Newland was slightly stunned.

He recognized the bag.

He had just seen Si Gefen put the gold coins grabbed from the vault into this bag with his own eyes.

The opponent did not pick up many gold coins, and his facial expressions were extremely reluctant, as if he was completing an uncomfortable task.

These Newland didn't care about it originally.

After all, the other party's attitude towards Jin Jialong has nothing to do with him.

It's just, why did the other party throw the bag to him now?

Before Newland could think about it, Si Gefen walked a little further after throwing the bag, clasping his chest, looking like a stranger would not enter.

Occasionally, when he collided with Newland's eyes, there was even an unabashed contempt on his face.

It seems to be another matter. Is such a small amount of money worth it for you to bend over to pick it up? What a poor ghost!

If usual, Newland would definitely reply with a false smirk, and then plan how to retaliate afterwards.

It's just that the smile on Newland's face this time could not be maintained anyway.

He looked at Si Gefen with a complicated expression, and he hesitated for a while before he gritted his teeth and put all the treasures in his arms into the non-marking stretch bag.

At the same time, the large group of troops also returned to some underground caves in front of the Australian Protein Eye Fire Dragon under the command of Link.

The movement here is no less than when they were in the underground vault.

Nearly two dozen hunters are holding magic wands under the leadership of several old saints, and they are constantly releasing magic in the underground caves to break Gringotts' anti-phantom manifestation curse.

"How's the progress?"

Link came up without any nonsense, and asked blankly.

"I'm sorry, young master, we have already broken down to 90%, but..." An old saint wiped the sweat from his forehead, "but I didn't know why just now, the progress was instantly pushed back to 40%."

Hearing that Link did not have much disappointment or anger on his face.

He just raised his head and looked at the huge dark space above his head, with a hideous smile rising from the corner of his mouth.

Under normal circumstances, there is no reverse push at all.

If this happens, the only possibility is that the Aurors led by Scrimgeour had already started resetting the underground vault's Anti-Phantom Manifestation as early as the first time they entered the Gringotts.

Link now admires Scrimgeour a little bit.

I have to say that it makes sense for him to be the head of the Auror's office and to be loved by so many Aurors and hitters.

Every decision of Scrimgeour today has stepped on Link's vitals, especially the order to directly attack the underground vault.

But... what about then?

As we all know, burglary, when discovered, has a high probability of turning into burglary.

He brought so many elite old saints and hunters in, but he didn't just want to be a thief.

"Attention everyone! Implement plan B and prepare for battle!"

Link roared loudly.

And heard that the hunters and the saints are full of fierce faces.

There was no shouting and no answer.

Everyone silently turned off the fluorescence from the tip of the rod, and quickly dispersed to occupy the favorable terrain in the cave. The more elite elite dragon hunters took out several dragon hunting crossbows from the non-marking stretch bag and erected them. stand up.

Link has used these powerful ballistas for hunting dragons before.

It's just that it was installed on the Pegasus last time. Due to the consideration of mobility, the one with the least power is used.

But the dragon hunting crossbow set up this time is completely different.

The fully equipped dragon hunting crossbow has reached an astonishing height of 2 meters. Through the internally enlarged energy storage device and transmission device, although the rate of fire has been changed from the mobile version from 5 seconds to 30 seconds, it is powerful. Increased by more than 10 times!

An adult fire dragon of normal size will lose its combat effectiveness and be forced to land as long as it is hit twice in a row.

In a sense, this can no longer be called a crossbow bolt or a ballista.

It's a real magic cannon!

Both Newland and Si Gefen were confused by the murderous scene before them.

After experiencing the short ‘gold coin picking incident’ before, their original perception of these hunters has gradually changed from the initial ‘bandits’ and ‘killers’ to amiable partners.

The amazing specialization of these hunters at the moment has caused them a huge shock.

Not just them.

The Australian protein eyes in the cave next door are also lying at the entrance of the cave, observing every move here.

