Ministry of Magic, Department of Occult Affairs.

Although a month and a half had passed since Voldemort's death, many departments had yet to fully resume normal operations.

After all, when Minister Fudge was captured, the damned intruder Death Eaters set fire to the chaos in their hands.

A lot of files have been burned, and this is not something that can be recovered in a short period of time, so it makes sense that the work would not be carried out properly.

Of course, it is anyone's guess whether some of the documents were burned by the Death Eaters or not.

After all, who knows why the Death Eaters were interested in the official Gobushi Club of the Department of Magical Sports and Sports for nearly fifty years, and the records of the use of the portkeys in the Portkey Office of the Department of Magical Communications?

The latter can barely be explained as setting a fire while stealing the portkey, and the former ...... Why would a group of thugs be interested in Gao Bushi, who is usually unattended!

But none of this matters, no one came to check anyway, and the opportunity to settle the account should be taken advantage of.

Only the Department of Mysteries had fully resumed its normal work by this time.

After all, this is a research department, and wizards who are usually not well-known, and are willing to come to the Department of Mysteries to be silent are basically very fond of magic.

Even Auguste Luckwood, who joined the Death Eaters, had one of his greatest hobbies in life, reading classical magic books and exploring all sorts of strange and out-of-the-box magic.

He was willing to join the Death Eaters in the first place, on the one hand, because Voldemort had become his faith, and he fought for his faith;

On the other hand, it is also because Lukewood is optimistic about Voldemort's prospects, believing that the Dark Lord will be able to rule the entire wizarding world in the future.

When the time comes, as the first group of people to join the Dark Lord's camp, he will definitely be able to occupy a high position and unscrupulously loot all kinds of classical books from the people of the wizarding world.

Even the Silent Man who joined the Death Eaters was in this state of mind, and it was naturally impossible for the Mystic Affairs Department to have a fire dragon burn storehouse.

So a month after the invasion, the Department of Mysteries was back up and running—and that's because the Aurors had carefully searched the Department of Mysteries as instructed by Scrimgeour to find holes in their defenses.

One weekend night, the Ministry of Magic was empty, with only one Auror squad and two striker squads on duty.

But the mysteries are brightly lit, and these magic fanatics are still immersed in their own research rooms, dedicated to the study of magic beyond this era.

In the brain hall, two silent men are electrifying an artificial magic brain on a table in the corner, and recording certain data.

One of the silent men suddenly complained: "When will those vulgar barbarians who can only kill people and set fires leave?" ”

"The Director is really, he actually allowed that kind of maniac full of battle magic to enter our Department of Mysteries."

The object of his reference was the Aurors in the drawing room.

After a full month of searching, the Ministry of Magic still found nothing, so it had to stop the search and let the Department of Mysteries resume its work.

However, Scrimgeour is convinced that there must be a loophole hidden in the Department of Mysteries, so every week a team of strikers, led by two Aurors, is stationed in the Department of Mysteries meeting room to prevent emergencies from occurring.

Other senior officials at the Ministry of Magic also expressed support for Scrimgeur's arrangement out of concern for their own safety.

"Probably not leaving." The silent man, who was electrifying his brain, shook his head and lowered his wand,

"If it weren't for the particularly high level of secrecy in the Department of Mysteries, coupled with the opposition of our director, Scrimgeour would have wanted to arrange the Aurors and Strikers directly in the various halls."

"Merlin's Whitebeard, how are we going to do our job?"

The silent man who spoke first soaked his brain back into the nutrient solution of a large tank of water on the table, and removed the insulating dragon skin gloves.

"Thank you, Director, thank him for his old man's arguments, and suddenly feel that it is not so difficult to accept that there is a team of strikers and Aurors stationed in the living room."

"As long as they don't come in and interfere with our research."

While chatting, the two changed out of their white coats stained with all kinds of disgusting mucus and unknown objects.

