What Kind of Divine "Wizarding World" Was This?

Chu Yao waved a hand dismissively, her tone utterly casual. "What's the big deal? I have plenty of gold. When I run out later, I'll come back and exchange some more."

Standing nearby, Professor Snape heard Chu Yao's casual yet outrageously extravagant words, and the corner of his mouth twitched violently.

His fingers curled slightly beneath his black robes as he began to seriously question the way Eastern sects raised their children.

Nine hundred kilograms of gold... was no big deal? And they let an eleven-year-old carry it around?

Merlin's stinky socks!

Had Eastern elders reached such a deranged level of indulgence with their children?

Was that reasonable?!

Wouldn't that raise a child who squandered money and had nothing but Galleons on the brain...?!

Chu Yao paid no attention to the storm in Snape's mind. Delighted, she readily took the nine hundred kilograms of gold out of her storage ring again.

The Goblins stopped breathing for several seconds as they watched the glittering "little mountain of gold" instantly fill the open space behind the counter.

After confirming its weight and purity, the lead Goblin's attitude toward Chu Yao became so respectful it was almost reverent.

He personally led Chu Yao and Snape to the wildly speeding cart that would take them to the underground vault.

Whoa! A Wizarding World roller coaster?

Interesting!

But the safety measures were practically nonexistent! One star!

As they sped through the tunnel, Chu Yao even caught a glimpse of a listless dragon bound in chains.

Oh? So that was a Western dragon? It looked so... distinctive.

Like a big lizard with wings. It had none of the elegance and majesty of our Eastern divine dragons.

But... it was alive! What a shame I can't take it back to guard the door.

At last, the cart stopped in front of a massive metal door.

When the vault was opened, mountains of Galleons lay inside, their golden light almost spilling out.

A full four hundred and fifty thousand Galleons!

They all contained Geng Metal!

Ah~ What kind of divine "Wizarding World" was this?

She loved it!

The Goblin confirmed once more that Chu Yao had no intention of opening a vault (his heart was bleeding), then respectfully gestured for her to help herself.

Without the slightest hesitation, Chu Yao stepped forward and extended the hand wearing her storage ring, covering the entire vault with her spiritual sense.

Whoosh—!

Like a giant whale swallowing water, or a magic trick, the mountains of Galleons vanished without a trace in an instant, all collected into her storage ring.

The vault was immediately empty, with only the flickering light of torches on the walls remaining.

The Goblin's inner monologue at that moment: !!! Eastern magic! Terrifying indeed!

Back in the hall, Chu Yao exchanged a few Galleons for a small bag of Silver Sickles and Knuts to use as spending money.

She also examined them with her spiritual sense, but unfortunately, she found no precious special materials in either of the two lesser denominations.

Sigh, was Geng Metal only found in Galleons? A little disappointing.

Oh well, these coins were going to be spent anyway.

What mattered was the more than four hundred and seventy-four thousand Galleons' worth of "artifact-refining materials"!

Hehe, now I have a source of materials for my lifebound flying sword's future upgrades!

Goblins, thank you for your "generosity"!

A barely perceptible smile appeared on Chu Yao's face, the smile of a profiteer who had gotten her way, and she put that little disappointment behind her.

Her mind was now full of thoughts of how to reasonably smelt and extract the Geng Metal from these "Geng Metal-rich" Galleons in batches to strengthen her flying sword.

Snape watched Chu Yao, who had been "spending gold like water" and now looked "lost in thought," and his brow furrowed almost imperceptibly.

He had a persistent feeling that behind this Eastern girl's smile lurked some scheme he couldn't understand, but one that would definitely bring misfortune to the Goblins of Gringotts.

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