Chapter 353 Superficial smoothness
On the counter, two silver Sickles collided with each other under Maca's operation, and then rolled towards each other in different directions.
The old goblin had already stretched out his hand, intending to hold them down, but after that collision, his judgment went wrong.
In the spirit of goblins' natural love for gold and silver...
In other words, the old goblin's reaction was extremely fast in line with the miser's nature of goblins.
He quickly waved in the direction of one of the silver coins rolling down, and the power of magic caused the silver coin to fly towards his hand. At the same time, he bent down and stretched out his other hand, accurately catching another silver coin that just fell from the counter.
But when he straightened up again, and lovingly touched the two silver Sickles in his hand, he didn't know that an invisible hummingbird had silently rushed to the back of his head, hovering steadily in mid-air .
This is also the first time Maca has entered behind the counter of the Dark Spirit Pavilion.
Although he has been here many times, the space behind the counter is not something that just anyone can come in and take a look around.
He could clearly feel that from here onwards, it was an area where apparition was prohibited.
After entering here, Maca saw at first sight that many elves were running back and forth with their short legs, busy.
From time to time, the tellers sitting on the high stools handed some small pieces of paper to the goblins on standby, and the goblins who received the papers would immediately run to the passage behind.
And those goblins who ran out from the aisle again would bring the floating package or money bag controlled by magic to behind the corresponding teller, and deliver it to the cabinet beside the teller.
It may look a bit messy at first glance, but if you observe carefully, you will find that everything is going on in an orderly manner without any confusion.
As far as goblins and house-elves are distant relatives whose blood has been somewhat thinned, at least their attitudes towards work are surprisingly similar-hardworking, rigorous, but sometimes quite stubborn and rigid.
Maca looked left and right, then glanced at the arched passage at the back, then flapped his wings at high speed and flew towards the counter on the right.
The staff-only passage at the end of the right counter is the preferred entrance in this plan.
Other members of the Order of the Phoenix couldn't come in in the form of a small Animagus like he did. Therefore, trying to open an entrance that can be sneaked into is his second task.
Hmm... It really is very different from the wizard's magic!
Maca quickly flew to the vicinity of the staff passage. He looked here and found that there were two wizard guards standing guard inside and outside. And in the middle of that passage, not only are there two iron chains across it, but most of the detection magic set up is unique to elves.
Although Maca can still sense the flow of magic power from it, it is still impossible to crack it on the spot-not to mention whether it can be understood through research, even if it can be deduced through the law of magic power flow, it will take a lot of time.
It seems that this way is not going to work.
After a quick deliberation, he made a timely judgment, and decisively flapped his wings and flew back.
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On the other hand, after Heska finished renting out the safe, she left the counter as if nothing had happened. She glanced slightly out of the corner of her eye, then straightened her collar, took out a small badge and pinned it in front of her body.
When she came out of the hall of the Dark Spirit Pavilion with a calm face, and went around to the alley next to her, Lupine, who was disguised as a short wizard, also walked in.
Did the first step succeed?
It should have been successful, but... let's wait for the news from McLean.
Well, then you go shopping first, take a rest, I will inform the next group to enter the hall.
Lupine leaned against the wall at the entrance of the alley, while Heska crouched behind the pile of debris in the alley. The two lowered their voices and briefly exchanged a few words, then parted ways and left.
However, not long after the two walked away,
A cloud of black smoke suddenly rose from the shadows on the side of the alley, and then a figure wrapped in a black cloak quietly walked out of the black smoke.
The figure looked left and right in the direction Heska and Lupine left, and then turned into a puff of black smoke again, and chose a direction to chase after.
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Behind the counter of the Dark Spirit Pavilion, in the arched passage at the deepest part of the hall, Maca was advancing rapidly.
Just like the goblins don't like sunlight, but only love dark caves, not only is this passageway all made of black bricks, even the brightness of the torches is not high.
A large number of goblins are coming and going in an orderly manner. In order to avoid unnecessary risks, Maca has always maintained the form of a hummingbird, flying above their heads.
