Chapter 402 Time Hall

"Boom!~"

As the sound of flames echoed, Mike, Arthur and several members of the Order of the Phoenix appeared in the magic hall.

However, this time the Phoenix Fire did not go out like the previous times, but continued to rotate in the air.

Then, as the rotation of the Phoenix Fire accelerated, the fifty Los Santos wizards brought by Mike were all swallowed up by the flames.

So far, except for Dumbledore, all members of this night raid have arrived.

The reason why Dumbledore did not appear here was also one of the plans that everyone had discussed before. Dumbledore

will not act with the large force. He will hide in the dark and provide support to everyone in critical moments. Apart from this, he will not take action in tonight's operation.

Mike expressed his understanding of this. Now Voldemort has not appeared yet. If he directly follows the large force, it will easily attract Voldemort to attack.

According to what Dumbledore said before, his own strength was not as good as Voldemort's. If he was attacked again, then although Dumbledore himself would be fine, the people accompanying him would be different.

You know, if they were really attacked, Dumbledore would not have the time to care about them. In this way, regardless of whether they could weaken the power of the Death Eaters, their own personnel would be greatly reduced.

However, Mike still had a half-belief and half-doubt attitude towards Dumbledore's words that he would take action in times of crisis. He believed that if he and the members of the Order of the Phoenix were in danger, Dumbledore would definitely take action, but if Arthur and the Los Santos wizards were in danger, it would not be certain, because the two gangs had just had some unpleasant experiences not long ago.

In the magic hall, the Los Santos wizards who had just landed quickly stood in a guard formation and began to observe the surroundings vigilantly. Moody and Tonks, two senior Aurors, were doing the same thing.

As for Mike and Arthur, they looked at the entire magic hall with a calm face. With their strength, there would be no danger tonight unless Voldemort came in person.

The magic hall at night was significantly different from the daytime. It was not only silent, but there was no light source except for the "Magic Brothers" fountain in the center of the hall, which was composed of centaurs, goblins, witches and wizards, and symbolized the power of wizards.

However, the dark environment was not an obstacle for Mike and others. All of them drank the night vision potion provided by Snape before coming here. Now, there was basically no difference between seeing things in the dark and in the daytime except for a slight color difference. After

careful observation, the Los Santos wizards and Moody did not find anyone in the magic hall, and even the security checkpoint that was usually manned 24 hours a day was not manned.

Seeing this, Mike's face suddenly showed a smile. This strange situation was undoubtedly telling them a piece of information-the Death Eaters had already entered the scene!

Thinking of this, Mike raised his hand and made a few complicated gestures. Then he saw that all the Los Santos fighters around him, including Arthur, pulled up the hoods of their combat uniforms and pressed the Los Santos logo on their chests.

Then, Arthur and others gradually faded away, and finally merged into the dark night, almost completely invisible.

"Is this an invisible monster leather jacket?"

Moody opened his mouth and looked at Mike in shock.

Seeing this, Mike also pursed his lips and nodded. The gold galleons he spent on this wizard army were an astronomical figure. In addition to the conventional combat equipment, he also kneaded a large amount of invisible monster leather into the combat uniforms. The skin of this magical creature is the raw material for making invisible cloaks. Due to the imbalance between supply and demand, they are now on the verge of extinction, which has also caused their skin prices to soar.

The result of Mike's high price is that all the Los Santos fighters have now gained the ability to be almost invisible!

This ability is not completely invisible, and it is still very obvious during the day, but at night, they are definitely a stealth weapon!

But the most important thing is that this kind of invisibility does not require the consumption of magic power!

Moody's eyes were about to pop out of his head with jealousy. Even the most elite Auror troop in the magic world could not compare to the Los Santos wizard troop in terms of equipment!

"It's getting late, let's go!"

Mike didn't mean to talk nonsense anymore. He directly pressed the switch on his combat uniform and entered stealth mode.

Seeing this, Moody finally put away his greedy eyes temporarily, and walked forward unwillingly to clear the way.

Their destination was the Department of Mysteries on the ninth floor of the Ministry of Magic. This department could be said to be the most mysterious department in the entire Ministry of Magic. At the same time, it could be regarded as the scientific research department of the Ministry of Magic. A large number of top wizards all turned into silent people, studying the most profound and mysterious things in the entire wizard world. For

example: time, thought, memory, prophecy, death, power, life span...

Mike was not unfamiliar with this place. He had come here to listen in when Harry was first prosecuted.

To get to the Department of Mysteries, one must take the magic elevator. Moody and Tonks agreed that there are definitely dangers and ambushes in the sealed and narrow environment of the magic elevator, but Mike didn't care. He knew very well that the purpose of Voldemort's trip was to let Harry take down the prophecy ball.

Then he couldn't set up any obstacles on the way to the Hall of Prophecy, because with Harry Potter's IQ, he would most likely be blocked from the Hall of Prophecy.

"Ding! Department of Mysteries!"

As a cold female voice sounded in the elevator, Mike, Arthur and others all breathed a sigh of relief. This time their guess was correct.

Mike then used the instant messaging to notify the remaining Los Santos wizards and Moody who had not come down, and he and Arthur and others left the elevator first.

Unlike the magic hall, a large number of torches were lit on both sides of the corridor leading to the Department of Mysteries. Those torches were burning cracklingly, and as the magic elevator went up, a breeze came, and the flames on the torches were shaking gently, which made the faint shadows of Mike and others tremble constantly with the trembling of the flames.

"Extinguish the flames!"

Mike shook his wand and cast a lights-out spell.