Although its eyes have degraded, its perception in the dark is not advancing or retreating, and it is even enough to allow it to move freely, and even to perceive the detailed changes around it.

This is quite proud of it.

But now, it regrets so much that it has trained its perception so well.

Because it had just turned its attention to this side, a powerful murderous aura that was different from the previous Link's coercion spread over it.

The main source of these murderous auras is those dragon hunting crossbows.

The countless fire dragon souls entwined on it directly frightened it back to the corner, trembling non-stop.

...

at the same time.

Link and others are above the orbit of the sky above the wall.

The first and second Auror units, led by Scrimgeour, were flying down the track in railcars.

All the members of the First Auror Troop followed closely behind Scrimgeour's rail car, raising their magic wands one by one, with a high concentration of mental energy, always vigilant for possible attacks.

As for the second Auror unit, it was focused on resetting the Anti-Phantom Manifestation Curse that had been almost completely eliminated by the hunters.

On a high-speed rail car, this task is particularly difficult.

Especially as Aurors, their level in this aspect is not high.

After all, the large-scale anti-phantom manifestation curse arrangement belongs to the professional category of the Magic Transportation Department.

That is, these Aurors haven't returned all the things they learned at Hogwarts to the professor, otherwise they don't even know how to start.

Turning to look at the sweaty and awkward Auror players, Scrimgeour snorted dissatisfiedly.

This way of expressing anger is already very polite to him.

He is a real man with iron and blood.

Ruthless to the enemy, and the same to his own people.

Otherwise, he wouldn't make the decision to let the other Aurors fight against the Death Eaters in Gringotts and wait for death, and then bring someone to directly raid the underground vault.

For other things, he had already started corporal punishment or slapped him.

But this time he really couldn't blame the Auror players.

"Ugh--"

Scrimgeour let out a long sigh, and a trace of unwillingness and regret was extremely rare on his face.

After all, the current Auror troops are too weak.

If it were the Auror troops during the Second Wizarding War, this kind of thing would never happen right now!

All the Aurors at that time were all-rounders!

Reconnaissance, vigilance, tactics, potion making, healing techniques, large-scale magic spell layout...

All of these, there is no Auror unit that is not good at.

Especially Aristo Moody.

In this rumor, the legendary Auror, who had arrested nearly half of the Death Eaters alone, showed an extraordinary ability that was almost omniscience and a tenacious will to fight.

Unfortunately, all this is in the past tense.

The beginning of the Second Wizarding War made the Auror's forces swell to the highest point in history and became the trend of the times.

But also with the end of the Second Wizarding War, the Auror troops began to weaken rapidly.

The chief culprit for this situation is the administrative officials headed by Barty Crouch the old and Cornelius Fudge.

Scrimgeour and other old Aurors referred to these people as ‘shameless thieves who stole the fruits of victory in the war’.

After the victory of the Second Wizarding War, these ‘thieves’ lived peacefully with the Auror for a not-so-long honeymoon period, but immediately raised their butcher knife.

The Auror troops and the striker troops were immediately abolished and dismembered on a large scale.

A large number of veterans were forced to "disarm and return to the fields," and the funds of the two troops were cut by half.

From the perspective of the leader, Scrimgeour actually understood the behavior of these ‘thief’s.

The Auror and the striker troops are really burning money.

The Jin Jialong required to maintain these two troops is an astronomical figure.

This didn't matter during the war. The Ministry of Magic and its nobles even waved the Gringotts bills to get the Aurors to accept them, as long as these troops could stop Voldemort.

But in peace times, this is a bit wrong.

Infrastructure, business, education, people's livelihood, international exchanges, officials' salaries and corruption...

Which one doesn't need money?

Why should everyone stubbornly cede funds to the Auror and the Battering Department?

What's more, after defeating the evil dragon of Death Eaters, the Aurors and the strikers themselves became the new evil dragon.

With such a strong military strength there, what if the director of the Auror office starts to kill himself with a weapon?

Isn't the third wizarding war about to start again?

