At this mont, on the video recording device, Alan saw Clent, after completing his official duties at his own magic supply store, imdiately rush to the black market. From the black market warehouse, he used his personal spatial pouch to load a large amount of supplies, including a vast quantity of food, so alcoholic beverages, books, and various daily necessities.
It seems that besides managing No. 1 Park, Clent is also responsible for transporting essential daily supplies to the base. After several days of reconnaissance by Shalltear within the park, it was discovered that the wizards inside the base also had to pay for various daily necessities, and the prices were significantly higher than outside. Clearly, Clent indeed has a keen business mind, using goods from the outside to earn the salaries of the internal personnel of the base, thereby recovering funds, which in turn saves a lot of operating costs.
After Clent finished arranging everything, he went straight to his private office and opened the secret passage that Alan and the others had seen once before, then directly entered the fireplace. However, unlike ordinary wizards who shout out a place na when using a fireplace, Clent did not make a sound after scattering Floo Powder, simply allowing the flas surging from the fireplace to engulf him until he disappeared. From this, Alan could determine that the fireplace was equipped with a single-thread Floo Network, which could only lead to one place.
But when Clent reappeared, it was not, as Alan had thought, directly inside the breeding base, but rather in a place similar to a warehouse. Inside, there were four- to five-ter-high shelves everywhere, filled with various sundries and supplies, and these supplies were not like the ergency reserve supplies Alan had seen before in the basent of No. 277 Diagon Alley. Everything here could be said to be useless junk. There was a large pile of damaged tables, chairs, benches, and other broken furniture, covered in dust, along with many completely outdated discarded periodicals, worthless books, and so on; this was simply a dump for storing sundries.
After Clent entered, he wound his way through the large warehouse, turning left and right, until he reached a corner of the warehouse, stopping in front of a dirty, pointed cabinet. Imdiately after, Alan saw Clent open the cabinet door and squeeze inside. When he closed the cabinet door from the inside and then quickly opened it again, the scene outside the cabinet was completely new, having evidently transferred to the interior of the breeding base.
"Is this… a Vanishing Cabinet?" Alan, after seeing Clent's actions, recognized the object before him with just a mont's thought, and at the sa ti, his eyes widened, revealing a look of curiosity and longing.
"A Vanishing Cabinet? What's that? Is that how the old guy suddenly moved into the park? It's simply too magical." Hog, hearing Alan's exclamation, couldn't help but ask.
"A Vanishing Cabinet is an alchemy artifact imbued with powerful space magic. It's a set of equipnt consisting of two cabinets that can connect directly no matter how far apart they are, which is very magical. And I've never seen a real one before. I only saw related records in so rare alchemy secret tos. This kind of equipnt was invented hundreds of years ago by an unknown wizard. But due to the preciousness of the materials and the complexity of the manufacturing process, not many were circulated at first, and they gradually disappeared from the wizarding world over ti, with even the manufacturing process failing to be passed down. I thought this kind of thing had completely vanished, but I didn't expect to see a real one here."
Alan was very interested in these magical alchemy creations himself, so he couldn't help but exclaim when he saw a real Vanishing Cabinet.
"Then Clent using a Vanishing Cabinet to connect to the breeding base, doesn't that an the other two bases of the Silver Spears also have two sets of Vanishing Cabinets that can be used?" Hog naturally made the connection.
"No…" Alan shook his head upon hearing this, "We can't make such a quick judgnt yet. The preciousness of this equipnt is beyond your imagination. The Silver Spears couldn't possibly possess too many, and this thing might not even have been assigned to Clent by the club."
"You an, this set of Vanishing Cabinets belongs to Clent himself?" Hog tilted his head, sowhat puzzled.
"There's that possibility, because if the Silver Spears had such a powerful tool as a Vanishing Cabinet, they could use it for many more things, for example… for international smuggling!" Alan imdiately saw the crucial point.
"Ah? How much can such a small broken cabinet smuggle? Not many magical animals can fit in there, can they?" Hog replied, sowhat disbelievingly.
"You!" Alan gave Hog a speechless glance, "This is a wizarding world. If sothing is too big to fit, don't you know how to shrink them? Have you forgotten that you yourself have the ability to shrink? Although I don't know the specific principle of the Vanishing Cabinet, nor do I know if its range of effect has a limit, according to the records, the connection distance of this equipnt is almost infinite. The Silver Spears would only need to transport one of them to Europe, and when they need to smuggle magical animals from there, they can just temporarily shrink them and transfer them over."
