Take control of thunder and lightning from Hogwarts

Chapter 502 The Disappearing Cabinet
At this time, in the video device, Anduin saw Claremont come to the black market non-stop after finishing his official duties in his own magic supplies.

And assembled a large amount of materials from the black market warehouse with the space bag, including a huge amount of food, some drinks, books, various daily necessities and so on.

It seems that in addition to being responsible for the management of Park No. [-], Claremont is also responsible for transporting daily necessities for the base.

And after many days of investigation and understanding in Shalltear in the park, it was found that the wizards inside the base also spent money when using various daily necessities, and the prices were much higher than those outside.

Clearly, Claremont is indeed very business-minded. He uses the goods from the outside world to earn the salaries of the staff inside the base, so as to return the funds. Such a pull can save a lot of operating costs.

After Claremont packed everything up, he went straight to his private office, opened the hint that Anduin and others had seen once before, and then went directly into the fireplace.

However, unlike ordinary wizards who shouted place names when using the fireplace in the past, Claremont didn't make a sound after sprinkling Floo powder, but let the flames surging in the fireplace wrap him until he disappeared.

From this, Anduin was able to judge that the fireplace should be equipped with a single-threaded Floo network, which can only lead to one place.

But when Claremont reappeared, he didn't arrive directly inside the breeding base as Anduin wanted, but arrived at a place similar to a warehouse.

There are four or five-meter-high shelves everywhere here, filled with all kinds of sundries and supplies, and these supplies are not like what Anduin saw in the basement of No. 277 Diagon Alley before, like a shelter stockpile. Materials like that.

It can be said that the things here are all some useless garbage.

There are a lot of damaged tables, chairs, benches and other shabby furniture, which are even covered with dust. There are also many completely outdated discarded books and periodicals, books of little value, etc. This is simply a dump for storing sundries.

After Claremont entered it, he turned east and west in this large warehouse, went around to the corner of the warehouse, and stopped in front of a dirty pointed cabinet.

Immediately afterwards, Anduin saw Claremont open the cabinet and slipped in.

After he closed the cabinet door inside and quickly opened it again, the scene outside the cabinet took on a new look, as if it had been transferred to the inside of the breeding base.

"This is...the Vanishing Cabinet?" After seeing Claremont's behavior, Anduin immediately recognized what was in front of him after a moment of thought. At the same time, he couldn't help but widen his eyes, which were full of curiosity and longing. look.

"The disappearing cabinet? What is that? That old guy suddenly moved into the park by relying on this thing. It's simply amazing." After hearing Anduin's exclamation, Hogg couldn't help asking aloud .

"The disappearing cabinet is a kind of alchemy equipment that contains powerful space magic. This is a set of equipment consisting of two cabinets. No matter how far apart the two cabinets are, they can be directly connected. It is very magical."

"And I have never seen the real thing. I have seen relevant records in some rare alchemy secret books. This kind of equipment was invented by an unknown wizard hundreds of years ago."

"However, due to the precious materials and complicated production process, not much was handed down to the world at the beginning, and gradually in the wizarding world as time went by, even the production process was not handed down. I thought this kind of thing had completely disappeared. It’s extinct, I didn’t expect to see the real thing here.”

Anduin was very interested in these miraculous alchemy creations, so he couldn't help feeling a little emotional after seeing the real [Vanishing Cabinet].

"Then Claremont used the disappearing cabinet to connect the breeding base. Doesn't this mean that two sets of disappearing cabinets can also be used in the other two bases representing the silver spear?" Hogg naturally thought.

"No..." Anduin shook his head when he heard the words, "I can't make a judgment so quickly now. The preciousness of this kind of equipment is beyond your imagination. It is impossible to have too many silver spears, and this thing may None of which were assigned to Claremont by the club."

"You mean to say that this disappearing cabinet belongs to Claremont?" Hogg tilted his head in confusion.

"There is such a possibility, because if the silver spear has a sharp weapon like a disappearing cabinet, it can be used for more things, such as... used for cross-border smuggling!" Anduin saw the key at a glance.

"Ah? How many things can be smuggled in such a small broken cabinet? Few of those magical animals can fit in it." Hogg responded with some disbelief.

"You." Anduin glanced at Hogg speechlessly, "This is a wizarding world, things can't fit in too big, don't you know how to make them smaller? You forgot that you have the ability to shrink yourself ?”