Along the way, you can see that there are many door openings on both sides of the passage, and most of them are deep and dark. If you just look in with your naked eyes, you won't be able to see very far.
Maca didn't rush in to investigate, but planned to take a quick look at the largest main road first.
But probably because it was really dark inside, the main road was not as long as he imagined. After flying for a short time, he realized that he had reached the bottom.
At the end of this main passage, there is a wall that is also black.
The wall was bare, nothing. However, on the ground in front of the wall, there is a rather large descending cave.
Seeing those goblins coming and going in and out of that cave, the bottom is probably the entrance to the underground vault of the Dark Spirit Pavilion.
Maca flew to the cave to take a look, and even saw the mine car track inside like Gringotts underground. Just looking at the neat row of tracks, one can understand that the scale here is estimated to be much larger than the Gringotts vault.
After confirming the next infiltration route, Maca turned around and flew back again.
The box should be in this direction...
He hurriedly confirmed the door openings on both sides of the main passage, and compared the location of the private room in his memory, he found a side passage with track extensions.
Occasionally on those tracks a goblin-driven car whizzes past at breakneck speed, making a loud clanging noise, in this winding upward passage.
And on both sides of this winding passage, there are thick metal doors.
Compared with the Dark Spirit Pavilion, this is only the above ground part, obviously not within the scope of the treasury.
Thinking about the situation in the boxes outside, it is not difficult to guess what is behind these not-so-large metal doors.
Each private room for personal business is divided into an outer waiting room and an inner business room, and the innermost part of the business room is this kind of small but particularly thick solid metal door.
Maca randomly chose a metal door and let it fall gently, transforming back into the image of a fairy again. After he took out the kettle and took a sip of the compound soup, he looked at the door in front of him seriously.
Well... there are only protection and reinforcement magic here, and there is no other magic power flowing, it should be independent.
After careful judgment, he took out his staff and quickly knocked on the metal door. With a slight cracking sound, the magic on it was directly destroyed by him.
After waiting for a while, seeing that there was no movement around, he swung his staff again to open the metal door, and then quickly put the staff away again.
The rune on this stick is too conspicuous, I have to think of a way later!
While thinking about it, Maca pulled open the slightly heavy metal door, and slipped in through the small crack with a sideways body.
As soon as he entered, he knew that his judgment was not wrong. Outside these metal doors are private rooms for large-scale access and personal transactions.
Occasionally, before and after the auction, these private rooms are also used to handle the delivery and pickup of auction items.
Maca didn't stay here too long, after he glanced at the number of the private room, he immediately walked along the corridor to the hall.
To be on the safe side, even though the invisibility effect would end for a while, he still cast an illusion spell on himself halfway.
Twenty minutes later, Maca, Lupine, Heska, Tonks, and Mrs. Weasley came to the private room successively in invisibility.
The back of that metal door can lead to the passage of the underground vault. Maca swung his staff and locked the door of the private room. It's all right?
Because Moody and Kingsley had accidents one after another, the main combat power of the Order of the Phoenix was actually somewhat insufficient. Because of this, Mrs. Weasley was among the candidates to sneak in this time.
Of course, although Mrs. Weasley was always yelling, she played the role of a good wife and mother at home. However, it would be a big mistake to underestimate her magical power because of this.
Just Molly Weasley... No, when she was called Molly Prewett, she was a Gryffindor with excellent academic performance.
Whether it is Defense Against the Dark Arts or Charms, she is better than her husband Arthur Weasley, and not by a little bit.
Just like Lupine's evaluation of her--if Molly is serious, she will definitely be no worse than me. She was a top student in Gryffindor College back then!
Seeing that everyone gave him a positive look, Maca took out four flying broomsticks, and after handing them to everyone, he put a disillusionment spell on the broomsticks to make them invisible.
There is only a mine cart track in the back - we have to fly! He carefully instructed, After entering, go straight down, and then to the right... just follow me and fly, the journey down to the underground vault is not far away , but the route is a bit complicated, be careful not to lose track!
After all, he pushed open the metal door, and then stepped on an invisible magic book first, and fell directly below...
