Hogwarts Raven's Claw

Chapter 600 New Department of Mysteries
"Mike, the Department of Mysteries has been rebuilt."

Franklin pushed open the door and said to Mike excitedly.

Upon hearing this, Mike and Penelope both shook their heads.

Even though he has become the deputy director of the Auror Office, Franklin still behaves so recklessly, which makes Mike very helpless.

But Mike was still very interested in what Franklin said.

After all, as the place where mysterious objects are truly imprisoned, the importance of the Department of Mysteries to the Ministry of Magic is self-evident.

After the summit, Mike began to order the reconstruction of the Department of Mysteries and recruit new Unspeakables.

This was a very critical job, so to be on the safe side, Mike only mobilized a small number of Los Santos diehard wizards to do this, and appointed Franklin, who was relatively free, as the captain of this construction team.

He originally thought that the construction period of the Department of Mysteries project would be longer due to the insufficient number of workers, but he did not expect that Franklin would complete it in such a short time.

Thinking of this, Mike smiled and stood up and said:
"Then let's go take a look."

"Let's go!"

Franklin said excitedly that he couldn't wait to show Mike the results of his work.

Penelope frowned upon seeing this. She glanced at the document on the table that had just been processed and said unhappily:

"But... Mike, you still have work."

"Please help me go through it first! You can decide on the small matters yourself."

“This is a document that has been reviewed several times!”

"Anyway, let's do this for now!" Mike raised his eyebrows and winked at Franklin while speaking, "I'll accompany Franklin to visit the New Department of Mysteries first!"

Franklin immediately understood what was said and echoed:

"Yes, this matter is very important and cannot be delayed!"

Franklin and Mike winked at each other and walked out of the door, leaving Penelope standing alone in the office.

"Mike! You'll be regarded as a tyrant if you do this!"

Penelope shouted helplessly, but Mike didn't show any intention of responding to him.

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At the same time, in the magic elevator, Mike and Franklin were already arm in arm with each other just like they were in Hogwarts.

Mike kept complaining to Franklin that being the Minister of Magic was not an easy job. Even though Benjamin and Penelope had helped filter out most of the tedious work, the remaining part still made Mike feel irritated.

Now, the only time he can relax is when he is with Frankly.

But happy times are always short-lived. As the cold female voice sounded in the elevator, Franklin and Mike returned to their usual majestic and superior appearance.

Soon, the elevator door opened.

Mike walked out of the elevator first, and Franklin lagged behind him half a step.

Seeing this, the two Aurors standing on both sides of the elevator door immediately saluted respectfully.

It is worth mentioning that what they performed was not the etiquette of the Ministry of Magic, but the chest-beating ceremony within the Los Santos Wizarding Corps. This just proves their identity as the core wizards of Los Santos, because only the most senior Los Santos wizards would stubbornly perform this ceremony. In the long run, Mike estimated that this would become a special honor in the future.

From the moment they left the elevator, Mike and Franklin entered the Department of Mysteries.

What appeared in front of Mike now was a small hall and a series of stone doors.

It was almost unchanged from what Mike had seen the last time he was here.

Mike frowned instinctively.

What he wanted was a more advanced Department of Mysteries with stronger defense and detention capabilities, rather than something similar to the original one.

But out of trust in Franklin, he decided to continue watching.

After opening the stone door and entering the corridor, the surrounding scenery has indeed changed.

The corridor of the original Department of Mysteries was completely like that of a gloomy ancient castle. Not only was the lighting dim, but there were also uneven stone walls on both sides.

But now it's different. The corridor is now as bright as day, and the stone passage has been replaced by a pure white material that Mike has never seen before. Even the ancient stone doors have been replaced with pneumatic mechanical interlocking doors made of steel, giving people a sci-fi feeling.

Mike was stunned for a moment.

The style of the scene before him was so different from that outside that he was unable to react for a moment.

Franklin smiled triumphantly upon seeing this and said:
"How is it? Not bad, right? Our imitation of Star Wars!"

Mike: “???”

"Don't you know Star Wars?" Franklin said in amazement, "It's the TV show with lightsabers and the Force!"

"Of course I know about Star Wars, but the question is how do you know this?"

"Come on! We're not cavemen!"

"OK then."

Mike raised his hands and shook his head to express his helplessness, then continued to move forward under the leadership of Franklin.

The first stop they visited was the Memory Room where Harry's prophecy was previously stored. Following the decoration style of the previous passage, this Memory Room was also snow-white, like the cabin of a spaceship.

Memory balls of various sizes are neatly placed in rows of glass cabinets embedded in the wall. Each cabinet is equipped with white ambient lights, making these memory balls look like museum exhibits.

The only pity is that there are still too few memory balls here, and many cabinets in the memory hall are still empty. However, there is no way to deal with this. The last battle between Mike and others in the memory hall caused a large number of memory balls to be damaged. The fact that there are still so many left now is the result of the Silent people's full rescue efforts.

Next, Mike and others went to several key halls and rooms, including the Time Hall and the Brain Hall.

The decoration styles of these halls are similar to the previous Memory Hall, with only slight differences in minor details.

For example, the lighting in the Big Brain Hall is slightly dim, and the decorations and colors are darker, thus maintaining its eerie and spooky style.

For now, Mike is still satisfied with Franklin's job. The only room he doesn't like is the Time Room.

But this is also Mike's own problem.

Because the Time Hall is spherical as a whole, the bottom is made of multiple layers of mirrors and glass to create a 3D effect, making people feel like they are high in the air when they step on it.

