My Hogwarts has a serious problem.

Chapter 160, Section 157: The Chaotic Magic World of the Soviet Union

When Lynn was still at Hogwarts, he had already accessed the magical history of the Kingdom of Su through the school's vast library.

While it's called a history of magic, it's actually a history of enslavement.

The history of one people's shamans enslaving shamans of other peoples.

Unlike the early, fragmented group of wizards in Western Europe, the Sloth wizards in northern Eastern Europe in the 5th century AD were united by ethnicity. However, due to their different lifestyles, they did not build wizard towns or live together. Instead, they divided up their territories, built castles and manors, and occupied the region.

When a place becomes too big, it needs people to manage it. The various herbs planted and the magical animals raised are not things that Muggles or house-elves can take care of. We are too familiar with the wizards of our own kind, but we really don't have enough manpower. What can we do?

Then let's capture the sorcerers of other tribes.

They chose to use force from the outset, just as the primitive tribes captured slaves, and thus the conquest and war began.

The Sloths had more sorcerers and used more powerful magic. Between the 6th and 8th centuries AD, they hunted down a large number of minority sorcerers and brought them to their castles and estates as slaves.

These ethnic minorities include the Chur, Lenk, Machen, Litvin, and Boyk, among others, with the Chur being the most numerous.

Although they all belonged to a large race of Europa, there was no such concept at the time. In order to tame these foreign wizards, some of the manor owners and castle lords even attempted to turn them into humanoid house-elves, so that they would be their slaves for generations to come.

Where there is oppression, there is resistance; the oppression provoked a fierce backlash from the slaves.

In the Middle Ages, it was not uncommon for slaves to kill their masters.

Similarly, there were also Sloan shamans with good intentions at that time. They did not enslave minority shamans, but signed contracts with them similar to those between workers and employers, employing them and providing them with food, lodging and wages. The relationship was so harmonious that it was even like that of a family.

For nearly a thousand years, they had been locked in a love-hate relationship. In modern times, they first established the Goose Kingdom Magic Federation. Initially, it was a slave-based federation. Apart from the Sloth wizards who had real citizenship, wizards from other races were all slaves. This federation was short-lived, lasting less than two years, before being overthrown.

Afterwards, the wizards living on this land tried various systems, but none of them could be maintained for long. It wasn't until after the founding of the Kingdom of Su that the Su Magic Council, which relied on the Muggle system, was officially established.

The shamans of ethnic minorities and Sloan shamans were granted nominally equal rights, but only nominally, just as Black and White people in the United States are nominally equal.

This can be seen from the distribution of political rights. Among the committee members, ethnic minority shamans occupy at most 20% of the seats, and sometimes even only 10%.

Within the wizarding community, this discrimination is even more pervasive due to the Sloan wizards' own sense of superiority.

When the committee was first established, the country was relatively stable because ethnic minority shamans received some nominally equal treatment.

In the magical world, the prestige of the Soviet Magic Council is second only to the emerging United States Magical Congress and the long-established power, the British Ministry of Magic.

However, as time went by, more and more minority shamans were no longer satisfied with nominal equality. They actively worked to achieve true equality, while the Sloan shamans were also dissatisfied that they, who were once slaves, now enjoyed equal status with them. As a result, conflicts arose again and intensified.

Finally, two years ago, the Soviet Magic Council passed a resolution to reform the ethnic issues, aiming to improve the status of some minority wizards and alleviate domestic conflicts by dividing the minority groups.

However, they chose to win over a small group while attacking the majority. The status of the Chur people, who are the largest minority group, remained unchanged, and the rights promised to a small number of discriminated shamans have yet to be fulfilled.

And so, naturally, chaos ensued in the magical world of the Kingdom of Su.

Ethnic minority wizards from various regions have revolted. Some have declared their intention to break away from the Magic Council and establish their own wizarding polity, while others have called for the removal of the Sloans who occupy high-ranking leadership positions, so that the Council can truly become a council for the wizards of the Soviet Union.

The rebels that the Aurors are now hunting down on Klin Street are the latter.

They did launch the assassination attempt, but it clearly failed. The chairman of the committee, who was equivalent to the Minister of Magic, was still alive, and only one of the many Sloth committee members suffered minor injuries. The assassination ended like a farce.

But the wizards of the Kingdom of Su could see that this was only the beginning, and the real storm was yet to come.

Lynn pushed the empty glass in front of the bearded boss, who then refilled it with ice water.

"The director of the Auror Bureau of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement is right here on this street. He's a notorious ruthless killer. Not a single rebel has been caught since yesterday because they were all executed on the spot during the arrests. The committee has temporarily granted the Aurors the right to legally use the three Unforgivable Curses, and as far as I know, they've killed at least five people today."

The chaos in the magical world of Sugok is not a good thing for Lynn, as it means that the danger of his journey will be greatly increased.

After getting a general idea of ​​the situation, Lynn had no intention of wasting any more time here, so he asked.

"I heard there's an Iron Axe Inn around here, but I just walked around the streets and couldn't find it."

"Iron Axe Inn? Yesterday, the Aurors found a rebel in that inn, and the inn was shut down. Poor old Joseph, I wonder if he'll ever get out of prison."

Lynn frowned. The person he was looking for was staying in this hotel, but now that the hotel was sealed off, where else could he go to find him?

After finishing the ice water in his glass, he walked out of the bar.

Looking at the address in his hand, Lynn decided to temporarily abandon dealing with the vault handover and instead go to find the Magical Council contact person that Dumbledore had provided for him.

Just as he was about to turn and leave Klin Street, he caught a glimpse of a familiar figure out of the corner of his eye.

Coincidentally, it was Yelena Shaik, the Soviet witch he was just about to give up searching for.

(End of this chapter)