Chapter 944: Nuclear weapons in the wizarding world
"Key? What key?" Ivan asked curiously. Since Conor told him that the North American Ministry of Magic would hold this joint conference, this so-called key has been repeatedly mentioned by several people, and it seems to be quite important. .
Conor looked around, looked at the noisy crowd around, walked a few steps, and said in a low voice. "Have you seen the magic exposure level clock placed above the hall?"
Ivan nodded. Pierce did a science popularization for him as soon as he entered the door. That thing can be used to monitor conflicts that erupt around the world and use this to assess the exposure of the wizarding world.
The levels are respectively no threat, low threat, medium threat, high threat, dangerous, unexplainable severe situation, and the highest level of emergency...
Conor continued to explain.
"More than fifty years ago, during the time when Grindelwald was active, many tragedies were created, and the entire magical world was on the verge of exposure."
"The Silent Person incident is the most dangerous one. At that time, the Muggles in New York witnessed the existence of magic with their own eyes, and the war between wizards and Muggles was almost forced to start."
"So after that, in order to settle the dispute between Muggles and wizards, and to avoid repeating the same mistakes, the entire magical world has gathered the wisdom of hundreds of alchemists to create an alchemy device that can attack an entire city in an instant The Muggle releases the Confusion Curse to make them forget everything that is not in line with their perception." Conor said very solemnly.
"But the same can distort their thoughts and let these people kill each other?" Ivan muttered to himself, touching his chin.
This can almost be said to be a nuclear weapon in the wizarding world!
Then the so-called key should be used to activate this alchemy device.
No wonder both Conor and Pierce were extremely cautious when mentioning this. If some radicals learn about this alchemy device, then the speech of wizards controlling the world may have their heads up again.
However, Ivan guessed that such a powerful alchemy device would consume a lot of magic power when activated, so it is obviously unrealistic to control all mankind with this, otherwise the wizard would not need to hide himself so carefully.
"Should there be more than one key?" Ivan remembered that a few weeks ago, Conor had reminded himself that Pierce remembered to bring the key, but now the Russian minister had another key on him.
"Five in all..." Pierce said slowly.
Although it didn't explain which five people directly held the key, Ivan already had the answer in his heart, which can be seen in the row of seats during the meeting.
The reason why the keys are divided into five parts and separated is probably to prevent the holder of a certain key from acting arbitrarily, because ambition and selfish desire cause irreparable consequences.
And handing the five keys to the leaders of the five magic powers can ensure that the alchemy device will only be activated when the magic world really needs it.
In this way, the recent frequent attacks are probably not a coincidence, but the layout of Grindelwald, the purpose is to encourage them to convene this conference, collect the keys, and then master that thing.
"Then who suggested that you bring the key to this joint meeting?" Ivan asked again. This person was obviously suspected.
"It's the Minister of France..." Conor said hesitantly.
Everyone at the scene immediately turned their gazes and looked at the French minister, who frowned in dissatisfaction. "This meeting is indeed what I proposed to convene, but that is because Grindelwald has already caused a lot of riots in Europe. If it is left in such a way, it is likely to become uncontrollable. So we need a few in France. The key cities will be cleaned up..."
Ivan stared at the French minister for a long time, and then looked at the French Aurors. Although he could not see any flaws, he still had some doubts in his heart.
Grindelwald has been active in France during this period. If the other party has not been able to infiltrate the French Ministry of Magic for more than half a year, he absolutely does not believe it.
"What about Mr. Iris? He should be your confidant. Didn't you bring him here this time?" Ivan suddenly thought of the man who could threaten himself with the man he had seen before at the French Ministry of Magic. witch.
At the beginning, he suspected that the other party might be a saint under Grindelwald, but he couldn’t be sure, because Eric’s resume had no flaws. I worked at the French Ministry of Magic for more than ten years and helped Auror arrest them. Less saints. If it is a bitter trick, the price is too great...
"Of course not. Iris needs to stay in the French Ministry of Magic to take care of some affairs for me..." The French Minister said impatiently. He needs to ensure that he still has absolute control over the Ministry when he is away, so it is impossible. Bring all your cronies with you when you go out.
Listening to the French minister's explanation, Ivan didn't say anything. He could detect that the other party hadn't lied. Without sufficient evidence, he would not be able to persuade the North American Congress to initiate an investigation into a minister and his entourage of a magic power.
There was a lot of discussion among the onlookers, and the form on the court suddenly became a stalemate. Seeing that the investigation had no results for the time being, several Russian wizards immediately targeted Percy and wanted to convict the British wizard who killed Igor. Then consider arresting the possible behind-the-scenes man.
Stripped of his coat and only a pair of pants left, Percy curled up and shivered on the ground under the condemnation of the Russian wizards Thanks to Pierce's scrupulousness that Percy was an English wizard anyway, he opened his voice to defend him. Two sentences.
According to the common law in the magic world, if a wizard is controlled by the Imperius Curse, then the other party is also regarded as the victim. The crimes committed during this period are countless. The real criminal is the one who releases the Imperius Curse. .
It’s just that the Russian wizards don’t buy it. The Imperius spell is very secretive. They can’t tell whether a wizard has been in the Imperius before. Percy just pretended to have suffered the Imperius, but it was actually Grind. Wo's accomplice.
"Presumably Mr. Percy must be happy to take Veritaserum, or to be tortured to prove his innocence..." Ivan interrupted the words of several Russian wizards.
No, I'm not happy... Percy wanted to shake her head subconsciously. Taking Veritaserum is not a comfortable thing, not to mention that in order to ensure the effectiveness of Veritaserum, Auror usually asks the target something very embarrassing. Question, after basically asking, this person is not far from social death...
However, under Ivan's indifferent gaze, Percy swallowed the words that had arrived.