Hogwarts: I Really Don't Want to Be a Wizard - Chapter 157

c156 Traces of goblins

Today’s operation was much smoother than Grete expected.

Probably because these people have not encountered any major setbacks since they came to this continent.

So much so that they forgot that they should also maintain the necessary vigilance inside the camp.

The job of an intelligence dealer, especially an intelligence organization that must be trusted by various organizations.

He has to do almost everything outside of life himself.

After all, the trust of these people comes from him. Without him to prove it, even if other people say it, they can’t expect to get a bit of trust from others.

His face is as important as the intelligence in his hand.

If someone else brings intelligence to the door, he will only be hanged on the lighthouse in the outer sea.

Similarly, he must ensure that his intelligence is true. There can be omissions, but no mistakes.

This dumb gun all-rounder who wanders around the camp is named Ace Barton.

Don’t look at his unprepossessing appearance and short and fat stature, but he can become the only intelligence dealer trusted by all organizations in such an atmosphere surrounded by wolves.

I knew he was not simple.

He did everything himself in the past few years because he was alone and had to take care of everything.

But now, in this huge camp, his status has long been different from that of himself when he was penniless.

However, he still rushed to the stage, even if it was the smallest business, he had to do it himself.

Even if others advised him not to be so tired, he just said that he could not rest.

This should be said to be the way of smart people.

Grete can understand it very well.

Many people in the Dawn Intelligence Group were recruited from the society.

In their words, the most taboo thing for intelligence dealers is to let go of the things in their hands and let others do them.

On the surface, it is indeed much easier.

However, once you study it in depth, you will know that this behavior is tantamount to killing the chicken to get the eggs.

Whether the subordinates can be trusted, whether they will work alone after getting the upper hand, and play a trick of cutting off the source of funds, let’s not talk about it for the time being.

If you don’t handle the business you started for a long time, you will become stupid.

You will inevitably fall into decline in the future.

There are only two possibilities to avoid this situation.

One is to join a large organization and exchange freedom for safety and security. No matter what, you can get a stable income.

However, intelligence dealers rarely do this. One is that they are used to being free men. It is not a comfortable experience to enter an organization for no reason, be inferior to others, and be controlled by others.

In addition, intelligence dealers will inevitably offend some people. The organization is not big enough, so even if they are interested in them, they dare not take them into their pockets.

Joining Dawn is precisely because of the indelible dream, which makes them willing to accept the test of the organization.

The second is to establish their own intelligence organization with themselves as the core.

However, the people under them can only be used as tools to collect intelligence.

Identifying the authenticity of intelligence and selling intelligence, connecting various customers who buy intelligence, such things must be done by themselves.

This is what Ace Barton did.

No one here can understand the true face behind this group of dark wizards and this group of predators better than him.

So he will always be a businessman, a businessman who sells intelligence, instead of joining them.

That will make him attacked by the crowd.

Keeping neutral is his way to protect himself.

All organizations that need him will give him some conveniences openly or secretly.

But even so, he will still be assassinated from time to time.

Some are because of the Muggles whose intelligence is bankrupt, and some are dark wizards who take risks.

Therefore, he has always regarded his security as extremely important.

On daily trips, there are at least eight wizards hired at a high price, protecting him at any time 24 hours a day.

But for Grete, ten or eight wizards are no difference at all.

Wizards of his level are no longer simply compensated by numbers.

As long as the number of people does not reach a certain base, this group of people can’t even touch him.

Watching him complete the recruitment, under the protection of a group of people, he walked away leisurely.

Grete quietly tightened his hood, and dissipated into a ball of magic particles in a corner where no one noticed.

In order to avoid the immeasurable disasters in the future caused by crossing time and space, Grete could only do this temporarily even if he had the strength.

At least, before rescuing the copper ring, Grete still had to control himself a little.

After all, he crossed time and space because of the copper ring, which was the reminder of Fred King in modern society.

In order to complete the time loop, Grete must be extremely careful now.

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Although Ace Barton did everything himself, he must not be harsh on his life.

In the port, where every inch of land is valuable, he actually has a manor.

Although the manor is not big, it is not something that everyone can own.

After walking around with Ace Barton, he finally returned to his manor.

Grete heard his men running to him and said that the recent intelligence had been collected.

All written materials were sent to the office of his manor.

In order to save enough gold to become a noble in the Muggle society, he has been working hard in the past few years.

He goes out early and comes back late, forcing himself to work 996.

The power is so strong, and it is not a violent organization. In order to win the loyalty of his subordinates, they will not have any thoughts of rebellion.

Since Ace Barton completely won the intelligence trading business, he distributed most of the rewards to his subordinates and the bodyguards who followed him.

After all, one of them is related to the efficiency of the intelligence business, and the other is related to his life.

He cannot be careless about these two things.

Gret followed all the way, and those black wizards who also wore hoods and didn’t want to show even a strand of hair really followed closely.

Never more than three steps away from him.

Gret wanted to take action several times, but was afraid that someone would react and expose his whereabouts.

Fear, Gret was not too afraid, but just considered that his slightest movement might cause a butterfly effect.

So, Gret considered again and again, and decided to find a time when Ace Barton was alone.

After all, these people followed him when walking and talking.

You can’t just stay with him all the time when he eats, sleeps, and goes to the toilet.

If you want to get such treatment, Ace Barton doesn’t know how much he has to pay.

In order to make these unruly and evil black wizards completely obedient.

If this is true, then why is Ace Barton an intelligence dealer?

