"Thank you for your help. May I have the honor of knowing your name?"
On an uninhabited mountaintop outside New York, Mr. Grindelwald extended his hand to Li Chuan with a gentle expression.
Not every witch could elicit such an attitude from him; the witch before him was clearly an exception.
He was able to single-handedly infiltrate the MACUSA Ministry of Magic, instantly defeat ten elite Aurors, and use an unprecedented area-of-effect spell to stop over two hundred witches.
The power displayed by this mysterious witch truly impressed him.
To be honest, he currently didn't have a single witch under him with such powerful strength and adaptability as the other party.
"You can call me Chuan."
Li Chuan reached out and shook hands with Grindelwald.
"Chuan, a very unique name. Since you agree with my ideals, would you like to join me in my great cause?"
Grindelwald invited Li Chuan again.
This time, Li Chuan did not refuse, but replied:
"Mr. Grindelwald, frankly speaking, I am very interested in your great cause, but there are some things you do that I cannot fully endorse. So, if you want me to join, it's possible, but I have some conditions."
"Tell me, as long as I can do it, I will definitely agree!"
Grindelwald nodded without any surprise.
As a leader, he knew very well who followed him. Some were because of the same ideals as him, some simply admired his power, and others were purely for profit and power.
As long as they were capable people, as long as they were talents, it didn't matter why; what mattered most was that they could be used by him.
And for a talent among talents like the other party, as long as they were willing to help him complete his cause, raising a few conditions was certainly no problem.
Seeing this, Li Chuan began to speak slowly:
"First, I have some personal matters to attend to and cannot always follow by your side. I can only come to you when I have time.
Second, I can contribute to the great cause, but I will not kill innocent people, whether they are witches or Muggles. But rest assured, without killing innocent people, I will still complete the tasks you give me.
Third, I like to study magic. If possible, I hope to have some exchanges with you to improve my magical abilities."
Of the three conditions, the first two were actually not very important and were mainly used to mislead. The most important one was the third; he wanted to improve his magical abilities through Grindelwald and learn more powerful dark magic.
Hearing Li Chuan's three conditions, Grindelwald thought for less than three seconds before decisively agreeing.
Because in his opinion, these three conditions really weren't much at all.
Given the strength Li Chuan had shown, he really didn't care if Li Chuan followed him or not, as long as Li Chuan could accomplish things when he was asked to.
As for not killing innocent people, that was even less of a problem. He could escape unharmed when encountering Aurors, so killing or not killing was naturally in Li Chuan's own hands.
As for magical exchange, he wished he could teach all his dark magic to his followers, but unfortunately, magical strength mainly depended on talent. Some untalented people couldn't learn even if you taught them, and if they did learn, the power they used would be small.
In fact, what truly made him pause for three seconds was the uncontrollability reflected in Li Chuan's three conditions.
The other party was unwilling to become his loyal subordinate and was only willing to help when he needed it.
But it didn't matter. He believed that with his own personal charisma and powerful strength, this somewhat mysterious witch, Chuan, would eventually become one of his most loyal subordinates.
Moreover, it was acceptable for a capable subordinate to be a bit willful.
After a simple exchange, Li Chuan separated from Grindelwald, citing that he had something to do.
Grindelwald gave him an address in France and told Li Chuan to go there if he wanted to find him after he finished his business. Li Chuan also didn't leave empty-handed; he asked Grindelwald for the Occlumency spell, stating that he didn't like being Legilimency.
In this World, there were natural Legilimency like Tina's sister, and there was also a Legilimency spell researched by Legilimency.
Legilimency could unconsciously read the thoughts of those around them, while the Legilimency spell could give a witch the ability to read thoughts through eye contact, in the form of a spell.
However, this spell was too difficult, and very few witches in the World could master it.
In this era, the known masters of the Legilimency spell were Grindelwald and Dumbledore.
Just now, when Li Chuan was communicating with Grindelwald, he tried to avoid eye contact as much as possible to prevent Grindelwald from reading his thoughts.
But his apparent identity, Tom Foley, would inevitably come into contact with Dumbledore in the future, and he couldn't always deliberately avoid Dumbledore's gaze.
Furthermore, that guy wasn't like Grindelwald, who rarely used Legilimency; he particularly liked to secretly read other people's thoughts.
So Li Chuan obtained the Occlumency spell from Grindelwald. Once he mastered this spell, even Dumbledore would not be able to read his thoughts.
After leaving Grindelwald, he changed his appearance again and temporarily stayed at the Minotaur Pub on Magical Street for a night.
As he expected, the next morning, the entire wizarding World exploded again.
All the magical newspapers reported on the mysterious witch who defeated over two hundred witches of the MACUSA with powerful water magic and rescued Grindelwald from prison.
Below, a magical GIF from a first-person perspective was even attached, apparently taken by a witch with a magical camera from an upper floor at the time.
At the same time, for Li Chuan, this witch whose name was unknown, whose origins could not be traced, and who had no record whatsoever, the MACUSA temporarily named him the Mysterious Person and initiated a global manhunt and bounty.
The threat level of the Mysterious Person was second only to Grindelwald, and the bounty was also second only to Grindelwald.
The MACUSA even allocated a separate portion of the bounty to reward any information about the Mysterious Person.
However, everything about the Mysterious Person was truly very mysterious; not a single witch knew who this guy was.
Similarly, besides the Ministries of magic in various countries, Grindelwald, who had separated from Li Chuan, also mobilized his forces to find out Li Chuan's true identity, but without any results.
In short, the Mysterious Person seemed to have appeared out of thin air.
While the wizarding World was in an uproar over the identity of the Mysterious Person and Grindelwald's whereabouts, Li Chuan, using his newly changed appearance, had already returned to London via a black market door key.
However, he did not immediately return to his manor but went to a Muggle orphanage called Wu's Orphanage.
Because he was going to find the true Mysterious Person who would cause all the London witches to tremble in the future – Tom Riddle, or he could also be called Voldemort.
If he remembered correctly, Voldemort was born in Wu's Orphanage in December 1926.
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