Concept

"Only," Vinda Rosier said with difficulty, "only two hundred and sixty-seven families."

"Only two hundred and sixty-seven families?" Tierra asked again. "What percentage of the total is that?"

"More than ninety-five percent," Vinda Rosier said cautiously.

"That's practically everyone." Tierra could not help but sigh upon hearing this. "The population is still far too small."

At that, the meeting room fell silent.

"The Wizard Genome Project and the Magical Embryo Development research program have not been progressing very smoothly either," Tierra continued. "Roughly one-third of me has successfully infiltrated research institutions around the world involved in the Human Genome Project under various identities, but it has already been a year, and I have not found any SNP loci related to wizards or the Spiritual Dimension."

Tierra paused, then continued.

"We also established a biotechnology company in the Muggle World. By providing financial support, we obtained the consent of pregnant teenagers and pregnant women short on money, attempting to influence embryonic development through the Spiritual Dimension in order to increase the birth rate of wizard babies, or transform Muggle babies into wizard babies. The first batch of babies has already been born one after another, but—"

"But this research can be said to have made no progress whatsoever." Tierra spread his hands helplessly. "More than five hundred expectant mothers from the United Kingdom and across Europe were continuously given Magic Enhancing Potion, or had their fetuses blessed by a Patronus. Of the babies born to those five hundred-plus mothers, only two possessed a Spiritual Dimension. Put plainly, the odds were less than four in a thousand."

"Because we lack supporting experimental data and the experiment's design was not rigorous enough, we cannot determine whether our methods had any effect at all, or whether those two babies would have been born naturally