great-warnovel Chapter 398 The Deeply Hidden Star
Chapter 398 The Deeply Hidden Star
Chapter 398 The Deeply Hidden Star
No longer following Regulus, there was nothing here that could put him in danger.
She had figured it out: this guy's death was definitely not caused by any witch hunters or defender mechs. It was purely for the sake of family honor, to "represent with blood," that he risked his life to use blood magic, ultimately draining himself dry.
If Regulus and Sven destroy the third stabilizer beforehand and eliminate the threatening garrison, they will be left staring blankly at the ruins.
"Oracle Bubble"
He opened his mouth and exhaled a series of colorful bubbles, which hung in the air and shimmered with images of different areas of the underground city.
She didn't know the way to the nuclear power plant, but she had a silver tit button, and a little divination magic could activate the vision of those who saw after her to solve the problem.
While using bubbles to discern the path downwards, they moved forward invisibly. All the Muggles they encountered along the way were affected by the Confusion Charm and ran to other deeper tunnels to avoid being killed by the wizards who arrived later.
Before long, she reached the foot of the southeastern fortress.
This leads directly to the interior; standing inside the iron gate, you can hear hurried footsteps on the stairs.
Although the other two fortresses were destroyed, the garrison remaining here continued to hold their ground, as this direction was not subject to attack.
But waiting for the outcome of the battle is equally nerve-wracking.
Hermione didn't want to go through the trouble of fighting her way through; that would waste too much time.
She manipulated a bubble to change the perspective, presenting the view of the corridor and room above. From this distance, she could see directly using her Heavenly Eye without any medium.
She quickly located the location of the phenomenon stabilizer. Although the image was noisy and dark red due to interference, she could still spot the two defenders guarding the room at a glance.
"It seems Regulus died here," she thought to herself.
Although losing one witch hunter seems to reduce the pressure of dealing with attacks, wizards would probably still prefer to deal with the fragile witch hunters rather than the blessed armor that spells cannot penetrate.
Under the protection and suppressive fire of the two Defenders, the suicide squad had no way to get close to the stabilizer, and in the end they would probably have to rely on Blake's blood.
Given Regulus's current physical condition, if he were to use blood magic twice more in succession, he would surely die.
Without wasting any more time, she stood in the tunnel beneath the fortress and reached out to grasp the room within the bubble.
A powerful gravity magic was activated remotely. Even with the influence of the stabilizer, the dark red force field kept trying to weaken the purple lightning, but in the face of absolute power, the fairy's black box technology was powerless to reverse the situation.
The soldiers watched in horror as the sudden turn of events occurred. In an instant, a violent, invisible force squeezed the room in the center of the fortress into a jumbled mess. Neither the two defenders inside nor the crucial Phenomenon Stabilizer were able to resist; they were all crushed into scrap metal.
Hermione sighed inwardly, but she knew that since she had promised Grindelwald to save Regulus's life, she would inevitably be drawn into this bloodshed.
The power that suppressed the magic suddenly subsided, and the oracle bubble beside her found the right path. Without lingering, she turned and walked into the tunnel leading to a lower level.
"What happened! The anti-magic field has disappeared?" The wizards who were rushing over here suddenly stopped in their tracks.
Immediately afterwards, a familiar earth-shaking sound came from the southeast, the sound of the wizarding army outside destroying the fortress.
"Sven and his men succeeded so quickly?" a witch asked incredulously.
Regulus sighed: "Let's retreat—"
Ignoring the despair of the suicide squad, Hermione moved with incredible speed through the tunnel.
The underground of Volgograd is dug like a honeycomb or anthill, with layers upon layers of interconnected entrances that can easily make first-time visitors lose their way.
This area includes brightly lit agricultural districts, industrial districts with the sounds of machinery and engines, and civilian districts that resemble prisons and military camps.
Straight tunnels stretched out, flanked by rows of uniform dark green doors, each marked with a number. Hermione could sense the frantic heartbeats of the Muggles behind those doors; these Muggles had been ordered to retreat to their homes and wait for the war to end.
She continued downwards, and suddenly, the familiar feeling of being suppressed returned.
"There's another stabilizer down there!"
But on second thought, it makes sense. The underground nuclear power plant is obviously more important. If a wizard were to sneak in and cause damage, it would undoubtedly be another Cherokee tragedy.
The Muggles had hidden one more stabilizer in addition to the three visible ones, so that if something went wrong on the surface, it wouldn't affect the underground.
But it made no difference to Hermione.
Passing through the iron gate marked with a restricted area sign, the surrounding scenery changes again. It's much wider here, with iron ladders and Soviet-style machinery everywhere, stretching downwards.
However, there is no one here now. The top technical personnel and the higher-ups have all fled, and the soldiers guarding the site have been transferred to fight on the other side. The abandoned nuclear power plant is empty, with only radiation suits and documents left on the ground, indicating how hastily things were done.
Suddenly, the scene inside the bubble shifted, and a small figure appeared inside.
"Huh? A fairy?" At this time, there is actually a fairy here!
He was busy in a room that looked like a control room, doing something unknown.
Without hesitation, Hermione headed straight for his location.
Having arrived here, there was no need to hide anymore. She dispelled the invisibility spell and stopped paying attention to the movement under her feet, as if deliberately reminding the other party.
"Muggles are such useless trash, they've already been broken through to this level by wizards so quickly?" A shrill voice came from behind the door.
Hermione used magic to push open the door and saw the goblin sitting in a swivel chair, facing her.
"The main force is coming, aren't you going to run?" Hermione asked, knowing that with so many goblins, losing even one would be painful.
The other person was dressed in a well-fitting military uniform, with a fairy silver armor over it, and confidently waved a silver door knocker in his hand.
"Just making sure the self-destruct program runs smoothly one last time, then I can go straight back to the Fairy Cave," he said with a strange laugh.
"The UMNO party is really doomed; they're even sending such young witches to the front lines."
Hermione looked at her strangely, not expecting that the extinction faction's goblins wouldn't recognize her, even though her face had appeared in the wizarding world's newspapers many times.
"There are still 30 seconds until the explosion. I'm not playing with you anymore. Goodbye!" Before the witch could say anything, the fairy, who valued her life, shook the door knocker and disappeared with a whoosh.
Hermione couldn't help but chuckle as she looked at the door knocker lying on the ground.
The fairy was certain that it could not Apparate away, and it was not worried that the door knocker would fall into the hands of the wizard. Although it might be a one-time use item, the wizard might still be able to reverse-engineer it and find the location of the fairy cave.
He had never seen anyone who could apparate within the stabilizer's force field, so he naturally assumed that both the door knocker and the wizard would be destroyed in the reactor's explosion.
Unfortunately, it was Hermione who got here.