Scott accepted Lucio’s invitation and decided to go to the Spanish Wizard Street.
Out of caution, Scott did not intend to reveal his home address. In the end, the two agreed to meet at the door of the bar where they had met before.
On the appointed day, when Scott took a taxi to the door of the bar, he saw Lucio standing in front of a black car and waving at him.
“Good morning, Scott.”
“Good morning, Lucio, thank you for your invitation.”
After getting in the car, Scott first thanked Lucio, and then noticed something strange-
The driver was not human.
“Did you notice it?” Lucio’s expression was a little proud, “This is my alchemical work.”
He raised his chin and ordered the driver, “Juan, go to Estruque Street.”
“Got it, my master.” The driver’s answer was a little mechanical, but then he started the car smoothly.
The black car shuttled through the busy streets with cars coming and going. If you don’t look closely, no one will find that the driver is a non-human.
“Amazing.”
Scott used magic perception to explore Juan’s structure and couldn’t help but exclaimed.
“You are more talented than I thought, Lucio.”
Although he could also use Transfiguration to create works of this level, he was not capable of alchemy.
“Nothing special, Juan can only have a mechanical reaction to the environment, plus some mechanical movements. In short, he is not smart enough.”
Lucio waved his hand modestly, but he couldn’t hide the smug smile on his face.
Scott’s eyes flashed, “It seems that you have studied a lot of Muggle knowledge.”
“I won’t miss any knowledge that interests me.” Lucio laughed, “Muggle scientists’ scientific conjectures and experiments on robots and artificial intelligence have given me a lot of inspiration.”
Scott didn’t specifically inquire about Lucio’s family background, but Lucio started talking about it himself, “I come from a Muggle family like you. My parents are university professors. By the way, my mother is British.”
Then he talked about his cousin.
“Gavin Patel, do you remember him?”
Scott shook his head. He might not remember the name of every Ravenclaw student, let alone Hufflepuff.
Lucio soon turned to alchemy.
Scott could see that he really loved alchemy.
“I’ve met Master Nicolas Flamel. In the first grade, he came to Beauxbatons to give a class to all the students. Unfortunately, it was only that one time, and now he has passed away.”
“Is alchemy a compulsory course in Beauxbatons?” Scott asked curiously.
“Alchemy is an elective course starting from the third grade.” Lucio shook his head, “You know, you must have some basics to learn alchemy, and not every little wizard has the talent for alchemy.”
As the two talked, the car drove out of the city of Madrid.
“Is Spanish Wizard Street not in Madrid?” Scott asked.
“Oh…” Lucio’s expression was a little subtle, “In Barcelona.”
Scott raised his eyebrows.
No one in the world doesn’t know that people in Madrid and Barcelona don’t like each other.
“There are more wizards gathered in Barcelona.” Lucio shrugged his shoulders, “Maybe it’s because the Spanish royal family is in Madrid?”
Scott nodded, not saying that the British royal family and wizard street are both in London, and wizards and Muggle royal families have little to do with each other.
Lucio curled his lips, “Well, I don’t know why, but there are not many wizards in Spain, and we don’t even have our own magic school. Most Spanish wizards gather in Barcelona, of course, I mean those wizards with heritage.”
Scott nodded again.
There are only three famous magic schools in Europe, and he doesn’t know where wizards from other countries go to school. He always thinks that there are still some less famous magic schools, but he didn’t expect that Spain simply doesn’t have any.
No wonder Lucio wants to go to Beauxbatons in France to study.
However, he now needs to consider another problem…
As far as he knows, Madrid is 600 kilometers away from Barcelona, so it takes a lot of time to drive there.
Is it too late for him to get off the car and go home now?
“Oh, I know what you’re thinking.” Lucio laughed, “Juan, speed up!”
“Okay, Master.”
Juan, who was driving, responded, and the car suddenly accelerated. Scott’s back hit the seat heavily, and the scenery outside the car window became blurred instantly.
“As an alchemist, how could I not try to modify my car?” Lucio raised his chin, “This is my achievement!”
Scott sat more steadily and raised his eyebrows again, “In the UK, this behavior will violate the laws of the Ministry of Magic.”
“Oh, in Spain too.” Lucio grinned, “But don’t worry, this car is now invisible and will not be discovered by any Muggle, of course, nor by the Spanish Ministry of Magic.”
“That’s good.” Scott also smiled.
I didn’t expect this to be such a daring guy, he complained in his heart at the same time.
However, he didn’t really care whether it would violate the law, and he was also happy to spend less time on the road.
Although the speed of Lucio’s modified car could not compare with the British Knight Bus, it also allowed them to reach the outskirts of Barcelona in an hour.
Then the car slowed down.
“You must drive normally after entering here.” Lucio explained with a blink of his eyes, “Because wizards may find you at any time.”
He began to introduce the Wizard Street they were going to to Scott.
“Muggles also call Estruque Street Wizard Street. This is because a wizard named Estruque used to provide divination and healing services to people there, so he was very famous in the local area.”
Scott was a little surprised when he heard this.
“You think this violates the confidentiality law, right?”
Lucio laughed again.
“In fact, he is not a real wizard.”
“He just used herbs to treat Muggles and used various stones to tell fortunes for them. Those Muggles regarded him as a real wizard and worshipped him crazily.”
“Later, all kinds of male and female ‘wizards’ gathered on this street, mostly gypsies, and Catalans. Of course, they are not real wizards.”
“This is a bit crazy.” Scott said, “But is the real wizard street there?”
