153 Albus

Albus Dumbledore walked into his office, freshly shocked, after witnessing the death of Lucius Malfoy, who albeit he wouldn't pity, that man did it to himself, no what he heard both, unnerved him and made him hopeful.

King Aegis and Queen Elizabeth II did reach an accord, as King Aegis made it clear he doesn't desire any land or resource's from their world, saying that he had more than enough in his, and even if not, then he could open a rift to unpopulated worlds where he wouldn't have both opposition and already tapped resources.

What made Albus both unnerved and hopeful was that the King promised his help with the wizard's problems, as long as Queen recognized his status, and gave him land that would be used as ambassador to their world.

King Aegis made it clear he wished that any person wishing for a new life in his life would have clear and safe access to his embassy through Britain, and in exchange, he promised his military to serve as a peacekeeping force.

Albus was old enough to know that wasn't all and that both royalties had their own minds and goals, alas they sent him away with King Aegis promising to give him a visit and speak about the status of Harriet.

That made Albus little worried, for both matters of her being in tournament and marriage, alas they already found who threw Harriet's name into a goblet, with Barty Crouch Junior revealed to be alive and outside of prison as polyjuiced Mood and Barty Crouch Senior under an imperious curse, the entire debacle reached new heights.

As Albus was about to sit, he froze as he saw someone petting Fawkes...

Someone who he recognized very well.

"Albus... Long time no see... You became old..."

Said the ghost of woman, ghost because surely there was no other way...

"No Alby, im not a ghost, and I didn't come to haunt you, not yet at least..."

Cinder said as she watched with a smile her traitorous disciple standing in shock.

"And I must say, how kind of you to let another one you betrayed live."

Albus froze, she knew...

"Yes, I already had a rich conversation with dear Gellert, and dear, what I didn't found... I warned you, so many times, yet you still did it hm?"

Cinder said with a smile as she came to Albus who panicked and wanted to pull out his wand just for Cinder to disarm him, taking Elder wand into her hands without any problem or fanfare, after all it was her who teched him all tricks, there was no need for Cinder even use her strenght.

"Such an interesting trinket... To play with minds of mortals, but maybe that was one of final fuck you from the Death..."

Cinder said as Albus was starting to feel weak, it was like if he lost something, and yet at the same time, he felt...

"Free, right? The feeling you now feel... You know, when you betrayed me and killed me, I finally understood that the wand that gave us strength but at the same time gave us some burden too."

Cinder said and helped fallen Albus to sit on his chair as he felt any strength to leave him.

"Don't worry, it will end soon... But, I can see the regret in your eyes... Is it because you betrayed me? Yes? Then don't... After all, you made me meet with my little brother in the end."

Cinder said to shocked Albus.

"Well, you met him too not long ago, after all he is the king that brought chaos to this world."

Cinder said with a smile to Albus' eyes that shone in recognition.

"But I see we have not much time, and no matter how much I would like to torture you for betraying me, Im grateful, so I will let you spend your final moments with the man you love."

Cinder said and looked at the phoenix that looked at the events with sadness in its eyes, but there was resignation too as the bird did understand that it was needed to be done.

"Why don't you take your master to his loved one?"

Cinder said and the phoenix chirped as it flew to Albus and as it was about to teleport, Cinder said.

The last thing Cinder saw was resignation, gratefulness, regret, and happiness in the man's eyes as he finally could let the burden go.

"Farewell, and don't worry, I will make sure your wish will be fulfilled, my disciple..."

Cinder said as she watched them teleport...

"For such an innocent-looking thing... You surely can bring a lot of pain, don't you?"

Cinder said to the wand in her hand...

The portraits just mutedly looked at the happenings as they were muted by Cinder.

"Well, there is a lot of work to do... First, I should look for that marriage contract... And then for tournament one..."

Cinder said as she started to look around the office just to feel a connection from one of the wardrobes...

"Hm? Ah I see..."

Cinder said with a smile as she levitated a red cloak into her hands and could feel it has the same magic signature as the wand.

"Oh, and probably take care of snakes too... After all, I will not let them go, not after planning to hurt our little Harriet..."

Cinder said with a smile that made the paintings tremble.

