Chapter 439 New Contract

The atmosphere in the ant cave was a little tense, but Benjamin and Franklin behaved very naturally. They completely ignored the army of ants that surrounded them, and instead did their own work.

Earlier, while Mike was talking to the queen ant, they had already pulled the traitor over and verified the identity of the man in the windbreaker who was hung upside down - the patriarch of the Avery family!

After confirming the identity of the target, Franklin and Benjamin stripped him clean.

The Avery patriarch, who was covered in cl, had obviously never suffered such humiliation before. He struggled to cover his vital parts with his hands, and at the same time stared at the traitor with a pair of bloodshot eyes.

"I remember you, you are the son of old Jerry! You traitor! Merlin will punish you!"

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

Facing the curse of his chief, the traitor reacted very excitedly. He waved his wand violently, and then a golden whip composed of magic power extended from the tip of his wand and lashed hard on the fat body of Chief Avery, leaving a bloody whip mark.

Chief Avery howled miserably, and then cursed even more unpleasantly. Naturally, the traitor beat him even harder after hearing that.

He seemed to want to prove his loyalty in this way, but unfortunately, no one present took 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. The two of them were picking up the clothes stripped from Chief Avery.

The Avery Patriarch was obviously a money-loving person. Franklin and Benjamin searched his coat pocket and found a pocket full of gold Galleons and a key to the Gringotts vault with the Avery family emblem.

But these were secondary. What they really gained was a pendant box and a piece of worn parchment!

Looking at the pendant box with the Slytherin symbol and the parchment full of ancient Latin in his hand, Benjamin's breath became heavy!

"Mike, we seem to have found it!"

Franklin's excited and trembling voice drew Mike's attention back. He turned his head and quickly glanced at the pendant box, and the corners of his mouth rose.

With a strange smile at the queen ant in front of him, Mike put down his wand, slowly turned around, and exposed his entire back to the other party.

This seemed to be an extremely wise behavior. After all, the queen ant was still his enemy at this stage.

But Mike didn't care.

You have to know that you are the opponent's nest. Maybe for other races this means a perfect home advantage, but for ants, the inside of the nest is exactly where they are most reluctant to fight.

After all, the queen ant is everything to their colony. If something unexpected happens to the queen ant during the battle, then their colony will be declared extinct.

What's more, Mike knew very well that with his own strength and attainments in the fire spell, these ants were simply vulnerable in front of him, no matter how many there were.

And the fact was just as he expected. After Mike put down the wand, the queen ant was obviously much more relaxed.

But facing this excellent opportunity for a sneak attack, she did not react at all, just looking at Mike quietly.

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

At this moment, he was struggling and crying under the whip of the traitor, and when he noticed Mike's gaze, the traitor hurriedly stopped and stood aside with a flattering face.

"Nice to meet you, Chief Avery. I'm Townley, Mike Townley. You can call me Mr. Townley." Mike looked at him with a smile, "I'm going to ask you a few questions, but I don't think you'll answer them truthfully, so..."

As he spoke, Mike glanced at Benjamin on the side.

The latter immediately understood and took out a bottle of potion and poured it directly into Chief Avery's mouth.

This is truth serum. Unlike the variant of anesthetics in the Muggle world, its potion version is much more effective and can make people talk about almost anything, but as a side effect, people who have taken it will become wise.

Because its effect is too strong, the Ministry of Magic has strictly blocked the sale and manufacture of this potion. Only a few potion masters in Europe have mastered the method of making truth serum, and the one Benjamin took out now is the only one they have now!

Chief Avery is obviously also a knowledgeable person. Not long after being fed the truth serum, he realized what he had drunk and hurriedly reached out to scratch his throat, trying to spit out the potion again.

Unfortunately, it was too late.

Chief Avery stopped after pulling the trigger a few times. His ferocious expression quickly turned calm and gentle, and then quickly turned into a dull expression.

He didn't take out the hand in his mouth, but he stopped scratching his throat and sucked his hand hard like a baby sucking a pacifier.

The scene of a middle-aged man sucking his hand made Mike feel a little disgusted. He shook his head impatiently and asked quickly:

"Where is Chris?"

"I don't know."

Listening to the other party's pale and empty voice and looking at his wise expression, Mike was a little dull.

But he soon reacted.

He was stupid. The other party should only answer questions passively now. He should ask more detailed questions.

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

"Chris found us and told us a lot of things, including Dumbledore's preparations and the news that Voldemort was about to return. He told us that Britain and even Europe would be plunged into war, and we'd better hide like him, and wait until the end of the war to choose the advantaged side to be loyal. In this way, we can preserve the family's strength to the greatest extent and gain future security. We believed him, so we hid."

"Each family's hiding place is separate and confidential, so you don't know where other families are hiding, right?"

"Yes."

