The Duel Club

More than half a month passed in the blink of an eye. Anduin stood in a snow-covered pine forest in central Sweden.

He took a map of Northern Europe from his robes and carefully found his current location, marking it.

Besides the mark he had just added, the map was already dotted with many others.

Clearly, Anduin had made no small amount of progress during this time. The dots must have marked places where Slytherin had once stopped.

Yet despite having gathered plenty of clues, Anduin now wore an utterly conflicted expression.

The reason was Snakewood's atrocious sense of direction and time...

As Anduin searched, he marked every place Snakewood remembered Slytherin stopping.

After weeks of combing the area, he had indeed gathered a wealth of information, as the dense cluster of marks on the map made clear.

In theory, this was a major breakthrough. At the very least, it proved that Slytherin had spent a long time in Northern Europe.

The markings also offered a rough picture of Slytherin's movements.

The problem was that they provided no indication of the order in which he had visited those places.

In other words, Anduin had no way of knowing where Slytherin had gone first or which direction he had traveled in.

He couldn't even tell which trip to Northern Europe the markings came from.

So the more he searched and the more clues he found, the more they muddled the picture.

From the map, all he could tell was that Slytherin had spent some time in both Norway and Sweden.

It seemed he had landed on Norway's southern coast, then traveled north along the shoreline. When he reached central Norway, he had suddenly turned east and wandered around central Sweden for a while before heading straight north to Norway's northern coast,