Hogwarts Raven's Claw

Chapter 435 Avery

However, Mike was just thinking about it, because this was a completely unfamiliar secret realm to them. Even if they succeeded in seizing control of this secret realm, there was no guarantee that others would have a way to enter this secret realm. At that time, others could also use force to sneak attack and seize control of this secret realm like him.

What's more, they haven't won yet, so it's too early to think about these things now.

After visiting the second floor, Mike and others continued to move towards the third floor. Compared with the second floor, the magic restrictions arranged on the second floor became more dense, and the third floor was not installed with a large number of machines like the second floor. In addition to some simple assembly machines, there were piles of wooden cargo boxes. This scene made Mike understand the purpose of this floor at the first time, the warehouse.

At the same time, in addition to the soldier ant guards that are also very common on the first and second floors, Mike and others also found many humans!

This was the first time Mike and the others saw humans after entering this secret realm, so everyone was very excited. Franklin was so excited that he almost shouted. Fortunately, Benjamin next to him covered his mouth in time.

The humans here all wear standard black uniforms that are easy to move in. In addition to general job of maintaining order and security, they are also responsible for packaging the Avery magic cloth and Avery magic liquid brought up by the worker ants, making them look like low-quality products sent down the assembly line turned into beautifully packaged, high-end handmade goods.

Such work is naturally beyond the capability of the worker ants, but it is very simple for human wizards. They only need to wrap the goods with an exquisite ribbon and then put them in a wooden box with intricate patterns.

For wizards, this kind of work should be something that can be done by waving a wand, but the strange thing is that all the workers on this floor are processing these goods entirely by hand, and no one uses a wand.

Moreover, their work attitude is very bad.

In fact, there were only a very small number of people working seriously in this huge warehouse. Most of the others were chatting and some were even playing with the soldier ants and worker ants, such as the two who were not far from Mike and others.

They are throwing all kinds of metal garbage, tools, etc. at a worker ant. If they hit it, they will cheer. It looks like playing darts in a bar, except that the darts have become all kinds of heavy objects, and the target has become a living giant ant.

Under their playfulness, the worker ant that was regarded as the target was already covered with bruises and could not even stand steadily. Their seemingly very hard shells did not seem that hard and were completely twisted and deformed under the continuous throwing. However, even after encountering such inhuman abuse, the worker ant still maintained its strange kneeling position and did not move. The surrounding worker ants and even soldier ants also ignored everything that happened here and continued to do their own things.

Mike and the others just watched coldly, without any emotion in their hearts.

They are not the legendary Virgin Mary, they are just ordinary people, or rather, ordinary people who are even more cold-blooded and greedy.

Compared to risking injury or even sacrifice to save a mentally retarded ant, they prefer to obtain more intelligence by observing the words and deeds of human wizards.

So, under the gaze of everyone, the worker ant was smashed to death alive.

Its smashed body still struggled to maintain a kneeling posture, and it even had a roll of Avery magic cloth brought up from the second floor in its mouth. Until its death, it had not forgotten the job it had to perform. Now, it no longer had to work.

The human wizards on the side seemed to feel a little bored or tired after doing all this. Anyway, they did not continue to look for the next target, but gathered together to chat.

Seeing this, Mike and others immediately became serious.

"It's boring, it's really boring, these damn bugs can't even hide!"

"It's really boring, but this is one of the few entertainments we have here."

"Ah, I really miss the days outside. At least I can spend a few gold galleons to go to Knockturn Alley to find a veela to use up my anger. Here, I can only do x by myself besides beating ants!"

"Just shut up, Panama, who wouldn't want to do that? You're only making it worse for us!"

The man named Panama fell silent after being yelled at twice, but after a moment, his eyes suddenly lit up and he said in a voice that was neither light nor heavy:

"Hey, do you remember that some time ago, Patriarch Avery moved all the core members of the family outside to the fifth floor?"

"Of course, I heard that the man who must not be named has returned, so those noble gentlemen hid here out of fear. Haha, it's really ridiculous!"

"That's not what I want to say!" Panama said, "Do you remember? When they came, they brought a lot of luxury goods and slaves, including several Veela. Do you think they will give them to us if we ask them for them?"

"Are you dreaming?"

"Of course not! Think about it, even though our bloodline isn't as pure as theirs, at least we all have the last name Avery, and we're a family. They shouldn't be so stingy, right?"

"Don't be naive. In their eyes, we Squibs are just slaves and servants! They won't share their toys with us! Okay, stop daydreaming. Let's go upstairs and play some wizard chess in the dormitory!"

……

The human wizards disappeared at the staircase leading to the fourth floor, talking and laughing, while Mike, who was invisible not far away, nodded thoughtfully.

Through their conversation just now, he probably already knew a lot of things.

First of all, the group of humans in front of him should all be the Squibs of the Avery family. Unlike other pure-blood families, the Avery family did not directly abandon, execute, or raise the Squibs to adulthood and then throw them into the Muggle world. Instead, they locked up all the adult Squibs in this secret realm and let them work.

The second is the basic structure of the building.

The first and second floors were factories for processing Avery magic cloth and magic liquid, the third floor was a packaging area and warehouse, the fourth floor was the dormitory for the group of squibs in front of him, and the fifth floor was where the real Avery wizards lived. Thinking of this, Mike's mouth curled up with a hint of cruelty.

