The Dark Lord's Guide to Employment at Hogwarts

"Really? It was just luck." Li Weide's words were not humble, but the truth.

If he really had to rely on his own research, it would take a lot of time to find the accurate trajectory of magic in those cores that had lost their energy.

But these things were originally made by Slytherin, so Levid went directly to him to restore them.

The appearance of Slytherin was an accident in itself, so the whole thing was just a fluke, which is completely understandable.

Tom looked at the two combat puppets on the table, fighting each other fiercely, and imagined these puppets being released into the battlefield in the future...

How many wizards can react to the attacks of these incredibly fast combat puppets?

"If you can really make these puppets as big as humans, like the combat puppets that night, it will really enhance our strength." Tom said with a sigh.

"Not strong enough, Tom, not enough..." Li Weide carefully observed the movements of the combat puppet.

"Isn't this powerful enough? The speed is so terrifying..."

"No matter how terrifying the speed is, it is still a cold weapon fight, which is too backward. This is a product from thousands of years ago and seriously lacks long-range means!" Li Weide said thoughtfully, touching his chin.

Tom asked hesitantly, "Then... equip them all with crossbows? In that case..."

"Crossbow? Tom, are you some old man who traveled through time from the Middle Ages?" Li Weide laughed mercilessly at Tom's suggestion.

Tom was a little unconvinced. "What else? Can you equip them with guns?"

Suddenly, Tom's expression changed, "Wait! You don't really think so!"

Li Weide had an evil smile on his face. "How about equipping them with Thompson submachine guns? No... that's still too stingy. What's the name of that new machine gun the German army has recently released? Anyway, equip them with two machine guns each! And then put some magic immunity runes on the guns to prevent them from being damaged by wizards..."

Although Tom had never seen a machine gun in person, he had seen the guards of Riddle Manor practice with rifles, so he knew the power of Muggle guns.

Tom had some understanding of the concept of a machine gun, which was a gun that could fire continuously.

Thinking of that powerful gun being turned into a burst gun, and being mounted on a battle puppet that was highly resistant to spells...

"hiss……"

Thinking of this, Tom couldn't help but take a breath.

If Li Weide could really create this kind of puppet, even if he could only make ten, it would be enough to give the hostile wizards a hard time...

"In the Muggle world, the arms race has always been a crucial part of conflicts between nations. Top talents from every country are constantly researching weapons, fearing they will fall behind other nations. Because falling behind means being attacked. This is true in the Muggle world, and it's also true in our wizarding world! We need to have the most advanced equipment, the most powerful spells, the most effective potions... In this way, even if we're small in number, we can still gain a huge advantage! This is the arms race in the wizarding world!"

Speaking of this, Li Weide's eyes exuded a different look...

Chapter 248: Basilisk Farm? Do you think this is a pig farm?

Tom was frightened by the development prospects of combat puppets.

"If you can create an army of combat puppets, then conquering the whole world will not be a difficult task. Maybe... you won't even need to promote any new ideas..." Tom couldn't help but say.

"Tom, you've fallen into your old habit again. Ruling by force alone won't last long," Livid said. "Besides, how do you know if another genius will rise up in the future and use the same violence to overturn all the order we've worked so hard to establish?"

Tom narrowed his eyes and said, "So, you don't deny at all that your battle puppet has the ability to rule the world, right?"

"This is not the point, Tom. Governing the world is much more difficult than conquering it. Okay, let's not talk about this. You only have one task now, and that is to constantly arm your mind with knowledge... At the same time, you must also possess powerful magical powers." Li Weide ended the topic.

"Okay, then I'm going to attend the club activities. And tell everyone you don't have time to come." Tom stood up.

"Wait..." Li Weide asked Tom to wait for a while, then took out a green wizard robe from the cabinet next to him and handed it to him.

"What does this mean?" Tom took the wizard robe in confusion, only to feel it was cold.

"I forgot to give you a gift for Christmas. This piece of clothing is made of basilisk skin and scales. I'll give it to you." Li Weide said casually.

"Bassilisk skin?" Upon hearing this, Tom pulled the wizard robe in his hand hard. Sure enough, the toughness of this robe was far beyond his imagination.

"All right." Tom rolled up his robe and prepared to leave.

"Wait." Li Weide called Tom again.

"What's wrong? I don't have any gift for you. Even if you asked me for one, I would have to spend some time preparing it." Tom frowned.

"No, I want you to put it on now." Livid said, taking out his wand from his pocket.

Tom narrowed his eyes slightly. "Something's wrong with you, Wade... You're asking me to put it on now, and you're even taking out your wand... Are you planning on asking me to help you test the magic resistance of this suit?"

