Recaps

Lin Ze investigated the disappearance of Maqi Travers and followed a report of black mist to a dead-end alley in Knockturn Alley. There, he and Carl found corpse vine growing densely around drained rat corpses, suggesting a powerful dark creature had been nearby, but its identity remained unclear.

• Lin Ze recognized gray-black granules as resembling residue left by a vampire in Brazil and sent Weiqi to search for similar traces and have the sample tested.
• Lin Ze questioned Mr. K about Maqi Travers and learned she had left with a person in a gray cloak two nights earlier.
• Mr. K told Lin Ze that a drunk had seen black mist containing a featureless woman's face, so Lin Ze questioned the drunk and learned where it had vanished.
• Lin Ze called Carl and Mona to the dead-end alley behind Gilderoy's secondhand shop, where the black mist had reportedly seeped into a wall.
• Lin Ze found drained rat corpses and dense vines on the wall, and Carl identified the plants as corpse vine that thrived near powerful dark creatures.

Lin Ze and his companions investigated a Corpse Vine and connected seven disappearances to the area around Delis Secondhand Shop and Slinger Alley. During a nighttime stakeout, they encountered a black mist that hunted a cat, sensed them, and attacked, leaving them fleeing through the alley.

• Carl showed Lin Ze roots beneath the paving stones and explained that the Corpse Vine had likely been feeding on small animals in Knockturn Alley for about a month.
• Weiqi reported that St. Mungo's had found active tissue from dark creatures in the samples, while Arthur revealed that seven missing people had disappeared within the same area.
• Lin Ze, Barty Crouch Jr., and Mia met at ten that night to watch the alley near Delis Secondhand Shop.
• A black mist entered the alley, smashed a pile of liquor crates, and chased away a black cat before drifting into another alley.
• Lin Ze and the others followed the mist, but it dispersed and re-formed around them as a towering wall that resisted their spells.
• Lin Ze ordered Barty Crouch Jr. and Mia to run, but the mist passed through his Transfigured wall and continued pursuing them.

Lin Ze, Barty Crouch Jr., and Mia fought an immortal-seeming man whose shapeless black mist resisted their attacks and blocked Apparition. As the mist engulfed the alley, Lin Ze discovered that his dragon scales repelled it.

• Lin Ze and Barty Crouch Jr. failed to damage the black mist until Mia used inherited magic to slow it.
• The trio tried to Apparate away, but an Anti-Apparition Jinx stopped them, and a strange man in white appeared atop the wall.
• The man sent mist tentacles at them, which Mia froze and Barty Crouch Jr. blasted apart before the fragments rejoined the mist.
• The man identified the mist as his Shikigami and revealed that he had lived for over fourteen hundred years.
• Lin Ze, Barty Crouch Jr., and Mia attacked together, but the man merged with the mist, which flooded the alley.
• Lin Ze activated his dragon transformation, and his scales repelled the black mist as it climbed over his feet.

Lin Ze used his dragon-scaled strength and magic to drag the white-robed man out of the wall, but the man unleashed a vast black-mist hand that forced Lin Ze, Barty Crouch Jr., and Mia to flee the collapsing alley. The trio survived behind Barty Crouch Jr.’s crimson barrier, while the alley lay in ruins and the black mist retreated underground.

• Lin Ze guessed that the white-robed man’s body was separate from the black mist and asked Barty Crouch Jr. to distract him while Mia concealed Lin Ze with her light.
• Barty Crouch Jr. attacked through the mist as Mia compressed her ring of light, allowing Lin Ze to rush the wall and seize the white-robed man with his dragon-scaled hand.
• Lin Ze’s golden magic burned the black mist and pulled the white-robed man from the wall, while Barty Crouch Jr. and Mia attacked the uncontrolled mist.
• The white-robed man caused the ground to roar and split, sending a giant hand of black mist after the fleeing trio.
• Barty Crouch Jr. raised a crimson barrier at the alley entrance, and Lin Ze helped reinforce it as the black hand struck and the alley collapsed.
• The black mist withdrew underground, leaving Lin Ze, Barty Crouch Jr., and Mia alive amid the wreckage.

Lin Ze charged through the black lightning storm to attack the man in white and disrupt his flute ritual, while Mia and Barty Crouch Jr. struggled to hold their defenses. After Lin Ze wounded the man, the ritual unleashed corrosive black water, leaving Lin Ze ready to risk the protection Mia gave him or reveal Boundary Break.

