“…… I'll see if you need help. ”

Goyle, who had just come out from behind the tree, said sullenly, and took two more steps this way.

Bellatrix waved his hand impatiently and said, "No need, you just go back and help Crabbe and them, I don't need you to mix it up here." ”

Dealing with a young Auror girl who has just taken up her official position, where does she Bellatrix need help from others. After glaring at the tall Goyle, she continued to chase the grass where Tonks had fled.

But she didn't expect that as soon as she turned around, she caught a glimpse of a fleeting red light out of the corner of her eye.

"Fainted."

"What"

Bellatrix's reaction was not slow, and she immediately wanted to dodge to the side, but she still didn't have time after all. She had barely spat out half a word when she felt a powerful blow from her lower back, and then she fell straight to the ground.

It was only then that the "Goyle" behind her smiled, and her body and face changed for a while, and she changed into Tonks again.

In fact, if it weren't for the complicated environment here and the open space without terrain cover, Tonks, who is not good at frontal combat, would have been beaten up entirely.

But once there is an obstacle that obscures the view, Tonks' advantages really come into play.

"This big man is really hard to change, and there is too much meat......" Tonks grumbled, and uncomfortably put a full-body restraint spell on Bellatrix lying on the ground.

But just as she wanted to get the other party away, the sound of a spell quietly sounded from the woods on her side, and then another flash of fire flashed.

She hurriedly rolled again, and no longer caring about Bellatrix, who had brought her plan down, moved quickly through the woods.

Fighting in the woods has such a disadvantage, and it is difficult for an inexperienced person to find the exact location of the sneak attacker in the dense woods.

Although I am a little unwilling, if my brain is pumped and I stay there, the situation of the enemy and the enemy will never be able to change, and it will be too passive.

The Auror training was not in vain, and Tonks knew the dangers.

However, not to mention Tonks's side maneuvering in the woods in an effort to get rid of the sneak attackers, and Lupin's side was unable to help her because of the enemy's entanglement......

At this time, on the avenue, the main combat forces of the two sides are fighting hotly!

Actually, it says that it is the main force, but it does not mean that the main members of the Death Eaters are here. This time, Voldemort assigned people, but the most were some peripheral members who were not very strong.

The Order of the Phoenix has the elite Auror Kingsley's press, as well as Mundungus and Dedarlow and others, but after all, it still can't withstand the larger number of people on the Death Eater side.

Fortunately, their main purpose is only to hold each other back as much as possible, and they don't need to force the other party to make an inch. Even if you fight and retreat, as long as you drag on for a while without casualties, you will be considered earned.

It has to be said that Kingsley deserves to be one of the main forces of the Order of the Phoenix, and he fights unequivocally.

He used his spell to build several walls of earth and interfered with the other's advance. Even if he looked a little embarrassed, he dragged a few ordinary Death Eaters alone, and his strength was indeed extraordinary.

Between the improvised obstacles on the avenue, the various beams of light of the spell kept staggering back and forth, and in a flash, stone chips and clods of earth splashed high and scattered, smashing people's faces painfully.

Occasionally, there were people on the Death Eater side who were hit by a spell, lying or lying on the ground, and no one cared about them, and the indifference of the villains was already evident.

But even though the number of people has been reduced by several people, few people have made it into the woods. Their individual strength is not strong, if they go to the forest, once they are scattered, their advantages will be gone, and they are not all fools.

It was still a moonlit night, and their mission was to attack tentatively, and fighting on the avenue was their first choice.

At least, that's what Voldemort commanded.

The night breeze was still blowing lightly and stirring the leaves and waves, but the sound of spells and intermittent shouts completely obscured the rustling of the canopy.

Today, a night that would not have been peaceful, the sounds of all kinds of battles made it even more restless and uneasy.

Voldemort hadn't appeared yet, and the Death Eaters had only a few of them, so who knew where they were waiting for their chance?

"Hang the Admiralty upside down!"

Kingsley cast another spell, and then he flashed behind the obstacle and let out a soft breath.

He didn't know when reinforcements from their side would arrive.

……

Besides, in the open space in front of Hogwarts Castle, Mad-Eye Moody had returned to his own form. And right now, he's chasing those two student-looking guys!

"Armor Guard"

"Except for your weapons!"