"Since you have guessed it, why don't you put it on quickly? I told you so much just now, but it was not in vain!" Li Weide waved the wand in his hand and said with a smile.

"Fuck... I haven't offended you recently, have I?" Tom said as he frantically recalled in his mind all the things he might have done to offend Li Weide recently.

"Tom, think about it, I'm the only one in the entire club researching new things... You have to make some contribution, right?" Li Weide still maintained a gentle smile on his face.

"I knew your things were not so easy to get!" Tom put on the wizard robe angrily.

The wizard robe made of snake skin is very light, and the pockets in the robe are equipped with traceless stretching spells, which should be very convenient for taking out props or weapons during combat.

If Tom hadn't been forced to be a target, he would really like this robe, but now... Li Weide! Why did you catch me alone and beat me up?

After a while...

"bump!"

Tom screamed and flew backwards.

However, after the wall was installed, Tom's screams stopped because he found that he could not feel the pain of the curse at all.

Tom quickly looked at the wizard robe on his body.

I saw a white spot on the robe, and the white spot was slowly recovering at a speed visible to the naked eye.

"It seems that the effect is good. It was hit by an explosive spell but was almost unharmed." Li Weide walked over and took a look, with a satisfied smile on his face. He had added a lot of protective magic to the snake skin.

"Indeed..." Although Tom was dissatisfied with Li Wei De using him as a target, he had to admit that the robe was indeed very good.

"Wait...you just said Exploding Curse? You're going to use the Exploding Curse to blow me up?!" Tom's face turned pale.

"Don't worry about these details, Tom... Oh, the basilisk is really full of treasures... Okay, from now on, our team's combat uniforms will be made of basilisk skin." Li Weide said with a smile.

"The basilisk skin is nice, but... I remember you and Professor Slughorn divided up the basilisk's body. Did you get the entire basilisk skin?"

"Not really, I took half, a very big half." Li Weide said.

"Even if you divided it into a very large half, if you use it all to make combat uniforms, it still shouldn't be enough, right?" Tom asked with a frown.

"Of course that's not enough! How big can a snake monster be?" Li Weide shook his head.

"Then how do you arm everyone?" Tom thought Li Weide's words were unrealistic.

"So... Tom!" Li Weide patted Tom's shoulder solemnly, "I have a very important task for you!"

"What mission?" Tom suddenly had a bad feeling.

"You are the only Parseltongue among us and can command snakes! So... come and help us raise some basilisks." Livid said with a smile.

Tom jumped up. "Do you want to listen to what you are saying? How is this possible? That's a basilisk! You want me to raise a basilisk? Do you think this is like raising a pig? I can't even raise one!"

"Tom, you are also a Parseltongue, and Slytherin is also a Parseltongue. There is no reason why he can do it but you can't. In my opinion, your talent is no worse than Slytherin's." Levid continued to persuade.

"No, no! Even if I want to raise it, I don't know how to raise a basilisk, so I can't do it at all!" Tom shook his head like a rattle.

To be honest, Tom is now a little psychologically afraid of the basilisk. Whoever it glares at will die. It is too dangerous!

What if I accidentally look at the snake monster I raise? Wouldn’t that be the end of me?

"Hey, what a coincidence, isn't it? In the Slytherin study, there are detailed records on how to raise a basilisk! I wrote it down." Levid excitedly stuffed a stack of manuscripts into Tom's hands.

Tom looked at the manuscript in his hand and was dumbfounded. "Okay... After all this time, you came prepared..."

I couldn't refuse, I really couldn't refuse... Tom had no choice but to open the manuscript in front of him with mixed feelings.

Suddenly, his eyes lit up. "Even if we have a method, we don't have the conditions! At least, we don't have the materials! I've never even seen a rooster egg!"

To hatch a basilisk, the first step is to find a rooster egg and a toad.

Toads are easy to find, but how do you find rooster eggs?

Roosters don't lay eggs! God knows how Slytherin found rooster eggs back then!

I think it must have taken a lot of effort, otherwise Slytherin might have left behind more than just one basilisk.

"Muggles really have no way, but... Tom, we are wizards. Not to mention asking roosters to lay eggs, it is not impossible to ask humans to lay eggs." Li Weide said with a smile.

"Damn it, that's just the whisper of the devil!" Young Tom was frightened by Levid's perverted smile.

……

"God damn it! This is impossible!"

In the Chamber of Secrets, Slytherin made an explosion.

