r18novel Chapter 216 The Art of Admitting Defeat
Chapter 216 The Art of Admitting Defeat
Chapter 216 The Art of Admitting Defeat
As the highly sarcastic words exploded in the air, they also exploded in the hearts of people underground who had lost their sense of security.
Only the director had not lost hope, and he continued to operate: "Respected wizard, you are not a bloodthirsty person, otherwise my subordinates would have been killed or injured countless times on the surface. There is absolutely no way they could be hiding in the dense forest under your coiled fire serpent."
"If you've done something wrong, you should naturally make amends. Please name your price, wizard; anything you need is acceptable."
In the dense forest.
One by one, the mutilated figures lay on the water-made beds, mostly with superficial wounds. The least serious injuries were a bloody gash between the chest and abdomen that did not involve the internal tissues.
The most seriously injured was the unlucky guy who was shot several times when he was captured in the basement. He bled profusely from the wounds and would have died from bleeding long ago if he hadn't received emergency treatment while being transported to the swimming pool.
Even after resuscitation efforts, he was still breathing very little and exhaling very little.
Therefore, Dumbledore personally used a healing spell to snatch the extremely injured and unfortunate fellow back from the brink of death.
A spell cast is the simplest way to stop bleeding and heal. Even the wizards of Saint Munger were too lazy to use such a minor spell because it was too much effort for little reward. The effect of casting the spell with great effort was minimal, and casting it with greater force was generally not as effective as using white cinnamon directly.
But the spell that Dumbledore cast was like a rewriting of the definition of death, defining life as death energy and transforming death energy into life energy.
As a result, a visible self-healing speed appeared on the seriously injured person, with countless granulation tissues wriggling, coalescing, and regrowing in the wound.
In just a few breaths, not only was the seriously injured person fully recovered, but the other magic wizards who had suffered minor injuries also became energetic and lively, showing no signs of their previous near-death state.
"The Deathly Hallows? The master of death?" Ryan muttered to himself. Legends are always abstracted from facts, like the Deathly Hallows.
They all believe that the Deathly Hallows were top-tier artifacts crafted by powerful alchemists, but what specific concepts they incorporated are only speculations and have not yet been fully confirmed.
Perhaps the legend that collecting all three Deathly Hallows makes one the master of death contains another meaning: each of the three Deathly Hallows embodies a concept related to death, which can only be revealed when they are brought together.
If Dumbledore's understanding of death and life wasn't profound, then he must have used Transfiguration to graft the concepts hidden within the Elder Wand to achieve such an amazing effect.
In Ryan's perception, this spell was ordinary and didn't draw much magic, yet it produced an incomprehensible effect. Not only Ryan, but everyone else also struggled to understand this power. The revived magic crystal wizards had never even heard of such a power before.
Maxim took a deep breath; she realized that going to see Dumbledore today was a mistake.
This is practically a stage set up for Hogwarts to display its power! Just look at what Dumbledore and his apprentice Lane have been up to!
That was a repeated shattering of Beauxbatons' worldview and a repeated blow to non-Hogwarts wizards!
Maxim thought of the communication game "School Killer," which was often complained about by students. Students from his own school frequently wrote complaint letters to the operators, saying that the Hogwarts faction was too overpowered and needed to be weakened.
It is said that Gryffindors from Hogwarts can play dozens of kill cards in one turn, while characters from other houses cannot withstand even a little bit of that.
She initially dismissed it with a laugh, after all, it was just a virtual game.
But now she's actually experiencing this feeling in real life: the Hogwarts faction is too overpowered, why hasn't it been nerfed in this version? This game has no fairness at all, how can it be played?
Fleur and Quirrell didn't know much about medical magic, and since the school doctors they knew were all exceptional, they assumed that such healing effects were normal and nothing to be surprised about.
"The people below are asking you questions. How do you plan to answer them?" Dumbledore, having rescued the person, stood aside with his hands in his sleeves.
"This guy is still trying to set us up even now—what a talent. If he and the current French ministers were even half as loyal to the French people as he claims, Martin and his men wouldn't be living such a poor and unsatisfactory life before they returned to the wizarding world."
Ryan said he admired this kind of person more and more, because not everyone can deceive others or themselves. If it were him, he would never be able to say such things so eloquently.
The reason he mentioned that the bureau chief was still setting a trap was because the bureau chief specifically mentioned that the wizard should make a list and write down everything needed.
On the surface, this appears to be a bottomless act of appeasement, willing to pay any price to win the wizard's favor. However, the director's own abilities, the resources he can mobilize, and his international prestige are clearly beyond what any certain old lady could match.
The Empress Dowager has no one above her, and everyone below her is protecting each other. She's surrounded by sycophants, and her intelligence is limited to palace intrigue. Moreover, the faction she belongs to is a cesspool of oppressive and exploitative forces.
On the other hand, this bureau chief, although his long-term high position and desire for power made him prone to misjudging the unknown, it cannot be said that he was brainless, but that his mind was not flexible enough.
The faction it belongs to is a declining, old-established giant, led by men under the white feathers who are extremely lazy, skilled in military salutes, and without a short, foreign girl as its leader. But a giant is a giant; it still has international prestige and global influence. With substantial evidence, it can easily facilitate the early formation of an alliance that Ryan has been trying to avoid.
After all, he was an intelligence chief aspiring to become president. He had been given a list of wizards' needs. Who knows what kind of storm he would stir up internationally to advance his career?
It might not be over yet tonight. The French Prime Minister and President are present, and a parliamentary session is being held overnight. This list is in front of all the members of parliament and ministers, who are discussing how to use both soft and hard tactics.
Then the next day, the heads of state who were able to speak with each other gathered for a secret meeting.
Things would then escalate to the situation that Ryan feared when facing the giant bats.
Some might say that these political figures are incompetent and unable to address the realities of people's lives, which is certainly true.
But when faced with power and territory that they can grasp, these aging and senile political creatures immediately transform into lions patrolling their domains—brutal, bloodthirsty, and dictatorial.
If it were the uncharted political arena of the wizarding world, then no political being could resist. Just as the power holders in the wizarding world would rather break the secrecy law than allow Ryan to step aside and prevent him from protecting the Magisterium Wizards.