Chapter 504: The Wizard's Trick
On the other side of the two-way mirror, Albert was lazily reclining on the couch, talking to the old man Sierra about how the train should cross the North Sea.
In the Goblet of Fire, there is a school that emerges from the Black Lake in a boat and seems to have similar magical techniques.
Whether the magic used by the two is the same, Albert does not know.
I've been working hard to learn and absorb all kinds of magical knowledge, but sometimes the more I know, the more I feel like I don't know.
Trying to get to the bottom of things, sometimes it's really tiring.
Albert kind of understood why the old wizards in the story were so powerful.
Those people have already invested a great deal of time and energy in exploring the mysteries of magic.
Thinking about his own pitiful experience, Albert felt that he had given up on the so-called truth of magic, and that he had no such ambition himself.
It is enough to live a lifetime of freedom and happiness.
In the past, I wanted to get involved in the financial field, but it was nothing more than for money.
Money is important!
This is a cognition brought over from the previous life.
Later, Albert agreed to become a member of Wildsmith, not only for the knowledge, but also for the three views of the two sides.
The Wildsmith family is interesting, and the family itself is another interpretation of the "money fist".
"What are you thinking?" asked Serra.
"I wonder if I'm too greedy. Albert whispered.
"It's a little, maybe, you should give up something. ”
Serra knew exactly what that "too greedy" meant.
Continuing on Albert's line, he is highly likely to become the next Nicol Lemay who is proficient in everything.
But the problem is that Nicol Lemay has such an achievement, which is the accumulation of hundreds of years on the other side, and age is sometimes an advantage.
But Albert was only a few years old, and it was impossible to have such a terrible achievement in a short period of time.
If an ordinary genius does this, he is estimated to be an ordinary wizard with good grades.
Being proficient in everything sometimes means mediocrity.
However, Albert is different, he is like a monster, constantly sucking knowledge and constantly growing himself.
This is why Sierra would consider Albert to be the most gifted wizard in hundreds of years.
The conversation between the two continued, and Sierra was reluctant to divulge too much information, apparently believing that if she did, she would make Albert lose the novelty of his first experience, just as most wizards would be reluctant to tell their children how Hogwarts schools were sorted.
As the night wore on, the conversation ended as the train approached the Hogsmeade platform, where it stayed for more than half an hour and waited for supplies to run before continuing along the tracks toward Mali Bay.
Albert's travels are not too boring compared to Serra's, and most of the time, he gets in touch with Isobel through a two-way mirror and whispers between the two.
When it comes to Katrina's question, Isobel thinks it's a hazy liking, a youthful restlessness.
In Hogwarts House, it is a rare thing for girls and boys in the fourth and fifth years to start looking for boyfriends and girlfriends.
Many girls are looking for someone to date in this situation, and they dump each other or are dumped by each other soon after.
And Albert is attractive to most of the girls at Hogwarts, and Katrina is naturally no exception, summing up Isobel's words as a girl's nostalgia, just like a boy will have a girl he likes in his heart.
Albert didn't know what to say in the face of Isobel's rhetoric, and he thought it better for him not to say anything and just listen.
In this way, the two chatted until midnight, and it felt incredible when you thought about it.
The train was still moving forward, dark outside the window, and the occasional distant light could be seen.
Albert put away the two-way mirror, leaned back on the bed and played with the Rubik's Cube, looking out the window from time to time, waiting for the moment when the train crossed the channel.
He suddenly understood why Sierra had given up the bed by the window to himself.
In fact, the train did not go directly into the sea, but into a downward tunnel.
"Undersea Tunnel?"
The moment the tunnel appeared in front of him, Albert's mind immediately swelled with this idea, and it was not impossible to open the undersea tunnel with the power of a wizard.
However, the actual situation is still different from what he thought, the moment the head of the train enters the tunnel, all the windows in the carriage are automatically locked, and they cannot be opened no matter what.
This is obviously going straight into the sea.
Albert suddenly wondered how the wizards had managed to keep the train moving at the bottom of the sea.
His patience was not tested, and the mystery was soon revealed.
At the end of this pitch-black tunnel, a metal ring with a glittering magic symbol passes directly through the metal ring and down the slope into the sea.
"Bubble Head Charm, it's hard to imagine that magic can do it to this extent. ”
The entire train is coated with a colorless transparent film and moves rapidly under the dark depths of the sea.
"In the beginning, in order to create those two undersea passages, the British Ministry of Magic took a lot of effort. Serra hadn't slept yet, she was sitting on the couch drinking a drink, and she didn't have much of the tiredness of staying up late.
Leprechaun Silver?
No, it's fairy iron.
The metal rings full of symbols were all made of fairy iron.
"So much goblin iron cost the Ministry of Magic a lot of Galleons, and I remember that Bard donated a sum of money and received a third-class Merlin Medal. Serra rubbed her beard and laughed to herself, "But Bud didn't ask for it, saying that one was enough." ”
"The founder of the Order of Merlin probably couldn't have imagined that the medal would be so valuable!" Albert couldn't help but scoff.
In the face of Albert's sharp ridicule, Serra was completely unconcerned.
"Unfortunately, I couldn't get a glimpse of the underwater scenery. Albert looked out the dark window and couldn't help but sigh.
The train had gone deep under the sea, but it was still pitch black outside the window, and not a single fish had been seen.
Probably with the use of expulsion magic, the creatures under the sea would not approach the train, and it was pitch black outside, as if they were passing through a long tunnel.
"If they're willing to put in a bit of effort, I think a lot of wizards will be willing to spend Galleons here for a walk around and take in the beauty of the seabed. Albert was a little depressed, he had never even been to an aquarium in his previous life, and this was the first time he had walked through an undersea passage, and it turned out to be like this.
Serra did not express his opinion on this.
For him, this is a means of transportation, and it is enough to be able to get him to his destination.
When Albert woke up the next morning, the train had already landed in Denmark.
According to the original route, the train will pass through Germany, Poland, Ukraine, Romania, Hungary, Austria, Italy and finally arrive in the small town of Nicolas in France.
Then, continue to Spain, Portugal, and after a circle, cross the Channel from the border between Belgium and the Netherlands to King's Cross Station in London, England.
However, Serra changed his mind and told Albert that they would be dropped off in Germany and head straight to France, taking him along to visit an old friend in Germany.