At its peak, there were at least hundreds of tribes, large and small, within Europe.

They were murderous by nature, often invading Muggle territory and causing small-scale Muggle massacres, and to this day, Muggle legends and fables still contain many stories of the brutality of giants.

Due to their natural fear of magic, few giants would dare to attack wizarding villages, but brutal giants would not be merciful when confronted with lone wizards...... Attacks by giants like this are not uncommon.

Back in the early eighteenth century, the newly established Ministry of Magic listed giants as "fantastic beasts that must be eliminated".

Damocles Rohr, the infamous and unpopular second Minister of Magic (1718-1726), his only commendable act during his tenure was the signing of the "Decree of Giant Clearance", which stipulated that any wizard who surrendered a complete scalp of a giant to the Ministry of Magic would receive a reward of 50-100 Galleons (100 Galleons for adult giants and 50 Galleons for others).

And when Aldridge Diggory, the fourth Minister of Magic, was in office, he created the Auror Recruitment Program for the first time...... The Aurors were originally created and trained to hunt giants.

The killing of wizards is only one element, and there is a more important reason for the cannibalism of the giants themselves...... Giants are not magical creatures suitable for large-scale social dwellings, as their brutal nature makes them prone to conflict when they live together. After their territory was destroyed by the wizards and forced to drive them to fixed settlements, the cannibalism of the giants became extremely common, and they would fight every day with rivers of blood.

After two centuries of unremitting efforts, by the beginning of the 20th century, the total number of giants in Europe was less than 300, spread over a few small settlements......

During the First Wizarding War, most of these giants joined the Mystic Men and caused some of the most horrific Muggle massacres...... But they didn't play a bigger role in that war.

And with the sudden defeat of the mystery man overnight, the giants have completely lost their trace...... At least within the British Isles, there has been no giant for nearly a decade.

It wasn't until more than a year ago that Rubeus Hagrid, a close confidant of Albus Dumbledore, found the last remaining giants in the mountains of Dijon...... However, they soon joined the Mystic side once again, making them hostile to the wizarding world......

As one of the few students in the university to listen carefully to Professor Binns's History of Magic course, Jon Hart was no stranger to the history of feuds between wizards, Muggles, and giants.

Now the giants have completely fallen to Voldemort's side and created the "West Coast Hurricane" event, causing hundreds of Muggle casualties...... Jon felt it was only natural to eliminate them completely.

So he went directly to the Aurors of the Ministry of Magic for help, not Dumbledore's Order of the Phoenix...... As the standard "dove", Albus Dumbledore has always advocated peaceful communication and getting the giants on their side...... In Jon's opinion, this was nothing more than Dumbledore's wishful thinking.

And the Ministry of Magic, which was forced to compromise with the Death Eaters and Mysteries after the "hostage swap" incident, has a great reputation...... They are also eager to quickly make some achievements and explain to the entire wizarding world.

......

Voldemort's concealed magic was quite clever, but it didn't take long for it to fall apart after the Aurors cracked it.

With a crisp explosion, the illusion of the "lake" disappeared from the Aurors' eyes, and was replaced by a stream with many disgusting "waste" floating on it, and behind the stream, there were more than a dozen caves at least twenty yards high.

And, of course, the two giants in the tearing bucket.

They had been distracted by Jon's "Potion of Confusion" ten minutes earlier, and were torn apart over there......

But now—

Both giants let go of their hands and stopped fighting, looking at the dozens of heavily armed wizards on the other side, even with the giant's intelligence, aware of the approaching danger.

One giant raised the stick that had fallen to the ground, and the other tried to run in the direction of the fire.

"Stop them!" Scrimgeour commanded, "Don't let them warn!"

More than a dozen Aurors had quickly phantomed to the giants, surrounding them from different directions.

The Aurors didn't shoot a barrage of offensive spells at the giants...... In fact, it will only be futile. The giant's hard skin gives them extremely high magic resistance, and half of the spells like the Stun Charm make it difficult to deal too much damage to them.

"Incarcerous ......!"

I heard the Aurors shouting one after another, they were all using the Imprisonment Charm—

Thick ropes came out of thin air and wrapped around the feet of the two giants...... With the strength of the giants, it was not difficult to break free from these ropes, but each time they broke free, their massive bodies were a little unsteady on their feet.

The tall giant with a wooden stick tried to wield the stick and knock down these annoying "bugs".

"Protego!"

And every time the giant swung his club, an Auror would use the Iron Charm to protect his companions......

The other giant, who had swooped upon the fire, tripped over a thick piece of twine, lost his balance and fell to the ground altogether—less than ten yards from the fire.

"Reducto......"

The giant had just fallen to the ground when five smashing spells struck it in the back of the head with unmistakable accuracy...... More precisely, the brain stem.

The rest of the giant is unusually hard and highly resistant to magic, but the back of the head is fragile...... Generally speaking, giant leaders like to wear helmets to protect their heads, but this is not the case for ordinary giants. For the Aurors, this is also a trick they have passed down for two centuries to hunt giants, otherwise even the use of the Killing Curse may not have achieved such good results.

Hit by five shattering spells in a row, the giant's brain stem was almost shattered in an instant...... The scene was a little bloody and blurry at one point, and Jon felt a little disgusted when he watched it.

And the giant who had been struck by the Crushing Charm collapsed there, letting out a terrible howl...... And it can't move half a step anymore.

One giant was knocked down, and the other with a stick was under more pressure...... It didn't hold out for long, and after just over ten seconds, it tripped over the ropes of the Bondage Charm, and the Aurors did the same, causing it to be struck in the brain stem by the Crushing Charm.

