The Ministry of Magic has a dedicated church department, which, like other bizarre departments, belongs to the Department of Mysteries, and the former Silent Man has been imprisoned in Azkaban because he delivered news to Voldemort that he also escaped during the Death Eaters during the mass prison break, and his whereabouts are unknown. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

The relationship between wizards and the church is delicate, and under normal circumstances, neither has much to do with each other. But from Elizabeth I onwards, relations between the two became very strained. The struggle for secular power has caused contradictions between these two behemoths to erupt from time to time.

The Church believes that the power of shamans and infidels, the so-called age of demons in their history, the so-called ancient Egypt, and the legends of ancient Greece are all challenges to the Bible and the New Testament, and the open and secret struggle between the two has become increasingly fierce since Empress Elizabeth.

In its current form, the Church has become one of the largest organizations in the world, and the wizarding world, which has been stagnant for centuries due to the signing of the Secrecy Law, is now on the road to decline, further and further.

Wizards with lofty ideals understood from the beginning that the result of the "Law of Secrecy" could only be the shrinking of the wizarding world, and wizards, including Nick Lemay, had opposed it, but the Soul Sect, which had regained its power, refused to continue to expand, and driven by the interests of the sect, Mary II forced the Ministry of Magic to pass the International Secrecy Act of 1692.

Since then, the wizarding world can no longer compete with the Church, and has become an isolated race. It has also directly led to the sharp decrease in the number of wizards and the continuous decline of the wizarding world.

But from another point of view, the power of wizards is too powerful, although there are ascetics in the church, but compared to the wizarding world where everyone is superpowered, once the Ministry of Magic reveals the existence of wizards, the world is likely to fall into chaos.

So until now, there is still a powerful force that forces the wizarding world not to repeal the Secrecy Law.

Nick Lemay lived in seclusion largely because he was adamantly opposed to the Law of Secrecy and tried to repeal it many times, but unfortunately, this world-famous alchemist was not the most powerful wizard, and the wizard who was stronger than him was produced every year at the World Dueling Congress.

"Voldemort, you must not try to break the Ancient Seal, that's not something we should move. Nick said uneasily, as if he had forgotten Voldemort's identity and what the dark wizard's past was.

"Nick Lemay, I'm willing to do anything to get more magic. Voldemort said coldly.

"No, no, Voldemort, you don't understand. Perhaps, in your opinion, gaining more power and winning the battle against the enemy is the most joyful thing. You're mistaken, completely wrong. Maybe now your enemy is Dumbledore, it's Fudge, but once the Ancient Seal is unlocked, then the whole world will be destroyed. When the time comes, what is right and evil, and what is right and wrong. Everything will be destroyed!"

Voldemort frowned slightly, he didn't expect Nick Lemay to seem to know the Ancient Seal very well, which was completely different from what Mordred said. According to Mordred's words, the Ancient Seal hides the ultimate secret of magic, whether it is ancient Egypt or ancient Greek wizards, they have opened the Ancient Seal and obtained unprecedented magic from it.

"Have the Ancient Seals ever been opened? You seem to know these things very well. ”

Nick Lemay's eyes were in a daze, as if the church and the sunlight had disappeared in front of him, and he had returned to a long time ago. "The only function of the Ancient Seal is to seal the source of destruction, and every once in a while the world will fall into chaos, and the shadow of killing and death will break through the Ancient Seal and envelop the entire world, such a cycle is like the alternation of seasons, and no magic can compete with it. ”

"The Book of Rowling makes it clear that the world will inevitably descend into darkness, and that the forces of destruction will try to swallow the wizarding world like a tidal wave. The Ancient Seal is not so much to seal as to protect our world from the terrible force of destruction. ”

"No, Nick Lemay, your consciousness is that we live in a house surrounded by poisonous gas, and once you open the Ancient Seal, it is like opening a window, and the poisonous gas will instantly pour in, poisoning everyone?" Voldemort asked solemnly.

"I've lived for hundreds of years, and I don't know exactly where I'm going to go when I die. But I know very well that the world we live in is full of dangers, Voldemort, I have personally approached the so-called Ancient Seal, and even seen your so-called powerful power, which is not a power that should appear in this world, and the only result will only bring about the destruction of the world. ”

"Is there any basis for what you say, or are you just trying to get me to give up my quest for the power of the Ancient Seal?"

"Voldemort, by now, I think you should know that wizards who are stronger than you are not rare, and some of them have also thought of obtaining the power of the Ancient Seal, and the final result is only death. ”

It was the young Nick Lemay, who had seen the Black Death raging in Europe, even wizards were not immune, and when he first landed in Europe from Italy, Nick was still a child, and as time passed, the Angel of Death, who escaped from the ancient seals, soon traveled north along Bordeaux into the plains of north-western France, and the population of the city-states of Flanders dropped by a fifth, including Calais, which had just been occupied by England at this time.

Wizards try to stop the escaping Angel of Death through magic, but the power of destruction does not stop for any magic, and as long as its greed is not satisfied, death will continue.

As the epidemic spread from remote locations to densely populated cities, the plague became more powerful with more resentment and resentment, spreading faster and killing any infected people and wizards more easily.

By the time of Nick Lemay's eighteenth birthday, the entire continent had been spared. Whether it's a magical wizard or a nobleman living in a palace or castle, a farmer farming, or a cow cook, the Angel of Death gently embraces any life it sees, and then transports them to the endless nothingness.

At this time, almost the wizards of the entire world have understood that the ancient seal has been opened, and the angel of death who escaped from it wants to destroy the world. Wizards gather in the British Isles and Scandinavia, blocked by the English Channel, in hopes of finding a way to reclose the Ancient Seal.

