Hogwarts Raven's Claw

Chapter 330 AB Plan
With the farewell of the goblin nose ring, Mike and his group left Gringotts.

The nose ring seemed very happy. It could be said that it had gained a lot today. Not only did Benjamin give it a tip of 100 gold galleons, but it also received a commission from the sales.

Mike and the others were also very satisfied today. It could be said that their purpose of coming to Gringotts today was successfully accomplished. Not only did they use the video glasses made by Victor to record the general defensive layout of Gringotts, but Benjamin also learned a lot of details about the magical restrictions in the vault by asking questions to Nose Ring.

After returning, Benjamin and others began to sort out and analyze the video and banned content, but after a whole night of analysis, they found that this information was not enough, and some of the most critical information was still missing.

For example, the exact location of Bellatrix Lestrange's vault.

So Benjamin started his work again.

In the following days, Benjamin went to Gringotts almost every day, and each time he would designate Nose Ring as his guide.

And Nose Ring was very happy to serve Benjamin. Sometimes, even if he was already receiving someone else, he would find someone to replace him so that he could receive Benjamin.

After all, Benjamin tipped it almost every time, and he was generous with his money.

Just like that, the nose ring completely fell under Benjamin's financial offensive.

It began to help Benjamin do some things that seemed insignificant but were strictly prohibited by Gringotts, such as taking Benjamin to wander around the first-level vaults, visiting the unique patterns on the doors of other vaults, and introducing him to the origins of these patterns and information about the vault owners.

When Benjamin first made this request, Nose Ring actually refused. After all, if someone found out, his salary would be deducted.

However, after Nose Ring rejected his request, Benjamin no longer looked for Nose Ring as his guide. Instead, he began to look for Griphook, his distant cousin whom Nose Ring despised.

This made the nose ring feel as uncomfortable as if it had eaten a fly, and what it could not accept the most was that Benjamin gave the pull ring a much larger tip than he gave it!
Seeing Griphook showing off happily everywhere every day, Nose Ring almost had the urge to hit his head against a wall and die.

So, when Benjamin came to Gringotts again, he found that Nose Ring had been waiting for him at the door early, and this time Nose Ring's attitude had become better. He no longer refused Benjamin's request to visit the first-level vault group, or even some more excessive requests.

Now Benjamin laughed. The fairy nose ring was just like a fool, being played around by him.

But in fact, this can’t be entirely blamed on the nose ring.

All wizards in this world know one thing, that is, goblins are extremely greedy creatures. They have a strong possessiveness for those shiny little things. This is their nature and cannot be changed.

There is even a proverb in Ying country:
One copper knut will make a goblin cut off its toes, and if that doesn't work, give it another one.

Although this proverb is a bit far-fetched, it fully illustrates the greedy nature of creatures like goblins.

While Nose Ring has such a greedy nature, its intelligence is obviously not high enough.

It obviously did not see through Benjamin's true intentions and thought that Benjamin was just a curious and silly Mudblood wizard.

At the same time, they did not realize the value of the information they revealed.

Otherwise, although it would still sell this information for gold coins in the end, Benjamin said the price to be paid would probably be an astronomical figure.

Of course, none of this matters. Overall, Benjamin’s mission has been successfully completed, so successfully that he can hardly believe it.

At the same time, Franklin and the Weasley brothers were not idle either. When Benjamin compiled the information he had collected in the past few days and handed it to Mike, a detailed file on Bellatrix Lestrange also appeared on Mike's desk.

Bellatrix Lestrange.

Formerly known as Bellatrix Black, she was the cousin of Sirius Black and the sister of Narcissa Malfoy, the mother of Draco Malfoy.

Like her sister Narcissa, Bellatrix was a noble lady who was brainwashed by the idea of ​​pure-blood aristocracy. When she was young, she was extraordinarily beautiful and was known as the Black Pearl.

Bellatrix had many admirers at the time, but she finally chose to marry Rodolphus Lestrange, who was also a pure-blood nobleman, and took her husband's surname.

Afterwards, the couple joined Voldemort and became Death Eaters.

After Voldemort's downfall, the couple cruelly used the Cruciatus Curse to torture Neville's parents, the Longbottoms, in order to vent their anger. Eventually, the Longbottoms became mentally ill and became permanent patients of the Armando Hospital for Magic.

From this we can see that the couple has a very good relationship, and it can be said that the wife follows the husband's lead.

But in fact, almost all Death Eaters knew that the person Bellatrix loved was not poor Rodolphus, but Voldemort.

A big reason why she showed such loyalty was because she loved Voldemort so deeply.

Unfortunately, Voldemort was not interested in this beautiful noble lady, and he was always very harsh towards Bella.

Interestingly, Bella's legal husband Rodolphus seemed to be unaware of this, or perhaps he knew but pretended to be ignorant.

In short, he still loved Bella as deeply as before marriage, and it could even be said that he obeyed Bella's every word.

Because of this, Bella became the owner of the Lestrange family vault. At the same time, due to Sirius Black's rebelliousness, his mother, Mrs. Black, was extremely disappointed with him.

In order to prevent Sirius, the prodigal son, from squandering all the Black family's fortune, she gave most of the Black family's property to Bella for safekeeping before she died.

The thousands of years of accumulation of the two super families, the Lestrange family and the Black family, made Bella the richest woman in Europe! It also made the already crowded Lestrange family vault even more crowded.

The target of Mike and his team's operation this time is this super vault with Gringotts' top-level protection!
In the meeting room of the Masonic secret realm, the Freemasons are gathered together, and the leader Mike is looking at a photo.

This photo was taken before Bella went to prison. It can be seen that Bella was indeed a great beauty at that time.

