Raven's Claw at Hogwarts

Chapter 439 New Contract
The atmosphere in the ant cave was a bit anxious, but Benjamin and Franklin acted very naturally. They completely ignored the army of ants surrounding them, and instead were doing their own work.

Earlier, they took advantage of Mike's conversation with the ant queen to bring the young man here, and verified the identity of the man in the windbreaker who was hung upside down - the patriarch of the Avery family!

After confirming the target's identity, Franklin and Benjamin stripped each other cleanly.

The patriarch Avery, who was covered in clumps, had obviously never suffered such humiliation before. He struggled to cover his vital parts with his hands, and at the same time glared at the second-five boy with his bloodshot eyes.

"I remember you, you are old Jerry's son! You traitor! Merlin will punish you!"

"Shut up, you old bastard! I am not your subordinate now, and now my leader is... these adults in front of you!"

Facing the curse of his patriarch, the second-five boy reacted very excitedly. He swung his wand violently, and then a golden long whip composed of magic power extended from the tip of the wand, and slammed at Ai. A bloody welt was left on Patriarch Fuli's fat body.

Patriarch Avery howled miserably, and then cursed even more harshly. As a matter of course, the second-five son heard the words and beat him harder.

He seemed to want to use this method to prove his loyalty, but unfortunately, everyone present didn't take him seriously, after all, he couldn't even call out the name of the master he was loyal to now.

Franklin and Benjamin ignored him even more. The two of them were picking up the clothes from the Avery patriarch.

Chief Avery is obviously a man who loves money. Franklin and Benjamin searched from his jacket pocket a gold galleon full of unmarked stretch pockets, as well as an ancient handbag with the Avery family emblem tattooed on it. The key to the vault of the Spirit Pavilion.

But these are secondary, the real harvest of the two of them is a pendant box and a piece of old parchment!

Looking at the pendant box engraved with Slytherin symbols and the parchment full of ancient Latin in his hand, Benjamin's breath became heavy!
"Mike, we seem to have found it!"

Franklin's trembling voice drew Mike's attention back. He turned his head and glanced at the locket quickly, and the corners of his mouth raised.

Smiling weirdly at the ant queen in front of him, Mike put down his wand, turned around slowly, and exposed his entire back to her.

This seems to be an extremely wise behavior, after all, the queen ant is still his enemy at this stage.

But Mike didn't care.

You must know that you are the opponent's old nest, which may mean a perfect home field advantage for other races, but for ants, the inside of the old nest is precisely the place where they are least willing to fight.

After all, the queen ant is everything to their population. If something unexpected happened to the queen ant during the battle, then their population would be declared extinct.

What's more, Mike knew very well that with his own strength and the attainments of the Fire Curse, these ants were simply vulnerable to him, no matter how many they were in, it was useless.

And the fact was just as he expected, after Mike put down his wand, the Queen Ant obviously relaxed a lot.

But facing this excellent sneak attack opportunity, she didn't react at all, just looked at Mike quietly.

Mike looked at his main target this time, Chief Avery.

At this moment, he was constantly struggling and crying under the whip of the [-]-year-old boy, and when he noticed Mike's gaze, the [-]-year-old boy stopped hastily and stood aside with a flattering face.

"Nice to meet, Chief Avery, I'm Townley, Mike Townley. You can call me Mr. Townley." Mike looked at the other party with a smile, "I'll ask you a few questions next, but I guess You won't answer truthfully, so..."

While speaking, Mike gave Benjamin a glance.

The latter understood immediately, took out a bottle of potion and poured it directly into the mouth of Patriarch Avery.

This is Veritaserum, which is different from the variant of the narcotic in the Muggle world. Its potion version is much stronger and can make people talk about everything, but as a side effect, people who take it will directly become Become wise.

Because its effect is too powerful, the Ministry of Magic has strictly blocked the sale and manufacture of this potion. Only a small number of potion masters in Europe have mastered the method of making Veritaserum, and the copy that Benjamin has given out now is theirs. The only one you have now!
Patriarch Avery is obviously also a knowledgeable person. Not long after being given the Veritaserum Potion, he realized what he had drunk, and hurriedly stretched out his hand to scratch his throat, trying to spit out the potion again.

Unfortunately, it was too late.

Patriarch Avery stopped after only a few clicks, and his ferocious expression quickly became calm and gentle, and then quickly became dull.

He didn't take out the hand that was in his mouth, but instead of digging at his throat, he sucked his hand vigorously like a baby sucking a pacifier.

The scene of a middle-aged man eating his hands made Mike feel a little sick, he shook his head impatiently, and quickly asked:
"Where is Chris?"

"I do not know."

Listening to the other party's pale and hollow voice, and seeing his wise expression, Mike was a little dazed.

But soon he reacted.

It was me who was stupid, the other party should only be able to answer questions passively, and I should have asked in more detail.

"Why did you and Chris all disappear at the same time?"

"Chris came to us and told us a lot of things, including Dumbledore's preparations and news of Voldemort's return. He told us that the rest of the country and even Europe will be at war, and we'd better talk to him Hide them all, and wait until the end of the war to come out and choose the superior side to pledge allegiance to, so that we can preserve the strength of the family to the greatest extent and obtain future protection. We believed him, so we hid."

"The hiding place of each family is separate and confidential, so you don't know where other families are hiding?"

"Yes."

Nodding his head, Mike took the string of locket boxes from Franklin, held them up in front of Chief Avery, shook them a few times and said:
"Where did this come from?"