"Damn, how long has this experiment not progressed? These brains are giving some reactions! No amount of magic can make them react. ”

"Don't think about it, old man, go get a drink. Maybe you can drink some flame whiskey and get drunk and your brain will suddenly burst into new inspiration. ”

The white light in the cerebral hall went out. But less than five minutes later, it was bright again.

Harley was standing in front of a huge water tank with her hands behind her back.

This tank is located in the center of the rectangular room, which is filled with a dark green liquid.

And there are many pearl-white things floating in the liquid, which float lazily around in the liquid, as if they were alive.

"Is it really interesting, an artificially created magic brain?" Hallie's right index finger flexed, tapping lightly against the glass.

The brain in the tank seemed to be frightened by something, and it rushed out of the distance.

After a few moments, the brains seemed to realize that they had been provoked, and they scrambled to jump out.

One of the brains was the most agile, jumping directly into the air and levitating out of thin air.

A lot of ribbon-like things made up of moving images burst out of the brain, and they quickly spread out like a roll of film, and spit out colorful brain pulp.

"These brains ...... Is it similar to the modification of consciousness in the audience pathway? "Hallie's interesting analysis,

"People who come into contact with them may be infused with memories and thoughts that do not belong to them, and may even have consciousness from a third party."

"Very creative idea, but it shouldn't be of much use to wizards who are strong enough for Occlumency."

"There are also traces of the four ancient alchemists of the Earth Path Sequence. Hmm, trying to recreate the life refining, but unfortunately it has not succeeded so far. ”

"These brains are still not really alive, and they still need to be soaked in these auxiliary potion liquids to maintain their activity, and they will die automatically if they are left away from the liquid for a long time."

"That's interesting magic, but what idiot is it that adds melee to these brains so that these ribbons can only be used to strangle people?"

Harley's face showed a little distress and anger, as if the teacher was facing a strange student's test paper, and there were some whimsical and outrageous answers on the test paper.

Her left hand tapped lightly into the air, and black flames rose instantly.

These magical brains were not afraid of flames when they were created, and the ribbons were extremely tough, but when faced with the black flames in front of them, they suddenly retracted their bodies as if they were facing natural enemies.

The black flames quickly spread towards the ceiling, eventually enveloping the brain.

Obviously the brain has no mouth, but a scream rang out in the room.

The other brains in the giant tank were also startled by the scream, and plunged into the depths of the dark green liquid, not daring to show their heads at all.

Harley ignored the brains and turned to leave the room.

Harley had a lot to do before she officially entered the Hall of the Dead and entered the City of Calamity through that stone arch in search of uniqueness and the other two Sequence One extraordinary traits.

The source castle admission ticket in her hand still needs to be dealt with, there is a clone beyond the Chaos Sea deep under the castle of Newmengard, and the various tributaries of the River of Eternal Darkness also need to arrange clones to keep an eye on.

In addition, the other ten halls in the Hall of Death also need to be properly handled before they can officially enter.

After all, the status of these halls is not ordinary, and the object of their research is likely to be some other important extraordinary characteristic, uniqueness, or even part of a essentia.

These are all factors of instability, and before officially entering the City of Calamity, Harley must find out.

Before the iron door belonging to the brain hall behind him closed, a turquoise mark appeared on the iron door, a symbol symbolizing the witch's path.

The iron door slammed shut, locking the dark green of the back door.

So the circular room was turned pure black again, and everything was black, including the floor and ceiling.

The surrounding walls were inlaid with twelve identical black doors, and with the exception of the one leading to the cerebral hall and the one leading to the parlor, each with a turquoise marking, the others were so pure that they didn't even have handles.

The candles dotted between the walls lit up as Harley stepped in, illuminating the room with a glowing blue glow.

The flames flickered slowly, casting cold light on the shiny marble floor, and the black floor beneath his feet seemed to turn into a dark and deep water.

The walls began to spin rapidly, eventually turning into a blur of blue light and shadow, interspersed with a large cloud of turquoise.

