#403 - The loss is not small! (Seeking monthly ticket recommendation ticket)

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"So you think that middle pillar is the alchemy array?" Anduin glanced at Fudge speechlessly, then seemed to think of something, "Then, besides maintaining that pillar, what about these floors and walls around it?"

"Floors? Walls? We clean these places regularly, but what do these places have to do with the array?" Fudge looked at Anduin blankly.

Anduin rolled his eyes. These guys were neglecting the real array and only maintaining the central amplifier. After a preliminary observation of the central pillar, he could basically confirm that it was not a core component. Although the production cost was high, it should be the cheapest part of the entire alchemy room.

Didn't Headmaster Dumbledore leave them a manual when he helped set this up?

But after thinking about this, Anduin felt a little strange again. With the sturdiness of the array in this room, even if it wasn't maintained often, there shouldn't be any problems, after all, the cost was there. Then he looked at Fudge with some doubt.

"How often is this room maintained and cleaned? What is the maintenance process? Do you usually use it for other purposes?"

"Um..." Fudge was a little dazed by Anduin's sudden question. Because Amelia had specifically removed Anduin from the previous report on the smuggling battle, he didn't know Anduin as well as Minister Bagnold and others, so he wasn't sure if he could tell him everything.

Fudge looked at Bagnold with doubt. After receiving the Minister's signal, he recalled, "Because this place is closed all year round, we don't maintain it frequently. We clean it about every six months."

"The maintenance method is to arrange for a dedicated alchemist in the Ministry to inspect the central alchemy pillar to see if there is any damage or blockage in the magic channels. If there is a malfunction, we will use a magic guiding spell to clear it, or use a repairing spell to repair the damage."

"As for other uses." Fudge lowered his head and thought carefully for a moment, then suddenly remembered something, "Oh, when the Dark Lord had just fallen, we confiscated a large number of dark magic items from Death Eater escapees. At that time, the warehouse was full, so we used this as a temporary warehouse."

After speaking, Fudge specifically emphasized, "But we piled things around and didn't touch or interfere with the central alchemy pillar, and we didn't store them for long. We quickly cleared out a new warehouse and then moved those things away. This shouldn't have any impact on the alchemy array, after all, the magic induction array is still working normally."

After listening to Fudge's answer, Anduin immediately showed a look of "I knew it," and then asked, "Where did you pile up the items back then?"

"Over there." Fudge pointed to the side, then looked at Anduin nervously, "This shouldn't have interfered with the array, we put them against the wall."

"It's precisely putting them against the wall that's troublesome."

Anduin glanced at Fudge, then shook his head helplessly, "The core of this alchemy room's array is all on the floor and walls under your feet. The central alchemy pillar acts more as a control panel and amplifier. If you store dark magic items that easily leak magic, it will easily stain some magic runes."

"What?"

Fudge and the two female senior officials were stunned when they heard this, then looked at their feet with some surprise, and then took two steps back with some hesitation, obviously afraid of breaking the alchemy array.

"Don't be so nervous." Anduin found the actions of the few people a little funny.

"Fortunately, the runes here are constructed with high-quality Ulime steel and refined mithril. Ordinary trampling will not cause any impact."

After Anduin said that, he walked to the location Fudge knew, took out a magnifying glass-like rune detector, squatted on the ground, and began to study it.

As Anduin expected, some of the runes on the ground were disturbed by external magic, and there was magic disorder.

However, the impact was not significant. Only a few rune nodes were blocked. Dealing with this situation was quite simple for Anduin. He only needed to use a draining spell to draw away the abnormal magic. After all, the materials used to construct the array were excellent, and there was no essential impact on the structure.

After discovering this situation, Anduin frowned slightly, carefully considered it, and then glanced at the three people standing aside with a strange look.

The three people who were being watched by him suddenly felt a little unnatural, especially Fudge. He was the person in charge here. If there was a major malfunction in the alchemy room, he would be responsible.

"How is it? Is the problem serious?" Fudge looked at Anduin with a nervous expression.

"Well..." Anduin pinched his chin with a tangled expression, "Do you have a 'array circuit diagram' or manual for the entire alchemy room? Based on the current findings alone, there is no way to directly assess the loss."

"What, what? What do you mean by loss? Is the rune array here severely damaged?" Fudge became even more flustered after hearing Anduin's tone, and swallowed nervously as he looked at him.

"Well, you first show me the circuit diagram and manual, and I'll tell you after I finally determine it." Anduin didn't answer directly, but kept urging.

"Circuit diagram? Manual?" Fudge looked at Minister Bagnold with a blank expression. He had never heard that the alchemy room had such things.

"Anduin, the original rune array here was set up by Nicolas Flamel for the British Ministry of Magic two hundred years ago. Later, due to aging, we commissioned Dumbledore to reinforce it for us decades ago. They never left anything like a circuit diagram or manual, after all, this is knowledge unique to alchemy masters." Minister Bagnold saw Fudge's embarrassment and explained for him.

Oh? So the Ministry of Magic has neither a circuit diagram nor a manual? Doesn't that mean I can say whatever I want? It seems that Britain's status as an alchemy desert is not without its advantages.

Thinking of this, Anduin was secretly happy in his heart. He knew that his chance to make a fortune had come.

"Minister Bagnold, two Directors."

Anduin showed a hesitant expression at this time, as if after thinking for a moment, he said, "To be honest, due to your lack of attention to the protection of the array body, some lines of the rune array have indeed been severely damaged. I estimate that the array map was accidentally contaminated by the dark magic items stored here."

"In short, the loss is not small!"

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