Wizardry System - Chapter 75

After the old man closed the door, he gave a wide grin

“Welcome to my humble abode ladies and gentlemen,” The old man said. “We’ll need a little more time to finish the preparations. After we are done, you can all make a plan. I have a tent with an extension charm applied to it in the room over there. It can easily fit every single one of you,”

“Thank you sir,” Luthor said with sincere gratitude.

“You the leader of this group?” The old man asked.

“I am the leader,” Luthor said proudly.

“What are you proud of? You’re dealing with ragtags and a third of your team is a group of kids who probably just recently stopped drinking their mum’s milk,” The old man said with a condescending tone.

Hearing this made Luthor’s face turn red in anger, but he decided not to say anything.

“At the very least you can control yourself,” The old man said nonchalantly. “That’s a good step towards leadership. Maybe you can be promoted to be a leader in a team of actual ȧduŀts in the future well if the battle is still going that is,”

Luthor didn’t say anything and quickly turned to where the door was and entered. The rest of the group followed.

Luthor wasn’t the only angry one however. The students excluding Chris and ‘Harry’ were all fuming.

“What is wrong with that old man? I know that people can be really unreasonable sometimes, but he’s saying that we… I can’t even say it,” Augustus said.”It’s not like we’re complete amateurs on the battlefield. We’ve been fighting for a long while too,”

“Calm down Augustus,” Chris said. “You can’t get emotional over every single provocation. Are you going to start getting angry if Death Eaters say something you don’t like. If you do, you’ll die within the next 5 seconds. Also, I get what he is saying. He’s a man that has experienced war before and is currently experiencing another one. He has the right to say that we’re greenhorns. Let’s just give our respects and move on,”

Hearing this made Augustus quiet although he and a couple of other students were still a bit angry.

Looking at Augustus’ expression made Chris sigh.

‘Looks like they still have some ways to go,’ Chris thought as he entered the room. The room had a shabby tent that looked like it was about to fall over at any second. However, when Chris went inside, it was a large living room with a large table surrounded by many chairs. There were also many sofas around for resting and there was even a small bed. No one went on the bed as they ȧssumed that it was for the old man and either sat on the various sofas or chairs around.

Obviously, the ȧduŀts huddled on one side while the students hung around on the other. No ȧduŀts went to try to talk to Harry which surprised most of the students as they were so used to seeing people go to Harry and ask him questions about his scar or about his fight with Voldemort.

“Well, at the very least, there was still Harry who didn’t get angry over what that old man said,” Augustus said after calming down from his outrage earlier. “Normally, Harry would be easy to provoke especially by people like Snape or Malfoy,”

“Are you trying to say something Augustus?” ‘Harry’ asked jokingly.

“No, just complimenting you although it feels like you’re kind of leaving us,” Augustus said with a chuckle. “Well I guess having Gin-”

Before Augustus said anything, Summer, a fellow Ravenclaw student Augustus’ year, tapped him on the shoulder.

“It’s alright,” ‘Harry’ said.

“Well, Harry has grown. We all have,” Chris said trying to move the conversation to its previous direction. “It’s just that his growth has accelerated far more than anyone because of his position. You would to if you were the Boy Who Lived Augustus,”

“Maybe, but with his personality, I doubt it,” Nick, a Gryffindor student friendly with Augustus, said with a hearty laugh.

After some time has passed, the old man entered the tent.

“We have gotten information,” The old man said seriously. He entered the room carrying a large folded parchment paper. He went to the big table where Luthor was and laid out the paper. The parchment paper was a map that was extremely well-detailed to the point where Chris thought it was the perfect map for the area

“We needed a couple more places to look before we showed you this map,” The old man said. “Now that we’re done, we can talk,”

Luthor looked at the students and his gaze onto Chris.

“Mr. Evergreen, please come here so we can talk about the plans. The students will hear the details from you,” Luthor said.

Chris went to the large table and stayed at the edge. Unless he noticed something major, he planned on not talking for this planning. While he was listening the plans, he noticed from the corner of his eyes that ‘Harry’ excused himself and left the tent.

“From what I have been told, Death Eaters will be at side of the forest later today,” The old man said.

“Is this information trustworthy?” Luthor asked.

“If it isn’t, do you think I would call you guys to come here and get killed?!” The old man asked angrily.

“Of course not,” Luthor said. Although he was extremely annoyed by the old man, he knew that the old man could be trusted.”So where are the places we should hide for ambushes?”

…

The planning was done after around 30 minutes and Chris went back to his students to tell them the basics of the plan.

“Alright we’re setting off,” Luthor said after waiting for a couple minutes.

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