• Barty Crouch Jr. identified the black mist's self-destructive reconstruction and realized the man in white was using a flute to guide it.
• Mia shielded Lin Ze and Barty Crouch Jr. from the black lightning, then gave Lin Ze an ice-blue pebble that could block one fatal attack.
• Lin Ze rushed out of the shield, dodged the lightning, and climbed a building using dragon scales on his arm.
• Lin Ze attacked the man in white with Fire-Making Spells and Severing Charms, grazing his shoulder.
• The man in white raised the flute's pitch and unleashed corrosive black water, while Barty Crouch Jr. blasted one rushing column aside.
• Lin Ze dodged the black water and prepared to gamble on Mia's pebble or expose Boundary Break if his life was in danger.

Lin Ze, Barty Crouch Jr., and Mia fought the black water and mist in the alley, combining their attacks to weaken White Candle. As White Candle gathered the remaining darkness and claimed godlike power, Lin Ze charged in and punched him across the alley.

• Lin Ze grabbed the black water pillar and used Dawn to sever it, badly burning his fingers.
• The black water split into tiny snakes, but Mia repelled them and drew them toward the black mist.
• Lin Ze, Barty Crouch Jr., and Mia struck the swelling mist together, causing it to collapse and expose the wounded White Candle.
• White Candle gathered the remaining black water and mist as Lin Ze transformed and charged at him.
• Lin Ze punched White Candle in the face, sending him crashing into rubble.

Lin Ze, Barty Crouch Jr., and Mia faced the transformed man in white, but Dumbledore intervened when Lin Ze was gravely injured. As Dumbledore began to lose their battle, he crushed a tiny hourglass and regained his youthful form, ready to start over.

• The man in white regenerated, unleashed overwhelming pressure, and transformed as Lin Ze struggled to protect Barty Crouch Jr. and Mia.
• Lin Ze used Boundary Break to move himself and the unconscious Barty Crouch Jr. and Mia, but the man in white struck him and shattered his bones and organs.
• Dumbledore appeared, healed Lin Ze enough to keep him alive, and fought the man in white as their magic tore through the sky.
• The man in white's black vortex and giant eye drove Dumbledore back, leaving Lin Ze unable to help.
• Dumbledore crushed a tiny hourglass, grew young again, and declared that they would start over.

Dumbledore defeated Lingchang Murakami, who destroyed himself in a blast of darkness, but the battle left Dumbledore visibly older. Lin Ze, Mia, and Barty Crouch Jr. survived, and Dumbledore took them to St. Mungo's as the Ministry of Magic was expected to arrive.

• Dumbledore overwhelmed Lingchang Murakami with powerful magic and left him near death.
• Lingchang Murakami exploded into darkness, erasing part of the alley, while Dumbledore shielded Lin Ze, Barty Crouch Jr., and Mia.
• Dumbledore aged rapidly after the battle, then told Lin Ze that Lingchang Murakami was an old enemy who had repeatedly revived himself through dark arts.
• Lin Ze checked Mia and Barty Crouch Jr. and found them alive.
• Dumbledore levitated Mia and Barty Crouch Jr. and took them and Lin Ze to St. Mungo's.

After surviving the battle with Lingchang Murakami, Lin Ze reported the events to Minister Bagnold and learned that another wizard had been found drained of magic and blood. He wrote to Dumbledore to ask whether Murakami could have returned, leaving the Ministry’s investigation unresolved.

• Lin Ze, Barty Crouch Jr., and Mia recovered at St. Mungo's, where Crouch Jr. learned that his father had visited briefly and left.
• Lin Ze gave Bagnold, Crouch Sr., and Scrimgeour an edited account of the battle and said Dumbledore had saved the team from Lingchang Murakami.
• Bagnold told Lin Ze that the battle had destroyed more than a dozen alleyways and killed over a hundred Muggles, but she did not pursue the matter further.
• Three days later, Crouch Sr. informed Lin Ze that Evan Rosier had been found drained of magic and blood and that three people were missing.
• Moody stormed into Crouch Sr.'s office and angrily cursed Rosier, who had once blinded him in one eye.
• Lin Ze wrote to Dumbledore asking whether Lingchang Murakami could have returned or was draining wizards, then sent the letter by owl.

Lin Ze investigated Evan Rosier’s death and discovered a faint mark that suggested the victims might have been restrained before their magic and blood were drained. After questioning Carl and Tom Riddle, he learned the killer might be gathering them to feed something, though he doubted Voldemort was behind it.

