"I think Luna's punch is actually very meaningful. Because it can at least let you understand that we obviously care about you too - remember? As long as you are willing, we can be friends for life!"
Hermione half-raised the glowing wand, spread her hands towards Ron and said:
"So...hey, don't always underestimate yourself, okay? Trust me, you just haven't found what you are good at yet!"
Perhaps it was because Ginny had made a little joke before, saying that Ron had no real friends, that he suddenly had the urge just now. Of course, maybe this kind of inferiority complex has been accumulated for so long that it makes me unable to control myself for a while.
But no matter what, Hermione's words made Ron feel much better.
After saying these words, Hermione paused for a moment, and then said as if she wanted to put aside the trivial matters just now:
"Come here, everyone, and take a look at this!"
As she spoke, she raised her hand and raised the dazzling wand above her head. As the light group rose higher, the ceiling in the mist gradually became faintly discernible.
When Ron followed Hermione's words and hurried to the other party's side and looked up, he heard Hermione whisper:
"Ron... But, you know, I still want to thank you. Yes, 'If I die, how can I like Maka'? So, thank you for thinking about me and the three of us... I'll pay attention."
"Oh... um."
Ron nodded, because he didn't know how to answer, so he could only whisper:
"You're welcome! As you said, we can be friends for life."
Hermione smiled, then pointed to the area above her head illuminated by the wand's glowing spell and said:
"There should be the 'unfinished painting' that Tonks mentioned here." Hermione said, "I heard from her that the original entrance to the black market seems to have been destroyed, and now the entrance here is from the black market." Made by goblins..."
When you look up at this time, you can see that there are actually many picture frames nailed to the ceiling.
When Hermione's wand moves, she can see that there are different oil paintings arranged irregularly on it. If there is no fog, it may be difficult to notice a specific painting at a glance. content.
In terms of concealment, the effect must be very good in normal times.
However, although today's fog has brought new ways to hide it, once there are no more paintings to confuse visitors, it will make it easier to find.
Hermione just walked slowly while raising her wand, letting the light pass under the oil paintings one after another, and soon she saw a work painted only with a heavy blue and black background.
"I don't know much about art, but..." Hermione said, "This is probably an unfinished painting, right?"
"Yes, that's the one," Luna came up and looked around, hesitating a little as she spoke, but in the end she nodded with certainty and said, "It should be right!"
Obviously, the existence of the mist makes her perception of magic less keen. Even when looking directly at the target, she still needs to carefully screen it to be sure.
"Very good," Hermione nodded, "Then the question now is, how do we enter the 'black market' through this painting... Well, maybe it needs to be knocked on like the wall behind the Leaky Cauldron? "
"You can give it a try."
Both Ron and Ginny supported Hermione's statement.
However, after a while of struggling, Hermione had to admit that she was at a loss this time - it seemed that the intelligence of goblins was indeed no lower than that of humans, and might even be higher!
Well, although their personalities and tempers are really unflattering, even though both parties always cooperate with each other because of their rationality, they always cause a lot of conflicts.
Just as Hermione was holding her sore arms and thinking hard, Luna suddenly suggested:
"Hermione, why don't we try Gold Galleons?"
When Hermione heard this, she was stunned for a moment, but then she said helplessly:
"Oh, let me guess, it must be one of Maka's words that inspired you, right?"
"Yeah! Did you notice it too?"
Luna said, put her hand into her pocket and started to take out the money, and continued:
"Every time Maka talks about fairies, she always says that their heads may be filled with Gold Galleons, so the things they make either use Gold Galleons or they must be exchanged for Gold Galleons. of… "
Having said this, she finally took out a gold coin from her pocket, and happily held it in her hand and waved it in front of Hermione's eyes.
"Hey!"
At that moment, she jumped slightly on the spot, and then threw the gold coin towards the painting on the ceiling.
"Ding-"
As a clear and sweet sound passed through everyone's ears, everyone saw that the gold Galleons hit the frame almost straight, then quickly spun back and hit Luna's head. forehead.
"oh!"
Luna only felt a pain in her forehead, and then she squatted down on the spot, covering her head. Jin Jialong then fell down again and rolled forward. When he hit the base of the wall, he spun around and fell to the ground.
