The Shopkeeper of All Worlds in the British Wizarding World

Chapter 534 Gold Cup (Please subscribe, please collect, please vote)
"What did you find, Ryan?" Dumbledore, who was just entering the room, asked after hearing Ryan's shout. At this time, he found Sirius and Ryan standing on a scaffold more than three meters high. Ryan was waving his wand to study the problem of the wall. Sirius stood aside and let his wand emit light to illuminate him.

"It's like this, Professor Dumbledore." Ryan seemed confident when talking about his professional field. He raised his voice and said to Dumbledore under the scaffolding. "There are a lot of magical defenses on the doors and walls outside. If we want to break them, we will need a lot of time. In this way, I am worried that the goblins above will find something wrong. So I tried to find another way. Now it seems that my judgment is correct."

Ryan moved a huge tapestry hanging on the wall and patted the wall he was facing. "This wall is shared by the Black family and the Lestrange family's vaults, and it is also their separation wall. The defense of this wall is much easier to break than the defense outside."

Under the gaze of Dumbledore and Sirius, Ryan waved his wand and chanted spells, while grabbing handfuls of silver powder with a metallic luster from the space bag on his waist and sprinkling it on the wall.

After the powders stuck to the wall, they were quickly transformed into twisted runes under the manipulation of magic. Soon, these runes, which were originally as big as the bottom of a coffee cup, shrank to the size of a mung bean, and then turned into a thin silver wire coil that encircled an area the size of a door.

"Now it's time for the next step." Ryan nodded slightly as he looked at the masterpiece in front of him, then pulled out a black knife with silver patterns from his space bag and began carving on the circled area. This knife had targeted magic, and carving on stone was as easy as carving on a cork board.

It took seven or eight minutes for a hexagram array with a large number of runes to appear on the wall. Ryan took a step back to check that everything was OK, then took out a bottle of golden liquid from the space agent with some pain, and then used his magic wand to guide the liquid up the wall, filling all the grooves he had just carved.

After completing all this, Ryan put away all his things and began to wave his wand and chant the spell in High Valyrian. Under the guidance of the wand, the part of the wall that Ryan had just circled was completely covered by the mist of golden and silver light. The seemingly solid wall quickly peeled off a green light under the light mist, and then a black light emitting metallic light. Once these lights left the wall, they formed balls of light, and finally floated in front of the hexagram magic circle.

In less than three minutes, more than a dozen large and small balls of light floated in front of the hexagram magic circle. After seeing that no more balls of light floated out, Ryan waved his wand. The wall surrounded by the silver silk thread quickly deformed like mud and stretched outward to cover the balls of light just now, and finally turned into a square stone and fell to the ground.

"Okay." Ryan turned his head and said, "Now it's done, I think we can go through. Let's put this stone here first, and I can use it to restore everything to its original state when we return."

"Well done, Ryan. I have to admit that everyone has their own strengths. Even if I were to decipher these spells myself, I wouldn't be as fast as you. It seems that it was right to bring you here." Then Dumbledore nodded. "Let's look for it. I hope my guess is right."

The three of them looked inside through the gap in the wall with their wands, and Ryan showed a shocked expression. Unlike Sirius's vault, which was only filled with various currencies, the Lestrange family's vault truly reflected the wealth accumulated by the oldest pure-blood family for thousands of years: the room was filled from floor to ceiling with gold coins and golden goblets, silver armor, furs of various exotic animals with spines or wings, potions in treasure bottles, and a skull still wearing a crown. Ryan made a rough estimate and found that the value of the wealth here even exceeded the value of the wealth in the newly accumulated treasury of the Valley Kingdom.

Ryan was the first to walk to the gap and began to check the gap he had opened before. He had chosen this gap specifically, just above a pile of gold and silver items. He chose this place because all the treasures in the vault opposite had been cast with fire spells and replication spells. If the vault door was opened at the bottom, it would be inevitable to touch the treasures inside.

"Before they died, my parents hid the valuable things in the house. They didn't trust goblins." Sirius walked forward and looked at everything in front of him. "It's just that only Kreche knows where those things are, and now it firmly refuses to tell me the location of the treasure. It just said that I will tell it when I have a child and when the child is 17 years old. It wants to leave this wealth to the real heir of the Black family. But to be honest, I don't believe they can leave many precious things. When I was young, our family began to decline, otherwise, Narcissa would not marry a nouveau riche like Malfoy. Because according to tradition, the Black family will only marry the oldest pure-blood families." From Sirius' words, it can be heard that compared with the ancient pure-blood families, the so-called noble pure blood of the Malfoy family seems very watery. As we all know, the Malfoy family is one of the several court wizard families that followed William the Conqueror to this land. Therefore, they have had exchanges with the Muggle world for a long time in history, and even an ancestor tried to marry Queen Elizabeth.

As a result, their family was naturally not looked up to by the truly long-established families, but they were also very self-important and looked down on the smaller families. As a result, they were somewhat mediocre in the British wizarding world. If it weren't for their good management, huge piles of gold, and their willingness to spend it, few people would be willing to befriend them.

This is why only Crabbe and Goyle, who came from small families, were willing to follow Draco Malfoy. But even so, their relationship was fragile. In the seventh part of the novel, it was obvious that Draco's two followers did not listen to him.

"I think I found that thing." When Ryan was thinking about these things, Dumbledore, who had just climbed up the scaffolding and stood side by side with Sirius, raised his wand and said. Looking in the direction of the light of his wand, Ryan saw a small two-handled golden cup placed in the gap between the shield and the helmet made by the goblin at the top of a shelf. Through the eagle eye, Ryan could see that the golden cup was made very delicately, and there was a raised, vivid badger relief cast on it.

Ryan saw that the items on this shelf were all fine products, at least much more precious than those randomly piled on the floor. According to Bella's personality, the item on the top of the shelf must be a treasure given to her by Voldemort. Ryan thought maliciously that even if Voldemort gave Bella a half-eaten chicken leg, Bella would definitely cast a preservation spell on it and put it on the top of the shelf.

"Obviously, the Summoning Charm won't work. Let me think about it..." Dumbledore looked carefully at the position of the golden cup and thought seriously for a few seconds. "It seems that this will work."

After saying this, he waved his wand, and a silver rope appeared out of thin air. He then directed the rope to grow longer and longer, and flew straight from the air to the golden cup on the top shelf. When the rope reached the edge of the golden cup, Dumbledore shook his wand, and the rope wrapped around the golden cup like a living snake, tied a knot, and began to shorten, and finally returned to Dumbledore's hand with the golden cup.

"What a powerful magic." Ryan's eyes widened when he saw this scene, because in his previous inspection, he found that there was a strong magical interference in these sealed vaults. Being able to operate magic from a distance under such circumstances is a very good way to show the level of magic. Ryan felt that although he could do it, it would definitely not be as easy as Professor Dumbledore. If he was asked to take the golden cup, he would definitely choose to directly use the grappling rope on his forearm to hook the thing over.

"I think I was right - this is exactly what we need." Dumbledore held the cup and examined it for a while before he breathed a sigh of relief. "We have achieved our goal here."

After he finished speaking, Dumbledore looked at the Lestrange family vault and shook his head with some regret, "I am indeed getting old, and sometimes I even seem a little greedy."

(End of this chapter)