You're Telling Me This Wand Is the "Elder Wand"?!

Snape asked no further questions and couldn't be bothered with unnecessary talk. He simply grabbed Chu Yao by the arm.

Well, he still wasn't exactly gentle.

"Apparition."

Once again, a familiar, intensely unpleasant squeezing sensation engulfed her.

An instant before they left, Chu Yao glanced at the ground out of the corner of her eye.

At the center of the seemingly haphazard pattern she had drawn with a stick, an extremely faint, almost imperceptible fluctuation of spiritual energy flashed.

Done! The miniature teleportation anchor is in place!

It'll be much easier to come to Diagon Alley and "restock" (exchange gold) from now on. No more going through that "gas chamber" at the Leaky Cauldron!

Reassured, she let Snape take her away from Diagon Alley.

Over the next few days, Chu Yao stayed at a luxurious five-star hotel in London.

The funding for her government-sponsored studies abroad, provided by China's Ministry of Education, wasn't a fortune, but it was more than enough to cover her hotel bill and daily expenses.

Mm, the benefits the country provides are pretty good!

Much better than staying near Spinner's End, as Professor Snape suggested...

Wait, doesn't Professor Snape live on Spinner's End?

Ahem, forget I said anything.

More importantly, she hadn't been idle.

Over those few days, she fired up her furnace and refined several more batches of Marrow Cleansing Pills, then listed them in the Myriad Worlds Trading Group.

Sure enough, the group's "suckers" (crossed out), or rather, its "enthusiastic friends," were in an uproar again. After a round of friendly bidding led entirely by Chu Yao, she successfully brought in over three more tons of gold!

And so, on a dark and windy night (not really), Chu Yao carefully cast a simple Illusion Technique, disguising herself as an ordinary, unremarkable white woman with a pale complexion. Using the teleportation anchor she had previously set up in a corner of Diagon Alley, she slipped back into the alley without a sound.

She made her way back into Gringotts with practiced ease and, with the help of the familiar goblin, exchanged three tons of gold for a vast quantity of Galleons.

By now, the Galleons in Chu Yao's storage ring formed several small mountains.

Whenever she thought about how all those little golden, glittering things contained precious Geng Metal, she was so happy she nearly fainted. It was as if she could see the glorious sight of her future natal flying sword cutting down enemies in all directions after being upgraded.

I'm rich! I'm rich!

These are all materials for my future flying sword!

The goblins are such good people (miners)!

However, her only worry over the past few days had come from an unexpected little incident.

Once, while sorting through her storage ring, she had nearly put her newly purchased wand in the "exchangeable materials" category, intending to take it to Gringotts and melt it down along with the rest next time.

Fortunately, just before making that "criminally wasteful" mistake, she had scanned the special wand with her system out of habit.

A notification immediately popped up on the system interface:

[Sellable item detected: Elder Wand (fake)]

Chu Yao: "!!!"

Her brain froze for a full second.

The... Elder Wand?!

Even if it's a replica... it still has "Elder Wand" in its name?!

No wonder old man Ollivander looked at me like he'd seen a ghost!

So the one I picked that day was a high-grade knockoff of one of the Deathly Hallows?!

Immediately afterward, an even more alarming thought popped into her head.

Wait! With how well-informed that old bumblebee Dumbledore is, Ollivander must have already written to tell him!

Doesn't that mean... I'm already on the Hogwarts Headmaster's "people to watch closely" list?!

All because of a wand?!

Author's note: Thank you, dear readers, for the favorites, likes, check-ins, comments, flowers, coins, and memberships. Love you all, heart hands ♥