A butterfly flapping its wings can whip up a storm across the globe, but such a change will take time and chance to catalyze, and Neil in England has not yet received any news of the brotherly wall between the elders at this moment, which is also a helpless result given the distance between the two places and the limited means of communication.

When it comes to means of communication, if there is anything that British wizards and Oriental Taoists have in common, it is probably the unreasonable natural resistance to modern civilization.

The Ministry of Magic, for example, is one of the busiest offices in the European wizarding world, and it is only recently that they have begun to introduce typewriters as office equipment on a large scale, and telephones are only used as a means of cipher when hiding entrances and exits to prevent Muggles from entering...... If it weren't for the fact that every year someone knocked over an oil lamp in a hurry and caused a fire, or simply collapsed after carbon monoxide poisoning after a long overtime, it would still be a question whether these people would have accepted the existence of electric lights.

Of course, they can't be expected to learn to build a logistics network with modern means of transportation at their core, just like Muggles, even if the primitive way of shipping with owls has shown absolute disadvantages.

Owls can't fly over the Pamirs under weight, let alone take an extra half of the Eurasian continent in their path, and since traditional and modern transportation methods can't be counted on, Neil's shop has to find other ways to replenish the supply.

For this purpose, the sect specially prepared a messenger for him - a large black vulture with three pairs of wings. Once a week or every other week, he would fly in to bring in replenishment and bring back his order lists, recent reports, and eighty-five percent of gross profits.

The elves of Gringotts don't like it when their gold gallons are taken overseas, but the amount isn't enough to get them seriously.

Unlike ordinary owls, the eagle was forbidden to enter the school's auditorium to deliver letters, and had to fly straight to the owl hut in the tower, where he waited for Neil to pick it up himself, which was strongly requested by the janitor Filch. And no matter how much criticism there is about Argus Filch as a person, there is nothing wrong with his approach this time.

Everyone, imagine a monstrous monster with a wingspan of more than five meters and a half-ton piece of luggage strapped to its legs, smashing headlong into the grille of the air window and screaming at the breakfast table...... Not since the end of World War II has Britain been subjected to such a terrible air raid.

However, while Filch could ban it from the Great Hall, it couldn't stop it from running rampant in the owl hut. Every time he went to clean the hut, he could see the guy alone taking over an entire perch, stretching his neck to grab something to eat from the trough in front of the other owls, forcing the other birds into a corner and shivering.

He's tried to chase them away, but it's a bit too much for a Squib - when you need to fight an enemy of this magnitude, it's obviously not enough to have a broom as your only weapon.

All Filch could do was take out his anger on his owner, and take every opportunity to pass by in the hallway to speak ill of him, threatening to pluck the damn bird and throw it in the oven the next time if he didn't find a way.

Neil wasn't worried that his threat would come true. This black vulture, the Great Elder's beloved object, was about the same status in the sect as the half-dead phoenix he had seen last time in the principal's office, and it was by no means something that an ordinary person who couldn't even use magic could do.

By contrast, it was the complaints of the owl owners that bothered him even more, the shaggy brute had gone too far in bullying the market in the hut, forcing many of the students who could not see their pets suffering to flock to the door of the Ravenclaw common room in protest, and even Harry tactfully expressed his concern for Hedwig, the snow owl he raised, forcing Neil to ask for restraint in a report sent to the elders......

Fortunately, apart from Filch, there is only one person in the whole school who is still conscientiously thinking about how to find trouble with him, and sincerely treats it as a career.

Snape, the biggest nightmare in the minds of non-Slytherin students, seemed to have complied with his previous non-interference pact, taking no action other than a tendency to be too strict in grading assignments, and now succeeded by Draco Malfoy, who had far more vulgar ends and means.

The young master never seemed to have forgotten that Neil had greatly lost face on the first day of school—and as for the fact that he had taken the initiative to provoke, such a trivial matter could be ignored—he had been trying to get revenge in every possible way. Two of his most loyal henchmen, Crab and Goyle, have been doing their best in the process, but so far the results have always been unsatisfactory.

The closest thing to success was in Charms class, where Malfoy planned to make a mistake by feigning a mistake and smashing his inkwell on the opponent's head while everyone was practicing the levitation charm.

This level of accident is completely commonplace in Charms and Transfiguration classes, which require practice, and will not arouse anyone's suspicion. Neville Longbottom had just been rushed to the infirmary after a mistake had turned himself into a pot-bellied Barbary macaque in the previous lesson, but even when news came back from Madam Pomfrey that he might have to spend two days in a hospital bed, no one suspected that there was a human element at work. Based on this, Malfoy was confident that his plan would be able to hide from the world, as long as a bottle of ink mixed with fire glue should be enough for the guy to feel good.

To make sure nothing was wrong, he even deliberately put Crabbe and Goyle in the middle of the Ravenclaw students, sandwiching Neil between the left and the right, eliminating all possibilities for him to dodge.

As a matter of course, something went wrong.

The problem is with that forty-inch "magic wand". While Neil vowed that the peachwood sword could do anything a normal wand could do, there was one problem that no matter how good it was, and that was the length.

The wooden sword, which is nearly four times as long as a normal wand, naturally has a physical attack range of four times as long when swung up, which is an undodgeable length for Crabbe, who deliberately sits very close to Neil in order to hold him down when the inkwell falls.

The rest was simple: as Neil wielded the sword to practice the spell, the tip of the sword "inadvertently" hooked Crabbe's robe, and in the face of the inhuman power of the sword-wielder, he was picked up from his chair, and before he could come to his senses, he smashed the inkwell that Malfoy had dropped head-on.

"Whew——!!!"

As soon as the fire glue mixed with the ink touched the skin, it made a stinging sound like a fried meat cutlet, but it was just muffled by the screams of Crabbe himself, and few people heard it.

Professor Flitwick, who was instructing the other students, turned around when he heard the screams, only to be immediately startled by Crabbe's swollen face that had doubled in size. It didn't take long for Flitwick to figure out what was going on: he judged from the point of view of common sense that Crabbe must have been caught up in the Levitation Charm of Neil's failed target selection before he suddenly took off into the air - it was a common accident for students to learn new spells, and there was nothing surprising.

However, the fire glue put into the ink bottle is not so easy to prevaricate with unintentional mistakes. This was clearly a "premeditated and shameful act of murder".

Malfoy, who had blatantly murdered his classmates in class, was deducted 20 points, and even Crabbe was deducted 10 points—for the sake of stealing chickens and rice, and it was not known which would be more difficult for him to accept when he woke up in a hospital bed in the school infirmary, or the fact that he was roommate with Neville.

However, he – or rather, their troubles – had only just begun. After several unsuccessful attempts to manipulate him, Neil Wan finally decided to speak openly with the three of them.