January came and with that many changes to the world happened. For starters, a strange letter came to Magnus' house, it was directed to Adam. Opening it he found a logo of a colourful apple and with that was a letter and certificate of ownership of 10% stocks in Apple.
This was the time when Adam remembered the man he helped a long time ago by giving him money to set up his own company. Well, he just put the letter in his locker and forgot about it, for he had made a crazy nice discovery about space. There were rings around Uranus. When he published his findings, a lot of researchers checked and did find it to be true.
Other than this, Grace and Adam came together to design life-saving machines, they invented the high tech machine for angiography, one that showed things much clearer and in detail. Making it easier for doctors to perform and decreasing any risk of infections.
Magnus' companies were booming, FutureTek was releasing computers every year, they made their great processors and only included them in their own computers because they were too strong and needed special hardware that other companies didn't provide in their computers.
The major point, however, for the company was how they were developing technology for their eventual space mission. The British Government was supportive of this development and made necessary laws to help boost private space companies. Who were they to stop some rich guy from spending money on tech?
Slowly, the business environment in the UK became better and better, selective immigration also started, taking the best talents from around the world and giving them the chance to either study, do research or start a business.
Not only that, Magnus knew the pain of getting your invention patented, it was a costly process because each country had their own patent laws and registry. Hence, if one wanted to really patent something they would have to file for patents in various countries.
For this, Magnus forced a solution, as the United Nations was his bitch already, he made them pass a thing called Unified Patent Portal. Most of the countries around the world signed into it. With this, a mega patent library was made with all patents from around the world in it. After that, the United Nations Patents Portal would become the world's biggest patent managing company. This would decrease the cost of patenting to the extreme.
At the start of January 1977, the Silicon Valley of the UK, Plymouth city, now called Cybercity, was completed. 60 per cent owned by FutureTek Industries and 40 per cent owned by the government. The place was made to be the safest with the best public transport and security systems. Companies flocked there to open their offices or small research and development departments. Most of it was related to computers, however.
For any other kind of innovation and development, there were various cities around the country. Zimbabwe was the biggest place for any kind of manufacturing right now due to other mineral-rich African countries being nearby.
This year, the GDP of the UK was supposed to be 355 Billion USD(In reality it was 263). However, at the same time, the US would just touch 2 trillion, further widening the gap between the two.
Magnus knew that if the UK wanted to get out of the American influence then it needed to get richer and better, but that would take time.
And it was now that he realised that he should not have killed the New York Mafia or even asked the Americans for help. He lost the chance to set up a puppet US president.
Because of the eradication of Communism from a few Asian countries, along with it the reunification of Korea, US President Gerald Ford was able to secure another term. [A/N: This is where history diverges.]
Gerald Ford was not a popular president, but thanks to Magnus' actions akin to dropping an axe on his own foot, Gerald won. But Magnus was going to make sure not to help any such presidents from now on.
...
It was 15th January of 1977, Magnus' birthday was here and as always he threw a party. Now was the time for his next plan to make sure that Hogwarts never goes corrupt as it did before, especially the Slytherin house.
Right inside the school, he started putting a few paintings discreetly, these paintings were of old wizards but they were made so they could be connected to the outer world. Most were in the Slytherin house.
This was necessary as it would work as an early alarm system if any Slytherin student tried to tilt towards the dark side. From what Magnus understood, Slytherin was so full of purebloods because most pureblood kids have prior private coaching, and in these classes, they are mostly unrestricted, a pureblood family usually owns a lot of books, many of them are related to dark magic.
So slowly, the kid tries to expand through the knowledge, not to mention, until now, most pureblood families truly believed they were superior and were okay with dark magic.
This was changed now, ever since Magnus' purge of Wizengamot in 1973, most such families have tried to please him by renouncing their pledge to the dark lord and giving their dark magic-related books to the ministry. These books mostly included illegal ones.
Slowly time passed and Magnus found himself walking towards the Room of Requirement with Ragnar. They were discussing how to find other Horcruxes, as they hoped to end this whole Voldemort menace before leaving school.
"Man, I wish there was some way to just wave the wand and things would appear in front of you," Ragnar muttered.
"Actually, it might be possible, as long as you have enough magic to cover the entire planet under the magic blanket then you can accio anything from anywhere in the world." Magnus hypothesised.
"I hope you can get that strong someday. I wonder if Merlin could do something like this. Must have been dope, I could just swing my wand and say 'Playboy Magazine issue number 69' and it would come to my arms." Ragnar dreamily said.
*SMACK*
Magnus hit him behind the head, "Can you ever not be horny?"
"Look who is calling me horny, one who practically slithers like snakes with Emma every night." Ragnar barked back.
