HPMRS CH 168: Strange shop!

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When they arrived in front of the largest bookstore in Mahogany Town, Ryan and Hermione realized that because today was the school's student purchase day, the bookstore took advantage of this opportunity to invite several famous writers to solicit guests, and the entire bookstore was filled by the wizards. It was so packed, that it seemed likely that they couldn't even squeeze in.

In this case, the bookstore can only be crossed out of the travel destination regrettably. After all, this kind of event really is not suitable for their reading books in the bookstore plan.

Since they cannot go to this kind of big bookstore, Ryan immediately thought of going to the second-hand bookstore. As a place where books are as expensive as in the UK, there are naturally not many second-hand bookstores. However, because the profits of second-hand books are not high, such bookstores will definitely not be located in such a prosperous commercial street. After all, the profits may not even be enough to pay off the rent here.

They may even sell other things under the name of second-hand books? Well, things that need to be sold under other names are really not suitable for this kind of main commercial street where all kind of people come and go.

Because he was a little worried about going to the back streets and alleys, especially after reading about the situation of law and order in Brazil in his previous life, news from mainstream media was certainly not giving any good impressions. So Ryan found an excuse to put something in his pocket from the portable space out of Hermione's sight before continuing their journey.

After asking several people, they went around in a few circles on the street. Ryan and Hermione finally found a second-hand bookshop on a small road.

This shop looks a bit like Ollivander's Wand Shop in Diagon Alley. The entry is very small, but it gives a sense of mystery. Piles of books were placed in the gray window. There is a heavily oxidized metal sign on the window, which reads in Spanish: Skorzner's small shop.

When he opened the door, Ryan realized that the door of this small shop was not big, but the space inside was not small. Rows of shelves were filled with all kinds of goods. After roughly scanning the items on the shelves, Ryan found that this was not some mere second-hand bookstore, but a large second-hand goods store.

Strings of feathers of various colors, old magic wands with various scratches, strange stone carvings, various herbs (as a plant proficient Ryan swears that most of them are fake) props with colorful lights, and Magic book, these things are stacked one after another on the shelf. Except for the things here being sorted, the whole shop looks like a large garbage collection station.

After going around a small pile of specimens without seeing what it was and stepping over a broom with only sticks left, Ryan saw the owner of the small shop, a white-haired old man who looked to be more than 70 years old. He was dozing off behind the counter in a dark wizard robe.

After seeing Ryan and the two of them standing in front of him, he just waved his hand weakly and said: "Every shelf has a price. After you choose something, you can check it out here. Remember, once you take it off the shelf You have to buy it. There is magic monitoring the store. Don't think about running away without paying up."

Ryan returned to the shelves and took a closer look, only to find that the prices on these shelves ranged from one sickle to ten Galleons. After browsing a few shelves, Ryan concluded that the owner of this shop is a black-hearted businessman. Because he really couldn't see why he dared to put such a high price on that pile of tatters. The most important thing is that there are runes on each shelf to block magical perception. This allows you to reach into the shelf to look at those things, but only when you take them out can you know what these things are like. No wonder the goods that are taken off the shelf must be bought.

Seeing Hermione flipping through some of the textbooks of Castelobruxo on some shelves, Ryan quietly walked aside to explore the goods on other shelves.

Although every shelf uses magical means to maintain the magic of concealment and isolation, it does not mean that these magics are foolproof. When Ryan began to perceive the goods on the shelf using Taoism, he found that he could vaguely feel the magical energy contained in something.

It's no wonder, after all, Taoism is entirely another power system, it is likely the owner did not know anything about this kind of energy system existed. So it was expected that Ryan caught some loopholes.

In his perception, Ryan realized that the owner of this shop was darker than he thought. For example, the thing called wood essence that was introduced in the potions class of Castelobruxo, because of its vitality supplement effect and low output, the price is excruciatingly high.

Ryan saw on a shelf that there was a complete wood essence on the shelf priced at ten Galleons, and the price was much lower than the market price. However, in the perception of Taoism, on the shelf of wood essence is actually only the outermost layer of skin, and is filled with another kind of thing on the inside.

To be honest, even without these magic barriers, many people would still be fooled by such a subtle degree of fraud.

Although there are many fakes in this store, it does not mean that there are no good things. After all, this shop seems to have been operating in this place for a long time, and the wizarding world has only a small number of people. If there were only fakes, this store would have been smashed long ago.

For example, Ryan found thousand-year-old lightning-stricken wood the size of an arm in a pile of rubbish. The only regret is that it is mahogany wood instead of peach wood, but for Ryan, a magic sword is enough. Depending on the size of the wood, in addition to making a sword, it is enough to make a set of symbols.

In addition to this, Ryan also randomly selected some magically reactive ores to go back and see what's useful.

He took a moment to take the pile of garbage to the checkout counter, and unexpectedly discovered that under the counter stood a black notebook, notebook cover reflecting sunlight outside the window, Ryan can see the imprint of a triangle with a circle inside and a line symbol makes it look a lot like a triangular eye with four branches coming out of the top of the triangle and going into different directions.

Ryan's paused because he recognized that the symbol in the notebook represented the acolytes of Grindelwald. Think about the age of the shopkeeper and the name of the shop named after the German name Skolzner. Ryan felt that the shopkeeper was probably one of the acolytes back then.

Thinking of this, Ryan felt cold sweat coming out of his forehead.

After all, this is another terrorist organisation. Unlike Voldemort's crowd misfits known as Death Eaters, the organization and power level of acolytes of Grindelwald is much higher than that of Death Eaters.

Once the shop owner realized that his secret was discovered who knows what he'll do, Ryan just wanted to call Hermione to leave the shop as soon as possible.

But sometimes, you can only avoid certain death by acting boldly. After seeing what Ryan took out, the shopkeeper suddenly smiled at him, and then said: "Boy, your eyesight looks good, do you want to follow me to the back warehouse? The good stuff is inside?"

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Note: Do you want to follow me to the basement? There is a lot of candy in the basement?