Raven's Claw at Hogwarts

"Dear guests, my name is Nose Ring and I will lead you to your new vault."

The house elf with a rosacea said so.

When Mike heard this, he also had a surprised look on his face and asked:

"Nose ring? Who are you Griphook?"

"Griphook? That's my distant cousin." Nose Ring said contemptuously, "A poor and despicable goblin! Guest, do you know him?"

"Well, he was the one who took me to the vault before."

"Then you are so unfortunate. Griphook's driving skills are notoriously poor." Nose Ring patted his chest and said proudly, "I am the goblin with the best driving skills in Gringotts!"

Neither Franklin nor Benjamin had ever owned a private vault before, so they were confused when they heard this. They didn't quite understand why a bank employee with Nose Ring should be proud of his excellent driving skills.

Mike, on the other hand, recalled the memories of depositing and withdrawing Jin Jialong in the past, and couldn't help but feel nauseated.

He really didn't understand why Gringotts, a monopoly company as big as this, didn't improve the user experience?

What age is this? The passage to the underground vault is still an outdated minecart!

Is it really that difficult to imitate the Ministry of Magic and build a magic elevator?

Perhaps this is why Muggle society has established antitrust laws!

Mike thought so, followed the nose ring through the door in the hall, and came to the mine car.

At the same time, he also had some expectations for Nose Ring’s driving skills.

However, when the nose ring started the minecart, Mike understood that there was no operability in driving the minecart to slide on the track.

Especially if the minecart track is in a state of disrepair.

The minecart began to speed up like a group of wild horses that had escaped the reins. Because the speed was so fast, sparkles continued to appear at the connection between the minecart and the track. Coupled with the screams of Franklin and Benjamin, this The scene looked like a scene from a horror movie!

However, the screams were screams, and Benjamin and Franklin still did not forget their mission this time.

I saw them sitting on the bumpy mine cart, holding the handle with one hand, and pressing the glasses firmly on their glasses with the other hand to prevent them from flying out.

At the same time, they were still looking around to ensure that this pair of magic glasses could capture as many images as possible.

The small minecart kept speeding on the maze-like track, surrounded by narrow passages as far as the eye could see.

I don’t know how long it took, but it suddenly dawned on them. The mine cart actually arrived in a huge underground space. The air that was slightly fresh but smelled of sulfur slapped on everyone’s faces. This made people watch a lot of science fiction novels. Benjamin had some not so good associations.

‘It has long been rumored in Diagon Alley that the space beneath Gringotts has been dug to the center of the earth. Now coupled with this strong smell of sulfur, could the legend be true? ’

Thinking like this, Benjamin unconsciously started to look under the mine cart, but as soon as he took a look, he took a breath of air.

Fire dragon!

Several fire dragons that looked about the same size as ants were lying deep underground, spitting out flames of different colors.

Benjamin hurriedly grabbed his glasses with both hands, trying to carefully record the distribution of the fire dragons.

However, the next moment, a burst of ice-cold water poured on his head, chilling him to the core!

"Shet!"

Benjamin cursed as he eagerly wiped his glasses with the still dry shirt under his suit.

When Nose Ring saw this, he laughed loudly and explained:

"Guest, that is the anti-thief waterfall! It can wash away all spells and magical disguises. It is one of our defensive measures at Gringotts!"

"You should really dismantle it, the experience of this thing is really bad! I don't believe you have no other measures to identify the user's true identity!"

Benjamin complained, but he kept looking back at the small waterfall, and silently wrote down the words about the nose ring.

Faced with Benjamin's complaints, Nose Ring didn't respond at all, and continued to concentrate on driving the mine cart, as if he wanted to show off his driving skills in front of Mike, the real boss.

Under Nose Ring's "exquisite driving skills", everyone finally arrived at Mike's original secondary vault with sparks and lightning.

When the mine cart stopped on the platform, both Benjamin and Franklin breathed a deep sigh of relief. At the same time, they cast sympathetic and admiring glances at Mike. It was hard for them to imagine that they had been riding in a car whose driving skills were worse than a nose ring. How much did Mike suffer in the minecart driven by Griphook?

