Stewart Island, New Zealand.

In the town of pure wizards called Rakhiyula.

The two wizards sailed out to sea in a sailboat.

The purpose of their trip was to be located on the Australian island of Tasmania.

The beginning of August is the most famous fishing season in the Tasman Sea, and of course the wizards' fishing boats are not just ordinary creatures.

It's the legendary sea beast, the Leviathan.

An evil sea monster that usually resembles a whale.

This sea beast is only active in the southern hemisphere winter, with August being the final fishing season.

Of course, the purpose of the two wizards was not to be a magical creature like the Leviathan, but to find a lost ship of the United Wizarding Society in the Tasman Sea, which is 1,500 kilometers away from each other between Australia and New Zealand.

Camelot.

The boat at the wizard's feet is from the pure wizard town of Tassi, Tasmania, Australia.

Now it's time to return to Australia from Stewart Island, New Zealand.

"Leviathan"

"Is this creature hard to catch?"

On board, from the captain to the crew, there are satisfied smiles on their faces.

In the past few days, they have gained a lot.

As the ship sailed into the sea, the jubilant sound slowly subsided.

Owen appeared on deck.

He leaned against the pole and looked out at the sea in the distance.

Beside him was an old wizard, his angular face recording the beating and experience of the wind and waves, and his sharp mind had not yet been soaked in rum.

The old man had a smile on his face and a sea breeze, not to mention how comfortable he felt in his heart.

"If you want me to say, doing what we do is actually luck."

A hint of cunning flashed in the old wizard's eyes.

"Leviathan, you don't necessarily encounter a creature in a few years, you don't look at how many fishing boats are sailing on this sea, there can be thousands in a summer, they are all idiots who want to get rich overnight."

"I've been doing this for 40 years, and I've seen seven Leviathans, and I've only managed to catch them three times."

"Uh-" Owen rubbed his chin, "Well-even if a Leviathan can be sold for 10,000 Galleons, it will only take forty years to make 30,000 Galleons, uh-what a loss!" ”

"Why don't you have this time?"

"Yes! You think so too. The old man smiled, "But every year there are still a lot of fools who have to get involved." ”

Owen shook his head noncommittally.

This old guy, although his mouth is full of disgust, but the smile on his face has never stopped, there must be an ulterior benefit behind it, otherwise who would be stupid to fish for forty years just to make that little money.

However, the fishing season seems to be the winter months in the southern hemisphere, and they must have other jobs, and it is impossible to spend a year on the boat.

"By the way, you've been floating at sea all this time, so have you encountered any storms or strange things?"

"Storm?"

The old man shook his head.

"It's been quiet for a few weeks, and it's been mid-August."

"Really?" Owen frowned slightly, nothing happened to him, so where else could a ship as big as the Camelot go?

Even if it was stolen, how could he transport it?

A normal infinite stretch spell can't fit that big into a ship.

As he spoke, an exclamation from a wizard came from the other side of the deck.

"Look, there's fog on the sea."

"What's going on?"

"It was calm just now, why did it suddenly fog?"

"No—the fog is the wrong color, it could be poisonous smoke, should we turn the ship's bow?"

"It's too late. The fog has come. ”

The cacophony suddenly stopped.

Then everyone saw the lilac smoke like a cloud rushing over the sky, and the speed was extremely fast. Swallowed them up all at once.

"What's going on?"

The old wizard beside Owen didn't bother to talk to him anymore.

Got up and walked to the middle of the deck.

"I don't know." His first mate responded, "It doesn't seem to be poisonous, it doesn't have any magical powers, it doesn't affect us." Could it be - some natural phenomenon? ”

The first mate guessed, then looked at the captain.

"Fart—I've been on this sea for forty years, and I've never seen anything like it!"

The old wizard is the captain of the Moonside.

He cursed and drew his wand, frowning, and waved his hand to unleash four or five different probe spells.

Bursts of golden light drifted by, like a laser scan, sweeping over the ship and the surrounding sea.

Clearly, such magic doesn't detect anything.

Because it's not just ordinary magic that's spreading here.

Rather—ancient magic.

In Owen's eyes, the entire sea shone with a faint light like a nebula.

There was a glitter in the light, and I don't know what it was.

"It's so rich in ancient magic." The boy was a little surprised.

He immediately shook his head and said, "Don't guess, it must be coming at me." ”

He shrugged and came to the bow of the ship.

"The captain hasn't seen this battle in forty years, and as soon as we came here, there was a special state, who could it be if it wasn't for me?"

"Are there wizards with ancient magic on the Camelot?" Grindelwald beside him, looking at the sea with a slight frown, he couldn't see through the fog.

Just now, he also released many probing spells, but all of them were muddy and useless.

"There shouldn't be any crew on the professor's list." Owen said, "But the letter he sent mentioned one. ”

Grindelwald wasn't supposed to be here.

After dealing with the divine pagoda in India, he and his grandfather separated.

