#402 - Ministry of Magic Alchemy Room (asking for monthly ticket recommendation)

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On the spot, Anduin obtained Minister Bagnold's consent and promised to arrange for him to go to Azkaban in a week. Immediately afterwards, the three of them left the Minister's office together, as they had important matters to attend to.

The Department of Magical Accidents and Catastrophes is the department within the Ministry of Magic responsible for monitoring the situation in the British magical world. Various monitoring arrays are engraved here, and any spellcasting in the UK will be detected by the arrays here. Of course, it can only detect the location of the spellcasting and its approximate strength, and cannot identify individuals. It is also responsible for monitoring the 'Trace' and supervising underage spellcasting.

At the same time, the employees in this department are the busiest group of people besides the Aurors. They are responsible for dealing with major accidents and disasters caused by magic.

And when it comes to major, in fact, they have to deal with all kinds of accidents, big and small. However, they are basically involved in cleaning up, such as obliviating memories, driving away Muggles, restoring the scene, and so on. They are also often joked by Moody and other Aurors as 'cleaners,' a department specifically responsible for whitewashing.

Although in the eyes of many Aurors, the work of this department does not seem as important as their positions, which require risking life and death, in Anduin's eyes, this is actually a very valuable department with high potential.

He believes that this actually combines the functions of police dispatch and fire fighting. It's just that the Ministry of Magic has not developed it properly. For example, the department responsible for danger warning and dispatch is actually just a marginal position under the 'Accidental Magic Reversal Squad'.

Usually, only one person is arranged to be on duty, or rather, it can't even be called being on duty. To put it bluntly, it's just hiring a wizard who doesn't go out to temporarily watch, and his main responsibility is actually to prevent the monitoring array from malfunctioning, mainly to save costs.

In Anduin's eyes, this is simply a waste of resources, because when he saw the alchemy room where the monitoring array was set up, accompanied by Minister Bagnold, Amelia, and Fudge, the Head of the Department of Magical Accidents and Catastrophes, Anduin knew that this was definitely the most valuable room on the entire third basement floor.

The entire alchemy room looks very simple. The ground and surrounding walls seem to be made of natural, unpolished dark marble. It is a circular room with an area roughly the size of a basketball court.

Around the center of the room, there are layers of short steps going up gradually. In the center stands a black pillar as thick as two people can embrace. It is difficult to discern from a distance what material it is made of.

This pillar is connected to the ground and directly pokes into the ceiling, which is about ten meters high. Anduin can clearly see that this pillar is more than ten meters long, because its color is completely different from the ceiling, obviously it leads to a higher place.

This large pillar, connected to the ground rising towards the middle, looks like an enlarged version of a suona in the room from a distance, or like a toilet plunger?

Anduin shook his head, dispelling his wild thoughts, and then ignored the surrounding high-level officials of the Ministry of Magic, slowly squatted down, and gently stroked the ground with his hand, as if he was stroking the body of a graceful girl.

In the eyes of ordinary wizards, this may just be a stone house with a broken pillar in the middle, but in Anduin's eyes, this room is even more charming than the ornate main hall of the Ministry of Magic.

In his perception, he can clearly feel that a faint magical fluctuation slowly gathers from the floor and walls, then converges along the uniquely shaped ring-shaped steps to the pillar, and then shoots straight out of the ceiling.

"It absorbs and stores the residual magic power in the Ministry of Magic, and then transforms it into detection spells after passing through the complex runes on the ground. Finally, the spells converge into this pillar, which should be an amplifier, the key to allowing the spells to cover the entire UK. So the entire alchemy room, including the ground and walls, is part of the array?"

Anduin stroked the ground, muttering to himself, then his eyes lit up as if he had discovered something, and he immediately took out his magnifying glass and quietly observed the floor.

"What... the material used to engrave the runes on the ground is actually all 'Goblin Urim Steel'? Isn't this too extravagant? But Urim Steel isn't the best magic material with magical conductivity attributes, is it? No, this isn't just Urim Steel, it should also be mixed with mithril! And judging from the magic flow reaction, it's even possible that refined mithril is mixed in!"

Anduin was initially shocked by the complex rune array and array design here, but after careful inspection, he discovered that the materials used to construct the array were even more remarkable, it was too extravagant.

He roughly calculated that, based on the density of the runes engraved here, if the entire floor and walls, not counting the middle pillar, would require at least 20 pounds of Urim Steel and 5 pounds of refined mithril. These two materials are the only top-quality magic metals that Anduin cannot buy with money so far, and the materials used for the array alone are more valuable than all his assets!

Seeing this scene, Anduin couldn't help but swallow. He actually really wanted to secretly pry off a little from the ground and take it away. He estimated that the three big shots behind him might not even notice.

But soon, he suppressed the impulse. It was not worth risking for such a thing.

However, Anduin quickly realized the value of the room in front of him, and why such luxurious materials were used to make the array.

The use of Urim Steel is mainly to maintain long-lasting durability, which can support the array to continue to be open 24 hours a day throughout the year without any malfunctions. At the same time, the added refined mithril ensures the magic conductivity of the array, and will not waste too much magic power.

In this way, relying on the stored magic power overflowing from the Ministry of Magic can maintain the continuous operation of the array. It is simply energy-saving and environmentally friendly, but it is a bit too expensive.

However, while Anduin was admiring the array, the three high-level officials of the Ministry of Magic next to him looked at each other inexplicably.

Why did Anduin lie on the ground as soon as he entered the door? Is this alchemist you found reliable? Fudge glanced at Minister Bagnold with a questioning look.

After receiving Fudge's questioning look, Minister Bagnold felt a little embarrassed, so he took the initiative to ask, "Anduin, have you found anything? Can you start the inspection of the array?"

Interrupted by Bagnold's voice, Anduin interrupted his research, got up and wiped the saliva from his mouth, and looked at the few people with some doubts, "I'm checking the array, is there any problem?"

"But isn't the monitoring array of our department over there?" Fudge pointed to the large pillar in the center of the room and said.

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