However, Bella in the photo was screaming and laughing wildly at the camera. Her beautiful face was distorted by such exaggerated movements, which made her look extremely crazy.

To be honest, when Mike saw this photo, he thought of a character from the comics in his previous life: Harley Quinn.

There are many similarities between these two people, but unfortunately, after enduring more than ten years of torture in Azkaban, Bella has become a haggard old woman, and it was of no avail despite her efforts to use makeup to cover up her flaws.

Facing such a beauty should be a very pleasant thing, but Mike was frowning at this moment.

Bella's vault's defenses were indeed a bit excessive.

Not only is a full set of Gringotts restricted items included inside, but even the door to the vault is made of Mystic Glowing Stone!

Secret Glow Stone is an extremely precious synthetic magic material. Currently, only a few alchemy masters can make it. Therefore, its price is extremely high, and the highest price is even as high as 100 gold galleons per gram.

To match its high price, it has extremely strong magic resistance and a hardness close to that of diamond.

"You mean, even if we use fierce fire, it will take at least ten minutes to burn open the broken door?"

Mike asked, frowning.

"That's right. According to the information I got, although there are not many Secret Glowing Stones on the door of Bella's vault, its defensive power is not compromised at all."

"So, Victor, have you made any progress in your research on cracking the Secret Glow Stone?"

Hearing this, everyone's eyes fell on Victor in the corner. Compared with his half-human, half-mechanical appearance before, Victor now looked much more normal. At least now you can no longer find any traces of mechanical transformation on him.

It was obvious that he still took Mike's last warning to heart.

Facing the expectant gazes of the crowd, Victor shook his head slightly and said:
"Progress? Yes, but I'm not satisfied yet. I have indeed developed a solution specifically for dissolving the Keystone, but the effect of this solution is not very good. It can only weaken the anti-magic properties of the Keystone, but it cannot completely dissolve it. According to my estimation, if you use this solution to weaken the vault door first, and then use the Fiery Fire Curse to bake it, it can save about half the time, which is five minutes."

After saying that, a trace of disappointment appeared on everyone's face. Five minutes seemed short, but it was still too long under the circumstances at that time.

Victor looked at everyone's expressions and showed embarrassment on his face, but then he explained:
"You can't blame me for this. You gave me too little time!"

Mike nodded. He knew very well that Victor was not a person who liked to make excuses. But at this moment, he was forced to start making excuses. He must have really tried his best.

"It's not your fault, Victor. You've tried your best." Mike said, "There's still some time before we officially take action. You can try harder and try to perfect the solution."

Mike spoke with a sincere expression and a gentle tone, and he did not mean to blame Victor at all.

After hearing what Mike said, the other members in the meeting room also began to comfort Victor.
Their words were as gentle as the spring breeze in June, but to Victor's ears they sounded like doubts about his abilities.

'You all think I'm a loser who can't find the perfect solution, right?'

This thought kept echoing in Victor's mind. Finally, Victor stood up from his chair, pushed open the door of the conference room, and ran towards his laboratory.

The people in the conference room did not react much to this.

Gradually, the conference room returned to its original silence and no one spoke anymore, because Mike, who was sitting at the first seat, was lowering his head, looking thoughtful.

Half an hour later, Mike finally raised his head, and as he moved, a light curtain appeared in front of everyone.

Everyone's attention was instantly drawn to the light screen, which displayed different colors:

Plan A:

Preparation stage:

1. Use items such as Polyjuice Potion to disguise a team member as the owner of a first-level vault.

2. Ask the team member to carefully observe the subject’s words and actions.

Action stage:

1. Go to Gringotts with a fake identity and use the Imperius Curse to control the counter staff, letting them steal the key to Bella's vault.

2. Ignore the anti-thief waterfall and use the Imperius Curse to control the guide.

3. Enter the vault and take the gold cup.

Retreat phase:

1. All members use Masonic door keys to retreat.

Note: If the plan fails, all actions will be subject to the orders of the on-site commander.

Plan B:

Preparation stage:

1. Send a member or use the Imperius Curse to control others to forge an identity, and go to Gringotts to create an account and apply for a secondary vault.

2. Use the applied secondary vault as an anchor to create a door key.

Action stage:

1. All members of the action team use the door key to reach the secondary vault in advance and ambush inside.

2. The owner of the secondary vault visited the vault on the same day.

3. Ambush the house-elf who opens the door and use the Imperius Curse to control it and delay time.

4. Forcefully break into the Bella Vault. Since a strong attack on the vault door will most likely trigger an alarm, the rest of the team will go to the location where the Fire Dragon and the Sphinx are imprisoned to free them, causing chaos and delaying time.

5. Break through successfully and win the gold cup.

Note: If there is a change in the plan, all actions will be subject to the orders of the on-site commander.

Retreat phase:

1. If everything goes well, use the door key inside the Masonic gold coin to teleport and escape.

2. If the door key cannot be used for various reasons, try to force a breakthrough by taking advantage of the rioting guards.

Looking at the stunned expressions of everyone in the conference room, Mike smiled.

As a professional, Mike is very good at planning this kind of plan.

He said that although the action plan he designed was far less detailed and perfect than the one designed by his bald think tank in a wheelchair, it was pretty good overall.

So it was not strange at all that Benjamin and the others had such expressions. After all, they were still too young.

"Cough cough!"

Mike coughed twice. The members in the meeting room who were still in a daze were all startled, and then they turned their eyes to Mike.

"Okay, that's the plan, now the question is which one should we choose?"

The people in the audience looked at each other, very hesitant.

Mike was a little impatient when he saw this, and continued:

"Give me some voice!

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