Arriving in front of the largest bookstore in Mahogany Town, Ryan and the others discovered that since today was the school's student purchasing day, the bookstore took this opportunity to invite several famous writers to attract customers. As a result, the entire bookstore was occupied by wizards who came here.
They were so packed that it looked like they probably couldn't squeeze in.
Since it's like this, the bookstore can only be crossed out from the travel destinations with regret. After all, it's really not suitable for reading because it's so busy inside.
Since this kind of big bookstore is not available, Ryan immediately thought of going to a second-hand bookstore to find treasures. As a place where books are as expensive as the UK, there are naturally not many second-hand bookstores. However, because the profit of second-hand books is not high, the bookstore will definitely not be located in
In such a bustling commercial street, after all, the little profit may not even be able to pay the rent.
You said selling other things under the name of second-hand books? Well, things that need to be sold under other names are really not suitable to be placed on such a crowded street.
Because he was a little worried about going to the back alleys, especially since the description of security in South America in the news in his previous life was not very good. So Ryan found an excuse to put something in his space pocket out of Hermione's sight, and then
before continuing their journey.
After asking several people and walking around the streets several times, Ryan and Hermione finally found a second-hand bookstore on a small road with few people.
This shop looks a bit like Ollivander's wand shop in Diagon Alley. The storefront is very small, but it gives people a mysterious feeling. There are piles and piles of books in the gray window.
There is a heavily oxidized metal sign in the window, which says in Spanish: Skorzeny's Little Shop.
After opening the door, Ryan discovered that the store's appearance was not big, but the space inside was quite large. Rows after rows of shelves were filled with all kinds of goods. After briefly scanning the shelves,
After picking up the things, Ryan discovered that this was not a simple second-hand bookstore, but a large-scale thrift store.
Strings of feathers of various colors, old wands with various scratches, strange stone carvings, various herbs (Lian, who is proficient in plants, swears that most of them are fake), props and props that emit colorful light.
Magic books, these things are stacked layer upon layer on the shelves. Except for the simplest classification, they are placed in a mess, and the entire store looks like a large garbage recycling bin.
After walking around a small pile of specimens whose original contents could not be identified and stepping over a broom with only a stick left, Ryan saw the owner of the shop, an old man with white hair who looked to be in his 70s.
Wearing a black wizard's robe, he sat behind the counter and dozed off.
After seeing Ryan and the others standing in front of him, he just waved his hands feebly and said: "There is a price on every shelf. After you select something, just come to me to check out. Remember, once you take it off the shelf,
You have to buy it, there is magic surveillance in the store, don’t try to get away with it.”
Ryan returned to the shelves and took a closer look, only to find that the prices marked on these shelves ranged from one sieko to ten galleons.
After browsing several shelves, Ryan came to the conclusion that the owner of this store is a black-hearted businessman. Because he really can't see why the pile of junk dares to bid such a high price. The most important thing is that every shelf
There are runes used to block magic perception, so you can reach into the shelves and look through those things, but you can only know what these things are like when you take them out. No wonder the store requires goods to be taken off the shelves.
You must buy it.
Seeing Hermione flipping through some textbooks on Ilvermorny and Castrobruzzo on some shelves, Ryan quietly walked aside to explore the goods on other shelves.
Although each shelf uses magic means to release the magic of concealment and isolation, it does not mean that these magics are foolproof. When Ryan used Taoist perception methods to begin to perceive the products on the shelves, he found that he could feel vaguely
to the magical energy contained in something.
It's no wonder. After all, Taoism is a kind of extraordinary power from a completely different system. It's possible that the boss didn't think of this kind of thing when he set up the magic. So it's expected that Ryan caught some loopholes.
Through Taoist perception, Ryan discovered that the owner of this shop was more sinister than he thought. For example, the thing called wood spirit (this kind of thing has a name) was introduced in Castro Brusso's potion class
(a non-magical subspecies called American ginseng), which is expensive because of its vitality-supplementing effect and low yield.
Ryan saw a complete wood essence on a shelf with a price of ten galleons. This price was far lower than the market price. However, according to Taoist perception, the wood essence placed on the shelf was actually only
The outermost layer of skin is filled with rhizomes of another unknown plant.
To be honest, with such sophisticated fraud, even without these magic barriers, many people would still be fooled.
However, although there are many fakes in this store, it does not mean that there are no good products. After all, this store seems to have been operating in this place for a long time, and there are only so many people in the Wizarding World. If there were only fakes, this store would have been opened long ago.
He was hit by someone.
For example, Ryan found an arm-sized thousand-year-old lightning strike wood in a pile of rubbish. The only regret was that it was made of mahogany instead of peach wood, but for Ryan, it was enough to make a magic sword.
Judging from the size of this piece of wood, it is enough to make not only a sword, but also a set of talismans.
In addition to this, Ryan also randomly selected some ores with magic reactions and prepared to go back to see what they could be used for.
When he went to the counter to check out with a bunch of things, he unexpectedly found a black notebook placed under the boss's counter. The cover of the notebook reflected the sunlight outside the window. Ryan could see that there was a triangle, a circle and a circle embossed on it.
The vertical symbol looks like a triangular eye.
Ryan's movements paused because he recognized that the symbol on the book represented the Saint of Grindelwald. Thinking about the age of the shop owner and the German name of the shop named Skorzeny. Ryan felt that this shop owner
He was probably one of the saints back then.
Thinking of this, Ryan felt like he was about to break out in a cold sweat. After all, the shadow of the famous tree was like a tree. Unlike Voldemort's group of ragtag Death Eaters, Grindelwald's Saints were much more organized than the Death Eaters.
There was no telling what would happen once the shop owner found out that he had discovered his secret, so Ryan just wanted to call Hermione and leave the shop quickly.
But sometimes you just come to whatever you're afraid of. After looking at what Ryan took out, the store owner suddenly smiled at him and said, "Boy, your eyesight looks good. Do you want to follow me to see the warehouse behind?"