Therefore, whether it is viewed from the perspective of the high-level Ministry of Magic or the low-level people, the Auror and the striker must be reduced.

Just that being said, Scrimgeour was an old Auror besides being a leader.

He really couldn't bear that group of ‘thieves’ actions of unloading the grievance and killing the donkey.

Now the equipment level and personnel quality of the Auror and striker units have been reduced to the lowest point in history under the Ministry of Magic's perennial ‘economic control’.

Moreover, there were many criteria for the abolition of Aurors and Batterers.

This resulted in a large number of old Aurors and old strikers being forced to leave the army.

It's just that after these old Aurors and old hitters have experienced years of battle, almost all of them have the same disabilities as Mad-Eye Moody.

But the severance pay given by the Ministry of Magic is pitifully small.

Do you expect this group of disabled veterans with no other survival skills to go home with such a small amount of severance pay to continue to work and support their families?

How can this be!

Moreover, industry and commerce had not fully recovered after the war.

Even if this group of disabled veterans wants to go to work, no one wants them.

They actually have no other choice at all.

Faced with such a situation, there were only a small part of the veterans who were really honest and safe at that time, and most of the remaining veterans were either dedicated to the rich family (the hunter group of the Forli family relied on a large number of retired Aurors during that period. It's really developed after joining), or just squeezed into the Knockdown Alley to "fall the grass as a bandit" and become a real dark wizard.

So the last thing Scrimgeour wanted to see still happened.

The former colleagues have become the enemies of today.

Even just now, in the Death Eater team, Scrimgeour had seen several familiar but unfamiliar faces.

The two people were separated on the battlefield and reunited on the battlefield, but when they met again, their positions were completely different.

He must admit that he ordered the underground treasury to be the primary target of the conquest, in addition to the actual needs, but also the unwillingness to face his former comrades-in-arms.

Thinking about this, Scrimgeour closed his eyes in pain.

But before he continued to be silent for too long in the painful memories, a violent explosion made it easy to come from his side.

boom--

The powerful shock wave engulfed the sky of fire and slammed into the rail car, almost flying Scrimgeour and others away.

Scrimgeour opened his eyes sharply.

The painful complexion in his eyes was gone, and all that was left was firmness and solemnity.

"The attack comes from below. From the point of view of intensity, it should be a fixed dragon hunting crossbow or a magic cannon!" Assistant Auror reported in a loud voice for the first time. Two teams (6 people, one team of 3 people), and one team was seriously injured. Although many of the others were overturned by the shockwave, they did not suffer much damage and could continue to fight. !"

Scrimgeour did not answer after hearing this, but quickly reacted, standing up and commanding in an extremely calm voice:

"Everyone, put out the magic wand in your hand, use the squad as a unit, use the three-three system to silently advance, and launch an attack downward!"

The Auror team, which was originally bright as a long dragon, instantly turned into darkness.

The Aurors quickly jumped off the railcar, temporarily suspended in the air with the flying spell and the floating spell, and then the leading troops quickly slew down.

The squad at the rear was not idle either, and while continuing to hurry, it was still throwing spells at locations where there might be enemies.

All kinds of curses fell from the sky like a curtain of rain.

Seeing this ~lightnovelpub.net~, the hunters below are all calm.

Especially the corner of Link's mouth raised a sneer.

From a tactical point of view, Scrimgeour's decision was not at all wrong. Facing the situation where there is a block (hunter) in front of him and a chaser (Death Eater) in the back, only by finding the right direction and attacking the next side can victory be possible.

The only mistake he made was to overestimate the Auror troops, and to underestimate Link's hunters and old saints.

When it comes to the quality of personnel, the elite hunters and old saints are actually no weaker than the ‘new’ soldiers that Scrimgeour has carefully selected from the top students at Hogwarts.

The equipment of the hunters and the old saints is also much better than the Aurors because of the investment of the Forli family and the Beckman family at all costs.

What's more, there is such a particularly outstanding combat power as Link.

The fate of Scrimgeour and Aurors on this trip is actually already doomed!