Chapter 236 Ukrainian Iron Belly

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"It's unbelievable, those rumors from the outside world are true, there is actually a dragon in Gringotts!" Harry shouted in surprise, his eyes mixed with curiosity and panic.

"Ukrainian iron belly, the largest dragon in the world, is very dangerous." Sirius said cautiously, "These goblins should have a way to subdue it, it seems that they tortured it enough, but we'd better be careful Aiwen, don't get so close!"

Ivan stood next to Griphook, looking curiously at the giant dragon at the corner.

Although he had seen descriptions of dragons in many magic books, this was the first time he had seen a living dragon.

As the largest known dragon in the magic world, Ukrainian Iron Belly can weigh up to six tons. Its body is round, and the scales on its belly are extremely hard. Compared with other Venomous Dragons or Longhorns, its flying speed is slower, but it is more dangerous.

It has the habit of landing from a high altitude, crushing everything below into powder.

Normally, its scales are shiny gray, its eyes are dark red, and its claws are unusually long and vicious.

They have been the subject of surveillance by wizarding authorities in Ukraine and Romania since 1799, when an iron belly swept a shipping vessel out of the Black Sea.

Dragon's blood and scales are extremely precious magic materials. Heart cords and nerves are used to make the core of wands. In ancient times, only a few powerful wizards could obtain these things, because only they had the ability to slay dragons.

Although there are already places dedicated to raising giant dragons for profit, the prices of dragon blood and scales are still more than the same weight of gold.

Different types of giant dragons have different dragon blood, scales, nerve function, and value.

Among giant dragons, the magic power of Ukrainian Iron Belly is relatively weak. Its dragon blood is not the best potion material, and few wand cores will choose Iron Dragon, but the hard ones on its belly Scales have extra magic power and are an essential material for many magic props.

However, Ivan doubts how valuable the scales of the Ukrainian iron belly in front of him will be, and whether anyone will need them, because it looks extremely haggard and unhealthy.

"Its eyes are failing!" Griphook panted beside Ai Wen, "It was locked here when it was a young dragon, and it has been more than two hundred years now. Its strength is declining, and its temper But it is much more brutal than those fire dragons outside. But we have a way to control it, it has already formed a conditioned reflex to jingle movies."

Pull-hook took out some small metal utensils from the trolley, and when they were shaken, they made a loud and crisp jingling sound, like a small hammer hitting an anvil.

He gave them to everyone and demonstrated how to use them.

"Okay, you know what to do." Griphook continued, "As soon as it heard this sound, it would think of pain and retreat, so we took this opportunity to run past him and into the small room at the end. "

"That's why I hate coming here!" muttered Sirius. "Crazy dragons, and equally crazy goblins..."

They lined up, with Griphook standing at the front, followed by Ivan, Hermione, Harry, and Sirius, each holding a metal utensil in their hands.

Ivan held Hermione tightly with his left hand, and her palm was full of sweat.

They followed Griphook, shaking the jingle piece and turned the corner again. The noise echoed between the stone walls and was amplified many times, making Ivan's brain seem to vibrate.

The dragon let out another hoarse roar, and stepped back.

Aiwen could see it trembling. When he got closer, he saw the white scales on its body and the terrible scars on its face. Afraid of the marks left when the fiery sword strikes.

Because it was close enough, Ivan could feel the amazing heat coming from it.

A few seconds later, when everyone passed through the fire dragon and entered the small room at the end, everyone turned pale, wiped off their sweat, and breathed a sigh of relief.

Getting up close and personal with a dragon is definitely something to brag about.

Everyone returned the metal utensils to the pull ring one by one. In front of them, there was a circular staircase going down, which looked very old. The blue rocks on the ground gave off faint fluorescence, exuding a mysterious atmosphere.

All the way down, the roar of the fire dragon gradually faded away.

The surroundings became quiet again. On both sides of the stairs were large and small vaults.

In addition to the numbers used to identify the rocks, Ivan could only see various strangely shaped gates.

Not surprisingly, the vault of the Death Eater Bellacritus was in it, which contained another Horcrux that Voldemort entrusted to her for safekeeping, Hufflepuff's golden cup.

Aiwen didn't know which one it was, but fortunately there weren't many vaults here. He tried his best to remember the terrain nearby, and went to a suspicious-looking gate to observe carefully, thinking about how to get this soul device destroyed...

"If you don't want to die, you'd better stay away from that door." Griphook suddenly turned around and said, "The door of the vault has been cast with extremely strong defensive magic and curses, only goblins can open it in the right way, otherwise ..."

"I just took a look!" Aiwen explained that he really just planned to take a look, remember the surrounding terrain, and prepare for breaking in to find the Horcrux in the future.

"I know, but I have to remind you that greed will never end well." Griphook grinned maliciously, "Remember, if you want to take something that doesn't belong to you from Gringotts, the only thing waiting for you is Death, the various magics arranged here are completely beyond your imagination."

"Ivan is just curious, no one will be interested in these scraps of iron." Sirius said impatiently, "Come on, we'd better go faster, I don't want to spend the whole day in the cave. "

The circular stairs meandered downwards, seemingly without end. They walked forward for about ten minutes, and when they came to the edge of the stairs, Griphook suddenly stopped.

Ai Wen also hurriedly stopped, the surroundings were pitch black, and there was no light at all.

A few of them pulled out their wands. Under the faint fluorescent light of the wands, Aiwen found that it was different from the above. There should be a naturally formed cave nearby.

There are cracks everywhere on the rock wall, and the sound of whirring comes out of the cracks.

Hoo, hoo, hoo! ! !

The sharp and ear-piercing voice didn't stop, it was extremely strange, like the roar of countless banshees.

The atmosphere is getting tense, they just saw the giant dragon, no one can tell what else, do these crazy goblins use banshees to guard the deep underground vault? !

Ivan felt Hermione leaning towards him, holding him tightly with her little hands.

"What are these noises, and what's down there?" Harry asked in a low voice.

"It's the wind!" Sirius' voice also contained a trace of depression, "As for the things below, you will know immediately, it is definitely an unpleasant scene that you can't imagine. I was brought by my father sixteen years ago. I’ve been here once, and I don’t want to come here again...” (To be continued.) 8