Chapter 494: Disobedient Dumbledore

Chapter 494 Disobedient Dumbledore

"Hello to you, respected master."

The respectful voice of Queen Ant Lilith sounded in Mike's mind.

As an ant queen who has lived deep underground for many years, Lilith does not have so many scheming thoughts. This is the true expression of her inner feelings.

When she first signed a contract with Mike, Lilith thought that a new round of miserable life was coming again. After all, human beings were such greedy and cruel creatures in her impression.

But what happened next surprised her.

Although the employees of the Los Santos Group sent by Mike are essentially no different from the original Avery family, they are all trying their best to make those ants work.

But the Los Santos Group is much more generous than the Avery family. They will never deduct the ants' food rations, nor will they abuse or kill the ants at will!

Of course, the employees of the Los Santos Group did not give those ants too much preferential treatment, but this was enough.

People who have never been treated gently are always easily satisfied. This is the case with the current queen ant.

"Lilith, I need your help."

"As you wish, my master, all my soldiers have been dispatched to the target area."

There was joy in Lilith's tone. She felt happy that she could help Mike. She didn't care much about the fact that her people were being used as cannon fodder by Mike.

This is not to say that she doesn't love her children, on the contrary, she loves her children to the core. It's just that these children come too easily, and fighting for Mike, a master who treats her well, is a legitimate reason. That's why she acted so indifferent.

This idea is incomprehensible to humans, but it is reasonable among ants.

After bidding farewell to Queen Ant Lilith, Mike finally arrived at the battle site carefully selected by Benjamin and others, a U-shaped closed valley.

While Mike was visiting Avery's Secret Realm, Franklin, who stayed in Hogwarts, had also completed his mission and moved the disappearing cabinet in the Room of Requirement to the innermost part of the valley.

When Mike arrived, defensive fortifications were being built intensively on the cliffs on both sides of the valley. They were buildings similar to bunkers, with a low wall made of rocks erected around the perimeter. When the battle begins, Mike's wizards will attack the Death Eaters below under the protection of these fortifications.

The ants would pour in through the gap in the front of the canyon and stand with the Death Eaters.

As for whether the magic spells shot by the wizards above the canyon would accidentally injure the friendly ants, this was not within the scope of Mike's consideration. In his opinion, these ants were used as cannon fodder to attract firepower.

To be honest, although these fortifications built in a hurry using magic are very strong by Muggle standards, they are still not enough in front of wizards.

But in the current ambush and sneak attack campaign, these defenses are extremely useful. Under their cover, the wizards on the cliff can launch attacks unscrupulously. The Death Eaters' bottom-up attacks pose a threat to them. Very little.

But just when Mike was in full swing, there was a problem with the troops sent by the Muggle Prime Minister.

The first is the 70-person ground force. Mike’s original intention was to place 50 of these people on the cliffs on both sides of the ambush site, using the sniper’s precise shooting ability and the barrage of the artilleryman and machine gunner. The coverage ability serves as fire support for the Wizard's combat troops.

But Mike's arrangement encountered unexpected difficulties when it was actually implemented.

Although Franklin had explained to them as much as possible when receiving the ground troops that the world they were about to arrive was a fantasy world composed of monsters and wizards, when those ground troops were actually transported into the Avery Secret Realm and encountered those giant The ants still had an overreaction.

The soldiers screamed, shouldered their guns, and attacked the ant colonies that were carrying mushrooms. Many of the young soldiers even regarded the worker ants as Zerg in a certain hegemony game, and howled some microphones to listen to them. If you don’t understand, just move forward!

It must be said that the people sent by the Muggle Prime Minister were all real combat elites. They showed excellent combat qualities in the battle with the ants, killing dozens of ants in an instant.

But those are all friendly forces!

Mike was speechless for these soldiers!

Fortunately, these soldiers were the product of rigorous training and frequent brainwashing. When Franklin, as the temporary commander, roared an order to stop firing, they stopped.

