Preliminary Revision of the Wizarding Secrecy Law

Preliminary Revisions to the International Statute of Wizarding Secrecy

Von Stauffenberg lifted her head and nodded in approval.

"Muggles. That, we truly hadn't considered," she said. "Ms. Grindelwald, you've brought up a variable none of us mentioned today. Before this, everything we discussed was Voldemort's analysis results, Graves's disappearance, Runcorn's Goblin army, and the consciousness of the Chains themselves, but no one discussed Muggles.

And in fact, the probability of Muggles destroying the seals may be greater than all Dark Wizards combined."

She took a neatly folded newspaper from an inner pocket of her robe and opened it. It was a Muggle newspaper, the Süddeutsche Zeitung, dated three days ago.

There was an inconspicuous brief item at the bottom of the front page, circled by her in red ink.

"A minor earthquake measuring 2.1 on the Richter scale occurred in the Berchtesgaden region. Geologists stated that the hypocenter depth was unusual, approximately seventeen kilometers underground. Local residents reported hearing a continuous low rumbling, similar to the sound of bells coming from far away."

She pushed the newspaper to the center of the table.

"Berchtesgaden, which is where Mountain Shadow is located. A hypocenter depth of seventeen kilometers happens to match the burial depth of the Mountain Shadow ruins estimated by the Confederation Institute of Geological Magic."

Mendoza picked up the newspaper and quickly skimmed it.

"Muggle seismic monitoring equipment can sense activity from the Chains?"

"Not only can it sense them, it's becoming more and more precise," Von Stauffenberg said. "Muggles have a technology called seismic tomography. The principle is to map three-dimensional underground structures through differences in the propagation speed of seismic waves in different media. This technology has advanced extremely quickly in the last decade. At present, Muggle geological monitoring networks already cover ninety percent of the world's