Chapter 412 Extreme Madness

( ) When Maca was exchanging information with Sirius, in the basement of an old wizard mansion.

"...Your Excellency Greenwald, the research has made great progress, and our original goal has come to an end! Now that you have come out, why don't you lead us to restart the reform like you did back then?"

In this gloomy basement, a white-haired old wizard in a large wizard robe and with his hair tied up in disorder was waving his arms and shouting crazily at the wall.

And on the brick wall covered with moss, there is a mercury mirror that glows black and purple and has some kind of magic spell.

In that mirror, a blurry figure seemed to be looking straight ahead.

"Your Excellency Greenwald! Why don't you speak?" The old wizard said madly, "Didn't your Excellency say that back then? We will no longer have to curl up under the jurisdiction of others, and we will no longer have to be like the rats committed to the sewer We will live the same life, and we will no longer have to hide our true selves!"

"But now, why are we stagnant? You have come out of Dumbledore's restraint! What else do we have to fear?"

"Look at that junior from England. Some time ago, even he dared to attack Hogwarts where Dumbledore was still there! Now Dumbledore is gone!"

"Your Excellency Greenwald, do we still need to continue to shrink back? What are we afraid of? Before... If it was before...Your Excellency, you were fearless even when you were arrested by the Magical Congress of America!"

The old wizard's eyes were rounded, and the mania was so full that it seemed to overflow from his heart.

Fifty-three years! Grinwald was defeated by Dumbledore, and the entire "reform" was forced to disappear, but his most loyal and talented follower never gave up, and stayed dormant in the United States for a full fifty-three years!

During these fifty-three years, he has been carefully preparing everything all the time. Even though he had nothing with Greenwald's downfall, he was still working hard.

At that time, he and Greenwald started the research project on the Obscure, and during the fifty-three years, he has been persisting.

No matter how difficult the research environment is, no matter how difficult it is to raise funds, he never thought of giving up.

However, although his talent in magic research surpassed many ordinary wizards, magic geniuses like Greenwald and Dumbledore were far beyond his reach after all.

His research results, as Maca says of his research, are rather "boring." But in fact, he himself is not clear about this.

In the first 30 years or so before he hid in the Muggle world, he carried out thousands or tens of thousands of detections and analyzes of the strange energy in the Obscure's body day and night.

However, his theoretical knowledge of magic was not enough for him to understand the nature of that energy from the very beginning.

When a researcher doesn't even know "what" the research object is, it will be like walking on thin ice just trying to take the first step, let alone the road to go later.

It is often after walking a long distance that he realizes in the process that he actually made a wrong first step!

However, he happened to be a "genius who worked hard." His extraordinary perseverance made him never give up. If he went the wrong way, he would start all over again.

Because of this, more than 30 years of his life was wasted by him on meaningless wandering.

After failing countless times, he suddenly realized that he seemed to have embarked on a completely unnecessary and difficult path of exploration.

And it was that time of "awakening" that made him change the object of his research.

That's right, he no longer craved that weird energy, but instead changed the research object to the carrier of that energy, that is, the Obscure One himself!

As a magic researcher, he naturally understands that this is undoubtedly a path that betrays the spirit of magic research; but he also understands that this is definitely a "shortcut" for him!

Even if it's boring, what he needs, what Greenwald needs, is the results of research. In this regard, he thinks he is completely right.

Therefore, during the last twenty years of his dormancy in the United States, he poured his perseverance and determination into those batch after batch of children.

Not to mention the cruel behavior he did to those children as a researcher, in terms of "love" for those children alone, he, who has never been married in his life, is no less than any pair of parents.

Even the "love" in his heart is an extremely distorted "love".

In this way, fifty-three years have passed, and with the help of some black magic created with painstaking efforts, as well as his careful "transformation" of those children, the final fruits are finally about to be reaped!

And at this moment, Dumbledore just happened to die!

Overjoyed, he went to Germany for the first time, and after discovering that there were magic and giant guards set up by Dumbledore, he desperately contacted Voldemort again.

