On the counter, two silver coins collided with each other under Maka's operation, and then rolled in different directions.
The old goblin had already stretched out his hand, intending to hold them down, but after that collision, his judgment went wrong.
In line with the fairies’ innate love for gold and silver…
In other words, in line with the natural miser character of goblins, the old goblin reacted extremely quickly.
I saw him quickly waving in the direction of one of them rolling down, and the power of magic made the silver coin fly towards his hand. At the same time, he bent down and stretched out his other hand, accurately catching another silver coin that had just fallen from the counter.
But when he straightened up again and touched the two silver coins in his hand lovingly, he didn't know that an invisible hummingbird had silently scurried to the back of his head and hovered steadily in the air. .
This is also the first time Maka has entered behind the counter of Darkling Pavilion.
Although he has been here many times, the space behind the counter is not something that just anyone can run in and take a look around.
He could clearly feel that from here on, it was an area where Apparition was prohibited.
After entering here, the first thing Maka saw was that there were many fairies with their short legs hanging upside down, running back and forth and busy.
From time to time, tellers sitting on high stools would pass small pieces of paper to the goblins on standby, and the goblins who received the pieces of paper would immediately run to the back aisle.
The goblins who run out of the passage will bring the floating packages or money bags behind the corresponding teller and deliver them to the counter board next to the teller.
It may look a little messy at first glance, but if you look closely, you will find that everything is going on in an orderly manner without any chaos.
As far as goblins and house elves are concerned, they are "distant relatives" whose blood relationship is already somewhat thin. At least their attitudes towards work are still surprisingly similar - hardworking, rigorous, but sometimes quite stubborn and rigid.
Maka looked around, then glanced at the arched passage in the back, then flapped her wings at high speed and flew to the counter on the right.
The staff-only passage located at the end of the right counter is the preferred entrance in this plan.
Other members of the Order of the Phoenix cannot borrow the small Animagus form to come in like him. Therefore, trying to open an entrance for sneaking into is his second task.
"Hmm... It's really very different from the wizard's magic!"
Maka quickly flew to the staff passage. He looked here and found that there were two wizard guards standing guard inside and outside. In the middle of that passage, not only were there two iron chains, but the detection magic set up was mostly unique to goblins.
Although Maka can still sense the flow of magic power from it, it is still impossible to decipher it on the spot - not to mention whether it can be studied and understood, even if it can be deduced through the laws of magic flow, it will take a lot of time.
"It seems that this road is not feasible."
He thought about it quickly, made a decision in time, and decisively flapped his wings and flew back.
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On the other side, Hesijia left the counter calmly after completing the rental of the safe. She glanced at it with her peripheral vision, then straightened her collar, took out a small badge and pinned it in front of her body.
When she came out of the Dark Spirit Pavilion hall with a calm face and went around to the alley next to her, Lupine, disguised as a short wizard, also walked in.
"Did the first step succeed?"
"It should be successful, but... let's wait until the news about McClain comes out."
"Well, then you go shopping first and take a rest. I'll notify the next group to enter the hall."
Lupine leaned against the wall at the entrance of the alley, while Hestia huddled behind the pile of debris in the alley. The two lowered their voices and exchanged a few words briefly before leaving separately.
However, not long after the two people walked away, a cloud of black smoke suddenly surged from the shadows on one side of the alley, and then a figure wrapped in a black cloak quietly walked out of the black smoke.
The figure looked left and right in the direction Hestia and Lupine left, then turned into a puff of black smoke again, chose a direction and chased after it.
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Behind the counter of Darkling Pavilion, in the arched passage at the deepest part of the hall, Maka was moving quickly.
Just like goblins don't like sunlight, but only love dark caves, this passage is not only made of black bricks up, down, left and right, but even the brightness of the torches is not high.
Many goblins were coming and going in an orderly manner. In order to avoid unnecessary risks, Maka maintained her hummingbird form and flew above their heads.
Along the way, you can see that there are many door openings on both sides of the passage, and most of them are deep and dark. If you look inside with your naked eyes, you won't be able to see very far before you can't see clearly at all.
