Chapter 644 Gringotts's Tight Defense, Griphook with Ill Intentions (1/2)
Chapter 644 Gringotts's tight defense, Griphook with ill intentions
Aaron waved Ollivander's wand and split the anti-thief waterfall in the middle, forming a water gate large enough for the cart to pass through.
Then he snapped his fingers and released the time stop of the cart.
"Okay, keep going."
Griphook looked at Aaron deeply and restarted the cart.
The clicking sound rang again in the dark tunnel, but the speed was much slower than before.
A few minutes later, the cart stopped at the end of the tunnel.
Roar!
A low dragon roar came from the corner.
"It doesn't sound good." Ron swallowed his saliva and looked at Aaron worriedly, "Can you handle it?"
"Shh!" Aaron made a gesture to silence, "It's angry, angry about its experience, but also desperate, desperate about its fate.
It can be heard that Gringotts may not take good care of this dragon."
"We need it to guard the vault, and it is inevitable to use some means in the process of taming it." Bodrog explained, "We blinded the eyes of the Ukrainian Iron Belly, put heavy shackles on it, and trained it to form a conditioned reflex to the dingdang piece. It will retreat in fear when it hears the sound of the dingdang piece."
At this point, Bogrod's face showed a trace of panic, "Sorry, my master, I didn't bring the dingdang piece down.
If you allow me, I will go back and get it."
"No, you wait here for me, and come in after you deal with the dragon." Aaron said, and then strode around the corner.
"Roar!"
The Ukrainian Iron Belly found someone coming, opened its mouth and roared, spewing flames.
"I don't like this way of greeting." Aaron raised his eyebrows slightly, and a wisp of red flame oozed from the corner of his mouth, "The roar of the fire dragon."
Boom!
The two flames collided with each other, and after a stalemate for a moment, Aaron's flames suppressed the Ukrainian Iron Belly to the corner of the wall.
"Let's talk!" Aaron said in dragon language.
When the Ukrainian Iron Belly heard the language of its kind, its huge body was slightly stunned, "Human, but you can speak the language of dragons, are you a dragon speaker?"
"It depends on the specific situation." Aaron said meaningfully, "If you cooperate well, I can be a dragon speaker, if you listen obediently, I can be a dragon rider, but if you are stubborn, I can also be a dragon slayer."
"What do you want to talk about?" The Ukrainian Iron Belly asked very sincerely. It knew its own situation very well. It was blind and its limbs were bound by iron chains. It would definitely suffer in a fight.
"Let us go." Aaron said straight to the point, "There is something I want in the vault you are guarding."
"I can't do it." Ukrainian Iron Belly shook the dragon head and growled hoarsely, "If I let you in, those damn goblins will not let me go.
Look at the scars on my face and neck, they were all cut by weapons with magic flames."
"Then I don't mind being a dragon slayer again, you will be the second dragon to die in my hands."
"I advise you not to do it." Ukrainian Iron Belly was fearless, "I might I can't beat you, but if I make too much noise, it will trigger the alarm."
"Tsk!" Aaron smacked his lips, and after a moment of silence, he said, "How about this, let's make a deal."
"You let us in, I'll heal your eyes and loosen the chains on you.
As for whether you can leave here later, it depends on your own ability."
"Are you serious?" Ukraine Iron Belly suddenly became excited. It was not that it didn't try to escape, but it couldn't fly very high in this underground maze without being hit and bleeding, and then it would be caught by the goblin.
"I always keep my word, I can show you my sincerity first."
After saying that, Aaron injected a ball of blue-purple energy into Ukraine Iron Belly's eyes.
Under the effect of healing power, the turbid pink in its pupils gradually faded, allowing it to see the surrounding scene clearly.
"Do you believe it now?"
Ukrainian Iron Belly roared excitedly, "As expected of a dragon speaker, I agree to this deal, you can go in."
"Don't worry, I haven't made it clear just now." Aaron said calmly, "I will loosen your chains only after we get out safely.
But you still have to stay here for a month."
"Why?" Ukrainian Iron Belly said dissatisfiedly. It was not easy to regain light and freedom, and it didn't want to stay in this dark place for a moment.