After many twists and turns, the great dark wizard he once admired the most finally stepped out of Nurmengard.

But he never expected that the object of his admiration seemed to have undergone some inexplicable changes during the fifty-three years of being imprisoned on the top floor of the Nurmengard Tower.

He didn't realize it at first, because the joy of reunion overwhelmed him.

When they met for the first time on the German border, he couldn't help but marvel at the changes in Lord Greenwald, because he felt that the current dark wizard seemed to be more powerful than fifty-three years ago.

But just recently, he finally discovered that the will of Lord Greenwald disappeared!

Leaving aside the previous series of instructions, let’s just say this time—isn’t it just a young wizard who can train magical creatures? Why did Lord Greenwald back down so repeatedly?

Not only ordered him to abandon the four "very obedient children", but even asked him to transfer his base immediately? These are all the painstaking efforts he has worked so hard to manage all these years alone!

But the other party is Your Excellency Greenwald, even if something has changed, but your Excellency is still your Excellency.

He is a person who can devote fifty-three years to a research project, and he will not change his original intention because of this matter. Deep down in his heart, he still firmly believed that Lord Greenwald back then would come back!

"...Your Excellency Greenwald, our Obscure Army is almost complete! We can use this force to silence all opposition voices! We will realize your great ideal at the beginning!"

The old sorcerer opened his arms, and expressed the surging in his heart in an extremely passionate and old voice. He stared closely at the blurred figure in the mirror, and his bloodshot eyes were filled with a kind of extremely suppressed madness.

"Your Excellency Greenwald! Your Excellency Gellert Greenwald!" He once again shouted the greatest name in his mind.

"...Lenny."

In that mirror, a voice came out for the first time today. Even though the voice sounded a little muddy and even hard to distinguish, the old wizard in front of the mirror was still quite excited.

"You... went the wrong way."

"Your Excellency?" The gray-haired old wizard Lenny paused, a trace of doubt mixed with the madness on his face.

"No, it's not that you went the wrong way..." The figure in the mirror shook his head slightly, and said softly, "You did a good job, very good! At least, if it was me back then, I would definitely be grateful for your perseverance and I am happy with the results. You have thought through my original ideals very thoroughly, and you have exceeded the expectations I gave you back then..."

"However, this path is wrong, insufficient, and...very childish." Greenwald in the mirror said calmly, "Yes, it's all because of me——the one who was not yet The mature me made you go the wrong way."

"Greenwald... Your Excellency?" The old wizard Lenny's madness was gone, he just stared at the mirror in front of him, not knowing what he was thinking.

"Lenny, my old friend—"

Greenwald's voice still seemed a little fuzzy, but what he said next seemed like a blunt knife had been cut in Old Lenny's heart, tearing his longing for Greenwald scarred.

"In the fifty-three years in the Nurmengard Tower, Albus only came to see me once." Greenwald said quietly, "Just recently, just recently... Do you know what he said to me? ?”

"He said that my initial thoughts and his were not wrong. We wizards are different from ordinary people from the beginning to the end. However, my approach was wrong, and it was outrageously wrong."

"Wizards are lonely, and they will eventually advance desperately on the road of magic, but this does not mean that we are superior to Muggles. We have our own way, and Muggles also have their own. the journey of your own life.”

Speaking of this, Greenwald's voice suddenly became a little weird, as if a new will was rising in his heart.

"Lenny," he suddenly changed his voice, and there was a touch of sternness in his tone, "I'm sorry for you, I wasted your life... because of you..."

"...just an ordinary wizard that can be seen everywhere."

Before the words fell, with a crisp "click", the magic mercury mirror suddenly cracked a gap, and spread to every corner of the mirror in an instant.

Afterwards, the entire mirror fell off the brick wall with a "crash" and turned into fragments all over the floor.

In the basement, old Lenny stood blankly in front of the moss-covered brick wall, his pupils in a daze. After a long time, he slowly closed his eyes, and after a moment of silence, an almost pathological madness erupted in the eyes he opened again.