Hogwarts: I Really Don't Want to Be a Wizard - Chapter 156

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In this era of America, wizards don’t have to hide their faces.

There are obvious differences in appearance between the wizards who came with the European gold mining ships and the indigenous wizards here.

This massive development operation is said to be a collision between civilization and barbarism, but who is civilized and who is barbaric is a matter of opinion.

Silver hair and silver eyes were too conspicuous after all, so Grete disguised herself when approaching the continent beneath her feet.

Thanks to the fact that dark wizards like to cover themselves with robes, Gretel was able to sneak in without any pressure.

Before landing, Grete roughly counted the ships here, at least no less than a thousand.

On the route further away, there is a continuous fleet of ships, heading here crazily.

Thanks to the ocean currents, the everlasting waves have created a natural port here, and these large ships from afar are arranged here in an orderly manner.

However, not everyone is here to hunt for gold.

There are always risks in gold mining, not to mention the life and death crisis caused by the resistance of the indigenous people in the tribe.

Just talking about the gold diggers themselves, there are indispensable open and secret fights among themselves. What’s more, some people have gathered a group of people who are considered ruthless among bandits.

A team was formed to intercept and kill other gold diggers.

Human beings will always stand at the pinnacle of this world when it comes to scheming against their own people.

Apart from humans, you can’t find another race in the entire world that would engage in so many conspiracies with its own kind.

Let’s go back to gold mining.

From Europe on the other side of the ocean, countless ships set sail and sink every day…

However, in the face of the huge base, there is still an endless stream of ships arriving at the port every day.

As a result, tens of thousands of people gathered here.

Gold mining is about enjoying life, but America in this era was still in tribal civilization, and they were almost completely isolated from mainstream civilization.

Even if these people want to enjoy themselves, they can’t find a place.

As a result, a group of people came here not for gold mining but for business.

Restaurants, hotels, casinos, and meat businesses all flocked here.

Over time, a small town was formed relying on the port.

Gold is the hard currency used in transactions here.

For example, a decent lunch requires a dram, which is one-sixteenth of an ounce.

A comfortable hotel with hot water supply would require a batalan, which is half an ounce, for a night’s stay.

If your body has been holding back for a long time and you want to find a charming red light girl, you need to measure it in ounces before you can have close contact.

In addition, the daily docking of these ships also requires payment to the town organizer.

Compared with the income in America, it is not expensive. For two dozen pounds a day, an eighth of an ounce, and about five grams of gold, your ship will be well taken care of.

However, not everyone can gain something.

If you are not strong enough, you may not be able to get the gold you dream of from the tribe.

But even if you are strong enough, you may lose troops and generals when conquering the tribe, pay a generous pension to your sailors, and end up bankrupt in the end.

Once this happens, their ship will be detained by the owner of the port.

Wait until the owner has money to redeem it, or sell it at auction before paying off the debt.

So over the years, many idle people with nothing to do gathered here.

It is better to go back to your hometown and be laughed at by others than to go bankrupt and fail in gold mining.

It’s better to stay here, maybe rely on opportunities, get a lot of gold, and make decisions from now on.

Muggles do it, wizards do it too.

Not everyone can hire a powerful wizard to come with them.

It’s hard to say that some guys who are not good at learning just rely on deceiving the small boat owners and follow them to find gold here.

Gold is a hard currency, whether in the Muggle world or the wizarding world.

Those powerful wizards can switch to other ship owners even if their employer fails.

Those weak and pitiful fellows in the wizarding world were living on the streets after their employers went bankrupt, and their status was not as good as that of the sailors who came from the same ship.

The magic power is limited. Even if you want to rely on the floating spell to find food at the dock, you won’t be able to hold on for long.

Over time, a group of dark wizards with little ability gathered here.

Their treatment can be said to be the most miserable in this small town.

Wizards have always been aloof. Before their employer went bankrupt, wizards enjoyed the best treatment in the entire ship.

But once the ship owner goes bankrupt, the wizard himself who got on the ship through deception will be well rewarded by the sailors who were treated differently.

Grete was among such a group of people.

There is no need to be afraid of being exposed, there is still intrigue between Muggles.

We are all dark wizards, so there is no way we can trust each other.

Not to mention that Grete sneaked in with his face covered, even if he pulled off his hood, no one here would be able to recognize him.

After all, few of them have seen each other in person.

There are no longer a few ship owners who go bankrupt every day, so in this gathering place of dark wizards on the edge of the town, new people arrive every day.

Many of them are shipowners who are bankrupt and unable to hire.

In some cases, the shipowners made a fortune, but were killed and silenced by the sailors who came with them.

Others were kicked out by the ship owner because their strength was exposed.

Everyone had all kinds of strange reasons.

That is, they were not well-trained. Otherwise, they would be recruited by the sponsor soon if they just showed off their skills in any tavern with their superb spells.

Gret didn’t plan to stay here for a long time. He sneaked in here just to make himself less conspicuous.

Besides, even if these people are not very useful, at least they are still wizards.

They can still do some things that are difficult for Muggle sailors to do relatively easily.

So, as long as you stay here, you can easily contact the intelligence dealers here.

While collecting the needs of the ship owners, they use their own intelligence network throughout the town to solve problems for the ship owners.

At the same time, they can also eat two commissions, one is the ship owner’s thank-you fee. The other is the handling fee collected from the wizards.

To be honest, Gret never thought that the first time he saw wizards and Muggles living in harmony would happen in the seventeenth century.

The current scene is very similar to what he had imagined at the beginning. Wizards are not another race, but just a profession among humans.

