Chapter 68: The Return and the End (I)

1 January 1349, Oxford, Kingdom of England

Scorched marks everywhere, ruins and broken walls, corpses all over the field, smoke curling, cries everywhere, and wailing endlessly.

When the faint morning light once again illuminates the land, the copycat Hogwarts Wizardry School that the travelers have built on the site of the former Oxford University has been reduced to a horrific pile of dilapidated ruins, and the surrounding urban buildings have also been devastated and destroyed. Even at dawn, many of the buildings in the city of Oxford were still on fire, with plumes of black smoke rising from the cracks that had been shaken open, leaving the survivors in disarray.

The originally joyful and noisy graduation ceremony and Chinese New Year's Eve banquet finally turned into such a bloody tragedy that made people cry.

- Destroyed buildings were much more than the Great Hall and Banquet Hall of Hogwarts House - in fact, half of Oxford was razed to the ground

The hapless Hufflepuff Dean Anne and Gryffindor Dean Joric were already fainting due to drinking too much alcohol, so they were unable to save themselves in time, and both died in the explosion of the banquet hall. Although Queen Joan, who is also the dean of Ravenclaw, did not suffer much physical damage, she was first forcibly dragged by the Romanian Silver Twins and Miss Ma Tong to watch a bloody horror movie in the middle of the night, and then witnessed this earth-shattering explosion tragedy with her own eyes......

Only Boccaccio, the Slytherin director, happened to leave the banquet hall drunkenly on the eve of the explosion with three Ravenclaw girls in his arms, and returned to his lodgings to roll the sheets together, and actually escaped the catastrophe - except that he was so frightened that he was impotent ♂ on the spot, and almost had a stroke.

At this time, he seemed to have become the commander-in-chief of disaster relief, and he was facing the howling cold wind, hoarse, constantly leading the surviving students to venture deep into the ruins, searching for the wounded for rescue, and a beautiful robe decorated with lace and lace was already as dirty as a rag, and it was so wrinkled that it could not be shaped.

In addition, those nobles and gentry of the Kingdom of England who got the news, under the urgent summoning of the "angels", also brought people to the guò [random door] one after another, ready to participate in the rescue. However, there are also gangsters who sneak into the city and take advantage of the fire to rob, rob the refugees' belongings, and even take away their children, which makes the cry loud...... Let this originally elegant and quiet university town of Oxford be so noisy and chaotic that it is like a battlefield barracks in medieval Europe.

But, at the end of the day, how did this hellish New Year's explosion come about?

Although such explosions are not uncommon in the modern world in the future, it is important to know that this is only the middle of the fourteenth century, and it stands to reason that the Europeans have just learned the most ancient gunpowder recipes through the Guò Arabs, and they are not even equipped with the most primitive artillery.

Well, this ...... Strictly speaking, it seems that it must be regarded as a sin created by Doraemon, a guest from another world......

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In the aftermath of the disaster, the English court in London mobilized all the reliable men to Oxford for a rescue mission. The Pope of Avignon, the Queen of Naples living in Provence, the leading figures of Florence and the members of the Grand Council of Venice also rushed to check on the situation of their students through the [random door], and prepared to sit down together and urgently convene an accident meeting.

In the courtyard behind the Ravenclaw Tower, a large open space has been cleared by rescuers, and tents have been urgently erected to serve as a makeshift hospital. Countless families of the wounded, terrified outside the barbed wire fence, watched their loved ones who had long since been unknown, carried into the tents painted with red crosses, and prayed for God's blessing with tears in their eyes.

The occasional weak, painful moan, or the muttering of "this guy is hopeless" can cause several nervous family members to faint on the ground, and a few babies lying in their mother's arms also burst into tears, making the atmosphere extremely oppressive.

Most of the wounded who were burned by the fire had already had their skin open, their skin was blackened, and they fell into a state of shock, and most of the survivors who were pulled out of the rubble were also bloody and miserable, and there were countless broken hands and feet. Even in modern hospitals in the 21st century, it is quite difficult to face such injuries, although anti-infection treatment such as injecting anesthetics to relieve pain, replenishing a large amount of body fluids, and disinfecting and bandaging wounds can be carried out, but whether the wounded survive or not depends on the individual's will...... Fortunately, although it is now the 14th century, when medical technology is extremely backward, thanks to the power of the travelers, the wounded in medieval Europe have the privilege of enjoying the medical services of the 22nd century......

