Chapter 111: We Need Wizards

"Not bad," Murphy patted Andrew on the shoulder to show encouragement.

He had already heard a special report from the other party before, and this time he was here specifically to support him.

"Thanks to the Director's support, otherwise we couldn't have progressed so fast," Andrew gave a small flattery.

It seems that the time as a team leader has brought him no small changes. In the past, he would never be willing to say such words.

"Don't be so polite with me," Murphy said.

Although these researchers are also doing scientific research, from another perspective, they are actually working for Murphy's dream, and Murphy has always been very friendly to those who can help him.

"Regarding subsequent research, do you have any other needs?"

Revealing and accelerating the process of ordinary Animagus is of course a very good achievement, but for Murphy now, simply turning into an animal can hardly bring any effective improvement, so he still urgently hopes to continue to promote the research.

"There are indeed some," Andrew said a bit embarrassed. "Although we now have a certain degree of understanding of the principles of Animagus transformation, it is far from enough."

"Animagus transformation actually has two interrelated steps: potion and spell. In terms of potion, we have fully tested the changes in each stage and have accumulated a lot of data, but the materials on spells are still very lacking."

"The most important reason is that the wizards who are undergoing Animagus transformation do not work in the laboratory. It is difficult for us to monitor their physical changes in real time."

"Therefore, we want to request the Director, can we recruit a few more wizards into the institute to cooperate with us in transformation research?"

"This..." Murphy was a bit embarrassed.

The Animagus potion obtained by the Transformation Research Group was made by the wizards in the Watcher Security Shop arranged by Murphy.

Although they are already Murphy's shop clerks, they are not people directly recruited by Murphy like the Alex siblings. Their loyalty to Murphy is not enough, and Murphy doesn't know them well enough, so Murphy doesn't want them to know about the existence of the research institute.

"Is there any other way to replace it?" Murphy asked.

Before the safety verification of the Soul Seed is completed, recruiting wizards is still a risky thing. The Magic Research Institute is the core of Murphy's plan and must not have any problems. Any behavior that might expose it to the Wizarding World is what Murphy tries his best to avoid.

"Hmm..." Andrew thought for a moment and said: "At least, we must be able to monitor the physical changes and magic power status of the wizard when using spells in the morning and evening."

"Physical changes are easy to handle. Some Muggle monitoring equipment can do it. But magic power status... the miniaturization of the magic power tester by the Spell Research Group should have some results. I'll have them make a batch later and let those wizards use it first."

"Thank you, Director, but these data may still not be enough..."

"I understand. I'll find a way to get some wizards into the group as soon as possible."

The next day.

Chip Research Group, Derrick Preston had lost a circle, and he pulled Murphy with a pair of eyes that had been over-cultivated. "Director, we need wizards!"

"What's the situation?" Murphy was puzzled. "Tell me in detail."

"You know, our chip R&D follows the science-magic combination path of bypassing the process through the Enlarge Spell and the Shrinking Charm," Derrick said. "But because there have been no wizards participating in this process, we had to let house-elves complete the magic part first."

"Right, is there any problem with this?" Murphy asked.

House-elves' magic ability is not bad, and their loyalty is guaranteed. If it weren't for the fact that Animagus transformation is originally a preparation for his own promotion path in the future, which requires using wizards as templates, he would have wanted to let house-elves replace wizards to participate in the research of the Transformation Path.

"House-elves are very good. They are very enthusiastic, very obedient, especially well-behaved. Although they are a bit ugly, sometimes they are quite cute..."

After Derrick praised a lot, his tone changed.

"However, they are not suitable for this job."

"Oh? Can't they also use the magic of enlarging and shrinking?"

"That's right, they can indeed use it, but their magic randomness is too great. The Enlarge Spell used by the same house-elf sometimes can enlarge the wafer by more than ten times, sometimes only two or three times..."

"The fluctuation is too great. We tried various methods to make their magic effect stable, such as drawing the enlarged size for them, such as designing a mold for them, just need to enlarge the wafer to just fill the mold, and not be crushed..."

"But, in the best case, after their spells enlarge the wafer five times, there will still be an error of about two to four inches."

"You know, this was originally an eight-inch wafer. If it is still about four inches off after enlargement, after shrinking, the process difference may reach about 0.1 microns. The yield rate simply cannot be guaranteed, not to mention the difficulty of packaging and testing due to different sizes..."

Murphy also frowned. "Has the specific reason for this been analyzed?"

"Yes, we have done a lot of analysis and communicated with several experts in the Spell Research Group. We suspect that this is because the way house-elves use magic is too rough."

"House-elves' magic does not need spells, does not need wands, is very convenient, but also very difficult to standardize. Magic power occurs in a primitive posture, just like a spherical bullet fired from a barrel without rifling, and the accuracy is very low."

"Then teach them spells?"

"We also tried. Perhaps because they are already accustomed to their own way of casting, letting them use spells instead caused the magic to fail. We found a few old wands for them to experiment. Now they don't know how to use the Enlarge Spell and the Shrinking Charm, and after taking the wand, they can't even use the cleaning magic they are best at."

This is a situation Murphy had not anticipated.

However, house-elves cannot use spells and wands, which really may not be because of habit. There may be selfish considerations of wizards in this.

After all, house-elves are creatures created by wizards. The "loyalty" brand engraved on them does not necessarily work every time—for example, Dobby—so it is completely possible to add another restriction of not being able to use spells and wands to ensure the wizards' enslavement of them.

Murphy is not a little girl and doesn't care much about the rights of house-elves, but house-elves can't be used, which also means that he must recruit some wizards.

The research of the Transformation Path is not a matter of one day or two, and it can be done slowly, but chips...

He is burning money at a scale of hundreds of thousands or even millions of pounds every day, and he can't wait.

Besides, a place called the Magic Research Institute, including the boss, only has three wizards, which is indeed too unworthy of the name.

Expansion, must expand.

Murphy came to the Mind Magic Research Group. He was going to collect debts.

"Funes, Omid, it's been half a year. Do you have any results on the research of the Soul Seed?"

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 112 =====