He went to North America to investigate the next one.

He was instructed by Professor Dumbledore to come to Oceania.

"There is a Ming wizard named Zhang Xiaolin." Owen said, "It should be the successor to the Divine Grant Tower in Australia." ”

"She's missing with the Camelot?"

"Yes—and Sirius and Mr. Winston." Owen added.

"The current situation." Grindelwald looked at the thick lilac smoke around him, "The situation is a bit complicated, and I don't think an heir has the ability to unleash smoke magic on this scale. ”

"It's very complicated, taking Koyatl as an example, although she has only obtained part of the ancient magic power, but at most, the power of the spell, the magic power and physical fitness are stronger than the average person, and at most the magic talent is far beyond ordinary people, I read the information, that Miss Zhang Xiaolin, who is nearly twenty-three years old, has been a professor of defense against the dark arts in Chang'an Taixue for less than a year, and has been working in the federation before. Never showed much magical ability. The smoke couldn't have been released by her. ”

"Second heir?" Grindelwald said.

"It's possible—" Owen nodded, like the Divine Tower in Brazil, if Voldemort had managed to capture the magic in it, he would have been the heir. "I can't rule out the possibility that the other party wants to seize the ancient magic in Miss Zhang's body, just like now this smoke is coming out again, in order to seize my magic power."

"Logical." Grindelwald agreed.

"But—" Owen added, "there are twelve wizards on board the Camelot, plus that Miss Zhang, there may be more actual numbers, and the members of the Joint Excavation Committee, so many, can that heir be able to fight?" Even Voldemort couldn't have killed so many people in an instant, there would always be one or two who escaped.

How come there hasn't been any news for weeks? ”

"Helper? Or a secret organization? ”

"Not really, if the heir did not hesitate to use such a powerful magic in order to take away the magic power of others, how could he be willing to share it with others?"

"I think — maybe we're thinking too complicated." Owen said.

Then he slowly drew his phoenix wand.

"Hoo God—Guard!"

With the blessing of ancient magic.

A phoenix as brilliant as fire spreads its wings and flies high.

Blue flames burned on it, and the phoenix let out a burst of cries, which soon attracted the attention of everyone present.

"What's that?"

"Phoenix?"

"Patronus?"

"Phoenix Patronus? And a wingspan of several tens of feet? Merlin's beard - is there such a patronus in this world? ”

Everyone looked at Owen in shock.

When they noticed that the boy seemed to be only a teenager, the shock in their eyes turned to horror.

"Merlin—he looks as old as my daughter."

"Unbelievable, unbelievable!"

The crowd's exclamation didn't cause Owen to care.

His will descended on the phoenix, and he flew farther and farther away, rushing into the lilac smoke around him.

Then, as if the curtain had been ignited by a spark, the purple smoke actually burned a hole.

Then the fire of the Patronus grew stronger and stronger.

In an instant, the whole smoke burned.

The people on the boat looked at the raging fire around them, and hurriedly held up the spell to resist, or found a place to hide.

But after a long time, they realized that the flames didn't seem to hurt them.

The flames looked like false projections, playing above their heads, but they weren't real at all.

"Sure enough—" Owen smiled at the corner of his mouth. "The usual methods of the outer gods. It was also learned by the heirs. ”

"Smoke is an illusion." Grindelwald naturally saw the truth, and he had already seen the truth since Owen summoned his Patronus.

"Very clever illusions." Owen said that after a fire was lit, with the help of the principle of regression, he saw a little bit of the truth, "The smoke will make the picture that wizards will believe the most, and it will not put a false picture in front of you all at once, but build a building block, little by little, and slowly increase."

First let you see a fish in the sea, then seaweed, because seagrass is something that can be found in the sea, so it will not attract the attention of wizards, then there is a little reef, and finally a small island.

Little by little, the illusion lured the wizards into believing that what they saw next was real. In the end, no matter how he shows, people will believe it. ”

"It's ingenious magic." Owen's face showed a hint of surprise, "I can't imagine how long the person who invented this magic has been studying the human spirit, this is simply another god!" ”

"Don't be a god?"

"Uh-don't worry about the details. In short, this magic is actually very fragile, but as time goes on, the more difficult it will be for the fooled wizard to break free, and you can even make a multi-illusion world, and then make the people inside think that they have broken free, and then cheat again, by the way - you can make several Matrix films. ”

Owen's eyes sparkled, as if he had discovered a new continent.

Mr. Grindelwald shook his head slightly, he could not understand what the boy was saying.

However, after the surrounding illusions were broken.

The line of sight ahead is clear.

"That's?"

In the distance, he and everyone on board saw that there seemed to be several reefs at the level of the sea at a distance of a nautical mile from them.

On the largest reef, there is a tree.

Without waiting for the captain to react.

Grindelwald simply apparitioned and disappeared into the bow of the ship.

Then, Owen, who came back to his senses, followed.

They reappeared under a large tree.

