HP: Embrace the Darkness

Aces said sharply: "Then prove it to me."

Elise became furious and forced herself to look at the corpse on the ground, staring at it.

The eye sockets were slightly protruding due to exertion, and red blood streaks crept up into the eyeballs little by little. The tear-stained face showed determination to move forward.

Aces breathed a sigh of relief.

Merlin! He couldn't comfort Elise without Carter, so he could only use this method to force her to face it, just so that Elise could adapt to all this early.

The road to the future is destined to be bloody, and Elise and Carter who are following him will also embark on that bloody road.

Carter is not worried. Only Elise and the two have not figured out how to break the nightmare in her heart.

Now it seems that it was a mistake.

Asseth looked at Elise, who had calmed down, and was quite satisfied with her performance.

However, the next second, Elise's body swayed and she fell straight down.

Joel: "..."

Aces: "..."

Joel held the fainted Elise and looked at each other in the dark dungeon.

Aces raised his hand and threw a checking spell.

"Fainting caused by excessive mood swings."

His voice was complex and even a little speechless.

Joel's serious face almost lost its strength.

He stretched out his hand to pass the person over, but took two steps back before he got close to Asseth.

"Well... Elise has a boyfriend, and it's not convenient for me to hold him."

After saying that, fearing that Joel would force his way in, Asseth cautiously took three steps back again, keeping a fairly safe distance from Joel.

Joel watched his actions in disbelief.

"Then it's okay if I hold you? I'm not a man?"

Asseth glanced at him up and down, "I remember you are over sixty years old."

Joel took a deep breath. His years of self-restraint could not fail on Asseth's body.

Damn Asseth! He was actually asked to do heavy work as a 65-year-old man.

Aces saw the accusation on his face, and his first impression of Joel collapsed.

He must have been blind at the time to think that Joel was a serious person, which was obviously boring.

"Grandpa Joel, please hold me. We can get out quickly before Elise wakes up, otherwise the ghost bats in that passage and Elise..."

Artes gave Joel a "you know" look, and Joel understood what Artes meant.

He could only reluctantly put his face down and quickly walked out of the dungeon with Elise in his arms.

As soon as the two of them came out of the hall, Asses called Nina and asked Nina to take Elise back to the room.

Joel sat on the sofa, watching Ases and Nina talking, and always felt that something was wrong.

"Wait, why didn't we just call your house elf?"

Joel's voice interrupted the conversation between Asseth and Nina.

A smile flashed in Asseth's eyes.

Of course he "forgot".

Seeing his smile, Joel understood everything instantly and pretended to be angry and threw a roll of parchment at Asseth.

Yinqianqian threatened:

"This is your next task. If you can't complete it, just wait for me. I seem to remember that the portrait of someone with a disgraced face during a certain duel is still in my camera."

Joel liked the new Muggle SLR camera very much. He held it every day and took pictures from time to time.

Ever since he taught Artes and the two of them, the subjects of his photos have become two people who are in a mess.

"I seem to remember that I have a friend who is a reporter for the German newspaper Wizard. He has always been curious about Cavendish's heir."

Joel looked at Asseth's eyes and grinned.

"I seem to still... remember that before I came here, I heard that witches in Germany were very interested in a mysterious person who had never shown up."

Artes finally understood why Joel and Anna could play together.

Originally, he couldn't understand how Anna could have a common topic with a serious old man.

Now it seems that at least the two have exactly the same bad taste.

Taking the parchment, Asseth quickly scanned the contents.

On the parchment, there are information and pictures of several people. In the pictures, several people's ferocious and crazy faces are struggling and twisting inside.

Aces ignored their twisted faces and looked directly at the information below.

The information is comprehensive, everything from personal details to where they might appear is clearly written.

Joel also looked at the parchment and explained:

"A few of them are dark wizards who are wandering around. Most of them are notorious. You pick two to hunt down. The mission period is one week."

As soon as he finished speaking, he saw Asseth raising his hand to point at two people casually.

"It's just them."

Joel: "...don't you choose carefully?"

"Is there any difference? They are all heinous criminals."

Aces was not very concerned about the next task. He was thinking about another thing.

"Grandpa Joel, postpone this task for a few days. I will go to Nurmengard first."

"Okay, do you need me to send you there?"

"No, I can just go by myself."

Joel took a deep look at this child who seemed easy-going but was actually strong, and didn't insist anymore.

"As you wish, Master Cavendish."

It was Cavendish, not Asseth. The one who made the decision at this moment was undoubtedly Cavendish.

……

Time comes the next day.

Aces was the only one at the gate of Nurmengard Castle, and the cool wind blew his hair.

Broken hair was blown randomly to his forehead, casting shadows to cover the heaviness in his eyes.

Aces always felt uneasy about today's trip to Nurmengard.

He has been here for a while, but he still wants to stand for a while. He doesn't know what he will face next?

He... was afraid of the unknown.

And he always felt that the answer he got during this trip might not be what he wanted.

After staying at the door for a long time, Asseth walked into the castle...and the prison.

Because he had informed Grindelwald by letter in advance, Grindelwald was the only one in Nurmengard Castle today.

Aces walked very slowly, and every step he took made a heavy sound.

Heavy footsteps echoed on the empty staircase, announcing the guest's arrival.

Artes walked up the tower step by step and saw Grindelwald with his back turned to him by the window of the tower.

"Gellert..."

"You're here, Asseth."

Grindelwald's voice was mixed in the wind and reached Asseth's ears.

"Yeah, I'm here."

Aces stepped onto the last step without hesitation and said bluntly:

"Tell me everything you're hiding."

Grindelwald turned back, moved from the window to the sofa, and sighed, "Let's sit down and talk."

Aces walked over and sat down as he was told.

Grindelwald poured a cup of tea for Artes and began to talk slowly.

"It's a long story."

"You know, I have been a prophet and a wizard since I was a child. My research on prophecy has reached an extreme level, but it was not like this at the beginning."

"In the beginning, I could only roughly rely on my prophecy ability to see a short scene in the future. Prophecy is indeed very useful, so later I was unwilling to only see fragments and spent a lot of time studying my prophecy ability."

"My research was not smooth. Later, I could barely see what I wanted to see, and it was still fragments until I found the magic circle."