Magic

Lin Feng used an illusion to conceal his and Jacob's true presence. He pulled Jacob up from the bed, then jumped to the floor above.

Just then, the Aurors who had arrived happened to see the illusion Lin Feng had left on the bed and cautiously refrained from approaching it.

"Sir! You have just killed a member of the American Ministry of Magic. I need to take you back for trial!"

Soon, the Auror's companion arrived as well. The two merely stood at the doorway, wands gripped in their hands at some point.

A faint white glow shimmered at the tips of their wands.

The two Aurors had cast some kind of spell to protect their souls. After their first encounter with Lin Feng, they had discovered that their companion's soul had been shattered by some unknown force, so they had come prepared.

"I accidentally killed one of your people, and I'm sorry. But at the time, I thought he meant to harm me, so I had no choice but to strike first."

Lin Feng stood on the roof, speaking, yet his voice came from the illusion he had created below.

"We mean no harm. We were merely carrying out our duties by casting Obliviate. On the other hand, you killed someone and must face the judgment of the American Ministry of Magic!"

As the Auror spoke, the wand in his hand was like a sword drawn from its sheath.

He secretly aimed it at Lin Feng and suddenly attacked as though launching a sneak assault.

A streak of white light shot from the wand and struck Lin Feng's illusion in the blink of an eye.

But the white light passed straight through the illusion's body and hit the soft bed beneath it.

Boom!!!

The bed was blown apart by the ferocious magical energy. Countless tufts of cotton scattered through the entire room.

At the same time, one or two pieces drifted down onto Lin Feng and Jacob's real bodies.

"They're up there!"

When the two Aurors saw that their magic had only struck the bed, they instinctively looked around.

When they saw the cotton filling the air floating in midair at a certain spot on the upper floor instead of falling, they knew Lin Feng was hiding there.

But just as the two Aurors prepared to attack, the hands holding their wands froze quietly in midair.

Petrificus Totalus!!!

A low, extremely rapid incantation sounded from behind the two Aurors.

Lin Feng and Jacob looked at the two Aurors frozen in place, then exchanged glances.

Caught by the rapid spell, the two Aurors seemed to have been immobilized. Their eyes darted from side to side, overflowing with panic and anxiety.

Newt's cautious gaze emerged from behind the two Aurors. At once, he locked onto the suitcase in Lin Feng's hand, hurried down beneath him in tiny steps, then held out his hand. Tilting his head slightly as though he did not dare look directly at Lin Feng, he said, "Sir, I'm afraid you'll have to return that to me. That suitcase is mine."

"Come down."

Seeing Newt's anxious expression, Lin Feng took Jacob's hand and drifted lightly down from above.

The moment Lin Feng landed, Newt could barely stop himself from reaching for his suitcase.

But when he caught sight of Lin Feng's eyes, he instinctively withdrew his hand. The conflict between his urgency and restraint made Newt seem especially reserved and cautious.

"A few animals escaped from inside. I caught one back for you—a pink-skinned rat with fleshy buds growing on its back. You owe me one, understand?"

Lin Feng lifted the suitcase and pointed at it with a smile.

"Thank you very much. I will definitely repay you."

Newt looked at Lin Feng in surprise. He had assumed that Lin Feng had helped because he wanted some of the rare materials produced by the magical animals in the suitcase.

As long as his animals were not harmed, he usually found chances to sell those materials to support the magical animals anyway. Since this man had protected his suitcase, giving him some as thanks was not impossible.

"Don't thank me just yet. When the time comes, I'll be very picky."

Lin Feng slowly held the suitcase out in front of Newt, watching him with meaningful eyes.

What Lin Feng truly wanted were the genes of the magical animals inside Newt's suitcase.

These animals possessed magical abilities and were far stronger than humans.

To Lin Feng, though, they were simply interesting. He wanted to try out the abilities of these little creatures.

"Alright, thank you."

Newt glanced at Lin Feng several times. Although he found Lin Feng rather strange, he was most worried about the animals in the suitcase right now and could not concern himself with anything else.

He took back his suitcase, then hurriedly set it on the ground and opened it to take a few looks.

Those few glances were enough for Newt to confirm that quite a few of his magical animals were missing.

"Sorry for the trouble."

Newt fastened the suitcase clasps, staring at Lin Feng with tightly furrowed brows.

Then he glanced around, took out his wand, and cast a spell.

Repairing Charm (Repair What Is Broken)!!!

The spell activated instantly. The walls smashed apart by the magical animals began restoring themselves as though time were flowing backward.

The shattered stones and bricks assembled in midair, then were placed back where they belonged by a mysterious force.

The apartment rapidly returned to normal as well.

Tap, tap, tap!!!

At that moment, footsteps sounded outside. Thena arrived at the apartment door and looked at Newt with a complicated expression.

Hearing the footsteps, Newt turned toward the doorway and gave Thena an awkward smile.

"The suitcase was opened?"

Seeing Newt's forced smile, Thena's gaze fell on the suitcase in his hands as she asked.

"It was only opened by a little crack."

Newt answered vaguely.

Suddenly, Jacob felt as if something in his inner pocket was moving.

Curiously, he opened his coat and saw that the gold bricks and gemstones he had taken from Lin Feng suddenly floated out. Then, in midair, they changed back into stone and returned to their original places.

Watching his future bakery vanish just like that, Jacob immediately looked at Lin Feng with a wronged expression.

Lin Feng's mouth twitched. He had not expected Newt's magic to transform things he had converted through matter transmutation back to their original form. That was ridiculously impressive.

"Don't worry. If I promised it to you, I'll definitely give it to you."

Lin Feng patted Jacob's shoulder, then thrust one hand into the wall Newt had restored and pulled out a brick.

This time, he did not carve it into the shape of a gold brick. He transformed the entire brick into gold.

That move instantly stunned Newt and Thena. Casting magic without a wand required an unimaginably high degree of control over one's magical power.

Magic capable of transmuting matter was no simple thing. It counted as an advanced spell.

Jacob looked at the larger gold brick than before, and a bead of cold sweat slowly rolled down his forehead.

This man was way too good to him.

Lin Feng stuffed the gold brick into Jacob's hand, completely failing to notice Newt and Thena's stunned expressions.

"Are you a wizard? Don't you know magic can't be used on Muggles? And what kind of magic is that?"

Thena had once been an Auror, but she did not know much about this kind of matter-transmuting magic either.

She only remembered that the Philosopher's Stone mentioned in some old rumor could achieve such an effect.

"That isn't magic, Thena. He's a Muggle too."

After Lin Feng turned the brick into gold, Newt had been observing him as though he were some rare magical animal.

When Thena sternly questioned Lin Feng, Newt calmly spoke from the side.

Thena looked at Newt in disbelief. She wondered whether this guy had gone stupid from spending too much time with animals. Such extraordinary power was obviously something only a wizard could possess.

But when Thena examined Lin Feng again, she truly could not sense even the slightest fluctuation of magical power from him.

"Strange."

She muttered, then carefully circled Lin Feng and examined him.

However, just as Newt raised his wand to cast Obliviate on Jacob, Thena stopped him.

"He has to be our witness. You can't do that!"

"Who was the one yelling at me the whole way here, saying I had forgotten to cast Obliviate?"

Newt raised an eyebrow.

"Uh, I can be your witness too. Besides, this gentleman has already gotten what he needed, so I think you can cast... Obliviate."

Lin Feng cut in. He needed to take Jacob's place now so that he could follow the future development of this group of protagonists.

Although the plot had changed, the overall course of events probably would not change much.

Obliviate!!!