73. The Fourth Task and the Family Crisis
Eventually, the potion turned into an extremely frustrating potion, and even if it could temporarily increase the magic of wizards with stunted mana, it could not prevent it from slowly disappearing from view. Another important reason for its rapid disappearance is that it requires a lot of materials, and most of them are very expensive and rare, and it is very difficult to make, how many Potions Masters will waste their money and time doing this? There have also been local tyrant wizard families who want to use this as poison to pit their enemies, but as a result, it is useless, the finished product of this potion can be easily recognized as long as it is a wizard, without him, the magic fluctuations are too special, and it can't be concealed, you must know that the first rule of the wizard's field code is that if you don't get to the situation where you will die in the next second, you must never take items with unknown magic fluctuations, because you may not die in the hands of your enemies, not in various dangerous forbidden places, not in the sneak attack of dark creatures, And die in your own mouth. Let's ask, who else is a wizard who has read this sentence and eats magic items indiscriminately? In the end, it can only be abandoned completely.
If it hadn't been for Snape's mention, he would have forgotten about what seemed to be an experience potion but was actually a downgrade potion.
"Professor Snape, that potion doesn't work, do you, what are you doing with that?" McGoth finally couldn't hold back his curiosity and asked.
Snape gave him a bland look, "Don't do anything, because it's hard." McGoth felt a mouthful of old blood stuck in his throat, and he didn't feel the urge to vomit unpleasantly. Aren't you cold, continue to be cold, what are you playing with a black belly?
Looking at the choked and uncomfortable McGoss, the corners of Snape's mouth quivered. It seemed like he wanted to laugh, but he held back.
"Okay, there's one last mission, don't you listen." Struggling to reconcile his cold attitude, he continued to ask.
"I'll listen." Gritting his teeth and spitting out two words, McGoth felt the urge to throw his leg and leave.
"The fourth task is much simpler than the previous three." He glanced at him meaningfully, "And if you can make the fourth, I can make those two potions for you." ”
Hearing this, McGoss's eyes lit up, and he thought to himself, I said, how could it be possible to give him an impossible task, it turned out that the key was waiting for him at the end.
"Professor Snape, you say." His eyes burned into Snape's indifferent face.
However, Snape did not directly say the task, but suddenly asked, "I heard that you have a good relationship with Mr. Potter?" ”
McGoth was stunned for a moment, could it be that the last mission and Harry. Potter related? Do you want me to protect him? He knew that in the first book, Snape had protected Harry several times.
He nodded quizzically.
"Good." Listening to Snape's cold tone, McGoth felt that his mission might be the opposite of what he thought, and although he had protected Harry several times, his disgust for him emanated from the depths of his heart. Really.
"The last task is that I want you to cut off relations with him, and no matter what he does in the future, you will have to do it with him. How's that, Mr. Will. This task is much easier than the previous three. As he spoke, he sneered and looked at Magos.
McGoth's heart is 10,000 beds, groove, what kind of task is this, how could Snape come up with such a strange task, does he want to vent the humiliation he once suffered on Harry's head? McGoth looked at him with some wistfulness and didn't speak.
Snape just sneered at him and didn't speak, and the underground office suddenly fell silent.
After thinking for a while, McGoth spoke, "Professor, I choose ......"
Just as McGoth was making his choice, a group of people were arguing fiercely in a high-end clubhouse in London, including young people who looked to be about twenty years old, and old people in their seventies and eighties, who were arguing with each other about something. If someone had come in at this time, they would have been completely unable to understand how a group of people with such a large age difference could have come together and have such a heated discussion.
"Steven." A name that would make McGoth feel familiar shouted out of the mouth of an old man, "I think you've become a lot more timid since you last went to Will's house, and you weren't even going to participate in this time when everyone got together to prepare for the financial sniping of Will, are you scared by something." The old man glanced at the young man sitting opposite with contempt, if it weren't for the fact that there were too few self-taught wizards and the level of the descendants was poor, how could he let a family of his level participate in this gathering.
Steven's sarcasm at him was as if he hadn't heard it, and said with a pleasant face, "Mr. Arlot, I think you have misunderstood my words, I have no intention of not participating in this operation, but it is difficult for me to help you in your actions with the strength of my family, and we have done our best." ”
Before the old man could speak, a young man sitting behind the old man stood up menacingly.