But they were still wary of everything around them, and the strange sights that appeared in front of them completely shattered their outlook. Many of them even thought that they had been sent to fight on an alien planet.

Obviously, it is basically impossible for soldiers in this state to fight with wizards in mixed combat. In desperation, Mike can only divide them into a team to guard a section of the cliff alone.

However, these ground troops are easy to deal with, but the air troops on the other side are in trouble.

You must know that the task Mike wants to give them is to bomb Malfoy Manor and provide air support to friendly forces who counterattack into Malfoy Manor.

But judging from the situation displayed by the ground forces, those airmen who are more pampered in comparison will obviously have poorer psychological acceptance, and they are afraid that they will carry out indiscriminate attacks.

This is unacceptable to Mike. You must know that each of the combat wizards of the Los Santos Group has been carefully trained with a huge amount of resources. It is easier to let them die on the battlefield than to let them die under indiscriminate attacks from friendly forces. Mike But I don’t want to.

In desperation, on the day before Christmas, Mike could only ask for Professor Flitwick.

In the villa in Godric's Hollow, Professor Flitwick kept staring at Mike with a strange expression after listening to the story Mike made up and the description of the current predicament.

This made Mike feel a little uncomfortable, thinking that Professor Flitwick had discovered his lie.

But just when Mike couldn't help but want to confess to Professor Flitwick, he sighed and said angrily:

"Mike, have you never understood the process of recruiting new students to Hogwarts?"

"Well, that's true." Mike said confused, "But...does this have anything to do with the problem I'm encountering now?"

Professor Flitwick was furious when he heard this. He reached out and patted Mike on the forehead and said:

"Because if you knew something about these things, you wouldn't ask me such a stupid question!"

Mike rubbed his head and looked at Professor Flitwick with an innocent face. He still didn't understand the connection between this.

This made Professor Flitwick furious. He raised his hand and was about to hit Mike again, but when Mike turned to dodge, he saw that Professor Flitwick seemed to have suddenly remembered something, and his face that was originally full of anger also changed. She became distressed, and then her raised palm gently fell on Mike's head, and rubbed it gently.

"Sorry, Mike."

Although he didn't understand why Professor Flitwick wanted to apologize, Mike still nodded.

After that, Professor Flitwick's attitude changed drastically. He sighed and said slowly:

"Mike, the process for recruiting students at Hogwarts is this. Every spring, a magic book in the Hogwarts principal's office will automatically detect children across the country who meet the Hogwarts admission standards, and then list The list will be compiled by the principal and the admission notice will be sent out.

Among them, prospective freshmen from Muggle families do not have the ability to purchase teaching materials, so Hogwarts will send professors to the homes of those Muggle students to explain to those students and their parents. This is a very necessary behavior. After all, parents always love their children. The professors at Hogwarts cannot just take their children away from them. It would be too cruel. "

Professor Flitwick suddenly paused when he said this, and this pause also made Mike understand the reason why Professor Flitwick apologized before.

You must know that Mike is an orphan, so when Dumbledore came to him in person, he didn't explain this process to his parents at all!

"Although Hogwarts' approach is very humane, it is almost the best choice for those students to enter Hogwarts. But in the actual work process, professors often encounter the same problems as you. Problem - Some Muggles always like to be immersed in their own world and are unwilling to accept reality.

When facing these people, simple persuasion is no longer useful, so when the prospective freshmen have agreed to enroll but their parents do not agree, the professors who are dispatched will take some measures..."

"you mean……"

"Yes, you are a smart boy, so you should be able to guess it." Flitwick smiled and nodded, "That is a small magic spell improved from the advanced Legilimens spell, called 'Muggle Transformation' 'Spell', through this little spell, the caster can make Muggles accept the fact that the wizarding world exists in a very short period of time, so that they can better negotiate with each other."

