Casting is a traditional craft of Europeans.

Especially on religious statues, with the blessing of faith, they will always devote themselves to experiences that are unimaginable to ordinary people, and strive for excellence.

The most typical example is the statues in various cathedrals in Europe.

No matter what material they are made of, it's hard to imagine that someone could cast such a lifelike statue in an era when technology and productivity were so low.

However, the bronze statue that appeared in front of Link and Emily at the moment was an exception.

This bronze statue with the theme of the Nativity of the Virgin is as tall as a person. It looks like an assembly line product cast in a large factory. Its shape is rigid, its expression is rigid, and its joints are unreasonable.

Link even suspected that she should be hollow inside.

And because it has been exposed to the wind and the sun all the year round, or the quality of the copper material is too poor.

This bronze statue, which should have been shining brightly in the sun, has now been covered with a gray-black layer, making it look dirty.

The only part of the whole bronze statue that is as clean as new is the open-mindedness of the Virgin Mary ready to feed her.

There was still a beautiful brass color shining there, so bright that no one dared to look directly at it.

Any adult with basic education and common sense of life should be aware of the reasons for this phenomenon.

If all the people present were men, everyone would probably smile tacitly.

But the problem is, there is still this girl here.

"Humph!"

Emily snorted coldly and glanced over Dumbledore's whole body with a scumbag look, making Dumbledore extremely embarrassed.

For this kind of ironclad evidence that was put in front of him, even though Dumbledore did not do it, Dumbledore couldn't explain it.

So he simply didn't explain it, and after touching his nose, he went straight to the statue.

"This statue is actually the entrance, we just need to touch it lightly..."

As Dumbledore spoke, he lightly touched the arm of the statue.

The next moment, the scenery around Link and the others suddenly changed.

The magnificent castle and the Muggles who came and went all disappeared, replaced by a square shrouded in various magical neon signs and towering magical buildings.

Even the rough statue of the Virgin became a statue of a girl nearly five meters tall, with a strong face, wearing armor, and holding a giant flag.

On the base of the statue is also written in French and English - Respect the greatest witch: Joan of Arc!

"Joan of Arc?"

Link couldn't help but read the words on the base with a very strange expression.

Of course Joan of Arc knew.

The great hero of France, who debuted at the age of thirteen this year, practiced the will of "God" as a young girl, led a group of French men to expel foreign enemies, and pulled the building down.

Hundreds of years later, Joan of Arc was canonized as a Catholic saint.

How could such a character be a witch?

This is so weird!

But if you think about it carefully, there seems to be such a possibility.

After all, Joan of Arc was convicted of heresy and witches by the Inquisition under the control of the Inquisition after being captured by the country at the age of nineteen, and was burned alive.

Originally, from the Muggle perspective, this was another stupid act of the Popes.

But now, it seems that people burned it, right?

"Alas! Jeanne!"

Dumbledore saw Link's puzzlement and explained with a sigh, "She is a great hero in the French magic world. In her time, the world of wizards was not as peaceful as it is now.

There are not a few people who have the ambition to unify the wizards of the world.

At that time, the French magic world suffered an unprecedented major invasion.

Facing an invasion of this intensity, the French wizards had no resistance at all.

Then, Jeanne stood up.

She learned the enemy's way, united the Muggle power and the wizard power in France, drove out the external wizard invasion in a cooperative manner, and returned the French wizards to freedom.

But in the end, she herself was captured by the enemy wizard and brutally killed. "

Having said that, Dumbledore touched his nose again, embarrassed and ashamed.

Link and Emily also had strange expressions.

Because according to the records of the history of magic, the Wizard of Granville launched an expedition to the French magic world around the 15th century.

So what Joan of Arc fought against was the Wizard of Granger?

Emily shook her head, and still asked somewhat puzzled:

"I still don't quite understand. Since Joan of Arc is a witch, how did she get involved with religion? She was even named a saint! Those religions and wizards have always been opposites!"

Hearing this, Dumbledore smiled without saying a word, while Link shook his head and explained:

"It's not hard to understand. Wizards are also human beings, and they need belief. The object of their belief may be an idea, a family, or a specific deity.

