Chapter 500 Decoy(1/2)
Newt seemed both surprised and obsessed.
He stared at the extremely huge bird and snake, his eyes focused and hot, and he murmured: "Am I dreaming? I hope Tina doesn't wake me up halfway." He approached tentatively, but the bird and snake seemed to be frightened by his attitude, flapping its wings and bringing a strong wind, pushing him back a few steps.
“Wow, calm down”
Newt took out a can from a corner of his body, which was stuffed with beetles. "I know you like this, it doesn't mean to hurt. Look, this is food," he said, trying to slowly unzip the lid, but found that the bird snake began to slowly grow smaller.
"Felix?" he said with obvious confusion.
Soon the bird and snake were only the size of a shell, and their bodies were tied together. Valen jumped off the table and looked at the bird and snake. His dark eyes were shining brightly, and the two little guys were almost the same height.
"Shi!"
Valen was about to reach out to grab it, but the bird snake had already rushed to the side. As the fog filled, Felix's figure reappeared. He stretched out his hand and covered his robe, recovering as before.
“The performance ends.”
Felix snapped his fingers and the fog quickly dissipated.
Newt showed a clear disappointment.
"You don't want to study me, do you?" Felix said vigilantly.
"Oh, no, how could it be?" Newt said in a panic, his eyes still resting steadily on him. "Of course I can't tell the difference between you. There are no such big birds and snakes in reality. At least I haven't seen them before, is it because of you?" He changed the subject lamely.
But to be honest, Felix also breathed a sigh of relief. Just now, Newt's eyes looked like he was looking at the magical animals he liked, and it was a new species he had never seen before.
"It should be my reason," he said, sitting on a stone. "I have tried magical animal deformations several times during this period, but it is obvious that the latest bird and snake changes are easier and more complete. I guess it may be because I have a very good grasp of the zoom spell."
"The magic you used on the tail snail?" Newt asked keenly.
Felix nodded.
"No wonder," Newt said, "The ancient magic texts are very connected to magic animals. I've read your paper, but, well," he considered the wording, "you should understand that the two are different. I mean the ancient magic and magic animals' talents are different."
"I understand," Felix nodded, "Maybe at the beginning, ancient magic texts did imitate magical animals and plants, but when the wizard combined the first brand new magic symbols into the first new magic, the two were clearly distinguished."
"But I'll try to restore their abilities."
His light blue eyes showed infinite desire, "The talents of some magical animals are really fascinating." He looked down at the Invisible Beast. This little guy had the ability to briefly predict the future, and then thought of the Phoenix Fox in the principal's office and was reborn from the ashes... It must be extremely difficult.
"You are the one who is most qualified to say this." Newt also said with emotion, "Everyone underestimated the potential of ancient magic script... When will you come next time? I can't wait to see new changes."
"When I encounter a bottleneck," Felix said with some regret. "I need time to digest the existing gains, and I'll probably be very busy in the past or two years."
"War." Newt whispered.
...
After leaving Newt's house, Felix first visited the company headquarters in Diagon Alley.
The development of the "Future World" company has been on track, and Felix was surprised to find that employees are generally not old, and many of them are students who have graduated from Hogwarts in the past two years.
"At present, we have 267 people. As far as the professor asks, the development in the UK remains unchanged, and to expand rapidly abroad and establish a stationary site." Cremy said holding a thick document.
“Is the plan to introduce the foundation of alchemy smoothly?”
"People with the foundation of ancient magic literature mastered it very quickly, and the rest of the progress was slower."
"Don't worry," Felix nodded, "Where is the defense training?"
Cremy sighed.
"Not all wizards like to fight, especially the duel class in the school has not been held for a few years. You also know what the level of the previous black magic defense class was... More than one-third of employees have no mastery of a duel spell, let alone combat awareness. They have many evil curses, but they have no other use except to tease people."
"It's not bad if the prank is used well," Felix said. "But the company's employees must master the most basic self-protection ability, the magical iron armor curse..." He stopped and thought, "Forget it, not everyone has selected ancient magical scripts, so the iron armor curse and the coma curse. These two spells must be mastered as soon as possible, the phantom moves, and the light and fire curse are delayed. Orders can be postponed for a period of time, or handed over to foreign employees to do it. We currently have no competitors."
Cremy quickly wrote it down.
"What about the progress of the anti-thief waterfall?"
"Remus is still discussing with Gringott, but the fairies ignore him." Cremy said angrily.
"The goblins want to remain neutral, or the more intense we fight, the happier they are..." Felix said, "Isn't there a Ministry of Magic?"
“The Ministry of Magic has the technology, but it hasn’t been used for hundreds of years,” Cremy said with a weird face. “They can’t find the right person to build a waterfall for thieves.”
"Didn't the Alchemy Society send someone to help?" Felix asked curiously.
"After all, it's a magical organization that spans Europe," Cremy shrugged. "Many people are unwilling to come here at this sensitive time, and the native alchemists in Britain... are not many famous, unless you count Joko."
"Zoko..." Felix was speechless.
Joko was the owner of the Hogmod Joko Joke Store. He was once an alchemist. However, his business was not good at the beginning. After struggling for a few years, he was almost starved to death. Later, he had no choice but to change his career to study pranks and trick products. Unexpectedly, he became a hit and went further and further in this field since then.
What should I do? Felix fell into deep thought. As his goal grew bigger, he was worried that Voldemort would focus on employees of the "Future World" company. In addition to the conventional protection magic, the anti-thief waterfall seemed more strategic. It could wash away all spells, all magic disguises, and even cover compound decoctions and soul-catching curse.