"That's a basilisk! Even someone like me finds basilisks dark! But you want to turn basilisk breeding into an industry?"

Slytherin just felt that Levid was daydreaming.

Li Weide shook his head and said, "You're being too one-sided. The basilisk is indeed dark and dangerous, but you can't just see its dark and dangerous side! Let's not talk about other ingredients, just talk about the basilisk venom. Who would have thought that this corrosive and deadly venom, after replacing ordinary snake venom, could actually be boiled into a more powerful recovery potion? If we can raise some of this, then our team will have more and more powerful recovery potions in the future! This will greatly increase our comrades' ability to 'continue fighting'!"

"So you want to raise a basilisk like a pig?" Slytherin sneered. "Have you ever considered this? The reason the material from that basilisk you killed was so effective might be because it was nearly a thousand years old?"

Li Weide said, "I have indeed considered this issue. However, even if the venom of the newly cultivated basilisk is not as effective due to age, it is not a big deal. Even if the venom is not as effective, the recovery potion made from it will definitely be much better than the ordinary recovery potion we have now. Besides, you haven't done any experiments in this area... What if the age problem does not cause the efficacy to decrease? Wouldn't we make a lot of money then? And... as an old researcher with great curiosity about the world, aren't you curious about this at all?"

Slytherin said helplessly, "Okay! Even if what you said is all right! Let's take a step back and talk about it. I want to help you turn raising basilisks into a breeding business, but... rooster eggs that breed basilisks are not that easy to find! It took me nearly ten years to find one! I know what you want to say... But what I want to tell you is that rooster eggs catalyzed by magic cannot be hatched! Because they are eggs produced by magic, not eggs bred by the rooster itself! Otherwise, why would I have searched for ten years?"

Li Weide stroked his chin and pondered, "Does it have to be the rooster itself that lays the egg?"

"Roosters give birth and breed on their own... Of course, they can't give birth, so they can only rely on wizards to find them. Once they find such an anomaly, they will cut open the rooster's stomach and dig it out." Slytherin added.

"Tsk tsk, you can find it even like this..." Li Weide exclaimed in amazement.

"It's very difficult... I raised chickens for nearly ten years in order to find an alternative rooster that could lay eggs! You still want to develop the basilisk breeding industry? Go and raise chickens first!" said Slytherin.

"Do I have to become a professional chicken farmer first? No, I don't have that much time." Li Weide shook his head decisively. "Since you want the rooster to be raised by itself... then I'll perform a minor sex change operation on the rooster, and then..."

"I've tried it a long time ago. It's useless." Slytherin continued to pour cold water on him.

"So...what if I use a potion to temporarily turn the rooster into a hen, and then turn it back when it's about to lay eggs?"

"Ha! Of course you can, but where can I find such a potion?"

Li Weide grinned, "I really do have one!"

At this moment, he remembered a recipe in the magic potion recipe book given by the system.

"How is this possible?" Slytherin looked at Levid suspiciously.

"Okay, I've figured out a solution. Goodbye." Li Weide turned and left.

Slytherin was furious. He didn't need my help and just turned around and left, right? This kid is so realistic!

But...I seemed to be like that too back then? Thinking of this, Slytherin suddenly understood why some people had hated him so much back then...

Chapter 249 What? The training plan is me fighting peak Dumbledore?

It took Li Weide three days to improve the formula of the sex-changing potion in the book.

This recipe should come from the wizarding world of the future.

Because the formula requires a lot of synthetic materials.

The so-called synthetic materials are made by processing and synthesizing other potion materials to form a material with new medicinal effects.

However, several synthetic materials in this formula can be completely replaced by some current materials.

Since there are ready-made materials, but we still have to spend extra effort to create synthetic materials, this is enough to prove that these materials no longer existed when the formula was developed.

There is only one reason for this situation, and that is that this is a recipe from the future.

However, I think of a time point in the future when gender diversity becomes popular among Western Muggles...

At that time, sex change surgery was popular among Muggles, so... it was not surprising that sex change potions appeared in the wizarding world.

It turns out that everything is related to national conditions!

After Li Weide specially improved the formula, in addition to reducing costs, he was able to change the original permanent denaturation effect into a time-limited one.

After all, after a hen that has transformed from a rooster lays an egg, Levid has to make the potion ineffective and then take the egg out before it can be considered a rooster egg.

"I hope this potion on the rooster's eggs will work."

Li Weide muttered to himself and sent out a list of materials.

With the list of materials, the house-elf Toby will help him collect all the materials.

Looking at the Gringotts bill that Toby had sent him before, Levitra couldn't help but frown.