"Look, that's one of the entrances."
Talino stopped and pointed to the brick wall beside the street, where an old billboard was standing.
In fact, without talino's warning, Maka has found the anomaly there.
Now, he can vaguely sense anything with magic. Although it is more difficult to perceive the farther away because of the natural attenuation of magic, even the distance of more than ten meters is quite amazing.
That's how Moody's magic eye works.
Of course, the maker of that thing must be an alchemist, and the detection accuracy must be far higher than that of today's Maka.
However, Moody's magic eye can only detect the general magic reaction and convert it into rough visual images through the precise alchemy array.
That didn't help him feel the magic more clearly.
But even so, alchemy proved its infinite potential. If the knowledge was not too profound and complicated, and the failure rate of actually making alchemy items was frighteningly high, I'm afraid the study of magic spells would not be the mainstream in today's magic world.
While Maka was habitually thinking, talino had taken out his wand and placed it in an orderly manner on a few letters of the billboard.
"Let's go! I'll take you to see what the 'Black' market is today." talino said with a smile.
Maka, who has long been used to the underground black market in the Muggle world, is really curious about the black market in the magic world. If there is always darkness outside the light, the black market is the so-called "gray area".
And such places are usually quite shocking.
Sure enough, when Maka followed talino through the billboard, after feeling the same cold feeling as passing through the entrance of "platform 9 and 3 / 4", a burst of noisy noise poured into his ears.
The first thing that comes into view is an extremely wide circular square.
It can be seen from the old stone brick floor under your feet that several centuries have passed since the original construction period.
Around the circular square, a whole circle of doors are closely arranged. From time to time, one or two mysterious wizards covering their heads and faces come out of those doors.
Maka looked back. Sure enough, he and talino came out of these stone carved doors.
In the four directions of the square, four stone roads leading to different directions are paved.
On both sides of those roads, all kinds of strange buildings are lined up, and sometimes there are ghost cypresses that seem dry but actually full of vitality growing wantonly among the buildings.
Under the dim hanging street lights, it looks much more gloomy and dark than the overturned lane.
At this time, Maka looked up at the sky, but found that the top of her head was completely dark, not even a glimmer of light, so that people could not distinguish the direction at all.
"This is bigger than the two Hogsmeade villages. Once you leave these four main roads, the route will become complicated. Even the old people who often walk here may lose their way..."
As talino explained, he took Marca to a flagstone Road opposite.
"The street with the brightest lights is the comprehensive vendor area. There are many messy shops, both serious and informal. But generally speaking, they are some ordinary cheap goods..."
He walked on, pointed to the one on his left, and then pointed to his right.
"What's a little dark over there is mainly the trading of various materials. Of course, there are also some basic products of magic medicine or alchemy."
"... and now, we're going in the direction," he said, pointing to the darker Street ahead. "There are many high-value rare goods on sale, and even regular auctions. Well, there's another... Look, that's the building..."
The building doesn't need talino fingers at all. Maka saw it early in the morning - no way. Among the buildings, the large building is the most tall and eye-catching.
That big guy looks very similar to gringott wizard bank, but it's obviously several times bigger than gringott.
"That's also run by goblins?" Maka couldn't help guessing.
"Yes! The dark spirit Pavilion wizard Union, like the ancient spirit Pavilion in Diagon Alley, offers more services besides money deposit and withdrawal and Treasury leasing." talino said excitedly, "news trading, listing and employment of individuals and groups, issuance and receipt of various tasks, etc. in short, it is an old trade union with very high credit."
"You usually pick up work here?" Marca smiled.
"Er... Of course, although the agency fee here is not low, the point is that there will never be a job here." talino shrugged. "After all, we are most afraid of no reliable employer in our business, aren't we?"
"Well... What about the darkest road before?" Marca pointed behind her. "What's there?"
When talino heard it, he subconsciously tilted his mouth.
"That's the residential area," he added. "The living area of the 'nobles' of the underground world."
"The nobles of the underground world?" Maka thought and suddenly said, "is it... Those black wizard families in ancient times?"
"You know?" talino said in surprise. "As far as I know, there is no such news outside. The existence of Dumbledore has kept those families low-key over the years..."
"If you want to find it, you can still find some clues." Marca spread her hands. "But they are really low-key. They have been for hundreds of years? There is no news at all... This is not just because of Dumbledore?"
"I've heard people say that, too. Who knows?" talino said indifferently. "Those families are already very weak. I won't be surprised if they all die at any time."
However, once it is connected with the ancient times, nothing is simple - Maka has experienced this deeply.
To say that those families continue to decline, he believes; But he didn't believe that they would disappear silently.
In the face of death, even the flobber caterpillars who eat and sleep all day will struggle to death. How can those once giants die without warning?
In their aimless chat, they walked side by side towards the large building called "dark spirit Pavilion".
When they passed two magnificent black metal gates in a row, a wide hall immediately came into their sight.
The striking painted black marble floor and the hall without any load-bearing columns make it look much larger than what you can see outside.
But it can be seen that there is no sign of applying the traceless extension spell here, just because there is no visual cover, which makes it look wider than expected.
There is a long counter in each of the three directions of the hall. Behind that, there were a large number of goblin staff who were handling different businesses for all kinds of customers.
In the hall, there are more strange wizards. To say that Maka's most emotion at the moment is to personally experience the number of wizards.
Although there must be many wizards here who are not the so-called "black wizards", those guys with suspicious smell are definitely not good people.
So it seems that the number of wizards in the whole British magic world may be much more than officially announced. The reason for this must be the "lonely" habit that wizards have been difficult to correct since ancient times.
Although the British Ministry of magic has been established for nearly 400 years, the loose and free life attitude of wizards has directly led to the loose and uncontrollable wizard society.
If it were not for this, Voldemort, no matter how powerful, would hardly have had such a great impact on the magic world.
"So, if I hang a task here to detect the movements of werewolves..." Maka looks at the large counter on the left and asks talino, "how long can I get the news?"
"If you're not in a hurry, you can do this..." tarino nodded. "I guess it's only one week at most."
"What if I want to be faster?" Marca thought. "Or should I be able to find werewolves directly here?"
"Greyback has registered here before and accepted employment for a period of time. But you know... Werewolves have always been unpopular, and the same is true in the underground world." talino shook his head. "Now... There must be werewolves here, but even if there are, they are very low-key, and generally they don't easily reveal their identity."
It was Marka who proposed to come here. Although he wanted to come here more, wouldn't it be better if he could find clues here?
In terms of the environment here, it is much easier to do things than to look for clues aimlessly.
"You know me better here. You see, where should I try my luck?" Marca looked around and asked casually.
Talino pondered for a moment, then motioned with his chin to the side hall entrance next to the left counter.
"There are several large hiring teams there. If you have enough jingaron, it won't be a problem for them to catch greyback directly," he said. "Of course, they also sell news. The price is, of course, more expensive."
Maka considered her current property and felt that she should first find a way to make money in a place full of money, which is the first thing to bear the brunt.
Since his partner Tyrande left Hogsmeade village, his income has shrunk greatly. Now his magic potion level has greatly improved compared with the original. He has invented several more magic potions. It doesn't seem very difficult to make money.
While Maka was thinking, there was a commotion in a corner of the hall, which attracted his attention.