Did Magnus know how to play the Banjo? Absolutely not, but that didn't stop him from trying to play it and also sing at the same time. Peter just silently tried to hold his laughter while massaging Chad.
♫Oh, people from the underworld,
I wanna meet you and talk to you.
Introduce you to this furry kitty curled.♫
♫I think the meeting has been due,
as I am Magnus Grant Emrys Pendragon,
Awesome and best king and wizard,
much better than all those previous turds♫
♫So come on out and talk to me,
We can eat a pizza, the taste is my guarantee.
Don't worry, the foolish stupid Ragnar ain't here,
So you won't get his stupidity in there.♫
♫Wanna be my friend? It's a limited offer,
So bros, quickly come out of the water.♫
*WOOSH*
"REEEEEEEE..."
"Fuck! They came out... and look angry?" Magnus was shocked by the sight of an 8-foot tall merperson coming out, he looked strong, muscular and had a trident in one hand. He also had some ornaments but overall looked ugly and scary.
Peter, scared, hid behind the tree, "Magnus, I don't think they liked your songs."
"WHAT?! But I tried my best, I'm sure the lyrics were decent." Magnus said and walked to the merfolk.
"Hello there, I am Magnus Grant Emrys Pendragon, how do you do?" He forwarded his hand to shake.
*REEEE...*
Well, that was their language, but thankfully, Magnus could understand him just fine, "Yes, I am Merlin's descendant. I wanted to talk to you all. I heard what happened to you people back in the days. The history of merpeople's relations with the wizarding British government is somewhat rocky. I know, Chief Elfrida Clagg refused to accept merpeople as beings under her definition of the term as those who could "speak the human tongue".
"She thought Mermish to be inadequate as it could not be understood above water. Her decision upset both the merpeople and your allies, the centaurs. If I could bring back that bitch's soul, I would torment her or gift her to you.
"But, the world has changed, I have taken over, the dream of Merlin is my dream, which is peace and prosperity for all sentient species. Besides, I am best friends with the Centaurs and Goblins."
"REEEEE..."
Magnus was taken aback, "You want me to come with you? Hmm, fine, let's go. Oye, Peter, you also come, see how interesting and dangerous my life is before you think I am the luckiest guy."
Chad wanted to run away as going underwater was just like inviting anxiety and heart attack, but he was caught by Magnus. After that, he followed the Merperson, who used his trident to create a bubble around Magnus and Peter's bodies.
Slowly, they descended inside the lake and reached the floor. After that, they had to walk/swim a little to reach where their colony lived. And once he arrived there he was shocked, the first thing he saw was a big gate, one that took a lot of work and carving to make, though it has a lot of moss on it now. But this showed that these were sophisticated beings, not just some dumb creatures.
Peter, too, was shocked, while Chad was playing with his bubble, enjoying floating around. Then soon they entered the colony, which could be called a city. There were elaborate multistory buildings with architecture he had never seen before. There were a lot of pathways made between the buildings, some in the air, giving a jaw-dropping view of the dark ravines under.
There were thousands of normal fishes, but also merpeople floating around, a lot of them got interested in him and came to see, they were ugly to be honest, as written in the books, only the merpeople who live in warm waters are pretty looking, those who live in cold water, like in this case, tend to be ugly.
~Woah, the females have their tiddies out for all to see, I thought they would have seashells.~ Magnus was shocked to see this. But again, this was just a lake so they probably lacked the seashells.
"I've been trying to talk to you people for so long, what finally made you talk?" He inquired.
The merperson who led them replied with an annoyed face, "Your singing and music were hitting our ears. You've been doing it for the past 3 years every few weeks, please, just stop. Look at Chunky there, poor kid can't sleep for 3 days after your torture."
"Pfft..." Peter burst into laughter after hearing this.
"Hey, I'm not that bad, Emma says she likes to hear me sing." Magnus protested, it was a matter of his honour after all.
The merperson looked at him deadpan, "What is your relation with her?"
"She's my super hot lover, a really good girl. Why?" He replied.
The merperson shrugged, "You're smart enough to know what's wrong with her praising you and why it does not count. Anyway, I am Chibuez, I will take you to meet our king."
"WAIT! YOU'RE SPEAKING MY LANGUAGE!" Magnus just noticed.
"Of course I did, you think we don't know your language after inhibiting this lake for thousands of years? The strong ones among us know your language but just choose not to use it." Chibuez explained.
