Chapter 238: A Treasure Beyond Imagination

? Thousands of years ago, the structure of the magic world was different from that of the present. At that time, the British social background was very chaotic, the territory was not unified, and the entire European continent was also in wildness and darkness.

In addition to wizards, many races of magical creatures flourished.

They don't live in seclusion like they are now. On the contrary, they frequently appear in the wizarding world, have frequent exchanges and transactions with wizards, and even accept the employment of wizards to directly participate in Muggle wars.

Among the many magical creatures, goblins are definitely extremely special.

Because of their natural greed and liking for gold, they have the closest connection with humans. They directly set up shops in the wizarding society and provided wizards with a large number of well-made magic props, weapons, armor and other services.

But the inherent pride and cunning in their characters made them not trust humans.

In the eyes of goblins, they and human wizards are just equal cooperation and have the same status. To put it more bluntly, it is completely a relationship between using money and being used.

As long as they are slightly dissatisfied, they will launch a rebellion and make trouble for a while.

In this environment, many powerful wizards and pure-blood wizard families do not believe in goblins, and they are skeptical of Gringotts established by goblins.

In their view, they would rather bury their family treasures in their own castle or in a hidden place than Gringotts, whose security is questionable.

This kind of ethos was very popular in the Middle Ages and the previous period, which is the main reason why many precious magical relics can be found in later generations.

After centuries of excavation, these magical relics have become very rare, and the rest that have not been found or successfully excavated are all relics left by very powerful wizards. For example, in the pyramids of Egypt, Gringotts has a long-term cooperation with the Egyptian wizarding authority. They have jointly excavated and deciphered this ancient magical relic for a long time. Ron's brother Bill Weasley was there as a spellbreaker. Work.

The rulers of Egypt thousands of years ago, those powerful elders and wizards arranged countless powerful spells and curses in the pyramids, and the cracking work is progressing very slowly.

Like the pyramids, the same is true of the once-prominent Gryffindor and Hufflepuff families. They did not keep their family wealth in Gringotts like Slytherin and Ravenclaw, but hid it in other places. place, so far undiscovered.

How much property Godric Gryffindor has, Ivan can't be sure.

However, the description of Helga Hufflepuff in the relevant magic history books clearly states that besides cooking, her hobby is collecting gold.

With Hufflepuff's strength, the property she left behind is definitely an astonishing astronomical figure, but she doesn't know where she will hide it. The Hufflepuff family also has no descendants. A thought suddenly popped up in Ivan's mind, she wouldn't hide all those things in the Hogwarts Chamber of Secrets, that's really...

Wait until he pays all kinds of hardships to open the secret treasure left by the Big Four, and then finds that Hufflepuff left him a whole house of gold!

Ivan smiled bitterly, and hurriedly removed this thought from his mind. Although gold is good, it is useless in defeating Voldemort, and he cannot directly use gold to smash Voldemort to death.

Ivan observed for a while, and he found that in addition to the statues of these family emblems, there were many strange utensils on the islands above the lava in the distance.

They are all made of metal, and they look extremely majestic, with strange shapes and shapes, like weapons left by some ancient civilization.

Aiwen knew that those things were not weapons, but tools used by fairies to forge and refine magic items.

As we all know, apart from being greedy and stingy, goblins are also famous for being good at crafting sophisticated monster equipment.

Historically, many legendary magic items have been crafted by goblins.

Among them, the most famous is the Sword in the Stone jointly produced by the wizard Merlin and the goblin. This most famous magic sword in history determined the ownership of the British throne and the future direction of the magic world at that time.

It was also after that that many non-human magical creatures gradually withdrew from the stage of history.

Of course, there is also Gryffindor's sword made by goblins, a sword that Godric Gryffindor bought from goblins when he was alive. He put magic on it, only real Gryffindors can find it, Harry used this sword to kill the basilisk in the Chamber of Secrets last semester.

Ivan withdrew his gaze, beside him, Harry was still looking around and exclaimed loudly, "It's unbelievable, how did they do it!"

"The goblins have strong magic power, and they have their own unique magic civilization." Hermione followed with admiration, "Observe carefully, you will find that all these islands are floating on the lava, but they are not melted by the magma. Only powerful magic can do it. To be honest, I don't know how the goblins built such a huge project. In my opinion, it is impossible to complete..."

"Nothing is impossible!" Griphook said proudly, "Fairies have their own special magic, which is much more advanced than human wizards."

He took the key from Sirius, and walked to the engraving that marked No. 68, which was the family crest of the Black family. The most striking thing on it were two leaping black dogs, all carved from obsidian.

There was a narrow opening in the bronze gate below the statue, and Griphook went to put the key in and turned it gently.

His action seemed to have touched a certain mechanism, and there was a loud rumbling sound from the ground.

The door was slowly opened, and a stone staircase appeared in front of everyone. The Black family's vault revealed its true colors, with a large rectangular room in front of it.

Ivan, Harry, and Hermione rushed in excitedly. They all wanted to see what it looked like inside the vault, and how shocking the wealth of the Black family was!

Just take a look at the environment where the vault is located, the dangerous hot magma and the horrifying emblem of the ancient pure-blood wizard family on the island.

All of this is enough to arouse everyone's interest.

They all wanted to know what was hidden in the Black family vault, although Sirius had said before that it was boring and full of gold objects. But being able to fill an entire room with gold is, in some ways, a remarkable achievement.

Ivan, Harry, and Hermione rushed in, expecting to see mountains of gold coins, silver bars, and other valuable antiques.

But there was nothing in front of them, the vault was very empty, as if it had just been robbed, and not a single gold product could be seen.

It is indeed shocking enough, but it is completely opposite to what I imagined before.

This place is not so much a vault, but more accurately, it looks like a storage room of an evil dark wizard.

The shelves on both sides are full of strange and strange black magic items whose specific uses are unknown.

For example, on the shelf to the left of Ivan is a black skull with a crown.

This slightly sunken bone is carved with ornate decorations, exuding a strange aura, which looks terrifying and disgusting.

In the corner of the room, there is a huge white skeleton of an unknown type of fire dragon. It has been reassembled by magic and stands there. Each bone is engraved with the family crest of the Black family. I don’t know if it is the history of the Black family. A collection of bad tastes left by our ancestors.

What is going on here, what about the treasured wealth of the Black family? !

Everyone turned their heads in unison to look at Sirius who had just walked in, waiting for his explanation. (To be continued.)