To be honest, Maka flew a little unscrupulously today because he felt that he might still have to rush.
Although it was already dark in London, it was still bright in New York. When Maka flew over the city with a disembodiment spell, she also caught a glimpse of a group of Aurors apparating in the shadows on the street corner.
Obviously, they have been very busy during this period.
After all, the Obscurus' ability to cause destruction is still very powerful. If it were flying in the air, it would be fine. At most, it would just look like a group of dark fireworks. But if they want to dig through the wall, the Muggles will have a lot of fun.
"...Oh, I remember, they are called 'No-Majs' in the United States?"
Maka muttered casually, while increasing the flying speed by another level, heading straight towards the north of New York.
His destination was the River Edge area of New Jersey that came from Joshua's mouth.
Not long after, he suddenly turned around, grabbed the magic book at his feet, jumped directly from the sky, and landed on a bare lawn.
The more magic spells are cast on a building, the easier it is for complex magic waves to spread. If he wasn't careful, Maka wouldn't be able to find it right away, but now he had gotten the approximate location from Joshua.
When he was close to the ground, he instantly waved his staff downwards, and a majestic updraft quickly offset his falling speed.
And when Kankan landed smoothly, he walked straight towards the empty front.
"It should be right here."
Maka stretched forward her left hand that was not holding the staff and groped in the air. After a few minutes, he seemed to have caught something and gently pulled it out.
Then he took a step forward without hesitation and submerged into an invisible barrier like a fish entering water.
In fact, it would definitely be faster to use some brute force method, but in fact, Maka also needs this barrier to help him cover up, lest the American Aurors arrive too quickly and affect what he wants to do.
After entering the barrier, on the empty lawn in front of him, there was immediately a small private manor that was not too large but was quite luxurious in decoration.
"There are quite a lot of magic spells arranged..." Maka crossed the iron gate in front, sensed the big house inside from a distance, and thought to herself, "It's not too troublesome."
In this manor, not only the defensive magic was solidified on the buildings, but also many warning spells were cast in the front garden. But in Maka's view, these curses are not out of the normal category, and it won't take too much effort to break them.
There are still hostages in the other party's hands, and he doesn't want to alarm them by being too rough. If someone threatens him with the girl named "Zoe", should he take action? Is it better not to take action
"...If it really comes to that point, let's talk about it later!"
Maka pointed the staff in her right hand toward the iron gate. As a wave of magic power vibrated forward, the door opened silently in the blink of an eye.
He looked around, and after making a little judgment, he took a step forward.
It was during the few steps Maka took that his entire body began to enter a rather rapid Animagus transformation. After only three or four steps, the huge body suddenly shrunk into an inconspicuous hummingbird, and suddenly flew into the premise.
Although the warning spells in the garden are quite complicated, within Maka's sensing range, the threads and symbols composed of magic appear quite clear.
That's right, whether it's clever analysis or forceful destruction, it's all a way to break into it. But apart from that, there are also selective ways to avoid this method.
Maka's Animagus form is surprisingly small and can hover extremely stably in the air. Except for a few of the spells that existed in the form of "faces", he could almost get through them directly.
No matter how familiar you are, cracking always takes a certain amount of time, but avoiding them can save you some time-consuming steps.
But I saw that little hummingbird jumping rapidly up and down in the garden. Although it occasionally paused for tens of seconds or a minute or two, it kept spinning forward most of the time.
Not long after, Maka came to a window on the first floor of the manor.
After he transformed back into his human form, the staff lightly tapped on the window frame. The moment the spell was quietly broken, the window suddenly opened, and he nimbly turned over and got in.
Once inside the house, movement will be much smoother. After all, no one will set too many spells in a room that needs to be moved around frequently.
After applying another magic spell to herself, Maka walked quickly along the corridor.
It seemed that there were still many people staying in the house, because he could actually sense the rather unusual fluctuations in magic power. But most of those people stayed in the room honestly—some were several together, and some were just one or two people.
Maka didn't know why the old wizard Lenny distributed it this way, but he knew that those strange magic fluctuations must be from the Obscurus.
As for the two people he is looking for, one is an ordinary witch named Zoe, and the other is a dark wizard named Lenny. This means that he only needs to find normal magic power fluctuations.
It's obviously not difficult for him, is it
Maka walked around the house. He didn't see any of the Obscurials controlled by the old wizard. Every corridor seemed a little empty.
Even though those people were in the room, no one dared to leave their room casually, which showed that the old wizard's control over them was still very firm.
"You put a lot of thought into it, right?" Maka stood in front of a descending staircase, looking at the underground floor submerged in darkness, muttering to herself silently, "After preparing for such a long time, it is natural to want to do a good job. It’s not surprising to have a big fight.”
Most powerful dark wizards also have their own beliefs. It's just that this belief always deviates from the order, which leads to all kinds of disasters.
Although Maka disagrees with their intentions, their firm belief is still worth affirming.
Now that you have chosen your own path, you can only believe in yourself and keep going. The scene ahead of the magical journey is usually unknown.
The only thing to blame is that they took the wrong path from the beginning, that's all.
Maka just paused for a moment, letting herself be more vigilant, and soon walked into the darkness under the stairs.
This was a Z-shaped stone staircase. After turning several turns, some faint light came from below. When Maka walked across a platform again, he saw some low-brightness torches propped up on the stone wall on the side.
The flames on those torches were cold blue flames, still swaying slightly in the windless underground. Maka knew that those magic flames were so swaying because of the flow of magic power.
From the direction of the swing of the flame, we can know that there seems to be some interesting things hidden underneath, which are constantly absorbing the magic power in the air, forcing them to flow in the same direction.
Maka turned her head and looked at the flames, but her feet did not stop at all. Soon she stepped onto a long underground corridor.
From here on, the number of curse traces began to increase significantly. Maka moved forward cautiously, and at first she untied a few trap spells. Later, she simply transformed into her Animagus form and passed directly through the gap in the corner.
There are very few rooms on both sides of this corridor, and a stone door will appear after a long distance. There were mostly empty rooms behind those stone doors. Maka cracked several of them in succession, and then she was too lazy to open them and observe.
Thinking about it, this is only the second stronghold after all. The old wizard just moved from the mirror space of the monastery not long ago, so naturally he will not use all the places so quickly.
"Well?"
Maka, who was flying forward, suddenly stopped in mid-air. After he sensed the space in the stone door next to him again, he released his Animagus form.
And in the next second, as if he no longer wanted to conceal his existence, he pointed at the stone door with the staff in his hand.
"boom!"
The powerful crushing spell burst out, completely blowing the thick stone door into pieces, and even the magic spell attached to it was destroyed.
When stone chips were flying, he walked in against the rising dust, and immediately caught a glimpse of the slender figure with his hands hanging in the air.
Other than that, there is nothing else in this underground stone chamber.
"Looking at her clothes and appearance, she should be the Zoe described by Joshua, but..." Maka quickly stepped forward and stretched out her hand to check, "... Sure enough, the magic power collapsed, is she dead?"
He waved his staff suddenly, and a black skull flew straight at the woman, but it passed through the woman's body easily and dissipated behind her.
"… Hopeless."
Maka frowned, thought for a moment, then turned around and walked out.
As Dumbledore said, don't pity the dead too much, because the living are in more need of help. Now he must go to the source of the abnormal flow of magic power as soon as possible, and maybe he can gain something.
To put it bluntly, even the Obscurials here are not bad guys. What he is looking for is just the culprit that caused all this to happen.
But just as he walked to the door, a strange wave spread from the depths of the corridor outside. The magic power in the air that was constantly flowing inside suddenly surged at this moment.
"…What exactly happened?"