Hogwarts: Wizards of Eternity.

Chapter 182 The Eve of Virtual Reality's Full Rollout

Life forms with higher intelligence will naturally differentiate themselves from each other.

Skin color, gender, region, belief, status, class...

Although they clearly share the same origin, people always like to divide people into small circles in various ways and then pull them down.

Trampling on others seems to have become some kind of necessity.

This is how wizards treat creatures such as murlocs, centaurs, and house-elves.

So when they realized that with the advancement of technological civilization, Muggles would surpass wizard civilization in all aspects.

Many people panicked.

From Grindelwald to Voldemort, the rise of both was not accidental. They were not solitary criminals who committed crimes alone. They were some kind of spiritual leaders.

Wizards supreme!

A large number of wizards followed them, and the failure of the two could be described as the victory of justice over evil.

Perhaps it would be more appropriate to say that conservative thought defeated radical thought.

But ideas cannot be killed.

Even if we encounter setbacks, reality will repeat itself again and again as long as the external social conditions do not change.

But now.

The social situation has changed!

Let’s start with this press conference!
Looking up, Rita Skeeter walked into the room and looked towards the podium.

Sitting in the center of the podium was their Minister of Magic, Cornelius Fudge.

Roger Virgil sat to Fudge's left.

Although he was sitting in a side seat, but before the press conference started, both the officials on the stage and the wizards in the audience focused their attention on Roger.

Some people, no matter where they are, will become the focus... Rita Skeeter suddenly remembered this sentence.

She turned her head and found that the young wizard named Tom who came in with her was also looking at Roger intently.

But the look in his eyes seemed a little complicated.

She felt that this was not the look one should have when meeting someone for the first time.

So he immediately took advantage of the opportunity to ask, "Tom, have you ever known the prophet before?"

Being good at discovering all valuable information is also a basic quality that a journalist should have.

"That's it."

"I had some vague communication with him," Tom answered casually.

what?
Rita Skeeter was a little confused by Tom's words. What did it mean to have communication that was almost there but not there?

Although she felt puzzled, she grasped the key point, that is, this young-looking wizard really knew Roger?
She had seen some wizards who spoke incoherently during her years as a reporter.

Magic is a complicated subject, and there are many people who have driven themselves crazy by practicing magic.

Rita Skeeter knew how to communicate with such people: "I didn't expect you to know such an important person. It's really enviable."

"Before you said the world was going to turn upside down, is there any inside information?"

Everyone wants to share, and Rita Skeeter tried to arouse his desire to talk.

Keeping one's mouth shut is a quality possessed by very few people. Most people cannot keep secrets and have mouths as loose as the waist of their cotton trousers.

Sometimes you don’t even need any sophisticated skills. You just need to start and others will naturally reveal all kinds of information like pouring beans.

Just like the players of a certain game, they often leak military secrets of various countries.

The emotions brewing in his heart were disturbed. Tom glanced at Rita and said, "The press conference will start soon. You will know then."

...Tsk.

By looking at Tom's micro-expressions, Rita Skeeter knew that her assessment of Tom's character was slightly wrong.

Although he looks gentle and refined, he is actually a man with a bad temper.

Rita Skeeter muttered a few words in her heart, and before she could fine-tune her next plan, she continued to get close to Tom.

Fudge in the front began to speak, and the press conference began! .

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This is an official event organized by the Ministry of Magic.

Naturally, the top leader has to say some polite words at the beginning.

Although Roger is more effective than Fudge in terms of strength and some invisible position.

But after all, Fudge is nominally the leading figure in British politics.

Of course, Fudge was also a very sensible man. He knew who those huge crowds of wizards below were coming for.

What do people pay more attention to?

He would naturally not do anything annoying.

After showing his presence, he quickly left the center of the stage to today's protagonist.

"Hello everyone, I'm Roger Virgil. I think everyone should have a general understanding of me, so I won't waste time introducing myself."

“Thank you Minister Fudge for taking the time to attend this press conference and deliver the opening remarks.”

"I'm young and don't understand the twists and turns, so let's get straight to the point and talk about what everyone is concerned about."

As always, Roger doesn't like to beat around the bush.

At the beginning, Roger roughly described his next plan.

To put it simply, Roger will sell the virtual reality device client at a price close to cost price.

With the addition of alchemist master Nicolas Flamel, the production cost and difficulty of Roger's virtual reality client were greatly reduced after technical optimization.

And now, because of Roger, the British wizarding world and the German wizarding world have in-depth cooperation.

With Dumbledore's face, Roger can easily mobilize the alchemical resources of the two countries' wizarding world with just one word.

The population of the wizarding community is not that large. The total population of the entire United Kingdom is less than one million.

With Roger's current production capacity, he will be able to popularize virtual reality to all British wizards within about half a year.

In addition to these basic things, Roger also talked about some other things.

For example, regulations regarding the use of virtual reality.

“I hope people can see virtual reality as a convenient tool.”

"Instead of something more exaggerated." Roger said this at this time to take precautionary measures against the implementation of anti-addiction mechanisms in the future.

"Everyone..."

Roger's narration continued, but the people below obviously did not take Roger's warnings seriously.

In their opinion, this is just like parents warning their children not to be addicted to games - long, boring and tedious.

They were more concerned with another issue.

After Roger finished his talk, the next step was the question-and-answer session, and Roger called on someone at random.

The young wizard who was called up asked the question that everyone was most concerned about: "Director Roger, is there any room for further improvement in the thinking acceleration function of virtual reality in the future?"

In this occasion, it is natural to refer to Roger's position in the Ministry of Magic.

This question is of vital importance, or rather, most of the wizards present here, except for the reporters, want to know the answer first, which is why they come here in person.

Roger's next answer will determine whether wizard civilization should continue to be "tense"!
If the speed of thinking in the virtual world can continue to increase, then wizarding civilization will have much more time to develop than Muggle civilization.

Next, the wizards just need to lie dormant and wait quietly for the moment to come.

Muggles and wizards, attack and defense, it's easy!
"Of course it can be improved." Roger gave the answer casually.

“Seven times the speed is far from the limit of virtual reality.”

In an instant, the wizards below were in an uproar!
The wizard who was called up couldn't help but ask, "What's the highest? How many times can the thinking speed be at most?"

(End of this chapter)