Chapter 257 Delaying Time

The dimly lit candles jumped in the narrow passageway.

Dumbledore stared at the stone wall in which ancient runes were densely inscribed, which are far more complex than the stone slab that Jon got in the tower, with nearly tens of thousands of runes aligned on the square stone wall, like imposing some kind of protection for the space inside.

Except for the sound of the candles' leaping fire, the secret passage was quiet.

Such silence lasted for an unknown period of time, Dumbledore observed those runes while tapping on them using his wand, and from time to time an obscure luminescence lit up on those characters.

"He came here."

Dumbledore murmured softly.

Just then, a flashing gold and red light suddenly appeared in front of him, Fawkes pierced the blockage of this secret passage that sealed the space.

Dumbledore turned around and looked at Fawkes with a grave expression, without verbal communication, the information needed to be conveyed was already known to him.

"There are more than twenty Death Eaters surrounding the students?"

His voice didn't sound much tense.

"Did they follow my advice and sail close to the Norwegian coast? How close are they to the northernmost coastline of Norway?"

Fawkes cocked his head as if conveying to Dumbledore something about someone he had found.

Dumbledore could not help but lightly chuckle and turned around to study the stone wall again.

"Since he's around, there's no need for me to go over there, he actually always wanted to meet Jon ever since he enrolled and got the wand."

The dark secret passage returned to that burst of solitude.

At Hogwarts ship, Jon didn't know exactly what Dumbledore had planned.

But Fawkes had been gone for a while and had brought no reply, causing some unease in his mind.

"Petrificus Totalus!"

Rabastan led the Death Eaters, no longer giving him any more time, dozens of Full Body-Bind Curses shot out from in front of the tip of their wands, targeting straight at Jon and other students on the deck who had just come out of the cabin!

But their spell had no chance of landing on the deck and was blocked by a film of light that glowed with the colour of the spell itself when it was still four or five meters away from the entire ship.

The original protection possessed on the wagon is also inherited on the Hogwarts ship, and the variant shield charm enchantment is extremely effective in protecting the students from most situations.

In this regard, Jon didn't find it surprising, and neither did Rabastan, who used the spell to attack.

It would be a strange thing for such a magic ship to have no protection at all.

To deal with such a protection is actually very simple, there is no counter spell against the killing curse which can completely ignore all kinds of shield charms, but Rabastan is just arrogant, not stupid yet.

Now they simply found this ship suspicious, and these people on board are not willing to cooperate and want to resist is also a normal thing.

If he ordered everyone to use the killing curse directly to kill the people on this ship, then it would not help him and his brother.

Voldemort gave them a death order, to find the person who is playing small tricks on the sea behind the scenes, and bring him alive or dead, but now they are not sure whether this ship is the target they are looking for, so naturally, they can not kill them until it becomes impossible to capture them.

Jon certainly could also think of this, but he could not bet on the sanity of the enemy.

There are so many students on board, what if a Death Eater can't control his hands and use a killing curse?

And although the shield charm enchantment laid out by Dumbledore personally could withstand the attacks of all these Death Eaters for a while, but once the Death Eaters' attack reached the saturation point, the spell that protected the whole ship would shatter subsequently.

So he actually began to think of a backup response, Jon does not know what happened on Fawkes' side, why there is no reply until now, but if it's just a matter of dragging out the time, he can still have some way.

"How far are we away from reaching the Norwegian coast?"

Jon whispered and asked Fred, who had been in charge of controlling the voyage beside him, and Fred said quickly.

"Two to three hours will be enough for us to dock, there is a deep water port adjacent to a cliff."

Two or three hours is not a long time and not short either, Jon took a deep breath and looked at Fred with incomparable seriousness and urging.

"Then dock as fast as we can! At sea, if they sink the ship, there is no way for everyone on board to escape! The only chance we have is to return to land, I'll try to hold them off as long as I can!"

Hearing what he said, not only Fred, but even George, Neville and others' faces also looked incredulous like they couldn't accept why things had turned out this way.

"Didn't Fawkes go to find Professor Dumbledore? Why he is not back yet."

"Maybe he was stopped by something and didn't find the professor, or maybe the circumstances that the professor is in don't have the luxury of even arriving to help us, but we can't always pin our hopes on the professors."

Jon said, turning to always look at the Hogwarts ship's side where Rabastan and others kept following along, they wouldn't stop at this point even if they didn't intend to kill them all with the killing curse, the tip of each Death Eater's wand had a burst of magic's wave brewing.

The best way to deal with the shield charm is undoubtedly to use a wide range of blasts to attack every point of its protection, thus depleting its saturation.

The shield charm on Hogwarts even if it can withstand one or two twenty Exploding Charm attacks launched together, it is impossible to withstand more than three rounds of stacked power, unless Dumbledore is on board, otherwise the ship's protection simply can not sustain itself.

Jon did not wait any longer, he already explained everything to the Neville and group, just when Rabastan and the group recited the "Bombarda" in unison, the next moment, Jon also held the ring that always hangs in front of his body, after absorbing all the magic on the stone slab, the gem already filled beyond the capacity to play its intended role!

"Finite!"

Jon's magic power was mobilized by the General Counter-Spell, but the source of the magic power rushing out is not the wand he held in his hand, but the ring that always remained cold.

His own magical power triggered the external magical power stored in the second gem, and the effect of the general counter-spell applied to him was amplified beyond limits!

The moment he used the general counter-spell, Jon stepped up to the side of the ship and stood in front of Rabastan and all the Death Eaters' Exploding Charm!

This crazy behaviour, which was even crazier than a madman, made all the Death Eaters widen their eyes.

No one can resist so many shots of Exploding Charm without any defence, not even Dumbledore and Voldemort!

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