• Lin Ze examined Evan Rosier’s body and found a fine constriction mark on his wrist that had not appeared on earlier victims.
• Dumbledore’s reply confirmed that Lingchang Murakami’s magic did not involve draining blood or magic, but Lin Ze suspected Murakami’s presence near Knockturn Alley was connected to the killings.
• Lin Ze investigated Rosier’s last movements and learned that Rosier had suddenly left his apartment before being found dead behind Knockturn Alley.
• Lin Ze asked Carl about alchemical devices that could drain blood and magic, and Carl showed him a Blood Leech Ring that worked too slowly to match the deaths.
• Lin Ze questioned Tom Riddle, who explained that draining both blood and magic could feed a creation, a Dark creature, a cursed item, or a wizard without a body.
• Lin Ze thought of Voldemort as a possible culprit but rejected the idea that he would choose this method to resurrect himself.

Lin Ze investigated Evan Rosier’s death and followed a black-headscarfed woman to an abandoned house, where he found a notebook and captured her. A Blood Leech Ring activated on the woman’s wrist and killed her before Lin Ze and Arthur could question her.

• Lin Ze asked Ben to investigate similar cases and took Arthur to Rosier’s room, where the caretaker described a visit from a woman in a black headscarf.
• Lin Ze spotted someone watching them from an abandoned house near the culvert and searched it, finding dried black material and a notebook inscribed, “Our blood hasn't dried yet.”
• Arthur warned Lin Ze that someone was upstairs, and Lin Ze chased the black-headscarfed figure as they fled toward the culvert.
• Lin Ze blocked the figure’s escape, and Arthur stunned her before Lin Ze bound and unmasked her.
• Lin Ze identified a Blood Leech Ring embedded in the woman’s wrist, but it activated when he touched it and drained her until she died.

Lin Ze investigated the dead woman’s Blood Leech Ring and found a notebook describing Muggles trying to resurrect a progenitor and reclaim a throne of the night. After discovering a recruitment notice bearing a bat-wing symbol, he had Mr. K track its Muggle phone number, leaving the group’s identity unknown.

• Lin Ze confirmed the woman was dead, took the Blood Leech Ring, and handed her corpse to Ministry staff.
• Lin Ze read the old notebook and learned that a group of Muggles hated wizards and were trying to resurrect a progenitor.
• Lin Ze questioned Old Tom and two regulars at the Leaky Cauldron, but they knew nothing about an organized Muggle group.
• Lin Ze repaired a torn recruitment notice and found a complete phone number and a drawing of bat wings, then destroyed the notice.
• Lin Ze paid Mr. K to track the Muggle number, and Mr. K warned him that some Muggles were extremely hostile toward wizards.

Lin Ze followed a mysterious notice to a secret group of people who had lost loved ones to wizards. After hearing about their planned midnight gathering, he accepted a sealed metal tube and was told to go to Warehouse Seven at the Old Port for a trial.

• Lin Ze called the number on a notice in the East End and was told to find the same notice on the Isle of Dogs at ten that night.
• A black van picked Lin Ze up and took him to an old house where a group of people gathered beneath a portrait of a winged man.
• The woman leading the group said masked wizards had taken her husband, while a man in the room said wizards had taken his seven-year-old daughter.
• Lin Ze asked what the group could do, and the woman told him to attend a midnight gathering at Warehouse Seven at the Old Port.
• Lin Ze accepted a sealed metal tube that would let him see the truth, then was escorted out and warned not to be late.

Lin Ze investigated a rat-catching company tied to a slaughterhouse and followed the clues to a secret gathering at Warehouse Seven. After witnessing the group summon a moth-shaped shadow, he was singled out for a trial and followed the woman deeper into the warehouse.

• Mr. K told Lin Ze that the Sailor Pest and Rodent Control Company was linked to Warehouse Seven and a slaughterhouse that received live sheep every month.
• Lin Ze arrived at Warehouse Seven and joined a gathering of people holding metal tubes.
• The attendees dropped wriggling black lumps into a brass basin as the woman in black recited a strange prayer.
• The black lumps burst into mist that formed a moth, and the gathered people begged their great ancestor for power to fight wizards.
• The woman told Lin Ze he had not undergone the trial and led him deeper into the warehouse.

Lin Ze infiltrated a secret gathering, drank the group’s supposed holy blood, and suspected a powerful wizard was using its members as blood sources. After visiting Mia and Barty Crouch Jr. at St. Mungo’s, he received a letter reporting that a Muggle had been murdered at Warehouse Seven, leaving him with a fresh lead.