“…… Meow something brighter than the sun, something more adorable than a holy cat, appear in the flow of time, in your great name, I swear in this light, to these lambs who believe in the Lord, to give equal salvation meow group healing meow (Japanese)"

Accompanied by the voices of the Hogwarts students who copied from the [Encyclopedia of Magic], it can be called a malicious Japanese spell, and one after another warm and holy white light fell from the sky like a waterfall, surging towards the snorting wounded, instantly eliminating the germs on everyone's body, healing their bones, skin and internal organs, sending them light, warmth and vitality, and replenishing their energy and body.

In this way, after the healing spell is over, even if the injured person is still breathing, as long as there is still a breath when he is brought in, he will heal quickly and quickly to the extent that he can see with the naked eye, and soon he will completely recover his health, and it seems that because of bathing in the holy light, they all feel a warm current pouring straight into their internal organs, and their bodies are full of inexhaustible vitality...... Immediately afterwards, under the gaze of the family members, one after another the wounded, who were still peeled and dying a moment ago, sat up in a daze as if they were nothing, and then were hugged tightly by their wives, children, relatives and friends who were in tears, and wept and wept. Everywhere was filled with the excitement and joy of the Tsuji Tailai, as well as the warmest thanks and cheers......

However, in the face of the corpses that had died when they were brought in, even "healing" could not bring them back to life.

So, in the jubilant atmosphere of the aftermath of the catastrophe, a few desperate and mournful cries could occasionally be heard, followed by a few dejected and blank-looking guys, carrying a stretcher covered with a white cloth to squeeze through the crowd and then put it in the open space outside the fence. Next, one or more family members of women and children will pounce next to the stretcher, kneeling down in spite of the dirt, clutching the edge of the stretcher with both hands, crying to death.

Moreover, while these survivors were saved, others were dying: the English soldiers and the Papal Guard, who had been ordered to maintain order in Oxford, soon erected a row of gallows on the banks of the River Thames to carry out the collective death penalty on pickpockets and robbers caught in the ruins of Oxford...... There is no way, in the chaos to be ruthless, it is common sense that both ancient and modern China and foreign countries are the same.

If it were in normal times, when onlookers had always been a popular entertainment for the masses, the gallows would have been surrounded by all kinds of idlers and visitors, and perhaps pickpockets and hawkers would have taken advantage of the opportunity. But in this moment of grief and ruin, no one cared about the death of these sinners, whose bodies could only hang lonely on the gallows, swaying in the wind and doing a "tap dance......

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On the other hand, the paladin Levi, who had not slept all night and had been working for more than ten hours in a row, sat on a broken stone pillar with a blank expression, his head like a chicken coop was covered with a lot of dust, and his bloodshot eyes were staring at the ground vacantly, and across from him stood a surviving Hogwarts house teacher, who was stammering to Levi as he reported the casualty statistics that had just been counted.

-- The number of casualties is actually just the number of dead and missing. Under the anti-heaven effect of the [Healing Technique], all the wounded who still have breath can be rescued as long as they can bathe in the holy light alive. And those who can't be rescued are naturally dead.

“…… Hehe, in this way, in the disaster last night, our Hogwarts House died two heads, three teachers, at least one hundred and fifty students, and two teachers and more than a hundred students did not find their bodies, and the whereabouts are unknown...... There were more than 200 servants, prostitutes, musicians, and singers in the banquet hall at that time, and only 10 survived. In addition, more than 1,000 citizens of Oxford have died or gone missing due to the bombardment of the [Meteor Shower] and [Dragon Slash], as well as the spread of the fire...... At least 800 houses were reduced to ashes......"

After listening to the other party's stammering and incoherent report, and then synthesizing the news reported by others, Levi gritted his teeth, suppressed the resentment in his heart, and said almost word by word, "...... And the cause of such a great catastrophe was only due to the fact that two Gryffindor House students openly fought with each other at the New Year's banquet in order to compete for the favor of a popular prostitute, using God-given spells? What the hell do these bastards know what they're doing? How dare they waste the power of the gods in this way? This is a blasphemous sin."

“…… That one...... Paladin, I suppose they must have been so drunk before they did it that they didn't know anything. ”

- Well, I should have thought that in the light of the reputation of the English football hooligans ♂ in the future, what incredible stupidity would these Britons do once they have mastered the magic of immense power? It's no wonder that the magicians depicted in Western fantasy novels often have to ban alcohol......

Looking at the pile of buildings not far away that had been reduced to rubble and ruins, Levi couldn't help but rub his temples and thought so.

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