Evolution

"You want to know whether Dumbledore will win me over, or persuade me to become another powerful protector of Muggles, don't you? Or, going a step further, you want to know what you'll have to sacrifice, don't you?" Tierra asked with a cold laugh. "Oh, my Miss Smirnova, if you have questions like that, you can ask me directly. There's no need to beat around the bush for so long."

"Or have you forgotten our all-night talk in North Sea Prison?" Tierra said calmly—

He was now playing the second life Gellert Grindelwald had lived after rising from death: an Alchemical life-form containing Gellert Grindelwald's soul.

This was also one of the greatest sources of legitimacy and stability for Tierra's current regime.

It could be said that everyone present, including the Dumbledore faction represented by Arthur Weasley, formed Tierra's core support. Relying on members and relatives of the Order of the Phoenix, as well as the many members of ancient Pure-blood families Vinda Rosier had brought over from Germany, Tierra had seized control of the entire British Magical Federation in an extremely short time. He had also absorbed the German Ministry of Magic, the Austrian Ministry of Magic, and half the Russian Magical Secret Society in succession, while stabilizing the large number of civilian wizards from defeated nations who had poured into the United Kingdom under the magical immigration policy.

The immigration of the past few months and a series of highly significant policies had raised the number of registered wizards under Tierra's rule from the British Wizarding World's original twelve thousand to sixty thousand, and that number was still growing.

Yet even though the total registered wizard population within the United Kingdom had increased fivefold, there was still no shortage of housing, food, or supplies—

Sixty thousand people was