Hogwarts Raven's Claw

Chapter 576 Shutdown
"Next, it's our turn."

Mike raised the corner of his mouth and walked slowly towards the door as he spoke.

Along with his movements, a magical power so strong that it was visible to the naked eye also spread out, and a breeze blew in the closed meditation room, rippling the silk black robe on Mike.

This is the power of the legendary wizard. The magic left over from meditation alone can bring about such changes.

Penelope's eyes were wide open, and she was stunned for a long time before she came to her senses and followed Mike's footsteps.

But what Penelope didn't know was that although the scene she saw was shocking, it was proof that Mike had not yet fully controlled the magic power in his body.

Just like Dumbledore and Voldemort, when they are practicing, they don't emit some magic power from time to time. Instead, they are more like ordinary people in their daily lives.

For Mike, breaking through the legendary realm is like opening the limiter in his body. Since the moment of breaking through the legendary realm, the magic power in Mike's body has been soaring at an explosive speed every moment.

This made it difficult for even Mike's powerful mental strength to control this rapidly emerging new magic power.

This is a very normal phenomenon. Almost every legendary wizard has to go through such a period of magic power surge when he breaks through. This process can be long or short, but legendary wizards must wait until this period is over before they can fully master all their power.

The reason why Mike has been hiding in the meditation room to meditate during this period of time is that he wants to use meditation as a means to quickly master the magic power in his body.

So far, this method has been very effective.

Although Mike still has a little magic power leaking out now, he has basically mastered the new magic power that was previously added to his body. As for the new magic power that is still constantly appearing in his body, he will need to wait until he has time to adapt to it in the future.

Now Mike has more important things to do!

The two men walked out of the meditation room, walking quickly one after the other. After passing through one door after another, they finally came to a room with a large number of machines and display screens.

This is the integrated intelligence command room that Mike built with Victor's new technology. Through a large number of mechanical transmissions in the room, real-time monitoring of every corner of the entire Masonic Secret Realm and delayed monitoring of some combatants outside the area, and many other information will be collected here and displayed on the dense display covering an entire wall.

To be honest, the scene inside this integrated intelligence command room is somewhat similar to the NASA command room that is often seen in TV and movies. It is very modern and even a bit sci-fi.

Mike was very curious about how Victor came up with such a thing. After all, there was too much Muggle knowledge involved. Even though Victor had become a mechanical life form, it was too unscientific and not magical.

Of course, curiosity aside, Mike wasn't stupid enough to ask Victor.

He is still self-aware.

Even if Victor patiently explained this to him, he would never understand.

"Mr. Townley!"
Noticing the arrival of Mike and Penelope, the staff who were busy in front of the screen all stood up, hammered their left chests with their right hands, and saluted Mike.

Mike nodded when he saw this, waved his hand and motioned for them to sit down, then said:
"How is the situation now?"

"Report to you, sir. Our operation was very successful!" A girl wearing a beret said expressionlessly. "At present, more than 70% of the Auror Corps of the Ministry of Magic has been wiped out, and they are almost in a semi-disabled state. Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry was also successfully captured under the command of Captain Arthur. The various groups of non-human intelligent creatures in Ying Country have successfully eliminated the Ministry of Magic officials in their protected areas, and have begun to attack those pure-blood families under our command. In addition, the foreign non-human intelligent creature forces represented by Kled and Carlisle in the United States have also arrived at the designated location and began to attack and ambush the Ministry of Magic officials according to the original plan."

Hearing this, Mike nodded with satisfaction.

The current situation is developing much more smoothly than he expected. It seems that the Ministry of Magic did not raise too much vigilance after attacking their lecture venue, or Chris did not expect Mike's attack to come so quickly.

But no matter what, this is a good thing for Mike.

Mike raised his mouth and said with a smile:

"Issue orders to all commanders of all forces to withdraw all cutting-edge combat forces while maintaining the needs of the occupied areas."

"Yes! Mr. Townley!"

Everyone in the integrated command room responded in unison, and then the entire command room became busy again. Human voices and electronic synthesized sounds continued to intertwine together, forming a huge noise that made people feel irritated.

But Mike didn't feel that way at all. On the contrary, he even enjoyed this busy and noisy atmosphere, which helped him alleviate the loneliness caused by long-term meditation.

While Mike was enjoying it, Penelope tugged at Mike's sleeve uneasily, until Mike turned his head to look at her and said hesitantly:

"This... should be the last battle, right?"

Michael stared at Penelope, and seeing that her eyebrows were tightly kneaded together, he reached out and carefully rubbed them open, then hugged her gently and said:

"Of course! After this battle, everything will be settled. Don't worry, I won't fail."

"Ok!"

Penelope nodded slightly when she heard that, and at the same time she stretched out her hands and hugged Mike, unwilling to let go for a long time.

Mike was also deeply moved as he smelled the fragrance from Penelope's hair and felt Penelope's slowly slowing heartbeat.

The relationship between him and Penelope has gradually gone from the initial passionate stage to a dull stage.

At first glance, this does seem to be a good thing, because it indicates that the relationship between them is changing from lovers to relatives.

But the actual experience is far from that good.

As the passion for their relationship has faded, and as the things that bother Mike increase, the interactions between the two are becoming less and less, and they haven't even done the kind of exercise that is beneficial to the body and mind for a long time.

Mike is clearly unqualified as a boyfriend.

But Penelope didn't complain at all. Even though her ability was limited, she still worked silently and devoted herself to taking care of Mike's daily life.

This touched Mike deeply.

'Perhaps, when this war is over, it will be time for me to propose to Penelope and give her a result.'