As soon as this remark came out, the expression of Chief Avery suddenly became ferocious. He stared at the locket viciously, as if he really wanted to tear it into pieces.

Mike looked at Benjamin expressionlessly, this would not happen to people who had taken Veritaserum.

But Benjamin also looked bewildered. After all, he didn't have a deep understanding of the super-banned drug, and he didn't know anything about why this happened.

Fortunately, the abnormality of Patriarch Avery only lasted for a short moment, and soon he returned to his original stupid look, and continued to answer in that pale and empty voice:

"Chris gave it to me."

"Do you know what this is? Why did he give this to you?"

"This is Slytherin's pendant box. I have had someone authenticate it. It is genuine. Chris wants to use this to thank me for supporting his plan. This is a gift, and I like it very much."

"But now it seems," Mike said with a sarcasm, "it seems to be just a trap, a trap that will make you die without a place to bury you."

"Yes, that's right."

"Then the next question." Mike took out the parchment, "What is this?"

"A contract used by the Avery family to control ants."

Mike smiled. He glanced at the somewhat uneasy Queen Ant and said slowly:

"Teach me how to sign this special contract."

As soon as this remark came out, the ant queen suddenly made a creaking sound, from which Mike heard a sense of resignation, and the surrounding ants also rioted when they heard the sound.

It's just that they all fell silent in the next moment, because a string of black flames exuding a dangerous atmosphere suddenly appeared in Mike's palm!
The ants retreated quickly. Seeing this, Mike snorted coldly and crushed the flame in his palm.

At this time, after a short period of silence, Chief Avery finally spoke.

"I can't. The method of making this ancient contract is lost."

Hearing this, Mike and the others, as well as the ant queen at the side, were taken aback. They never thought that this important contract spell, the Avery family, would be lost!

A burst of laughter sounded from Mike's heart. This was the voice of the Queen Ant. At this moment, Mike could feel infinite happiness from her laughter.

It's just that her laughter didn't last long, because Mike lowered his head and pondered for a moment before continuing to Chief Avery:
"Then, can the power enjoyed by this contract be transferred from you to me through an unbreakable oath?"

"can."

Hearing this, Mike laughed, while the laughter of the Queen Ant stopped abruptly.

She didn't actually understand what Mike said about the unbreakable oath, but this didn't prevent her from feeling a little uneasy.

The next thing is very simple. Under the effect of Veritaserum, the patriarch Avery was in a state of confusion. Mike made him say the oath of the validity of the transfer contract without any effort, and then the Benjamin on the side cast an unbreakable oath.

As a golden chain appeared from Mike and Chief Avery's hands and slowly spread to their bodies, the oath was formally established. Mike didn't feel it, but the Queen Ant was different.

Her contract with the Avery family is actually very simple, that is, she must obey all orders of the Avery family and must not harm any member of the Avery family, otherwise she will suffer severe pain equivalent to the Cruciatus Curse torment.

But now, she can clearly feel that the contract's restrictions on her have been transferred from the Avery family to Mike.This made her a little unacceptable.

As Mike said before, the reason why she provided Mike with so much help was because she wanted to use Mike to get rid of the Avery family so that she could regain her freedom.

But now, although the Avery family has been wiped out, the man in front of him has held his freedom again!

So what if you just don't accept it?

What Mike did on the fifth floor just now was seen by the ant queen through the other ants. The man who has mastered that terrifying spell may be able to wipe out his entire group alone!

Ever since, the queen ant trembled, and slowly lowered her head towards Mike.

And following her actions, hundreds of ants in the entire rock cave also knelt down and offered the most noble gift to Mike.

Of course, this sublime is only for human beings.

It can be seen from the stiff movements of the ants when they kneel down that they don't understand what kneeling means. This is just taught to them by the Avery family in order to satisfy their vanity. It's just an action.

Shaking his head, Mike looked towards the ant and asked expressionlessly:

"Your name is Lilith?"

"Yes, my master."

"From now on, there is no need to salute when meeting people."

"Well... what?"

There was a strong sense of surprise and puzzlement in Lilith's words.

Unlike her own children, the super intelligent Lilith knew the true meaning of kneeling and bowing. In her opinion, wizards were such a group of vicious, vicious and overjoyed fellows.

How could such a creature voluntarily give up this opportunity to be worshipped?
"Let me just say the order, and you can execute it." Mike continued to order, "In addition, your future work will remain the same, and it will still be harvesting those mushrooms in the secret territory. I can give you more power, and even allow you Be independent and self-governing in this secret territory. My only request is that your production must be doubled, understand?"

Now the queen ant was even more confused, the pair of antennae on top of her head kept shaking and said:

"But……"

"It's nothing to worry about. After a while, I will send someone to hand over the work here to you. If I can't fulfill my request, let alone the power I gave you, I will even take your life away!"

After all, Mike never looked at the terrified ant queen behind him, and directly led Benjamin and others towards the outside of the cave.

As he thought before, he couldn't guarantee that there would be other entrances and other door keys controlled by the enemy in this secret realm. After all, the Avery family ruled here for countless years in the past. What will be left behind.

In this case, it is impossible for Mike to invest a lot of resources in his own construction, and the risk is too great.

So the best way to deal with it at this stage is to squeeze out the resources in this secret territory in the shortest possible time. In this case, Mike is also willing to give these ants some better treatment. After all, Mike is not the Avery family. Still very clear that if you want the horse to run, you have to feed the horse.

As for where these ants will go after the development of this secret realm is completed.

It depends on their performance then.

Mike wouldn't mind taking them to the Overworld if they behaved well!

(End of this chapter)