Chapter 318 Gathering Knowledge
Richard didn't like these wands at all. Ollivander's wand was called a magic wand, but more precisely, it was a magic rectifier. And it was short like a stick.

Richard was worried that he might break it by using too much force.
The lowest level magic wand in Azeroth, made of three branches, has the function of restoring magic power and enhancing attack. However, the magic wand here only has the effect of guiding magic power.

Do you need to make a wand to channel magic? Wouldn't it be more convenient to just make a ring?
Then, this old shop, which claims to have a history of making wands for thousands of years, has been making wands in this way for thousands of years without any fundamental improvements. Professional idiots, bah, they have been making wands for a thousand years, right?

Richard looked around at the wands here, but didn't find any suitable ones, so he asked, "Do you sell these wand-making materials here?"

"Wand-making materials? You plan to make your own wand?" Ollivander laughed as if he had heard a joke.

"Isn't it possible?" Richard asked.

Ollivander said: "Do you know that wand making is a very professional skill? Every wand is not as simple as you think. It requires careful selection of materials, cleaning, drying in the sun and in the shade."

"This step alone will take one to two years. Next, we need to inlay the appropriate spellcasting medium according to the magical patterns of the material. After careful matching, we can make a qualified magic wand."

"I advise you not to waste your energy and buy one here."

"I think I can do it. Boss, please prepare the materials." Richard didn't want to argue with him. No matter how good the debate was, it couldn't compare to seeing it with your own eyes.

"Okay, if you insist." Ollivander shrugged, then took out the materials for making the staff and said, "These logs are all dried in the shade, you can choose what you want. Other materials include unicorn hair, dragon nerves, heartstrings, etc., but I suggest you use unicorn hair."

Richard picked out several logs and other materials.

"Fifteen gold Galleons in total."

Richard took out fifteen gold coins and handed them to Ollivander. Ollivander picked up a gold coin and looked at it.

"This isn't a gold galleon!"

"It's a gold coin, and its gold content is higher than that of gold galleons. You don't accept this kind of gold coin?" Richard said.

"Of course!" After confirming the gold content of the gold coin, Ollivander immediately collected the gold coin and said to Richard, "Sir, although the gold content of your gold coin is very high, I suggest you go to Gringotts to exchange it, otherwise you will be at a disadvantage."

"I understand." Richard nodded, then collected the materials and left.

After leaving the wand shop, Richard soon saw a pet shop. Suddenly he remembered that there seemed to be a phoenix egg in a pet shop in Diagon Alley.

Richard was still very interested in the phoenix in the Harry Potter world. The magic limit of this world was not high, but there were many magical animals, such as unicorns, dragons, basilisks, phoenixes, etc.

Unicorns are almost extinct in the world of Motera, and there are only a few in the outer planes of the Zoo and near Mount Heaven. This divine creature was once hunted in large numbers because of its beautiful appearance, horns, blood, and divinity.

Of course, those who dare to kill unicorns will be attacked by the unicorn goddess Lari and the forest goddess. So in the planes with these gods, don't kill unicorns for no reason.

There are no such gods in the Harry Potter world. Richard planned to secretly capture a few unicorns and bring them back. As for dragons, Richard thought they were more like dragon beasts, not very intelligent, and not able to perform magic. They just looked like dragons, so he planned to capture a few and bring them back.

There are very few basilisks and phoenixes. The basilisk has two skills: death gaze and petrification. As for the phoenix, it seems that only Dumbledore has one at present.

"Welcome to the Magic Animal Pet Shop! Sir, how can I help you?" Seeing the business coming, the owner of the pet shop hurriedly stepped forward to entertain them.

"I want to buy some special pets." Richard said.

"We are the largest pet shop in Diagon Alley. We have all kinds of pets here, including owls, cats, toads, bats, spiders, etc. We have everything you can think of," said the boss enthusiastically.

"These are too ordinary. Do you have any more special pets?" Richard asked with a smile.

"More special pets?" The boss looked Richard up and down, then shook his head and said, "Sir, these are all we have here."

