Chapter 260: Conquering Rita

Rita's spicy writing, ability to spread rumors and make things out of thin air is no secret among the upper class of wizards. There are even people in the Ministry of Magic who are secretly supporting her and tacitly allowing her to do this, on the condition that they control public opinion and eliminate political opponents for the Ministry of Magic.

But what many people don't know is that what's really great about Rita is her ability to collect intelligence.

She is actually an unregistered Animagus, and an extremely rare insect-like Animagus. Her transformed form is a small beetle. This gives her the advantage of infiltrating anywhere and eavesdropping on any confidential information.

She also has a dark secret.

She is a very powerful master of memory magic, much more powerful than Gilderoy Lockhart.

She knows how to extract other people's memories, blur other people's impressions, and modify other people's memories——

Those wizards who saw through her disguise, uncovered her eavesdropping, etc. lost all memories of her illegal activities because of this. This is the real reason why she was able to commit crimes against the odds for so long without losing anything. Of course, the magic she used wasn't Legilimency. That requires years of practice and outstanding spiritual magic talent.

She uses orthodox memory magic, which requires a wand and magic spells, such as forgetting spells, memory modification spells, chaos god chanting spells, etc.

Not only that, in order to protect her various secrets that violated wizarding laws, she also specially practiced Occlumency so that her secrets would not be easily leaked and detected by telepathists. She is well aware of how many people are eyeing her, whether they are her competitors, big figures she has offended in her writing, or people who covet her intelligence database, such as...

Sherlyn Malfoy.

The moment she was caught by Xie Lin, although she was a little panicked, she generally didn't have much fear.

She knew that there were many people who wanted to arrest her, but few wanted her life. Especially she did not remember that she had ever written any article to slander or slander Xie Lin. There had never been any grievances or grudges between the two. Rita even reported a lot of positive news about Schelling and said a lot of good things about him.

Judging from this, there is only one possible reason why Xie Lin arrested her, and that is profit——

That is, the intelligence database in her hands.

The moment she was captured, she had already thought of various response plans and conversations in her mind.

The intelligence database is her lifeblood and her biggest trump card for survival in the media industry. It is absolutely impossible for her to hand it over.

At best, she would hand over some of the information that she had screened. In her opinion, this was already the best result, and Xie Lin would most likely agree to this plan. After all, Xie Lin was just such a young boy.

From Rita's point of view, he just wanted to know some information related to him, such as secret information about the Malfoy family, some inside information about the Ministry of Magic, etc.——

There was no way he would be interested in tidbits such as where the Weird Sisters held a concert again, Celestine Warbeck was having an affair with so-and-so, and Cornelius Fudge's niece was photographed having a fling in a nightclub. Interested?

If that was all, she wouldn't be able to accept it. After all, she fell into the hands of others and was exposed as an illegal Animagus. This was no small crime - as long as Xie Lin reported her, she could be sent to Azkaban for at least ten years. Year.

If she could expose the matter at the cost of some information, it would be a win-win situation where everyone would be happy.

As for Schelling's violence against her? She didn't think it was possible.

There has never been any enmity between the two, and there is even a lot of room for cooperation. For example, a few hours ago today, she reached a cooperation agreement with Xie Lin's brother, another little Malfoy, and Draco provided information about it. She was responsible for exaggerating and polishing the scandalous material about his old enemy Harry Potter, and writing an article to disgust Potter.

As for being tricked out of her most precious memories by Legilimency? Don't be ridiculous, how old is this young man? Even if he is a genius, it is impossible for him to learn transfiguration, charms, and alchemy at this level at this age, and still have the energy to master Legilimency. This is an extremely profound skill.

Even in the worst case scenario - if Schelling really has some proficiency in Legilimency (in her opinion, mastery is absolutely impossible), that's okay. Rita was confident in her Occlumency. There would never be more than five telepaths in Great Britain who could break through her mental defenses. This was the number after she included Dumbledore and the mysterious man.

But she didn't expect that she still underestimated the appetite of the young boy in front of her with a harmless smile. After Xie Lin made his request, Rita was completely confused.

Yes, Schelling did agree that she did not need to hand over her intelligence database, but he made an even more ridiculous request that she had never thought of -

He wants Rita to directly hand over the intelligence network she has spent decades and painstakingly building!

That's not all, he even asked her to become his subordinate, a mysterious organization called Mianlong Society, to take charge of the task of collecting intelligence for him!

She made a mistake from the beginning - what Xie Lin wanted and coveted was never the information in her hands, but her as a person!

How could she agree!

If the intelligence database is her lifeblood, then the intelligence network is something more important than her life. Her intelligence network took her nearly 30 years of time and effort to build. There are more than 10 professional senior intelligence personnel, more than 20 ordinary intelligence personnel, and countless informants all over the country.

Even if someone offered one million gold galleons in exchange, she would say "no" without hesitation!

She just wanted to refuse, but found that her mind was suddenly invaded. This familiar and damn feeling was - it was Legilimency!

Ah, Xie Ling really knows Legilimency!

She hurriedly used the brain occlusion technique to block the invisible invasion outside her brain.

She succeeded.

She clearly felt that the other party's Legilimency was like a fierce collision with the mental barrier she set up. She even felt the strong vibration aftermath from the mental barrier, but she finally protected her brain.

She only felt a nausea and vomiting feeling, but she was sure that this impact would only make the other party feel worse than her - after a while, the corners of her mouth slightly raised, and she had already noticed that the other party's mental invasion was slowly receding.

At this moment, just when she had just breathed a sigh of relief, her vigilance and brain defense were reduced to the lowest level, her eyes suddenly saw a dazzling red light, and then she lost consciousness.

She had no idea what happened, nor did she know what method Xie Lin used. The only thing she remembered was the pair of snake pupils that flashed red light and stood in a straight line before she lost consciousness.

At the moment she came to her senses, she had surrendered to Xie Lin from her body to her mind, from her thoughts to her soul. Everything was extremely natural, as if she was born to be Xie Lin's subordinate. Serving Xie Lin was her destiny and the only meaning of her existence -

She wanted to dedicate everything to her noble master!

So there was the scene in the previous picture where Xie Lin sat in front of the True Dragon Throne.

Yes, Sherin used "Absolute Domination" to modify her thoughts, memories and even her entire personality.

Rita is not an easy person to be conquered. Her brain occlumency attainments can be considered quite powerful, but Sherin first used Legilimency to consume part of her mental power, and then seized the short moment when she relaxed her vigilance and lowered her mental defense to forcibly break through her defense with "Absolute Domination" and took advantage of the opportunity to enter.

From now on, Rita Skeeter, in addition to being the most famous special reporter of the Daily Prophet, she has a new secret identity-

The head of the external intelligence team of the Sleeping Dragon Society, a loyal subordinate of Sherin Malfoy, codenamed "Reverse Scale".

["Servant" Rita Skeeter obtained!]