The Admiral of Hogwarts

“This wall has a series of linked magical traps. If you don't open it using physical methods, it will trigger a series of explosions, and might even collapse the entire cave.”

Seeing Hugo approach, Indomitable turned her head and said to Hugo, “But we'll be able to open it soon, in about five or six minutes…”

It must be said that those last remnants of the Wizengamot put some thought into hiding things. For example, they hoped that some real large forces would come here, people who could truly understand the value of the wealth they left behind, rather than some tomb raiders.

That's why the anti-theft design included a door that needed to be slowly opened using physical means, to ensure that those who came were indeed a team.

To achieve this, the Wizengamot group not only added a large number of trap triggering systems to the wall and thickened it, but also added some special magical ingredients to the raw materials of the wall.

In addition to strengthening the hardness of this stone wall, the biggest feature of these ingredients is that they can shield various magical reconnaissance methods.

Of course, nothing in the world is absolute. This kind of magical shielding naturally wouldn't have much effect when encountering a wizard of Dumbledore's level, holding the Elder Wand.

But considering that this is a chaotic magic area, and that kind of powerful wizard generally wouldn't come here, the Wizengamot group naturally felt that this place was as indestructible as they imagined.

However, this defense, which the Wizengamot group thought was indestructible, obviously didn't have much of an hindering effect on the ship girls. After all, the opponents the Wizengamot speculated about back then were only creatures of flesh and blood, and did not include existences like ship girls.

It only took five minutes for two ship girls to easily create a large hole in the wall with ordinary tools, and they also destroyed those traps along the way.

“If it were ordinary people, it would take at least ten people, and they would need enough tools to work for two or three days.” Formidable said, looking at the large hole in the wall in front of her.

From the breach, Hugo and the others discovered that what was in front of them was a solid wall, about two meters wide, with many runestones originally used to activate magical traps and metal plates engraved with many runes embedded in the middle.

Obviously, this was indeed a difficult defense to break through. If it were humans, wanting to dismantle this wall without triggering those traps would naturally require a lot of time to slowly chisel away.

After shining the searchlight through the newly created hole, they saw a circular gold plate the size of a manhole cover at the deepest part of the cave.

And on this gold plate, Grindelwald's Deathly Hallows symbol was also engraved in shallow relief, as well as the slogan proposed by Professor Dumbledore during his edgy youth.

Walking into the cave along a road paved with a large number of gray square bricks, they found that the road was very narrow, at most only allowing two relatively thin people to pass shoulder to shoulder.

On both sides of the road, one huge shelf after another was filled with all kinds of things, with not even a little bit of space visible.

Although the opening of this secret room this time was nearly half a century away from the last time, everything here was still the same as when it was sealed.

All kinds of items were sorted into containers, and then placed in large boxes according to categories. On these boxes, gilded copper plates were used to write the lists of items inside.

In addition to a few potions and magical items that could be preserved for a long time, most of the items stored in the boxes were various alchemical materials that could be preserved for a long time.

For example, like unicorn horns and longhorn dragon horns, which are almost priceless outside, there were more than 10 of each type here, and each one looked like a top-quality item that couldn't be bought on the market now.

In addition, Hugo and the others also found many moving magical photos. Although, due to the passage of time, the magic on these photos had almost been lost, and they looked like they were about to become ordinary photos.

But Hugo and the others could still tell from the photos that these should be some important events recording Grindelwald and his Wizengamot group at their peak.

“German Ministry of Magic, Austrian Ministry of Magic, Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris—” After opening a photo album, Enterprise quickly recognized the locations in the photos.

Moreover, unlike ordinary landscape photos, in each of these photos, Grindelwald could be seen in the very center of the photo, with an attitude of pointing out the country and gesticulating.

And in the most corner of the entire room were placed a whole row of huge silver-plated copper cabinets. After unlocking the magic locks on them and opening the doors, a large pile of books appeared in front of them.

These books looked like they came from very diverse sources, because in addition to the parchment books common in the wizarding world, Hugo and the others also found bamboo slips from the East, clay tablets from the Middle East, papyrus scrolls from Egypt, and other products from all over the world.

“—14th century manuscript of the *Emerald Tablet*, possibly the earliest record in existence. And this roll of silk, could very well be the earliest batch of *Baopuzi* manuscripts, it's unbelievable, how did the Wizengamot gather so many treasures together back then—”

From the beginning of checking the things in the cabinets, ship girls inclined to the occult like Indomitable, Saint George, Formidable, Illustrious, and Salem, whether they were here in person or watching the live broadcast on the Admiral Network, never stopped exclaiming.

Because the materials stored here were not only of high quality, but also of huge quantity. There were even some classics that were legendary existences for the wizarding world.

If there was anything that was not very satisfactory, it was that these books mainly focused on potion making and alchemy. And apart from that, the quantity of other materials was very small, and the quality was also very average.

“It seems that when Grindelwald dominated the entire Europe, he and his subordinates also obtained massive resources from this land.”

Hugo said with some emotion as he watched the ship girls all come over to scan the contents of these books into the Admiral Network.

“That's right, compared to accumulating wealth bit by bit, war is the fastest way to obtain wealth.” Enterprise said while scanning a clay tablet.

“But this is definitely not the right way to accumulate wealth, because in war, for every resource you obtain, at least three resources will be completely destroyed in the flames of war.”

“You're right, so I will definitely not actively attack others for the sake of plunder.” Hugo heard the content implied in Enterprise's words, and then assured her.

“Of course, this prohibition does not include collecting spoils of war after defending against an attack, or excavating relics like today.”

After everyone cleaned up most of the books, Formidable discovered that the back panel of one of the bookshelves seemed to be movable. So after recording and packaging all the materials, they carefully opened the back panel of the bookshelf.

“This may be the most precious treasure in the entire warehouse.” Hugo whispered with emotion, looking at the miniature interlayer hidden behind the cover, which was not much bigger than a laptop.

Because now there were three flat gold boxes in this interlayer, each box inlaid with all kinds of gems. They looked far more gorgeous than all the other existences in the room.