"My king, I bring you news."
Fenrir looked at his subordinate half-kneeling before him, his hair-covered face showing a smile as he nodded: "Rise and speak, Silver Fang."
The person called Silver Fang appeared to be just over twenty years old, with quite dense body hair, though he looked more human than Fenrir, who sat on his stone throne and resembled more of a humanoid wolf.
Silver Fang stood up, showing Fenrir a grateful smile. At that moment, Silver Fang revealed a silver upper canine tooth on his right side, obviously the source of his name.
"My king, you asked me to pay attention to news about Wolfsbane Potion. Today I received very noteworthy information, so I came to report to you immediately."
Hearing it concerned Wolfsbane Potion, Fenrir's expression became serious. He looked at Silver Fang and asked: "Tell me, what is this news about Wolfsbane Potion?"
"In last week's issue of The Golden Cauldron, the highest Potions journal, a paper related to Wolfsbane Potion was published. The author of that paper modified the original Wolfsbane Potion formula, replacing the three most expensive ingredients with cheaper and easier-to-brew potions. These three substitute potions, when brewed with other materials for Wolfsbane Potion, can achieve the same effect as the original version. According to the content, using substitute materials can reduce Wolfsbane Potion costs by thirty percent!"
"Thirty percent..."
Fenrir's face showed excitement as he continued: "That thirty percent isn't even the most crucial part. The most crucial thing is that those materials are too high-end. Very difficult to obtain on the black market. Now that the materials have been replaced, accumulating a Wolfsbane Potion formula on the black market won't be so difficult.
And most importantly, processing and brewing those three materials was very troublesome. Even ordinary Potions masters couldn't guarantee complete success. To brew Wolfsbane Potion, you had to prepare two or three sets of materials. Now that the difficulty has decreased, these costs are far more than thirty percent."
Seeing his excited king, Silver Fang spoke again: "King, there's more news about this paper. Supposedly this paper is only the first phase of the author's experiments. I heard there are second and third phases. It's said that if the paper's author completes all three phases of experiments and finishes the three-phase papers, they can reduce Wolfsbane Potion costs to the minimum while making brewing difficulty very simple!"
"It can be simplified further..." Fenrir stood up from his throne. He looked at Silver Fang: "This person, I want him. Bring him to me. I want to transform him personally. As long as we keep him here, we will be unstoppable on full moon nights. We will become the true kings of the full moon!"
Hearing this, Silver Fang's face showed difficulty instead. He hesitated, and Fenrir immediately caught this hesitation.
"You hesitated? Why? Tell me!"
Seeing Fenrir approaching, Silver Fang knelt again and hurriedly answered: "My king, the author of this paper is a current Hogwarts student. He's in third year, in Slytherin House, called Sean Bulstrode. He's said to be from the Bulstrode family."
Hearing these words, Fenrir's expression finally changed somewhat.
Not only was the identity of being a current Hogwarts student problematic, but being a member of the Bulstrode family was equally troublesome.
However, Fenrir had bitten many people, including quite a few from the Sacred Twenty-Eight families. The Bulstrode family wasn't particularly worrying. They couldn't catch him anyway. But Hogwarts was somewhat troublesome.
Fenrir was ambitious. He had always wanted to establish a kingdom belonging to his werewolves, so he had always been dedicated to biting infants and children. Only by biting them and infecting them into werewolves when they were young would they more readily identify with their status. At the same time, Fenrir was constantly collecting talented people but unfortunately could rarely recruit truly capable individuals, because these people were very difficult to approach and would never agree to be bitten into werewolves to join them.
If Sean were here and heard Fenrir's plans and ideas, he would definitely criticize Fenrir's naive and foolish scheme extensively, spraying venom like his Head of House until Fenrir questioned his existence.
Fenrir looked at Silver Fang. After pondering for a while, he said: "Silver Fang, take someone to the vicinity of Hogwarts. I remember Hogwarts has what they call Hogsmeade weekends, when those Hogwarts students leave Hogwarts for Hogsmeade on weekends. Watch closely. Once you spot that Sean Bulstrode, make contact immediately. Remember, I only want you to make contact with him. The task of transforming him can only be entrusted to me!"
Hearing Fenrir's words, Silver Fang hesitated and asked tentatively: "My king, if we only need the simplified Wolfsbane Potion, why don't we wait for him to publish his papers and then brew the Wolfsbane Potion ourselves using the papers? Even if our people can't brew it, we can find those people on the black market. They wouldn't dare deceive us. Why risk offending Hogwarts and Dumbledore by capturing this Sean Bulstrode?"
"Do you think all I want is a Wolfsbane Potion? I want this person. I want him to join us! As long as I bring him here and transform him personally, I can naturally make him feel close to me. Then I just need to keep him by my side for three to five years and train him properly. A Potions genius with Bulstrode family background will be under my control. At that time, even if I send him back, he'll be our man, following our orders. Understand?"
These words finally made Silver Fang understand somewhat.
As Fenrir said, among werewolves, the one who was bitten often developed emotions and trust toward the one who bit them, similar to father-son or brotherly bonds. The werewolves under Fenrir had actually been accumulated this way. Otherwise, with werewolves' wild nature, how could they consistently obey Fenrir?
If things went as Fenrir described, if he personally bit that Sean Bulstrode and then trained him for a period, there was a real possibility of controlling him. Then a Potions genius would become one of their own.
Thinking of this, Silver Fang immediately bowed his head to Fenrir, kissed Fenrir's foot, and then withdrew to prepare to take people to Hogsmeade.