"And the best way on the snake is to burn them out with a fire."

Cinder said as she created an orb of fire above her hand, an orb that looked like a miniature sun.

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Aegis looked at the statistics of the war and thought of his next move, he didn't desire this world, not after what Album told him.

In short, it would be an enormous drain for Solitas to try to occupy this world, as the populace was too large for any positive occupation and the world itself was poisoned with pollution and garbage.

Album showed him the resources were meager against the vast untapped resources of Remnant, another thing was garbage.

Thanks to Remnant having dust, the world wasn't poisoned and there was almost zero pollution, with the garbage that was immediately recycled thanks to the fact that Remnant people couldn't afford both wasting their resources and didn't let it rot somewhere as it would bring bad mood, the cleaner Remnant was the happier was population, a simple solution against Grimms.

And again, Remnant was 70% free of any mining or resource gatherings, thanks to Grimm, so Earth had little to give to the Solitas Kingdom.

The sole thing Earth had was a population that Aegis chose to handpick.

With his deal with queen, Aegis was permitted to accept any wiling immigrant, and thanks to war that was right now waging, Aegis was sure the immigrants to his Solitas Kingdom would rush in big numbers.

"Album, how does advertising progressing?"

"It's in final stage big brother, just final touches and we can replay our intentions in taking people to our advanced and beautiful kingdom for free, plus I did some looking and contacted multiple terminal illnesses or unfortunate people who were dealt with a bad hand and gave them a chance to have new life in our kingdom, as long as they promise to give up of their previous nationality and swear loyalty to Schnee family."

Album said as she showed multiple pages with thousands, no hundreds of thousands already contacted people from all around world, from homeless to single mothers that needed money, to the ridiculed scientists that didn't have money for their projects.

Truly, A.I could work fast...

"That's just non-magical population, and just a start, I expect millions of immigrants in next months after our advertising truly would kick in and the war would be more heated."

"And any magical's?"

"Mhn, yes from report's captain Eredtih gave us some goblin clans would like to live in our kingdom, of course, we still debate on conditions and they still are unsure of swearing loyalty to humans."

"Then I will let you lead that, and loyalty to Schnee is foremost for letting them into our Kingdom... Wait, goblins are an underground living race, right? Tell them about the risk of Flesh monsters."

"Yes big brother."

Album said as Aegis again retreated into his mind, he had a lot of plans and projects, but he had already missed his family, especially his Weiss...

"Oh, and big brother, your meeting with the Vampire clan is supposed to take tomorrow."

"Oh? Yes this Tepe's clan... Tell me what risk they can pose to our Sentinel's?"

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Harriet happily led the way as her friends Hermione, Fleur, Luna, Daphne and Tracey followed behind her as she showed them Sentinel base.

"And there is a hangar!"

Harriet said to shocked girls who looked at three enormous ships that were docked in hangars.

"A-are these space ships?!"

Hermione asked in shock.

"No, don't be silly, these are airships, but, I do remember someone saying that with retrofit, they could go into space..."

Harriet said as she herself tried to remember that conversation, so what she wasn't so interested in space, magic was more of her forte.

"That is correct sister, these ships just need to have exchanged their drive cores and they would be capable of space travel as much as they are in the sky."

Said Album with a smile as she projected her form near Harriet.

"Oh! Oh wait, did I introduce you?"

"No, sister."

"I see! Well Friends? This is my sister Album! Album these are-"

"I already know them, or do you forget that nothing in there can hide before me?"

"Oh right, sorry."

"Wait, you, you are A.I?"

Hermione slowly asked as she watched the hologram woman smile.

"Why yes, im super-enhanced artificial intelligence, Album Schnee, a pleasure to meet you."

Hermione just gaped.

"AI, what is that?"

Asked Fleur and Harriet could see most of her friends look in confusion, just Tracey was pale as snow.

"OH MY GOD, A SKYNET!!!"

Tracey shirked as she fainted.

"Well, this is the first time..."

Album mumbled as she looked at the girls who immediately rushed to help their fainted friend.

"Tch, to try my comparate to that primitive system..."

Album mumbled as she planned to take revenge on humans who came with that stupid trope of rogue A.Is...

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