"Max Roach Park, the crossroads, the small garden... Well, it seems this is it."
In mid-air, Maka stepped on the magic book and looked down. And when he found that everything matched the pictures in Smith's memory, he knew that the home of the "Head of the Key Office of the Magic Department" had finally arrived.
Of course, this is actually not too far from the center of London, especially for Maka who only needs to "walk" in a straight line!
"If the remaining two have indeed been here... I hope there is no one at home!"
While he was thinking, he descended straight into the garden - there was no ceiling in this garden, not to mention, the effect of the Disguise Curse was obviously still there.
But if you want to go deeper into the garden, the vines climbing on the supports form a natural canopy. The rain there was almost blocked by the plants, but the surrounding vision also became much darker.
In the garden, Maka began to secretly sort out the experiences of today's trips.
To be honest, he has had many experiences of cheating and being cheated, so now he will habitually pay attention to many details in every action he takes.
Of course, there was actually nothing fishy about anything today, either in Canterbury or previously in central London.
Those suspicious black-robed wizards cooperate with each other tacitly, are not afraid of death, and can even manage to escape even when there is an obvious gap in strength. This indeed makes people cannot help but wonder what kind of organization exists behind them.
But this is all just on the surface, a head-on interaction between fists.
But maybe it’s because of the slight setback at the hands of Greenwald! Now, Maka just feels like something is wrong...
This might just be some kind of unreliable intuition, but it always made him feel a little uneasy.
Thinking this, Maka raised her hand and took a look - on the finger of his left hand, an ordinary silver ring was quietly reflecting a slightly dull luster, without any abnormality.
During Greenwald's plan to lure the tiger away from the mountain, it was this ring matching the owl Marfa's anklet that called him back in time.
Otherwise, during the incident when the Obscurials attacked the Rakwenlaw Tower, many young wizards, including Luna, might have faced the end of falling to the ground and dying!
"Add another layer of insurance! It's always good to be just in case..."
Maka thought about it for a moment, then swung her hand out.
Suddenly, a flash of silver light quickly passed through the dense rain curtain, shot straight to the north in the direction of Hogwarts Castle, and disappeared in the foggy sky in the blink of an eye.
After saving a little more time, Maka continued to walk along the stone path between the trees and flower beds.
After just a few turns, Maka soon saw a "green wall" made up of plants intertwined with each other. Next to the wall, a sunflower almost as tall as a person was quietly taking root in the soil beside the path.
In fact, on the broad green leaves of the sunflower, there are still some scattered small water droplets leaking from the top vine branches, which makes it look quite lively.
Of course Maka knew that the sunflower was the "key" responsible for accepting the password and opening the entrance passage. He had already seen this in Smith's head.
However, just like he never sang the school song when he first entered Hogwarts, he really didn't want to read that stupid password!
yes! Since there were other ways to get in safely, why did he have to embarrass himself over such a stupid thing
Maka didn't even look at the sunflower. She didn't even pause for a moment and continued walking towards the wall of plants without hesitation.
But when he passed the sunflower, he suddenly noticed a faint magic wave emitting from the sunflower, and then it twisted violently.
Just as a few broad leaves were about to catch up with Maka's thighs, he took a step back neatly, and the sunflower blocked his way.
"Oh, hey... Dear Sir," a horizontal seam suddenly opened on the sunflower's disk, and he started to speak while flipping it up and down, "You are a distinguished wizard, so... I understand that I am a little rude, but My duty is to keep an eye on this passage... Would you mind telling me the password?"
Seeing that most of the road was blocked by this sunflower, Maka was stunned for a moment - although there were many strange animals and plants in the magic world, he had never seen a sunflower that could see through the Disillusionment Curse!
Moreover, the tone of this sunflower's words actually contained a ghostly melancholy
"Is your name Richard?"
He asked casually, and subconsciously looked at the other person carefully.
"No..." Sunflower's big mouth twisted, "How can a flower have a name?"