The school was founded only a few hundred years ago, and Hogwarts, which trained English wizards, was also known to wizards in the world during this catastrophe. European wizards, including Nick Lemay, crossed the English Channel and were eventually accepted into Hogwarts Castle after a series of difficult negotiations.

The Angel of Death, which had completely enveloped the entire European continent, also took the opportunity to cross the English Channel, suddenly entering the Channel Islands from the Calais region of France. Horrified upon hearing the report, King Edward III of England heeded the advice of Philida Spoh, the chief wizard of Wizengamot and the headmaster of Hogwarts, and ordered a ban on fishing. But even this could not stop the invasion of the plague.

Soon, the Black Death spread to Great Britain at an unprecedented rate, and spread rapidly throughout England, even to the smallest villages. The Angel of Death went from a shadow of ambition and desire to quickly lose control and become a monster that devoured the world!

In rural England, including reclusive wizards, ordinary Muggles, people are dying every day. In some cases, all the humans on the manor were dead. And the situation in the city is even worse because of the dense population.

By the time Nick Lemay mustered up the courage to leave Hogwarts, which was still safe, the original 50,000 residents of London had lost a small number of half, and only 30,000 remained, and the most lucrative profession at that time became scavengers, and every day people who were about to go crazy would pay a lot of money to ask the scavengers to take the corpses of their relatives to the crematorium outside the city to be burned, and the black smoke from the cremation corpses could be seen from hundreds of miles away. The whole of London has been completely turned into hell!

Nick Lemay followed a powerful wizard to Oxford, the most important Muggle gathering place at that time, many wizards lived here with Muggle scholars, but two-thirds of the students here died! 30,000 staff and students died, fleeing, and when Nick Lemay arrived in the town, the black smoke of burning corpses had already covered the entire town, and people were like ghosts, covered in black rags, leaking only a pair of desperate and indifferent eyes, aimlessly piling up the corpses together and burning them on the spot!

Hell view, nothing more!

The remote Durmstrang School of Witchcraft and Wizardry is no exception. A British merchant ship crossed the ocean and brought the Black Death to Scandinavia, and Durmstrang School of Witchcraft and Wizardry was devastated, and hundreds of students, faculty and staff, including the headmaster at the time, all died in the catastrophe, leaving Durmstrang School of Witchcraft and Wizardry in the northwest corner of Europe to not recover for hundreds of years!

The Hanseatic Merchant League, which controlled the Baltic coast at the time, spread it to Germany in the east of Europe and northern Poland. What's even more incredible is that even the island of Greenland in the Arctic Circle has suffered because of this: the local residents who have been struggling in the ice and snow for a long time have all starved to death in the snow and ice because they have not been able to receive the routine supplies sent by the European continent!

Subsequently, the Angel of Death attacked Muscovy, the easternmost point in Europe, and even the Muggle Grand Duke and the Orthodox Bishop died.

In this way, after the Ancient Seal was opened, the terrifying Angel of Death quickly grew into a monster that destroyed the world, summoning the picture of hell to the European continent.

Almost every corner of Europe was wiped out by the Black Death, and no one could escape the threat of death wherever the Angel of Death went, regardless of class or class.

When Nick Lemay was young, he saw his friend go without breathing overnight and eventually become one of the corpses of a mountain. Thousands of lives were devoured. Vienna, the most prosperous city in Europe at the time, once killed 960 people in a single day, and a third of the wizards in Germany were killed.

In many places, "corpses are mostly thrown into trolleys like garbage". In those terrible days, "funerals continued one after another, and there were very few mourners". The bearers often carried the entire dead family and sent them to a nearby church, where the wizards, despite their open use of magic in an attempt to stop the spread of the plague, did not get any better, and more wizards were infected and eventually died tragically.

Many powerful wizards actually chose to live in seclusion for the sake of their lives, hiding in the forest and never coming out again.

If it weren't for the discovery of the Jewish Book of Abraham, the Book of Rowling, the whole world might have been completely destroyed.

Nick Lemay, who knows the horror of it, still thinks of those days, as if he can still see the black smoke that obscures the sky and the painful and twisted corpse.

"Voldemort, the Ancient Seal is not a source of power, on the contrary, it can only plunge you to death. Nick Lemay swept away all the painful memories and said solemnly to Voldemort.

Voldemort looked at Nick suspiciously, the other party was one of the most powerful wizards, and the Dementor was of little use to him. But Voldemort still felt the strong feelings and some terrible moments. Nick Lemay is not lying, it is all true.

So what is Mordred's ultimate goal as the former Honorary Knight? Does he want to destroy Wizarding England? So what's the point?

At this time, Voldemort had no idea that a demigod witch had once opened the Ancient Seal. Neither Merlin nor Vivien, the banshee of the lake, would have thought that with the decline of the wizarding world, the power in the ancient seal would completely lose control and become a big trouble in the wizarding world.

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At the edge of the Black Lake, the siren explained the situation to Dundedo in the language of the mermaid, the three students were safe for the time being, but Morten blocked the tribe, and no one could leave, so they could only wait for the evening to see the situation.

After Dunledore conversed with the Sirens, the Sirens quickly returned to the tribe to prevent them from being discovered by the merfolk.

After watching the mermaid disappear, Amelia Bones couldn't help but ask, "Is this mermaid trustworthy?"

"Of course, I can give her my life to her, she is very kind. ”

"But, Rufus's side... He wouldn't believe a mermaid. ”

"I know what you mean. He has spent most of his career fighting the Dark Wizards, and Rufus is a man of action who wishes he could personally go into battle to rescue the three children who were caught. He's certainly capable. He has a more assertive and tough personality than Connelly. But this is not the time to be tough, the wizard is too much to fight the merfolk under the Black Lake, I don't want the Aurors to die!" said Dumbledore, looking a little excited.