Indeed some of them thought that the Knights of Walpurgis sounded much better than the name "Death Eaters".
At least this one referred to the traditions of the Wizardkind and had some sort of deeper meaning, while the Death Eaters just sounded silly, while whatever hidden meaning it had would be mostly forgotten or ignored.
"Now, every one of the presents, please sign these documents."
Tom Riddle stated as he passed them the same Geass Scrolls that he signed when he first summoned Vali Lucifer to this world. When all of them signed the Geass Scrolls, they realized that this was basically an incomparably stronger Unbreakable Oath Spell that already existed in the Wizarding World.
"Now, I will give you the first order... clean out the ranks of the former Death Eaters. I am sure that we will find a bunch of spies, either for the meddling old man, ICW, Ministries and probably, if we are lucky, then even for some non-magical governments."
When he said those words, five out of six people gathered in this room were either shocked or enraged at the thought that the no-magicals could be spying on them, but before anyone could start shouting and screaming at each other, he waved his hand and motion for Rockwood to speak.
"It is highly possible. Muggles have known about the Wizarding World since the First World War, where the Wizards actively participated. Since then, the muggle governments have been developing countermeasures against the magical and there are even rumors that they have entire departments in their governmental structures or in their armies dedicated to training and brainwashing Wizards for their own devises. Sicne the times of Grindelwald, their efforts have been multiplied several times over and..."
Rockwood was a senior member of the Unspeakables.
Thus, he was aware of this information, which was currently known only to some members of Unspeakables among the Ministries of Magic of various countries and ICW, and naturally to the Ministers of Magic themselves, including the leadership of the ICW.
Unfortunately for them, there was nothing they could do about it because they caught the wind of what was going on too late, far too late.
In truth, the ICW, due to its incompetence and corruption, discovered the situation only after the end of World War Two and the defeat of Gellert Grindelwald by Grindelwald himself.
It was already time when the muggle governments had trained already small armies of brainwashed Wizards numbering thousands and coupled with the support of their superior technology; it was night impossible to do something against them with brute force.
"And what, Rockwood?"
Asked Dolohov as their discussion had taken a grim-looking direction rather.
"And there are rumors that the USA, China, Russia, Great Britain and France have their own version of a magical army consisting of thousands of battle-hardened, professionally trained and absolutely loyal battle mages. Meanwhile, Japan Wizarding Clans have fused with their muggle counterparts, giving up their Pure-Blood status in exchange for even more power as they essentially control the entire country, be it muggle side or wizarding side."
Stated Rockwood as hearing this, everyone was silent for several minutes because something like this was too much to take.
After all, it was first crushing the worldview that many of the noble pure-blood wizards had and secondly, it was going against the base principles of the wizarding world, and thirdly even again the personal belief of many of the present.
And contrary to what one would expect, like curses at blood traitors at the Japanese Clans or denied reality, nobody said anything; probably it was more attributed to the presence of their Lord and that devil who was playing on his Holo-Brain online games.
"And this is the threat that we face, my dear friends. The Statute of Secrecy never protected us... it protected them from us, forcing us to hide like rats in sewers... if we only had fought those thousands of years ago, we would have annihilated them, but unfortunately, not. What we have before are two choices."
Stated Tom Riddle dramatically as even Vali started to listen because he had to admit that the man had a knack for smooth talking and giving speeches, something that he was never very good with.
Most of the time when he was giving a speech, it was written by Rias and Latia to ensure it was proper speech and not just some battle cry or something in that fashion.
"The first one is to do nothing and just wait until the muggles have decided to go on us and kill us one by one. With their current capabilities, I am relatively sure that it won't take them a lot of time until they finally decide to declare war on us... and from what we know about them, they have far more experience with waging wars than we could ever have."
Indeed such was the truth of the situation that they were in. Slow death was awaiting all of them if they won't do anything with it.
The muggle governments were indeed superior to them and if they had their own magical armies, then any advantage that the wizards had over them would have long ago evaporated into the air.
"And there is also a second option, in which we will go for a different approach, that will take more time, but sooner or later, it will yield the fruits. We need to obtain more, more power than anyone had and use the greatest weapons of our enemies against them."
And there was also the possibility of fighting back... but if they fought, then it needed to be done perfectly because even a single mistake could lead to a premature end and death.
Rockwood was too aware that muggles brought war to the same level as art, something that the Wizards, unfortunately, didn't and most, if not all of them, knew shit about waging war.
Especially on the enemy that seemed to be stronger and muggles were specialists in everything that was related to destruction and killing.