It’s just that this profession is special. Apart from that, there is no distinction between the two types of people.

Of course, if the current harmony is not based on illegal plunder, it will be completely consistent with Grete’s imagination.

Since entering this camp, Grete feels that everything here is challenging the limits of his three views.

Looking down from a high altitude, you can see that all the inhabited places near the camp have been completely destroyed.

Everything that can be plundered has been completely taken away, and everything that cannot be taken away has been burned clean.

As for the indigenous people in the tribe?

Just look at the people doing the lowest jobs in this town.

Dealing with domestic garbage and sewage, and being beaten and scolded.

If anyone accidentally bumps into the noble sailor, he will be beaten and kicked at any time.

In fact, this kind of beating is not bad.

Grete saw with his own eyes that a person was beaten to death just because he looked at the management with an angry look.

After receiving a small bag of gold sand as compensation, his master’s face suddenly became happy.

He hurriedly pulled the little leader who had just killed someone and invited him to vent his anger with the slaves he had killed.

After that, he even made use of the waste and dragged the body to the contribution collection place in the town, using this already broken body in exchange for an extra entry in his scorebook.

In this camp, the indigenous people, who were originally the masters of this land, can’t be considered a group of people at all.

In the eyes of this group of robbers, scum, and butchers, they are just objects.

If they are handy, they can use them for a few more days. If they are not handy, they can be killed and exchanged for points.

No wonder why the first group of explorers to this continent sent back the news here.

With their means, no matter how weak their temperament is, they have to fight back.

They need helpers, a steady stream of helpers, even if these helpers will take away the profits that might have belonged to them.

But there is no way. If there is no backup, they will be eaten alive by the natives.

When a person has no way to survive, they are not afraid of anything.

It’s just a matter of life. If you resist, you will be killed. If you don’t resist, you will be killed even faster. Who can endure it?

In fact, this is not bad. After all, as Muggles, they can only destroy their bodies.

The worst is undoubtedly falling into the hands of those black wizards who came to America with them. They unscrupulously test spells on the natives.

A considerable number of wizards here were collectively excluded by the magic society because of their research on these anti-human and inhumane spells.

In Great Britain, Europe, and other continents bordering the mainstream civilization in the world, they can’t do this.

Regardless of whether the Muggle government cares about the lives of the lower-class people, it will not allow them to hurt their own citizens so unscrupulously.

But in America, the tribes scattered all over the country gave them full freedom.

Even if they turned all the natives of an entire tribe into magic materials, no one would stand up to accuse them.

The larger tribes have no more than a thousand people. If they want to do something and kidnap some people, no one can stop them.

Besides, there is no need for them to take risks.

The gold diggers who go out often tie up the men, women, and children of the tribe and bring them back to this gathering place after finding nothing.

The saying “thieves never leave empty-handed” is just like this.

Some gold sand can be exchanged for countless research subjects. The dark wizards think this is simply a paradise.

In the final analysis, they are bullies who only fear the strong.

They dare not touch the people in civilized society.

Even if they kidnap people, they can only count on one hand.

Unlike in America, the corpses they studied over the years can be piled up into several mass graves for each person.

They have done everything that mainstream wizards in the magic world sneer at, such as suturing the flesh, extracting the skeleton, and playing with the soul.

However, the dark wizards who were obsessed with the study of dark magic did not notice that their so-called Muggle “companions” had become slightly distant from them after seeing their abnormalities.

It is understandable that no one wants to have their souls played with by others after death.

The evil of some people is probably deeply buried in their bones, deeply rooted and cannot be eliminated.

Most of the people here will be the ancestors of those who will establish a country in America in the future.

No wonder Area 51, the most secret research institute in a country, can conduct human experiments so unscrupulously.

They don’t care whether they use their own compatriots or innocent people abducted from outside.

Because they have been corrupted from the root.

Grete has compassion.

However, this is not something that can be solved by him having a little compassion.

If there is a 20% profit, capital will be ready to move.

If there is a 50% profit, capital will take risks.

If there is a 100% profit, capital will dare to risk being hanged.

If there is a 300% profit, capital will dare to trample on all human laws.

For this group of robbers, including manpower, necessary weapons and equipment…

All of these are only a drop in the bucket.

A business without capital, the profit is more than 300%.

In front of the dazzling gold, they were no longer human.

They were butchers, the god of death, and the incarnation of the devil.

At this moment of greed, everything Grete could do was in vain.

Even if he did not travel through time, but lived in this world.

Without considering the future, he could use any means he wanted, and the results he could achieve were limited.

When the massacre began, there was no possibility of stopping.

Unless one side died and the clan was completely destroyed.

Otherwise, massacre and being massacred, resistance and being resisted, will always linger in this land and become the main theme here.

In other words, even if the natives completely chose to surrender, these robbers would not stop.

They wanted to take away every bit of gold here and completely occupy this place.

What could Grete do?

Even if he took action and killed all the evildoers here, the fleet on the vast ocean would rebuild a new camp within a few months.

From the day when the reputation of the Golden Land began to spread over Europe, America could never return to its former harmony.

There is only one kind of person who can thrive in both the wizard and Muggle groups.

Squibs.

Whether wizards or Muggles, they will regard them as their own people, at least in this camp.

In the eyes of those anxious Muggles, those who can’t cast spells are their kind.

Like wizards, Squibs are just wizards who can’t cast spells.

Gret is squatting with such a person, and only he has the information about the wizards in this camp.

This is what Gret has already inquired about.

Gret intends to start with him to find the trace of Fred King, now the copper ring.