Chapter 494: The Disobedient Dumbledore

"Hello, dear master."

The respectful voice of the ant queen Lilith sounded in Mike's mind.

As an ant queen who has lived deep underground for many years, Lilith does not have so many schemes. This is the true feeling in her heart.

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

But what happened later surprised her.

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

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

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

People who have never been treated gently are always easy to satisfy, and this is the case with the current queen ant.

"Lilith, I need your help."

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

Lilith's tone was full of joy. She was happy to help Mike. As for the fact that her people were used as cannon fodder by Mike, she didn't care much.

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, the master who treats her well, is a legitimate reason, so she is so indifferent.

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

After bidding farewell to the queen ant Lilith, Mike finally came to the battle site carefully selected by Benjamin and others, a U-shaped closed valley.

While Mike was visiting the Avery Secret Realm, Franklin, who stayed in Hogwarts, had completed his task and moved the disappearing cabinet in the room of every request to the innermost part of the valley.

When Mike arrived, fortifications were being built on the cliffs on both sides of the valley. They were buildings similar to bunkers, and there was a circle of low walls made of rocks on the periphery. When the battle began, the wizards under Mike's command would 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 together with the Death Eaters.

As for whether the spells fired by the wizards above the canyon would accidentally hurt the friendly ants, this was not within 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 with magic were very solid at the level of Muggles, they were still not good enough in front of wizards.

But in the current ambush and sneak attack, these fortifications were extremely useful. Under their cover, the wizards on the cliffs could launch attacks recklessly, and the Death Eaters' attacks from bottom to top posed little threat to them.

While Mike was working hard, the troops sent by the Muggle Prime Minister had problems.

The first was the 70-man ground force. Mike's original intention was to deploy 50 of them on the cliffs on both sides of the ambush site, using the sniper's accurate shooting ability and the gunner's and machine gunner's barrage coverage ability as fire support for the wizard combat force.

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

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

The soldiers screamed and picked up their guns to attack 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 rushed forward while shouting something that Mike couldn't understand!

It has to be said that the people sent by the Muggle Prime Minister are all real combat elites. In the battle with the ants, they showed excellent combat qualities and killed dozens of ants in an instant.

But they were all friendly troops!

Mike was speechless about these soldiers!

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

But they were still full of vigilance about everything around them. The various strange scenes that appeared in front of them completely shattered their three views. Many of them even thought they were sent to fight on an alien planet.

Obviously, it is basically impossible to want soldiers in this state to fight with wizards. In desperation, Mike could only divide them into a separate team to guard a section of the cliff alone. However,

these ground troops are easy to deal with, but the air force on the other side is troublesome.

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

But judging from the situation shown by the ground forces, the air force, which is more pampered in comparison, will obviously have a worse psychological acceptance ability, and they may launch indiscriminate attacks at that time.

This is unacceptable to Mike. You know, each of the combat wizards of the Los Santos Group has been carefully trained with huge resources. It is okay to let them die on the battlefield, but Mike is unwilling to let them die in the indiscriminate attack of friendly forces.

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

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

This made Mike feel a little uncomfortable, and he thought that his lie was discovered by Professor Flitwick.

Just when Mike couldn't help wanting to confess to Professor Flitwick, he sighed and said angrily:

"Mike, have you never learned about the process of recruiting new students at Hogwarts?"

"Well, that's true." Mike said confusedly, "But...what does this have to do with the problem I'm facing now?"

Professor Flitwick was furious when he heard this, and he patted Mike on the forehead and said:

"Because if you had any understanding of these things, you wouldn't ask me such stupid questions!"

Mike rubbed his head and looked at Professor Flitwick innocently. He still didn't understand what the connection was.

This made Professor Flitwick furious. He raised his hand and was ready to hit Mike again, but when Mike turned his head to dodge, he saw that Professor Flitwick seemed to suddenly remember something. His face, which was originally full of anger, became distressed. Then he raised his hand high and 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 of recruiting students at Hogwarts is like this. Every spring, a magic book in the principal's office of Hogwarts will automatically detect children in the country who meet the admission standards of Hogwarts, and then list them. The principal will then make and send out admission notices.

