HP: The Root of Everything - The Magician

After attaching the oath spell to his chest, the silver-haired Teach immediately felt an inexplicable connection with the four dragon sorcerers and the four mutated black dragons in the sky, as if he could control their lives and deaths simply by flipping a switch in the magic rune.

After experiencing it, Teach looked at 04's round, trembling breasts as she angrily questioned 02, and chuckled, speaking up for 02: "This is a surprise, isn't it a surprise for you?"

"Because you won't be killed by the 01 curse."

04, enraged, raised its dragon claw to attack the silver-haired Teach. After dodging with a teleport, Teach teased her, "Big-breasted, hot-tempered little girl, why don't you come and serve me?"

"I will be good to you, really..."

"Bullshit! And besides, I'm 120 years old this year."

After angrily finishing his sentence, 04 stood still and swung his dragon arm again, the speed of which increased, creating a long, slicing attack that completely surrounded the silver-haired Teach, as if he were in a mountain of knives with no gaps.

Just as 04's rapid attack was about to complete the encirclement and severance of the silver-haired Teach, 02 grabbed her hand and commanded her, "Stop! 04, as Miss Carl said, this is indeed a surprise, although it has exceeded my expectations."

The hot-tempered 04 wouldn't listen to advice. She flung her hand away and launched a flying attack at 02.

However, 02 remained motionless amidst the shockwave, only suffering a few small wounds on its dragon arm used to defend itself from 04's attack.

"Such strong defense! It seems that 02's special ability is not only strength, but also this formidable defense!" Teach thought to himself as he flashed out and cut through the encirclement, watching the conflict between 04 and 02.

02 used magic to instantly heal the wound on the dragon's arm, then looked at 04 with eyes full of pressure. After a few seconds, she spoke sarcastically in a calm tone: "I've told you many times, you need to change your temper."

"Ever since then, whenever you've been humiliated by 01, you've come to me to vent. I sympathize with you, so I've let you vent, but don't really think I have a good temper..."

"Why haven't I seen you explode with your habitual temper when you're dealing with 01?"

02's ruthless public exposure of 04's humiliating experience instantly enraged 04: "Am I afraid to explode? I was unable to explode, unable to resist!"

"If I resist, my sister 05 will be punished by the family."

"You can resist and endure the excruciating torment of a whole night in your wrist, but can my sister?"

04, still furious, questioned 03, who was watching the drama unfold, "Can you? Can you withstand the torture of the Heart-Rending Bone Curse that torments you all night long?"

03 Obediently shake your head and say no.

Just as 04 was about to get angry, 02 sighed and gently placed her hand on 04's head, saying, "Okay, what I said just now was wrong~ I apologize."

After saying that, 02 stepped forward and asked the silver-haired Teach, with whom she had some acquaintance, "Miss Carl, will you cast the Oath of Death Curse on the four of us?"

Teach thought for a moment, then shook his head.

"So, Miss Karl, you've mastered our Oath Spell, is it to control us?"

Teach shook his head, then nodded: "No one would want the loyalty of the Dragon Witches, given their formidable fighting power, but you are not indispensable to me."

“But if you are willing to pledge your allegiance, I will welcome you with open arms.”

Speaking of magnanimity, 04 smirked and scoffed at the silver-haired Teach with envy and jealousy.

02 looked directly at the silver-haired Teach's open arms towards the four of them, shook his head and said, "Miss Carl, do you remember when I approached you a month ago, asking you to destroy the McFastie family? You refused then."

"I think the reason you refused is probably because I didn't ask for anything in return."

"At that time, it wasn't that I didn't want to give, but that I couldn't, because everything we Dragon Witches had was in the hands of the McFastie family."

"But now......."

With that, 02 knelt down on the beach before the silver-haired Teach, solemnly pleading, "...I am willing to give up my freedom and pledge my loyalty to you. I beg you to destroy the McFastie family."

“If you can remove the oath curse from 01’s chest, then you must have a way to wrest our miserable fate of four humans and four dragons from the McFastie family. So I am willing to give you everything I have.”

There is no gain without a price, and no reward without effort.

Silver-haired Teach sat on a rock, his eyes re-examining the determined 02.

At this moment, the little girl 05, who was less than 1.6 meters tall, also knelt down in front of Teach and pleaded weakly, "Miss Karl, I am also willing to offer my loyalty and freedom. I am willing to offer everything I have, just so that you can let my sister 04 escape from the family and be reborn."

“No…” 04 roughly pulled 05 up, then knelt down and said resolutely to the silver-haired Teach, “I will give my freedom and everything in exchange for my sister 05’s new life.” After saying that, 04 kowtowed heavily to Teach, who could decide their fate.

Seeing that all three of them were pleading, Silver-haired Teach looked away and asked 03, "And you? Don't you want anything else?"

When questioned, 03 lost in his memories. After looking up at his dragon rider in the sky, he knelt down with the others and said in a calm but firm tone, "I am willing to give everything to beg you to take back... the freedom of my lover (dragon) from the MacFast family."

After saying that, 03 turned to 02 and confessed, "Andrei Sen, not only do you retain your memories, but I do too."

"I remember falling in love with a girl at my family's school. Her experiment failed, and she became the dragon I am now."

Two men and two women, four dragon witches, knelt on both knees.

Even the four remaining mutated black dragons, whose intelligence was not yet fully developed, landed and knelt down in front of the silver-haired Teach, bowing their heads.

This behavior terrified Human Pig 01, who roared angrily, "What are you guys doing? Are you betraying the family?"

"Your family gave birth to you, raised you, fed you and clothed you, and bestowed upon you such powerful and superior dragon power. Is this how you repay your family...?"

When 01 was about to accuse the four of disloyalty to the family, 04 and 05 raised their heads and said in unison with hatred, "Our mother exhausted herself in giving birth, and she was worn out from losing children. In the average lifespan of a wizard of 200 years, she died at the age of 40 from overexertion."

"The humans and dragons who survived our experiments had their memories erased, forgot everything, and were subjected to your endless oppression and control."

Upon hearing these words, 01's pupils contracted sharply: "So...so you all still retain some important memories."

"Damn it, damn it, all the wizards in the family are a bunch of useless trash, they can't even erase simple memories properly."

Silver-haired Teach was extremely annoyed by 01's clamor. He used his grappling hook dagger to cut 01's neck again after it had recovered, and his ears were immediately much quieter.

After a long while, Teach spoke up: "You four people and four dragons, raise your heads."

When they looked up, they saw the silver-haired Teach place his hand on his open chest and peel off the Oath Curse in the same way.

Then, in front of them, dissipate the magic of the oath spell.

"I don't know if you, who have always lived on the island, know about Voldemort. Even if you don't, it's okay. What I want to say is... I am not the Dark Lord, nor do I intend to become one. I am simply a magician who pursues knowledge, who seeks the root of everything."

"I don't like forcing people, and I won't force anyone, but I hate betrayal and will not tolerate it."

"So... I have truly received your determination and the price you have paid."

"Now, come with me."