Maka did not rush in to investigate, but planned to take a quick look at this largest main road.
But probably because it was a bit dark inside, this main road was not as long as he imagined. After flying for only a short time, he realized that he had reached the bottom.
At the end of this main passage is a wall that is also black.
The wall was bare, with nothing on it. However, there is a rather large descending cave on the ground in front of the wall.
Looking at the goblins coming in and out of the cave, the entrance to the underground vault of the Dark Spirit Pavilion is probably below.
Maka flew to the cave and took a look, and immediately saw a minecart-style track inside that looked like the underground of Gringotts. Just by looking at the neat rows of tracks, you can understand that the scale of this place is probably much larger than the Gringotts vault.
After confirming the next infiltration route, Maka turned back and flew back again.
"As for the private room, it should be in this direction..."
He hurriedly checked the door openings on both sides of the main passage, and compared the location of the private rooms in his memory, he found a secondary passage with a track extension.
In this spiraling upward passage, there will occasionally be a car controlled by a goblin whizzing past very fast on those tracks, making a loud clanking noise.
On both sides of this winding passage, there are thick metal doors.
Compared to the Dark Spirit Pavilion, this is only the "above ground" part, and is obviously not within the scope of the treasury.
Once we think about the situation in the private rooms outside, it is not difficult to guess what is behind these not-so-large metal doors.
Each private room for personal business is divided into an outer waiting room and an inner business room. The innermost part of the business room is this small but extremely thick solid metal door.
Maka randomly selected a metal door and gently lowered it, transforming back into her fairy form. After taking out the kettle and taking a sip of the polyjuice potion, he carefully looked at the door in front of him.
"Well... there are only protection and reinforcement magic here, and there is no other magic flow, so it should be independent."
After careful judgment, he took out his staff and knocked quickly on the metal door. With a slight breaking sound, he violently destroyed the magic on it.
After waiting for a while and seeing no movement around him, he waved his staff again to open the metal door, and then quickly put the staff away again.
"The magic text on this staff is too conspicuous. I have to think of a way to go back!"
While Maka was thinking about it, she opened the slightly heavy metal door and slipped in through the small crack of the door.
As soon as he entered, he knew that his judgment was not wrong. Outside these metal doors are private rooms used for large-scale deposits and personal transactions.
Occasionally before and after the auction, these private rooms will also be used to handle the delivery and pickup of auction items.
Maka didn't stay here longer. After glancing at the private room number, he immediately walked along the corridor toward the hall.
To be on the safe side, although the invisibility effect would not end for a while, he still applied a magic spell on himself halfway through.
More than twenty minutes later, Maka, Lupin, Hestia, Tonks and Mrs. Weasley arrived in the private room one after another while invisibly.
"The back of that metal door can lead all the way to the passage of the underground vault." Maka waved her staff and locked the door of the private room. "Is everything okay?"
Because Moody and Kingsley had accidents one after another, the main combat power of the Order of the Phoenix was actually somewhat insufficient. Because of this, Mrs. Weasley is also among the candidates to infiltrate this time.
Of course, although Mrs. Weasley is always noisy on weekdays, she also plays the role of a good wife and mother at home. However, it would be a big mistake to underestimate her magical power because of this.
Just Molly Weasley... No, when she was still called "Molly Prewett", she was a Gryffindor with excellent academic performance.
Whether it is Defense Against the Dark Arts or Charms, she is better than her husband Arthur Weasley, and not even a little better.
Just like what Lupine said about her - if Molly were serious, she would definitely be no worse than me. She was the top student in Gryffindor House back then!
Seeing that everyone gave her a positive look, Maka took out four flying broomsticks, and after passing them to everyone's hands, she attached a disembodiment charm to the brooms to make them invisible.
"There are only minecart tracks behind - we have to use flying ones!" He instructed carefully, "After entering, go down directly, and then to the right... Just follow me and fly. The journey down to the underground vault is not far, but The route is a bit complicated, be careful not to lose track!"
Having said that, he pushed open the metal door, stepped on an invisible magic book, and fell straight down...