This is a burial chamber.
I mean, it's not like the outside, where it's a bar that's been punched out and reinforced with modern materials. It was a real tomb that had only undergone ordinary cleaning and was used as a wine cellar.
After clearing away the debris at the door, Maka pushed the door open without hesitation, and then he came to the tomb made only of bricks, stones and soil.
If you can adapt to the dim environment here, it will not be difficult to find that in addition to a large number of wine barrels stacked here, there are even clear marks on the ground after the coffins were removed.
It can be seen that the owner of this "Tomb Bar" was indeed telling the truth. It must have been a real underground tomb a few years ago.
However, this is actually not that important to Maca today.
From the beginning, he just followed the traces of magic power and came here. As for the specific place here, he didn't care at all.
In fact, he now understood that he had indeed found the right place!
Just by closing his eyes for a moment, Maka clearly observed the huge anomaly in this tomb through his perception of magic.
He can "see" that the magic here is obviously orderly in chaos. They are intertwined with each other like a ball of messed up silk threads, but they are intertwined, curled up and moving extremely smoothly.
Occasionally, one or two threads would poke out from inside. They penetrated the walls of the tomb without any hindrance and extended all the way to the outside world. No one knew where their destination would be.
But at least Maka understands - he knows that the thing woven by the many magic threads tangled like a ball of wool is called "bad luck".
But is this really just creating and spreading misfortune
No, I'm afraid it's not that simple.
But he saw Maka suddenly take out his staff and draw a soul rule rune on the spot. Under the rejection of the soul rules, those magic threads were suddenly "squeezed" apart, exposing a set of runes hidden in the center to Maka's perception.
This source of misfortune that spreads misfortune and caused many mysterious deaths of Muggles was obviously arranged here by a wizard with evil intentions.
And since the dark wizard did this, there must be a further reason.
Otherwise, there is no benefit to be gained from just spreading misfortune and causing death, so why would the other party do it? Is it really just to satisfy one's own pleasure
"Is it to create fear and collect negative emotional energy? Or simply to collect the souls of the many dead?"
Based on many black magic materials since ancient times, it is not difficult for Maka to come up with these two most likely guesses.
"Needless to say, this is probably the 'masterpiece' of that guy Herbo."
Before he finished speaking, he suddenly waved the staff in his hand, and the power of the soul rules surged away. Although the combination of runes used to create bad luck is special, it is not a regular rune, so how can it withstand the invasion of real rules.
In just a few seconds, the entire structure was shattered by Maka's soul rules and disappeared into a sudden burst of chaotic magic power fluctuations.
The magic threads that had been entangled in the tomb had lost their foundation and soon began to collapse.
However, Maka, who quickly solved the source of misfortune, did not just relax.
As far as the observation just now is concerned, although the threads woven with doom look terrible, they are not enough to cause the death of so many Muggles.
In this way, it is not difficult to think that the source of the misfortune is obviously more than this.
After thinking about it like this, Maka naturally didn't want to stay here and waste time anymore.
You know, maybe in the few minutes he was thinking, a few more Muggles were suffering from bad luck and lost their precious lives for some boring reasons.
…
Since the afternoon of that day, Maka has devoted herself to the task of eliminating the source of the bad luck. Not only that, in the process of pursuing his misfortune again and again, he never forgot to pay attention to the traces that Haierbo might leave behind.
So far, apart from Haierbo, there are no dark wizards who can do all this and still have such motives.
And he had been immersed in tracking for such a long time, and unknowingly he was busy until the next morning.
To be honest, it cannot be said that there was nothing gained after a whole night of exploration. But it was the only discovery during this period that caused more doubts in Maka's heart.
Of course, the specifics start from the moment when Maka directly saw a Muggle being "entangled" in the thread of doom for the first time.
At about two o'clock in the morning, Maka was flying over a street.