"Okay, do you have fire dragons, unicorns, phoenixes or other rare creatures here?" Richard went straight to the point.

Hearing Richard's words, the shop owner was shocked and quickly said, "No!"

"Sir, dragons, unicorns and other rare creatures are prohibited from being bought and sold by the Ministry of Magic. We are a legitimate business and do not sell such contraband!"

The shop owner was sweating coldly, his eyes wandering. Could this man be the Auror's informant? Was he discovered last time when he smuggled a fire dragon?

"Well, sir, if you want a phoenix, we have a phoenix egg here. I can guarantee that it is real, but I can't guarantee whether it can hatch." The store manager began to change the subject.

"Phoenix egg! Well, as long as it's a real phoenix egg, it's fine." Richard said.

Richard was not disappointed that there were no dragons and unicorns, because he knew that these creatures existed there. There were unicorns in the Forbidden Forest of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, and dragons were in the Dragon Sanctuary.

Hearing Richard agree to buy the phoenix egg, the shopkeeper quickly ran to the storage room behind the store and started rummaging around. After a while of rummaging through boxes and cabinets, the shopkeeper pulled out a box from an unknown corner. He then opened the box, revealing an egg that was slightly larger than a duck egg.

This egg looked ordinary, with a fiery red shell and a burning magical life energy inside. It was obvious that this egg was indeed a phoenix egg, and it was not a dead egg.

"It is indeed a phoenix egg." Richard nodded.

"As long as you approve, sir." The shop owner said happily. This phoenix egg has been in his shop for nearly ten years and has never hatched. He has been trying to sell the phoenix egg for all these years, but because it cannot hatch, he cannot sell it at all.

There are too few phoenixes. If you want to hatch this phoenix egg, you must have the flame of the phoenix. Where can he find a phoenix to help hatch the egg? If he really finds one, the phoenix will attack him immediately. After all, this egg was stolen.
"How much?" Richard asked.

"Ten thousand gold Galleons!" said the shopkeeper.

"What a joke!" Richard glanced at him, thinking he was a fool. "This thing needs Phoenix Fire to hatch. Where can you find Phoenix Fire?" "Without Phoenix Fire, it can't hatch without Phoenix eggs. You have been selling Phoenix eggs here for many years, right? Have you sold them?"

"But once it hatches successfully, it will be a phoenix!" said the shop owner. "It is a creature that is even rarer and more beautiful than a fire dragon! Ten thousand gold galleons is already a great deal!"

"No matter how rare the phoenix is, it's just an egg now. If you had a way to find the Phoenix Fire, the egg would have hatched long ago. But it hasn't hatched in all these years. Isn't that enough to prove the problem?"

"One hundred gold coins!"

"Impossible! Absolutely impossible!" the shop owner shook his arms and kept emphasizing.

Richard said, "One hundred gold Galleons. If you sell it now, you can still make some money. But when the life force of this phoenix egg dissipates, you won't be able to sell it for even one hundred gold Galleons!"

"Think carefully. The life breath in this egg has begun to weaken. It can only last for three to five years at most. By then, it will become a dead egg. You can only make it into a tomato and egg dish!" Richard sneered.

"Think about it. I'm the only one willing to buy this egg now!"

The shopkeeper's expression changed. He had kept this phoenix egg for nearly ten years and hadn't sold it. Having missed out on Richard, he wasn't sure he could sell it again. Finally, the shopkeeper gritted his teeth and said, "Okay, one hundred gold Galleons is one hundred gold Galleons!"

Hearing this, Richard smiled slightly and immediately threw him a purse.

The shopkeeper picked up the purse and poured it out gently. When he saw that the gold coins were not gold Galleons, he was slightly stunned. Then he picked up one and examined it carefully, and immediately put the hundred gold coins away without making a sound.

The gold content of these gold coins is far greater than that of gold Galleons, and they can be exchanged for at least 200 gold Galleons.

"Sir, it's exactly one hundred gold coins! It's yours!" The shopkeeper handed the phoenix egg to Richard.

