"You've also seen that Borrell's attitude toward the cultivation area isn't particularly warm. Such a force, if it can't be grasped in hand, naturally must be abandoned to avoid it eventually becoming an enemy, don't you think?"
Frowning slightly, Sean's intuition told him this reason was just something Gavin was using to deceive people.
But honestly, if Sean could truly receive this force, in just three to five years he would have a group of powerful wizards gathered around him, a force Sean couldn't ignore, especially given his knowledge of Voldemort's future return.
At that time, only those who possessed power could protect themselves and their families.
"If I take them on, then all their food, clothing, and expenses will be entirely my responsibility from now on, correct?"
Hearing this, Gavin showed a slight smile. Looking at Sean, he laughed, "I can advance you a sum of money to get you through the first year. When your first year's dividends come out, I'll deduct it from there.
Of course, this money comes with interest—slightly higher than Gringotts by two points. How about it?"
"You really have everything calculated, my dear grandfather!"
Seeing Sean gritting his teeth, Gavin immediately felt cheerful. He didn't know why, but he most enjoyed seeing Sean hate him enough to grind his teeth yet be unable to do anything about it. This pleasure far exceeded playing with cats or walking dogs, and Gavin never tired of it.
After Sean's conversation with Gavin, he prepared to leave with his parents and brother.
Elena was very reluctant about this, but considering that she could freely visit Sean's home to see her two grandsons and son and daughter-in-law in the future, Elena's emotions stabilized somewhat.
Instead, it was Martha who, having become close confidantes with Elena over these three days, especially regarding child-rearing, where Elena's advice had been very useful, found herself reluctant to part ways while Elena remained relatively composed.
Sitting in the car, Aldrich hadn't boarded. Before leaving, Sean had already told Aldrich about taking over the cultivation area. Aldrich was extremely excited and happy about this, especially when Sean told him about relocating the cultivation area. He threw himself into the task with one hundred percent enthusiasm, guaranteeing he could complete the mission Sean had given him.
So Aldrich wouldn't be returning to Sean's home anytime soon. He needed to stay in the cultivation area to discuss future matters with others.
Of course, the cultivation area's departure didn't mean completely severing ties with the Bulstrode family.
In fact, after the children here graduated, they would have multiple choices. They could choose to continue serving the Bulstrode family, though compared to before, their service to the Bulstrode family would bring them more benefits and advantages, since it was no longer the Bulstrode family cultivating them, but Sean.
Although strictly speaking, Sean was also a member of the Bulstrode family.
Sitting in the car, Sean contemplated the forces he now possessed.
They roughly divided into three parts.
The first part consisted of those represented by Barrett, hidden within the Slytherin Brotherhood—what Sean called the official route. Through these subordinates hidden in the shadows, he would gradually develop his own influence within the Slytherin Brotherhood and even the Ministry of Magic.
The second part comprised the dark wizards led by Malo. Under the pretense of restoring Voldemort's rule, Phineas Burke controlled a batch of desperate dark wizards. Many illegal activities could be carried out by them, then the blame could be shifted to Voldemort's remnants and other dark wizards, while simultaneously attempting to control part of the black market business.
The third part was naturally what Sean had just received—this force from the Bulstrode family. However, this force was currently somewhat weak and needed three to five years of growth. With Aldrich controlling its development, it was trustworthy.
Currently, all three parts of these forces were still in a very weak state, requiring step-by-step development. Sean's upcoming plans were also very low-key—studying and writing papers would become the main components of Sean's life, quietly building his reputation in the magical academic world, striving to grasp his own voice before Voldemort's return.
In fact, Sean had always suspected whether the Ministry of Magic's abnormal operations after Voldemort's return were truly because they simply didn't believe in Voldemort's return or if there were other considerations. After all, during the fight against Voldemort, the Ministry of Magic had put in great effort. Sean didn't believe that the Ministry of Magic, which had been so determined to oppose Voldemort back then, would become what it later became after just over a decade. He felt there must be some other, deeper reasons.
It was precisely because of this that he wanted to make preparations as much as possible before things happened, to prevent any possible accidents.
Sean somewhat suffered from insufficient firepower phobia.
Returning home, everything was exactly as when they left. Emerald had maintained the house very well. Additionally, Kulkan was still sleeping—she had been asleep for nearly a week this time, not waking up once during this period. Sean's intuition told him that when Kulkan woke up this time, she would have completely digested and absorbed the basilisk body tissue she had devoured, achieving further growth.
The subsequent holiday life returned to tranquility.
Ever since Sean had given the patent for the new-style mental restoration potion to the Bulstrode family, he had almost no letters coming to disturb him. Of course, those academic exchange letters still maintained a frequency of one every three to five days. Communicating with those potion masters from The Golden Cauldron was very helpful to Sean, and those potion masters were also very willing to communicate with Sean, this extremely young backup potion master. Not only could they gain some different perspectives from him, but they could also befriend a future master with broad prospects early on.
Also worth mentioning was that during the holiday, a new issue of The Golden Cauldron published a paper by Potions Master Damocles. The paper was front-page headlines, and Damocles's photo occupied almost the entire cover, while other papers in this issue of The Golden Cauldron only had small titles and authors' names.
But not one of these wizards, at least not openly, expressed dissatisfaction with this, because Damocles's paper in this issue completely solved the problem of werewolves losing their sanity during transformation. He had completed his potion research, creating the Wolfsbane Potion that could allow werewolves to maintain their sanity during transformation!
Although this potion couldn't cure lycanthropy, a potion that could maintain sanity during werewolf transformation was definitely good news for those wizards in the magical world suffering from lycanthropy.
Regarding this, when Sean obtained the latest issue of The Golden Cauldron, he immediately began researching the Wolfsbane Potion based on Damocles's paper!