The Strongest Badger at Hogwarts

Newland was slightly stunned.

He recognized the bag.

He had just seen Sceffen put the gold coins he grabbed from the vault into this bag.

The other party didn't pick up many gold coins, and his expressions and actions were extremely reluctant, as if he was completing some uncomfortable task.

Newland didn't care about these at first.

After all, the other party's attitude towards Jin Jialong has nothing to do with him.

But, why did the other party throw the bag at him now?

Before Newland had time to think about it, Sceffen went straight away after throwing the bag away, with his arms folded, as if no strangers were allowed to enter.

When he accidentally met Newland's eyes, there was even an undisguised disdain on his face.

It seems to be saying that such a small amount of money is worth bending over to pick it up? What a poor man!

As usual, Newland would definitely return a hypocritical smirk, and then plan how to retaliate afterwards.

It's just that this time, the smile on Newland's face couldn't be maintained no matter what.

He looked at Sceffen with a complicated expression, hesitated for a while, and then gritted his teeth and packed all the treasures in his arms into the non-marking stretch bag.

At the same time, the large army also returned to the underground cave in front of the Australian Opal-eyed Fire Dragon under the command of Link.

The movement here is no less than when they were in the underground vault.

Nearly 20 hunters, led by several old saints, were holding wands and continuously releasing magic in the underground cave to break the anti-apparition spell of Gringotts.

"How's the progress?"

Link didn't talk nonsense when he came up, and asked blankly.

"I'm sorry, young master. Originally, we have already broken to 90%, but..." an old saint wiped the sweat from his forehead, "But for some reason, the progress was pushed back to 40% in an instant."

Hearing that Link didn't have much disappointment or anger on his face.

He just looked up at the huge dark space above his head,

A ferocious smile curled up at the corner of his mouth.

Under normal circumstances, there is no counter-reversal at all for the breaking progress of the anti-apparition spell.

The only possibility for this to happen is that the Aurors led by Scrimgeour had already reset the anti-Apparition spell in the underground vault as soon as they entered Gringotts.

Link now has a little admiration for Scrimgeour.

It has to be said that it makes sense for him to be the Head of the Auror Office and be loved by so many Aurors and Strikers.

Every decision Scrimgeour made today was on Link's vitals, especially the order to directly break into the underground vault.

But... so what?

As we all know, when a burglary is discovered, it has a high probability of being transformed into a burglary.

He didn't just want to be a thief when he brought in so many elite old saints and hunters.

"Attention all! Execute plan B and prepare for battle!"

Link growled loudly.

But the hunters and the saints all showed fierce faces.

There was no shout, and no answer.

Everyone was silent and turned off the fluorescence of the stick tips, and quickly spread out to occupy the favorable terrain in the cave. Even the elite dragon hunters took out several dragon hunting crossbows from their non-marking stretch bags and set them up. stand up.

Link, these powerful ballistas specially designed for hunting dragons, has used them before.

It's just that it was set up on Pegasus last time. Due to the consideration of maneuverability, the one with the least power was used.

But the dragon hunting crossbow set up this time is completely different.

The height of the fully configured Dragon Hunting Crossbow has reached an astonishing 2 meters. The internal energy storage device and transmission device have been expanded several times. Although the rate of fire has changed from 5 seconds per shot of the mobile model to 30 seconds per shot, the power is still low. Increased by more than 10 times!

As long as an adult fire dragon of ordinary size is hit twice in a row, it will completely lose its combat effectiveness and be forced to land.

In a sense, this can no longer be called a crossbow bolt or a ballista.

It's a real magic cannon!

Both Newland and Sceffen were confused by the murderous scene before them.

After experiencing the short "gold coin picking incident" before, their original perception of these hunters has gradually changed from the initial "robbers" and "killers" to amiable partners.

The astonishment of these hunters at the moment has caused them a huge shock.

Not just them.

The Australian Opaleye in the cave next door is also lying at the entrance of the cave observing every move here.

Although its eyes have degenerated, its perception in the dark is not advancing but retreating, and it is even enough to allow it to move freely, and even perceive the detailed changes in the surroundings.