......

The two "guard" giants were knocked down, and the Aurors passed through the disgusting stream unimpeded.

Jon cast a "hover charm" on himself and "flew" over it.

There were more than a dozen large, bottomless caverns, and there was still no loud noise coming from them...... It was as if the "owners" who lived in it did not hear the noisy fighting outside.

This is quite normal...... Giants have always had terrible hearing. And the sound may be loud for a small wizard, but it may be insignificant for a grown giant who is 20-25 feet tall.

However, the Aurors who came to the entrance of the cave were a little hesitant, including Rufus-Scrimgeur.

The narrow area in the cave, if you break into it rashly, after being discovered by the giants, it is easy for the giants to step on it......

Jon followed Kingsley Shackle, looking at the Aurors who were hesitating outside the cave, and he began to rummage through his suitcase unhurriedly.

"Oh?" Kingsley asked softly, looking at him with some curiosity, "Jon...... Do you have any plans?"

"Of course!" Jon nodded without thinking, and then he had already pulled out two crystal bottles from his suitcase.

Pouring the potions from the two crystal bottles on the ground in turn, Jon took out his wand:

"Incendio!"

As a cloud of flame erupted from the end of the wand, the potion on the ground quickly emitted billowing black smoke.

Jon covered his nose and explained to the Aurors on the side, "Living Hell Potion...... There are also smoking agents...... Attention, everyone!"

Then, Jon raised his wand at the billowing black smoke—

Under his command, black smoke drifted into the depths of one of the caves!

As a powerful sleeping pill, Living Hell Decoction can achieve good results even against creatures with high magic resistance, such as fire dragons and giants, and even better if the giants in the cave are still asleep.

A small amount of smoke can emit thick smoke...... The smoke can absorb the living infernal potion and carry it deep into the cavern.

When the Aurors heard this, the expressions on their faces changed slightly.

Several of the Aurors followed Jon's example and covered their noses, and Kingsley had already reacted—

He also took out his wand and, together with Jon, used the "Blowing Charm" to blow black smoke......

Almost all the black smoke was blown deep into the cave by them.

......

"Not bad......" Rufus-Scrimgeour also walked over, and he had just seen Jon's actions in the distance, "You have the antidote to the Living Hell Potion with you?"

At this time, the cave ** was already filled with the breath of the living hell potion, and if the antidote was not taken, even if the Aurors rushed in, they would be easily hypnotized.

"That's right!" Jon rummaged through the trunk again, pulled out a couple of crystal bottles, and handed them to him.

Scrimgeour glanced at Jon in dismay, the expression on his face a little appreciative.

Taking one of the crystal bottles, he approached it with a cautious face, opened the cap, fanned it a little to his nose with his hand, and sniffed—

When it was confirmed that it was indeed the antidote to the Living Hell Potion, Scrimgeour took a sip before handing the crystal bottle to the other Auror.

Several crystal bottles were passed in the hands of different Aurors, and soon, each Auror was given the antidote to the Living Hell Potion.

"Let's go, go into the cave and get the giants out!" Scrimgeour ordered decisively, "Stay alive as much as possible...... But if the giants aren't completely asleep, kill them!"

The Aurors split into different teams and broke into the cave one by one.

Jon and Kingsley also break into one of the caves, along with Auror Nifardora Tonks, and an Auror whom Jon doesn't recognize.

......

The cave looks very rough and must have been dug by the giants with their bare hands, and there are almost no ornaments, and the living conditions of the giants are not good.

Despite the fact that the cavern had been filled with a potion of living hell in advance, the giants inside must theoretically be asleep...... But Jon and the Aurors were very careful along the way.

Suddenly, there was a loud bang ahead, startling Jon.

Kingsley, however, motioned for him not to act rashly, and raised his wand and took a few steps forward.

"Lumos Maximum!"

The light at the end of Kingsley-Shackle's wand instantly illuminated the entire hole, and Jon also discovered the source of the "noise" just now—

It was a large, ugly male giant, at least twenty feet tall and weighing more than two bulls...... The skin is as rough as that of a rhinoceros, and the body is very fat, and there are several animal carcasses next to it, presumably cattle and sheep.

It was the same sound that it made just now, and I saw that its chest was rising and falling, and it let out a heavy snoring sound.

Tonks couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief: "We've got to take it out before he wakes up...... Rufus just said, catch as alive as you can!"

"Let's push together!" Kingsley's magnetic voice suggested, "Carry it out." ”

The other Auror had no objections.

All three of them used the "Imprisonment Charm", which turned into a lot of hemp rope, and soon tied the giant tightly.

Then they raised their wands above their heads in different directions, muttering words in their mouths...... The giant's huge body was held up by their combined efforts with a "levitation charm", and then moved little by little in the direction of the cave entrance.

......

Jon Hart didn't join them, he continued to walk deeper into the cavern.

Along the way, he saw two more "little giants...... It's small, but it's only relatively speaking, they're at least one story tall, but they're definitely minors in the giant race.

The two juvenile giants were also asleep, and Jon ignored them.

Keep walking forward...... Finally, he found a female giant.

It is not difficult to distinguish the male and female sexes of giants from their appearance...... Because it is difficult to completely cover their bodies by relying on the animal skin "clothing" on their bodies.

Jon decided to try it first.

He first tied up the sleeping female giant with a confinement charm, and just in case, he sprinkled a lot of spores from the devil's net on the other.

When everything was ready, he took out a vial of the antidote to the Living Hell Potion and poured it into the mouth of the female giant......

The giant slowly opened his eyes from his sleep—

"Legilimency!" a cold voice rang in its ears.