Raven's Claw at Hogwarts

Chapter 441 Cross-border sell-off
Facing Dumbledore who was a little out of control, Mike neither comforted nor explained, but just looked at him silently.

After about 5 minutes, Dumbledore took a deep breath, finally raised his head, looked at Mike with a complicated face and said:

"I'm starting to regret leaving this matter to you."

"What? You have something to do with the Avery family?"

"It's just some trivial friendship." Dumbledore spread his hands and said, "I just think you are too extreme in handling these things. This is not good, very bad."

"Understood, I will change it." Mike replied without sincerity, "So can you tell me about this locket now?"

Dumbledore's expression was a little helpless, he knew that Mike was completely perfunctory, but in the end he picked up the locket, looked at it and said:
"First of all, this is indeed a real Slytherin locket."

Mike's brows frowned suddenly, this was the last answer he wanted to hear.

"In addition, I found some remnants of a familiar smell on it. I can be sure that it is definitely the smell of Voldemort. This also shows that your guess is correct. This locket is indeed a Horcrux." Dumbledore said with a frown. "At least it used to be a Horcrux, because the smell on it is very weak now, which means that someone removed the Voldemort's soul attached to it before us, and it was done without damaging the locket itself. !"

Hearing this, Mike breathed a sigh of relief at first, but then his expression became serious again.

The removal of the ghost from the Slytherin locket is definitely good news for Mike, because it means that Harry Potter is now the only Horcrux left by Voldemort.

But at the same time, Mike also smelled a conspiracy.

Who else is destroying Horcruxes besides them?

What kind of purpose does that person or that group of people have?
……

Countless questions kept popping up in Mike's mind, which made him miserable.

Reason told him that the guy who wiped out the soul on the pendant box was probably Chris, but Mike couldn't think of the reason why the other party did so.

You must know that Chris is a pure-blood wizard, and the existence of Voldemort is good for them, so why would they do such a thing?

After pondering for a moment, Mike, who was still puzzled, finally raised his eyes and looked at Dumbledore.

"Do you think that person will be Chris? Why would he do this?"

Compared with Mike's dignified expression, Dumbledore's expression was much more relaxed.

Facing Mike's inquiry, he slowly spread his hand to persuade him:
"Anyway, judging from the results, we are still successful, aren't we? Although we don't know what those people think, at least one Horcrux has been wiped out. You have done a good job, and the rest will be left to you. Me, I'll take care of it. As for you, I suggest you take a good rest for a while, or review Potions. After all, you didn't like this class very much when Snape was here, so your grades were not very satisfactory But this year is different, I am going to hire a Potions professor again, this new professor is different from Snape, he is very friendly and strict."

While talking, Dumbledore seemed to think of something happy, and suddenly laughed.

But Mike opposite him was obviously not in a good mood, he just narrowed his eyes and continued to stare at Dumbledore.

Mike knew very well that what Dumbledore meant in his words was to ask him not to care about these things anymore.

It is believed that this is because of Dumbledore's decision after he misunderstood Mike and slaughtered the entire Avery family.

Dumbledore would rather drag his half-dead body around to run around than let the tragedy of the Avery family reappear!
In this regard, Mike still did not make other excuses.

Afterwards, Dumbledore began to talk to Mike about the precautions for the new semester at Hogwarts. He seemed to want Mike to return his attention to school and study, and kept telling Mike about Hogwarts. Funny things that happened in Terry.

To be honest, the events he told are very interesting, and the narrative level is also very high.

But this is really no difficulty for Dumbledore. After all, he has stayed in Hogwarts for nearly a hundred years. Mike even doubts that if necessary, he can talk endlessly without repeating the whole day. one night.

It's just that Mike is of no use to Mike.

To be honest, he has no interest in Hogwarts, because Hogwarts courses are of no help to him.

The reason why Mike continued to go to school was entirely to monitor the movement of the Harry Potter trio. Mike never let down his vigilance for the protagonist trio in the original book.

Also his staff at Hogwarts was a big reason.

It's just that most of his subordinates are about to graduate now, and Voldemort is about to launch a more violent attack, Mike is even prepared, as long as the opportunity is right in the next school year, he will leave Hogwarts at any time !

Naturally, Dumbledore didn't know all this, and when Mike saw that the other party was no longer willing to disclose more information, he got up directly, bowed to Dumbledore expressionlessly, then turned around and left the office, before leaving He didn't even forget to hold the Slytherin locket in his arms.

Mike left the forest villa at a very fast speed. When he walked out of the villa, the house elf who didn't know whether it was called a small teacup or a small teapot greeted Mike graciously again.

Of course, Mike still ignored him and teleported away with the Portkey with a dark face.

At this time, on the balcony of the villa in the forest, Dumbledore shook his head helplessly as he watched Mike's distorted figure leaving and the somewhat lost house elf in the garden.

……

After leaving the villa in the forest, Mike got busy again.

As I said before, the mining of resources in the Avery Secret Realm is an extremely cumbersome and huge job, and Mike is not a black-hearted capitalist. He will not let Benjamin complete such a huge workload alone.

Of course, this is only the superficial reason, in fact, it is because the efficiency of letting Benjamin handle it alone is too low.

After mobilizing more than a dozen business elites from the Los Santos Group to work together for a few days, Mike finally figured out the specific situation of the Avery family's business.

The production cost of Avery magic cloth and Avery magic liquid is actually very low, and it can even be said that there is no cost at all. After all, labor and raw materials are completely free.

And their output is also amazing.

