Chapter 921: Surrender
Amosta fixed his sight on Graves who remained silent. After staring deeply for a few seconds, a strange color flashed in Amosta's eyes.
This is really an interesting thing.
At the joint review meeting to decide whether the learning machine can enter the US market, Trak Graves, who caused this meeting that should not exist, not only did not say a word, but also used brain closure to protect his thoughts.
Is there something that he doesn't want to expose in front of him? The real reason why he has been resisting him for some time and even unwilling to meet him before the review meeting?
To be honest, until now, Amosta has not been able to confirm why Trak Graves, who is opposite him, has gray hair and hard edges on his face, deeply interprets the word "powerful", is so hostile to him.
However, from the restrictions he has imposed on himself, Amosta has some guesses.
The last possibility is that Trak Graves does not want to follow in his grandfather's footsteps.
More than half a century ago, when Percival Graves was the Director of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement and the Minister of Security of the Magical Congress of the United States of America, he encountered the Dark Lord Gellert Grindelwald. He was imprisoned by Grindelwald, and Grindelwald also impersonated him to enter the Magical Congress. In a series of events, this almost led to the complete exposure of the magic world to the sight of Muggles.
This is a shame for the Graves family. Based on this, it is very reasonable for Trak Grindelwald to feel disgusted and even resist wizards with extraordinary magic power like himself.
Although he has been very popular in the international magic world in recent years, some savvy wizards can judge his style of doing things through his means of dealing with some crises, and understand that rules cannot completely restrain themselves.
Therefore, Graves is worried that after entering the American magic world, he will abuse his magic power to promote his goals. Even privately subdue him and control him. This is a reasonable inference for people who don’t know him, and an experienced old Auror should be vigilant.
In addition, it is an indisputable fact that he directly uprooted the participation of the Witch Party in the suburbs of Berlin without informing the German Ministry of Magic, and the commotion caused was seen by most of the Muggles in Berlin.
As Trak Graves, who is responsible for the security and stability of the American magic world, he absolutely hates this kind of thing.
Therefore, Amostar has never shown any anger at the Ministry of Security for confiscating his wand and letting Amelia follow him. If they were in different positions, he might do the same.
Of course, Amostar has never forgotten the clues provided by Narrak.
At the moment of eye contact, Amostar could find that Graves's dark red eyes hid a deep sense of unnaturalness and panic.
Is he afraid that he will retaliate against him, or is he afraid that he will see the true condition of his body?
Speaking of which, the troubles that the Minister of Security is facing are really big. His body is like a dye vat, with multiple forces entangled in his body - Graves' own magic, a kind of magic that exudes a cold meaning. This probably comes from the black magic damage he suffered when he exterminated vampires, the blood magic of unicorns and the curse he suffered from drinking the blood of this creature.
These forces are rooted in his body, blending and conflicting with each other. It can be imagined that he is probably suffering from unimaginable pain.
For this difficult and complicated disease, the only solution that Amosta can think of is to seal all the magic in his body with a stronger force. This may be able to maintain his remaining life, but the price to pay is that Graves will become a dud from now on, and he will never be able to use magic again.
As a person from a prominent family and a very outstanding wizard, Trak Graves, Amosta does not think he can accept such a "shameful" second half of his life.
"That's right, Mr. Graves--"
After a moment's silence, Amosta intertwined his fingers, looked at Graves calmly and said,
"The Security Department has always been responsible for the American magic community and has been cautious about the spirit of the learning machine using illusion magic to interfere with the user."
Amosta took a different approach today and transferred the conflict between him and Graves over the learning machine entering the American magic world. From a political perspective, this is undoubtedly his victory and Graves's defeat. It is not surprising that this powerful man has become a laughing stock because of this.
But as mentioned before, Amosta came here for business, not to make enemies for himself.
Even if Amosta saw that Graves's physical condition was not optimistic and he might not live long, the Graves family was a powerful political family, and Amosta did not want to be constrained by it.
"I admire this kind of questioning and responsible attitude from a professional perspective--"
Graves heard it, Marcel heard it, and some experienced officials in this conference room also understood what Amosta Braine wanted to express.
Amosta Blaine hopes to save some of Mr. Graves's lost face, so that Mr. Graves and his family will not encounter other obstacles in the next progress.
"So far, the review materials submitted by Mr. Lupin to the Magical Congress of the United States do not include the construction drawings of the magic corridor in the core components of the learning machine, because this is the core secret of the learning machine. We cannot reveal it, but to show my respect for the Security Department, Mr. Graves, you can form a team of experts proficient in alchemy. As long as you sign a confidentiality agreement with me, I am willing to share the core secrets of the learning machine with them, so that they can come up with an objective and detailed security assessment report."
Amosta said calmly.
Share the composition of the magic corridor of the core component of the learning machine? !
Remus, who has been humbly learning Amosta's ways and methods to solve problems, suddenly froze and almost jumped up from the stool!
It is not difficult to restore the composition of the learning machine through reverse deduction technology. As long as the supply chain of the learning machine can be found out and a wizard proficient in alchemy can buy one and disassemble it, he can restore it. In fact, Remus knew that someone had been trying to do this. When he was managing the workshop, he had dealt with several cases of workers in the workshop leaking secrets.
The reason why the learning machine is still exclusive to them so far is that the core secrets are still in their hands.
But in order to prove the safety performance of the learning machine to the security department, Amosta actually wanted to share the composition of the magic corridor. Even if a confidentiality agreement is signed, this does not mean that it is completely safe, right!
Amosta's sincerity is amazing, even Marcel and Graves, who are thinking hard, are frozen for a moment.
But as senior officials of the Congress, the two still have excellent concentration. In a few breaths, their expressions have returned to normal.
If Graves really agrees, will Amosta Braine be angry?
Alarm bells rang in Marcel's heart. She would never tolerate any more disturbances in this matter that was already a sure thing!
With her eyes narrowed slightly, Marcel smiled and said in front of Graves unreasonably,
"Learning machines have been put into use in the European magic world for many years. Judging from the feedback from users, as long as you pay attention to the frequency of use, it is completely safe. I fully believe in Mr. Braine and Mr. Albus Dumbledore's attainments in alchemy, right, Trak?"
Principal Dumbledore?
Amostard narrowed his eyes. He never advertised that the development of the learning machine was helped by Dumbledore. Did Marcel say this to borrow Dumbledore's good reputation?
"That's not necessary, Mr. Braine--"
After the whole meeting, Graves finally spoke to Amosta. His cheeks were tense, his body was sitting upright, and he said in a deep voice,
"Indeed. Since the research and development of the learning machine has been supported by Mr. Albus Dumbledore, and Mr. Braine is even willing to publish the composition of the magic corridor without the core, considering that this wonderful invention has been officially launched in the market in European countries for some time and no serious accidents that damage the user's consciousness have occurred.
Then, here, on behalf of the Security Department and the Department of Magical Law Enforcement, I can determine that the Morning Star Learning Machine you developed and designed is a safe and harmless alchemical product."