Mike made up his mind secretly, and at the same time, he tightened his hold on Penelope.

But soon, he noticed something was wrong.

Did you just set a flag?

"Could there be any unexpected changes in this war?"

Mike thought so, but quickly smiled and shook his head.

This is the real world. How could those Internet memes that only exist in literary works actually come true?

In the noisy integrated command room, Mike and Penelope just hugged each other quietly. Although people were coming and going around them, no one paid any attention to them.

Even if someone accidentally glanced at them, they would quickly look away and pretend they saw nothing.

Everyone knows that it is better not to disturb them at this time.

But there will always be people who are not tactful.

I don’t know how long it was before Mike felt someone patting his shoulder gently.

He shook his hand off impatiently, but the man still shook him persistently, even with a little more force.

Finally, Mike frowned and turned his head away fiercely, ready to take a closer look at who was so bold as to disturb him and Penelope's family.

But as soon as he turned his head, he found something wrong.

The originally noisy integrated command room had now become quiet, and the people surrounding him had changed from the staff in the command room to Arthur, Benjamin and others. At this moment, they were looking at him and Penelope with interest.

Seeing this, Penelope pushed Mike away and fled out of the integrated intelligence command room with a blushing face.

"Welcome back." Franklin said with a smile and a weird tone, "I thought you were going to hug each other until dawn."

Hearing this, Mike shook his head helplessly, looked in the direction where Penelope left, and then said to Franklin and others unhappily:

"When did you come back?"

"It was probably when you were cuddling for about half an hour. By the way, it's been two hours since you were cuddling."

Victor said after checking his watch.

"So we just watched this good show for more than an hour? Oh! You guys are really my good friends!"

Mike spread his hands and pretended to be angry and spoke slowly, but as soon as he finished speaking, he felt the familiar force on his shoulder again.

Mike turned his head and saw Zhou Hong shaking his shoulders persistently.

Obviously, it was he who had just woken him up.

"Oh! Zhou Hong, you are so good. I guess you woke me up because you don't want to continue watching me make a fool of myself, right? I really love you for a good reason."

Mike said this with a look of relief, and at the same time reached out to ruffle Zhou Hong's hair.

But Mike's outstretched hand was rudely knocked away by Zhou Hong, who glared at him and said:

"I don't care if you make a fool of yourself! I came here to tell you that Victor attacked Harry in Hogwarts just now, just because of the invisibility cloak! Mike, he still hasn't given up the Deathly Hallows, you must punish him this time!"

Hearing this, the embarrassment on Mike's face flashed away, and he frowned and looked at Victor with a serious expression on his face.

Regarding the Deathly Hallows, Michael still said the same thing. As long as he is alive, no one can successfully take the Elder Wand from him and achieve the achievement of collecting the Three Deathly Hallows.

So he didn't actually care much about Victor's research on the Deathly Hallows.

It is normal for researchers to have some curiosity.

The reason why Victor was given a verbal warning before was because Zhou Hong's condition was a little off and he needed to be appeased in this way.

But now, if what Zhou Hong said was true, then Victor was a little crazy.

You know, Harry is their mutual friend!

"Victor, did you really do this?"

Mike questioned angrily, but Victor didn't say anything. He just lowered his head towards Mike, as if he had nothing to defend.

This made Mike a little confused about what to do.

Now is the critical moment before the final battle, and Victor must be dealt with quickly.

But Victor's contribution to Freemasonry is not insignificant.

Not to mention that he willingly transformed himself into a mechanical life that lost all human emotions and was absolutely rational in order to rescue Mike, but the advanced equipment he subsequently provided to the Freemasons greatly improved the Freemasons' currently backward technological level.

Besides, as a member of the Freemasons, Victor signed the "Unbreakable Oath" like everyone else when he first joined the lodge.

As the embodiment of the rules, even though Victor has now left his human body and become a mechanical life form that Michael cannot understand, the "Unbreakable Vow" is still engraved on his soul and continues to take effect.

Therefore, Victor would never infringe upon the interests of his Masonic colleagues, and at the same time, Mike and others must not act too harshly towards him.

This gave Mike a huge headache.

At this moment, Benjamin stood up. He looked at Victor deeply, then came to Zhou Hong and said to Mike:
"I remember that Victor's body has been stored in his alchemy laboratory, and is being operated by the magic-generating device within the Freemasons, right? If so, it will be much easier. Given the current situation, let's shut it down for the time being."

Hearing this, Mike did not respond, but continued to look at Victor.

This time, Victor did not remain silent.

"Mike, you know, I did this for Freemasonry." Victor sighed and said as he strolled in the General Intelligence Command Room, "The Deathly Hallows is a huge treasure. The command room you see now and some other emerging products are the products of my research on the Elderberry Wand and the Resurrection Stone.

To be honest, I am not very interested in collecting the three Deathly Hallows. Even now, I am not very interested in the Resurrection Stone and Elder Wand in your hand. After all, I have already studied them. I just want to study the invisibility cloak itself and try to discover more technology from it.

It's a pity that you don't allow me to do that. Perhaps you should ask Harry for the invisibility cloak, which would be better for both of us."

"fart!"

As soon as Victor finished speaking, Zhou Hong started cursing.

But the next moment his mouth was covered by Benjamin. At the same time, Victor obviously didn't care about it. He continued to stare at Mike, as if waiting for Mike to give an answer.

Mike, who was looking into his eyes, shook his head and said solemnly:
"I don't have time to discuss with him about the right and wrong of this matter. And considering what you did, I'm sorry, Victor, I have to shut you down temporarily."

(End of this chapter)