"But what can they do?" Chris Moen sounded somewhat helpless. "Isn't the whole reason we use Gold Galleons and Silver Sickles because they can't be replicated by magic?"
Chris's words were like a bucket of cold water, easily dousing the atmosphere of the earlier discussion.
Even Anthony Goldstein, who prided himself on "knowing the Ministry of Magic very well," merely opened his mouth and could not get out a single complete sentence.
He could indeed obtain plenty of useful information and intelligence through various channels, then analyze the possible impact of events and predict the direction of future developments.
But faced with this fundamental problem, he truly found it rather difficult to answer.
"Yeah... what are we supposed to spend then?" Michael Corner muttered to himself, his face already turning pale.
"If this keeps going, will the Gold Galleons and Silver Sickles in our hands turn into a pile of worthless metal pieces overnight...?"
"This sounds troublesome, and also very familiar..." Terry Boot narrowed his eyes slightly, his gaze drifting as if he were trying to remember something.
"Wait..." His eyes suddenly lit up. "It seems like Wizard Vede and the Magical World drew a similar major event a couple of days ago, called Squid's Greedy Hands!"
"That's right! It began with a theft case in Inktact! But it's still under investigation for now, and Vede only saw the news in the newspaper."
"What Inktact?" Anthony narrowed his eyes slightly. "What are you talking about? How is that connected?"
"Inktact!" Terry's eyebrows lifted, and he launched into an enthusiastic explanation. "It's a combination of ink and tentacle!"
"It's the banking institution in Wizard Vede and the Magical World, kind of like Gringotts! But the main managers are a group of squids, and they protect property through all sorts of lakes