Chapter 621: The Last Day of School
During their time in Silvermoon City, Ryan and the others formed a good personal friendship with Erastro. On the one hand, out of the loneliness of some kind of immortal, everyone is eager to make friends of the same kind. On the other hand, Ryan did not rely on the magic net of the world of Faeron to cast spells, but used themselves to manipulate magic and elements like legendary spellcasters and powerful arcanists in ancient times. This made Erasdr very happy to find that he had a companion who could discuss the magical path.
In addition to this, the stories about the various worlds that Ryan and the others brought with them were also very helpful to Erastro. Especially after Ryan gave her a large number of historical accounts about multiple worlds as gifts, she absorbed the wisdom of the people in each world to the point of forgetting to sleep and eat. Ryan believes that with these examples, the process of establishing the Silver Moon Federation will be smoother in the future.
After more than two months, after feeling that the newly learned knowledge was almost mastered, Lane and the others decided to leave this world temporarily. After learning that Ryan and the others were leaving, Erasdrand made a special trip to see them off.
"Please, my friends, and I hope we will be able to meet again soon. Ryan had already told her that he would come back from time to time, so there wasn't much sadness in this goodbye.
"Yes, we will be back soon. The next time we come back, we'll bring more of what we can use here. I hope to see a more beautiful Silvermoon City as well. โ
After a final farewell, Ryan and the others left the city where they had lived for eight months, walked along the trade road for half an hour, and chose to leave this world in a jungle by the roadside.
The offset points for this trip were only 120 points, but the gain was really huge. Ryan and the others have mastered a whole new system of magic, and given enough time in the future, they can even be indistinguishable from the real legendary mages under the DND system.
"That world is indeed a powerful world. Hermione's first words after returning were "Can you imagine that there are more than a million people in the entire Northland, but they can have three or four legends. And the legend of our entire European population of hundreds of millions is estimated to be this number. โ
"So it's always a good thing to walk around and see, so that we can catch up after we realize our shortcomings. Ryan smiled and said, "Let's sort out the rest of the summer." โ
For the rest of the summer, Ryan spent almost all of his time on his family's estate learning new knowledge. Aside from traveling to a nearby hill to receive ordered newspapers and letters, he was completely cut off from the wizarding world.
Now the situation outside has gotten worse, and there is often news of ordinary people being attacked. So in addition to studying, Ryan and Hermione, sometimes with Rose Crystal and her undead daughter, would wander around London to try to stop such attacks.
However, this blind operation without intelligence did not work well, and it took a whole month for Ryan and the others to block and kill the two Death Eaters who were doing the trouble. During previous interrogations, they learned that most of the Death Eaters who were doing the work were just dark wizard mercenaries hired by Voldemort from Eastern Europe at their expense, and that they had only been given orders for random raids and a few safe houses.
Ryan and the others immediately ran to a safe house, but unfortunately the safe house was empty. And the other Death Eaters probably already knew there was an attacker, and Ryan had to give up after waiting until daylight and still didn't see anyone else return.
After a serious change in the plot that leads to a radical change in the future, Ryan has lost the grasp of the future that he had in the past. So he didn't know what Voldemort's next plan was, so he could only be vigilant at all times.
It is in this grim situation that the date of the start of school has finally arrived. This year, unlike previous years, there were several Aurors standing on the platform of 9 and 3/4, vigilantly holding their wands and patrolling the surroundings.
There were many parents who saw off their children on the platform, but everyone had a nervous look on their faces. And this year, there are a little fewer people standing on the platform preparing to go to school than in previous years.
After getting in the car, Ryan also noticed important changes this year. As soon as I got on the bus and went to the prefect's box, I found that the presidents of the male and female student unions were already there. After seeing Ryan and the others enter, the president of the student council handed them a carriage number. They need to sit in the corresponding carriage, and in case of an accident, they need to communicate with the Aurors and beaters in the carriage to protect the students.
"It's been so much time in the blink of an eye. After coming to the designated box to put his luggage and sit down, Ryan looked at the steamy platform outside the window and said with emotion. "This should be the last time we'll go to school on the Hogwarts Express. โ
"yes, I remember that meeting on the train six years ago. I remember being a little flustered when I couldn't find an empty box, and then I happened to meet you and Neville sitting in a box. Hermione recalled, "You know, it was a nice comfort to me to see acquaintances in a completely unfamiliar place. โ
"Although this acquaintance has only met a few times before. Ryan continued, "I was really surprisedโ"
Before he could finish his sentence, the door to the box suddenly opened, and Mad-Eye Moody walked in and looked around the box with his magic eye before speaking to the young Auror behind him. "Okay, there's no problem here, we can check the next place. โ
After saying that, he looked at Ryan and said, "By the way, you are prefects. Don't hang out in the car and chat, be vigilant at all times. โ
"Professor, aren't you all retired?" Hermione asked with some curiosity, because his participation in the activities of the Order of the Phoenix before could be said to be a private activity for the elderly after retirement, but now he was directing the Aurors to check the carriage, which felt that it was not something that a retiree would do.
"Yes, I do retire. But because the situation has gotten worse lately, the Ministry of Magic has hired a large number of people to make up for the lack of manpower, so I have returned, and now I am a special adviser to the Auror office of the Ministry of Magic. "Alright, I'm going to go on patrol, and you'd better be on your guard." โ
After saying that, the Mad-Eye man left the box, looked at the closed box door, and Hermione turned her head and asked. "What do you think is the probability that this train will be attacked?"
"I don't know, butโ" At this point, Ryan suddenly thought of something. "Do you know where the Slytherins are sitting today?"
"It should be the first two carriages, I remember that the group of pure-blood wizards used to get together. Hermione thought for a moment and said with certainty.
"If that's the case, it's more likely that the Death Eaters will come to attack, at least they don't have to worry about accidental injury. "There are so many foreigners among the Death Eaters under the Mysteries that they can't tell which child is the offspring of pure-blood wizards and which is not. However, if these pure-blooded descendants are concentrated in a few carriages, there is no need to worry about such problems. โ
"You have a point. Hermione nodded. "I think it's a Death Eater who can control children with the Imperius Curse to kill his own grandfather, and send werewolves to attack children. It's really normal to go out on the train and eradicate people they don't think deserve to learn magic. Butโ"
Hermione was still a little puzzled, after traveling through multiple worlds, she was no longer the simple student she used to be. She figured that from the point of view of a power leader, Voldemort would not send his men to attack the Hogwarts Express just for the simple purpose of eliminating those who did not deserve to learn magic.
But she was about to discuss this with Ryan when the train thumped and there was a cacophony of metal scraping. Hermione quickly pushed her hand to her seat so that she didn't fall to the ground.
"The train has been attacked, and the Ministry of Magic staff and prefects have moved into defense in their carriages according to the plan. The Aurors gathered at the front of the train" A man's voice echoed through the train, and the attack was indeed coming.
"They actually came to attack, why is that? Ryan muttered, clenching his wand and rushing out of the box with Hermione, as the hallway was in a mess, with many students screaming and running around, and some of the older students trying to maintain order, but it didn't seem to work well. In short, there was a post-apocalyptic scene in the carriage.