"I see," Douglas said, glancing ironically at the volume of "Execution Order" in his hand, and at the end of the magical battle in the vault—the elves wanted his life, and the wizards wanted to save him.

"Is that also in your plans, Mr. Leos?"

With Douglas's question, all the goblins in the room turned their heads to look at the old goblin they had never seen before, and fell silent for a while, and after a long time, Leos sighed and shook his head.

"Plans? no...... This is the fate of the Gringotts goblins. ”

Leos's fingertips tapped lightly on the parchment full of the signatures of the thirteen elven elders, and his tone was a little tired.

"Whether it's the Council of Elven Elders, or the general trend of the world, all I can do is guess, predict, and prepare for the worst in advance—unfortunately, most of these preparations have worked. If nothing else, this is the elf's last chance to fight for equality and freedom. ”

"Sounds tempting......"

Douglas took the last cigar from his bosom, rubbed his fingernails, and lit the cigar with a little magic spark, and leisurely exhaled a puff of smoke, and the white smoke quickly dispersed, enveloping him and Leos.

"But at what cost?"

The sound echoed through the smoke, as if it had touched some invisible barrier.

"All this, the entire Gringotts Wizarding Bank!"

Feeling the smoke lingering around him, Leos's eyes flashed with satisfaction, and the corners of his mouth raised.

"Times have changed, the decaying Council of Elven Elders can no longer keep us going, the elves must make some changes, and I hope that you will use this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to swallow Gringotts in one bite. ”

"If you and we should cooperate with each other, plus external funds, it is indeed not difficult to do ......"

Facing the burning eyes of Leos, Douglas raised his eyebrows noncommittally and asked with some confusion.

"However, if we choose this path, what difference do we have from the traitors in the Americas who surrendered to the wizards? ”

"No, you, you owe allegiance to Elena Kaslana alone. ”

Leos grinned, raised his finger and shook it slightly, and said meaningfully.

"When we meet again, I hope you'll bring back an absolute authoritarian Empress to Gringotts and the elves, not some scattered and complex human force. ”

"You say...... Let a human wizard become the Empress of Gringotts?"

"Over the years, there has been no one more suitable than her. Protected by Grindelwald and Dumbledore at the same time, he controls the power to mobilize thousands of wizards, and manipulates the wealth that can turn a continent upside down. The bottom line is that she's younger, crazier than everyone else, and has a better chance of changing the world. As for the ...... you're worried about"

The old fairy coughed lightly and thoughtfully pinched the light pink lady's purse in his hand.

"Jealousy, greed, suspicion, fear...... This is what we have seen in our dealings with the vast majority of humans for thousands of years, and the other half of her Meiwa bloodline will inevitably become the focus of attack at some point. Inevitably—"

A dangerous smile appeared on Leos's face, and his voice grew softer.

"It's something she was born with and can never change. In order to protect herself, she has only two options, to be on our side and use the divided wizarding forces against the wizards, or...... To become, really, empress. ”

The smoke cleared, and Leos took the initiative to end the conversation.

Rational and intelligent people know how to change themselves to adapt to the environment, only those stupid and crazy guys will try in vain to change the environment to adapt to themselves, but history has always been created by the latter kind of people.

He was too old to have the cheekiness to compete with the young man for that ticket to the new world, and instead of staying in the crumbling wooden building, he would break the hollowed-out dangerous beams and let the flames burn even harder.

............

Most of the wizards who infiltrated Gringotts came from the elite who had been closed in the Nikolaev shipyard not long ago.

Except for Gilderoy Lockhart, who temporarily joined the "Destiny Group", all of them were veterans of the wizarding world who had experienced the first wizarding war that year, and their loyalty and ability were unquestionable.

According to Elena's classification, it is roughly at the forefront of Hogwarts' professorial level.

Even Lockhart, who used to be a little unreliable, after three months of high-intensity magic practice and dozens of old wizards taking turns to train him, now seems to be a completely different person, and his friendly smile exudes a trace of confidence and competence that he didn't have before.

Therefore, as the attack signal was issued, the Gringotts elf guards and enforcers who were caught off guard did not even have time to put out a decent resistance, and they were all firmly controlled by the wizards with magic.

Thanks to the secrecy work in the past few months, before Lockhart could speak, the wizards had begun to consciously clean up the traces of the battle, isolate the external alarm, and then get together to discuss the false memories that should be implanted, as well as the time period and location that need to be erased, and the whole process went smoothly without the slightest confusion.

Moments later, Leos and the two goblin executioners left the "goblin prison".

In the vault behind them, more than a dozen "fairy corpses" who had been announced to be executed lay quietly on the ground, and the guards who stayed behind skillfully cleaned up the bloodstains, and piled up the "remains" of these prisoners and pushed them to the side of the fire dragon raised in the vault next door, which was regarded as saving a small meal of meat feeding expenses.

Since the end of the execution, Leos has been remarkably silent.

After returning to the Elven Elders' Council Hall at the heart of Gringotts, and after a brief report on the "clean-up work" with the two Heliopa, the elven elders nodded with satisfaction, comforted and encouraged Leos with kind words, and finally let go of the uneasiness that had haunted their hearts before.

After this series of events, the power and influence that Leos once left in the venture capital department have almost been cleared, even if this financial war is still coordinated by him, there will no longer be a situation that the Council of Elders cannot control.

Half a day later......

Located on the top floor of Gringotts' underground vault, in the lowest-ranking vault of the Weasleys, who had no protection except for a key, a pale pink lady's purse silently appeared.

Arthur Weasley, who worked at the Ministry of Magic [Division for the Prohibition of Muggle Supplies], did not choose to go home after work, but went to Gringotts in Diagon Lane through the Ministry of Magic's Floo network, took out a gold Galleon, thirty silver sike and an ordinary lady's purse from the vault, and then went to the next Blotted Bookstore, bought a copy of Gilderoy Lockhart's "Gilderoy Lockhart Teaches You to Remove Household Pests", and then returned home in a hurry.