"Maybe not..." Maka looked at it, and suddenly raised her eyebrows slightly, "However, I don't think you are 'a flower' - I really didn't expect that there are no black nest grass roots in Great Britain. Total extinction?”
"Oh! Can you recognize me?" When the sunflower heard this, she was immediately surprised and said, "I bet that if I open my eyes, I may not even be able to recognize myself!"
"Hmm... Is that so?" Maka suddenly thought for a while and said, "By the way, have you seen a pair of male and female wizards passing by here? The man's voice was very deep, and the woman's voice was a little careless-"
"Ha... there are very few people passing by here, and even fewer wizards." Sunflower shook the flower plate lightly, shaking off some water drops, "But, yes... just now, not long ago, they went in... "
"Yeah?"
Maka stared at the sunflower-shaped plant, looking left and right, and suddenly she had a good idea. Although this is just an unexpected encounter, if used well, sometimes it may have miraculous effects.
"Okay! Oh, I guess yellow doesn't really suit you... let me help you out!"
Maka said, reaching out and pulling off the petals around the black flower disk, leaving only a large black disk at the top of the green flower stem.
"Someone put a 'headband' for you, who would have thought of this?" He threw the thing away and smiled, "I guess... your roots were tied up. Yeah?"
After hearing this, the "sunflower" without a ring of petals couldn't help but lower its black disk, and seemed to be even more depressed.
"Oh, you're right..." it whispered, "Really, it's cruel of me for them to do this! Don't you think so?"
"I can understand your mood. In fact, I can help you," Maka shrugged. "Of course, correspondingly, I also need you to do me a favor - do you think that's okay?"
"Really? Can you really help me? Aren't you afraid that the wizard family will cause trouble for you?" It said in surprise, "No problem, we can help each other! It's fair!"
"As long as you agree."
Maka nodded, grabbed the stem of the "sunflower" and pulled it out of the ground with a pop.
It can be seen that the grass roots with a little bit of Saturn are all white and look very lush, but they are firmly tied together with magic ropes in the middle.
Seeing this, Maka stretched out her finger and flicked it, and the rope immediately loosened.
"Listen, I have a good idea now -" he held the other person's body and said seriously, "Maybe you have heard that Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry is a great place! There is a greenhouse there that you like, There are also many delicious sables…”
"As long as you do one thing for me, I will take you there to live and let you run wild in the forest every day. How about that?"
"Is there such a good thing?" It immediately threw up its roots happily and said with a wide grin, "Of course it's no problem, I can't wait! Tell me, what do I need to do?"
"It's actually very simple," Maka said with a smile, "Go and do the thing you love most but haven't been able to do again for a long time—"
Having said this, he suddenly waved his hand at the high vine wall in front of him, letting the entangled stems and leaves make way for a passage in and out.
Immediately afterwards, Maka decisively threw the "Mr. Fake Sunflower" in her hand.
"Let's run!"
The moment he took it off, the flower-like plant suddenly began to undergo astonishing changes, and when it really landed, it had completely transformed into Maka.
After saying that, Maka cast another phantom spell on herself, and then rushed inside.
"Listen, we will definitely meet some people soon, so I will tell you what to do now," he continued to chase after him with the magic book, and whispered, "Don't worry, you just need to remember Stay here, nothing can hurt you as long as I'm here."
…
At the same time, in the mansion in front of Maka, Asa and Miriam were still waiting in a corner of the front hall, waiting silently.
Neither of them spoke, because for them, the future was also unknown and hazy.
Suddenly, Asa raised his head and glanced towards the door, then winked at Miriam. The latter nodded immediately and drew out his wand very neatly - someone is coming!
"boom!"
Just when they were getting ready, the door was violently pushed open from the outside, and a figure rushed in like a madman.
"Out of body!" Miriam immediately waved her wand.
The visitor was running very fast, but the casting speed of the magic spell was not slow at all. However, the decisive soul-stealing curse had no effect at all and disappeared without a trace.
"It's him!"