All the torches on both sides of the corridor went out in an instant, and the entire corridor returned to darkness. The only shadow that could reveal the whereabouts of Mike and others finally disappeared.

At this time, the elevator behind them made a crisp sound again, and Moody and others finally arrived.

"What's the situation?"

Moody said while looking around.

"No," Mike nodded and said, "Let's go."

After that, Mike took the lead and walked into the depths of the corridor.

At the end of the corridor, there was a dark stone door. This was an automatic door driven by a mechanism. When Mike and others came in front of it, the walls on both sides of it could hear the sound of gears turning.

Then, the stone door slowly opened, revealing a huge space that was also dark inside.

This was a large round room, and on the walls of the room were eleven black stone doors that were exactly the same as the previous door.

After everyone entered the room, the stone door they had originally entered closed automatically, and the surrounding scene suddenly changed. Everyone felt that everything in front of them began to rotate and jump for a while. After all the abnormalities disappeared, everyone was surprised to find that the stone door behind them had changed its position, and they could no longer find the stone door leading to the outside of magic!

The Los Santos wizards immediately became alert, and Mike looked at Moody behind him with dissatisfaction.

The current situation was something that he and his friends had never encountered before. As the former commander of the Auror Office, Moody had no reason not to know the arrangement of the Department of Mysteries, but he had never told him.

As expected, Moody had a smile on his face. That smile, combined with the hideous scar on his face, made him look very ferocious and very annoying.

Mike's expression became more and more hostile. He was almost certain that Moody did this on purpose!

"Don't be nervous, everyone. This is just a general anti-theft measure. In fact, there are hidden marks on each door to indicate their functions!"

Tonks walked towards a stone door and pointed to a barely detectable circular mark on the right side of the stone door and said,

"Look, this clock mark indicates that the time hall is behind this door, and we can reach the prophecy hall as long as we pass the time hall!"

Mike's expression eased slightly, and he nodded to Arthur, who then walked forward expressionlessly and opened the stone door.

Moody, who was standing aside, snorted coldly with a hostile look on his face. It seemed that he was very dissatisfied with Tonks's early disclosure of the secret.

But Tonks obviously didn't buy his story. She made a face at him and hid behind Lupin again.

"Kaz, kaz!"

With the sound of gears turning, the stone door finally opened.

Behind the door was another huge room. However, unlike the previous dim room, there was a huge crystal chandelier hanging from the ceiling of this huge room, which was emitting bright light.

Under the huge chandelier were rows of neatly arranged containers, on which were placed a large number of strange clocks, from the smallest pocket watch, common Muggle alarm clocks to huge cabinet pendulum clocks. And

these clocks were still in operation, which caused the whole room to be filled with the sound of ticking time passing.

This strange scene made Mike, Arthur and others stunned, while Tonks explained in time:

"This is the Time Hall, where the Silent People study the secrets of time. Although I don't know their specific research process, there is one thing that is certain, everything here is very dangerous, everyone must be careful. Oh! By the way, this is also the storage place of the time converter. Most of the time converters in Europe are stored here for the Silent People to study."

Mike nodded. In fact, without Tonks' explanation, he basically guessed that this room should be the laboratory where the Silent People study time.

Because he saw a huge experimental device at the end of the room!

It was a huge bell-shaped crystal cover that was almost two meters high. It was placed steadily on a table. There was a hazy breath of surging, glittering and glowing.

And in the cover was floating a small, beautiful egg like a gem.

It quickly floated up in the cover, cracked, and then a hummingbird broke out of the shell.

But as soon as the young hummingbird appeared, it was lifted up by the surrounding magic power along with the eggshell, and flew towards the glowing mist above it.

During the flight, the hummingbird that had just broken out of its shell seemed to have been fast-forwarded and began to grow rapidly. Its originally wet feathers were instantly dried by the wind, and its body began to expand continuously!

But when it came into contact with the mist, a scene that made Mike's pupils shrink suddenly occurred.

Just like a video tape replay, the little bird that had just become an adult hummingbird was once again sealed back into the eggshell, and then the cracks on the eggshell healed quickly. By the time Mike completely reacted, the hummingbird had become an egg again, slowly falling down.

Mike's hair stood up all over his body. At this moment, he was completely conquered by the power of time, and at the same time, he also had a little awe for the silent people!

They were a group of real lunatics!

"Tonks," Mike said after calming down, "lead the way."

The latter seemed to see Mike's nervousness, and she responded and led everyone to the bell-shaped crystal.

As the distance shortened, the others also noticed the horrible scene in the bell-shaped crystal, including Moody, and everyone moved away from it at the same time - no one wanted to become an old man or a baby like that poor hummingbird!

Behind the large bell-shaped crystal stood a big door, and Tonks was the first to rush forward and push the door open.

Then, in front of everyone, there appeared a room with a large number of shelves like the Time Hall, but unlike the Time Hall, the light in this room was very dim, there was no gorgeous chandelier on the ceiling, and the only light source in the room was the blue candles scattered around the walls. The items on the shelves were also different from those in the Time Hall. They were filled with all kinds of gray crystal balls.

After everyone entered the room, the door behind them closed automatically again. Tonks turned around and smiled and said to everyone,

"Welcome to the Hall of Prophecy."

At this point, everyone breathed a sigh of relief. What they had seen in the Hall of Time was beyond everyone's imagination. If they hadn't seen it with their own eyes, they would never believe that someone would do such a horrible experiment again!

But just when everyone was relaxing, a vague voice suddenly came from a little further ahead!