Chapter 199 Expensive house elf
After passing through the dark magic items trading area, Jerry walked towards other areas that he had not set foot in last time on crutches.
However, he walked around and did not see any stall selling magical animals or magical animal eggs. It seemed that this black market did not provide this service.
Jerry did not give up. Since Quirrell could buy dragon eggs to trap Hagrid, it meant that there was definitely a sale of banned magical animals on the black market, but he had not found a way.
With a thought in his heart, Jerry walked slowly to a slightly remote stall in the corner, pointed at the unshaven middle-aged stall owner, and quietly cast the Imperius Curse.
"Do you know where banned magical animals are sold on the black market?"
"To buy magical beasts, ask for Heaton."
The middle-aged stall owner who was under the Imperius Curse looked happy.
"Which Heaton?"
Jerry continued to ask.
"Heaton, that's the wizard standing at the top of the stairs."
After hearing the stall owner's explanation, he probably figured out what was going on.
It turns out that the black market for banned magical animals is not here, but in a secret place on the outskirts of Paris. After all, many magical animals are quite big and extremely aggressive. If something goes wrong, it will be very troublesome.
The Ministry of Magic may turn a blind eye to contraband under bars, but it will never allow dangerous magical animals to appear on Magic Street.
Therefore, if you want to go there, you must either know the location or go to the wizard named Heaton at the door.
"Everything is forgotten!"
After releasing the control of the Imperius Curse, Jerry used the Forgetting Curse to erase the stall owner's recent memory, and then walked up to the wizard named Heaton at the top of the stairs.
"I want to buy some magical animals, I wonder if you can take me there!"
This time Jerry did not use the Imperius Curse or the Confusion Curse, but instead took out a bag of bright gold Galleons.
The stall owner just said that as long as he showed enough financial resources, the wizard named Heaton would not care about Jerry's identity and would take him there directly.
Sure enough, although the wizard was a little confused about when Jerry entered the black market below, after seeing several hundred gold galleons, he immediately led Jerry to the booth behind the bar with a smile.
"Sir, hold this bottle, it will take you where you want to go!"
"sorry to bother you!"
Jerry glanced at the bottle and knew it must be the key to the outskirts of Paris. Without hesitation, he reached out and took it.
The space was distorted, and his body was instantly sucked into the bottle and disappeared.
When he landed again, he was no longer in the bar on Magic Street in France, but appeared in a super large tent.
This super large tent should be the same as his box space, expanded by the traceless expansion spell, and it is as big as five or six football fields.
Inside, you can see many various magical animals being imprisoned, as well as wizards wearing hoods, hiding their identities.
"The Ball Escaper, the Ball Escaper, a rare bird species that is about to become extinct, the one with the highest price will get it!"
"Troll, the cub of the mountain troll, if well trained, it will be a good troll security guard!"
"A little Acromantula, after you raise it, you will have an inexhaustible supply of venom!"
The entire tent was filled with the shouts of dark wizards.
Seeing this, Jerry didn't waste any time and began to carefully search around the tent.
Unfortunately, after browsing most of the tent, he couldn't find any suitable magical animals.
Most of the magical animals he has seen so far are of the XX or XXX level. There are very few magical animals of the XXXX level, let alone the XXXXX level.
With his current strength, the number of magical animals that he can contract with is limited. Of course, he must choose magical animals that are more helpful to him.
Like the ball escape bird, it is indeed cute and furry, but it is of no use to him at all.
Like a giant monster, its strength is pretty good, but its brains are weak and its price-performance ratio is extremely low. If the number of monsters increases in the future, you can go to some forests where trolls gather and pack up the entire tribe. There is no need to buy a separate one to raise.
As for the Acromantula, it is quite good, its IQ is no lower than that of humans, and its venom is also very valuable.
However, there are a lot of them in the Forbidden Forest, so why should he waste money on buying them here? Why not wait until school starts and go to the Forbidden Forest to buy two.
Others, such as little devils, fire ash snakes, swallow-tailed dogs, etc., are either useless or too low cost-effective to be worth buying.
It wasn't until he wandered to the innermost part of the tent that he finally found what he wanted.
That should be the largest magical animal sales booth in the entire tent. Its stall alone occupies one-tenth of the area of the tent.
Unlike other stalls where one or two dark wizards are selling, there are more than twenty dark wizards selling in this stall, like a big team.
Moreover, the level of magical animals sold inside is obviously not on the same level as other stalls.
The giant horse-shaped water monster in a large water tank, the rune snake with three heads, the five-meter-tall snowman with white hair, etc. are all extremely dangerous and aggressive magical animals.
However, these are not what Jerry values most. What he values most is the four shivering house elves over there with two big bat-like ears.
House elves, magical creatures in the wizarding world, are the most loyal servants of wizards.
Although they may seem weak, in fact every house elf has good magical abilities.
They are proficient in elf magic. Although they do not have any powerful attack magic, they are extremely good at housework, invisibility and teleportation magic, and can even perform apparation in Hogwarts.
At present, Jerry's biggest weakness is his two family members, Haas and Aisha, and Teacher Belle can be counted as half of them.
But if everyone has a house elf by their side, then most of his only weakness can be said to be made up for.
House elves can become invisible and will not be discovered even if they are following Haas and others.
When encountering ordinary enemies, they can easily use elf magic to deal with them. If they encounter truly powerful enemies, they can also directly lead people to escape using apparation.
The safety level can be said to be greatly improved.
However, when Jerry asked about the price, he was stunned.
The price of a house elf is as high as ten thousand gold galleons. All his current savings combined are not enough to buy a house elf.
No wonder, only some ancient wizarding families have house elves.
It turns out that ordinary people simply cannot afford house elves.
In the wizarding world, the average wizard's income is only a few dozen galleons a month. A better job, like an ordinary Auror in the Ministry of Magic, only earns more than a hundred galleons a month.
Chapter completed!