But when they looked at Mike, they found that Mike's appearance was no different from before. Looking at themselves, the custom-made suit on his body was completely soaked, and Benjamin's proud long back was also soaked with water. Soggy mess.

Mike suppressed a smile and took out the key and opened the vault.

At this time, the gold Galleons in Mike's vault had already piled up due to the crazy expansion of the Los Santos Group. It is no wonder that Gringotts suggested that Mike change his vault.

When Franklin and Benjamin entered the vault, everyone was stunned. No one could remain unmoved in front of the gold mountain that reached the ceiling.

Of course, I'm talking about people, not goblins.

Nose Ring's expression was quite indifferent. It worked silently, using the magic of the fairies to put all the gold Galleons into a small bag, and then led everyone to get on the mine cart again, ready to Go to the most heavily defended area in Gringotts, the first-level vault group!

This treasury group specially prepared for ancient pure-blood families and top dignitaries is located at the lowest level of the entire underground space, which is located next to the breeding areas of fire dragons and sphinxes.

When the minecart stopped again, Benjamin, Franklin and others finally had the opportunity to observe these monster guards up close.

There are some creatures with advanced intelligence like sphinxes, but those fire dragons are really miserable.

Huge rusty iron chains penetrate directly into their bodies, imprisoning them firmly on the ground. Since they have not seen the sun for many years, their scales are abnormally white, and there are a lot of scars on them.

But despite this, they are still very fierce.

As soon as they heard the brakes of the minecart, they swooped over with their mouths wide open.

The nose ring frowned slightly when he saw this, and calmly took out a bunch of iron pieces and shook them.

As a very special crisp sound came out, the originally ferocious fire dragons quickly retreated with painful expressions on their faces and retracted into their corners.

"Oh, these unfed beasts!"

Nose Ring looked at the fire dragons with disdain, raised his head, and continued to move forward with everyone with a proud look on his face.

Benjamin, Franklin and others looked at each other, feeling very shocked.

They are not fools and have some knowledge about domesticating animals.

The performance of the fire dragons just now was obviously an instinct for the sound of iron pieces. This instinct requires the use of very inhumane methods to train. Only in this way can the fire dragons recall the pain they felt when they were tortured when they heard the sound.

Although the space where the first-level treasury group is located is extremely large, even larger than the entire second-level and third-level treasury groups combined, it is obviously not fully utilized.

Mike and others were guided by Nose Ring for nearly ten minutes before they arrived at a smooth stone door. During these ten minutes, they did not see any other stone door!

"Sir, this is your treasury. In addition to the full set of prohibition protection we provide, you can also choose other services, such as engraving your family or personal unique emblem or imprint on the stone door, or you can also let We are adding more magic restrictions, for example, we can attach triggering replication spells and fire spells to the treasures in your vault, and anyone who touches them illegally will be burned and crushed to death by the constantly replicating treasures." Rubbing his nose ring with his hands, he said with a flattering smile, "Of course, these services require extra charges!"

"Give me all the corrections you can do!"

Mike's heroic speech made the whole nose ring goblin happy. It clapped its hands excitedly, and then took out a bill and handed it to Mike.

1500 gold galleons.

This is what a nose ring calls a full package.

I have to say that the price is a bit expensive. The goblins like the nose ring are suspected of robbing him, but Mike really doesn't care about money now. What he cares about is how to use the nose ring to defraud Gringotts' defense system.

"Name, I can sign. But you can't cut corners on all the security measures for me. Do you understand?"

"Of course! We are Gringotts! Our service is always the best!"

Mike thought of the mine cart from before, curled his lips, and was too lazy to complain, and continued:

"I'm too lazy to understand these things. My secretary will discuss it with you."

With that said, Mike handed the entire bill to Benjamin, and he led Franklin to visit the Fire Dragon and the Sphinx.

Benjamin frowned as he looked at the densely packed prohibited catalogs on the bill.

