Chapter 259 257. Delay time
Dim yellow candles jump in the narrow passage.
Dumbledore stared intently at the extremely dense runes on the stone wall. These runes were far more complicated than the stone slab that Jon got from the tower. There were nearly tens of thousands of runes arranged in a square shape. On the stone wall, it seems that some kind of protection is being applied to the space inside.
Except for the sound of candles beating, there was silence in the secret passage.
I don't know how long this kind of silence lasted. Dumbledore watched the magic words and tapped them with the wand in his hand. From time to time, dim fluorescent lights lit up on the words.
"He's been here."
Dumbledore whispered softly.
At this moment, a flashing golden-red light suddenly appeared in front of him, and Fox pierced through the barrier of this secret passage to seal the space.
Dumbledore turned around and looked at Fox with a solemn expression. He didn't communicate verbally, and he already knew the information that needed to be conveyed.
"Are more than twenty Death Eaters surrounding the students?"
His voice didn't sound much nervous.
"Have they followed my advice and sailed close to the coast of Norway? How far is it from the northernmost coastline of Norway?"
Fox tilted his head, as if conveying to Dumbledore something he had discovered.
Dumbledore couldn't help chuckling, and turned around to continue studying the stone wall.
"Since he is here, I don't need to go there. Ever since Jon entered school, he has always wanted to see him."
In the dark secret passage, I returned to the loneliness.
On the Hogwarts, Jon didn't know what Dumbledore had planned.
But Fox had been away for a while, but he didn't bring any reply, which made him feel a little uneasy.
"All petrified!"
The Death Eaters led by Labastan didn't give him any more time to wait. Dozens of petrification curses shot out from the tip of their wands, aiming directly at Jon on the deck and the others who just walked out of the cabin. Come out students!
But their spells had no chance of falling on the deck at all. When they were four or five meters away from the entire ship, they were blocked by a light film of the color of the spell itself.
The original protection on the carriage was also inherited on the Hogwarts. The variant magic of the Iron Armor Curse is extremely effective in protecting the students.
Jon and the others were not surprised by this, nor were Rabastan and the others who used spells to attack.
It should be a strange thing that such a magical ship has no protection.
It is actually very simple to deal with this kind of protection. The Killing Curse without a cure can completely ignore all the Iron Armor Curse, but Rabastan is just arrogant, but not stupid.
If he ordered everyone to use the death curse directly, then the person who killed the ship would be meaningless to him and his brother.
Voldemort's order to them was to find the person who was behind the scenes on the sea, and capture or kill him alive. Now they are still not sure whether this ship is what they are looking for, so naturally they can't kill him.
Of course Jon can figure this out, but he can't bet on the enemy's sanity.
There were so many students on board, what if a Death Eater couldn't control his hand and used a Death Curse?
And even the Iron Armor Curse arranged by Dumbledore himself has a limit. Once the attacks of these Death Eaters reach the saturation point, the spell protecting the entire ship will also shatter.
Therefore, he actually planned a backup countermeasure at the beginning. Jon didn't know what happened to Fox and why he hadn't responded to the letter until now, but if he just delayed the time, he could still have some solutions .
"Approximately how long before we reach the coast of Norway?"
Jon asked in a low voice to Fred, who had been in charge of controlling the course, and Fred said quickly.
"Two to three hours is enough for us to dock. There is a deep-water port next to a cliff."
The two or three hours were long or short, and Jon took a deep breath, looked at Fred very seriously and exhorted.
"Then go to shore as quickly as possible! If they sink the ship on the sea, everyone on board will have no way to escape! Only by returning to land can I have a chance. I will try to drag them as much as possible during this time." !"
Hearing what he said, not only Fred, but George and Neville also had disbelief on their faces, as if they couldn't accept why things had turned into the current situation.
"Didn't Fox go to find Professor Dumbledore? Why hasn't it come back yet?"
"Maybe it was blocked by something, and the professor was not found, or maybe the environment where the professor is in can't help us even if he rushed to help us, but we can't always pin our hopes on the professors."
Jon turned around and looked at Rabastan and the others who were always on the side of the Hogwarts ship. Even if they didn't plan to kill people with the Killing Curse, they wouldn't stop there. Every Death Eater's staff tip had a burst of fire. The fluctuation of magic power is brewing.
The best way to deal with the Iron Armor Curse is undoubtedly to use a large-scale blast to attack every point of its protection, so as to consume its saturation.
Even if the Iron Armor Curse on the Hogwarts can withstand one or two blasting curses that are released together with more than twenty rounds, it is impossible to withstand more than three times. The superimposed power of that is unless Dumbledore himself is here. The protection of the ship could not be maintained at all.
Jon didn't wait any longer, he had already explained everything to Neville and the others, and the moment they read "Thunderbolt Explosion" in Rabastan, Jon also held the ring that was always hanging in front of him, absorbed All the magic power on the slate, the gem that has been saturated and cannot be saturated has played its due role!
"The spell stops!"
Jon's magic power was mobilized by the magic of universal unraveling, but the source of the surge of magic power was not the magic wand in his hand, but the ring that was always kept cold.
His own magic power affected the external magic power stored in the second gemstone, so the effect of general-purpose curse removal was applied to him and magnified infinitely!
The moment he used the universal solution, Jon stood on the side of the ship, which was equivalent to blocking Rabastan and all the Death Eaters in front of the explosive curse!
This move was even crazier than a lunatic, making all the Death Eaters widen their eyes.
No one can resist so many explosive spells without defense, not even Dumbledore and Voldemort!
(end of this chapter)