Two Worlds: I studied abroad at Hogwarts

Chapter 99 Discovering a Wild Little Magician
Two days later, in the early morning, Xilin Wharf was crowded with people.

The people in Veteran Alley set out from their homes before dawn and walked for a full hour before reaching the dock.

"Oh~, I should have come last night!"

Looking at the crowded crowds all over the dock, Hall slapped his thigh helplessly and sighed.

"It seems like everyone wants to avoid the war."

Moon and Zalan were also a little worried. They didn't expect that there would be so many people taking the boat out to sea this time.

Just as the two were about to look for Gold's Thorn, a familiar figure squeezed through the crowd.

"Respected Lord Scarlett, I am Karen Ruiz, the first mate of the Thorn. I have been waiting for you here for an hour."

The veterans' families, who had originally planned to squeeze into the crowd and queue up obediently, felt relieved when they saw someone coming to pick them up.

All the young and middle-aged men in the alley became militiamen, and all those who came to the dock were the elderly, the weak, women and children.

And now the dock is so chaotic, which forces the veterans' families to distract themselves from taking care of their children and keep an eye on their luggage.

But now that they saw that the ship's first mate was there to pick them up, they all felt much more relieved.

"We met that day. You were the one responsible for rescuing the crew."

After seeing someone coming to pick him up, Moon still looked at the person in front of him with some concern.

"Indeed, I didn't expect that you still remembered me."

"Of course, I have a good memory. Now how do we get on the boat?"

Moon first glanced at the first mate Karen who had been bowing and saluting, and then pointed to all the veterans' families behind him.

"Oh, don't worry. As soon as all your people are here, I will immediately have someone bring another plank down from the boat."

Karen leaned over again to explain.

"Then please take the bus now. Our people are all here."

"Hmm? Won't you have your men check it out again?"

"No, these are my relatives, I won't make a mistake."

After Moon finished speaking, First Mate Karen was still a little stunned.

As an old man who has sailed on the sea for twenty years, Karen has been to many places.

Although he didn't have as much experience as Gold, he knew that magicians were rarely accompanied by their families, let alone so many of them.

The last time Moon and Zalan came to the ship to discuss a deal, Gold and Karen only thought that those following Moon would be magician apprentices or servants, but they didn't expect that they were all family members.

He has always been alone in pursuit of mysterious powers, rarely interacting with others, and at most recruiting apprentices and servants to help him with his work.
These are the fixed perceptions of magicians that Karen has formed over the years.

But today, Moon made him see a different kind of "magician".

"Okay, please wait a moment!"

After confirming that Moon was not joking, Karen immediately took out a red pennant from his arms.

Then he put his left hand to his mouth and blew a sharp whistle, and the pennant waved rhythmically in the air three times.

After receiving the signal, the sailors on the Thorn immediately lowered a large wooden board nearly two meters wide from the side of the ship.

"Look! There's a passage here to get on the ship."

The crowd that was originally crowded at the stern saw the wooden planks being lowered, and they started to rush over here, yelling.

Karen seemed to have anticipated this situation.

After putting the pennant into his pocket, he directly pulled out the crew's long knife he carried with him.

This is an arc-shaped scimitar. Although it is not as sharp as Brad's, there are a lot of dark red bloodstains on the handle, which shows that this knife must have tasted a lot of human blood.

"Everyone stand back. These are all distinguished guests of Captain Gold."

"Guests? Why? We paid for our tickets, too. 50 gold coins each!"

The crowd stopped three meters in front of Karen, but someone still reluctantly produced their ticket voucher. "Let me tell you, fifty gold coins was just the price three days ago. If you dare to come any closer today, you'll have to pay a hundred gold coins to buy this ticket."

"Why?"

While Karen was confronting many passengers, the families of Veteran Alley had already begun to slowly board the deck.

Zalan walked at the front of the team. He was going to arrange matters for everyone after they got on board.

Moon, Brad and Hall, the three of them were at the end of the team, standing with Karen.

"I know the man with the boat ticket. He's the owner of the rice shop in Xilin Town. Of the three rice shops, his is the most expensive."

Hall was now holding a musket and guarding the entrance to the deck.

Seeing someone waving a boat ticket and trying to rush over, he recognized the person at a glance.

"I went to buy it too, but it cost me a whole year's salary as a servant to buy a pound of black rice. I didn't expect that today he would be the one being blackmailed."

Brad also noticed the figure of the rice shop owner. Seeing that the other party was still shouting, he felt indescribably happy.

"We're not blackmailing you, young man. The price of a boat ticket today is one hundred gold coins, and that's the same price for the entire dock!"

After hearing what Brad said, Karen tilted her head slightly and hurried to explain.

"One hundred? It's true!"

"Of course. Last night, someone from Liuyun City ran out and said that a fire dragon attacked there. Then a large number of people rushed to the dock."

"Fire dragon? Is there really such a thing?"

"Of course, although I haven't seen it either!"

Although Karen's explanation is just hearsay, it does prove that the price of ferry tickets is constantly rising.

Hall, who was standing next to him, took a deep breath unconsciously when he heard the word fire dragon.

"If it really is a fire dragon, I think it's better not to see it."

Hall once saw a fire dragon on the battlefield when he was a soldier.

When he saw the huge monster that could only spit fire from the sky, he was so scared that he hid in the crevice of the rocks and escaped with his life.

Moon was also listening carefully to the story about the fire dragon. Although he had seen images of fire dragons in his Hogwarts textbooks, he had never seen a real fire dragon.

Not to mention that the fire dragon actually attacked the city, which made Moon feel even more incredible.

"Could there be a wizard controlling the fire dragon?"

Moon's roommate at Hogwarts, Ron, once said that his brother Charlie was training dragons in Romania.

Fire dragons rarely attack human cities on their own initiative because they only want to obtain food.

In comparison, people and sheep in remote villages are more readily available sources of food.

So it is completely abnormal for a fire dragon to attack a fortified city.

But if there is a wizard controlling it, then all of this can be explained.

While the four men were guarding the wooden walkway, the veterans' families quickly boarded the boat, and Moon breathed a sigh of relief.

In the end, Karen was guarding alone downstairs, and Moon and the other two also came up.

After retracting the wooden board, Moon was about to go into the cabin to check when he saw something he had not seen for a long time in the crowd out of the corner of his eye.

Wizard bar!
This is a little girl hiding in the crowd.

Moon didn't notice the other person at first because the girl was always behind the crowd. She was not very old and was about the same height as Moon.

So the crowded crowd perfectly covered the wizard bar.

"One-fifth of a frame? It's shorter than Ron's!"

Seeing that the little magician was also in the boarding team, Moon decided to observe him carefully.

(End of this chapter)