“Yes, the street where wizards gathered has been there for a long time, much earlier than the time when Estruque was there.” Lucio shrugged his shoulders, “Maybe it’s just a coincidence, maybe there are other reasons, who knows.”
Lucio also told a lot of interesting stories about Muggles worshipping another group of Muggles as real wizards.
“Of course, the Barcelona Muggle government knows that there are real wizards hidden there, and they deliberately preserved the name and appearance of that street.”
The car stopped near Estruque Street, and Scott and Lucio got off the car together and walked to this wizard street, which is also famous among Muggles.
It is called a street, but it is actually just an alley sandwiched between buildings. Even vehicles cannot drive on this street.
It may be blocked by the high buildings on both sides. The whole street is dark and dark.
After walking into this street, it is like entering another world.
It is summer now. The sun is hot and the ground is dry, but it is very cool in Wizard Street. Even the ground is wet.
Lucio introduced enthusiastically, “This street has always been so wet, and Muggles have various explanations.”
“Some people think that it is because the underground moisture has been bubbling up to the ground, which is a natural phenomenon. Some people think that it is because the street is narrow and the buildings on both sides block the sunlight, making it difficult for moisture to evaporate. Of course, some people say that this is the work of wizards’ witchcraft and believe it.”
He smiled mysteriously, “Of course, this is not the real reason. You will know the real reason in a while.”
Scott nodded, and looked up and looked around.
He found that the design of the road signs on this street was very special. All the fonts were crooked, like gathering insects and wizards’ spell symbols.
“These words are written in Catalan, and most people can’t understand them.” Lucio said.
In addition, Scott also found that the design of each house number is different. Each number is made incomplete, which looks very mysterious.
The two walked on the wet street and finally came to the door of an old apartment.
“This is it.”
Lucio walked in first, and Scott followed behind him.
In the apartment hall, a bald apartment manager who was drowsy raised his eyelids and glanced at them, and the heavy eyelids drooped again.
“This gentleman is a wizard from the Spanish Ministry of Magic. He is responsible for guarding here.” Lucio whispered to Scott.
Scott retracted his gaze. Of course, he could also sense the identity of the other wizard.
He followed Lucio past a row of elevators, turned a few corners and came to the stairwell, and then walked down the stairs to the basement.
He looked at Lucio in confusion, and Lucio immediately gave a positive answer, “Yes, the real wizard street is underground.”
As they talked, the two came to a huge underground parking lot.
Although the area here is very wide, there is no car parked here.
The dim lights flickered faintly, and there were puddles of water on the ground. Coupled with rows of thick concrete pillars, the whole space looked empty, dilapidated and dark.
“This parking lot does not belong to Muggles.” When Lucio spoke, an echo sounded in the space, “The staircase just now was actually arranged with a Muggle-repelling spell. As for why it was arranged like a parking lot, it was said that it was to prevent Muggles from accidentally entering.”
He strode forward and took Scott to several corners.
Gradually, they heard the sound of talking.
Two ladies in wizard costumes came out from behind a row of pillars. They were holding several paper bags in their hands and happily talking to each other.
“Today’s Poso Stone is a little cheaper than last time…”
The moment they saw Lucio and Scott, the two witches immediately stopped and looked at the two boys in Muggle clothes with vigilant eyes.
Lucio was fine, he was dressed simply, but Scott’s clothes were made by Emilia, which were too trendy and seemed out of place in this dark and damp underground parking lot.
“Muggle?”
“No, we are wizards, ma’am.”
Lucio said with a smile.
The two witches looked them up and down for a few more times before leaving.
Scott also heard the two muttering, “Is it popular to wear Muggle clothes now…”
“…”
Scott looked down at his outfit that Emilia had arranged for him, feeling a little helpless.
Just as he thought, as the two continued to move forward, they met more and more wizards, and more and more people would focus their attention on him.
“I’m like a Muggle who broke into the wizarding world.” He said to Lucio.
Lucio laughed after hearing this.
Going around the dense row of concrete pillars, Scott saw a rough stone wall in front of him, and outside the stone wall there was a crooked Muggle security booth.
In the security booth sat another drowsy wizard.
The way this gentleman raised his eyelids to look at them was exactly the same as that of the “apartment manager”.
“This is the entrance.” Lucio said to Scott, “We can go in directly.”
As he said that, he strode forward and walked directly through the wall.
Scott followed his footsteps and also walked through the stone wall.
After the darkness, Scott heard a noisy and bustling sound. He opened his eyes and saw a bright light.
The wizard street in front of him was sunny, with dense buildings, shops and crowds. It seemed that there was not much difference from Diagon Alley in the UK.
But the biggest difference between here and Diagon Alley was a river.
This not-so-wide river shuttled between different buildings. Countless stone bridges of various styles were built on the river, and some wizards were moving on the river in small boats.
“Look, this is why the wizard street above is always wet.” Lucio pointed to the river and said, “Because there is an underground river hidden by wizards.”
He pointed to the blue sky and white clouds and the dazzling sun above.
“Of course, the sky here is fake. The Ministry of Magic has cast a meteorological spell here to simulate various weather conditions.”
Scott looked up and said, “This is the same as the ceiling of the Hogwarts Great Hall and the windows of the British Ministry of Magic.”
“Oh, wizards all over the world probably like to do this.”
Lucio walked forward.
“Let’s rent a boat. It can sail automatically and take us to any store we want to go to.”
Scott had no objection.
The two came to a small dock, and Lucio quickly rented a boat from a white-haired old wizard.
When they got on the boat, Lucio fiddled with the copper rudder at the bow, and the boat began to move shakily.