Ever since the two guys had sneakily left the Quidditch pitch and tried to leave Hogwarts confines, Moody had already set their sights on them.

When Moody's appeared, one of them had already fallen unconsciously.

The other guy immediately wanted to put an iron armor spell on himself to defend himself, but he didn't expect Moody's spell to come very quickly, and he was caught off guard by Moody before he could finish the spell.

Although he was not robbed of his wand, in such a flash, he immediately fell into disadvantage.

Moody Sr.'s true prowess seems to be gradually being revealed, proving that his presence usually causes panic among Death Eaters, and this time was no exception.

"There are many obstacles."

Moody's last spell had just been cast, and the next spell was followed.

The other party was just dodging, and it was obvious that before he could stand firmly, he immediately found that he seemed to have fallen into a sticky glue, and his movements immediately became sluggish.

"Fainted."

When Moody's third spell went straight to the opponent's head, the man was caught in the effect of the obstacle spell and completely lost the ability to resist.

The battle was unusually swift, and the elder Moody was outnumbered by two of them, and although one of the results was the result of a sneak attack, it was not difficult to see that the veteran Auror was still as heroic as he was back then.

After regaining Ravenclaw's crown, Moody hurried to the back door, where there was a lake, which was not a proper line of attack, but which had to be guarded.

As for the two Death Eaters who lurked at the school to snatch the crown, they were now worthless after they reported the news. Moody just added one more control spell and left them in a nearby corner for the time being.

……

If Voldemort's plan this time is actually quite meticulous in arrangement.

Whether it's the internal and external response to capture Ravenclaw's crown, or the all-round tentative attack, it is enough to keep the existing Hogwarts garrison busy.

Even with Snape, a double agent, as long as he can't reveal his identity for a day, he can't fully reveal the news from Voldemort's side to Dumbledore.

But now that Maca is also mixing with Voldemort, the situation is very different.

Even if Snape had relayed all the news to Dumbledore and used it to deploy defenses perfectly, Snape could have blamed all the leaks on Maca.

Snape was an important nail that Dumbledore had nailed to Voldemort's side, and as long as he was still hanging out there, the Order of the Phoenix would never be a blind man with no spare power.

Dumbledore understood these things well, of course, and now, although he went to the school gate, he did not immediately come to the aid of the members of the Order of the Phoenix.

One was because he didn't see much danger on their side, and the other was Voldemort's backhand.

His maximum combat power must be used to suppress the formation.

Because no one knows, Voldemort, who has not yet appeared, will appear tonight? If he showed up in person, where would he be?

Dumbledore waited quietly as he hid in the shadows and stared at the members of the Order of the Phoenix.

As the night deepened, the moonlight became a little thicker, and there didn't seem to be many clouds in the night sky.

But before dawn, Voldemort's threat was one of the biggest hurdles of the night.

Just as the young wizards were all taken by the professor to the castle hall to rest, a few creepy glances seemed to flash from the depths of the Forbidden Forest.

……

Compared to the chaos of Hogwarts Castle, at this moment, far under the Albanian mountains, Maca was crouching on the ground and taking research notes.

And the object of his research was naturally the huge bewitching monument in front of him.

Because there is a lot of information in the "Book of Sin", now that he has studied it, it is slightly easier than he imagined.

But no matter what, for this mysterious ancient-level magic prop, it is not something that can be studied and understood in a moment and a half.

Maca was well aware of this, and besides, he didn't have much time left.

He hurriedly wrote in his notebook, his handwriting a little messy, but he didn't have time to worry about it.

What he was writing now couldn't be written automatically with spells, and a lot of things related to the rules had to be written down in magic by himself, but handwriting was one of the essential steps in this research.

It was a long time before he put the quill in the inkwell and rubbed his wrist to relax his muscles, which had been slightly stiffened by the long time of writing.

“…… Counting the time, I guess it's almost started on the Hogwarts side, right? ”

He took out his magic pocket watch, opened the lid to check the time, and then tucked it back into the pocket of his shirt and vest, and then stretched hard.

"No, we'll have to speed it up......" He pondered, then poured himself another bottle of refreshing potion before immediately returning to his research.

In front of him, next to the base of the Bewitching Monument, a rune array was faintly glowing with a faint blue light, adding a bit of mystery to the main tomb.