16 Chapter 16

Chad was pretty happy with the magical contract that he had written up to be used for standard recruitment. It was quite reasonable at first glance, but under a bit of scrutiny, it was filled with loopholes in his favour. Even the company name was a joke and a warning. Mesopotamia was one of the first civilisations to legalise slavery under the Code of Hammurabi.

Pledging on their rights as a Magical human would see them only having what little rights a muggle had when they broke the contract.

Non-disclosure agreement would leave them unable to talk about workmates, where they work or what they do. Hopefully, it would also magically protect against Legilimency.

No disrespect or violence towards Mesopotamian Inc employees or owners assumes that they are also under contract to respect you. A couple of people hired to annoy contract workers would see a few breaking the rules.

No derogatory comments or negative PR against Mesopotamian Inc. Honestly, who hasn't complained about shit jobs or employers over a drink?

No blatant shirking of assigned work. This and the 48 hours a week would wipe out a lot of people. Who hasn't had a bad day and knocked off early, took a long lunch or a cigarette break?

Will not break any Ministry of Magic laws while employed by Mesopotamian Inc. Who even knows them all?

There were no warnings or second chances, break one of the rules of the contract, and you were magically forced to teleport to a containment room. This would be the first place an employee was shown after signing the contract, a comfortable but sparsely furnished cell with bars.

That it had Apparition and Portkey wards to stop you leaving and a stunning ward for those arriving would not be mentioned. That and the ninja elves that would be transporting the new slaves to a secure location.

The plan was a little convoluted, but it was also legal and above reproach. Sure, Chad could use Legilimency to make everyone loyal, but where was the fun in that? Not to mention that on a large scale, it was not sustainable.

There were roughly 20,000 people in Magical Britain. To bring them all under control would need a method that his trusted minions could use without him. Chad sure as sh*t was not going to be teaching them mind magic and any magical could empower a magical contract, even an elf.

Since his elves would need a surname, Chad decided that all Peverell elves would have a last name of Domovoy. Domovoy, in Slavic mythology, was a household spirit and was loosely translated into a Brownie for the English equivalent. It would be the ultimate f*ck you to Wizards and Witches to be sold into slavery by house-elves, it sure had Boppy jumping around in excitement.

Chad would need to recall a couple elves from Australia, but that would work out well, he could gain recruiters and receive a progress report on Australian operations since he had not heard from Crystal for a month or so.

Funnily enough, Chad could find no laws that would make his plan illegal, even with using illusioned house-elves as Mesopotamian representatives to witness and empower the contract. With another scheme that could not be traced back to him in the works, Chad had Boppy pop over to Crystal to get an update and bring back a couple ninjas for manpower.

It took house-elves a fair few jumps to reach the other side of the world, but funnily enough, only seemed to make them tired for a couple of hours. A round trip shouldn't take Boppy more than eight hours to complete.

Next on his list of things to do was to work out how to magically alter the human body. Just from the Harry Potter books, he already had examples of the following.

It was possible to remove warts and blemishes.

Shrink, grow and straighten teeth.

Remove or regrow bones to different lengths.

Change hair length.

Use rituals to change/enhance/disfigure the body.

Heal open cuts and wounds with Dittany.

Burn-healing paste to heal burns/damaged skin.

Attempt to use the Mending Charm on flesh wounds can cause severe scarring but close injuries.

Phoenix tears have immense healing powers.

So with all this evidence, permanently changing the human body with magic was a thing. This was not even including Metamorphmagy, Animagus or Polyjuice potions. But experimenting would have to wait until Boppy got back with more elves, Chad would also need him for researching as the internet was not really up to the task yet in 1985. Maybe it was time for a nap.

When Boppy returned with five elves, he had brought back a report that would make any Master proud. Not only had land prices been ridiculously low in the countryside where he planned to set up his Kingdom because it was basic farmland and bush, but Crystal had also somehow convinced the government to sell a lot of it in massive parcels of land.

The fact that there were about a thousand privately owned farms breaking up the property from being complete was a minor matter. A week of Legilimency and organising all the farmers to meet up in one convenient place to discuss buying their land with cash, and it would be solved quickly.

Since he already owned the deed to some land, the elves took that as a sign to develop a vast underground complex as a future home/storage place. Literal tonnes of gold and piles of uncut diamonds were stored away by his eager little followers.

Thanks to their short mining education, they had even taken other valuable gems and rare minerals that were found while hunting for their primary targets. The only problem was that it was late 1985 and prices were but a fraction of what they would be worth after 2015.

Still, Chad was planning to store it all away for his rainy day fund, and with the elves mining everything they could find, prices were bound to inflate with nothing being introduced into the market. Africa was next on the list after Chad was satisfied that the elves had taken the valuable and easily mined gems and minerals.

It would be even cheaper to buy up massive tracks of land in Africa, the only problem was the public safety of any company he built there. But that could also kill two birds with one stone, he could recruit from the local population, brainwash them, train and equip them and then have them secure the area while recruiting more! But that was for later.

After Boppy returned and was praised for the excellent work of his elves, he was to pop Chad around to different universities and hospitals. This was so Chad could pillage every bit of medical knowledge that the best and brightest of the UK had to offer.

He didn't even have to meet them, merely appear disillusioned in front of them, make eye contact, and copy their minds. Chad could have been gentle and scanned only for relevant information, but that would have taken a lot longer. Instead, he did what he did to Voldemort.

Since the muggles had no defences, he invaded their minds, forced his will over theirs and turned the representation of their soul/mind into a holodisk. Chad then made a copy and released his hold over the original, letting it return to normal.

This had the side effect of giving them a chronic migraine but with no lasting side effects other than head-splitting pain for ten minutes while their mind healed from the brute force attack. Not only was it quicker, but it was also way more extensive and captured every memory the victim had.

Afterwards was spent hunting down all relevant medical books and reading/scanning them into his memories. It was very time consuming, and coupled with filtering the memories from well-renowned doctors and surgeons in all fields, it would keep him very busy for the next year or so.

Chad knew it was one thing to copy knowledge, and quite another to make it yours, but this was a subject that needed intimate knowledge. He was going to be changing the human body with magic, and any tiny error could have fatal side effects. Bubbles of air in the circulating blood can cause death or brain damage, who knows what losing focus while using magic to alter the body would cause!

While Chad was mastering medicine, Crystal spent every bit of cash that the elves had pillaged from around the world during the house-elf recruitment. Before Crystal had returned to England, she had travelled to Switzerland to open a bank account and then dumb all the different currencies into it.

With the Swiss banking secrecy laws at the time, this was the safest way to launder money and made it a lot easier to buy land in Australia. But now she had spent it all and needed more money to fulfil her little master's schemes.

Luckily, house-elves recruitment was ready for phase two, and another magical world tour was called for. This time she would be offering 600 galleons for a house-elf.