No one in the entire wizarding world had expected that before March was over, Walpurgis, which had lurked in the shadows for years, would step out into the open at this moment and officially launch the Third Wizarding War.
Ancient Giants appeared in the Northern European wizarding world, while civil war erupted in Italy at the same time.
The International Confederation of Wizards, the Medieval European Wizards Association, and the Dark Arts Defense League received thousands upon thousands of urgent reports almost simultaneously. Requests for aid, lost contact, fallen, and total loss of control kept appearing in the documents, plunging the three already vast international organizations into unprecedented chaos.
At the emergency call of International Confederation of Wizards Chairman Babajide Akingbade, this series of events was directly classified as the highest-level "Disaster-Class Crisis." The major wizarding governments of North America, South America, Africa, Asia, and the South Pacific abandoned their previous wait-and-see stances, dispatching Aurors, Hit Wizards, and Memory Erasers across continents in massive reinforcements.
The joint International Auror force commanded by Samuel Colhaug broke camp and headed north at once, its target the Northern European front.
The British Ministry of Magic also received deployment orders from the Confederation.
Amelia Bones had originally planned to send elite Aurors to reinforce Northern Europe, but before the orders could be fully issued, new disasters came flooding in like a tide—
Across Great Britain, massive supernatural riots erupted simultaneously in the northern and southern regions.
Large numbers of Dementors, Ogres, and Banshees ran rampant everywhere. Among them were even the Egyptian Underworld Warriors that had once cast a shadow over everyone in the Department of Mysteries. The scale of the unrest was unprecedented, and it was all concentrated in densely populated Muggle towns.
The British Ministry of Magic was instantly dragged into a