Whether they were selling out their country or not had nothing to do with Link, and he had no interest in it at all.
After all, what the French Minister of Magic was betraying was his own Ministry and his own people.
Still, the delighted looks on old Harris and the French Minister of Magic made Link want to laugh a little.
He didn't think either of them would successfully achieve their goals.
After all, after a detailed investigation, Link and Dumbledore had already confirmed that the French magical world was the Black Shadows' nest.
With the support of Nicolas Flamel's massive inheritance, their corruption of the French magical world had reached a shocking level.
Link estimated that the people truly in control of the French magical world now were not the Minister of Magic in front of him, but the Black Shadows hiding in the dark.
Under those circumstances, would the Black Shadows just watch the French Minister of Magic work with old Harris to empty out the French magical world?
What a joke!
Those resources belonged to them!
Link guessed that the only result of old Harris reaching into the French magical world would be getting beaten badly by the Black Shadows, having his outstretched hand chopped off, and then being thrown out.
But that was good too.
The International Confederation of Wizards becoming hostile to the Black Shadows was exactly what Link and Dumbledore wanted to see.
Coldly watching old Harris and the French Minister of Magic excitedly shake hands with each other, Link and Dumbledore declined old Harris' invitation to hold a banquet celebrating the successful conclusion of the meeting and directly returned to their resting suite.
Old Harris was also very satisfied with Link and Dumbledore's attitude.
Though it was called a celebration banquet, what he actually wanted was to continue discussing in detail with the French Minister of Magic the follow-up process of the International Confederation of Wizards stationing troops in the French magical world for "peacekeeping."
In his eyes, Link and Dumbledore directly refusing the banquet was equivalent to stating that they had no interest in the resources and benefits of the French magical world.
So perhaps out of a desire to return the favor, not long after Link and Dumbledore arrived at the resting suite, Iyeta entered carrying a box.
"Honored guests, inside are the two physical samples of the 'Eos Potion' you requested, one formula, and the clustered spatial transition technology."
After speaking, Iyeta placed the box on the coffee table and bowed before leaving without hesitation.
Clearly, with the mediation meeting over, her interest in Link's group had greatly decreased. She was no longer even willing to bother with basic politeness.
Only after Iyeta completely left the suite did Link look at Sigefin and say, "If I had known beforehand, I wouldn't have brought you along. That was my mistake."
"No, this isn't your fault! On the contrary, I should thank you for giving me a chance to come back here again." Sigefin said with disdain on his face.
"I don't feel pain at all. Seeing those people still being as filthy and disgusting as ever only makes me more certain that my original choice was correct!"
Link silently nodded.
Of course Sigefin was lying when he said he wasn't upset.
No one would feel good seeing their childhood sweetheart and former fiancée together with their biological father.
Especially since Iyeta seemed to share a fairly close blood relation with both old Harris and Sigefin.
Out of respect for Sigefin, Link didn't investigate the truth too deeply.
But without a doubt, it was a dirty and cliché story.
The important thing was that Sigefin had not been crushed by cruel reality.
As for the rest, Link believed Sigefin would handle it himself. After all, Newland was still by his side helping him.
Thinking this, Link stopped paying attention to Newland and Sigefin, who had already begun quietly whispering and teasing each other, and turned to look at the box on the coffee table.
The box had already been opened.
Dumbledore was holding the two bottles of "Eos Potion," carefully examining them under the sunlight.
Inside the rest of the box, only two brand-new parchment scrolls, clearly freshly copied, lay quietly on the crimson velvet cloth.
Undoing the ribbon tied around the parchment scrolls, Link began reading the contents.
There was no need to say much about the clustered spatial transition technology.
Link did not understand this kind of spatial technology deeply, nor was he very interested in it. He only skimmed through it briefly, then rolled it back up after confirming the International Confederation of Wizards seal on it.
This technology would later be handed over to the Department of Mysteries of the British Ministry of Magic for research.
Link believed that deciphering and mastering this technology would not be too difficult for those Unspeakables who spent their lives researching mysterious objects.
What truly interested Link was still the formula for the "Eos Potion."
Although Dumbledore had already explained the effects of this potion before, Link still could not understand what it meant for it to "stabilize the realm of a legendary wizard."
This kind of vague, fantasy-like effect without any concrete numbers instinctively made Link feel it was unreliable.
The only reason he still exchanged for it was because Dumbledore had shown extremely high enthusiasm toward it.