This is a point it is quite proud of.

But now, it regrets that it has trained its perception so well.

Because it just turned its attention to this side, a powerful murderous aura that was different from the previous Link's coercion came over.

The main source of these murderous auras are those dragon hunting crossbows.

The countless unjust souls of the fire dragon entwined on it made it shrink back to the corner of the wall in fright, trembling non-stop.

...

at the same time.

Link and the others are on the track above the wall.

The first and second Auror troop, led by Scrimgeour, were speeding down the track on the rail cars respectively.

Among them, all the members of the first Auror troop followed closely behind Scrimgeour's rail car, each with their wands held high, their mental power highly concentrated, and they were always on alert for possible attacks.

As for the second Auror team, they are concentrating on resetting the anti-apparition spell that has been almost completely broken by the hunters.

On a skid car traveling at high speeds, this job is especially difficult.

Especially as Aurors, their level in this aspect is not high.

After all, the arrangement of large-scale anti-apparition spells belongs to the professional scope of the Department of Magic and Transportation.

That is to say, these Aurors haven't returned all the things they learned at Hogwarts to the professor, otherwise they don't even know how to do it.

Turning his head to look at the group of Auror players who were sweating profusely and moved clumsily and with difficulty, Scrimgeour snorted dissatisfiedly.

This way of expressing anger was already very polite to him.

He is a real man with a real iron blood.

He is cruel and ruthless to the enemy, and the same to his own people.

Otherwise, he wouldn't have made the decision to let the rest of the Aurors resist the Death Eaters in Gringotts and wait for death, and then lead his own people to raid the underground vault directly.

If it was something else, he would have already started corporal punishment or a slap.

But this time he really couldn't blame the Aurors.

"Ugh--"

Scrimgeour let out a long sigh, and a trace of resignation and regret was extremely rare on his face.

After all, the current Auror army is too weak.

If it was the Auror army during the Second Wizarding War, this kind of thing would never happen now!

All the Aurors at that time could be regarded as all-rounders!

Scouting, vigilance, tactics, potion making, healing, large-scale spell placement...

All of these, there is nothing that Auror troops are not good at.

Especially Alastor Moody.

This legendary Auror, who was rumored to have captured nearly half of the Death Eaters by himself, showed a supernatural ability that is almost omniscient, as well as a tenacious will to fight.

Unfortunately, all this is in the past tense.

The beginning of the Second Wizarding War swelled the power of the Auror army to the highest point in history, becoming the wave of the times.

But also with the end of the Second Wizarding War, the Auror army also began to weaken rapidly.

The chief culprit for this situation is the administration officials headed by Barty Crouch Sr. and Cornelius Fudge.

Scrimgeour and a group of old Aurors called these people "shameless thieves who stole the fruits of war victory".

These 'thieves' lived peacefully with the Auror side for a not-so-long honeymoon period after the victory of the Second Wizarding War, but immediately raised their butcher knives.

The Auror and Striker units were then massively dismantled and dismembered.

A large number of veterans were forced to "disarm and return to the field", and the funding of the two troops was cut by more than half.

From the perspective of a leader, Scrimgeour actually understands the behavior of these 'thieves'.

Auror and Striker units are just too expensive.

The Galleons needed to maintain these two troops is an astronomical figure.

It didn't matter during the war, the Ministry of Magic and its nobles even waved the Gringotts money order to the Aurors one by one, as long as these troops could stop Voldemort by then.

But in a peaceful age, this is a bit wrong.

Infrastructure, commerce, education, people's livelihood, international exchanges, officials' salaries and corruption...

Which one doesn't need money?

Why is everyone so desperate to give money to the Aurors and Strikers?

What's more, after the Auror and Striker troops defeated the evil dragon of the Death Eaters, they themselves became the new evil dragon.

With such a strong military strength, what if the director of the Auror office has a sharp weapon and commits suicide?

Isn't the third wizarding war about to start again?

