"Vampires immune to sunlight, a Necromancer skilled at wielding magical skeletons... I'm starting to wonder if I've gone back to the Middle Ages." Rufus looked grim, and the head of the Egyptian Ministry of Magic's Auror office beside him looked no happier.
There had been seven Dark wizards against thirty-two people on their side, over half of them elite. Even with those odds, three had escaped.
That alone would have been bad enough, but of the remaining four, one had actually been captured by their rescue target-a twelve-year-old child. In fact, if that child hadn't intervened and the enemy's spell had finished descending, all seven would have escaped.
Rewind to a few minutes earlier.
Hidden in the Shadow Mirror World, Tris was watching the show.
This Shadow Mirror World was a marvel born from combining the Deluminator with his Shadow Magic. Unless another wizard who also wielded Shadow Magic detected it, entering it was practically impossible.
That was why Tris remained utterly unruffled despite facing seven Dark wizards whose abilities were unknown but presumably formidable.
Seeing the Ministry of Magic gain the upper hand, Tris had originally intended to lie low until the battle ended. But when he saw one of the wizards raise a Gemstone Disc, he sensed something was wrong.
Recalling their earlier assortment of flashy tricks, as well as the Portkey that worked inside Hogwarts, Tris immediately formed a suspicion.
When rainbow light descended from the sky and the Dark wizards all gathered beneath it, Tris became even more certain: this had to be some special spatial transportation spell.
Tris didn't know that the Dark wizards had already placed an Anti-Apparition Charm over the area, allowing only their special magical device to transport anyone there-mainly because Tris hadn't learned Apparition yet.
But he was certain the Ministry