"What do you all eat?" He inquired. After all, managing food in such a small lake must be hard.
"Humans," was all Chibuez answered with.
This scared Peter, while Chad didn't care as cats were not named.
"And cats," Chibuez added.
"MEOWWW!" Chad quickly swam into Magnus' arms for safety.
...
Soon, they arrived in front of a large building, it wasn't anything special, they were led inside where a big empty seat was placed. "Where is the king?" Magnus asked.
But, Chibuez suddenly went forward and sat down on the throne, "Pleasure to meet you, King Magnus, I am King Chibuez of the Merpeople of Great Lake."
(⚆_⚆)(•ˋ _ ˊ•)
Peter looked at Magnus while Magnus was taken aback, "Umm, the king came to meet me? Why would you come to the surface yourself?"
"To show that I mean respect. And I am not really a big king, our population is just 2500, can't really be called King at this, tribe chief is more like it." Chibuez replied, seeming pretty chill, but his face was always destroying that frankness as he looked too scary.
"So tell me, why did you want to meet me?" Chibuez questioned.
Magnus didn't really have an aim, he was just messing around, trying to see if he could talk to them, but surely, this was more than he was expecting, "Umm... not really much. Just wanted to talk to you all."
"So you didn't come here to trade with us or sign any sort of treaty?" King Chibuez inquired.
"Nope, nothing like that. Though I would like to learn to make music." Magnus honestly replied.
"Hahahaha... you sure are very honest, King Magnus. You see that crystal behind you, if that had lightened up, I would have tried to kill you. That Crystal was gifted to my ancestors by Merlin so we could understand the intentions of humans if we had to ever talk to them.
"Why do you think we Merpeople rejected the offer of the Ministry to classify us as "being". They were secretly attempting to classify us the same as Hags and Vampires." King Chibuez revealed.
Magnus felt a drop of sweat on his forehead, he had no idea that they were ready to attack him, of course, he knew he wouldn't die and instead end up killing their entire population, but that was not what he wanted, being labelled a genocidal maniac was the last thing he needed.
In response, Magnus decided to treat them as he would any other nation, "Well, now that we have initiated a contact, wanna trade?"
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Well, since there was a crystal that could tell if Magnus was lying, there was no harm in at least talking about it, even better if his people can live a better life. "What kind of trade do you want?"
"Umm, what currency do you use?" Magnus inquired.
"We use barter, not currency." King Chibuez answered.
Well, this was a pickle, he couldn't give them money either as they had nothing of value to trade it with. "What is the most precious thing you produce?"
"Jewellery, we are experts in creating jewellery." the king responded enthusiastically and even went on to whistle loudly, soon another merperson came, the king ordered him in his language and soon he brought a big box full of jewellery.
Simple to say, most of these were made of precious stones, as gold and silver can't really be worked on inside the water. "Umm, can you produce them with gold, silver and platinum as well?"
"We've only had a small amount of gold and silver in our possession and we used it to make the crown and a few pieces of jewellery for the king. But we do possess the tools and mastery to work with that." Chibuez said.
Magnus used his big brain, ~Damnit, here I go making a company again.~
"Okay, barter system does not work in the real world, you will have to make real money. You probably don't have any means right now but I can provide you with a business proposition, I shall bring you gold, silver, diamonds and gems.
"In return, you shall make my jewellery, you will get paid in cash, and that cash you can use on whatever you want, I will open an outpost in your city where you can buy everything. In fact, you should buy televisions, they can provide you with entertainment and also a glimpse of what the outer world is like, especially the muggle world." Magnus proposed.
"Will there be some sort of target to fulfil?" The King asked.
"Not really, you can decide on how much to make, it depends on how much money you want to earn in return. Since I will be providing the material, out of the profits made from selling them, you will get 70 per cent and I will get 30 per cent." Magnus laid down the terms.
Well, this was super palatable. It was a win-win for both of them, "I will give you an answer after talking with my council. Until then, you are free to look around in our shops but do not enter any location without my guards, we are not really friendly with humans."
"Cool, I will keep that in mind." Magnus, Peter and Chad quickly left the merperson and roamed around the colony. Calling it beautiful was an understatement.
"I wonder if we're the first people to see this," Peter muttered.
"Not the first, but surely the first in recent times. Let's go back now, Emma must be looking for me. And Peter, you just saw it, that guy was ready to kill me, this is the life I live. Sure, I am enjoying a great many things, but they were not free. Some cost me my real blood.
