Hogwarts: I Really Don't Want to Be a Wizard - Chapter 155 Port Town

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 across the ocean in Europe, 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, or 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 anything.

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 ship 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.

The poor, weak fellows among the wizards were left 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 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 had their strength exposed and were kicked out by the ship owners.

Everyone has all kinds of weird reasons.

That is to say, they are not good at studying, otherwise they will be recruited by the sponsor soon just by relying on their superb magic spells and showing off their skills in any tavern.

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

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

Some things that are difficult for Muggle sailors to do, they can still do relatively easily.

Therefore, as long as you stay here, you can easily get in touch with the intelligence dealers here.

While they collect 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. It’s the handling fee drawn from the wizard.

To be honest, Gretel never expected 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 originally imagined. Wizards are not another race, but just a profession among humans.

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

Of course, if the current harmony was not based on illegal plunder, it would be completely consistent with Gretel’s imagination.

Ever since he entered this camp, Grete felt that everything here was challenging the limits of his outlook.

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

Everything that could be plundered was completely taken away, and everything that could not be taken away was burned cleanly.

As for the indigenous people in the tribe?

Just look at the people in this small town working the most menial jobs.

They have to deal with domestic garbage and sewage, and they have to be beaten and scolded at will.

If anyone accidentally bumped into a noble sailor, they would be punched and kicked at every turn.

In fact, this kind of beating is not bad.

Gretel watched a man being beaten to death just for looking at the management with angry eyes.

After his owner received a small bag of gold sand as compensation, Bu Yu’s face suddenly beamed with joy.

He hurriedly grabbed the little boss who had just beaten someone to death and invited him to vent his anger on the slave he beat.

After that, he reused the waste and dragged the body to the town’s contribution collection office. He used this broken body in exchange for an extra sum in his point book.

In this camp, the aborigines, the original owners of this land, cannot be considered a group of people at all.

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

If you take advantage of it, use it for more days. If you don’t take advantage of it, you can get points in exchange for killing it.

It’s no wonder why the first group of explorers to this continent sent the news back.

With their methods, no matter how weak-tempered they are, they still have to stand up and resist.

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

But there is no way, if there is no backup, they will be eaten alive by the indigenous people.

When a person has no way to survive, they have nothing to fear.

There is only one life left. 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, they are both Muggles, so they can only destroy their bodies.

The worst thing undoubtedly fell into the hands of those dark wizards who came to the Americas, and they unscrupulously tested magic spells on the indigenous people.

A considerable number of wizards here have been collectively ostracized by the magical society because of their research on these inhumane curses that are anti-human.

In Great Britain, in Europe, and in other continents of the world that are bordering mainstream civilization, they cannot do this.

Regardless of whether the Muggle government cares about the lives of the people at the bottom, it will not allow them to harm their own citizens so unscrupulously.

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

Even if they made magic materials out of an entire tribe of indigenous people, no one would stand up and accuse them.

The larger tribes only have a thousand people at most. If they want to do anything and kidnap some people, no one can stop them.

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

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.

That’s what the thief doesn’t leave in vain.

A few gold sands can be exchanged for countless research objects. Dark wizards think this place is simply a paradise.

In the final analysis, they bully the weak and fear the strong.

People in civilized societies don’t dare to move at all.

Even if they kidnap people, they are only a handful.

Unlike in America, after they studied the corpses, over the years, everyone could pile up several mass graves.

Sewing flesh, extracting skeletons, playing with souls, they have done all the things that mainstream wizards in the magical world sneer at.

However, the dark wizards who were obsessed with the study of dark magic did not notice that the Muggle ‘companions’ they thought were slightly alienated from them after seeing their perversion.

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

The evil of some people is probably buried deep in their bones, so deep-rooted that it cannot be eradicated.

Most of the people here will be the ancestors of those who will establish nations in the Americas.

It’s no wonder that Area 51, one of the country’s most secret research institutions, is able to conduct human experiments without any limits.

He didn’t care whether he was using his own compatriots or innocent people kidnapped from outside.

Because they have long been broken from the roots.

Gretel has compassion.

However, this cannot be solved by him showing a little compassion.

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

If there is a fifty percent profit, capital will take risks.

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

If there is a 300% profit, capital will dare to trample all laws in the world.

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

All of these, added up, are only a drop in the bucket.

The profit from a business without capital is more than 300%.

In front of that dazzling gold, they could no longer be considered human beings.

He is a butcher, a god of death, and the human incarnation of the devil.

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

Even if he didn’t travel through time, he was living in this world.

There is no need to consider future generations, and he can use his methods unscrupulously, and the results he can achieve are limited.

When the massacre begins, there is no chance of things dying down.

Unless one party is dead and completely destroyed.

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

In other words, even if the aborigines choose to surrender completely, these bandits will not stop.

They want to take every piece of gold here and take over it completely.

What can Gretel do?

Even if he takes action and kills all the evildoers here, the fleet of ships on the vast sea will re-establish a new camp within a few months.

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

There is only one kind of person who can thrive between wizards and Muggles.

Squib.

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

In the eyes of those anxious Muggles, those who couldn’t cast spells were just like them.

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

Gretel was squatting with such a person, and only he had information about the wizards in this camp.

Gretel had already inquired about this.

Gretel plans to start with him and find traces of Fred King, now the Brass Ring.