• Lin Ze drank the woman’s holy blood after secretly using magic on it, passed the trial, and received a black paper summons from Miriam.
• Lin Ze suspected the organization’s Blood Leech Rings were draining its members’ blood for a powerful wizard and resolved to investigate the next gathering.
• Lin Ze visited Mia at St. Mungo’s, where she warned him that Barty Crouch Jr. might have seen the scales on his body.
• Lin Ze checked on Barty Crouch Jr., who asked about the case, but Lin Ze gave him no details.
• An owl delivered a letter signed K reporting that a Muggle had been found drained of blood at Warehouse Seven, and Lin Ze burned the letter after reading it.

Lin Ze investigated the Old Port murder scene, learned from Carl that the cult’s blood was cursed, and questioned Riddle’s Diary about the missing wizards and the vampire Flamel had sealed away. Riddle suspected the cult was feeding the vampire, so Lin Ze sent Ben to search Ministry records for a pure-blood family linked to dark creatures.

• Lin Ze returned to Warehouse Seven, found the basement entrance sealed, and noticed a broad-shouldered man watching him before the stranger disappeared among the cargo.
• Lin Ze gave Carl the cult’s blood for analysis, and she detected a subtle curse in the old, layered liquid.
• Lin Ze asked Riddle’s Diary about Flamel’s sealed vampire and described the recent cases of wizards drained of blood and magic.
• Riddle suggested the cult was collecting blood and magic to restore the vampire, and recalled a pure-blood family once purged by Dumbledore for keeping dark creatures.
• Lin Ze asked Ben to search a century of Ministry records for a pure-blood family tied to dark creatures.

Lin Ze investigated the Mulciber family’s history and wondered whether they were connected to the Muggle cult and the sealed vampire. After discussing the family with Amelia, he returned to the Old Port, where a sudden tremor and an approaching figure interrupted his surveillance.

• Ben told Lin Ze that the Mulciber family had once controlled much of the wizarding carriage trade and that Myle Mulciber had recently been sent to Azkaban.
• Lin Ze persuaded Pick to lend him the key to the sealed archives and read the Mulciber files, which described the family’s dealings with vampires and Dumbledore’s intervention.
• Lin Ze wondered whether the Mulcibers were behind the Muggle cult, but Amelia said Myle had suffered a brain injury during his arrest and was barely functional in Azkaban.
• Lin Ze returned to the Old Port and watched Warehouse Seven, then spotted a black car with an open rear door and heard someone approaching after the ground shook.

Lin Ze rescued Ryan Watt from the Dark Night Society and learned that the group drained its members’ blood through embedded rings. After Ryan left, Lin Ze realized he might have been tracked, but returned too late to save him from being drained to death.

• Lin Ze hid Ryan Watt in a narrow passage and learned that the Dark Night Society had recruited him by promising justice for his murdered wife.
• Ryan told Lin Ze that the Society treated members like blood banks, using embedded Blood Leech Rings to collect their blood at gatherings.
• Lin Ze gave Ryan an address for specialists who could remove the ring, then contacted Ben about notifying the Ministry of Magic departments handling Muggle incidents.
• Lin Ze went to Water Snipe Alley and realized Ryan might have been carrying something that could track him.
• Lin Ze Apparated back to find Ryan dead and told Ben there was no need to notify the other Ministry departments.

After Ryan Watt was killed, Lin Ze learned about Ryan’s family and arranged money for his sister. He investigated Old Mulciber’s possible ties to vampires and tracked down the location of Grey Mist Manor, where the old wizard was said to be alive.

• Lin Ze found Ryan Watt dead and later asked Ben to identify his family, then arranged for Ryan’s sister to receive money in his coworkers’ name.
• Ben told Lin Ze that Ryan’s wife, Daisy Watt, had disappeared three years earlier and that Ryan’s older sister lived in Croydon.
• Lin Ze asked Bellatrix about the Mulciber family, and she described Old Mulciber as a quiet observer who carried an aura of dark magic.
• Lin Ze went to the Crow’s Nest in Knockturn Alley and paid an old bartender for information about Old Mulciber.
• The bartender told Lin Ze that Old Mulciber lived at Grey Mist Manor, had not received visitors for decades, and was still alive; Lin Ze asked how to reach the manor.

Lin Ze visited the declining Mulciber family to investigate whether the vampire sealed by Flamel had returned. Old Mulciber revealed that the vampire had never died and recounted how his family’s pursuit of immortality led Albus to purge them and strengthen the seal.

• Lin Ze showed his Ministry badge to Meep and was admitted to the Mulciber manor to speak with old Mulciber.
• Lin Ze asked about the blood race and the vampire Flamel had sealed, and old Mulciber said the creature had never died.
• Old Mulciber explained that a Mulciber ancestor had helped Flamel seal the vampire, but his father later sought immortality and found the sealed creature’s location.
• Old Mulciber said Albus came to the manor, purged the family members involved, and reinforced the seal, leaving the Mulcibers disgraced and isolated.

