Wind and Eagle Wings at Hogwarts

Chapter 411 411. Zugala Moody Thrift Store

ding ding dong...

On the high, inwardly bent bow, the brass bells hanging from the ship jingled non-stop.

Bright orange wooden boats break through the quietly flowing water.

Scott rests a tiny lizard on his shoulder.

He sat at the stern, looking down at the clear and deep river.

Among the soft aquatic plants rippling at the bottom of the river, dots of fluorescent light can be seen flashing non-stop, dreamy and magnificent.

At this moment, it is like boating on a galaxy.

"That's a magical animal that lives only in this Orabida River."

Lucio turned and sat against the bow.

"Fluorescent fish with glowing organs in their heads."

He reached out and tapped the side of the boat lightly.

"They can absorb all kinds of light and store it, but they are afraid of real sunlight, which is fatal to them."

So can only live in underground rivers?
Scott nodded knowingly.

"The Ministry of Magic prohibits wizards from catching them without authorization. If you're interested, I can take you to a pet store to buy some of them to raise at home. By the way, in order for them to survive, you also need to buy a special fish tank."

Lucio gestured as he spoke.

"I suggest you put the fish tank on your desk. Yes, the biggest function of these fluorescent fish is that it can replace the lamp on your desk to a certain extent."

Scott saw him smiling brightly, so he could only reply calmly, "Thank you for your introduction, I don't want to keep this kind of pet."

Besides, is there any difference between raising this thing and raising luminous jellyfish?

Lucio shrugged, not surprised by Scott's answer.

Next, he began to introduce Scott to the row upon row of shops on both sides of the river.

Scott listened with interest.

In fact, the products in these stores are similar to those in Diagon Alley in the UK. There is not much difference. The biggest difference is the architectural style of the stores.

Since the underground river shuttles around the buildings in the whole street, besides the main entrance on the bank, the shops here often have display windows on the side facing the river, which greatly facilitates shopping for wizards in small boats.

Lucio could probably see that Scott didn't have much desire to shop, so he chose to be a competent tour guide, not the kind that is recommended for shopping.

Scott also sat comfortably on the boat with a sightseeing mentality, observing the bustling scenes on both sides of the strait, as well as the witches and wizards on other ships that passed by them.

"Oh, I need to check out this thrift store."

Lucio suddenly stopped the boat at a small pier under a stone bridge.

Scott had no objection to this, and stood up with Lucio and walked ashore, approaching a small building that looked particularly eerie and dilapidated.

[Zoogala Moody Thrift Store]

Wooden planks with ominous names engraved on them were hung crookedly by rusty chains from the mossy, wet stone walls.

The open wooden door looked decayed, and the deep and thick black spots on the door were like pieces of dried and coagulated blood.

The light inside the door looked very dim, and half of the wooden shelves that were piled up with sundries and looked like they were about to collapse were hidden in the shadows.

"what happened?"

Lucio, who was walking ahead, noticed that Scott had stopped, and turned around to ask a question.

He looked around again, and said with a smile: "Although it looks old here, well, it's a bit weird, but this is my favorite store."

Having said that, he moved closer and lowered his voice.

"The things here are very cheap, and I have found good things here several times."

Scott looked at him unmoved, "I'm afraid you also bought more garbage to go back."

"Ahem..." Lucio was a little embarrassed, "I can only say that those are the costs that must be paid."

"As long as you're happy." Scott smiled at him, "Let's go in and have a look."

As he spoke, he walked into the thrift store first.

It has to be said that the inside and outside of this store seem to be two worlds.

Although the shop was dilapidated, it originally had glass windows, but due to the thick layer of dust accumulated on the glass, it had become almost impervious to light, making the interior extremely dark.

Although the door was open, the false sunlight outside the door seemed to be afraid of something, only illuminating a small area of ​​the door.

The indoor lighting actually relies more on the last candles on the mottled stone walls.

"Let's hunt for treasure separately, and see you later."

Lucio said softly, and rushed to the shelf impatiently, and began to concentrate on picking out those dusty products.

