"Old One-Eyed, I want to kill him!"
Emily's whole body trembled when she heard the name of the Old One-Eyed. It wasn't fear but anger.
It was because of this dark wizard that she, who had the highest likelihood of becoming the Head of the Office of Auroch Leaders in the future, had turned out to be like this now.
The most important thing is not honor and position, but the helplessness and frustration of a Auror who witnessed the brutal killing of fifty Muggles by a dark wizard and could do nothing about it.
After being dismissed, she once went crazy in search of clues about the Old One-Eyed. However, how could a black wizard who is wanted worldwide by the International Aurors find himself under her nose.
After fruitless searching, she started to use alcohol to numb herself, as her days were spent only on drinking, her pockets grew empty, and eventually, she had no choice but to sell her house and move into the Potsmoker Tavern.
"Emily, don't be impulsive. The Old One-Eyed is powerful, and there are many dark wizards under his command. It's not that easy to deal with him."
Stay at home, and I'll personally catch him when the night falls.
For his crimes, the ultimate judgment will undoubtedly be a death sentence!"
Lena wrapped her arms around Emily and comforted her.
Unlike the Ministry of Magic in Britain, there is no death penalty in France. Even if a wizard commits a serious crime, he can be sentenced to Azkaban, but not to death.
But like the Ministry of Magic in the United States, if a wizard commits serious crimes, he will be executed by death penalty directly.
People like Voldemort's Death Eaters would have been executed long ago if they were in France.
If the Old One-Eyed is caught by the French Aurors, he will be tried at the French Ministry of Magic. If the verdict is death, it will be executed on the same day.
"Antique magical contraband items, interesting!"
George's focus was not on the Old One-Eyed, but on the ancient magical contraband items mentioned just then by Lena.
Magical contraband items usually refer to those items that have been added black magic by alchemy.
Due to their extreme danger, they are prohibited from being traded by the Ministry of Magic. Once discovered in any private transaction, they are immediately seized and the individuals involved are prosecuted.
A normal stay in prison for several years is unavoidable.
On the other hand, ancient magical contraband items refer to magical items crafted by ancient wizards, dug out from their tombs and processed with ancient magic.
The danger level of these magical items is unknown, but due to their archaeological value and the insights they can provide into ancient magic, they are highly valuable, and many wizards are willing to pay high prices for them.
However, according to the Ministry of Magic's regulations, digging wizard tombs is illegal. After all, who wants to be dug up after they die and have other wizards perform arbitrary magic on their remains?
The key is that many ancient magical items have very terrifying curses, and if not handled properly, they can cause significant problems.
A hundred years ago, an American wizard bought ancient magical items from a black wizard at a high price, which had been stolen from under the pyramids. Due to improper handling, these items resulted in the death of three hundred Muggles in the area where he lived.
So, regardless of which country, smuggling and selling ancient magical contraband items are serious crimes.
In Lena's persuasion, Emily's emotions finally stabilized.
However, when Lena set out for the meeting at night, George found that Emily had followed her in secret, vanishing with the Disapparition Charm.
As for how he discovered it, George was also using the Disapparition Charm to follow her secretly behind her.
Although Emily was walking behind Lena to tail her, he was flying in the air with his wings spread out to track her.
Since the Old One-Eyed is smuggling ancient magical contraband items, there might be some clues about ancient magic.
The two, one above and one below, followed Lena to the west side of the Magic Street and found that Lena had met with a group of Aurors from the Ministry of Magic in front of a tent belonging to a magical creature performance team.
It was evident that the black wizard, Old One-Eyed, must have chosen to smuggle items inside the tent of the magical creature performance team.
The magical creature performance team is similar to a circus in the muggle world, but the trainers are wizards and the performers are various magical creatures from all over the place.
Unlike the performance teams of several decades ago, the animals performed in the current team are highly dangerous creatures such as Nifflers, Kappas, Caracara birds, Zodiac dogs, and so on.
Now, after being reorganized, the animals performed are similar to those like the Moon Tranced Beast, the Ball Dodger Bird, and the Soundless Bird—rare and beautiful but not dangerous.
The magical creature performance team is one of the few private groups that are allowed to use the Undetectable Extension Charm tent legally. The Ministry of Magic is afraid that these magical creatures might accidentally escape and cause chaos if they do.
Here in the French Magic Street, during the two-month summer vacation, there are different magical creature performance teams coming every week to perform. George had also gone to watch twice before.
Since there were no powerful magical creatures like the Zodiac dogs to see, he hadn't gone back.
Seeing Lena and the Aurors disguised as ordinary tourists buying tickets and entering the tent, Emily also bought a ticket by dispelling the Disapparition Charm, while George found a place to land and dispelled his Invisibility Charm before buying a ticket to follow them in.
The tent of the magical creature performance team had some counterspells cast on it, so incantations like Disapparition Charm and Apparition would not work.
It was mainly to prevent wizards from using invisibility and transfiguration spells to avoid paying.
"It's hard to find someone in such a crowd!"
As George stepped into the tent, he saw a dense crowd of wizards of all sizes, with an estimated several hundred of them.
Today is Saturday, and adult wizards don't work, so they brought their off-duty little wizards to see the performance.
This tent, which looks to be about 100 square meters on the outside, is probably as big as two football fields on the inside.
Apart from the various platforms for different magical creature performances spaced at regular intervals, there are also many vendors selling snacks and paid special magic experiences.
These huge cotton candy, with their bodies as soft and fluffy as cotton, can be transformed into various magical creatures such as dragons, phoenixes, and thunderbirds when pulled.
There were also magical bubbles that could be floated in the air with a silver sickle.
Navigating through the crowd, obscured by magical fireworks and bubbles, he couldn't find Lena and Emily who had blended into the crowd at first. He could only find a relatively higher position to observe.
George wasn't worried about not finding them, as he would naturally notice if the Aurors and black wizard started fighting.
Indeed, it didn't take long, within about half an hour, a huge explosion occurred at a booth that was six booths away from him.
After that, he heard someone shout using an amplification spell:
"Aurors from the Ministry of Magic are capturing the black wizard. All irrelevant wizards, please leave the tent as soon as possible!"
Following the shouts, wizards started rushing out of the tent in a panic. With the crowd thinning, he could see the situation over at the performance booth.
On the performance booth, two groups were facing off against each other. One group was Lena and the French Ministry of Magic Aurors, and the other should be the gang of black wizards led by the Old One-Eyed.
It seems that the black wizard group led by the Old One-Eyed has hostage some ordinary wizards as human shields.