Richard put away the phoenix egg and prepared to go to Gringotts to exchange it for gold galleons. Gringotts is the wizard bank and the largest building in Diagon Alley. It is built entirely of white marble and looks very impressive.

However, for such a grand bank, their exchange rate is very strange. It is said that the British are bad at math, and it is vividly demonstrated here. Gringotts can exchange pounds for gold Galleons at a ratio of 5:1.

You should know that the current price of gold is about 10 pounds per gram. If you exchange pounds for gold galleons, melt them down and sell them as gold, you can make dozens of times the profit.

Then he could exchange pounds for gold Galleons, and do the same thing again. He could completely empty Gringotts.

Richard entered Gringotts, passed through two steel doors, and came to a spacious marble hall. There were more than a dozen counters in the hall, and the height of the counters was more than 1.7 meters. Behind the counters sat more than a dozen goblins, who were really busy with something. There were also some wizards handling business nearby.

All wizards have to look up when doing business at the counter.

Soon, the wizards in front of them finished their business. When it was Richard's turn, he saw a line of words next to the counter. It read 'With the Hogwarts College Admission Letter, you can enjoy the service of exchanging pounds for gold galleons. The limit is 100. Others are limited to 10 per year.'

Well, after all this time, the exchange of pounds for gold Galleons is a bonus for admission. If there is such a big loophole, Gringotts would have gone bankrupt long ago. The annual limit of 10 gold Galleons is more like a subsidy for poor wizards.
Richard came to the counter. He was not used to talking with his head raised, so he snapped his fingers lightly and floated up until he was one meter above the counter.

The wizards around were very surprised to see Richard flying. They didn't hear any spells and didn't see any magic wands.

"Dear wizard, what business do you need?" The goblin, who had originally had no expression on his face, suddenly became very respectful.

"I need to exchange some gold Galleons!" Richard threw over a purse containing five hundred gold coins.

"Hey, why have I never seen this kind of gold coins before?" said the fairy when he opened the bag and saw the gold coins inside.

"Dear Sir, since we have never seen these gold coins, it may take longer to exchange them."

"Exchange it." Richard nodded.

Soon another goblin came over with a scale and began to weigh the gold coins. After the weighing was finished, he said, "Sir, the gold content of your gold coins is twice that of gold galleons. We offer an exchange rate of 1:2. Do you think it is appropriate?"

"Okay!" Richard said.

Soon, the two goblins prepared a thousand gold Galleons.

After exchanging the gold Galleons, Richard left Diagon Alley and came to the nearby Upside Down Alley. Most of the shops in Upside Down Alley supplied dark wizards, and some contraband items often appeared here.

Richard's target was the bookstore here. The bookstore in Diagon Alley only had books on white magic and protective magic, and those books were basically easy to buy. However, books on potions and dark magic, which Richard was more interested in, could only be found in Upside Down Alley.

After arriving here, Richard went straight along the street looking for shops one by one. The shops here looked gloomy and they did not look like serious businesses. After learning that Richard wanted to buy books on dark magic and potions, some shops directly said they did not have them. However, under the temptation of Richard's gold Galleons, many shops finally took out a lot of books.

In addition to books on black magic, there are also many ancient magics here. Most of these ancient magics are outdated spells or outdated spells, but Richard bought them all in the end.

Many of these ancient magic spells are difficult to cast, with complicated spells or requiring other materials to be used. Due to various reasons, they have declined.

But this does not mean that ancient magic is not powerful. In fact, a lot of ancient magic is more destructive. Because of its strong destructive power, the magic community at that time restricted some ancient magic and then improved it.

Richard found more than a dozen ancient magic books and basic black magic books from these shops, and the rest were various potion books.

In fact, there are a lot of books on potions. After all, there are many wizards who practice potions. Some wizards will develop unique secret recipes, but more of them fail or are directly poisoned to death.

Richard collected the potion books here in order to obtain the experience records of these people. Of course, after collecting these books, Richard also planned to go to Hogwarts. He would not miss the collection of books there.

(End of this chapter)