Lin Ze learned from old Mulciber that five people had helped seal the vampire, and he agreed to keep Mulciber’s son alive in Azkaban in exchange for their names. After learning what a Magic God was, Lin Ze went to 12 Grimmauld Place to search the Black family records for clues, but Kreacher refused to let him inside.

• Old Mulciber denied knowing the vampire and gave Lin Ze the names of five people involved in sealing it in exchange for help keeping his son alive in Azkaban.
• Lin Ze asked Pick about Magic Gods, and Pick described them as wizards who could touch the world’s rules and said Dumbledore had nearly reached that level.
• Pick said Dumbledore had stopped himself from becoming a Magic God, while Grindelwald had pursued a different path.
• Lin Ze wrote down the names Fearn Borgin, Chivalis Black, Vadi Gaunt, Casa Longbottom, and Hugh Greengrass, then decided to search the Black family home for information.
• Lin Ze arrived at 12 Grimmauld Place with whisky and Cockroach Clusters, but Kreacher blocked the entrance despite acknowledging that Sirius had allowed Lin Ze to visit.

Lin Ze visited Sirius at the old Black house to investigate his ancestor Chivalis Black and searched the family library for clues. A Revealing Charm led them to a concealed, cobweb-covered door that Sirius had never known about.

• Kreacher refused to let Lin Ze enter the house until Sirius returned and invited him inside.
• Lin Ze explained his investigation into the vampires and asked Sirius what he knew about Chivalis Black.
• Sirius found Chivalis on the family tree and learned that the ancestor had never married or had children.
• Sirius led Lin Ze to the Black family library, where Lin Ze used a Revealing Charm to find a hidden door behind a faded curtain.
• Sirius said he had never known the door was there.

Lin Ze and Sirius searched a secret room in the Black family home and found Chivalis Black’s account of a vampire hunt with Nicolas Flamel. The account pointed to the ruins of the Icon Church as the vampire progenitor’s possible hiding place, and Lin Ze returned to the Ministry to search for records.

• Lin Ze searched the secret room’s books and scrolls for information about Chivalis Black, while Sirius found a box of animal teeth.
• Lin Ze discovered a letter signed by Chivalis Black explaining that he had collected the fangs from blood thralls killed at a vampire lair beneath the ruins of the Icon Church.
• Lin Ze used a spell to reveal that Nicolas Flamel had sealed the vampire progenitor in an alchemical coffin, but the letter gave no exact location.
• Lin Ze took the letter, left the fangs in the secret room, and said goodbye to Sirius.
• Lin Ze Apparated to the Ministry of Magic to look for records identifying the ruins of the Icon Church.

Lin Ze learned that the Icon Church near Brighton had been destroyed by a ley line shift and received a message that the Holy Lord would appear at Brighton Pier. He led a small team to investigate, where he found Miriam among a gathering of robed figures.

• Lin Ze asked Pick to search the Ministry records and learned that the Icon Church north of Brighton had been destroyed by a ley line shift in 1712.
• Lin Ze received a message from the Dark Night Society saying the Holy Lord would attend Brighton Pier at ten the next night, then planned an operation with Amos, Arthur, Barty Crouch Jr., and Mia.
• Lin Ze took the team to Brighton Pier the following evening and split them into pairs to watch the deserted pier.
• Lin Ze and Amos noticed blood-scented fog gathering over the pier and circled toward its thickest point.
• Lin Ze saw dozens of dark-robed people holding candles, with Miriam standing at the front.

Lin Ze and the other wizards interrupted Miriam’s sacrificial ritual at the docks, but the sacrifice summoned a supernatural presence aboard a black boat. As black mist spread across the dock and swallowed the kneeling Muggles, the wizards retreated, leaving the Holy Lord’s arrival underway.

• Lin Ze confirmed that Miriam’s followers were performing a sacrifice and told the wizards to wait before intervening.
• Amos and Barty Crouch Jr. attacked Miriam, but one of her men took both spells as the believers scattered and the dock caught fire.
• Miriam’s knife turned the black sheep into a wounded wizard, and she welcomed Lin Ze and the others as sacrifices for the Holy Lord.
• Blood-red light surged from the six-pointed star as Miriam convulsed, while Barty Crouch Jr.’s spell failed to penetrate the barrier around her.
• A black boat reached the dock, and black mist poured from it, extinguishing flames and freezing the planks as Lin Ze and the other wizards Apparated away.
• The black mist engulfed the kneeling Muggles, who ecstatically repeated that the night embraced them.