In front of him is a plane tree that only two adults can hold. This type of large tree is common in the Forbidden Forest, where it is everywhere.

It's just that the plane tree in front of you is different from the ones of the Forbidden Forest.

At the base of the tree, there was a hole in the tree, and a man lay inside.

Owen wanted to check on it immediately, but was stopped by his grandfather, Grindelwald.

He gestured to the girl in the hollow of the tree.

Owen looked over and saw a number of tiny roots sticking out of nowhere in the hollow of the tree, and these roots were digging into the girl's skin.

He could even see something squirming on the girl's cheeks, and he could see how deep the roots were inserted.

If he hastily dragged the girl out, the consequences would be like pulling out a dagger stuck in the heart, and the girl would die instantly.

"Look at these."

The surrounding reef is only the size of a fist when it comes out of the water.

Both Owen and Grindelwald walked above the water.

Crossing the big tree in front of him, a lone ship behind him was calmly floating on the sea.

That's the Federation's Camelot.

Owen followed his grandfather's instructions and looked at the trunk of the tree, only to see many cocoon-like packages hanging from the huge canopy.

The size varies, and from the outside, it seems that there are people inside.

"What's the situation?" Owen rubbed his head, "Trees eat people?" ”

"And—how does this scene feel familiar."

"You've seen it?" Grindelwald said.

"No—I'm just spitting." Owen smiled, then looked back at the woman in the hollow.

"Maybe it would be a good idea for the Deception, at least we can know what she's going through in her consciousness."

"But—"

Owen slowly crouched down, the phoenix wand, the tip of the wand pointed at the palm of his left hand, and a wound suddenly appeared with a sharp stroke.

In the same way, he slashed the girl's right palm.

Then, the palms of both hands are clenched.

"This place has a strong ancient magic, and it cannot be ruled out that she was bewitched by the outer gods."

The blood intersected, and the two ancient magic forces suddenly resonated, "Then don't blink, let me take a look at your heart." ”

As he spoke, he aimed his wand at the girl's brow, and then chanted the spell, "Deception." ”

The invisible magic turned into some kind of silk thread, connecting his consciousness to the girl's.

In an instant, he was shocked by a large number of memories and his brain went down.

After a while, the regressive principle of ancient magic began to work, and all memories and magic were like flowing into the sea of peace again, and those memories were not gone, but were stored by Owen on the shelves of the memory palace, he had experience in this area, and his head almost exploded when he obtained the inheritance of Dean Bridged - and then Owen was trained, a bit similar to the training of Occlumency, that is, don't think about those memories, keep the brain blank, and wait for a long time, The mind gets used to the unfamiliar memories, and then those memories only resurface when you retrieve the relevant knowledge.

The hardware of the human brain is actually very powerful, but it takes a while to be stuffed into too many 'learning materials' and it takes a while to get used to, and all you have to do is to empty your brain and don't think about anything, don't look at it, and after a while, the memory will calm down.

Of course—Owen wasn't sure if it was universal, or maybe it was because he had ancient magic, and the principle of regression was too strong, so those memories were obedient.

In short, after Owen crashed and restarted, the picture in front of his eyes changed.

He found himself in a blank world.

Surrounded by impenetrable smoke.

Owen was a little confused, but the thought had just been born, and other colors were faintly emerging in the fog.

A little light first.

As he approached.

The light grew brighter and brighter.

Owen approached step by step, and then he saw a golden light, a giant, standing on the sky and his feet on the ground.

It is Genggu who exists - "Pangu".

"Huh?" The boy let out a brief puzzle.

Immediately, he discovered that at the foot of 'Pangu', there were two other giants.

One holds a longbow.

A half-squatting hugged something.

The three gods noticed him and looked at him in unison.

"Click-"

In the blank world, there was a crisp sound like broken porcelain.

Owen looked up suddenly, but saw that many scars suddenly appeared on the giant who stood up to the sky.

He is like a sculpture, a porcelain, a painting, a pine and cypress.

The mottled rift spreads at breakneck speed.

His body turned into rubble and fell from the sky.

The other two gods, the one with the longbow, floated slowly.

He got rid of the gravitational pull exerted on him by nature, and it seemed that he was about to fly to the Nine Heavens to become an immortal.

The half-crouched one was surrounded by a raging fire.

The figure danced in the firelight, and soon disappeared.

No – it's not gone.

With their departure, the blank world suddenly had a lot more.

A bouquet of flowers popped up from the ground.

Then there was Laimu (wheat), and the endless Laimu filled his eyes in an instant.

On the left, a cypress forest has emerged, and on the right is an endless ridge of fields, and the land is full of golden laimu.

The wind blows and makes a rustling sound.

The sky is like a sapphire, and a round of the sun shines with golden light.

Everything is so vibrant.

Suddenly, Owen noticed a large group of people coming from the cypress grove to his left, all of them walking blue, but each with a smile on their faces.

Hold each other up and speak loudly.

(End of chapter)