With that said, Professor Flitwick took out his wand and personally demonstrated to Mike the release of the Muggle transformation spell.

I have to say that this is indeed a very simple little magic spell. It only took Mike a whole night to fully master it and apply it to those Muggle soldiers.

According to the feedback, the effect of this little spell is indeed very good. Now the attitude of the Muggle soldiers has changed 180 degrees compared to when they first arrived. They are full of curiosity and enjoy it. Exploring this new world.

But their behavior actually doesn't make much sense, because out of confidentiality and safety concerns, Mike has already decided to erase the memories of all of them after the battle.

But they obviously didn't know about this yet, so a strange scene happened. Those Muggle soldiers didn't dare to bother the wizards with questions all day long, which made the wizards tireless!

In other words, the group of wizards under Mike are all Muggles. If they were pure-blood wizards, these Muggle soldiers would have died countless times.

And just when Avery's secret realm was in chaos, Christmas finally arrived.

…

In Hogwarts Castle, Snape, who was completely shrouded in black robes, passed through the corridor with a gloomy expression and quickly entered Dumbledore's office.

The sound of the office door closing woke up Dumbledore, who was sleeping on his desk, as well as the portraits of past principals on the wall.

When the latter saw that the person coming was Snape, they just muttered dissatisfiedly, and then fell asleep one after another.

Dumbledore looked at Snape curiously, and then said in surprise:

"Severus, it's really strange that you came to spend Christmas with me!"

Snape across the desk curled his lips.

In previous years, he basically did not attend the Christmas dinner at Hogwarts. Instead of staying at Hogwarts to celebrate with a group of stupid students, Snape preferred to go to the cemetery to lay a bouquet of flowers for Lily, and then He drank a bottle of starlight wine alone in front of Lily's tombstone, so that he could remember the good times he had with Lily through his drunkenness.

But this year was different. A sudden news broke his grave-sweeping plan.

"Dumbledore, no time for joking! The Death Eaters are preparing to attack Hogwarts tonight!"

As soon as these words were spoken, most of the magical portraits on the wall immediately woke up and stared at Snape below in disbelief.

The smile on Dumbledore's face disappeared, and he frowned:

"Are you sure the authenticity of this news?"

"This is what Narcissa told me personally. Her son Draco found a disappearing cabinet in the Room of Requirement, and the other sub-cabinet matching the disappearing cabinet is now in the hands of that person. He will eat death tonight. The disciples will launch a raid on Hogwarts through the disappearing cabinet! And the reason Narcissa told me these things was entirely because Draco was forced to participate, and she wanted me to protect her son! "

Dumbledore's face turned extremely dark. He glanced out the window at the afterglow of the evening sun and murmured:

"Since you didn't bring the disappearing cabinet, does that mean that the disappearing cabinet in Hogwarts has disappeared?"

"You guessed it right," Snape said. "I had already been to the Room of Requirement before coming here, and the Vanishing Cabinet is no longer there."

"It seems that today is the time for me, an old man, to dedicate his life to Hogwarts."

Dumbledore looked calm and said while removing the straps on his arms.

But Dumbledore's words shocked Snape, and he said hurriedly:

"Dumbledore! You can't die here! You are..."

"There is nothing wrong with it. I am the principal of Hogwarts, and it is my responsibility to protect the students. From the first day I sat on this chair, I was ready to sacrifice for this school." Dumbledore looked at the many portraits of former principals hanging on the wall and said, "What do you think?"

The portraits all nodded happily to Dumbledore, but this made Snape very angry. He glared at the portraits and was about to continue to persuade Dumbledore to escape, but the latter was the first to do so. Said step by step:

"Snape, do what you should do. Draco is not inherently bad. Protect him. You have already promised Narcissa, haven't you?"

After saying this, Dumbledore showed a kind smile to Snape, while the latter stood there blankly, with a gloomy expression.

After a while, Snape snorted and walked away!