11. My Acting Skills

After leaving Shaw's Media Building, the sky had darkened. Mary was in a very bad mood.

Full of hope, she had drawn Langdon Shaw, the son of a media tycoon, to her side. She hoped that he would help her publish news in the influential "Shaw News" across the United States to promote the great cause of Second Salem. But what she had just seen and heard made her realize that Langdon Shaw had almost no influence on his father. Not only had she failed to achieve her goal, but she had also been humiliated.

"Go back," Mary said sullenly to the three children who were traveling with her.

Chastity silently pulled Modesty, while Aurelius held the leaflet. No one spoke, especially when Mary was in a bad mood.

Distributing flyers was a daily task for the children of Second Salem. It was their way of exchanging their work for food, clothing, housing, and transportation. Since Mary and the others had come to the Shaw Media Building, the children in Second Salem had been handing out flyers near their homes.

Mary went back sullenly, leaving Castititus and Aurelius to look after the children.

Aurelius still looked taciturn. When someone approached, he stuffed leaflets into his ears and heard curses. The leaflets were thrown to the ground, and sometimes even stepped on forcefully.

With a large sum of money, Aurelius could have escaped from this hell at any time, but he didn't. He had to stay here until his Obscurus fully matured.

Although it seemed like Aurelius was distributing flyers, his heart was focused on his summoner heritage.

As a level one summoner, Aurelius could use a total of four summoner skills. In addition to the Mark and Ghost Step that he had already used, he also had Healing and Clarity.

The four summoner skills were all very powerful, but none caused damage. This was why Aurelius felt limited in his actions now.

Many things could be easily solved with force, but he had to think carefully to ensure that the plot did not deviate too much and that his goals could be achieved. It was a very unpleasant feeling.

However, thinking about the wonderful life that awaited him in a few days, Aurelius regained the motivation to persevere.

Whoosh— There was no resistance at all as a strange rotating force pulled him. He felt a little uncomfortable, and the next moment he appeared on a street corner.

Unsurprisingly, Grindelwald had come to find him.

"You look troubled," Grindelwald said.

"I'm tangled up in my thoughts," Aurelius closed his eyes and leaned against the wall. "Planning is very demanding, and the constant silence in my mind is weighing down on my spirit."

"My child, you are very capable. Otherwise, I wouldn't have let you help me, right?" Grindelwald's patience seemed to be wearing thin. Aurelius had not brought him good news for a long time, and Grindelwald had become increasingly anxious. He can't stay in America for too long!

His followers need him, and his great cause needs him to advance.

"Is there any new news?" Grindelwald went straight to the point.

Aurelius' eyelids twitched, and he lowered his head, not just to play Credence but to avoid Legilimency.

Although eye contact is not a necessary condition for Legilimency, avoiding eye contact and being vigilant can greatly reduce the chance of being Mind reading.

However, I don't know if this kind of resistance will be useful to a wizard of Grindelwald's level.

"Maybe a little," Aurelius said softly.

"What?" Aurelius' words made Grindelwald happy. He grabbed Aurelius' arm and lowered his voice. "What did you find?"

Aurelius blurted out, "Tien, Seiler, Albert, Kevin, Abraham, Deloris, Joan, and Modesty should be one of them."

"Why?" Grindelwald calmed down and asked calmly.

"Because they are the only ones who always stay with their mother."

Grindelwald breathed a sigh of relief and warned again, "Credence, I saw the great power of that child. Although I don't know whether he is a boy or a girl, they must not be more than ten years old."

"Well - then Tion and Deloris can be ruled out. They are eleven years old."

"Excellent, child, continue to investigate." Grindelwald's voice became gentle and charming. His palm gently stroked Aurelius's hair, and he said emotionally, "I also saw something else, Credence, I never told you: I saw you standing side by side with me. You were the only one in New York who had the trust of these kids, you were the key—"

"I see, you want to join the wizarding world, and I want that too! Credence, it's all for you. Find the child, find the child, and we will all be free!"

Aurelius was almost moved, but he knew clearly that Grindelwald only cared about the Obscurus, and he was just a pawn that could be discarded at any time.

Besides, he will soon be as powerful as Grindelwald and Dumbledore, and his potential is even greater. He possesses the summoner system and can learn wizard magic. Why should he be inferior to others?

"I'll try my best."

"It's not about trying your best! It's about having to do it!" Grindelwald interrupted him and took out a pendant from his pocket, a very special pendant.

A triangle with a ring in the middle and a straight perpendicular line divides the triangle and the circle into two halves. "I rarely trust people so much, but you are different, Credence," Grindelwald stretched out his hand to hang the pendant around his neck and warned, "As soon as you find the child, touch this symbol, and I will know. Then I will come to you immediately, and if it is done, you will be respected, and all wizards will respect you, forever."

Finally, there is Grindelwald's signature loving hug, and Aurelius is a little uncomfortable with a man being too close to him.

"This child is dying. Credence, you are saving him. Time is running out... It seems like you are coaxing the child."Aurelius pondered over Grindelwald's recent words and reluctantly acknowledged that, even without his ability to time travel, Grindelwald had managed to exert a significant influence on Credence, a child who had suffered from abuse since early childhood.

Credence had never experienced genuine warmth or illumination, until now, where it seemed even a small amount could capture his entire being.

Grindelwald, in his arrogance, looked down upon any non-magical human beings.

Within Grindelwald's hierarchy of disdain, Muggles - ordinary individuals devoid of magical abilities - were undoubtedly considered the lowest, followed by squibs, who were not affected by Muggle expulsion spells but were unable to cast magic.

The interaction between Credence and Grindelwald began with an unexpected encounter, leading Grindelwald to assume that Credence was a squib residing in the Muggle world.

Grindelwald effortlessly gained Credence's trust, convincing him to join his cause.

Yet, Grindelwald never anticipated that Credence, whom he believed to be completely under his control, would be transported to their world by a visitor from another realm.

"I will triumph over you due to your lack of accurate information!"