Chapter 531: Golden Cup (Ask for Subscription, Ask for Collection, Ask for Tickets)
"What did you find, Ryan?" asked Dumbledore, who was entering the door, when he heard Ryan's shout. At this time, he found Sirius and Ryan standing on a scaffold more than three meters high, and Ryan was brandishing his wand studying the problem of the wall. Sirius, on the other hand, stood aside and let his wand shine to illuminate him.
"That's right, Professor Dumbledore. Speaking of his own expertise, Ryan looked confident, and he raised his voice to Dumbledore under the scaffolding. "There are so many magical defenses on the doors and walls on the outside that it will take a lot of time to crack them. In that way, I'm worried that the goblins up there will find out that something is wrong. So I tried to find another way, and now it seems that my judgment was correct. ”
With that, Ryan removed a large tapestry that hung against the wall, and stepped forward to pat the wall he was facing. "This wall is the wall shared by the two vaults of the Black and Lestrange families, and it is also their separation wall. This wall is much easier to defend than the outside defenses. ”
Under the watchful eyes of Dumbledore and Sirius, Ryan waved his wand and chanted the incantation as he grabbed a handful of metallic silver powder from the space pouch around his waist and sprinkled it against the wall.
The powder was glued to the wall and quickly turned into twisted runes under the manipulation of magic, and soon the runes that were the size of the bottom of a coffee cup shrank to the size of a mung bean, and then turned into a thin silver wire coil up an area the size of a door.
"Now it's time for the next step. Looking at the masterpiece in front of him, Ryan nodded slightly, and then took out a black knife with a silver pattern from the space bag and began to carve it in the circled place. The knife has a targeted spell on it, and carving stone is as easy as carving on a cork board.
It took seven or eight minutes for a six-pointed star circle with a large number of runes to appear on the wall. After Ryan took a step back to check that it was okay, he took out a bottle of golden liquid from the space agent with some pain, and then guided the liquid with his wand to climb up the wall, filling in all the grooves that had just been carved.
When he had done this, Ryan gathered everything and began waving his wand and chanting incantations in High Valyrian. Under the guidance of the wand, the part of the wall that Ryan had circled just now was completely enveloped by the mist of gold and silver light, and the seemingly solid wall first quickly peeled off a stream of green light under the light mist, and then a black light emitting metallic light. As soon as the light broke away from the wall, it formed balls of light, and finally levitated in front of the six-pointed star circle.
In less than three minutes, there were more than a dozen large and small balls of light floating in front of the six-pointed star array. Seeing that there were no more orbs of light floating out, Ryan waved his wand. The piece of wall that was coiled by silver silk coils quickly deformed like soft mud and stretched outwards to envelop the balls of light just now, and finally turned into a square stone and fell to the ground.
"Alright. Ryan turned his head and said, "Now that it's done, I think we can get over." I'll put this stone here first, and I can use it to get it all back when we get back. ”
"Well done, Ryan. I have to admit that everyone has their own things to do, even if I am asked to crack the magic myself, I am not as fast as you. Looks like it's the right thing to bring you over. Dumbledore nodded. "Let's find out, I hope my guess is correct. ”
The three of them looked through the gap in the wall with their wands, and Ryan looked in shock. Unlike Sirius' vaults, which were filled with all sorts of currency, the Lestrange vaults were a true reflection of the millennia-old wealth of the oldest pure-blood families: floor-to-ceiling rooms filled with gold coins and goblets, silver armor, skins of various exotic animals with spines or wings, potions in vases, and a skull still wearing a crown. Ryan made a rough estimate and found that the value of the wealth was even greater than the value of the newly accumulated treasury of the Valley Kingdom.
Ryan was the first to walk over to the gap and began to inspect the gap he had opened earlier. This gap was a place he had chosen for him, just above a pile of gold and silverware. The reason why I chose this place is because all the treasures in the opposite vault have been cast with a fire charm and a copy charm, and if the vault door is opened underneath, it is inevitable to touch the treasures inside.
"My parents hid the really valuable things in the house before they died, and they couldn't trust the goblins. Sirius, who stepped forward, looked at everything in front of him and said. "It's just that only Krecher knows where the things are hidden, and he refuses to tell me where the treasure is now, saying only that I will not tell him until I have a child when he is 17 years old, and that it will leave this wealth to the true heirs of the Black family. But seriously, I don't believe they can leave much precious stuff behind. Our family had already begun to decline when I was a child, and Narcissa would not have married an upstart like Malfoy. Because according to tradition, the Black family will only marry the oldest pure-blood families. ”
From Sirius's words, it can be heard that compared to the ancient pure-blood family, the so-called noble pure-blood of the Malfoy family seems to be very watery. The Malfoys are known to be one of several court wizarding families who followed William the Conqueror to the land. As such, they had a long history with the Muggle world, and even an ancestor tried to marry Queen Elizabeth.
In this way, their family is naturally not very looked down upon by those families with a real long history, but they think very highly of themselves and look down on those small families. In this way, they seem to be a little inferior in the British wizarding world. If it weren't for the fact that their family was well-managed, with a lot of gold and willing to spend gold, it is estimated that few people would be willing to befriend them.
This is why Draco Malfoy is surrounded by only Crabbe and Goyle, who come from small families, who are willing to follow him, but even then their relationship is fragile, and the two Draco's henchmen in the seventh part of the book obviously don't listen to him.
"I think I found that thing. While Ryan was thinking about these things, Dumbledore, who had just climbed onto the scaffolding and was standing side by side with Sirius, raised his wand and said. Looking in the direction of the light of his wand, Ryan saw a small amphora gold cup in the space above the shield and the elven helmet at the top of a shelf, which could be seen through Hawkeye Ryan to be very delicately made, and a raised, vivid relief of a badger had been cast on it.
Ryan could see that the shelves were all fine, at least much more precious than the things that were randomly stacked on the floor below. According to Bella's personality, the treasure placed at the top of the shelf must have been given to him by Voldemort. Ryan had a malicious idea that even if Voldemort gave Bella a half-eaten chicken leg, Bella would definitely apply a freshness spell and put it on the top of the shelf.
"Obviously, the Flying Charm will definitely not work, let me think-" Dumbledore thought for a few seconds after taking a hard look at where the gold cup was placed. "Looks like that's it. ”
With that, he waved his wand and conjured a silver rope out of the thin air, and then directed the rope to grow longer and longer, flying straight out of the air to the golden cup at the top of the shelf. When the end of the rope flew to the edge of the golden cup, Dumbledore flicked his wand, and the rope wrapped around the golden cup like a living snake, tied a knot, and began to shorten, and finally returned to Dumbledore's hand with the golden cup.
"It's magic. Ryan's eyes widened at this scene, because during his previous inspection, he had found that there was a powerful magical interference in these locked vaults, and it was a very good way to manipulate magic from a distance in such a situation. Ryan felt that although he could do it, he could never be as easy as Professor Dumbledore. If he was asked to take the gold cup, he would definitely choose to hook the thing directly with the hook on his forearm.
"I guess I'm right – that's exactly what we need. Dumbledore said with a sigh of relief as he took the cup and examined it for a moment. "We've reached our goal of coming here. ”
After saying that, Dumbledore looked at the Lestrange family's vault and shook his head with some regret, "I'm really old, and sometimes I even seem a little greedy." ”