Chapter 12. Despair and Destruction

"Stop him, we don't know what kind of black magic he is performing again, we must stop him before he's done." cried Scrimgeour, raising his wand at the same time.

The Aurors also raised their wands at the same time, facing the fire dragon in midair.

"Attack!"

With a roar, Scrimgeour cast an attack spell, and the Aurors attacked at the same time.

Dozens of spells were shot at the fire dragon in mid-air. The so-called strength in numbers means that the attack of dozens of wizards, even powerful wizards like Voldemort and Dumbledore, cannot be easily followed.

However, the shocking thing is...Those attacking spells attacked the fire dragon, not only did not kill the fire dragon, but were absorbed by the strange energy that restrained the fire dragon.

"What, how could this be?" The Aurors were stunned.

Even Dumbledore frowned slightly, there were so many mysteries in the wizarding world, even though he had lived for more than a hundred years, he still couldn't understand all of them.

"Thanks!"

"Now, enjoy the gift I prepared for you!"

Elijah by was suspended in mid-air, and the huge fire dragon under him had completely turned into a blood dragon at this moment, dripping with blood, breathing weakly, obviously unable to survive.

*boom!*

With an explosion, the fire dragon was blown into a blood mist, and huge energy scattered out and was collected by Elijah. Then, a huge Black Flame ignited, and all the wizards backed away subconsciously. It was Fiendfyre, a terrifying magical fire that can destroy everything.

"Merlin's beard, its Fiendfyre!"

The Aurors were shocked. The Fiendfire was extremely terrifying. If it was not controlled, the entire city would be destroyed. In the past, Gelert Grindelwald almost destroyed the entire city of Paris with Fiendfyre.

That huge fire seemed to burn half of the sky, changing its shape constantly in mid-air, and finally formed a huge snake monster.

This is a hundred-foot-tall monster made of Fiendfyre, with nine snake heads condescending and staring at the wizards below, as if it could devour them at any time.

Cornelius Fudge's whole body was about to turn into a soft-legged shrimp. He had never seen such a terrifying Fiendfire, much less it transforming in a monster. His whole body was trembling and he couldn't even stand up.

Not only him, some young Aurors were terrified when they saw this huge monster made of Fiendfire.

They have never experienced wizard wars, they are flowers cultivated in greenhouses, and they don't have much combat experience at all.

"Haha, let me see how they will contain it, let Fiendfire destroy the entire Diagon Alley!"

Somewhere in the ruins of Diagon Alley, Professor Quirrell has been hiding here, watching the development of the situation. In fact, where did Professor Quirrell have the guts, it was the order of Voldemort who was parasitic on him, and he had to stay in such a dangerous place.

In fact, even Voldemort was curious about who that dark wizard was, who not only possessed such powerful power, but was even more ruthless than him.

He had never robbed Gringotts, or even set off Fiendfire free to destroy Diagon Alley. But he liked it.

"Quirrell, quickly help me find the Philosopher's Stone, I need to recover quickly, and meet that dark wizard."

Voldemort ordered, he couldn't wait to recover his body, go talk to that dark wizard, maybe they could form an alliance to deal with Dumbledore together.

"But master, the Philosopher's Stone is in Dumbledore's hands. I don't know where he put the Philosopher's Stone. Maybe it's Gringotts, maybe it's Hogwarts."

"Gringotts can't be explored right now, Hogwarts needs to wait until school starts to enter there."

Professor Quirrell trembled.

"What a waste, how could I find a useless servant like you."

Voldemort snapped angrily.

"Yes... I'm sorry, master!"

Professor Quirrell was about to cry, and he even regretted that he shouldn't have gone to Voldemort in order to become stronger.

"Forget it, I've been waiting for so many years, and I don't care about waiting a little longer. Now that this dark wizard is pulling most of Dumbledore's energy, it's just convenient for us to find the Philosopher's Stone."

"But Quirrell, it must be done as soon as possible. My strength can't last long. I must find the Philosopher's Stone as soon as possible."

Voldemort said that he was too weak and couldn't last long. If he couldn't find the Philosopher's Stone as soon as possible, he could only become a remnant again.

"Yes... yes, Master, I will do my best."

Professor Quirrell said in fear.

"Hahahaha, you just wait to be burned to ashes by Fiendfire. There is no need for this rotten magic world to exist anymore."

High in the air, Elijah let out a sharp laugh, and quickly Apparated away.

Dumbledore wanted to stop him, but he couldn't do it at the moment. He still had to deal with the Fiendfyre in front of him.

"Ah...Albus, now...what to do?"

Fudge looked like he was about to cry. He was really miserable. He had encountered such a horrible thing before he was appointed Minister in two days of his tenure.

He thought that after Voldemort died, the magic world would be at peace, and it was his turn to be the Minister of Magic to show his prestige, but why did he meet a dark wizard who was even more dark than Voldemort.

Attacking the Leaky Cauldron was fine, since he wasn't the one being attacked anyway.

That's fine with robbing Gringotts, as long as you don't rob his vault.

But even if they didn't agree with each other, they released terrifying obscurus and Fierce Fire, wanting to destroy the entire Diagon Alley, it was simply insane.

I will not be the Minister of Magic, whoever loves to do it, can do it.

"Oh, Cornelius, it's not that bad, there's a way."