Nodding, Mike took the pendant box from Franklin, held it in front of Patriarch Avery, shook it a few times, and said:

"Where did this come from?"

As soon as these words came out, the expression of the Avery clan leader suddenly became ferocious. He stared at the pendant box fiercely, as if he wanted to tear it into pieces.

Mike looked at Benjamin expressionlessly. This would not happen to people who took the truth serum.

But Benjamin was also confused. After all, he did not have a deep understanding of the super forbidden drug, the truth serum, and had no idea why this happened.

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

"This was given to me by Chris."

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

"This is Slytherin's pendant box. I specially asked someone to authenticate it and it's genuine. Chris wanted to use this to thank me for supporting his plan. This is the gift and I like it very much."

"But now it seems," Mike laughed sarcastically, "this seems to be just a trap, a trap that will leave you dead without a burial place."

"Yes, that's right."

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

"The 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 these words came out, the queen ant suddenly made a squeaking sound, from which Mike heard the unwillingness, and the surrounding ants also rioted when they heard the sound.

But the next moment, they all stopped firing, because a string of black flames with a dangerous aura suddenly appeared in Mike's palm!

The ants quickly retreated, and seeing this, Mike snorted coldly and crushed the flame in his palm.

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

"I can't do it. The method of signing this ancient contract has been lost."

Hearing this, Mike and others and the queen ant next to him were all stunned. No one expected that this important contract spell would be lost by the Avery family!

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.

But her laughter did not last too long, because Mike lowered his head and pondered for a moment before continuing to say to Chief Avery:

"So, can the power enjoyed in this contract be transferred from you to me through an unbreakable oath?"

"Yes."

Hearing this, Mike laughed, and the laughter of the queen ant next to him stopped abruptly.

She didn't actually understand what Mike meant by the unbreakable oath, but that didn't stop her from feeling a little uneasy.

The next thing was very simple. Under the effect of the truth serum, Chief Avery was in a state of confusion. Mike effortlessly made him say the oath of transferring the effectiveness of the contract, and then Benjamin performed the unbreakable oath. With

a golden chain appearing from the hands of Mike and Chief Avery and slowly spreading to their bodies, the oath was officially established. Mike didn't feel anything, but the queen ant was different.

Her contract with the Avery family was actually very simple, that is, she must obey all the orders of the Avery family and cannot harm any member of the Avery family, otherwise she will be tortured by the same pain as the Cruciatus Curse.

And now, she can clearly feel that the restrictions of the contract on herself have been transferred from the Avery family to Mike. This is really unacceptable to her.

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

But now, although the Avery family has been destroyed, her freedom is in the hands of the man in front of her!

What can she do if she just refuses to accept it?

The queen ant saw everything Mike did on the fifth floor just now through other ants. The man who mastered that terrifying spell might be able to destroy her entire tribe alone!

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

As she moved, hundreds of ants in the entire rock cave also knelt down and presented the most noble gift to Mike.

Of course, this kind of nobleness is only for humans.

From the twisted and stiff movements of the ants when they knelt, it can be seen that they themselves do not understand what kneeling means. This is just an action that the Avery family forced them to teach in order to satisfy their vanity.

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

"Your name is Lilith, right?"

"Yes, my master."

"From now on, there is no need to bow when you meet people."

"Well... what?"

Lilith's words were full of surprise and confusion.

Unlike her own children, Lilith, who was extremely intelligent, knew the true meaning of kneeling. In her opinion, wizards were just a group of ambitious, violent and brutal guys.

How could such a creature voluntarily give up the opportunity to be worshipped?

"I'll give you the order, and you just need to execute it." Mike continued to order, "In addition, your future work will remain the same, which is to harvest the mushrooms in the secret realm. I can give you more power, and even allow you to be independent in this secret realm. My only requirement is that your production must double, do you understand?"

The queen ant was even more confused, and the pair of antennae on her head kept shaking as she said:

"But..."

"No buts, I will send someone to hand over the work here to you in a while. If you can't complete my requirements, then don't talk about the power I gave you, even your life, I will take it away!"

After that, Mike no longer looked at the terrified queen ant behind him, and walked directly out of the cave with Benjamin and others.

Just as he thought before, he could not guarantee whether there would be other entrances and other door keys controlled by the enemy in this secret realm. After all, the Avery family had ruled here for countless years in the past, and who knows what tricks they would leave behind.

In this case, Mike simply cannot invest a lot of resources in construction, the risk is too great.

So the best way to deal with it at this stage is to drain the resources in this secret realm as quickly as possible. In this case, Mike is also willing to give these ants better treatment. After all, Mike is not the Avery family. He still knows very well that if you want the horse to run, you have to feed it with grass.

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

it depends on their performance at that time.

If they perform well, Mike doesn't mind taking them to the main world!