Chaos and Order - A Multiverse Fanfic

C65: Ukrainian Ironbelly - A New Artifact!

Evening, November 28

Gringotts Wizarding Bank

Kai had been quite busy for the last three days.

Most of the time he had spent underground, walking, racing, and falling through the many tunnels specifically for the guards' use. Even though the High Guard had told him that his duty was to kill the rats, the training protocols required him to do all that the other wizards were supposed to do.

The abyss below the bank was a damp, dark mass of black, stony walls and horrors.

The thing that had made Kai furious beyond measure was that Snaglok had not warned him about the significance of the Vault Numbers. Nobody talked to him, but that didn't mean he had forgotten how to listen.

Monstrous things are guarding the Vault as one goes deeper into the abyss, Kai had heard one wizard say with unknown pride. There are dragons, giant crabs, enormous rats, and even sphinxes guarding those Vaults.

Kai's breathing had already lost its rhythm when the dragon was mentioned.

How the hell will I bypass all the wizards and the magical creatures at the same time? he had asked himself. Not to mention, the Blood Prophecy still lingered like a gluttonous monster at the back of his mind, ready to devour him at a single instance of negligence.

Now, Kai was getting a hang of the Blood Prophecy after repeating it many times.

There was no true limitation of time, though it didn't let him see much farther. It focused on Random Encounter, which, by all means, was bound to result in some unfortunate event in case Kai hadn't known about it beforehand.

So, the highest priority for him in the last three days wasn't to marvel at the terrifying vistas below the Gringotts, but to prepare himself in case Snaglok just happened to decide to fuck him up.

For that, Kai had to go out into the muggle world.

Being a squib, the High Guard, though reluctantly, had ordered a wizard to take Kai out of the Diagon Alley via Leaky Cauldron. It had been a simple thing to ditch the wizard at the pub and then go outside on his own. The moment Kai made sure that no one was spying on him, he had gone down to the sewers where he had stashed his stolen muggle money, for just in case scenarios.

Guns weren't the things Kai would buy, he had decided. First, he wouldn't have time to practice with them. Second, he had never used them.

What Kai was looking for was something that would be as effective on the wizards as the muggles. Which would be easiest and fastest to use, to give him enough time to steal the egg and just teleport right after.

What was the thing that the wizards share with the muggles?

They are all humans, so they have the same senses, he had answered himself. Well, wizards' senses are more heightened, a thing I can use to my advantage.

After buying what he wanted, Kai returned to the Gringotts.

A glance exchanged between him and the goblin, Snaglok, told him that the attack on the Vault would most likely happen tonight.

So, Kai had spent the next few hours going through all the nook and cranny of his plan and all the actions he would take repeatedly in his mind. The High Guard was not pleased about his lack of focus in the afternoon, Kai could tell.

Well, fuck him! Kai cursed, kicking a rat, sending it to fall off a cliff.

"Good," the recruit, Solanky, said. "You are already training yourself for your job. Well, you can do that later. There is no shortage of rats. The High Guard has ordered us to go to the deeper vaults to familiarize ourselves. Let's go."