Hogwarts Summoning Guide

"How can this be!" Yan Nishuang was the first to object, even though objectively speaking, this move would allow Bai Lin to gain the greatest benefit.

If he appears at the crucial final moment, eliminates the already revealed Universal Alliance creation, and kills Fujiwara Eiko, he will be a true savior, and the whole world will be grateful to him. He can also eliminate the strategic forces of various countries around the world, killing multiple birds with one stone.

But this means "consuming a large number of humans", or even destroying half of the Earth, with the number of human casualties reaching hundreds of millions.

Perhaps to Zero, humans are just numbers. There are so many people on Earth, what does it matter if half of them die for "the master's great cause"? But for Bai Lin and Yan Nishuang, how is doing this any different from evil forces like the Ship of Light or the Hastur Church?

Bai Lin didn't bother to refute Zero and asked directly, "Tell me the middle strategy!"

Zero shrugged somewhat disappointedly, but quickly continued, "Actively remove some defenses, expose weaknesses, attract attention! Let the wolf into the house! Then close the door and beat the dog!"

Yan Nishuang's lips twitched slightly; Zero's ability to use idioms always seemed a bit strange. But she understood Zero's meaning: to create a trap to lure the enemy in, and then encircle and annihilate them. This strategy was fairly standard, and its effectiveness depended on the number of troops the enemy committed.

Yan Nishuang asked, "What would be the most suitable bait?"

Only when the bait is attractive enough can more important and numerous prey be lured into the trap.

"Habitat," Bai Lin said somewhat solemnly, and Zero immediately nodded.

What Bai Lin fears now is only Gracua's personal intervention and Fujiwara Eiko's strange and wonderful creative functions of the Chess Player System. He no longer cares about other things such as the American Ministry of Magic or the remnants of the European Death Eaters. If he wants to lure out these two big fish, Gracua and Fujiwara Eiko, he can only use the secret realm of the Summoning Encyclopedia as bait.

Bai Lin paced back and forth, then shook his head. Although this plan had a high success rate, he couldn't afford the loss of his habitat being polluted or even destroyed. He had spent several years building this paradise, and if even a tiny bit of Hastur's power were to infiltrate it, this paradise would no longer be safe.

"What's the worst option?" Bai Lin asked.

Zero scratched the back of his head like Bai Lin, and said with some skepticism, "Then we'll have to take the initiative. I can find out many of the Universal Alliance's strongholds. Master can take them out one by one, and sooner or later we'll lure Fujiwara Eiko out! But this might also cause dissatisfaction among the Muggle community towards the East, so Master needs to act under a different identity!"

Before Bai Lin could speak, Yan Nishuang interjected, "That's a great idea! I can go with you; it'll be quick and we won't expose our identities!"

Bai Lin nodded. He had long had this idea, mainly because fighting on enemy territory would minimize the losses in the East.

Zero didn't insist and immediately opened a world map. The map already showed many points of light, with the highest density in North America and Europe, followed by Japan and Southeast Asia. There were also some scattered points of light in Africa, and surprisingly, there were more than a dozen in the East.

Zero's voice said, "The ones within the Eastern borders don't require Master's personal intervention. I think Longhu Mountain and Miss Youxi's team are enough to eliminate them. As for those outside the borders, I recommend a few easy targets. Master can use them to establish authority without drawing hatred to the East."

"Oh?" Bai Lin immediately became interested. Zero's intelligence capabilities were simply too incredible. With its assistance, Zhang Xuanyi should be able to easily achieve merit. His mission, of course, was to strike at the weakness of the Universal Alliance. He was very interested in the easy target Zero mentioned. Crushing the weak is such a pleasant activity!

The bust of Zero reappeared, rubbing his hands together with a smile. The map beside him gradually zoomed in, showing that he had arrived at the island of Britain.

"Master can revisit this place!" Zero then retrieved several blurry video clips, and Bai Lin could barely recognize the fat woman in the pink flamingo outfit—Umbridge.

"Professor Minerva McGonagall, who only served as headmistress for six months, has been dismissed by the Board of Governors. The British Ministry of Magic has taken full control of Hogwarts. The person in the picture should be Dolores Jane Umbridge, the new headmistress of Hogwarts," Yan Nishuang said. She had also received a lot of intelligence from Europe.

Bai Lin was stunned, somewhat amused and exasperated. He hadn't expected that even though he had killed Voldemort and almost overturned the original HP main storyline, he still couldn't change everything. Dumbledore's seclusion and Snape's death in battle inevitably weakened Hogwarts in many ways, and the Ministry of Magic, which had always wanted to interfere in school affairs, naturally took advantage of the situation. He just didn't know what Umbridge's purpose was this time.

"Can you find out anything about Umbridge?" Bai Lin asked.

"In fact, we can find some clues," Zero continued, "This woman is extremely opposed to modern technology; it seems she wants to rewind human civilization by 500 years, returning to the technological level of the Middle Ages!"

"Huh?" Bai Lin was taken aback, not expecting Umbridge to have such "ambitions". However, he quickly understood Umbridge's thoughts. Perhaps in this respect, Bai Lin was Umbridge's greatest confidant, because only he could foresee that with the advancement of human technology, wizards would disappear from the stage of the times at an accelerated pace. Being a wizard is great, but it is destined to be unable to integrate into mainstream society.

To give an example, with the development of space technology, Muggles can walk in space, land on the moon, and even explore Mars, but wizards cannot; with the development of metaverse technology, Muggles can build their own "magical worlds," while wizards will not be different in the metaverse; in international politics and military issues, wizards will have even less say, and the entire group will lose the right to participate in social decision-making, becoming a very small minority, or even outcasts, and targets of close surveillance by Muggles, just like the mutants in X-Men.

In the technological age, it has become infinitely more difficult for wizards to hide themselves. The Muggle population, which makes up the vast majority, will inevitably worry about this supernatural power once they discover the existence of wizards. This worry will lead to the enactment of various extreme laws, eventually confining the wizarding community to a circle, such as designating a private reserve for wizards, like America's Indian Reservation. In the future, these reserves may become classic zoos, where Muggle children will gather to watch wizards, just like watching giant monkeys in a cage.

As wizards, once they foresee this approaching future, a sense of crisis will inevitably arise. This is Umbridge's motivation. Only by pushing human technology back to the Middle Ages can the wizards maintain their transcendent status.

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