"...Luna...Luna?"
As soon as she ran to the lawn under the Ravenclaw Tower, under the moonlight, Maka immediately caught a glimpse of a familiar light golden color.
Luna fell sideways to the ground, still wearing a rather strange set of pajamas. At first glance, she didn't seem to have any obvious injuries.
Maka hurried forward, half-kneeling, lifted the girl's upper body, and let her rest on her lap. Then he began to examine her a little anxiously.
"...Fortunately, I probably just hit my head and fainted."
After a while, Maka finally breathed a sigh of relief. After carefully feeding her a few sips of the potion, he picked up Luna.
Only then did he have time to observe the other students.
After a rough count, there were nine little wizards who fell from the tower. Three of them were obviously scratched directly by the black mist, and some parts of their bodies already had gray-black wrinkles that were eroded by the vitality.
Fortunately, when the black mist was heading straight towards the tower, Maka's patron saint deflected its flight direction a little, otherwise it would have been even worse now.
Just as Maka cast another floating spell and planned to bring them all back to the castle first, McGonagall and other professors also arrived quickly.
"Maclean?" Professor McGonagall asked anxiously, "What just happened? What is your Patronus dealing with-"
She was asking quickly, but when she saw Maka's appearance clearly, she was immediately startled.
"... You... Maka, are you okay?"
Hearing this, Maka looked at Professor McGonagall with some doubts, and then he followed the other person's gaze and looked down. The wizard robe he was wearing was covered in dark red dripping blood, and there were even some sticky fragments that could no longer be distinguished.
"Oh, it's okay! This is not my blood..." Maka said quickly, "We will talk about the details later - I don't fully understand it now. In short, bring all the students in first and conduct examination and treatment immediately."
He used the floating spell to hold up the little wizards, most of whom were in coma, and walked quickly to the gate of the castle with Luna in his arms. Behind him, Professor McGonagall and Professor Sprout had the same worry on their faces.
The little Professor Flitwick seemed quite calm. He just frowned, seeming to be thinking about the word "Obscurial" that Maka just mentioned.
Snape, standing at the end, still had his expressionless face. He stared at Maka, who was striding ahead, and the girl in Maka's arms, and paused for a moment before following him.
Probably because the commotion just made was too loud, many students were awakened one after another. At this time, some students had already ran out of the dormitories and passed through the common rooms of their respective colleges and came to the hall.
Professor McGonagall immediately scolded them sternly and drove them all back.
In a hurry, Maka vaguely caught a glimpse of Hermione and the three of them. Maybe they not only saw themselves, but also saw Luna who was unconscious in his arms.
But Maka obviously didn't have time to explain anything to them yet.
After walking all the way to the campus hospital, Madam Pomfrey was waiting by the corridor - her office was on the other side of the corridor, and she was safe and sound at this time.
But the ward was a complete mess.
Inside, not only was there a big hole in the outer wall, but even the interior seemed to have been swept by a hurricane, making it extremely messy. Joshua huddled in the corner of the room, seemingly fainting.
Professor Flitwick, who followed, quickly cast a repair spell. For a moment, various damaged objects immediately flew up and began to be pieced together one by one.
The collapsed hospital bed creaked and straightened, the torn sheets and quilts automatically closed the cracks, the fallen portraits were rotated and hung back on the iron nails on the wall, and the broken bedside tables were pieced together piece by piece...
When the last brick in the damaged wall was automatically filled into the brick hole, everything became intact as if it had never happened.
Of course, except for the big spider leaning in the corner of the ward.
After Maka glanced at the dead "Little Eleven", she first placed the little wizards floating behind her, Joshua in the corner, and Luna in her arms on the empty hospital bed one by one.
"...There is actually a spider here," Professor Flitwick cautiously stared at Little Eleven with four pairs of spider legs bent, and said hesitantly, "Did we miss one before?"
"No, that was raised by me." Maka said with some seriousness, "In fact, I originally kept it here to monitor it, but I never thought..."
"Surveillance?" Professor Sprout on the side suddenly asked, "Surveillance for what?"
"Have you forgotten?" Professor Flitwick soon showed a thoughtful look when he heard Maka say this, "There should have been a patient lying in this ward before."