This design reminded Mike of the Dead Sea prison where he had been.

In addition to these strange halls, Mike also saw many silent people who were transformed by the diehard wizards of Los Santos.

However, unlike the previous silent people, this group of silent people are all wearing black laboratory coats, bird-beak masks, and all kinds of strange hats on their heads, making them look like medieval plague doctors.

Mike really couldn't understand what the purpose of doing this was, and in the end he could only blame it on Franklin's bad taste.

After visiting other halls and rooms, Franklin finally brought Mike to the mysterious object storage hall.

"are you ready?"

Franklin stood at the door, rubbing his hands and talking excitedly, but Mike didn't buy it and just made a gesture of invitation.

Mike was not vague and walked into the reception hall first.

As soon as he entered, Mike was shocked.

It's not because Franklin made the asylum hall so shocking, but because it is too ordinary.

It's so ordinary that it feels like the most ordinary magic elevator.

Franklin smiled at Mike and then pressed a button beside him.

With a feeling of falling, the elevator began to descend rapidly, but soon stopped again.

"Comprehensive Command Room, here we are."

A cold electronic female voice sounded, and a monitoring room that looked very similar to the Masonic Secret Headquarters appeared in front of Mike.

Dozens of silent people were standing in front of the strangely shaped mainframes and large screens. When they saw Mike and Franklin, they all stopped their work and respectfully saluted them with their chests.

But Mike didn't pay much attention to them. At this moment, his attention was completely attracted by the scene on the huge screen in the center.

It was a huge underground space, brightly lit, with a huge square glass suspended in the center.

The glass was hollow, with crooked layers of glass inside, a total of nearly twenty layers of smaller square glass, and the innermost part was the glass container that imprisoned the "White Death".

"This is the White Death's containment site. According to your request, we have further improved the security of its detention. The huge space it is in is about 60 meters underground. In addition to the simple container in the cell, we have also built a total of layers of additional protective layers made of the same material, quartz. These protective layers are separated by airtight doors and are absolutely sealed. And because their positions are disordered, even if a leak occurs, the white mist released by the White Death will need to wander around for a long time before it can be transmitted out, which can buy time for our rescue and repair work."

"What about the facilities that use the 'White Death' as ​​a means of attack?"

"We have also considered this." Franklin waved his hand, and a silent man immediately understood and operated the joystick to turn the probe to the wall of the underground space. "You can clearly see that there are many vents on the wall of this underground space. Normally, these vents are closed, and they will only be opened to provide air when the silent man goes to check and repair the equipment. At the same time, they can also be used as a passage for the 'White Death'.

Once we need the 'White Death' to appear, we just need to press a button here, and the airtight doors on the glass cage will open and release the White Death inside. Of course, this will spread very slowly, so if we want to speed it up, we still have to use the old method, human sacrifice. "

Mike nodded. The prison of the 'White Death' was much better than the previous version, which made him very satisfied.

He also noticed that the probe monitoring the "White Death" had a number GY-001 marked at the bottom of the screen. He turned to look at other idle screens on the side and saw similar numbers in those dark images.

Combined with the fact that they just came down in the elevator, Mike quickly came up with a guess.

"You merged the Inquisition on the tenth floor underground into the Department of Mysteries, didn't you?"

Mike said with a firm tone.

Franklin laughed and said:
"As expected, I couldn't hide it from you. We did it. Now the entire Inquisition has been emptied by us. The 'White Death Prison' you saw was built using a small part of the space. The rest of the space is still idle. Of course, this is not because we are lazy, but because we consider that there may be more mysterious objects coming in in the future, and we need to tailor-make containment space for them. As for the things originally in the Inquisition, we moved them all to the Department of Magical Law Enforcement. After all, judging criminals is their job."

Upon hearing this, Mike's face showed an expression of "as expected".

He was originally wondering how Franklin's project could be completed so quickly. You know, the original space in the Department of Mysteries was seriously insufficient, and redeveloping the underground was not a task that could be completed in a short period of time. But if they borrowed the original space of the Tribunal on the tenth floor underground, it would be very reasonable that it was completed so quickly.

Mike actually welcomed Franklin's occupation of the courtroom.

You should know that the Trial Chamber on the tenth floor underground was originally built temporarily in order to improve the efficiency of the trial due to the excessive number of Death Eaters during the downfall of Voldemort.

At that time, all ten courtrooms were full.

But things are different now. In peacetime when there is no serious unrest, most ordinary crimes are sentenced directly by the Law Enforcement Department, and these large courtrooms are not needed at all. Only when the Savior was tried and some major cases were tried, the courtrooms needed to be used and the Wizengamot Council was convened to try the cases.

The previous Ministry of Magic was also well aware of this, so the Trial Chamber on the tenth floor was once used as a temporary cell for prisoners in the Auror Office.

But now that Michael has rebuilt and perfected Azkaban, the sole purpose of the Inquisition has disappeared.

"How is it? Are you satisfied?"

Franklin looked at Mike with anticipation. He had done his best in the construction of the Department of Mysteries. Now he was extremely eager for Mike's recognition.

Mike did not disappoint him. He boasted to Franklin and the group of silent people, and promised to give them bonuses, making everyone present smile.

Looking at all this, Mike also breathed a sigh of relief.

Now that the place to house the mysterious objects has been built, it is time to start collecting and housing the mysterious objects.

(End of this chapter)