Harry Potter: I started checking in from Diagon Alley

The tense scene suddenly fell into an eerie pause.

Eric stopped using his wand and laughed, "Well, I have to thank you for bringing the Dark Lord."

"Huh?" Hilarious Rozier was taken aback and looked at the spot where Voldemort had just disappeared.

There was no one left.

Both Voldemort and the dark wizard who was holding him were long gone.

“Not that one, it’s this one.” Eric pointed to Grindelwald behind him.

Chapter 178 Fragment of Soul Ability! Another one?

Upon hearing Eric's words, everyone looked toward Grindelwald's location.

Upon hearing this, a sarcastic smile appeared on the face of the already very old Dark Lord.

"If I hadn't saved you just now, you would be dead already, wouldn't you?"

Grindelwald began by saying this.

The voice of this former Dark Lord sounded like a leaky bellows, hoarse and dull.

If he hadn't been tied to the stake, Eric doubted he could even have stood up.

It's clear that Grindelwald is no longer the player he once was.

His magic had greatly diminished, and he no longer had his own wand.

Eric laughed without turning his head, "Probably, but it seems you didn't use that ability to save me, did you?"

“As expected of the infamous Dark Lord, even in this weakened state, he still hasn’t given in,” Eric said.

Grindelwald chuckled: "I really didn't expect that you could also see through the secrets of the soul."

Hearing the two people's casual conversation, both Hilar Rozier and the dark wizard felt a sense of unreality.

Eric's miraculous escape from death was actually thanks to Grindelwald?

Does it also involve the secrets of the soul?

The incident seemed to have suddenly entered a dimension they had never encountered before.

Meanwhile, Eric was secretly relieved that he had already mastered the ability to fuse souls back at the Quidditch stadium.

If it weren't for this, he might very well have been caught off guard and killed today, just as Hilar Rozier said!

Just now, when it was transmitted via the door key.

Eric immediately sensed that something was wrong.

The transfer of the door key was unknown and uncontrollable to him, and with various restrictions added to the situation, even Eric would find it difficult to escape.

Faced with the onslaught of various aggressive spells, Eric had very few options for resistance in such a short time.

One method is to use protective spells and rely on one's own magic to withstand the attack.

But this is a bad idea.

No matter how powerful Eric's magic is now, he will have to face at least ten people.

Moreover, unlike in the Forbidden Forest, he was not able to defeat his opponents one by one.

As the magical world has developed to this point, the differences between various spells have been thoroughly studied.

There are only a few applicable direct protective spells, Eric knows them, and so do his opponents.

In this situation, the attacking side always holds the initiative.

Even if Eric manages to withstand this attack using his own strength, it will be very taxing.

He had no idea what other tricks Hilar Rozier had up her sleeve.

Therefore, Eric will not engage in a head-on confrontation unless absolutely necessary, even though his chances of losing are slim.

It's like a Quidditch match.

You are riding a Fire Arrow, your opponent is riding a Light Wheel 2000.

In this situation, unless absolutely necessary, you would absolutely not want to suffer mutual destruction with your opponent.

The second method is to forcibly activate magic and use Apparition to leave.

Compared to a head-on confrontation, the risks associated with using this method are undoubtedly greater.

Just as Hilariozier had envisioned, they wouldn't give Eric time to Apparition.

Eric could indeed unleash his magic to forcibly break through this limitation, but that would mean abandoning Grindelwald, Hilary Rozier, and Voldemort—characters who are rarely seen together and who are gathered in one place.

After leaving here, Eric is unlikely to encounter them again.

When they realized that this trap couldn't hold Eric, they knew they couldn't stay there any longer and give Eric a chance to fight back.

Furthermore, Eric was unfamiliar with the terrain here.

Apparition is not a magic that allows you to go wherever you want.

In fact, the requirements for this magic are extremely strict.

A wizard must have a deep understanding of his or her environment and the destination she is about to reach.

Eric wants to Apparate, so he can only return to a place he is familiar with.

In other words, he needs time if he wants to stay here.

It's not just time to get used to the environment, but also time to buy yourself a chance to fight back.

Hilario Rozier won't give him that time.

This trap set for Eric was perfect in both its procedure and its power.

They undoubtedly went to great lengths in their attempt to kill Eric.

Use the door key to bring Eric over, surround him, and then deliver a fatal blow.

Sometimes, the simplest method is the best method.

Every dark wizard here is quite powerful.

They may not be as skilled in other forms of magic as those who specialize in it, but when it comes to dark magic and offensive magic, they are the experts!

In the past, facing such an offensive, Eric would have been badly injured, if not killed.

Unfortunately, Hilario Rozier hadn't considered one crucial point.

She didn't know Eric's trump card.

That is the power of merging souls, and Eric has already mastered it.

After acquiring this ability, Eric had already figured out how to use it.

As long as there are other unfused fragments of soul power present, Eric can enter a state where he can view himself from a third-person perspective, which makes it easier to manipulate the fragments of soul power.

Eric doesn't really need to absorb and integrate these objects.

Most importantly, in that state, time around Eric would stand still.

The fragments of soul power refer to the soul power belonging to Ravenclaw, such as that stored in Eric's wand.

And not just limited to Horcruxes.

Of course, Eric wouldn't choose to fuse with Horcruxes.

To merge with Voldemort's soul is suicidal.

Coincidentally, at this very moment, among everyone present, there was one person who possessed a fragment of soul power that Eric could fuse with…

That's Grindelwald!

Talented wizards are drawn to each other.

When Eric was teleported there by the door key.

Grindelwald glanced at Eric discreetly.

That one glance was enough for Eric to discover something amiss.

At that time, Eric was in a state of spiritual orientation.

A mental stance can detect all anomalies in the surroundings, as well as magical items, and learn potential information.

Discovering other fragments of soul power is also one of the functions of a spiritual stance.

It was in the stadium box that Eric discovered the power fragments within the acacia wand, which was achieved through this very method.

Now, through Grindelwald's glance, Eric was surprised to discover that Grindelwald also possessed a fragment of remaining soul power!

It was that fleeting glance.

Eric was then placed into the perspective of a soul whose time had stopped.

Eric didn't know whether Grindelwald did it intentionally or revealed it unintentionally.

In short, from a spiritual perspective, Grindelwald himself, in Eric's view, is completely divided into two parts.

Part of it is his own soul.

The other part is another fragment of soul power from an unknown source.

These two forces intertwined and entangled within Grindelwald's body.

When Eric observes through the perspective of the soul.

The two forces within Grindelwald's body continued to entangle with each other.

They tried hard to become one, but they couldn't.

Chapter 179 Survival is more important than anything else

Eric recalled what he had learned from Sirius about Grindelwald's current situation.

The report indicated that the costs of using dark magic and the resulting illnesses were causing Grindelwald's health to deteriorate.

But now it seems that there may be another reason why Grindelwald is so weak.