. Later, Aeolance married Hardwin Linfred again, and I don't know after that......"

"Linfred?" Jon frowned, a name he remembered in the History of Magic, and asked softly, "Is it Linfred of Stinchkum?"

"In terms of age, he should be the son of Linfred of Stinchkum!" Grindelwald explained.

Jon frowned, and everything seemed to make sense......

Linfred of Stinchkum, a pioneer of Pharmacy and the inventor of many early potions......

According to legend, he lived in a village called Stinchkum. In the eyes of others, he is a casual and absent-minded guy. Despite this, his helpfulness and affability made him popular, and his Muggle neighbors would often come to see him. But they didn't know that Linfred's cure for chickenpox and malaria was actually magic.

Everyone thought he was a lovable old fellow with no malice, who liked to take care of the interesting plants in his garden in a slow manner. So they gave Linfred the affectionate nickname: "the Potter"!

Grindelwald on the side breathed a sigh of relief, and he concluded: "The truth of history has long been hidden in legends, and patient search can always pay off!"

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After listening to the story of the three brothers, Jon asked again, "So...... What does the Deathly Hallows have to do with dominating death?"

"The rest is just my guess, although my guesses are usually accurate!" Grindelwald said with a serious face, "Antioch and Cadmus Peverell were the most powerful wizards in the first place, and the reason they made the three Deathly Hallows was to avoid death!"

"Cadmus is in a frenzy to find his brother's killer, and that's exactly what happened, because once the Elder Wand was retrieved, the two brothers could easily resurrect their brother through the Deathly Hallows......"

"The Cloak has the ability to conceal souls and protect souls, so even after death, it can also protect the last soul of the wizard from completely dissipating...... The Resurrection Stone can reshape the soul of the other party according to the memory, and with the wisp of soul protected by the invisibility cloak, the soul can be re-made whole......"

Grindelwald's words suddenly stopped: "As for the Elder Wand...... Even though I used to have it, I didn't know what it could do...... I can only guess that the role it can play is the most crucial ......."

"Maybe I know......" Jon said slowly.

"Huh?" Grindelwald glanced at Jon in surprise...... He didn't believe it at first, but when he thought of the boy in front of him, who had found two holy artifacts that had been missing for thousands of years at a young age, he couldn't help but feel a little hopeful in his heart.

For Jon, in his mind, the effects of the elixir's final involvement were at work—

From the voice in his head, Jon picked up Dumbledore's Elder Wand and aimed it at Dumbledore as he lay on the stone bed......

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There was silence all around!

Gellert Grindelwald disappeared......

The tower of Nyumengard is also gone......

Not even the slightest sound can be heard!

Jon found him lying in a fog, a fog unlike anything he had ever seen before.

His surroundings were not obscured by the fog, or more precisely, the fog had not yet had time to form the landscape around him. The floor on which he lay seemed to be blank, just a simple flat surface that could carry things.

Some reluctantly stood up and glanced around.

If you really had to describe where he is now.

He can only describe it as - "King's Cross Station"!