"Because if you run away, everyone will know that there is a problem with the vault, which is not in my interest."
Ukrainian Iron Belly also calmed down after hearing this. The IQ of dragons is sometimes higher than that of humans. It thought about it and understood why Aaron made such a request.
"A month is too long. I will stay here for a maximum of three days."
"You are not qualified to bargain with me." Aaron's tone changed, "Either agree or die, both roads are easy to choose."
"Aren't you worried about triggering the alarm?"
"I am fully confident that I can kill you before the alarm is triggered. I am worried that if you die, Gringotts will still find out that the vault has been stolen, which is not in my interest."
Hearing this, Ukrainian Iron Belly's heart skipped a beat.
It didn't know if Aaron was lying to it, but it couldn't afford to gamble.
"Okay, one month is one month.
But if someone comes to check the vault during this period, I will have to escape in advance."
"No problem." Aaron chuckled, and then wrote a few strange red characters in the air, "A contract unique to dragons, you know what to do."
Ukrainian Iron Belly looked at the contract carefully, and a trace of surprise flashed in the dragon's eyes, "Your team... Interesting, the dragon speakers of this era are really cunning."
"This is called caution. In fact, you should be glad that I have such ability."
Ukrainian Iron Belly nodded undeniably. If Aaron didn't sign this contract, he would worry that it would escape in advance, but he would also worry that Aaron would not loosen the chains that bound it.
As the white dragon claws touched the characters, the blood-red text slowly dissipated, indicating that the contract was officially reached.
"Okay, you can come in."
Harry and others who were waiting anxiously outside heard Aaron's voice and immediately turned the corner.
Ukrainian Iron Belly lay quietly in the corner, glanced at a few people, closed his eyes and dozed off.
"Great." Harry praised, "How did you do it?"
"Personal charm, I successfully convinced it."
"Just put Bogrod's hand on the door of the vault to open the vault." Griphook said.
Aaron looked at Bogrod, "Go!"
"Yes, my master."
Bogrod pressed his palm on the door, and the heavy door opened automatically.
Several people walked into the vault together, and the door closed automatically as soon as they entered, and it became dark inside.
"It doesn't matter, Bogrod can take us out." Griphook comforted.
"Fluorescent flashing." Aaron lit the wand, and then waved it gently, and the light on the wand flew to the ceiling, and expanded dozens of times to become a giant light source that could illuminate the entire vault.
Everyone could see the scene in the vault clearly. They saw a huge amount of gold coins and gold and silver utensils piled from the floor to the ceiling. In addition to gold and silver, there were various armors, wings, bones, furs of rare magical animals, potions in vases, and skulls wearing crowns...
"Rich, pure-blood families are really rich." Aaron sighed.
"Not every pure-blood family is rich." Ron said resentfully. The vault of the Weasley family was so empty that mice could run away.
"Okay, stop talking nonsense, and hurry up to find it!" Harry urged.
"Wait." Aaron stopped him hurriedly, "Don't touch anything here, even if you find the golden cup, don't act rashly, the Dark Lord will not take any precautions."
"Fire spell and copy spell." Bogrod said, "This is the main means for Gringotts to protect the wealth of ancient wizard families. Anything touched without permission will be burned and copied.
Once this mechanism is triggered, the alarm of Gringotts will sound, and if the people in the vault do not leave in time, they will be overwhelmed by a large number of worthless copies, and then burned to death by the fire spell."
Ron, who was about to reach out to touch a cup, stopped his hand in a huff, "Fortunately, I didn't touch it."
"The cup is very small and made of gold." Harry dug out the memory in his mind, "There is a handle on each side, and a badger is engraved on it."
"Thank you for providing this information, Harry.
But to be honest, it is still difficult to find such a cup among hundreds of gold cups." Ron smiled far-fetchedly.
"Harry, it's time to show your value." Aaron said meaningfully, "As a person in the prophecy, you have to trust your intuition."
Harry nodded, and his eyes slowly moved from left to right.