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 of Hogwarts cannot take the children away from them directly. It is too cruel to do so."

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

You know, Mike is an orphan, so when Dumbledore came to him in person, he did not explain this process to his parents at all!

"Although Hogwarts' approach is very humane, and for those students, attending Hogwarts is almost the best choice. But in the actual work process, professors often encounter the same problem as you - some Muggles always like to immerse themselves in their own world and are unwilling to accept reality.

And when facing these people, simple persuasion is no longer useful, so when the prospective freshmen have agreed to enroll but their parents disagree, the professors who are sent there will take some measures..."

"You mean..."

"Yes, you're a smart kid, so you should be able to guess it." Flitwick smiled and nodded, "It's a small spell improved from the advanced Legilimency spell, called the 'Muggle Transformation Spell'. Through this small 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."

As he said, Professor Flitwick took out his wand and personally demonstrated the release of the Muggle Transformation Spell to Mike.

It must be said that this is indeed a very simple little spell. Mike only spent a whole night to master it completely and applied it to those Muggle soldiers.

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

But their behavior is actually not very meaningful, because Mike has already decided to erase the memory of all of them after the battle for the sake of confidentiality and safety.

But they obviously don't know about this, so a strange scene appeared. Those Muggle soldiers dare not pester those wizards all day long to ask questions, which makes those wizards tireless!

That is, the group of wizards under Mike are all Muggle-born. If they were pure-blood wizards, these Muggle soldiers would have died countless times.

And just when there was chaos in the Avery Secret Realm, Christmas finally came.

...

Inside Hogwarts Castle, Snape, who was covered in a black robe, walked through the corridor with a gloomy face and quickly entered Dumbledore's office.

The sound of the office door closing woke up Dumbledore, who was sleeping on the desk, and the portraits of past headmasters on the wall.

The latter only grumbled twice when they saw that it was Snape who came, and then fell asleep again.

But Dumbledore looked at Snape with curiosity, and then said in surprise:

"Severus, you actually came to spend Christmas with me, this is really strange!"

Snape, who was opposite the desk, curled his lips.

In previous years, he basically did not attend the Christmas dinner at Hogwarts. Compared with staying in Hogwarts and celebrating with a group of stupid students, Snape preferred to go to the cemetery to present a bouquet of flowers to Lily, and then drink a bottle of Starlight Wine alone in front of Lily's tombstone, so that he could use the drunkenness to recall the good times he had with Lily.

But this year was different. A sudden message broke his plan to visit the graves.

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

As soon as these words came out, most of the magic portraits on the wall woke up immediately, staring at Snape below with disbelief.

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

"Are you sure of the authenticity of this news?"

"This is what Narcissa told me herself. Her son Draco found a vanishing cabinet in the Room of Requirement, and the other sub-cabinet that matches the vanishing cabinet is now in that man's hands. The Death Eaters will launch a raid on Hogwarts through the vanishing cabinet tonight! And the reason why Narcissa told me all these things is because Draco was forced to participate. 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 vanishing cabinet, does that mean that the vanishing cabinet in Hogwarts is now missing?"

"You guessed right." Snape said, "I had 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 my old bones to dedicate themselves to Hogwarts."

Dumbledore said calmly while removing the bandages on his arms.

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

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

"There is no but. I am the headmaster of Hogwarts, and it is my responsibility to protect the students. From the first day I sat on this chair, I have been ready to sacrifice for this school." Dumbledore looked at the many portraits of former headmasters hanging on the wall and said, "What do you think?"

The portraits all nodded to Dumbledore with satisfaction, but this made Snape very angry. He glared at the portraits and was about to continue persuading Dumbledore to escape, but the latter took the lead and said:

"Snape, do what you should do. Draco is not bad at heart. Protect him. You have promised Narcissa, right?"

Dumbledore smiled kindly at Snape, while the latter stood there blankly with a gloomy face. After

a while, Snape snorted coldly and left!