Maka nodded slightly.
"Professor Snape, did she take the antidote you prepared?" He turned around and asked.
"That's right." Snape's expression looked a little gloomy, "But it takes time for the antidote to take effect. She shouldn't wake up tonight."
"Maybe there are other reasons?" Maka seemed a little absent-minded and answered casually, "Maybe it's because of the Obscurus's physical problem, or something else..."
He paused for a moment, but then immediately waved his hand: "Professor, Madam Pomfrey, let's check the students first, and we'll consider the rest later."
After that, he took the lead and walked to the bed closest to him.
The moon is quite bright tonight, and its cold silver light not only illuminates the vast campus outside the castle, but also makes the ward appear transparent.
While carefully examining a student who had been eroded by the energy of the Obscurus, Maka seemed to catch a glimpse of something dark out of the corner of her eye.
He immediately turned his head alertly and looked out the window at the lawn, but found nothing.
"… what?"
Maka frowned, thinking that she shouldn't be blind. But the lawn of the campus is so flat that it can be seen clearly from here, and there is no way to hide people.
Still a little worried, he decided to go outside and investigate more carefully after confirming that these students were fine.
…
Late at night, Maka, who had searched several times inside and outside the campus, returned to the ward.
After careful examination of those students, the casualties caused by this accident have been determined.
Except for Helen Schon, there were a total of ten students including Luna, three of whom were seriously injured due to being corroded by the energy of the Obscurus. Others, however, only suffered varying degrees of physical damage.
If this had happened in the Muggle world, those students who were covered in bruises would probably have died young. They had to be thankful that this happened in the magical world after all.
As long as it is purely physical damage, in most cases as long as you still have breath, it is very likely to be cured quickly with the help of powerful healing potions and restorative spells.
And those students who were harmed by terrible magic were obviously even more fortunate.
Because here is not only Snape, the heavyweight potion master, but also Maka, who already knows something about the Obscurial.
It may take a lot of effort, but it's probably just a matter of time to recover.
As for Joshua who fainted, he was miraculously unscathed. Judging from his physical condition, it would be more reasonable to say that he fainted from shock rather than from being injured.
However, at this moment, Maka obviously didn't have much thought to concentrate on their treatment. What he was more concerned about was Miss Lovegood, who was sleeping soundly on the hospital bed.
Well, that's the same even if the girl didn't actually suffer much harm.
In fact, Luna had already woken up once before Maka left the ward to search. She was in pretty good condition, except for a light bruise on her forehead, probably from a bump somewhere.
When she saw Maka with a worried look on her face, she still had that dazed look on her face. She smiled leisurely at Maka and asked him in a sleepy voice if she wanted to go look for nymphs in the mistletoe together at Christmas. hook.
Right now, Maka was sitting on the stool beside her hospital bed, quietly looking at the soft contours of her face. The delicate long pale golden hair was spread out between the pillows, glowing like a mist in the clear moonlight.
This calming picture made the restlessness in Maka's heart calm down a little.
Only now did he have time to organize his thoughts and replay everything that happened tonight in his mind several times.
The first is the secret manor where the Obscurial One is hiding. Zoe, who appears during the replay spell phenomenon, seems to want to say something. It's a pity that before she could finish her words, she was driven away by Grindelwald who suddenly took control of the old wizard Lennie.
There is no doubt that Zoe obviously knows the truth, or some clues close to the truth. And these are things Greenwald absolutely doesn't want Maka to know.
He still remembered that Zoe said that she had read part of the memory of the old wizard Lenny.
However, Lenny himself was blown to pieces by Greenwald very decisively, which directly caused Maka to have to change all her clothes.
Well, let’s not talk about trivial things like changing clothes. The key is that at the same time that Lenny turned into a rain of blood, Hogwarts was suddenly attacked by the Obscurial.
That Helen Schon was indeed not a good person, and Maca had always had a vague suspicion about this. However, just because of this situation, he couldn't help but have an inexplicable feeling in his heart.
just like…
"I always feel like... I might have missed something." Maka's eyebrows tightened slightly again.