"Although I don't know the specific principle of the disappearing cabinet, and I don't know if there is a limit to its range of action, but according to the records, the connection distance of this kind of equipment is almost unlimited, and the silver spear only needs to transport one of them to America. , and when you need to smuggle the magical animals over there, just shrink them down and pass them over there."

After listening to Anduin's explanation, Hogg suddenly understood. Indeed, even if such a good thing can't be connected as far as the Americas, it will be no problem to connect to other European countries.

With the disappearing cabinet, the efficiency of smuggling can be greatly increased, and there is no need to waste it in such a place. You must know that entering the breeding base directly from the outside, as long as someone inside helps to open the door is not too troublesome.

The reason why Anduin and the others found it tricky was because they wanted to pass through the outer shield without alerting the enemies inside.

"Then it seems that this Claremont is not completely devoted to the silver spear. He actually hid such a good thing." Hogg covered his mouth and smiled when he thought of this.

"Naturally, you have also heard the conversation he had with the Golden Snidget before. Claremont has always wanted to become an official silver spear gun. He must have kept this sharp weapon privately for the future when he officially joins the club. .” Anduin said with a cold smile.

"Hey, from what you said, this old guy is quite self-motivated. With his resources and this kind of smuggling weapon, if Claremont really joins the club, he might be promoted to the head of the club within two years. The level of the spear, right?" Hogg couldn't help giving the old man Claremont a high look at this moment.

"Indeed, I guess that's why Jin Snidget didn't let him join the club so quickly. The supply of elixir in the silver spear itself is already tight enough. It would be even more troublesome if there is another mouth at this time." Anduin He glanced mockingly at Claremont in the picture.

At this time, with the help of Claremont's perspective, Anduin was finally able to glimpse the situation inside the central spire.

The entire core hub is divided into upper and lower floors. The lower floor is a small warehouse, where a lot of materials are piled up, including ordinary living materials and some products of magical animals.

For example, insect honey produced by Billywig, fire ash snake eggs and shed skins, some dragon eggshells and dragon scales, horns of bicorns and horned camels, jars of poisonous horn explosives, etc. Wait.

Obviously there are a lot of by-products of magical animals stored here, relying on these outputs should also alleviate part of the operating costs of the park, and the disappearing cabinet is also placed here, which is not very conspicuous.

After Claremont arrived at the steeple, he immediately went up to the second floor. This part is the core of the magic circle in the entire park.

This is said to be the second floor, but the roof is almost invisible. It has a structure similar to the Alchemy Room of the British Ministry of Magic, and it is a rather large square room as a whole.

A large number of spells were inscribed on the ground and surrounding walls. In the center of the room stood a slender stone pillar that went straight up, along the hollow above to the very top. Anduin suspected that even the tower of the minaret The tip is also part of this stone pillar.

After Claremont arrived here, he took out his wand and came to the stone pillar for routine inspection. From time to time, he held the stone pillar to check for something, and from time to time he used his wand to cast weakly fluctuating spells, but his eyes were basically only focused on the stone pillar. On the ground, turning a blind eye to the magic lines on the ground and walls.

So even if Anduin watched very carefully, he couldn't detect too much information through the screen.

"How about it, my lord, did you find anything?" Hogg saw Anduin kept switching the video back and forth, and couldn't help interjecting after a while.

"The harvest is not too big. The stone pillar in the middle is similar to the one in the alchemy room of the British Ministry of Magic. Its function is similar to that of an amplifier. Claremont's inspection is just to ensure that this function is normal and to avoid the interruption of magic power transmission. "

Anduin shook his head helplessly, "The core driving spells of the protective circle are basically engraved on the ground, but this guy has no intention of maintaining this part at all, and I don't know if Claremont doesn't know about this aspect at all. .”

"It's quite possible." Hogg had a thoughtful look on his face, "Although that guy runs a magic supply store, he's not a professional alchemist, and it's impossible for the silver spear to destroy the blueprint of the entire core hub." Tell him everything, maybe the ground charms are also made of high-grade materials, so you can rest assured if the quality is guaranteed."

"It is indeed possible. The Silver Spear obviously wants to build the No. [-] Park into a permanent base. It is very possible to spend a lot of money to build a core magic circle."

Anduin nodded approvingly at Hogg's judgment, "No wonder the strength of this shield is so high. I have been sneaking in several times in a row but have not been able to break it. It seems that it is a bit naive to break through from the outside, but it's okay. By chance, we found another passage through which we could enter."

(End of this chapter)