The Admiral of Hogwarts

Realizing that this symbol belonging to Grindelwald and the Pure-Blood Supremacists was some kind of signal for posterity, the ship girls immediately surrounded the symbol and began to observe it. Soon, everyone found more information from this symbol.

“According to my observation, this moss has been growing here for at least sixty years without being moved.” After transforming into a bat, Formidable went forward to smell the moss and then said to Hugo through the Admiral Network.

“That is to say, this place was chosen and developed into some kind of base or something similar back when Grindelwald was at his zenith.”

It's not that strange for a Pure-Blood Supremacist base to appear in this place. After all, Grindelwald's alma mater, Durmstrang, is located in a fjord somewhere in Norway.

Establishing a base here would make it easier to observe the school's movements and recruit new people.

Of course, this gathering place belonging to the Pure-Blood Supremacists back then was likely public, so after Grindelwald was defeated, this area was raided by the Aurors of the Swedish Ministry of Magic. “

This presents a very abnormal situation. Since this place was public and the overall area was not very large, then why didn't the Aurors who raided it discover this place back then?

You need to know that the Aurors of various countries are elite who have undergone special training, including searching for various items. So the fact that this mark on the ground was never discovered naturally seems a bit strange.

“I think they may have been looking in the wrong direction.” Indomitable said at this time, while transmitting some pictures and short videos to Hugo through the Admiral Network.

“This is what I just discovered on the other side. It's the remains of a semi-underground three-story building hidden underground. If there are no accidents, this is the core building complex of the base back then.”

“Therefore, this place was also the focus of the Aurors' search. At least my reconnaissance plane tells me that the underground three-story ruin is cleaner than if a dog had licked it. Nothing was left except for some worthless debris.”

“In this case, the other party must have focused on that building instead of this remote wilderness back then. In addition, moss is not a magical plant. If you simply look at it with your eyes, it is difficult to distinguish it from the surrounding moss.”

“Besides, those ordinary wizards not only don't have the vision of us ship girls that far exceeds humans, but also rely heavily on their magic instead of their naked eyes. So even if they searched here several times, they didn't find this crucial symbol.”

“That makes a lot of sense.” Hugo nodded in agreement.

After all, when there are buildings, the other party will most likely focus their search on those man-made buildings, and there may be insufficient search efforts in these wilderness areas, so it is not surprising that they did not find this symbol.

Because the area covered by this symbol was not large, the ship girls quickly used the metal probes they carried to cast magic to check the situation under this piece of land.

“There are no artificial objects under here.” In less than ten minutes, the ship girls thoroughly checked the area under this piece of land. “The other party shouldn't have buried anything down there.”

“Then where could this thing be?” Z22, who came with them, asked in confusion, while frowning and looking at the symbol belonging to Grindelwald on the ground.

“I think we can look over there.” After circling the symbol a few times, Hugo suddenly had a flash of inspiration and pointed to the position pointed to by the corner above the symbol.

“Maybe those people used this symbol as an arrow to remind future generations.”

“Possible.” After listening to Hugo's analysis, Enterprise, Formidable, and Indomitable immediately launched reconnaissance planes and chased after the place pointed to by the tip of the sign below. Soon, several planes surrounded a tree as thick as a person.

“This tree should have been planted in that era.” After circling the tree, Z21 said in a very affirmative tone.

“I've been here for more than half a century. I know very well how long it takes for a tree to grow to a certain thickness in this area.”

Since they thought the tree was suspicious, Hugo and the others naturally wouldn't let it go. Fortunately, this place was already outside the range of the magical reconnaissance that the Aurors had previously set up, so the ship girls quickly dug out a box under the roots of the tree using magic.

This box was made of lead and looked only the size of a palm. The place where the box body was connected to the box lid was completely sealed with sealing wax, which seemed to be to keep the materials inside the box from being damaged.

Soon, Indomitable took out a metal plate engraved with a magic circle and placed it on the ground and activated it, then used the tool in her hand to remove the sealing wax from the gap in the box and opened the box.

“This is really a good thing.” Indomitable said as she reached into the box and took out a palm-sized tooth that glowed with a soft white light.

“If I'm not mistaken, this should be the tooth of the legendary Kraken.” Indomitable said after carefully examining the tooth in front of her with magic.

“This is a very precious potion material and alchemy raw material for wizards, especially this kind of tooth whose internal structure has been completely stabilized after hundreds of years.”

“How much is this thing worth?” Hugo pointed to the tooth in Indomitable's hand and asked.

“This one is probably worth 500 to 600 Galleons, and it's priceless. If I'm willing to auction it, I can easily get 800 Galleons.” Indomitable thought for a moment and then said to Hugo.

“That is indeed a great fortune.” After listening to Indomitable's words, Hugo sighed, and then said in a somewhat puzzled voice.

“But the problem now is that if it's just a few hundred Galleons, the two sides shouldn't have made such a big fuss.”

Thinking of this, Hugo put on gloves and checked the tooth and the lead box containing the tooth.

The tooth was normal, there was nothing wrong with it. But after carefully scraping off the oxide layer inside the lead box, Hugo saw two lines of numbers engraved with sharp tools on the specially reinforced bottom of the box.

“68525994, 1734170. What do these two lines of numbers mean?” After seeing clearly what was carved on the bottom of the box, Hugo raised his head in confusion.

“It can't be Gringotts' vault number, but I remember that Gringotts shouldn't have so many vaults.”

“This may be latitude and longitude.” Saint George suddenly said. As ship girls, the data they come into contact with most often is the latitude and longitude when sailing, so they thought of this aspect immediately.

“But even if these two lines of data represent latitude and longitude, there should be many ways to divide them. How do we know which place it is?” Hugo frowned.

“Don't forget, there is a Kraken's tooth in the box. So it should remind us that this place should be in the North Sea area.” Enterprise said with a smile, “So we should be able to filter out most of the wrong answers.”

A few minutes later, the ship girls narrowed the target to two points. These two points were all within the range of the North Sea, but one was in the depths of the North Sea, and the other was in a fjord in northern Norway.