When everything was fixed, the witch's mark was still there, and it had crept into the depths of the door.

Hallie nodded, pushing open the next door.

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Soon, the doors were covered with sigils, as if it weren't some Ministry of Magic's Department of Mysteries, but a witch cult meeting. And Harley had already explored most of the halls.

After visiting so many halls, Harley had only one idea.

It's really lucky that this Ministry of Magic has been able to exist safely until now, and nothing has happened to the employees who work here.

Not to mention anything else, there is definitely a hidden extraordinary characteristic of the "Diviner Path Sequence II Miracle Master" in that prophecy hall.

It is precisely because of the existence of this extraordinary property that there are so many prophecy crystal balls in the prophecy hall.

However, for unknown reasons, the negative effects of this extraordinary trait are not manifested at all, and its characteristics are only a small part of it.

Of course, this is definitely a good thing for the Ministry of Magic.

Although the extraordinary characteristics of Sequence 2 are nothing in front of Archangel Harley, if they do break out...... It's definitely enough for this group of rookies at the Ministry of Magic to enjoy.

They probably don't even have to think about it in the next life, because the negative effects contained in the extraordinary characteristics of the earth angel level will make these weak people who are not even demigods even have a chance to become ghosts, and they will be directly permanently restrained and become secret puppets.

There's also the Hall of Time, where a large number of clocks are kept, and the air is constantly filled with the constant ticking of busyness, and the sparkle of diamonds everywhere.

And at the end of so many clocks is a tall bell-shaped crystal cover, filled with a glowing stream of air that is constantly churning and flickering.

Inside the crystal dome there is a constant cycle of time - a jewel-like egg floats and cracks in the canopy, burrowing a hummingbird, but the hummingbird quickly ages, dies, and eventually turns back into an egg.

Hallie studied there for a while, determining that there might be some connection to the Sequence One Mercury Serpent of the Destiny Pathway, so that time would go back and forth on the hummingbird, as if it was stuck in a cycle of fate.

And something was faintly missing from this glass cover, probably the extraordinary properties of a certain thief's path sequence of the Momentary Worm had disappeared.

I felt a similar situation when I first studied the extraordinary object in Hermione's hand, and the time turner had once touched an object with a high level in the same way.

It seems that something must have happened in the Hall of Time at the beginning, but unfortunately now that the Lord of Mystery has fallen, it is unknown what happened at the beginning.

If these halls were only a danger to the Ministry of Magic, then the penultimate hall that Harley opened could be said to be a great threat to herself.

Harley almost blew herself up in fright when she saw everything behind the door, and was resurrected at the scheduled resurrection point.

After all, she saw the starry sky in that hall!

The astral hall of the Department of Mysteries was dark, full of planets.

When Hallie opened the door, Pluto turned right into her face.

This is oppressive for an informed extraordinary...... No less than an ordinary Muggle going to a boxing match, only to find that it was Megatron on the other side, and then realizing that he had signed a contract for a life-and-death fight.

Fortunately, the planets did not undergo any changes, and Harley found that these planets were once connected to the starry sky, but now, the connection between them and the starry sky has been completely severed.

I think those outer gods don't like ants to snoop on them, but they are afraid that they will infect ordinary wizards at will, so they will be awakened at first, and they will simply cut off contact.

That's why Harley thinks that the employees of the Ministry of Magic are really walking a tightrope on the cliff every day, and on some old day, their brains twitched, and they are not sure if they will wake up at first, but they are definitely going to die in an instant.

After leaving the Hall of the Stars, there were only two doors left in the Department of Mysteries that had not yet been marked.

Behind one of the doors there was a strong smell of calamity, and at first glance it was the Hall of Death. That wasn't where Harley had been in the Mysteries Division, so she had ignored the door ahead of time.

Hallie's eyes were fixed on the last door.

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(Thanks to the "book friend with tail number 4163" for the tip!) (End of chapter)