The Shopkeeper of All Worlds in the British Wizarding World

Chapter 248 Knockturn Alley
"Does that mean that this kind of thing can't be sold in a joke shop?" Ryan was a little frustrated. After all, he needed gold galleons to purchase raw materials. If he didn't sell things through this channel to make money, he could only go to a pawn shop, but in this way he would lose a lot of money.

"Of course not." Fred waved his arms vigorously. How could he give up this lucrative industry? "This level of alchemical products can just be used as high-end products in our joke shop. By the way, Ryan, how is the production of these alchemical products?"

"I can make one of this kind of product in a week. If I work overtime, I can make three in two weeks." Ryan didn't dare to reveal the fact that he could actually make one in 40 minutes. But this speed also surprised Fred.

"One a week is enough. It's impossible for a joke shop to sell too many high-end products. I just heard you talk about this level of product. Can you make other high-end products?"

"There are even more advanced things." Ryan said as he rolled up his sleeves to reveal an exquisite silver bracelet on his wrist, inlaid with seven marble-sized light gold gems.

"What is this?" Fred looked at the exquisite jewelry with some curiosity. He felt a faint light from it, which made him feel warm all over.

"This is the result of my hard work for more than a month." Ryan said in a boastful tone. "It can neutralize the negative energy in the surrounding environment and has a slight amplification effect on some white magic related to life and light."

The core of the bracelet is mainly the seven golden gems on it. Each gem is made of a thousand sunlight crystals melted together by alchemical means. After a sufficient number of these sunlight crystals are gathered, they form a stable energy aggregate. This aggregate is the only magic crystal that Ryan can obtain in batches. Unfortunately, this crystal has properties and is not suitable for making all magic props.

"Forget it, just give me a few of that bracelet." Fred shrugged. "This kind of magic prop, which starts at 500 Galleons, is not suitable for sale in a store like ours."

Ryan took out two copper bracelets from the space bag on his waist. "Okay, I'll put these things here for consignment. I hope they can help build the reputation of our store."

"That's enough. Three of these things will sell for a long time. But I suggest you stock up a little more. I think there will be a lot of people who will buy our stuff when we go to the Quidditch World Cup."

At this time, the sound of a door opening was heard downstairs, and soon George came up carrying bags of things.

"Ryan, how come you have time to come to Diagon Alley today?" George asked, putting the things in his hand aside.

"Bring some of my new research and development here so you can see if it can be used as a new product in our store. And buy some raw materials at the same time."

"New product, what's that?" As soon as George asked the question, Fred pulled him aside and gave him a quick explanation.

"Is that so? Then you can go see if the potion shop and raw material store on the street have what you need. There are also some more precious raw materials in Gringotts, which you can buy at the Balance Auction House behind Gringotts." George enthusiastically introduced Ryan to the various stores selling alchemical raw materials in Diagon Alley.

"There's an auction house in Diagon Alley, why have I never heard of it?" Ryan asked puzzled.

"After all, students generally don't have any contact with auction houses. We can't afford the things in there anyway, so we just heard some things about the auction house from our father." "By the way, if there is something you still can't find, you can write a list to us and we will help you look for it in Knockturn Alley." Fred added at last.

After saying goodbye to the Weasley brothers, Ryan first went around Diagon Alley and bought most of the basic alchemical raw materials he needed. However, there were a few raw materials that he couldn't find in Diagon Alley. After all, some of the alchemical raw materials he needed were not really legitimate.

"Now all I'm short of is mummy powder and vampire blood. It looks like I have to go to Knockturn Alley." Thinking of this, Ryan found a corner of Diagon Alley, then cast a magnification spell on his clothes and drank the Polyjuice Potion he carried with him.

The polyjuice potion seized in Brazil last time was enough for two hours, and he took half of it this time. The hair inside was also plucked by a middle-aged man of southern European descent on the way home from the train station that day.

The taste of the polyjuice potion was like overcooked cabbage. After swallowing it quickly, the muddy potion seemed to come alive in the stomach. After all the potions entered the stomach, a burning sensation came and quickly spread to the whole body. Ryan felt that his whole body was about to melt. Soon he found that he had grown up quickly, and the loose clothes he wore before because of the magnification spell became fit. When all the discomfort stopped, he had become a middle-aged man with an ordinary face.

"This feeling is indeed quite wonderful, but I hope I won't need to drink it again in the future." Ryan shook his head and changed the color and style of his robe, then lowered his head and took out a cloth-wrapped cylinder about the size of a football from his space bag, hung it diagonally on his shoulders with a rope, and put on the hood of his robe. Then he walked leisurely into Knockturn Alley.

Knockturn Alley is a dirty alley lined with shops selling black magic. Through the dirty windows you can see brown poisonous spiders and shrunken human heads. The wizards wandering the streets don't look like good people either. Some of them openly sell herbs that are obviously poisonous or some strange silver products.

"How can I look like a dark wizard who often visits places like this? Urgent, waiting online." Ryan encountered a big problem when he walked into Knockturn Alley. He didn't know how a dark wizard interacted with people, nor did he know what these shops sold. After a brief thought, Ryan decided to go to Borgin and Burke's because he only knew this shop.

Borgin and Burke's was the largest store in Knockturn Alley. Ryan found it easily. There were boxes filled with skulls and bottles on both sides of the store door.

As soon as he pushed open the door, the doorbell rang, and Ryan walked straight to the counter. A hunched man appeared behind the counter, stroking his greasy hair back with his hand.

"Welcome, who are you?" asked Mr Borgin in a voice as greasy as his hair.

"You don't need to know this." Ryan imitated the tone of the pirates in the assassin's memory inheritance and spoke in English with a strong Spanish accent, while releasing some breath of death in the life magic. "I'm just buying and selling some things here. After all, I don't have much cash on me."

"Well, what do you want to sell?" Perhaps because of the threat of the breath of death, Mr. Bogin quickly stopped testing and asked solemnly.

"How much is this?" Ryan said as he put the cloth bag hanging on his shoulder on the counter, then tore off the cloth wrapped around it.

(End of this chapter)