After all, Gringotts has been able to run something for so many years. Benjamin could see the difficulty in it after just a few glances at the items on this bill.

But as the president, Mike had already issued the order, so Benjamin had no choice but to face the difficulty.

"Mr. Nose Ring, according to what the bill says, the door to the vault can only be opened by goblins, right?"

"Yes, Mr. Secretary." Nose Ring replied, "All the vault doors here are enchanted with unique magic. If you are not a goblin, you will not be able to open the vault door even if you have the key."

"What if someone tries to force entry?"

"You don't have to worry at all. Our door is extremely strong and will never be forcibly broken open. In addition, intruders will be sucked into the door and suffocated to death the moment they touch it. We will open the vault door and inspect it once every ten years. That is To check if there were any bodies inside.”

Nose Ring said proudly, and when Benjamin heard the words, he noticed the key to his words and hurriedly looked through the catalog on the bill.

After a while, Benjamin smiled.

"Mr. Nose Ring, I saw the ban on the anti-Shapeshifting Curse on the list. So can this ban restrict goblins and house elves?"

"Of course, without this restriction we wouldn't be using minecarts as a means of transportation."

"What about the portkey?"

The smile on Nose Ring's face suddenly froze.

"Of course... of course!"

"Oh? Is that really true?"

"Of course! We are Gringotts! Do you think that a large enterprise like ours would not even think of such a thing?"

Nose Ring roared angrily, and the smile on Benjamin's face became even brighter when he saw this.

"Okay, Mr. Nose Ring, let's skip this question and go straight to the next one."

…

Three hours later, Benjamin closed the bill and said to the nose ring with a serious expression:

"Mr. Nose Ring, given the security measures of your bank, I think the asking price of 1,500 gold galleons is too high. 1,000 gold galleons is the correct price."

The nose ring opposite Benjamin now looked haggard. In the past three hours, the hateful secretary in front of him had asked almost every item on the list. If that was all, forget it. But this secretary is just like nitpicking, he can find shortcomings in even the most perfect measures!

This makes the nose ring very tiring!

Now he has no desire to continue to entangle with Benjamin. He doesn't care at this moment even if Benjamin tries to bargain hard.

He waved his hands and said weakly:

"Listen to you, listen to you!"

Hearing this, Benjamin was overjoyed and hurriedly tore the bill in his hand into pieces, and drew up a new bill of 1,000 gold galleons with the nose ring, and then handed the new bill to Mike with a proud look on his face.

"Oh, did you kill that much?" Mike looked at the number on the bill and said to Benjamin in surprise, "But I'm not short of money. I'll give you the 500 gold galleons I saved as a bonus."

"thank you boss!"

Benjamin hurriedly bowed and thanked him, smiling so hard that he couldn't even see his eyes.

The nose ring on the side was so angry that its nose was crooked, and it finally understood.

Why is the secretary in front of me bargaining so hard? His boss is a money-lover, and the money he kills will eventually go into his pocket.

Suddenly, Nose Ring felt like he had lost 100 million.

Mike signed the bill readily and handed the money to Nose Ring and Benjamin on the spot, then turned and walked in the direction of the mine car.

Benjamin counted out 100 gold coins from the 500 gold galleons and secretly stuffed the nose ring in a corner where no one could see.

As soon as he took the heavy bag into his hands, the look of indignation on Nose Ring's face disappeared, replaced by extreme astonishment.

"Mr. Nose Ring, this is a tip for you." Benjamin winked at the nose ring and said, "I will come here often to help our boss deposit and withdraw gold galleons. Please take good care of me in the future."

The nose ring is an old employee of Gringotts. After just weighing it, he knew that there would be a lot of gold coins in the belt. When he heard Benjamin say this, a smile instantly appeared on his face. The original disgust and hatred towards Benjamin was reflected in this bag. Under Jin Jialong's attack, it also turned into sincere joy.

"You're still pretty smart!" Nose Ring slapped Benjamin's arm and said, "Don't worry, leave all these little things to me!"