Fiendfyre is a terrifying demonic fire, which is also one of the black arts. The most terrifying thing is that it can become stronger and stronger through continuous burning.

If it is not stopped, can devour everything, and it cannot be extinguished by ordinary water. To extinguish it, besides the method of blocking, it needs to use a spell.

At this moment, the location of Gringotts in Diagon Alley had already turned into a sea of flames.

The huge monster formed by Fiendfire, is entrenched in the original Gringotts, and Fiendfire is gradually spreading towards the surroundings.

Many shops in Diagon Alley and Knockturn Alley have begun to be devoured by it.

The Aurors are also constantly retreating, not daring to get too close, otherwise, if they get a little bit of Flame, they will be burned to death by this terrible flame.

"Dumbledore, if this continues without extinguishing the terrible Fiendfire, the whole of Diagon Alley will be swallowed up." Scrimgeour said.

"I know, I know, this flame is too huge, and to extinguish it requires the joint efforts of all of us."

"Rufus, let all the Aurors disperse, surround this Fiendfire, and then cast that spell together."

"It should be able to extinguish this fire."

Dumbledore's expression was solemn, it was also first time he had seen such a huge Fiendfire.

"Okay."

Scrimgeour replied that at this moment, the only one he could rely on was Dumbledore, and as for the useless Fudge, he could not be counted on at all.

"Listen, Aurors, everyone spread out and surround this Fiendfire monster."

As the director of the Auror office, Scrimgeour still has great prestige among the Aurors.

The Aurors heard Scrimgeour's orders and quickly disapparated to various parts of Diagon Alley and Knockturn Alley.

"Listen, all Aurors, when I count to one, two, and three, I will plunge my wand into the ground and cast a spell together to extinguish this flame."

Scrimgeour growled loudly.

"One…Two…Three!"

When Scrimgeour counted to three, all the Aurors, including Dumbledore, thrust their wands into the ground.

"Finite Incantatem!"

Everyone shouted this spell at this moment, and suddenly a series of golden barriers began to rise, surrounding the huge Fire Snake.

The gigantic snake naturally refused to give up, and struggled violently, one after another of terrifying Fiery snakes shot up into the sky.

However, the curse as powerful as finite Incantatem which can end or reverse effect of most of the curses and it is cast by so many people together, not to mention its power.

The golden barrier began to gradually cover Fiendfire, and the terrifying Fiendfire also gradually became smaller.

"Tch! It's a pity that the show will end."

Voldemort, who was hiding in the dark and parasitized on Professor Quirrell, felt a little regretful seeing this scene. He wanted to see destruction for longer.

"Quirrell, let's go, there's nothing to see here anymore."

Voldemort finally ordered, he didn't want to draw Dumbledore's attention, atleast on yet.

"Yes... yes, master."

Professor Quirrell seemed relieved, heaved a sigh of relief, and quickly Apparated away.

"Extinguished! Fiendfire is extinguished!"

"Great, Diagon Alley is saved, we put out Fiendfire!"

With everyone's hard work, the huge Fierce Flame was finally extinguished by the aurors, and everyone seemed to breathe a sigh of relief at this moment.

The Minister of Magic, Cornelius Fudge, almost cried with joy when he saw this scene, and kept wiping the sweat from his forehead with a handkerchief.

"Half of Diagon Alley and Knockturn Alley have been destroyed. It may take a long time to rebuild here."

Looking at the ruins in front of him, Kingsley couldn't help sighing, Diagon Alley used to be so prosperous, but now it's like barren land. I'm just a few a minutes the fire curse was able to do that much damage

"Albus, do you want to suppress this? We shouldn't panic the ordinary citizens with such grave news."

Cornelius Fudge asked Dumbledore surreptitiously, he didn't want to make it too big, it would hurt his prestige.

"Connelly, do you think this matter can still be hidden when so many wizards have seen it and half of Diagon Alley has been destroyed?"

Dumbledore looked at Fudge like he was looking at an idiot.

"Oh yes, yes."

Fudge smiled coyly, he also knew that this question was really stupid, Diagon Alley was the most prosperous place in English magic world, and it was impossible to hide what happened here. But he will do it, if need be.

"Albus, what should we do now?"

Fudge asked nervously, what happened this time was beyond what he could handle, and if something went wrong, he, the Minister of Magic, would have to step down, and now he could only ask Dumbledore for help.

"That is a very dangerous dark wizard. The Ministry of Magic must arrest him and bring him to justice as soon as possible, otherwise we don't know how many horrible things will happen."

Dumbledore frowned. He didn't know when such a terrifying dark wizard appeared in the wizarding world. There was no news about it before, as if it appeared out of thin air.

Not only possesses very powerful magic, but also controls the terrifying power of obscurus. Also know of many confidential secrets.

This year happened to be another year for Harry Potter to enter school. He didn't know if that dark wizard had anything to do with Voldemort. If that terrifying dark wizard and Voldemort were to join forces, the entire wizarding world would be in danger.

"Of course, we will definitely arrest him. That damned dark wizard did such a horrible thing."

Fudge said angrily, he only dared to say that in private, if it was really face to face, he wouldn't even dare to breathe.

"However, there is another very important thing. Until now, we still don't know the name of that black wizard and where he came from." Kingsley said.

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