It was an ordinary street with only the street lights still on, and on both sides were families who were already sleeping peacefully. Where the street lights cannot reach, the darkness of night becomes the main color here.
But after all, Maka didn't just rely on his eyes to observe. No matter how dark the environment was, he still found a Muggle man lying there sleeping soundly among the trees in the garden beside the street.
Immediately, Maka, who was passing by at low altitude, turned back and quickly landed by the bushes.
"For such a long time, I just followed the traces of the magic thread. This time, I was lucky. I found an object that was entangled by the thread..."
With this thought in mind, he stepped over the trees that were not too high and leaned down to look at the dark grass.
Lying here is a man in pajamas.
I don't know if someone brought him here, or if he sleepwalked here on his own. In short, he was either sleeping before he came here, or he must be on his way to bed.
And because he was being entangled by the thread of misfortune, Maka was actually not surprised by his current situation—no matter how he got here, it was obviously not surprising.
What Maka cares about most now is actually the state of this man.
After leaning over and checking carefully, Maka discovered that this man was indeed alive and well! The misfortune that befell him for no reason caused him to lie in the bushes for most of the night, but it did not make him die miserably.
Well, if he is allowed to continue lying here, the most he will do is catch a cold from the cold tomorrow.
So, will he die next
Maka straightened up and looked around a few times - he didn't know when this man would die, he only knew that he probably wouldn't die in a short time.
However, when it comes to "luck", there are obviously no signs to follow.
Just as he was thinking this, unexpectedly, the thread of doom wrapped around the man's body suddenly loosened at this moment!
"What?"
Maka watched as the magical thread separated from the man's body bit by bit and dissipated on its own. In just a moment, it lost its original form, leaving only vaguely discernible residual fluctuations in the air.
"Is this... the end?"
This is just a product condensed by a combination of runes, and it will not dissipate because of the appearance of Maka - it has no self-awareness!
As a result, there seems to be only one answer left.
"Is it possible that I was preconceived from the beginning? In fact, what this misfortune caused was just 'disappearance', not 'death'?"
In Mundungus's report, there were disappearances and deaths, almost always accompanying each other.
But if this misfortune only reaches the level of causing people to disappear, then what is the purpose of Halport doing such a unnecessary thing
To confuse people? Obviously not.
Because only a very small number of wizards can sense magic, and the only one in London is probably Maka. If Haierbo did this, not only would he not mislead Maka, but he would also provide him with traceable clues for free.
If Haierbo wanted to confuse Maka, then he succeeded, but what's the point
Maka looked very confused about this, but he didn't worry too much about it. After throwing the man in the bush at the door of a certain house, he followed the remaining magic power fluctuations and continued his cleaning work.
And with this continuation, he reached dawn in one fell swoop.
…
At dawn, Maca temporarily stopped her busy schedule in and around London and returned to St. Mungo's.
No matter how capable he is, he is just a normal person. He also needs rest and sleep to replenish the energy consumption that the magic potion cannot completely replenish.
After sending a sealed letter to the Order of the Phoenix, he returned to the temporary bed in the potion preparation room and slept honestly.
During the few hours he sleeps, Lupine will gradually distribute the investigation work to more members of the Order of the Phoenix.
Although it is difficult for ordinary wizards to track such vague magic fluctuations even if they have alchemy tools, it is still no problem to follow Muggle cases secretly like Mundungus did.
The most important thing now is that there are not enough clues, especially those that Haierbo may leave behind.
However, just as some members of the Order of the Phoenix and Maka gradually began to get busy, the last few days of the Christmas vacation seemed to be slowly disappearing.
In the current state, even Maka himself is not sure whether he can go back to teach everyone after school starts.
But what made him even more unexpected was that on the last day of the Christmas vacation, he encountered a powerful wizard whose identity was so suspicious that it was difficult to distinguish between friend and foe.
If Haierbo was a huge hazard that had already been identified, then this other wizard who suddenly appeared in front of him was a sign of a new danger.