In this remote corner of London, unlike the avenues where cars can be driven, this is an alleyway where bicycles are allowed at most.

Although it is a winding path and looks sparsely populated, the gaps between every stone slab here have been cleaned neatly.

Only moist soil and a small amount of moss are retained as props to create an atmosphere.

This is possible not only because this is London with strict urban planning and tens of thousands of laws and regulations, but also because this trail is actually the above-ground entrance to an auction house related to magic, wizards and other fields. This

The owner of the land is also the boss behind the auction house.

The little gangsters from the Muggle world have no chance to run wild in this alley.

If [Diagon Alley] is the commercial street of British wizards, [Knockturn Alley] is the hotbed of black magic shops, and the garbage den of the remaining black magic forces, then this is where pure-blood wizard families and Muggles have grown up in the past ten years.

A by-product of contact with the world and finding a way to survive, it is an upper-class trading place.

Only a few rich people can raise their arms to bid here, and most people can only watch good things entering other people's pockets in front of their own eyes... a "field of grudges"?

"By the way, Geese, it's only five o'clock in the afternoon. Didn't Mrs. Reina and the others come here at night?"

Walking in the alley, Illya jumped over a step and asked Xingke. She still had many shops that she had not visited.

“Wouldn’t it be boring to come to the auction house, time your entry, and only target one item?”

Xingji looked at the sunlight that had begun to disappear in the sky and replied:

"If it were Lena and Sherlock, they would definitely arrive two or three hours in advance and see if there are any good things for [temporary extra shoot] or [unexpected missed shot] in the afternoon session, I guarantee it."

Here is some common sense about auction houses. Generally, auction houses will divide a day's business into three sessions: morning, afternoon, and evening. Each item on the auction list will be strictly divided into time periods, one week to one month in advance.

Make intelligence information public.

Of course, there will also be changes caused by various reasons such as item promotion, such as temporary additional shoots, unexpected missed shots, etc., a certain time period is vacant, or there is not enough time. In this case, there will indeed be time.

Fine-tuning on.

However, no matter how huge changes are made, it will not appear

[All parties came to the venue one by one to perform at the same time as agreed upon, and entered the venue uniformly. After the two-hour bidding, everyone left the venue together, and the auction house closed down.]

Such a situation will never occur at a [non-charity, non-performance] auction, please be aware.

"Speaking of which, the [Charity Auction] is no longer an auction, but a simple [bidding conference], right? Who will bid to get the [charity that is rich in oil and water, and faster in pleasure], haha, humans...

…”

"Brother, what is in your heart has leaked out." Diana reminded silently.

Although she probably knows some dark inside stories, as the saying goes, if you want a horse to run, you have to feed it.

No matter how many inside stories there are, Diana feels that "if she doesn't do anything, she has no right to criticize the person who did something, regardless of whether that person did it well or not."

"Speaking of which, I'm even more curious, Keith, how did you associate this magic auction house with [Charity Auction]?" Illya looked a little curious.

"It's nothing, just think that I have a hole in my head and can't stop the car." Xing Ke's brainstorming didn't make any sense.

"In short, the charity auction has nothing to do with my brother who doesn't do charity activities at all... We are here."

Arriving at a closed wooden door, Diana took out her wand and controlled the door knocker to knock three times on the door leaf.

"A door that cannot be knocked without magic. In other words, although Muggle squibs are not prohibited from entering, there must be at least one magic-related person among the companions to enter."

While Diana was explaining, a doorman dressed no differently than an ordinary passer-by opened the wooden door.

The sharp-eyed doorman glanced at the newcomers and found a familiar face among them, and then stepped aside.

"How can this be like an underground gathering? Are they really serious businessmen open for business?"

After entering the room, they immediately started walking along the stairs in the room, heading underground.

"You are really doing something wrong, Ghis, by calling a group of occult wizards serious businessmen."

"Now I wonder if we still need to put on black cloaks to cover our faces. Alas...Diana, what's wrong with you?"

Diana, who was leading the way, turned her back to them. She was silent for a second, then slowly turned around, expressionlessly took out two cloaks from a delicate pouch on her waist, and handed them to them respectively.

Xingke and Illya.

"...You won't be fooled by what I said, right?"

"This place explicitly prohibits the use of magic, so in order to prevent seeing people you don't want to see or being targeted, a cloak is needed."

"...Then why you didn't take it out until now...Okay, I won't ask."

Maybe you forgot? After all, one moment you were walking under the rare afternoon sunshine in London, choosing various beautiful dresses, and the next moment you were here, with Xingke and Ilia by your side, especially

It's normal for Illya, a guy who keeps interrupting me, to forget some things.

It's just that getting to the bottom of it will hurt the heart of this young lady who seems to be meticulous in her work, so let's forget it. Thinking like this, Xingji took a cloak from Diana's hand and put it on himself, and then thought

After thinking about it, he took out his thick amber wand with snake eyes from his pocket.

As a result, a short, invisible, terrifying wizard wearing a robe that reached the ground and holding a hideous huge wand officially appeared on the stage!

Sure enough, matching small props can immediately improve the style of an outfit.

only……

"Ah, this cloak doesn't fit me. It's baggy and it's so long when it reaches the ground. Is there an S size?"

"...Sorry, the smallest item in our store is right here."

"Enough……"

After reaching the end of the long staircase, the original combination of the two eldest sisters and their younger brothers had disappeared, and three more cloaked monsters appeared among the group of three or three cloaked monsters in the circular central hall.

However, for the same cloaked monster, the amber snake eyes on the wand engraved with stars are also particularly conspicuous, not to mention the faint traces of several snake fangs can be seen on the top and bottom of the wand.
Chapter completed!