Hog suddenly understood after hearing Alan's explanation. Indeed, even if such a good thing couldn't connect as far as Europe, connecting to other countries in Europe should be no problem. With a Vanishing Cabinet, smuggling efficiency could be greatly increased, and there would be no need to waste it in a place like this. It should be known that directly entering the breeding base from the outside is not much trouble, as long as soone inside helps open the door. The reason Alan and the others found it tricky was rely to avoid alarming the enemies inside when passing through the external protective shield.
"Then it seems Clent isn't completely loyal to the Silver Spears after all. He actually secretly kept such a good thing." Hog thought of this and covered his mouth, chuckling.
"That's natural. You also heard his previous conversation with Golden Knight. Clent has always wanted to beco an official mber. He must have kept this powerful tool hidden for when he officially joins the club in the future, to make a big splash." Alan said with a cold laugh.
"Oh, hearing you say that, this old fellow is quite ambitious. With his resources, plus this smuggling tool, if Clent really joins the club, he might even be promoted to a higher position in less than two years." Hog couldn't help but look at old man Clent in a new light at this mont.
"Indeed, I guess that's also why Golden Knight isn't letting him join the club so quickly. The supply of the Elixir of Life within the Silver Spears is already tight enough, and adding another mouth at this ti would be even more troubleso." Alan glanced mockingly at Clent in the footage.
At this mont, with Clent's perspective, Alan could finally glimpse the situation inside the central spire.
The entire core hub is divided into two levels, upper and lower. The lower level is a small warehouse, where a lot of supplies are stored, including ordinary daily necessities and so products from magical animals. For example, Billywig honey, Ashwinder eggs and shed skin, so dragon eggshells and scales, Graphorn horns, cans of Venomous Horned Beast explosive fluid, and so on.
Clearly, there are many by-products of magical animals stored here. With these outputs, a portion of the park's operating costs should be alleviated, and the Vanishing Cabinet is also placed among them, not very conspicuous.
After Clent arrived at the spire, he imdiately went up to the second floor, which is the core of the entire park's magical array.
Although it's called the second floor, the roof is almost invisible. It has a similar structure to the British Ministry of Magic's Alchemy Room, with the overall space being a rather large square room. The ground and surrounding walls are inscribed with a large number of runes, and a slender stone pillar stands straight up in the center of the room, passing through the void above to the very top. Alan suspected that even the tip of the spire was part of this stone pillar.
After Clent arrived here, he pulled out his wand and ca to the stone pillar for a routine inspection, occasionally leaning against the stone pillar to check sothing, and occasionally casting spells with weak fluctuations using his wand, but his gaze was basically only focused on the stone pillar, completely ignoring the magical patterns on the ground and walls. So, even though Alan watched very carefully, he couldn't discern too much information through the screen.
"How is it, my lord? Have you found anything?" Hog, seeing Alan constantly switching this video back and forth, couldn't help but interject after a while.
"The harvest isn't that great. The central stone pillar is similar to the one in the British Ministry of Magic's Alchemy Room, functioning like an amplifier. Clent's inspection is rely to ensure that this function is normal and to prevent any interruption in magic transmission." Alan shook his head sowhat helplessly, "The core driving runes of the protective array are basically inscribed on the ground, but this guy has no intention of maintaining this part at all. I estimate Clent might not even understand this kind of knowledge."
"That's possible." Hog's face showed a thoughtful expression upon hearing this, "Although that guy runs a magic supply store, he's not a professional alchemist, and the Silver Spears couldn't possibly give him the complete blueprints of the entire core hub. Perhaps the ground runes are also made of high-grade materials, so their quality is guaranteed, which is why they're so confident."
"That's certainly possible. The Silver Spears clearly wants to turn No. 1 Park into a permanent base, so it's very likely they'd invest heavily in a core magical array." Alan nodded in agreent with Hog's judgnt, "No wonder the strength of this magical shield is so high. I infiltrated it several tis in a row but couldn't break through. It seems trying to break through from the outside was a bit too naive, but fortunately, by chance, we discovered another passage to get in."
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