Scott glanced at him, and then walked over to another shelf to inspect it.

This thrift store seems to sell everything, old books, old clothes, old stationery...

Most of them are stacked randomly on the shelves, looking dirty and tattered, in short, they can't arouse people's desire to choose and buy.

Scott glanced briefly at the pile of old books, but made no attempt to reach out.

He could imagine that if he took out a book from this pile of old books, it would raise a thick layer of dust.

It's kind of suffocating just thinking about it.

"Oh, Scott."

At this moment, Lucio called him.

"see this."

Scott turned his head and saw him pinching a silver bracelet that was about to break with two fingers.

"This should be a damaged alchemy work, but it seems to be too broken, and I can't easily tell what it is for." He said with some distress, "If it's just a common basic alchemy work, then it Hidden rune circuits will have no effect on me."

Scott raised his eyebrows, reached out to take the blackened silver bracelet, and inspected it carefully with magic perception.

"I can perceive one point, it should be mainly related to [water] rune, oh, there is also a little [light], the specific effect of the rune circuit needs to be dismantled and restored by you, an alchemist, Know."

"Oh, that's great! I'm going to buy it!" Lucio's eyes lit up. "I've learned very little rune circuits about [water] and [light]."

He winked at Scott, "You know, our credits are always going to be short."

Scott handed him the bracelet, "Don't Beauxbatons have this knowledge? You need to use your credits to buy it at the [Knowledge Bank]?"

Lucio reached out to take it cautiously, took out a handkerchief and put it on his palm, and then put the worn bracelet on the handkerchief.

"Beauxbaton can only teach us the basics, and our family has no alchemy inheritance. If we want to go further, we must either be lucky enough to become an apprentice under an alchemist, or we can only think of other ways. "

His expression was a little helpless for a moment, but then he laughed heartlessly.

"Go and pick something useful, my friend, you know, you have an advantage that no one else has."

Knowing that he was referring to his own magic perception, Scott nodded in acceptance of his kindness.

He didn't look carefully just now, and didn't know that second-hand magic items could be found here, but now that he knew it, he couldn't help but be more concerned.

Compared with Lucio's careful selection of goods, his operation is much simpler and rougher.

After the fine magic power perception unfolded, he grasped the positions of all the goods on the shelves that contained magic power fluctuations. Even the weakest magic power fluctuations could not escape Scott's serious and concentrated perception.

Scott began to choose goods according to his perception.

Of course, he did not intend to sweep away all the magical products, but carefully selected them.

After careful selection, he found that most of the magic items had no purchase value.

Compared to Lucio, Scott does not lack the opportunity to learn the rune circuit, and he doesn't even need to spend points to [Knowledge Bank] to exchange for it.

With a master alchemist like Ravenclaw as a mentor, his learning resources are more generous than anyone else.

Under such a premise, he didn't think much of many basic alchemy works.

In the end, he picked out a few quirky items based on instinct and interest.

A relatively well-preserved brass balance with a little medicinal smell, a mirror that can only reflect a blurred figure, and a small ring.

Among them, the one that interested him most was a copper sailor's astrolabe covered with verdigris.

The Sailor Astrolabe looked like a Muggle antique, and it wasn't even Scott's original pick.

Scott also only noticed it when observing another item, and felt a little extremely weak fluctuation of magic power.

But his gut told him it might be the single most valuable item in the store.

So Scott picked it up decisively.

As for the others that he didn't like, he pointed them to Lucio.

Lucio is obviously also a guy with a lot of money. He bought all the products Scott pointed out.

Then the two went to the counter in the darkest part of the store to check out.

The thrift store is owned by a tall, skinny wizard who looks thinner than anyone Scott has ever met.

His eye sockets were deeply sunken, his cheekbones were raised high, and his outstretched hands were particularly terrifying, like corpses without water.

"Oh……"

He glanced at the goods brought by the two, and opened his mouth slowly, revealing a few gold teeth.

Drooping eyelids lifted, the boss looked at Scott with bulging eyes, as if to stare at him.