That at least proved the potion wasn't some worthless scam.
And now, the formula Link saw confirmed his previous judgment.
The production process of the "Eos Potion" was actually very simple. Any wizard who had achieved a passing grade in NEWT Potions could basically complete it perfectly.
Because fundamentally, the "Eos Potion" relied on the quality of the ingredients themselves to produce its effect.
The so-called production process was really just a method of combining all the ingredients together and extending the shelf life of the finished potion. It could be said to have almost no difficulty at all.
Corresponding to this extremely low production difficulty was the preciousness of the ingredients used in the "Eos Potion."
Black knotweed, magical claw leopard bones, Qi snake, dragon's blood stone, wild ginger leaves…
These densely packed dozens of ingredients were all extinct biological materials without exception.
Several of them had even been extremely rare materials back when the "Eos Potion" was first created.
If Link had not studied under Snape and already been deeply interested in restoring ancient potions, reading huge amounts of materials including the "Slytherin Grimoire," he probably would not even have recognized all the ingredients listed.
This long ingredient list was enough to prove the preciousness of the "Eos Potion."
But at the same time, it also made Link feel troubled.
The reason he had requested the formula for the "Eos Potion" was because he wanted to reproduce a downgraded version and use it on Aurors.
Now, although Link felt that by relying on Hufflepuff's golden cup and the title "Honest, Loyal, Truthful, Fearless Through Hardship," he could indeed barely create a low-grade version of the "Eos Potion" through replacing ingredients with materials of similar compatibility, the existing materials in the world with compatibility similar to the "Eos Potion" were completely incomparable to the original ingredients.
It was somewhat like ordinary steel and vibranium.
Both were metals and possessed the basic properties of metal, but the gap in level between them was simply too huge.
On top of that, the production process of the "Eos Potion" was too simple, so simple that there was no room for further optimization. Link had no way to improve its quality through craftsmanship.
The problem caused by these two points was that the effect of the downgraded version of the "Eos Potion" compared to the original would likely be frighteningly weak.
It might even have no effect at all.
"Looks like you've run into something troublesome."
Just as Link was constantly calculating in his mind, trying to find a way to optimize it, Dumbledore's voice suddenly sounded.
After finishing his examination of the two original bottles of "Eos Potion," he seemed to be in an excellent mood.
He directly sat beside Link and continued, "I checked them. Old Harris didn't lie to us. Both bottles of 'Dawn Potion' have been preserved very well."
As he spoke, Dumbledore neatly placed the potions back into the box.
Wrapped in velvet, although the transparent crystal bottles containing the "Eos Potion" looked somewhat rough on the outside, the thick dark-red potion inside, resembling magma, still emitted a soft magical glow under Link's supersensory spell vision.
Staring at the almost breathtakingly beautiful potion, a possible solution to the earlier problem appeared in Link's mind.
He directly took the two bottles back out and handed one to Dumbledore.
"Since we've confirmed there's no problem, let's use them here now."
"You're really giving such a precious potion to me?" Dumbledore rarely looked a little embarrassed. "And using it now, isn't that a bit too rushed?"
Link did not answer Dumbledore's first question.
One bottle of "Eos Potion" each for him and Dumbledore had already been decided during the earlier meeting.
What Dumbledore said was complete nonsense.
It was just an instinctive reaction from feeling awkward about it.
But that was fine too.
It perfectly proved that the value and effect of the "Eos Potion" were indeed excellent. Otherwise, Dumbledore, the most powerful wizard of the century who had seen countless things, would not have reacted like that.
"I want to run a test."
Link rolled his eyes at Dumbledore and spoke flatly.
"A test? What kind of test?"
"A test of how effective this so-called 'Dawn Potion' really is. Based on the result, I can roughly estimate how effective a downgraded inferior version of the 'Dawn Potion' would be."
"A downgraded inferior version… you mean you're capable of reproducing the 'Dawn Potion'? Alright, it seems you've hidden a lot from me. That's not how allies should behave. I think you..."
Dumbledore rambled on endlessly, looking quite excited, his urgent emotions completely undisguised.
But Link completely ignored this unusually rare side of Dumbledore. He directly pulled out the stopper and poured the "Dawn Potion" into his mouth.
Buzz!
The moment the potion entered his mouth, the originally liquid potion instantly vaporized, turning into an icy current completely opposite to its appearance and rushing straight toward Link's brain protected by Occlumency.
The next moment, Link lost consciousness.