"This place truly is… simple and honest folk." The two of them hadn't even had a chance to catch their breath after running out of the mall when they saw a police car speeding towards them, sirens blaring.
"Oh my, back to the hotel."
Kaisen Apparated back directly after saying that, while Lupin fumbled for his wand, a booming hum echoing.
"Here, drink some water. After you finish, we'll head straight to the magic market in Uruguay."
Lupin chugged a bottle of water and said, somewhat speechless, "Then why didn't we just go to that market from the beginning?"
"Proper Wizards don't mine, and Wizards only use crystals for divination. I was just thinking it would be easier to find the source directly."
As Kaisen spoke, a map appeared in his hand, and he spread it flat on the table.
"We just need to use this map to find places without buildings but with a large number of people. Those places are most likely Wizard gathering spots."
Lupin walked over and watched as Kaisen's two fingers continuously zoomed out the map until it encompassed all of Uruguay, then he opened his mouth in surprise.
"How the hell did you do that?"
"Talent and hard work. I found it."
The two arrived at the hotel rooftop. Kaisen directly pulled out a clump of light purple glow, which was the magic of invisibility potion. As for why he didn't just drink it but instead went through the trouble of extracting the magic…
Ahem… he still had to wear clothes, and extracting the magic allowed the clothes to become invisible along with him.
It was very user-friendly.
Before long, the two completely invisible figures rode their flying broomsticks to a mountain range far from the city.
"Is this the Wizard gathering place in Uruguay?" Lupin was a bit confused. The productivity of the Wizard world… was just so-so, so strictly speaking, it still relied on the Muggle world for survival.
And like this, a Wizard gathering place genuinely built in the wilderness, he had truly never seen before.
"If this isn't some secret organization's underground fortress, then this is it." Kaisen walked ahead with the map, and Lupin followed behind with his wand.
Soon, the two saw huge treehouses, and a large open space in the center of the treehouses was filled with densely packed stalls.
"There aren't many Uruguayans, but there are quite a few Wizards." Lupin said, somewhat surprised, looking at such a dense population.
"Let's go in and see."
The two walked towards the innermost market. Along the way, no one stopped them. Hmm, simple folk, very good.
Kaisen and Lupin walked around the market again and again, and finally, they reluctantly found a stall owner and asked, helpless.
"Why doesn't your market have magic crystals?"
"Those things are useless. Whoever wants crystals can just go to the mine and pick them; they're not worth anything anyway."
Kaisen and Lupin exchanged glances: "Mine?"
"Muggle mines. Just go in when no one's around or after casting a Disillusionment Charm," the owner explained.
"You don't sell them here?"
"I do have them, but I don't understand why anyone would buy them. These things are useless." The owner said, Apparating away, and soon reappeared with a huge stone sphere.
"Cut this thing open, and inside are the crystals."
"Lupin, pay up."
Having learned from their previous experience, Kaisen no longer had the idea of pulling out a small pickaxe and hitting the crystal. He quickly called out to Lupin.
"Just give him a token amount."
In the end, Lupin and the owner haggled for a long time, and he pulled out a huge sum of three Galleons.
Kaisen quickly carried the stone egg to the side, pulled out a diamond pickaxe, and gently tapped it.
With a crack, the stone egg split open, revealing the beautiful transparent crystals inside. He quickly used the diamond pickaxe to chip off a small piece and placed it on the arcane workbench.
"Water magic crystal… Hmm? This purple one?"
The joy of obtaining the Water magic Crystal hadn't faded when his eyes caught a tiny, out-of-place purple speck.
He chipped off a small piece with the diamond pickaxe.
"Earth magic Crystal…" Kaisen was about to stand up straight and celebrate when Lupin, quick as a flash, held him down.
"What's wrong?"
"You found it? Are you still going to ask that owner where he found this thing?" Lupin didn't answer immediately but asked back instead.
"Yes."
"If you found it, don't shout. Put away the smile on your face. It's best to show a frustrated expression before asking."
"Oh, I just realized." Kaisen nodded, coughed twice to smooth out the smile on his face, and then went back to find the owner.
"Where did you find that stone egg?"
"It's called the Amethyst Mine. You can ask any Muggle, and they'll tell you."
"Do you mind helping me mark the location on the map?" Kaisen pulled out the map, turned off the function that showed the small red dots representing individual humans, and handed it to the owner.
The owner pulled out a quill, gestured a bit, and drew a small dot: "It's probably around here. The crystals in the shallow mines are all occupied by Muggles. If you don't want to be discovered, or want some better quality ones, go to the deep mines."
"Thank you, generous sir." Kaisen quickly put away the map, put the crystal stone egg that Lupin was looking at into his ring, then directly got on his Z9 broom, and the two flew directly towards the mine marked by the owner.
Soon, the two flew around the mine, each casting a Disillusionment Charm on themselves, and then swaggered into the mine.
Midway, they even changed into camouflage suits under the passive gaze of a team of workers.
Gradually, they reached the deep mine. The mining lamps set up by the workers were becoming fewer and fewer. Kaisen directly cast Night Vision on himself and Lupin.
Soon, they saw one stone egg after another, just like the one the owner had brought out. If not identical, they were exactly the same.
"Prioritize finding the ones with magic, the purple ones. I think I found a book on growing crystals in the Hogwarts Library before. We just need a basic crystal seed."
"I will…"
Lupin used the Severing Charm, Kaisen used the diamond pickaxe, and soon one stone egg after another was cracked open. Most of them were Water magic Crystals, and of course, these were all dumped into the Ender Chest.
As for whether his office would be filled again.
It wouldn't be.
Perhaps the ore layer here was too shallow, or something, but most of the purple crystal stone eggs had no magic. The ones with magic were all water-attribute crystals.
After much thought and reflection, Kaisen understood!
Since it's called an Earth magic Crystal, it should, by rights, be hidden deep within the earth, so…
Crack!
"Wow! Purple legend!"
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