At this, Magnus proudly replied, "At least I got someone to slither with, while you can only jerk off to your 2D photographs."
"Hey, I love those 2D girls, I salute their daring hearts, to appear naked in front of the world just for money," Ragnar defended.
"Of course, I am not shaming them, I am shaming you. Now, shut up and let me open the gate, we gotta brainstorm about finding the Horcrux later." Magnus walked in front of the wall three times and the door appeared.
While bickering, they entered, but as soon as they looked around, they froze, Ragnar cursed, "Where the hell did you bring us now?"
There was so much around, mostly broken furniture, rotting books, lots of potion bottles, boxes, canons, armours, swords and lots of magical items. Magnus exclaimed just then, "Fuck, look, in that cage, that skeleton has 5-legs!"
Magnus too had no bloody idea where he was, "Rag, either we found shit... or the greatest treasure in Hogwarts."
*BAM*
Out of nowhere a ball of wood slammed onto Ragnar's stomach, "Argh... motherf... who hit me?!"
"It's not who, it's what. Look, there are Winged catapults." Magnus pointed at the strange wooden things flying in the air. Strange how they had life in them even after probably being trapped there for too long.
"Let's look around, I am excited to see where we end up being. And if my guess is right, we'll probably hit the jackpot." Magnus moved in.
"What exactly are we looking for?" Ragnar asked him, still in pain.
"Horcrux!"
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Magnus and Ragnar spent 3 hours looking around, and up until now, they had found a lot of items in great proportions, broken and damaged furniture. Thousands and thousands of books, flying catapults, Fanged Frisbees, bottles of congealed potions, corked bottles whose contents still shimmered evilly, what looked like dragon eggshells, several rusting swords, a heavy, bloodstained axe, an enormous stuffed troll, hats, jewels, and cloaks.
Many cages in various sizes. A chipped old bust of an ugly warlock. A few heavy broomsticks. A record turntable that "skipped". A banjo. A set of dominoes. Various metalware (including cauldrons). Various trophies. A mask. Various portraits; also frames. Suits of armour (some disassembled). Various textiles.
"Damn, I'm taking all the metal and will give it to the goblins of Camelot. As for the books, I think Hogwarts students would appreciate having a few extra ones, especially those who can't afford to buy them." Magnus planned.
But Ragnar gave an even better idea, "Brother, you said we're making a new Hogwarts in Brunei? Why not use all the furniture and metalware here to stock that school after refurbishing everything here?"
"Woah, I never knew you had a brain. A really good idea, I guess I will hire the elfs of Hogwarts to work here for a day and meanwhile order food from outside for the students." Magnus planned for it. He was sure that if all the elfs did it then it was one day's work.
But they were yet to find what they wanted to, "Okay, I will try to accio the Horcrux, you stay on alert and if anything comes flying towards me, don't let it touch me." Magnus requested.
Ragnar became alert, "Got it, Mag."
Magnus took out the staff instead of the wand as it was much stronger. "Okay, here we go. ACCIO Horcrux!"
Nothing happened for a few seconds. But they didn't bring their guards down. *TAP TAP* They heard the sound of something hitting wood. So they walked towards the noise, only to end up in front of a cabinet.
"So it's in here? Damn, he really left a piece of his soul in the garbage." Magnus was shocked.
He cancelled his accio from the previous spell so it wouldn't jump on him, then slowly opened the cabinet without touching it. He was told that these Horcruxes can corrupt a person even if they were merely touching it.
The door of the rotting cupboard creaked open slowly. It was empty, except there was a nice little diadem in it, placed as if asking to come and touch me.
"Ssss... come, touch me and get your wishes fulfilled... you want power?" the hissing voice spoke from the diadem.
Magnus and Ragnar dumbly looked at it, their mental shields were like castles with a billion castles made around it for security. Ragnar cursed, "Holy Merlin, Voldemort is a paedophile, listen to that voice, and the way he's inviting."
"Great, another criminal charge to be put against him. Anyway, I will head to Gringotts for a while to store it in my vault. You look around in the meantime, or maybe head back." Magnus put a cloth on the Horcrux and picked it up. Then he apparated away to Gringotts.
Ragnar, now alone, looked at a few things, hoping to find some nice potion or potion book.
...
Gringotts,
It was one of the few wizarding organisations that was under his control. The influence of Gringotts went way beyond the borders of the UK, they were present in every major nation in the world.
"Goldruk, got the 2nd one," he told the Chief of Gringotts, the goblin was also the chief of the goblin tribe in Camelot.
Magnus then went straight into his vault, the vault had no features to allow him to just apparate or portkey in it, this was to eliminate any way of exploiting this means of entry. The only way to open the vault was to have the blood of Merlin and Arthur in their body, something only he in this world had.