"Professor..." Cremy raised her hands and looked at him with bright eyes.
Felix's heart moved, "Do you want to give it a try?"
"Yes," Cremy said, relieved. She thought she and the professor had thought of going together. "We have more than fifty R&D wizards, each of whom is good at two or three directions, and have experienced the development process of multiple new products. I can't think of a more tacit group."
Felix was thinking about the feasibility of the plan. The Ministry of Magic had technology, they had mature teams and enough brainpower, which seemed to be a win-win result. But I don’t know if the Ministry of Magic would agree to transfer technology. It’s hard to say that during the first war, the Ministry of Magic reached a cooperation with the Prophet Daily.
The Prophet Daily also developed rapidly after the war.
"Professor," Cremy said anxiously, "now is an opportunity."
"Okay." Felix agreed, "I went to tell Ms. Bones that if she had no better choice now, I would be sure to convince her. Is there anything new?"
"Yes!" said Cremy, "but it's all small things."
She flipped through the documents quickly.
"Weasley twins are internship here, theirs"
"Wait, Fred and George are here? Right in the company? Now?" Felix asked in surprise.
"Yes," Cremy nodded, "They came over on the first day of the holiday, with strange thoughts... Remus attaches great importance to the spell hats and spell capes they proposed, appoints them as team leaders, and personally helps them." She pursed her lips, "But Remus rejected their mysterious man prank series, which was a scare box, constipation and other things... Fred kept yelling that Remus didn't know the goods, and said that you praised this thing for this thing?"
"Uh, I appreciate their design ideas, but it's not appropriate to joke with Voldemort.... Death Eaters will chase them behind their butts and recite the death curse..."
Cremy stared at Felix's unnatural face and looked at him, showing a suspicious expression.
"Ahem, let's continue."
"...Due to the endorsement of the Ministry of Magic, the sales of magic cards have increased significantly. It is estimated that according to this progress, each family will be able to quickly have a set... In fact, things related to magic promotion are selling well. Whether it is the extras of the comics released by Andes or the magic booklets, they are printed again and again... Many people wrote letters to ask about the casting skills of lighting techniques, and Penelo often worked overtime during this period."
Felix is not too surprised by this.
"Illumination is the simplest and safest ancient magic," he said.
"Maybe it's not the reason," Cremy said weirdly. "The Anti-Black Magic Alliance recently released some spells that effectively resist black magic. In addition to the Light Fire Curse, the lighting technique is also on the list. The recommended effect is to expel Yin corpses on a large scale..."
"Uh, is this the reason? I thought it was out of my love for ancient magical scripts." Felix said jokingly.
"Professor," Cremy said with a stern face: "The Yin corpse is not even trouble for you, but during the first war, the mysterious man created a large number of Yin corpses to spread horror, which was a nightmare in the hearts of countless wizards."
Felix scratched his chin. As she said that he never regarded Yin corpses as a threat, after all, he could solve them in various ways. But after thinking about it carefully, Yin corpses are not that easy to deal with, have no pain, and can resist conventional spells.
For wizards who do not have phantoms and do not have the ability to move their families, they can indeed be regarded as a nightmare.
It would be even more terrifying if it were to cooperate with the Dementor army.
...
He went to the Ministry of Magic that day to discuss and study the matter of preventing thieves. Ms. Bones agreed readily, "I'm fed up with the attitude of those fairies." There was no turbulence in the whole process, except for Felix watching a bickering between Sirius and Bones.
The cause was the Longbottom couple who returned from a trip.
The Ministry of Magic recently recruited a group of preparatory Aurors and strikers, and the result was a decline in average combat levels. Bones urgently needed an experienced Auror team captain, and was very worried about this.
"As a result, the Order of the Phoenix quietly digested two important combat forces." Ms. Burns said dissatisfied.
Sirius' attitude is to refuse to admit it.
"Is this happening? I didn't notice that I've been with you these days, so busy... You haven't paid me a salary yet!" He put one hand in his pocket, his eyes slanted, and his tone was very begging, "And are you sure Frank and Alice are people from the Order of the Phoenix?"
"Sirian Black! My brother is the first member of the Order of the Phoenix! Do you think I don't know?" Bones yelled at him.
Sirius immediately fell silent, and rarely refuted. He said with a complicated expression: "Edgar... He is a brave man and a reliable comrade in the army. I am sorry for his experience."
It took Bones a long time to calm down.
"Sorry, I'm a little out of my composure, Felix, let's talk about the arrangement of the award ceremony. Dumbledore is worried that the Death Eaters will launch an attack that day. Alas, to cheer people up, we have to make a big fuss... many people know about this."
If even the cleaners of the Ministry of Magic know, it would be difficult for the Death Eater to not know.
"On the day of awarding the medal, we will arrange for Aurors to guard the death penalty throughout the whole process. They are the most trustworthy people. With Dumbledore and you, the danger may be very low. I even think..." She hesitated and said, "We can take the initiative to attack and catch a group of Death Eaters."
"Absolutely not!" Sirius objected, "I can't let Harry and the others act as bait."
"It's not them."
"What?"
“It’s not them who acted as bait, it’s ours,” Ms. Bones said, “I’m one of them.”
Sirius looked at her in shock.
"What? Do you think I became the director of the Law Enforcement Department for more than ten years in jail?" Ms. Bones said calmly.
Sirius was stunned by the confidence in these words.
To be continued...