Chapter 117 Big Hole
The Leaky Cauldron at that time was a wizard dueling club, providing a venue for wizards to duel. Of course, most of the duels were on point. Life and death duels were not that common even in the Middle Ages. After all, wizards dueled most of the time. To resolve the dispute, not the person in question.
Later, in the early 16th century, Diagon Alley was built and the Leaky Cauldron opened. The original dueling club became the well-known Leaky Cauldron No. 1 in Diagon Alley. However, what many people don't know is that the dueling club still exists, but it's just a secret. Moved underground.
After all, we are now in a society governed by the rule of law, and wizard duels have basically been banned. Even if the Magic Eyes are on point in the duel, there will often be some force majeure factors, bloody violence breeds, and some even lose their lives.
Because of these restrictions, competitive activities such as wizard duels can only be moved underground. Of course, although they are nominally prohibited, wizard duels are a tradition in the magical world after all. The Ministry of Magic still allows them in some secret underground venues. What it secretly retains is the dueling club underneath the Leaky Cauldron.
The dueling club underground in the Leaky Cauldron is probably the largest dueling club in the UK. It is located nearly a thousand meters underground. I heard that when the underground club was being built, it happened to coincide with the development of the underground club by Gringotts. treasury.
The person in charge of the club at the time simply found the goblin clan who developed the vault and asked them to dig a huge space deep enough to accommodate three thousand people deep in the underground vault of Gringotts, directly beneath the Leaky Cauldron.
The entire huge project took nearly five years. After the completion, Gringotts directly sealed the entrance to the vault to ensure the safety of the vault, and placed a terrifying curse magic in the entrance connecting the vault to the club.
Those stingy goblins are not worried. There are many goblins patrolling the entire vault every day near the sealed entrance. What's even more outrageous is that Gringotts directly locked the dragon guarding the underground vault here. In order to prevent The wizards gave them all the treasures they could think of.
Newt wandered to the Broken Ax Bar, walked into the bar's utility room, and then closed the utility room door.
The moment the door closed, the entire utility room changed. The green bricks on the wall quickly rotated and a huge fireplace appeared.
A red flame burned in the fireplace, and the entire room was extremely hot.
Newt didn't pay attention and just looked up at the top of the fireplace. Above the fireplace was another sentence written in ancient runes: The brave dare to step through the flames and undergo the baptism of iron and blood.
Newt shook his head, turned over and stepped into the flames, disappearing into the fireplace in the next second, and then the room returned to its previous utility room, as if nothing happened just now.
Through the Floo network of the fireplace, Newt appears at the Duel Club a thousand meters underground.
What catches the eye is the reception hall of the entire club. The hall looks very large. The reception desk is at the front, surrounded by quaint sofa seats. The reception hall is extremely lively at this time. The wizards coming and going are sitting on the sofas chatting or It's about moving around.
Newt walked to the reception desk with ease. At the reception desk was a very charming-looking girl. The girl's skin was as fair as jade, her blond hair was like a golden veil, and her delicate face was charming with a bit of innocence. If this were placed on the 21st The cliff of the century is another ceiling of pure desire.
"Hello, sir, are you here to watch the duel or sign up to participate?" the female receptionist said with affection in her eyes and flirtatious glances from time to time.
How could Newt stand this? He hesitated awkwardly: "No. 006, I want to watch the game later. I was invited. This is my invitation letter."
Newt said and handed over the invitation letter. The female receptionist took the invitation letter with a smile. When taking the invitation letter, she caressed the back of Newt's hand with her green fingers intentionally or unintentionally. Newt quickly took a step back with a wry smile on his face.
Anyway, after all these years, I still can't stand Veela.
Newt secretly thought, yes, the female receptionist in front of him is a pure-blooded Veela. Although she looks like a human, when she reveals her true body, it will surprise people. Don't look at the sweet appearance of Veela, in fact, their personality Extremely bad, with unimaginable cruelty hidden in his heart.
"Is this Arena No. 006? It starts in thirty minutes. Please enter from the passage on the right. There will be staff to guide you."
The female Veela saw Newt's deliberate avoidance and was secretly annoyed. Her voice was a bit colder and far less gentle than before. Then she handed the invitation to Newt and ignored it, turning her head to face not far away. A sloppy man was posing.
Seeing that the Veela was no longer bothering him, Newt quickly took the invitation and entered the passage on the right. At the entrance of the passage on the right, a goblin in a suit led Newt inside.
After walking into the passage for about ten minutes, Newt saw a big hole appeared inexplicably on the right side of the passage, and many goblins were repairing the wall.
"What's going on? I remember this was a bathroom before. Why did it turn into a big hole? It seems like it was blown open by something."
The goblin remained cold, but Newt didn't care about the other person's attitude. He casually took out ten silver coins from his arms and handed them to the goblin.
The goblin's expression changed instantly, from being cold at the beginning to being extremely flattering, and he explained seriously: "It was almost two months ago, Gringotts was invaded by dark wizards, and a dragon broke free from its restraints during the chaos. This big hole was blown out by the dragon when it escaped."
"It's been two months, why are you only starting to repair it now?"
"It takes a lot of money to repair it here. Neither Gringotts nor the club are willing to pay for it. The two sides discussed it for two months. Gringotts believes that the damaged part belongs to the Duel Club, so the club should repair it itself, but the club believes that it was caused by Gringotts' dragon, so Gringotts should repair it and compensate for the loss..."
"Yeah, it's a routine operation for both parties. How was it resolved in the end? Who paid for the repairs? And was the murderer caught? Was the dragon found?" Newt asked again.
"Since the incident happened in Diagon Alley, which belongs to the Foley family, in order not to affect the operation of Gringotts and the club, the Foley family finally intervened and paid for the repairs. As for the murderer who attacked Gringotts, we all know how inefficient the Ministry of Magic is. Not to mention the murderer, they didn't even find the dragon. I heard that the guys in Gringotts are looking for a lawyer these days and plan to sue the Ministry of Magic to the Wizengamot Council and ask the Ministry of Magic to compensate for the loss of the dragon."