"Greatest effort?" He looked at Steven with a sneer, "A million pounds is your best effort?" When did your Stevens' best efforts become so worthless? ”
In the face of questioning, Steven just chuckled and didn't speak, although his family strength is not very conspicuous in this bunch of people, but he is not easy to mess with as a wild wizard, although his strength is not as good as those professors in the regular school, but compared with these wild wizards in front of him, he is still stronger, not to mention that several older wizards here have entered a period of decline in magic power, and it is difficult to say whether the magic power has been seven layers, he has nothing to be afraid of, of course, the most important thing is that this is the city center, The place that is most heavily radiated by the Ministry of Magic, you dare to use a magic spell every day, believe it or not, the people of the Ministry of Magic call you a man.
And he knew that as long as the old man sitting at the front didn't speak, it would be useless for the others to be angry, if it weren't for these people, most of the families were stronger than his family, and when he heard that they were going to deal with the Will family, he wanted to throw his legs and leave. It's really a group of wastes who don't know whether to live or die, he disdains to be with these rat-eyed people in his heart, and he dares to rush forward without investigating the other party's strength background, don't pull him if he wants to die. The strength that the Will family has been able to develop to now is not something that fell from the sky, even if it is not said whether his son is really related to Dumbledore, the first person of the White Wizard, but his father Duke. Will is not easy to mess with, in the era of the Ministry of Magic's close surveillance, it is not that he looks down on the people in front of him, in the case of not being able to use magic, even if he gives them double the funds, he can't fight the Duke guy, knowing that they will fail, the million pounds alone is enough for him to feel distressed for several days.
Old Mr. Alot, seeing that Steven did not waver, laughed and pushed the young man behind him away.
"One million is one million, I'm glad that Patriarch Steven can participate, but I have scandalized me and said that in the front, when the time comes, you will annex the property of the Will family, and you won't be able to share anything with this million."
Steven shook his head with a wry smile and said, "Mr. Arlot, this is really the largest amount of money my family can come up with, and as you know, my family has recently misestimated several big projects in a row, lost a lot, and even several promising companies have collapsed, I really can't do anything." ”
Steven is telling the truth, technology is changing and improving every day, and these seemingly glamorous families are under a lot of pressure. If they can't adapt to the times, they will be eliminated by the times, and they are very clear about this truth, but how to adapt to the times, this problem is big, and no one dares to say that they know what the future development will be.
Arlote had a look of disappointment on his face, feeling sorry for him, but no one knew what he was thinking in his heart. After a while, the meeting broke up. Alote and the others watched several people on the same side as Steven leave the club with Steven, and they immediately began to discuss.
Another old man spoke. "Alot, that Steven guy should have something to hide from us, it seems that he knew something at Will's house that day, otherwise he wouldn't have quit so simply this time, everyone knows what he is."
Alote nodded with a gloomy face, this party was initiated by him, he thought that this time the plan would be approved by all, but he didn't expect the most greedy Steven to be the first to withdraw, which was completely unexpected by him.
He turned back to a few young people and said, "You go back and take a closer look at the bottom of the Chachawell family, as well as the little ghost in his family who made a fuss last year, I have a premonition that the problem lies in him." The young men in the back nodded and walked out of the clubhouse quickly.
"Alot, don't you have too much heart." An old man asked puzzled. "No matter how good he is, he's just a young wizard who just went to Hogwarts, can he find other wizards to deal with us? Don't forget, the Ministry of Magic wouldn't allow them to do that. ”
"It's always good to be careful to sail the ship of ten thousand years, and to know more." The others still attach great importance to Arlot's caution, otherwise they would not have made him the leader.
"Having said that, we don't have someone to support later, and even if he really invites other wizards, we can't help it."
Hearing this, Arlott finally smiled again, yes, there is more powerful support behind them, Steven's kid didn't think of this even if he wanted to break his brain, he thought he was smart, but in fact he was the stupidest, he thought they were all stupid? Don't know what Duke is capable of? Are you kidding. Seeing Alot's smile, the others also showed relaxed expressions and raised their glasses to touch them.
"I'm really looking forward to seeing what the look on Steven's face will be when we annex the Will family." An old man laughed.
"It won't be long." The other laughed too. It was as if they had seen the day when the Will family would be annexed.