"Hero or…" Ollivander did not finish his words, but said: "The quality of power depends on the wizard who uses it, Mr. Murphy. Challenging authority is a very brave thing, but the destruction of order often brings suffering. I hope you can use your power carefully."
"Thank you for your advice, Mr. Ollivander." Murphy said, pulling out another shorter wand from his sleeve.
Olivander's eyes widened, "This, this… you really…"
Murphy pointed the wand at the old man, "Sorry, Mr. Ollivander, I'm afraid you have to remember some things again… Legilimency!"
Then, "Legilimency!"
"Legilimency!"
Legitimency can force Ollivander to recall the situation when Murphy's predecessor bought the wand seven years ago, locate this memory, so that Oblige can blur it, add false memories, and after repeating it several times, strengthen this false memory through false recall, making it the same as the real memory.
Memory is such an ambiguous thing. People have never read memories purely. Every time they recall, it is actually a correction and reinforcement of past memories.
Murphy is using this mechanism to confuse part of Ollivander's memory of buying a wand today with the situation when Murphy's predecessor bought a wand seven years ago, and replace the material of the wand he bought at that time with today's appearance.
After three repetitions, Ollivander will only remember that Murphy bought a poplar wand that year, and completely lose the memory of the cypress wand in Murphy's hand at the moment.
Olivander fainted, and Murphy let him sleep.
After the violent tampering of the brain just now, it needs a rest to adjust the contradictory memories.
After waking up, he will only feel that he had a strange dream.
While Ollivander was sleeping, Murphy summoned his account book, which recorded the information of every wand sold here. Murphy found the record from seven years ago. He scratched it with his wand, and the original "12.4 inches, cypress, unicorn hair" became "14 inches, poplar, phoenix feather".
So far, Murphy has a wand with no registration information and cannot be traced.
He can do whatever he wants with it in the future without worrying about investigations such as flashback spells.
More importantly, the history of this wand has also been buried and has become something that has never existed.
Murphy gained a lot from the trip to Knockturn Alley, and happily Apparated back to the old house of Darkholme.
After chatting with Alex Wood for a while, Murphy learned that the potion used to make the beautiful potion had been used up and the work of mixing materials had been completed. After thinking about it, Murphy arranged another job for Alex.
"Do you know any spells that can make people keep secrets?" Murphy asked.
He is going to build a potion research institute, and may also build a spell research institute in the future, which requires a large number of Muggle scientists and researchers to participate in the research.
Therefore, making them keep secrets has become a problem that must be solved.
"Unbreakable oath?" Alex said.
"Of course I thought of this, but the effect of unbreakable oath can make people die after telling secrets, and the goal I want to achieve is to make the recipient unable to tell a secret at all."
Unbreakable oath can have a deterrent effect, but the premise is that the person who makes the oath must be sincere and know that the consequence of breaking the oath is death.
This makes its application scope very narrow.
When Muggle researchers know that they will die if they accidentally reveal some secrets, it is unlikely that they will accept this oath from the bottom of their hearts.
"Fidelius Charm?" Alex thought of another spell.
The Fidelius Charm is very powerful. It is almost one of the most powerful spells Murphy knows. It can treat an entity or a place as a secret.
When the secret is kept by the keeper, the entity cannot be found, seen or touched by anyone other than the keeper.
It is powerful because the scope of this spell is conceptual. It reverses the scope that originally only affects the keeper and the object to affect everyone outside of it through a reverse logic.
At the same time, the effect it achieves is also conceptual. It rejects all non-secret persons' contact with the object, whether physical or magical, whether seeing, hearing, or flying spells, guiding spells, etc., will not work.
It is as if it erases the object from the world of non-secret persons.
Murphy shook his head, "This spell is not applicable."
The keeper can actively disclose the secret, and the Fidelius Charm cannot achieve Murphy's goal.
"Is there a spell similar to the unbreakable oath, but its effect is not that the recipient will die if he tells the secret, but that once he wants to reveal the secret, he will be subjected to a throat lock or petrification spell to prevent him from revealing the secret."
As an orphan, Murphy learned all the spells from school, most of which were standard spells, and a few, such as the simple levitation spell, were also learned from books in the library.
There are still many magics he doesn't know, and children from wizard families like Alex may know more than him.
"Throat lock..." Alex thought for a long time, "I seem to have seen something similar somewhere... but I can't remember it..."
"It's okay, think about it slowly, there's no rush."
Anyway, it will take some time to build the research institute, and before that, he has to solve the bankruptcy crisis of the Umbrella Company.
Thinking of this, Murphy packed up the herbs mixed by Alex and a bottle of beauty potion and went to find Patrick.
After asking Patrick to find a warehouse for him and put the mixed herbs in it, Murphy told Patrick the result of his meeting with Rita.
"She is unwilling to stand up for us. And it seems that she is not someone who can be moved by money."
Murphy still admires this kind of scientist who sticks to his own principles. He can't do things like using the Soul Taking Curse on the other party.
"It's already very good. At least you have attracted the attention of many scholars. Maybe their research will bring us some good news. We can also use this to do some positive publicity."
Murphy nodded, "How about you, how are the talks with those companies?"
Patrick shook his head, "Don't mention it, a group of jackals! Greedy! They also know that we want to delay time, so they are very tight. I found a few negotiation experts, but they persuaded me to go public instead."
"Go public?" Murphy didn't quite understand.
"On the surface, they said that going public would allow for public supervision and offset some of the negative public opinion, while also allowing pharmaceutical companies to invest and turn enemies into friends."
"In reality, they only thought about launching a mandatory takeover bid after going public and swallowing us up."
(End of this chapter)