At Tierra's words, everyone showed shocked expressions. They had not expected Tierra to have begun preparing this plan so early.
While marveling at the thoroughness of Tierra's plan, everyone could not help but feel a faint sense of unease—
How many more plans did Tierra have that they knew nothing about?
It seemed that Tierra had a highly detailed answer to every question they raised, even when some of those questions were clearly unreasonable.
"Wouldn't this cause too many Muggles to become overly obsessed with magic, leading them to try to enter the Wizarding World and compromise our safety?" Simon Salinas asked doubtfully.
Tierra smiled. "That is actually one of the effects I want to achieve. Our goal is to make Muggles understand and accept our magical culture, not to turn them into wizards. But that requires the wizarding community to educate and guide Muggles, so that they understand their own limitations and know that their pursuit of magic should be restrained.
"No matter how well or meticulously we handle the publicity, we still need solid strength to back it up," Tierra said with a smile. "And our solid strength lies not only in our large wizarding population and organized wizard armies, but also in the technology we possess."
"The Philosopher's Stone and the Elixir of Life." Tierra raised one finger. "That is one example, and also our most encouraging research result so far. Through the efforts of Horace Slughorn and myself, we have preliminarily developed a relatively rigorous procedure for creating the Philosopher's Stone, with a fairly high success rate."
"Of course, this procedure will still need to be simplified and improved later," Tierra continued. "No Muggle can resist the desire for eternal life."
"Besides that, I have invested all the proceeds from the Harry Potter series into the