However, in order to maintain a stable market price and high profits, the Avery family has been controlling the quantity of Avery magic liquid and magic cloth circulating in the market over the years.

And the most direct result of this is that the goods hoarded in the Avery Secret Realm have reached a jaw-dropping amount.

Since what Mike wanted was to squeeze out all the profits in Avery's secret territory as soon as possible, he planned to sell all these goods at once.

It's just that the profits that can be reaped from the sale are very low, because the influx of such large quantities of goods into the market will inevitably saturate the market, resulting in a drop in commodity prices.

This is almost an unsolvable problem for the original Avery family, because their family's market basically only exists in the mainland of the country, and the number of wizards in the country is not too large.

But for Mike, trying to solve this problem is much simpler.

You know, they have started planning overseas markets several years in advance, and major wizarding areas like the United States and France even have exclusive stores of the Los Santos Group.

Although these stores have been losing money, Mike has never given up on them, and now, Mike's investment has finally paid off.

Through the international Floo network, a large number of goods that have been renamed Los Santos magic cloth and Los Santos magic liquid are directly transported to Los Santos specialty stores in various wizard gathering places around the world.

These excellent materials directly conquered all the local cloth makers and potion masters.

Not only that, Mike also referred to the low-price zone policy of the Muggle world when selling these products. When facing the dark witch shamans on the African land, the price of Los Santos magic liquid and magic cloth will be much lower , At the same time, we continue to launch promotional activities, and continue to discount the original price, which makes the price in the high price area come down, and the price in the low price area, which was originally not high, also becomes lower.

In comparison, European countries such as France and the United Kingdom are more expensive. Of course, compared to the prices of these countries in the United States, the prices are still cheap, because Mike directly increased the prices of these two goods in the United States. nearly double!
There is no way around this. At this stage, the wizards of the United States are the richest in the entire wizarding world just like the current United States itself. How could Mike let go of such an opportunity to kill him severely.

As you said about Asia, Mike didn't give them much favor.

Especially for the wizards or immortals in that huge ancient country, the price given by Mike is almost exactly the same as that of the country.

This is because the group of wizards who claim to be immortals are all rich, and the economic conditions of their wizard society are not worse than those in the country!
Due to the existence of the low-price zone policy, a brand-new profession has emerged, that is, overseas purchasing agent.

They usually go back and forth between low-price areas and high-price areas, and help wizards in high-price areas to buy cheaper goods through smuggling and other methods.

It is actually very simple to deal with these people, you only need to limit the products sold in the low-price area.

But Mike didn't do that, he didn't want to strangle all these purchasing agents to death.Therefore, although he also limited the sales in the low-price area, he firmly controlled the limited range of goods within a range where purchasing agents made money, but not many.

The main reason for doing this is to make the name of the Los Santos Group more widely known!
Facts have proved that this policy is very effective. Under Mike's connivance, the European market, which had been somewhat gloomy due to Voldemort's return, became lively again. Products flow into the market.

For a while, Los Santos magic liquid and magic cloth became famous, and as the manufacturer and seller of these two goods, the name of Los Santos Group also spread throughout the wizarding world.

And all of this happened in just half a month.

In the past half month, Mike has directly cleared all the inventory in Avery's secret territory!
Due to the effects of low-price areas and continuous preferential activities, although there are continuous subsidies from high-price areas, the profit from selling this batch of goods is still a little less than expected.

But these are just niggles, and Mike's original goal - to squeeze money out quickly - has been achieved.

And now that markets all over the world have been opened, the reputation of Los Santos Group and Mobu Magic Liquid should also be spread!
A small Avery Famous Realm can never meet the needs of the current global market.

Then what Mike has to do next is to increase the price as it should be!
Those who are used to using magic cloth and magic liquid will slowly find that these commodities they need will become more and more expensive, and eventually become more expensive than when they were originally in the country.

This is Mike's backup long-term development plan. The original Avery family was so conservative that they didn't dare to open overseas markets, causing a large amount of goods to be hoarded.

In Mike's view, this is really a waste. Now that he is here, this situation cannot be allowed to happen again.

If his plan can go on smoothly, the output of Avery Secret Realm in the future will be several times that of the original!
Of course, the reason why Mike can make so much money is also due to the hard work of those giant ants in the secret realm.

Mike originally thought that Lilith, the queen ant, would be obedient to him for a while. After all, in the eyes of the other party, his behavior may have the meaning of revenge.

But in fact, after observation, Mike found that instead of being lazy, those ants worked harder!

This made Mike a little puzzled.

However, Mike still liked the way they were trying to help him make money, so Mike relaxed some resource blockades on the Queen Ant.

Start to allow Lilith to ask for some food and property within a certain range.

Mike swore that his original intention of doing this was to compensate and reward the ant queen Lilith, but Lilith obviously regarded it as a reward for work or something else.

So, on the second day after the gift was delivered, all the ants in the entire Avery Secret Territory went crazy, and they began to cut down those mushrooms crazily, even the soldier ants who didn't need to work at all in the past They were all sent out to carry supplies!

Mike, who was in the office in the secret territory of the Freemasonry, was a little stunned after listening to Penello's story.

But after reacting, he smiled, and he laughed very happily.

"Hahaha, it seems that she likes my gift very much. This is very good. If they can continue to maintain this enthusiasm for work, then the material ration for Lilith will be doubled next month."

"understood."

Penello smiled and took down Mike's words, and prepared to convey them later.

And Mike in front of him finally returned to normal, smiling and saying:

"Help me gather all the members of the Freemasonry, I'm going to have a small meeting later."

(End of this chapter)