"I hate customers like you," he said, "who are purposeful and don't understand the fun of gambling."

"Hehehe... Boss, I have bought a lot of things from you..."

Lucio hurriedly leaned forward and said a good word with a playful smile.

"Hehe, I used to think you were quite pleasing to the eye."

The boss laughed dryly, then glanced at him.

"Is it not pleasing to the eye now?"

Lucio deliberately pretended to cry without tears.

"What do you say?"

Fortunately, although the boss complained a few words, he finally sold the item to them, and he didn't deliberately raise the price.

Even Scott's favorite sailor's astrolabe was won for only one Galleon.

Although Scott is still not really sure whether he has picked up a leak, but this does not prevent him from being in a good mood at the moment.

Of course, Lucio is also very happy.

After walking out of the thrift store, the two returned to the boat again. Lucio warmly invited Scott to taste the special food here, saying that he wanted to thank Scott for helping him choose useful magic items.

"You're welcome, should I thank you again for inviting me to play here?" Scott said with a smile.

"Oh no."

Lucio waved his hand.

"It's nothing, actually..."

He paused, and said with some embarrassment: "Actually... well, actually, that's why I invited you here. I've heard about your abilities a long time ago. It was my cousin Gavin who told me about it." , your magic perception and transfiguration are well known at Hogwarts."

"So that's the case, it's okay."

Of course Scott was not angry, or rather, he would feel more at ease with such a reason.

Lucio laughed again, "But this is also a very interesting coincidence, I saw you in the bar, I just happened to see your photo, and you just happened to be a member of the Scholars Union, and you can also exchange alchemy with me Knowledge."

He held out his hand to Scott, "Anyway, nice to meet you, Scott."

"Nice to meet you too."

Scott shook his hand reluctantly.

"By the way, my name, my full name is Lucio...Gonzalez."

He says a long list of middle names, but Scott's ears automatically filter them down to only his first and last names.

Of course, he can guarantee that the expression on his face will not give away the fact that he didn't pay attention to Lucio's full name.

Under the leadership of Lucio, Scott and him tasted some Spanish specialties that Scott was not used to in a lively restaurant near the river.

In fact, Scott doesn't hate the Muggle restaurants in Spain, but he always feels that the wizard restaurants in Spain seem to have gone astray.

In Spain, hash browns are made with eggs and potatoes for Muggles, but snake eggs are used in wizarding restaurants.

Muggle cold soups are cooked with tomatoes and vegetables, but wizard restaurants use herbs such as belladonna and sage, which taste as psychedelic as potions.

The rest of the food is also in this magical style.

If it wasn't for the fact that Lucio was eating vigorously, Scott would have thought he was messing with himself.

In short, he smiled and put down the knife and fork without taking a few bites.

Fortunately, the drinks and desserts in this restaurant are quite normal, and Scott finally mixed a half full.

Afterwards, the two left the underground water wizard street, returned to Madrid in an alchemy transformation car driven by an alchemy doll, and parted at the entrance of the bar.

After returning home, Scott didn't even have time to answer Emilia's question, so he couldn't help but eat a big meal first.

Since both Emilia and Michael were a little curious about his new friend, Scott, after finally eating, imported the pictures "shot" by the little lizard into [Magic Mirror], and shared this visit to the Wizard Street in Barcelona with his parents. trip.

"I thought you went to Venice..." Emilia looked at the image in the magic mirror, "Oh, this river is so beautiful!"

"Is there such a weird guy among wizards in all countries?"

Michael, who once went to Diagon Alley with Scott, looked at the weird-looking wizards in strange clothes who occasionally passed by in the picture.

Scott raised his eyebrows, and he didn't know how to explain it.

In short, in the wizarding world, many wizards will become grotesque in old age.

This may be the result of years of improper spellcasting, or random experimentation with spells.

"Oh no, my son."

After hearing what Scott said, Emilia hurriedly took his hand eagerly.

She said in a sincere tone: "Promise Mom, your handsome face will not become like this in the future."

(End of this chapter)