Harry Potter: Blood of the Dragon

Chapter 394: The Great Conspiracy

Chapter 394: The Great Conspiracy

“Hmm, the High Table, what a nice name, how old are they?” he inquired.

“Old enough to be a global organisation. It is rumoured that they have been in existence ever since the Aztecs lived. But they were not global until the Age of colonisation. They were the shadow rulers of the world, doing all the evil things that the rich and powerful wanted them to.

“The High Table is a council of high-level crime lords that governs and oversees the underworld’s most powerful criminal organisations. The council comprises 12 seats, with each seat often owned by a family. Held by the Russian Mafia, Cosa Nostra, Yakuza, Triads, and other mafias. Their strongholds are currently in the US, Japan and China. They have all kinds of businessmen, politicians, officials under their belt.

“The leader of the Round table is called “The Elder” This seat is currently held by some Arab rich family. There is another assassin organisation called Continental Hotel which works under the High Table. It’s a global chain of hotels that caters for the underworld, they have very strict rules of no violence or business inside their buildings.”

Magnus was amazed by the scale, *Whistle* “That’s pretty crazy, but they are still not as old as the Round Table of Arthur. Anyway, can you find out who are the people who have put the bounty on me?”

Sadly, Ted shook his head, “There is no way to find that out unless you’re also a member.”

Magnus nodded silently, “Hmm, say, Ted, what will it take me if I want to take over the entire Underworld? Make the entire Round Table subservient to me?”

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“Do you want to take over the underworld? Umm, I don’t know, it’s hard to calculate, how will you take over the Round Table and make them loyal? Magic won’t work as much as they too have wizards under them.” Ted asked back.

He just laughed, “Ted, I have the world’s deadliest forces and rule multiple nations. Nothing is impossible for me anymore. Just wait and watch, they will come to me and rub their faces on my shoes, lick the dust under my feet to ask for my forgiveness. By the way, leave behind the address for their hotel.”

Ted knew that face, that smile, it meant only one thing, ~Merlin’s beard, they are fucked.~

Ted silently left behind the file and the address. As soon as he left, Adrian came, he was the de-facto General of Magnus’ all Military Forces. Magnus handed him the file, “This Round Table, I want you to start inflicting damage on them. Kill a few of them. Make their life hell on Earth until they come to me to plead. They are trying to kill me, passing bounties.

“Also, infiltrate them and find out who actually initiated the bounty. Remember, they might have wizards in their ranks, so be careful. I don’t want any of ours to die.”

Adrian stood there in attention, he always acted like this whenever it was some sort of official business. “I shall, sir. I have known about them for a long time but they never meddled in our affairs to let them be, but if they are trying to kill you then we shall kill them first. But, be careful, sir, they have too many people all around, anybody could be an assassin, your ice-cream seller, the homeless guy on the street, the friendly policeman. Increase the security of your family.”

“I will, Adrian, even more now. I am making some really loyal Goblins the hidden guards. And you know how vicious they can be, right?” Magnus replied, not revealing they would be Camelot’s Goblins.

Adrian shuddered at the thought, the Goblins were known to torture their enemies to great lengths, breaking them even when they didn’t need to. But this would ensure Magnus and his family’s security.

“That’s good to hear. By the way, I have this report to give you. It’s from our MEDA headquarters in Ireland. We were recently hired by a woman to investigate what happened to her baby that she left in the Irish Mother and Baby home. What we found out was bone-chilling.” Adrian’s eyes showed a hint of sorrow for some reason.

“I will read it and get back to you, Adrian. You may start the campaign against the High Table until then.” He dismissed Adrian.

“What is it, dear?” Grace appeared and took a seat in his office. She must have something to talk about, but she noticed the report on the table and its name. “What happened in Ireland?”

“I don’t know,” Magnus read the report.

It started with history. Ireland was an extremely catholic nation. So much so that anything done between a boy and a girl before their marriage was seen as a sin. Kissing, holdings hands was a sin. Heck, condoms were banned in the nation.

The worst fate was of those women who got pregnant before marriage and of those children born of such relations. In the eyes of the church, these babies were impure. These women get sent to mother and baby homes that are run by nuns.

During the pregnancy, a lot of them would get a miscarriage due to malnutrition, starvation or some other form of punishment. If the child is born, the mother is sent away. The child is then taken care of by the nuns, who either die from starvation, disease or simply go missing. The mother of the child was always informed of what happened to their baby.

But because of social fear, they can’t even fight for their child. It was truly the most regressive a society could be. Religion is good when it stays spiritual but a menace when it becomes the dictator of one’s life.

Now, coming to the recent case taken by the MEDA Ireland branch. MEDA found the grave of the son of the woman who hired them, not just them but 300 more graves, then 5,000 more across the few mother and baby homes they secretly investigated in. They took the photos and all the bodies were of kids. [A/N: This is real, investigations are still ongoing.]

When Magnus finished reading about it, he felt sick to the core. This was the lowest any human could fall, to mistreat babies was the same as doing the devil’s work. Babies are too innocent, naive and underdeveloped, they have no idea what’s going on around them.

They can not understand why they are feeling the strange sensation of hunger or pain or why they are being beaten, they can only cry. And to hurt them, all those nuns deserve nothing but the same treatment as Rodolphus got.

Grace was appalled after knowing all this, “This… what will you do?”

“I can’t do anything inside their country when we just got some peace. But I will deal with it in my way, mum. You don’t worry,” He assured her and called Adrian on the phone.

“Yes, send a secret team to Ireland to investigate the entirety of it, I will try to take care of things from my end.” He gave the green light.

“What will you be doing? Won’t this cause a war?” Grace asked him, worried for him.

He chuckled and got up, “Not really. I guess it’s time for me to meet one of the most powerful men on Earth, the POPE.”

After reading about what happened in Ireland under the influence of religion, he had made up his mind. Letting people slowly become less extreme in religion automatically due to a better life was not working. He needed to give it a push, for that he needed to bring big religious leaders under his control.

And the Pope was one of the biggest ones as too many Catholics exist in the world. He started to prepare a conspiracy to place his own guy as the Pope. Because he himself was publicly a Protestant, he could control this segment, with Pope under control, he could change the lives of a large chunk of the world with just a few sentences.

However, for Ireland, he hoped that the current Pope would agree to do something about it immediately, or else, mass media will be his only tool for now.

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After making sure all plans were in order, he called King Faisal, his old pal, to ask about this Elder guy who leads the High Table.

“Them? They want to kill you, haha… fools. The Elder is the son of a powerful oil field owner in Kuwait. Do you want his name and address to kill him? Just write it down,” Faisal was so ready to give the name that it felt as if he was happy.

“Haven’t decided if I will kill him, but surely will do something to him. The name will be appreciated,” Magnus replied.

Laughingly, the old happy king gave all the information. Magnus then passed it on to Adrian.

~Hmm, it’s time to move to stabilise Asia and begin the Great Africa Plan phase two. By 1990, I will have control over all of Asia and Africa, good going indeed.~ he thought to himself. The plan for peace didn’t seem unachievable anymore.

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