055: Face your fears
Professor White, who had nothing else to do, looked at his father's eager gaze, but finally nodded in agreement.
She lowered her head and looked directly into Joel's clear and innocent eyes, "Promise me, you must pay attention to your own safety." ”
"Okay." Joel chuckled.
Konstantin's lips quivered, and he reached out a withered left hand and tapped Joel on the shoulder.
I can't say words of thanks, it's not that he is introverted and not good at expressing feelings, but that he can't speak English.
After a night of silence, Joel woke up the next day, feeling as if his muscles had been repeatedly run over by a heavy object, and he was sore and weak.
Outside, the light rain had stopped, the air was still moist and fresh, and Konstantin was napping against the wall, his neck muscles relaxing and his head drooping from time to time.
Professor White sat at the entrance of the cave and looked out into the woods, his wand still clutched in his left hand.
Joel gritted his teeth and got up from the ground, the damp and uneven ground was not suitable for sleeping, especially for a child like him who was still growing.
Stretching and the bones clicking, Professor White turned his head, and Joel noticed the bloodshot in her eyes.
Wake up Constantine, and as the first rays of the morning sun hit Joel's handsome face, the two grab Professor White's arm and apparition out of the cave.
Stepping on the cobblestone ground of Diagon Alley, Joel took the two of them to Tumbledown Alley according to the route they remembered.
There aren't many people who come to Diagon Alley in the morning, and most of the pedestrians are shop clerks who have come to open their doors, and Tumbledown Alley is no exception.
The group soon saw Borgin Burke's storefront, the skull on the shop sign was full of green.
"Isn't it weird to Tumble Alley?" The three of them were silent all the way, which made Joel feel very depressed, and he had to take the initiative to open the topic.
"Nothing special," Konstantin looked around, translating to Joel via Professor White, "the dark magic shops in Moscow are much more spectacular than here. ”
Spectacular...... Joel is noncommittal about the adjective.
Joel pushed open the door to Borgin Burke's shop, where the owner, Borgin Burke, was standing at the counter, wearing the pair of sniffle glasses and examining a human hand.
The palms were shriveled and black, and the black nails were long and pointed, which looked strange and inexplicable.
"Mr. Bogin Bock, long time no see." Joel reached out and tapped his finger lightly on the counter.
Bogin Bock looked up and was a little surprised when he saw Joel, "Oh...... Mr. Taylor, what a rarity. ”
His gloomy eyes swept over Professor White and Constantine to the side, lingering slightly on Professor White's bandaged right arm.
"I'm here to buy two things...... Joel snapped it all in, and whispered.
After listening to Joel's request, Bogin Bock's withered face like bark appeared with an ugly smile, wrinkles piled together, and his eyes flashed with the unique light of Golden Galleon.
The deal cost Professor Wright most of his hard-earned savings, and the lucrative gold galleons kept Bogin Bock happy all day.
……
Professor White's residence in Hogsmeade Village.
The leader of the Eternal Nights, Andrei Ulyanov, had a grim face, his eyes closed, and his left arm raised to reveal two wands crossed over each other—the hallmark of the Eternal Nightmen.
The wand in his right hand tapped lightly on the marker, and the wand glowed dimly in unison with the sigil, a position that he maintained for a long time.
The two sturdy Eternal Nights were in the corner of the room, unable to catch a breath, one of them with a bandage on his head, who had been choked by Joel's hammer the previous night.
Finally, Andre removed his wand from the sigil and slowly opened his eyes, "Give me the map." ”
The two people on the side hurriedly stepped forward and placed the map in Andrei's hand, Andrei's wand lightly drew a circle on the map, and a black ink blot enclosed a forest.
"Konstantin is in the circle, I can't confirm his exact location, you two act together, and notify me as soon as you find out." He said lightly.
"There is no room for error in this operation," his gaze swept over the two men, and the two of them shivered visibly, "We don't have much time left......
The two men left the room with the apparition under his arrangement, leaving him alone, looking at the empty room and sighing, melancholy and depressed.
After leaving, the two Eternal Nights hurried away with multiple apparitions, and soon after arriving in the circle area, they discovered the traces of Constantine's father and daughter.
Strange, could it be that the area divided by the leader is too small?
The two of them stepped forward using stealth techniques, and after confirming that it was Konstantin, they immediately tapped the mark on their arm with their wands, called Andrei, and then stepped forward to drag him down.
Andrei sat in his chair with his eyes closed, and suddenly he felt a burning sensation in the mark on his left arm.
Found out so quickly?
Andrei was a little suspicious in his heart, although the scope of his circle was not large, Konstantin would definitely not be stupid enough to appear directly outside, right?
In his vision, Konstantin should be huddled in some dark corner with his daughter.
Although he suspected that his own men might have inadvertently sparked the mark, he stood up and vanished in place with a twist.
He was able to sense the approximate location of his men by the imprint of his burning wand, in the area he had circled.
It was a little far away, and it would take him four or five apparitions to get there.
It should be noted that Apparition Shifting is not a free choice to go anywhere in the world, firstly, some areas with anti-apparition bans are not allowed to pass (Hogwarts is one of them), and secondly, Apparition Shifting, a magic spell that travels through space, is very demanding on mana, and the manifestation distance and mana consumption are positively correlated exponentially.
If a single manifestation distance is 1 mile, the mana cost is 1, but the single manifestation of 5 miles consumes not 5, but 50.
In order to save mana, many wizards choose to manifest multiple short distances instead of reaching their destination directly.
Andrei did the same, the mess in the Soviet Union kept him busy, and the long period of energy overdraft has made him far less physically strong as he was in his heyday.
By the time we reached our destination, two minutes had passed since the mark began to burn.
Three people are facing each other in the woods, the bandaged Eternal Night and Constantine father and daughter.
Another Eternal Night Man was already lying unconscious on the ground.
"What about the little boy?" André asked softly, seeing that Professor White's injured right arm was gurgling with blood.
It seems that his subordinate is not inactive.
"Chief, you're finally here, the boy doesn't know where to go, and when we found the target, it was only their father and daughter." The Eternal Nightman was thrilled the moment he saw Andre, and the strong muscles hidden under his mink coat trembled.
Andrei frowned and raised his hand to stop him behind him.
"I'll leave it to me, and you don't have to worry about the rest." He said in a non-obstinatory tone.
"Hand over the spell," Andrei turned to look at Konstantin, "you can't run away, until the ends of the earth, I'll catch you too!" ”