The Shopkeeper of All Worlds in the British Wizarding World

Chapter 169 The Strange Store
When they came to the largest bookstore in Mahogany Town, Ryan and the others discovered that because today is the school’s student purchasing day, the bookstore took this opportunity to invite several famous writers to attract customers, and the entire bookstore was surrounded by wizards who came here. They were so packed that it seemed likely that they would not even be able to squeeze in.

In this way, the bookstore can only be crossed out from the travel destination regrettably.After all, it is really not suitable for reading when it is so lively inside.

Since this kind of big bookstore is not good, Ryan immediately thought of going to a second-hand bookstore to find Taobao.As a place where books are as expensive as in the UK, there are naturally not too few second-hand bookstores.However, because the profit of second-hand books is not high, the bookstore will definitely not be located in such a bustling commercial street. After all, that 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 this kind of street where people come and go.

Because I was a little worried about going to the back streets and alleys, especially the description of South American security in the past life news was not very good.So Ryan found an excuse to put something in the pocket of the portable space out of Hermione's sight before continuing their journey.

After that, I asked several people, and went around a few times on the street.Ryan and Hermione finally found a second-hand bookstore on a small side street with few people.

This shop looks a bit like Ollivander's wand shop in Diagon Alley. The facades are very small, but it gives people a mysterious feeling.There are piles and piles of books in the gray window.There is a badly oxidized metal sign in the window, which reads in Spanish: Small shop in Skorzeny.

Pushing open the door, Ryan realized that the store had a small face, but the space inside was not small, and all kinds of goods filled up the shelves one after another.After roughly scanning the items on the shelves, Ryan found that this was not a simple second-hand bookstore, but a large-scale thrift store.

Strings of feathers of various colors, old magic wands with various scratches, strange stone carvings, various herbs (Lian, who is proficient in plants, swears that most of them are fake), props with colorful lights and Magic books, these things are stacked layer by layer on the shelves.Except for the simplest classification, the whole store looks like a large garbage recycling bin.

After going around a small pile of unidentifiable specimens and stepping over a broom with only a stick left, Ryan saw the owner of the small shop, a white-haired old man who looked to be in his 70s.He was dozing off behind the counter in a black wizard robe.

After seeing Ryan and the others standing in front of him, he just waved his hand weakly and said: "There are prices on every shelf. After you choose something, just come to me to check out. Remember, once you take it off the shelf You must buy it, there are magic monitoring in the store, don’t think about getting 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 Sickle to ten Galleons.

After browsing a few shelves, Ryan came to the conclusion that the owner of the store was a black-hearted businessman.Because he really couldn't see why he dared to bid such a high price for that pile of junk.The most important thing is that there are runes on each shelf that are used to shield magical perception, which allows you to reach into the shelf to look at those things, but you can only know how these things are after you take them out. No wonder the store Items that are required to be taken off the shelf must be bought.

Seeing Hermione flipping through the textbooks of Ilvermorny and Castro Brusso on some shelves, Ryan quietly walked aside to check the goods on other shelves.

Although every shelf uses magic means to release the magic of concealment and isolation, but it does not mean that these magics are foolproof.When Ryan began to perceive the products on the shelves using the Taoist perception method, he found that he could vaguely feel the magical energy contained in some things.

It's no wonder, after all, Taoism is an extraordinary power of a completely different system. It is very likely that the boss didn't think of this kind of thing when he set up the magic.So it was to be expected that Ryan caught some loopholes.

In Taoist perception, Ryan discovered that the owner of this shop was darker than he thought.For example, Castro Bruso's Potions class once introduced something called wood essence (there is a non-magic subspecies of this thing called American ginseng), because it has the effect of replenishing vitality and low yield , so the price is not cheap.

Ryan saw a complete wood essence on a shelf with a price of ten Galleons, which was far lower than the market price.However, in the perception of Taoism, the wood essence placed on the shelf is actually only the outermost layer of skin, and the inside is filled with the rhizome of another unknown plant.

To be honest, with such an exquisite degree of fraud, even without these magical barriers, many people would still be fooled by it.

However, 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 there are only so few people in the wizarding world.If there were only fakes, the store would have been smashed.

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 mahogany, but it was enough for Ryan to make a magic sword. Judging by the size of this wood, in addition to making a sword, it is enough to make a set of talisman cards.

In addition to this, Ryan also picked out some ores with magical reactions and prepared to go back to see what is useful.

When he went to the counter to check out with a bunch of things, he accidentally found a black leather notebook under the boss's counter. The cover of the notebook reflected the sunlight outside the window. Ryan could see a triangle, a circle and a circle imprinted on it. The vertical symbol looks a lot like a triangular eye.

Ryan paused because he recognized that the symbol on the book represented Grindelwald's saints.Consider the age of the owner and the German name of the store, Skorzeny.Ryan felt that the shopkeeper was probably one of the saints back then.

Thinking of this, Ryan felt that he was about to break out in a cold sweat.After all, it is the shadow of a famous tree.Unlike Voldemort's mob-like Death Eaters, Grindelwald's saints are much more organized than the Death Eaters.Once the shopkeeper knew that he had discovered his secret, he couldn't tell what would happen, so Ryan just wanted to ask Hermione to leave the shop as soon as possible.

But sometimes you come here for whatever you are afraid of. After seeing the things Ryan took out, the shopkeeper suddenly smiled at him, and then said: "Boy, your eyesight looks good, do you want to take a look at the back warehouse with me?" Good stuff inside?"

(End of this chapter)