Therefore, there are actually not many wizards who submit to religion.

The most typical example is the ghost of our Hufflepuff Academy - the fat monk.

That guy is a high-ranking cleric!

With his devotion to the gods and the ability brought by magic, if he survives, he might even become the Pope.

But he was too arrogant.

He never avoids people when he casts spells, whether it's using his wand to get rid of chickenpox on a believer or conjuring a rabbit out of the sacrament.

You may not understand that the most staunch atheists in the world are actually those senior believers in the Holy See.

So in the face of these "miracles", the fat monk was naturally executed by the fearful senior believers. "

Emily nodded and didn't ask any further questions.

But there was still resentment and dissatisfaction in her sight when she looked at the statue of Joan of Arc.

She still didn't understand why Joan of Arc and the other wizards joined the Holy See.

The witch hunt wave set off by the Holy See has swept across Europe for 300 years!

Although it's almost impossible for these Muggles to catch a real witch.

The ones burned to death by them as witches were mostly just ordinary Muggle women.

However, there are still a large number of girls under the age of eleven who have just awakened their magic power, causing the surrounding mutation to be caught and executed.

These girls are not strictly wizards, but they can already be said to be wizard seeds.

From Emily's point of view, this is no different from slaughtering wizards.

People like Joan of Arc and the fat monk naturally became traitors among wizards!

Taking a deep breath, Emily turned her eyes away from the statue of Joan of Arc, and followed Link, Dumbledore and the others to the pedestrian street not far away.

It is said to be a pedestrian street.

But in fact, the street that appeared in front of Link and others was dozens of meters wide, enough for horse racing.

Just as everyone walked into the street, they saw a huge magic lamp on the front.

The above is still clearly written in bilingual - Lion Heart Street.

Lionheart?

Why is the core street of wizard business in France called Lionheart?

Link's expression became weird again.

Because the word lion heart has always represented the country.

For example, the insignia of the Muggle Kingship of the Muggle Kingdom is engraved with a lion.

Another example is the very famous King Charles I of Langland, whose title is the Lionheart.

But this time, Link quickly figured out why.

Obviously, the Joan of Arc on the square just now did not completely drive out the Granite invaders as the French wizards boasted.

At least on the wizarding level.

On the Muggle side, France has indeed won the Hundred Years War and completed its unification.

However, the wizards of France are very likely to be essentially destroyed by the wizards of the Granger and colonized.

The reason why it is not written in name may be to better rule this group of French wizards.

This also happens to explain why even the description on the statue of Joan of Arc has to be written in both English and French.

Otherwise, it depends on the feud between France and France.

No French wizard who killed a French wizard would write English on his iconic hero statue.

After understanding all this, Link's mentality changed.

He began to stop observing everything around him from the perspective of a foreigner.

After changing his perspective, he found that the buildings in this Lion Heart Street really had a strong patriotic style.

The only difference between the two is that the buildings in Lionheart Street are larger, more spectacular and more ornate than Diagon Alley.

But the commonalities between the magic worlds of the two countries are limited to that.

In other respects, the magic world of the country and the magic world of France are so different that they are like two completely different planets!

For example, pedestrians on the street.

Although wizards like fancy clothes has become a consensus among Muggles and wizards.

Link and Emily are also used to the costumes of wizards from other countries.

But facing the strange clothes of wizards coming and going on Lionheart Street at the moment, Link and Emily were still surprised.

Compared with the French wizards, the wizards in the country are dressed like normal Muggle office workers!

The weird hairstyles and costumes of the French wizards almost turned this street into a Halloween celebration scene.

The difference in goods between the two countries is even greater.

Under the monopoly of the Wizengamore oligarchs, the commercial system of the country is basically in a state of shock.

It's hard for wizards to see imported products on Diagon Alley.

In other words, Link's Foley family relied on the good relationship with Fudge in recent years, and later Barty and Percy directly emptied the Ministry of Magic before importing some imported goods.

As for the rest of the imported goods, they were all blocked by the exaggerated tariffs deliberately set by the Wizengamore oligarchs.

