Chapter 1445 Both

Overnight, the dark sky was lit up twice in a row.

If it were placed in the past, this would naturally be an abominable behavior that disturbs one's sane dreams. But now in this spiral town, how can most of the refugees who have just moved in fall asleep so easily?

Since that night when London was shrouded in fog, everyone has lived in anxiety. When night falls, the first thing that the refugees think of is no longer the beauty of sleeping peacefully, but the fear that no one knows when the attack will come again.

When the light like the extraordinarily bright moonlight sprinkles over the whole town, it will make people feel a little bit of peace of mind that the darkness has been dispelled while being surprised.

Especially this second time, it is different from the previous "self-entertainment" after Luna entered the statue. After Maca's fiddling in the darkness underground, he had skipped the control of the mercury statue and directly activated Spiral Town's most powerful protective magic.

It was a huge translucent shield with a faint silver light. Just looking up, you can easily see that the protective shield is buckled on top of the town like a big bowl, completely isolating the inside and outside of the town.

The refugees who had seen Luna's ball of light before poked their heads out of the windows again. If you observe carefully, you can find that among the expressions on each face, the most is a kind of relieved smile.

But at this moment, Delphi, who had just returned to the ground with Maca, looked up for a while, and there was a trace of worry in his eyes.

"Father, this protective spell...is probably not strong enough?"

"That's right!" Maca also raised his head, and replied while watching, "Let's not talk about Hai Erbo himself—if he came to attack here in person now, it would definitely be useless for any protective spells. But even if he sent his subordinates to attack..."

As he spoke, he couldn't help shaking his head, and then subconsciously turned to say:

"...Speaking of which, the people who built this town and set up this protective spell, the enemy they were guarding against was not Hai Erbo at all. So, this barrier may be able to prevent Voldemort and Death Eater—"

Before he finished speaking, Maca suddenly realized that he shouldn't mention the name "Voldemort" in front of Delphi.

But who would have thought that when Delphi saw him stop, she turned her head instead and showed him a calm smile.

"It's okay, Dad... For the me in the past, the real life experience is not important anymore, let alone the present... Isn't it?"

To be honest, at this moment, Maca actually saw a little unnaturalness in her expression. However, he didn't say anything, but just nodded at her with a smile.

"In short," Maca continued quickly, "Next, I will try to improve the following things, including the half about Charms and ancient magic literature, and the half about alchemy."

Even though he was not good at the latter, he was able to quickly find someone who was good at it—this was obviously not a problem for him.

"But before that..."

He paused for a while, then waved to Delphi, and then went straight to the pedestal at the foot of the statue and sat down.

"We still have to pick up the topics we haven't finished talking about before, and continue talking."

When Delphi heard this, he couldn't help thinking about it for a while, and then he seemed to be a little stunned and said:

"Is it about the meteorite?"

Just now with her panic from memory,

So much so that he interrupted Maca's words so suddenly, but since Maca called her over specially, naturally he wouldn't forget the most important thing in a blink of an eye.

But before Maca could answer, she immediately took the lead as if asking and answering herself:

"Do you need me to stay here to protect this town instead of you when Dad rushes to Hogwarts to solve the meteorite problem?"

"Well," Maca nodded slowly, "you can say that. It's just...of course, your own safety is also very important, so don't force it—if Hai Erbo appears outside in person, all you have to do is Only take Hermione, Luna and others to sneak out of Spiral Town—you should know who it is."

After a short pause, Maca went further and said:

"I'll show you a few secret passages for evacuation in a moment... Remember, this is a decision I made for you, for you, so don't have any psychological burden."

When he said these words, his expression became very serious. Especially the tone of the last sentence, the heaviness contained in it can be easily heard by Delphi.

After all, that is almost equivalent to a declaration to abandon most of the asylum seekers. It can be said that most people will fall into a dilemma when faced with this kind of choice.

Sometimes, even if it only decides the life or death of one life, it is enough to make many people extremely distressed, let alone the life and death of so many refugees?

Maybe it's easy to say with Delphi's character, but if it were Hermione, she probably wouldn't be able to make such a decision in her entire life.

"I understand," Delphi couldn't help being silent for a moment after hearing Maca's instructions, and then nodded slightly, "I will do what my father says——I will listen to my father."

"Thank you," Maca couldn't help but reach out and pat her on the shoulder after hearing her firm answer, "Then I'll leave it to you... But by the way, you won't be the only one who will be responsible for protecting this town I have to bear it alone. I'm afraid even if I don't mention it, Hermione and the others will take action on their own."

"...But I think there is one person I have to tell you about."

Having said that, Macafu left the base of the statue and stood up again, pointing back to this lifelike mercury statue and saying:

"After I improve the defensive spells below, it will still be this statue that controls their opening and closing. As far as I know, Luna is the only one who can control this statue at present... In other words, if necessary, she will become the core of the entire town's comprehensive defense."

"Therefore," Maca said, shrugging her shoulders, "at least until you have to choose to abandon it, you must protect this statue... and her in the statue."

Seeing what Maca said, Delphi couldn't help pursing her lips, staring at Maca's face and whispering:

"Dad, I have a question for you—do you want me to focus on protecting Miss Lovegood just because she will be the core of the 'total defense'? Or..."

Maca looked at her faintly awkward expression, and had no choice but to shake her head helplessly.

"Well... I know what you want to say, but... have both!"

He replied frankly.

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