Harry Potter and the Great Old Ones

Chapter 165 The Office and the Female Secretary Inside

Although Tierra was only an honorary professorship awarded through donation, perhaps because the University of Greenwich had encountered such suckers in a long time, the university was quite generous in terms of facilities, giving Tierra a lot of face.

Tierra was given a large two-room office at the Uwell campus.

The two rooms are connected. The outer room is a smaller office with a slightly dated sofa, coffee table, and desk.

Behind the desk sat a short, chubby girl in her early twenties with blonde hair.

“Mr. Lockhart?” The girl stood up immediately when she saw someone come in and went around to the front of the desk.

“Yes, it’s me.” Tiera smiled, controlling “Gidro Lockhart,” and then politely extended her hand. “You must be Miss Etakandi?”

“Yes, that’s me,” the short, plump lady said softly, blushing as she shook hands with “Gidro Lockhart.”

No wonder Miss Aitacandi reacted this way.
Gilderoy Lockhart was already quite good-looking, with blond hair, blue eyes, and a slender figure. In addition, Tiera deliberately dressed up today, abandoning Gilderoy Lockhart's original luxurious style and turning the "parasite" into a double-breasted long dress cape and a white shirt with a stiff collar, plus a black bow tie, a pair of shiny leather boots, and a gentleman's cane.

This makes Tierra look like a nobleman from the last century.

“It’s a pleasure to meet you, Miss Candy,” Tierra said with a smile, returning the greeting.

Yes, the software is also very good.

Tiera thought, squeezing Miss Etacandi's soft hand.

Ettacandy was assigned to him as his laboratory secretary at the University of Greenwich, primarily responsible for the management of laboratory personnel and finances, handling daily laboratory work, and taking care of Gidlow Lohart's life at the university.

Since Gilderoy Lockhart was merely a professor who had been donated to the university, and the school didn't expect him to produce any significant results, he was only given the position of a recent college graduate.

Through that brief exchange of glances and physical contact, Tiera learned that Miss Etacandi was twenty-three years old, a recent graduate of the University of Greenwich with a degree in Heritage and Tourism Management, and had no background in finance or management.

This suited Tyella's taste perfectly.

When Tierra donated to the University of Greenwich, she stated that she hoped the college would provide her with a secretary with a background in theology, history, archaeology, geography, or tourism.

After all, he wasn't really going to do research at the University of Greenwich; he just wanted to get into a university to make it easier to get an academic visa.

Having a secretary with a relevant background could save him a lot of money.

The salary of the laboratory secretary was paid by the school secretariat. Apart from that, the salaries of other laboratory staff were paid from Thiera’s own research funds—thirty thousand pounds.

With a secretary specializing in ruins and tourism management, Tierra, playing the foolish rich man, only needs to gather an archaeologist or historian, a geographer, a mercenary on the same page as the rich man, a mystic enthusiast for comedic relief, and a local guide ravaged by mysterious events to start the tour.

Although Tiera obtained the spatial powers from Yog-Sothoth of the "Inheritors," she shouldn't have gone through all this trouble; she could have simply opened a door wherever she wanted.

But this is on the premise that Tierra has personally been there or knows the precise material dimension coordinates of that place.

Moreover, the entrances to some hidden places are often not easy to find; it requires extensive local research and finding a local familiar with the terrain to guide you.

For example, Tiera knew that she could enter the Cold Plateau from a cave in the Central Asian mountains, and then reach the Dreamland from the Cold Plateau.

So here's the question: Central Asia is so vast, which mountain range? Which mountain?
Even if we find that mountain, which cave is on it?

Tiera could only narrow down the scope step by step based on the unusual local situation.

And only the locals know the most detailed information about the unusual situations in these areas.

Only they can know which are the delusions of a mentally ill person, which are rumors, and which are the actual events that happened.

But it's impossible for Tiera to go door-to-door reading minds in every place she visits, right?

Although Central Asia is a desolate land, its population remains enormous.

If Tiera were to do this alone, it would be time-consuming and exhausting; even if she graduated from Hogwarts, she might not be able to find the entrance to the Cold Plateau.

So it's better to climb the social ladder by partnering with a university, gathering manpower in the university's name, and then spending money to conduct investigations in the local area.

Alternatively, by leveraging his position as a professor at the University of Greenwich, he could access British databases of archaeology, theology, or history, and then have someone use big data to filter out several regions in Central Asia with a high density of unusual events and undiscovered ancient artifacts.

Then, following this distribution, we went to each of them one by one.

Tierra believed that as long as the money was right, the results wouldn't be bad. Since Tierra wasn't good at big data screening anyway, the money was going to be spent anyway, so he simply donated a university professorship to get more control over everything within his research group.

After exchanging pleasantries with Aitakandi for a while, "Gidro Lockhart" took a stroll around the office and expressed his satisfaction.

He sighed at the same time—

I toiled myself to death in my past life, and even after being blown up in the lab, I only became a PhD.

I've only been here for six years and I've already become a twelve-year-old professor.

Or maybe we could just go back and spend the money to get into a foreign university here. After all, Tierra was seventeen when she graduated from Hogwarts, a perfect age for college.

No, no, no, he should go back to China and take the college entrance exam. With his overseas Chinese status, he might be able to choose between Tsinghua and Peking University if he puts in the effort.

Even if all else fails, you can still become a "superior person" at Shandong University.

“By the way, Miss Candy,” Tiera turned to Etacandy, who had been following behind him, and asked, “Do you have a boyfriend?”

Tiera knew that Ettacandi had a boyfriend of four years named Jimi Mohanna, who was in the same year as Ettacandi and the two met in their freshman year.

Jimmy Mohanna is a tall, thin, freckled, ordinary boy studying life sciences at the Uwewich campus. This year, he successfully passed the entrance exam for the same graduate program at the same university.

Aitakandi, a student majoring in heritage and tourism management, took on the job of lab secretary so that she could be closer to her boyfriend, Jimmy Mohanna.

Hearing Tiera's question, Etakandi blushed, lowered his head slightly, and then said—

"No."

Tierra: ...

The confident smile on Gilderoy Lockhart's face seemed to freeze for a moment—

I'm still too naive; I don't understand how fickle people's hearts can be.

“That’s perfect.” Tierra paused for a moment, then took out a twenty-pound note from her wallet and handed it to Etakandi.

“Professor Gilderoy…” Etacandi looked at him blankly.

“Take a week off, go find a boyfriend, and have some fun,” Tiera said, then half-pushed, half-urged Aitacandi to take her coat and handbag, and politely ushered her out of the office.

"See you next week! Bye~" Tierra said with a smile, and then—

"Bam—"

She remained stunned, clutching the twenty-pound note, bewildered, until the office door closed behind her.

After the sound of Aitacandi's high heels fading into the distance faded away, Tiera stood up, removed her ear from the wooden office door, and then locked the door from the inside.

"Snapped--"

Tiera snapped his fingers.

A portal of light appeared in the center of the office.

On the other side of the light gate was Tiera's current residence and study, where Dobby was already waiting.

“Sir,” Dobby called out.

"Time to get to work, Dobi." Tiera waved her hand, and rows of books from the study bookshelves passed through a portal into the office. "Decorate this place nicely."

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