Since all the people in front of me are duds, things will be much easier!
He placed his fingers on the communicator on his chest, tapping it in a strange pattern. Through magic, these imperceptible tapping sounds would be transmitted to the ears of every team member. If this strange pattern was deciphered according to the code compiled by Mike in advance, it meant -

Kill them all, leaving no one behind!
……

The battle between wizards and ordinary people has always been boring. Although these ordinary people present are all duds with a deep understanding of magic, they are still so vulnerable in front of Mike's group of well-equipped and much stronger than ordinary wizards.

In just five minutes, all the enemies in the huge warehouse, including the soldier ants, were slaughtered.

Thanks to the instant death feature of the Killing Curse, there was no bloodshed in this massacre. All the enemies lay on the ground silently as if they were asleep.

And those worker ants were still carrying goods up from the second floor in an endless stream. All they had eyes for was work, and they were completely oblivious to the strange scene on the third floor, just like when the poor worker ant was beaten to death before.

Mike's expression was not very good. He was actually very disgusted with this kind of massacre. After all, he still had human nature and would instinctively feel uncomfortable when doing such cruel things.

But there is no way. If these people are not eliminated, then when they officially attack the fourth or even the fifth floor, these people will definitely launch an attack from behind them, which is not what Mike wants to see.

Taking a deep breath, Mike tapped the communicator on his chest again, issuing the order to continue the attack.

Suddenly, a series of illusory phantoms began to move. They floated past Mike like ghosts and rushed towards the fourth floor!

Just as Mike guessed, the fourth floor was indeed the living area for the Squibs. It was similar to the factory dormitories Mike had seen in his previous life, with densely packed dormitories, a laundry room full of clothes hanging to dry, and a spacious but simple and weird lounge...

Maybe because it is working hours now, there are not many people on the fourth floor at this time, only people like Panama who like to be lazy.

Naturally, these people were unable to form an effective resistance. Under the sudden attack of Mike and others, Panama and others did not even see who the attackers were before they followed their companions downstairs.

Next is the most important fifth floor.

Unlike all the previous floors, there is a solid iron door with a lot of magic cast on it at the passage leading from the fourth floor to the fifth floor. It is not easy for Mike and others to pass through this iron door because there are too many and too complicated spells on the iron door. Mike has no way to break it silently like he did with other magical restrictions before.

But Mike didn't hesitate too much, he quickly made up his mind - to break through by force!
Although this would be discovered by the people upstairs, thus losing the natural advantage of a surprise attack, it is impossible for the Avery wizards upstairs to not have the means to detect the situation downstairs. Now that they have taken action, it is only a matter of time before the people upstairs discover the abnormality here. In this case, it is better to attack directly!
Thinking of this, Mike took a step back, waved his magic wand and threw a ball of fire onto the iron gate.

Like All Curses Will End, Lihuo is the nemesis of all magical prohibitions and even magic props. The only difference between the two is that All Curses Will End is selective and purely targets the elimination of magic, while Lihuo destroys indiscriminately.

When facing this big iron gate, it is obvious that the effect of Lihuo is more outstanding.

The ball of fire seemed to have life and was constantly wriggling on the iron gate. Wherever it went, bursts of faint blue magic light would burst out. These were the traces of the magic restriction being broken.

The fire soon covered the entire iron door. Under its burning, the spell on the iron door was quickly corroded, and then the iron door itself began to melt.

The entire iron door was rapidly turning red and thinner at a speed visible to the naked eye, but not a drop of red-hot iron was flowing down. All the heat and matter were consumed by the fire on the door, becoming its nutrients and making it stronger.

Mike, who was watching all this, nodded with satisfaction, then raised his hand and said:

"Everyone, get ready to attack!"

Everyone who received the order raised their wands and aimed at the door that was becoming thinner and thinner. Everyone knew that the wizards inside the door must have noticed such a big change in the iron door. Once the door disappeared, they might be greeted by a melee!
Their guess was correct. When the entire iron door melted completely, countless spells of different colors flew out from the door.

However, Mike was faster than them. The ball of fire, which had become even larger after engulfing the iron gate, rushed towards the gate at an even faster speed and hit the dense barrage of countless spells.

There was a violent explosion the moment the flame and the spell came into contact, and most of the fire was shattered in an instant, but it still completed its mission and successfully blocked all the spells.

The next moment, the people around Mike chanted a spell, and a large green light representing death and ominousness suddenly shot out!
In the midst of a dazzling green light, a series of muffled groans came from inside the door. In this narrow space, the wizards inside had no room to dodge at all, and could only die tragically in this dense green rain.

The corners of Mike's mouth rose up, and he waved his wand. The fierce fire that had been almost dispersed beside him gathered together again, pounced on and devoured all the bodies of the wizards.

Then, Fiendfyre, whose body swelled again, spread up the stairs, while Mike and the others followed behind the wave of flames, using Fiendfyre as a shield and advancing.

It has to be said that this strategy was very effective. Like before, they also set up an ambush at the stairs above, but what happened next was exactly the same as the previous scene at the iron gate.

First, the attack launched by Avery's wizards was completely blocked by the Fiery Shield, and then the defensive counterattack by the Los Santos wizards knocked the enemies to the ground.

Easy and boring.

Looking at the pile of lifeless, twisted corpses in front of him, Mike smiled and shook his head.

If all wizards in the Avery family are of this level, then there is no need to continue this war. These people might as well just surrender!
(End of this chapter)