Suddenly his heart skipped a beat, and he stared at the ceiling at the highest point. A golden cup was shining under the fluorescent light, and there was a badger standing on the surface.
"That's it, the golden cup is there." Harry said excitedly.
"Golden cup is flying!" Ron pointed his wand at the golden cup and shouted, but it didn't work at all, "Okay! The flying spell is useless.
But if we want to go up, we can't avoid touching the gold. I guess we will be overwhelmed by countless copies before we get the golden cup, and we can't be sure whether the golden cup has also been cast with the copying spell."
"Sword, let's try with the sword." Harry suddenly thought of something, took out the sword of Gryffindor from his bag, and carefully touched a silver vessel in the vault with it. Sure enough, there was no copy or split.
"You can take down the golden cup by passing the sword through the handle, but we have to find a way to get up first."
"But how do we get up?" Ron asked, "We don't have any flying props."
"Let me do it!" Aaron took the sword of Gryffindor from Harry, "The best thing you did in this mission was to find me."
"How are you going to get up?"
"Fly up!" Aaron said as a matter of course, and then under the astonished eyes of everyone, his feet left the ground and flew straight to the ceiling.
"Watfa..." Ron blinked blankly, "Professor Hooch didn't teach us this way of flying."
"Don't be envious." Harry smiled bitterly and shook his head, "Many of his magic is not available in the Hogwarts library."
Swish!
The sword pierced the handle of the Hufflepuff cup and picked it up on the blade.
At the same time, several magic circles of different colors appeared around the cup, sealing the magic on it.
"Done." Aaron landed steadily on the ground, threw the Hufflepuff cup into the space magic circle, and then returned the Gryffindor sword to Harry.
"Give me the sword." Griphook suddenly said, "I have fulfilled my promise, and now it is your turn, Harry Potter, to fulfill your promise."
"Griphook, this is it..." Harry opened his mouth awkwardly, "We did promise to give you the sword, but..."
"But, you said but?" Griphook asked angrily, "Harry Potter, you are not going to fulfill your promise at all, right?"
"We will give you the sword, but not now." Ron was a little too proud. Anyway, the Hufflepuff gold cup had been obtained, and Griphook's role was not so important.
"You...are you playing word games?" Griphook smiled coldly, and then put his finger close to a golden vessel, "Give me the sword now, or don't blame me for setting off the alarm."
Ron was stunned, and said in panic: "Are you crazy? You can't escape even if Gringotts finds you."
"To be exact, you can't escape." Griphook smiled coldly, "As long as I can offer Ragnak I's sword, the goblins will accept me again.
As for you...those Death Eaters saw Harry Potter, and I, the one who set off the alarm, can be regarded as making up for my sins!"
"Griphook, calm down first." Harry hurriedly advised, "You don't know what this vault means to the Dark Lord, he won't let you go.
And we will give you the sword after we use it, and it will not exceed half a year at most."
"Do you think I will still trust you?" Griphook shouted, "Now, give me the sword."
"Now you know why I asked you to sign so many contracts!" Aaron sighed faintly, "Harry, give him the sword!"
Harry hesitated for a few seconds and reluctantly threw Gryffindor's sword to Griphook.
"Don't move, otherwise I might accidentally touch something." Griphook was alert to the three people and put away Gryffindor's sword with satisfaction.
Then he grabbed Bogrod in front of him and pressed his palm on the door of the vault.
Click!
The door of the vault opened, and Griphook held Bogrod hostage and retreated outside.
"What are you going to do?" Harry asked nervously.
Griphook showed a sinister smile, "I only said I would bring you in, but I didn't say I would take you out."
Bang!
The door of the vault closed again, and Griphook's arrogant laughter came from outside.
"Despicable villain." Ron cursed angrily, and then sat on the floor in despair, "This is over, we can't get out."
"There is a way, we are not without hope." Harry suppressed the panic in his heart and comforted: "There are still Sirius and others. If we can't go back in time, they will definitely come to save us."
Ron couldn't deny it, but his mood didn't improve at all, "The question is whether we can hold on until then."
"Ahem!" Aaron coughed, "Things may not be that serious yet."