"Luna, are you okay?"
Although she really wanted to laugh at this moment, Hermione still suppressed her laughter and hurriedly leaned over to hold Luna's shoulders. After hearing this, Luna slowly raised her head. Tears were clearly shining in her eyes, but she laughed first.
"It hurts... It turns out it hurts so much when Jin Gallon hits someone, hahaha..."
Not far away, Ron looked at the red mark on Luna's forehead and couldn't help but rub his forehead.
"Needless to say, that looks really painful," he said, stretching out his wand and pointing towards the wall, "So, why not use a levitating spell... throw it into the painting, right? I'll try it. …”
In the final analysis, inferiority complex often arises from inappropriate comparisons. After all kinds of training in the past few years, even Ron, who has an average talent for magic spells, can easily use the silent spell technique on the floating spell.
While he was speaking, the Gold Galleons jumped high from the ground and flew towards the unfinished painting.
And in the next moment, everyone saw that the gold coins actually submerged into the cold-toned painting without any hindrance, and disappeared in just a flash.
"Oh! It goes in-"
Before Ron could finish his sentence, he suddenly felt a suction force coming from the painting. He hurriedly changed his words and exclaimed:
"Are you charging one Galleung per person? It's so expensive!"
Before he finished speaking, more than a dozen silver coins suddenly fell in front of him from the painting along with a piece of paper, and immediately after, he was pulled into the painting and left together with a burst of space distortion.
As soon as his feet touched the ground, the dozen or so pieces of silver were no longer bound by magic, and they scattered all over the floor with a clanging sound.
Ron first grabbed the piece of paper falling from the air, then raised his head and looked around.
This place... seems to have been a spacious hall
"I finally left a dangerous building, but after the result, it turned out to be another even bigger dangerous building?"
Looking at this hall that was originally supposed to be very open, but now also had signs of collapse everywhere, Ron simply didn't know what to say.
But it is obvious that this is the Darkling Pavilion Hall located in the black market at the other end of the passage built by the goblin.
Not long after, Hermione and others also walked through the passage with their wallets in their pockets, and appeared near Ron one after another. Ron couldn't help but let out a light sigh when he saw that none of them had any silver coins scattered, and each of them only had a piece of paper following them.
"Why? Didn't it give you Yinxi Ke?"
"We didn't give too much," Ginny reached out to catch the piece of paper and replied casually, "As long as we throw in three Silver Sickles, it will send us here."
"Oh fine… "
Ron bent down with a grimace and began to look around for the coins that were rolling everywhere - there was no way, the currencies were given a certain degree of resistance to spells, and the Flying Curse had no effect on them. He had to You have to pick them up one by one with your own hands.
"Luna, please help! These are all your money... Well, let me owe you my three silver coins first! I came out in a hurry today and I didn't bring any money..."
While Ron was busy picking up the money, Hermione had already finished reading the contents of the piece of paper. In fact, it is just a pass certificate. You can use it to activate the passage back when you need to leave.
What is worth mentioning is that there is actually a line of eye-catching cursive characters printed on it: "Welcome to the Darkling Pavilion Wizards Guild, you will receive the most sincere reception from the honest and reliable fairies."
"So, where are the 'honest and trustworthy fairies'?"
Hermione looked at the messy scene in front of her and couldn't help but pursed her lips.
"Looking at the situation, the ruins outside may not be a disguise... It seems that this black market has also suffered a terrible attack!"
If a battle really breaks out, the goblins will not be weaker than the wizards at all. Although there are no particularly outstanding individuals among them, their average ability is much higher than even that of wizards, not to mention that they also possess many magical props from ancient times to the present.
It's just... Of course, with the goblin's temper of wanting money rather than life, whether he is willing to use it when needed is also a big problem.
"Ron, are you done picking it up? We have to go out and check the situation."
After all, he still has to rush for time. If this is just his own money, no matter how stingy he is, he will grit his teeth and give up now.
But when I think about it, this is Luna's...
When Hermione turned around, she saw Ron straightening up and saying with a depressed expression:
"There are still four left... If you are in a hurry, why not come and help me find them? You know, they are all so round, and once they roll up... Oh!"