Mind-Locking Therapy

Since the war had erupted in full force, time seemed to stretch, thin out, and fold over itself again and again.

Before anyone realized it, a full week had passed.

To others, those seven days might have been nothing more than dense, cold battle reports in the news. But for Skylar, they had been a week of relentless pressure, spent amid countless decisions, deployments, sacrifices, and compromises, leaving him scarcely a moment to breathe.

Only now could he finally pause for a while.

Newt Scamander and Grimmson had safely arrived in Greece and begun an extremely covert investigation there. One made his living hunting and killing magical creatures, while the other regarded magical creatures as life itself—two people whose beliefs were almost fundamentally irreconcilable, now forced onto the same rope. Each suppressed his instinctive disgust as they pursued shadows from the age of myth through Greece's mountains and ruins.

At the same time, Hagrid and Professor Grubbly-Plank had received formal approval from the Greek Ministry of Magic to visit Greece under the name of an "official Hogwarts Care of Magical Creatures exchange delegation." Their arrival provided a legitimate and reliable cover for the investigation, ensuring that Newt's movements would not appear too abrupt.

The situation in Great Britain stabilized rapidly after old Mr. Zhang He and Madam Montgomery stepped in one after the other.

Both were masters of Transfiguration, each capable of creating an army single-handedly. Old Mr. Zhang He scattered more than a hundred paper slips, turning every one of them into a celestial soldier or general and forming an iron-blooded army that feared no death, slaughtering large numbers of Underworld Warriors. Madam Montgomery transformed all the scrap metal in the junkyards into immensely strong, indestructible steel warriors, specially tasked with hunting Ogres and Banshees.

With their support, the