Chapter 47 - Vacation (1/2)
As Neal and others landed in HongKong airport, they were received by a Chinese wizard named Lei Zen. He greeted Edward, ”it's been a while, Mr. Edward”.
They boarded Mr. Zen's enchanted car and began to tour around. Neal then asked Edward to take him into wildlife as he was extremely curious about what kind of animals exist in this vast country.
Upon his insistence, after touring around the city, they traveled to the mountains, lakes, etc, they ended up at Xuantou, one of the wizarding towns in china. Their group attracted people's attention because of their western appearances.
Tracey saw people are whispering to each other while watching them. She asked Mr. Zen, ”are western people that rare, here?”. Neal replied in place of him, ”obviously. Didn't you know, their population is around 1.2 billion people that is almost like 1.5 times greater than our entire population of Europe.
That means we can safely ȧssume that the number of wizards here is at least greater than all the European wizards combined. I bet their Ministry also don't have control over all the wizards like us. In this kind of situation, why would they consider outsiders joining them?”.
Mr. Zen then said, ”yeah, you are right. The Ministry sure had lots of trouble in the past few centuries. Here, you can never know which muggle will turn out to be a Wizard but most of them don't care about being a Wizard as it doesn't pay much. So, they just stay in muggle society and use wandless magic for household things.
There are a lot of magic schools being set up in secret across the country and the Ministry just permitted them to do so. But, two of them stand out from the rest. One is Glerons, School of Witchcraft and the other is Yoniams, School of Magic”.
After they roamed around and bought various magic items as souvenirs for Draco and Daphne, they checked into a nearby inn in the town. As the midnight approached and the street before the inn was empty, five to six hooded figures stood before it and waiting for the leader's command.
The leader of the group spoke, ”ok, everyone remembered the plan, right? We don't need to cause a scene here. And if those western wizards discover you, make sure they stay dead”.
Just when they were about to move, suddenly, every building in the street disappeared and appeared very far away. One of them shouted, ”it's a trap”. They tried to move but they were paralyzed as a mist dispersed in the surroundings. The leader growled, ”first, the huge scale Illusion magic, then Paralysing Mist magic?”. He roared, ”Li Su”.
As the mist cleared, a huge dome of barrier conjured around them. They saw a few monks appeared wearing the traditional saffron and ochre robes. A peaceful-looking old man walked slowly towards them with a huge smile on his face.
He spoke, ”I guess Bai Tengfai became greedy again. It's rude to try to harm the guests of our nation. Well, it doesn't matter. Return to the ministry and tell him that the boy is under my protection, Li Su's protection. As long as he is in China, he and his acquaintances shall not be harmed by you guys.
Tell him if he tries to harm the boy again, this old man will be forced to use his five hundred years experience as a wizard on the Ministry”. Li Su and the rest then captured the rest leaving the leader alone.