He has completely become a worker for his subordinates.

Ace Barton, who came to America across the ocean in pursuit of wealth and class leap, is obviously not such a person.

Finally, after receiving the news that he needed to deal with today’s intelligence, Ace Barton finally chose to return.

Before approaching Ace Barton’s manor, Grete noticed the faint magical fluctuations.

It seems that Ace Barton is really cautious.

In addition to the outposts on the periphery to block Muggles, he also arranged a warning spell here.

The most familiar fluctuation is of course the anti-apparition against wizard special attacks.

Grete noticed it on the task wall of the town tavern.

There is an aversion to assassination of tribal wizards, tribal leaders, etc.

Those who often take such tasks are maverick black wizards.

On the one hand, they are employed by ship owners to escort their survival in America.

On the other hand, when they are resting, they compress their time and go to the tavern to take some tasks to enrich their own coffers.

Apparition is the most useful spell for assassination.

Ace Barton, the intelligence dealer, has been here for several years and is very familiar with the situation here.

When he thought that he might die because of his sleep.

Ace Barton couldn’t calm down.

He made money to live a comfortable life, and he didn’t want to be like the captains of those pirate groups.

After death, his subordinates who were disintegrated divided all the things, causing a period of bloody storm.

So, after obtaining this manor, he took out a considerable part of the gold from his savings.

Ask those powerful wizards to set up a full range of magic protection for his manor.

It must be said that this is a wise choice. ,

On the one hand, the security level of the manor has indeed increased a lot, and on the other hand, it also tells everyone that he doesn’t have much money in his hands.

Those desperate people who are for money, don’t come to him for money.

This manor is right next to the administrative center of the town.

Compared with those cramped small buildings outside, his manor can be said to be grand and spacious.

Before coming to America, he was just a squib placed in the Muggle world by the magic world.

It was also because he seized the opportunity that he accumulated a considerable fortune in just a few years.

However, after returning to the manor, Gret noticed that the wizard bodyguard who was originally close to him did not enter the room to prevent intelligence with him.

This made Gret happy.

Outside, he couldn’t do it, but who knew that Esbarton locked himself in the secret room.

Beware of people has long been engraved in his bones.

Therefore, before he has accumulated enough wealth, he will never teach his methods to anyone.

Which is more important, the golden egg or the hen that lays the golden egg? There is no need for Grete to explain.

After seeing Esbaton walk in and close the door, the bodyguards who had just followed him slumped their shoulders.

He was already lawless, but was trapped by a little money, resulting in the need to protect a squib.

If these dark wizards knew where Esbaton’s money was hidden, they would have run away with the money long ago.

None of them noticed that an almost inaudible wave quietly passed by them and followed Esbaton into the house.

[Petrification] + [Imprisonment], in the horrified eyes of Esbaton, Grete suddenly appeared in front of him.

After further study in Kunlun, Grete already knew how to completely hide the faint and imperceptible spell fluctuations when magic particles were formed into spells.

Grete listened quietly for a while to make sure that his actions did not attract the attention of others.

Finally, a smile appeared on his face under the hood.

He was sure that when the matter here was over and he returned to the modern time and space,

he would study Kunlun’s collection of books, and his strength would be even more amazing.

This is also second. The point is that all members of Shuguang may receive a period of strength improvement.

It doesn’t take many people, but as long as one-third can control the magic particles, Gretel dares to stand up and declare war on the entire magical world.

Of course, Kunlun must be excluded from this magical world.

Let’s not mention that Kunlun’s strength is unfathomable. Let’s just say that he took what he learned from Kunlun and declared war on Kunlun.

That sense of immorality made Gretel feel a little uncomfortable.

After casting a silent spell on the entire room, Gretel quietly removed the spell from Ace Barton.

Surprisingly, Ace Barton calmed down immediately after the initial panic.

Gretel was a little surprised. It seemed that Ace Barton, an intelligence dealer, could stand out in such a highly competitive intelligence industry and become an industry benchmark.

It really can’t be summed up in one word: luck.

Judging from his ability to calm down quickly in the face of unexpected situations, it can be seen that his ability to get out depends entirely on his brains.

Ace Barton has a gift, he can clearly remember all the people he has met.

This is why he decided to join the intelligence industry.

Gretel’s figure, coupled with the temperament of his movements.

Espaton knew immediately that he had never seen the person in front of him before.

In other words, he is new to this port.

He didn’t even consider calling for help.

Since he was able to bypass the guard and be protected by his ever-present bodyguards, he sneaked into his intelligence room.

This proves that Gretel is definitely someone he can’t afford to offend.

The few people outside the door are all said to be elites he hired with high salaries.

But even so, none of them noticed anything unusual. Without even thinking about it, he knew that Gretel’s strength was unfathomable.

At least, it’s not something that the few people outside the door can handle.

Rather than calling for help rashly and causing Gretel to have murderous intentions, it would be better for him to cooperate earlier.

According to his past experience, for a person like him, there is no threat, but it is extremely useful.

As long as he doesn’t resist, no one will kill him casually.

However, what he couldn’t figure out was why this person was obviously new here.

But it happened to focus on him.

You know, he has always been a model of a good guy in this gathering place.

He doesn’t have much money now. Even if Grete is a kidnapper, he can’t blackmail him for any money.

Of course, the little gold he had left would definitely not be discovered.

From the perspective of popularity and wealth, he shouldn’t be Grete’s target.

Gretel didn’t waste any time.

He asked his question directly.

“Where is the goblin from Great Britain now?”