Therefore, no matter from the perspective of the Ministry of Magic's high-level officials or the low-level ordinary people, Aurors and strikers must be reduced.

But that being said, Scrimgeour is an old Auror besides being a leader.

He really couldn't stand the behavior of those 'thieves' killing donkeys.

Now the equipment level and personnel quality of the Auror troops and striker troops have been reduced to the lowest point in history under the perennial "economic control" of the Ministry of Magic.

Moreover, there were many criteria for eliminating Aurors and strikers. Among them, the most seemingly reasonable, but inhuman one was the age limit.

This resulted in a large number of old Aurors and old strikers being forced out of the force.

It's just that after years of fighting these old Aurors and old strikers, almost all of them are disabled like Mad-Eye Moody.

But the severance pay given by the Ministry of Magic is pitifully small.

Do you expect this group of disabled veterans who have no other survival skills to go home with such a small severance pay and continue to work to support their families?

how can that be!

Moreover, the post-war industry and commerce had not yet fully recovered.

Even if this group of disabled veterans wanted to go to work, no one wanted them.

They really have no other choice at all.

Faced with such a situation, there were only a very small number of veterans who were really honest and contented at that time, and most of the rest of the veterans either joined the rich and powerful families (the hunter group of the Foley family relied on a large number of retired old Aurors at that time) Only those who really developed after joining), or squeezed in Knockturn Alley to 'fall into bandits', became a real dark wizard.

So the situation Scrimgeour least wanted to see happened.

The comrades of the past have become the enemies of today.

Even just now, in the team of Death Eaters, Scrimgeour saw several familiar but unfamiliar faces.

The two parties were separated on the battlefield and also met again on the battlefield, but when they met again, their positions were completely different.

He had to admit that apart from the fact that he ordered the underground vault to be the primary target of the crusade, there was also an element of reluctance to face his former comrades-in-arms.

Thinking of this, Scrimgeour closed his eyes in pain.

But before he could continue to remain silent in the painful memory for too long, a violent explosion came from his side.

boom--

The powerful shock wave slammed into the rail car with the flames soaring into the sky, almost throwing Scrimgeour and others flying.

Scrimgeour opened his eyes abruptly.

The look of pain in his eyes was gone, and all that remained was firmness and seriousness.

"The attack came from below. Judging from the intensity, it should be a fixed dragon hunting crossbow or a magic energy cannon!" Assistant Auror immediately reported loudly, "The news that we came down should have been leaked. We all died in this attack." Two teams (6 people, 3 people in a small team), and another team was seriously injured. Although many of the rest were overturned by the shock wave, they did not suffer much damage and could continue to fight. !"

After hearing this, Scrimgeour did not answer, but reacted quickly, stood up and ordered in an extremely calm voice:

"Everyone, put out the magic wands in your hands, use the three-three system to move forward silently, and launch an attack downward!"

The Auror team, which was originally as bright as a long dragon, suddenly became dark.

The Aurors quickly jumped off the rail car, and temporarily stayed in the air with the flying spell and levitation spell, and then the vanguard rushed down to kill.

The team at the rear was not idle either, and while continuing on their way, they were also quickly casting spells at locations where there might be enemies.

All of a sudden, various spells fell from the sky like a rain curtain.

Seeing this, the hunters below all looked calm.

Especially the corner of Link's mouth raised a sneer.

From a tactical point of view, Scrimgeour's decision was not wrong at all. Facing the current situation of interception (hunters) in front and pursuers (Death Eaters) behind, only by finding the right direction and attacking the next side first can victory be possible.

The only mistake he made was overestimating the Aurors and underestimating Link's Hunters and Old Saints.

When it comes to the quality of personnel, elite hunters and old saints are actually not weaker than the 'new' soldiers that Scrimgeour carefully selected from Hogwarts' top students.

The equipment of the Hunters and the Old Saints was also much better than that of the Aurors because of the investment of the Foley family and the Beckman family regardless of cost.

What's more, there is such a particularly outstanding combat power as Link.

The fate of Scrimgeour and the Aurors on this trip has already been doomed long ago!