Going inside, he went straight to the cabinet he had emptied just to keep these Horcruxes. Now, he had two of them, the Hufflepuff cup and now this diadem.
"I wonder how many more there are," he thought. Then, he refilled his disposable wand storage and returned to the school. It was a surprising but bountiful day for sure.
...
Adventures of Duck,
Duck had decided to fly west, he soon flew over the big freedom goddess statue in the river, he was told that uncle Rag was horny for this goddess. There was a big city with tall buildings likes of which he had never seen. The streets were full of people and cars, all kinds of smells hit his nose as well. It was nighttime, so he decided to land in the park in the middle of the city. He read the board there, and it was easy for him now, ~Um... C-central park?~
Anyway, he uncloaked himself and became visible. Then he took off his cute backpack with Star Wars Yoda art on it. Taking out a small paper bag, he cast magic on it to make it grow big.
Then he started eating happily, "Ah, grandma makes the best chicken sandwich."
He joyfully munched his sandwiches alone when all of a sudden a dark-skinned man and a kid, about 5 years old appeared. The man didn't have tidy clothes, while the boy with him also looked tired and unclean.
Being taught to always be kind, he offered them a sandwich, "Want some? I got a lot of them."
There was a giant, dark scaled, yellow-eyed dragon sitting in the middle of Manhattan, how could any muggle digest that so easily? The man's face went pale, he wanted to run but his legs froze. "Christopher... r-run..."
Yes, his son did run, towards the dragon, he cheered, "Woah, are you dragon from fairy tales? You look so cool."
Duck blushed, "Hehe... I am actually better than those dragons. Here, eat some."
The boy, trusting that dragons are noble creatures from various stories he had heard, innocently took a bit, his eyes shined, "DAD! This is so tasty!"
It took a few minutes for the man to realise that the dragon, or whatever the creature was, didn't mean any harm, or he'd be dead by now. Instead, hearing his voice, the dragon seemed young and kind. He too went ahead and sat beside his son and took a bite. As soon as he did that, his body felt a surge of warmth and his eyes teared up.
Duck noticed it, "Oh, what happened? Are you sad?"
The man spoke in a breaking voice, "T-thank you... I-I don't know who or what you are, because of you, we won't have to sleep empty stomach."
"Why would you sleep empty stomach?" Duck inquired.
*Sniff* The man introduced himself and told his story, "I am Chris Gardner, some years back, I invested my life's savings in Bone Density scanners. However, they do not sell as they were just marginally better than the current technology at a much higher price. Because of lack of money, my wife left me, I lost my house, my bank account, my credit card, I am now working as an unpaid intern, but, I have no place to sleep or money to buy food right now for my son."
"What's a credit card? And your wife is a bad girl. Dad often says a friend in need is a friend indeed." Duck replied, still munching on food.
Gardner chuckled, "You are right, Mr... Dragon. And a Credit card is what you use to pay for money as a quick loan from a bank."
"REALLY?! I want one..." Duck exclaimed.
"AAAAAA..." all of a sudden a scared shriek resounded and a man ran away after noticing Duck.
Seeing this, Duck packed his bags, "Oopsie, I need to go. And I don't understand what your problem is really about, I don't know what a cone density maker is, but take this, this is my dad's company, call them and say Annihi... Duck gave it to you. And... ummm..." He fiddled in his small bag.
The truth was, it was an expansion punch, hence it takes time to find things, "AH! Got it, dad taught me that in this world, you can buy things with money. Here, I can give you this much only. Okie, grandma said not to talk to strangers, bye-bye..."
Wagging his giant tail, he flew in the air, the little boy happily waved his hand, and the man was left in shock. Duck soon activated his invisibility and left the park.
Chris Gardner was left in shock, as once again tears covered his entire face this time, he stared at the sky for a long time, pinched himself to know if this was real, and then only one idea was in his mind, "Out of billions of people... it was a beast who showed me warmth and kindness at my lowest. I will return this favour one day, I promise."
"Dad, what happened?" the little boy asked.
Chris Gardner smiled and ruffled his hair, "Let's sleep in a warm room, Christopher. That angel helped us a lot."
Duck, without knowing about the currency or monetary values of the world, had left behind a 5-kilo bar of gold with the man. In money value, it could feed the man and his son for months and get him shelter. For Duck, this was an act of obviousness, as helping people was what good boys do.
He didn't even remember the man and the kid for long, he just thought, ~Where should I go now? Hmmm...~
[A/N: The father and son duo were from the movie called "The Pursuit of Happyness", it's based on real-life and it's pretty sad.]
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