#428 - Alchemist's Paradise (asking for monthly ticket recommendation ticket)

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Afterward, Bones turned his head to look at Anduin, "Long time no see, Anduin. I almost didn't recognize you after not seeing you for a few years."

"I've just grown a bit taller, Professor. You, on the other hand, are as energetic as ever," Anduin replied with a smile.

"Don't call me Professor anymore. I've been retired from Hogwarts for years, and you're an adult now, just call me Edgar," Bones said, patting Anduin's shoulder appreciatively.

"You are, after all, my mentor, even after graduation. I'll still call you Mr. Bones," Anduin replied politely.

Bones nodded dismissively, then noticed the little husky at his feet. "Oh, why did you bring a dog with you abroad? It looks quite cute."

Bones crouched down, preparing to scratch Hogg's head, but Hogg nimbly dodged him. Hogg didn't want to be touched by this old man with a big beard.

"Sorry, Hogg has a bit of a bad temper. I'm afraid if I didn't bring him, he would have chewed up all the furniture at home," Anduin said helplessly, looking at the uncooperative Hogg. Then, he deliberately nudged the husky with his foot, and Hogg reluctantly offered his head for Bones to ruffle.

"You've traveled a long way by Portkey, you must be feeling unwell. I'll take you to your accommodations first," Bones said seriously, getting up after playing with Hogg for a while.

Then he led the way, guiding everyone out of the alley.

Stepping out of the alley, the scene suddenly opened up, surrounded by bustling pedestrians, all of whom were wizards. Most of them were dressed in Arabian attire similar to Bones, while many others wore wizard robes. Of course, there were also some figures with exotic flair, such as a group of black wizards not far away, who were bare-chested and wore necklaces with animal teeth.

"This is the most prosperous wizarding district in Cairo, called the Qara Black Market, similar to Diagon Alley in England. However, because the International Alchemical Conference is being held, many foreign wizards have been visiting recently. After you settle in, you can come here for a good look around," Bones said, spreading his hands to introduce the area.

Only then did everyone realize why the Portkey's arrival point was arranged in the city. Usually, to avoid being discovered by Muggles, wizards would choose remote suburbs or uninhabited areas to set up arrival points. It turned out that this was a wizarding district.

With Bones' introduction, everyone, including Anduin, immediately began to look around excitedly.

Like Diagon Alley, this was also a bustling pedestrian street, but the surrounding architectural style was Arabian. The buildings were generally not very tall, and the walls and windows had exquisite镂空 patterns. The ground was paved with earthen bricks.

Unlike Diagon Alley, the shops here were not like Diagon Alley, with one shop per building. Instead, they were more like stalls. Each stall was raised slightly by a wooden or stone platform, and the stalls were generally separated by beautifully crafted carpets. Some didn't even have partitions, only some gaps to indicate that the two sides were not the same stall.

Above the stalls, these Arabian wizards usually held up a huge umbrella or spread out a white linen cloth to block the sun.

At the same time, each stall had a wizard sitting barefoot on a flying carpet. When a customer approached, they would immediately drive the flying carpet forward to greet them. Presumably, these were the owners of each stall.

In the center of the street, there was actually a circular open-air square. Various stalls were distributed in an arc on both sides of the road in the square, looking like concentric circles with the road running through the middle from above.

The items sold at these stalls were varied, some selling flying carpets, they directly stacked more than a dozen carpets together in the stall, but each carpet floated in the air, stacked up to one or two stories high, looking quite spectacular.

Others sold weather carpets, like selling curtains, directly unfolding the weather carpets one by one, surrounding the stall. Various carpets representing winter with cold air, representing the heat with bursts of heat waves, and representing thunderstorms with lightning and leaking water, were displayed together at intervals, looking quite shocking.

And those service-oriented shops, such as bars, restaurants, and cold drink shops, were distributed in the buildings behind the stalls.

Of course, in this kind of wizarding district, there would naturally be goblin-run banks. On one side of the square market stood a three-story domed building, but the dome of this goblin bank was crooked.

This couldn't help but remind Anduin of the crooked Gringotts in Diagon Alley. The aesthetics of these goblins were really unpredictable.

At the same time, there were also many stalls in the square market selling herbs, potions, wizard robes, utensils, and even animals. They directly spread out the goods like small vendors, displaying them in a dazzling array that was very eye-catching.

However, this kind of sales habit also had a disadvantage, that is, the smells of various herbs and animals would be directly transmitted. This mixture of various gases made it a bit unacceptable for the few people who had just arrived.

And Anduin, who had been carefully observing, found that there were an extremely large number of stalls selling alchemical tools in Cairo, and most of them were specialty stores. Nearly half of the stalls on the entire street were alchemical stalls.

In addition to the more regionally representative flying carpets and weather carpets, there were also specialty stores selling spyglasses, specialty stores selling magic toys, specialty stores selling magic cameras, and even specialty stores selling magic cookware. He also saw a stall filled with various alchemical engraving knives, which was clearly an alchemist's tool specialty store, and that store was doing quite well.

This was much better than in England. He had once seen a basic set of alchemical engraving knives covered in dust in a magic tool shop in Hogsmeade.

This was simply a paradise for alchemists, Anduin thought.

At the same time, seeing these alchemical stalls also aroused Anduin's desire to shop, especially that alchemical engraving knife stall. The engraving knives he was using now were still bought by Bones, and he hadn't changed them for several years.

However, he knew that he couldn't be too hasty. Stopping now would mean falling behind, which would be a bit impolite.

With a strong sense of reluctance, Anduin followed Bones out of the Qara Black Market. The way this place connected to the Muggle area was different from Diagon Alley.

After passing through a circular archway at the end of the road, they immediately left the wizarding market.

And Anduin could sense a very strong magical reaction around that archway. The Disillusionment Charms and Shield Charms that were set up were more than twice as strong as those at the Leaky Cauldron. Presumably, this was why they dared to open their doors so openly, because occasionally a few Muggles would slip into the Leaky Cauldron.

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