The direct result of this is that in terms of commodity abundance, Diagon Alley and Lionheart Street are not comparable at all.

Hard to describe.

Diagon Alley is like a humble canteen in a remote village that sells products such as "six nuclear bombs", while Lionheart Street is a super-large supermarket chain in the city.

Such a huge difference made Emily almost crazy happy at first.

She madly dragged Link into every store, no matter if it was useful or not, she just bought and bought for a while.

The most outrageous thing is that she even bought herself and Link a pullover cloak that almost everyone on Lionheart Street owns.

The shape of this kind of cloak is created based on various magical creatures, and some of the more expensive ones are even made from the skins and skulls of the same magical creatures.

According to the clerk, these were all inspired by their famous designers from the spirit of nature revered by the horse people.

As long as you put on these cloaks, you can have a special sense of substitution, as if you have transformed into those magical animals and integrated with nature!

The natural spirit of the horse people is not like this!

Link, who had just communicated with the centaur Firenze not long ago, knew this too well.

And ah.

Why do these cloaks look like the lion heads used for lion dances in the Celestial Dynasty?

The only difference between them is that the lion head is turned into a poisonous horned beast head, a thunderbird head, a poisonous leopard head...

However, they are also very expensive, and they dare to sell two cloaks for purely decorative purposes for 500 gold Galleons!

This is simply outrageous. His mother opened the door for outrageous, outrageous home!

Fortunately, Emily's crazy behavior stopped immediately after a while.

She reached out and moved the poison sack leopard cape she was wearing on her head, the same style as Link's, and said in a rather depressed mood:

"Link, why do you think Diagon Alley is so different from here?"

Hearing this, Link almost instinctively wanted to throw out the oligopoly theory he had previously thought.

But when the words came to his mouth, he suddenly stopped.

Staring at the various magic lights shining brightly around, Link pondered for a moment and said solemnly:

"The oligopoly of the Wizengamore MPs is the main reason for the growing gap between Diagon Alley and Lionheart Street. But the underlying reason for this to happen is - the Second Wizarding War!"

"The Second Wizarding War?"

Emily frowned and repeated.

Even Dumbledore looked sideways when he heard the words.

"Yes, it's because of the Second Wizarding War." Link said decisively, "The terrifying cloud called Voldemort has hovered over the magical world of the country for too long, and in that tragic war, the magic circle of the country has Lost almost 30% of the young and middle-aged population.

Of course, it doesn't mean that all these people were killed.

Most of these people have fled to other countries.

And there are a large number of emerging nobles who have made the same choice as these people.

These wizards from not very good backgrounds hold a lot of wealth and industry in their hands.

But because of their fear of Voldemort, they transferred all their industry and wealth abroad.

This is a devastating blow to the industry and commerce of the magical world of the country.

It is also officially because after that time, the magic of the whole country has completely declined, and it has become the private property of a small number of people. "

"Clap clap clap..."

As soon as Link finished speaking, there was a loud applause.

Dumbledore applauded and said:

"That's amazing! Link! Your opinion on the current state of the wizarding world in this country is absolutely right! If we were still at Hogwarts, just based on what you said just now, I should give you a full credit. percentage!"

Although Dumbledore's remarks sounded like 'I have time to invite you to dinner', it was perfunctory~lightnovelpub.net~, but adhering to the idea of ​​respecting the old and caring for the young, Link still asked Dumbledore Lido bowed slightly and bowed.

It was also a response.

At this time, Emily was completely lost in thought after listening to Link's explanation.

Before that, Emily had never thought about the state of the Ministry of Magic in the country, and even she had learned the history of magic very well.

But her situation is somewhat similar to Hermione's. When learning these histories, she just memorizes them by rote, and lacks the ability to think divergently.

And what Link just said opened up a new way of thinking for her.

Let her think along this line of thought in her own way.

This is definitely a great thing for Emily.

Therefore, neither Link nor Dumbledore meant to disturb Emily at this time.

The group escorted Emily, who was in deep thought, as they walked forward.

And finally, it appeared under a huge plaque of pure gold.

A line of French is clearly engraved on the plaque - Zangwill's Wand!

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