"So, just focus on yourself, work hard and shut your haters yourself. Remember one thing, nobody will try to help you if you yourself are not trying to help yourself." Magnus advised him, hoping Peter's life would get better.
Peter genuinely nodded, "Thanks, Magnus. Talking to you and going on this... adventure really helped me freshen up. I will try to do as you advised,"
Soon, they reached the surface of the lake and walked back to the castle, "Yup, see you later, bud. If you ever need any help, you just gotta ask."
Whistling, he headed back into the Slytherin common room, it was his second favourite place to be in the school, first being whichever bedroom his girl was. Speaking of girls, Emma was in the common room as well, watching the television with other girls, watching some romantic movies. Meanwhile, the boys played chess on the side, some studied as well.
Life was beautiful.
...
The world had changed, trust in the US dollar was decreasing day by day as it was found out that the US was printing more money than it should have. This threatened the Dollar reserves across the world, because the more cash the US printed, the lesser the value of the Dollar would get. And since countries buy dollars, the investment was a loss-making one.
This was an opportunity for the United Kingdom, if they don't take advantage of it now then it would be never. It was important to break the Dollar monopoly, the British pound sterling needed to take over slowly. So, they first started with a few Asian and African nations. The US had a history of forcing countries to accept dollars, but that would not work anymore since Magnus was the ultimate boss nobody wanted to pick a fight with. Besides, the UK was not a weak little country anymore, it was big in economy and land, and at the same time, it was growing at a steady 10%(In the real world it was 2.91%).
The UK was producing so many goods, be it high end or low end. For example, Range Rover was expanding manufacturing like crazy and selling cars everywhere. Purchase of the land in the Sahara desert was also done by the UK and the map was updated.
This created a new state, it was named Arthurland, named after ancient King Arthur. Though the business name of the place was Desert Super State, DSS. Not many companies were interested in entering this region since there was nothing. But as soon as it was revealed how Magnus' companies were growing food underground, the place became important.
Breaking a monopoly was never easy, the US was the absolute uncrowned king of the world. For now, the UK was able to go on without much trouble, but soon policymakers in the US congress will realise the threat of the British economy, they would try to do everything in their power to harm it secretly.
But the plan of Magnus was to become so big before they even notice that they feel scared of doing anything to you. Sometimes, to beat a bully, you just have to become a bully.
Besides, the UK was earning too many good points around the world right now. Bhutan was a textbook example of how a bigger country can help a smaller country, heck, Magnus was not a country, he was just rich and he uplifted a nation on his own.
What happened to Bhutan, many others hoped would happen to them. So slowly, not the British Government, instead Dragon Holdings started to receive invitations from various nations and regions, such as Ghana, Venezuela, Taiwan, Greece, Hong Kong, Fiji and a few more.
They were not ignored, a few got visited by representatives from the company, and a few got dates to when Magnus himself would come there. But, there were a few things that a lot of people failed to realise, when a person becomes so wealthy and influential like Magnus, many people desire their death.
...
In July of 1977, after reaching home from school, he headed straight to Taiwan, where it was decided that he would buy a stake in their semiconductor startups and provide them professional help of FutureTek.
But, during one of his charity visits to a school, something shocking occurred that enraged a lot of people and nearly started a war. A sniper bullet came out of nowhere and hit Magnus in the back.
It didn't pierce him, it couldn't have even if it had hit his head, but it did throw him off, he fell to his knee for a split second, then secretly cast a charm towards the direction the bullet came from.
Dragon Team members, as well as British soldiers in civil clothing, surrounded him. The attacker was eventually found, he turned out to be a Chinese man, but he worked for the Soviets.
It was easy to understand that they hoped to put the blame on the Chinese. But, what a few didn't understand was that there was no mistake Soviets didn't know about Magnus' hidden background. So why did they do it? Magnus had the answer to that, "It's a warning,"
"Warning for what?" Adrian asked, concerned for Magnus' safety now.
"To stay out of their country. Anyway, send a few men and kill their General Secretary, I warned them not to fuck with me or I will kill them. They seem to be believing that their size will scare us, they are just a furry malnourished cat at this point. Kill their Minister of Defence as well." Magnus ordered deaths as if they were nothing but snapping fingers.
But, Adrian had people trained just for such assassinations, "It will be done,"
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