Chapter 386: Aerial Support, Weather Spells

Sussex, Ashdown Forest.

In a swamp area of this ancient forest, several Aurors were casting dispelling magic, attempting to drive away the thick fog covering the swamp.

But their spells had no effect; the thick fog was at most pushed back by more than ten meters by the spells before it rolled back again.

"Perhaps we should set a fire," an Auror said, "and burn this place down."

"Do you want to burn the whole forest?" Selica Wood, now the Deputy Director of the Department of Magical Accidents and Disasters, glared at him. "Everyone, get ready for unified action, and try Finite Incantatem once more..."

Just then, a bolt of lightning appeared behind the crowd, and immediately after, Selica saw that figure she hadn't seen for a long time.

"Selica, long time no see," Murphy said.

"Murphy... Lord." Selica didn't know why she added the honorific at the end, and her whole person was shrinking back, just like a small animal encountering a natural enemy.

The members of the disaster disposal department's action team were all stunned to see this. Was this still that fierce Selica?

Although Deputy Director Selica was petite and had a soft and cute face, the entire Ministry of Magic knew that this was a ruthless person who dared to make Director Fudge lock himself in the toilet and cry.

And ever since she joined the disaster disposal department, she had been a famous workaholic, dealing with various cases decisively and cleanly. She never frowned when using the Obliviation Charm. It was said that the Muggles whose memories she had wiped could line up from the Ministry of Magic to Diagon Alley.

It was because of such a violent personality that although this deputy director was beautiful and wealthy, a typical "white, rich, and beautiful," no one dared to pursue her.

However, she actually had such a side?

Murphy raised an eyebrow.

Lord?

So distant?

He reached out his hand, preparing to pat the other person's head and let her recall the good times of the past, but seeing so many of her subordinates still there, it wasn't good to make her lose face, so he sheepishly retracted it.

Thinking about it carefully, he really hadn't been in contact with her for the past two years, so it was normal to be distant.

But before his hand was put down, it was held by Selica.

She looked up, just like years ago, her eyes full of stars. "Why did you come?"

"Cough, official business," Murphy patted the back of her hand, signaling that so many people were watching. "Someone told me that a magic disaster happened here. What's going on?"

Selica reluctantly let go of Murphy's hand. It took a while for her expression to return to normal, but her face was still excitedly flushed. "Several Muggles disappeared here, and we found abnormal magic fluctuations nearby."

"Originally, this matter should have been handled by us, but the special training team happened to be taking a batch of newcomers, so they took over this task. I didn't expect that they wouldn't be able to come out once they went in. A batch of Aurors who entered to search were also trapped inside."

The special training team was a department recently established by the Ministry of Magic. The reason was that Murphy felt that ordinary Aurors or Watchers, although having good individual combat capabilities, lacked tactical literacy, lacked experience in cooperative combat, and could not organize large-scale combat teams.

And in Murphy's prediction of the future, large-scale group battles of wizards were a possible thing, so he specially found werewolf mercenaries and Muggle officers who already knew about the existence of the wizarding world to conduct tactical training for wizards.

This part of the trained wizards was the special training team, which Murphy would later organize into a wizard special legion.

A lone wizard on the front line might not necessarily be stronger than a Muggle soldier holding a submachine gun, but if wizards were organized into a team and their magic was gathered, the role of wizards would be completely different.

"Because of this fog?" Murphy came to the edge of the fog and felt it.

These fogs were different from the kind of spiritual fog that appeared at Hogwarts back then, but they also had a strong magic blocking effect. However, with just this level, it couldn't stop him now.

He closed his eyes and felt it. A magic satellite was passing over this area. His consciousness connected to the satellite through the radar line, and then he waved at Selica, letting her come to his side.

"Close your eyes, Selica."

The latter obediently closed her eyes, her long eyelashes trembling slightly due to some expectation and nervousness, but Murphy just tapped her forehead.

"Alright, I've updated your psychic network permissions. You can now apply to use the capabilities of the Starlink satellites."

"Try calling Lukas and let her use a weather spell to generate a hurricane to blow away the thick fog in front of you."

Murphy could certainly do this kind of thing himself, but at this moment, when he was not short of computing power, he was more willing to distribute similar permissions through the psychic network. After all, there was no need for him to take action for such a small matter.

"Lu, Lukas?" Selica didn't quite understand.

But immediately, a voice sounded in her mind. "Number 31, Selica Wood, I am Lukas. Is there anything you need?"

Selica didn't know who Lukas was, and rarely communicated directly with people other than Murphy through the psychic network. This permission to talk to her in the psychic network without her permission was actually very high. Whoever this "Lukas" was, she must be someone Murphy trusted extremely.

And she sounded like a girl?

"Miss Lu, Lukas, please release a weather spell on the fog in front of me to generate a hurricane to blow away the thick fog. Th, this is Lord Murphy's order." She added at the end.

"Received, Starlink network application permission confirmed. Order has been generated, satellite has reached the designated position," Lukas's voice said in her mind. "Please retreat to a safe distance. Weather magic activation countdown, 10, 9, 8..."

"Mu, Murphy... countdown..." Selica was very nervous, not knowing if she had messed up.

"It's okay, she's just reminding you. It's just a tornado; if you're not in the center of the spell, the impact won't be big."

"4, 3, 2, 1."

The countdown in Selica's mind suddenly stopped, and the next instant, a beam of light lit up in the sky.

"Weather magic activation complete."

Following Lukas's voice, a breeze blew by, rolling up a few residual leaves.

Just when Selica didn't know if the spell had taken effect, the next moment thunder rumbled. In the sky, the clouds rotated like a huge millstone, lightning flashed between them, and a pitch-black tornado like a black snake circled down with terrifying power.

Before it landed, it had already stirred up a strong wind in the forest.

The next moment, the black snake connected with the wind vortex carrying countless dead branches and leaves on the ground, and a tornado connecting heaven and earth was formed. The unrivaled wind power swept everything, sucking the white fog in the forest clean like a whale drinking water.

A minute later, the tornado dissipated. Selica looked at the devastated forest in front of her and was speechless for a while.

"From now on, if you encounter difficult things in your mission, you can call Lukas directly and use similar power to solve the problem," Murphy said. "Now the obstacles have disappeared. Take your people and set off. Go inside and see what is making trouble."

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 387 =====