Chapter 35:
I toweled off my hair as I stepped out of the hotel bathroom. I needed to rinse off all the blood and dust that had accumulated all over me from the fighting. Following our liberation of Diagon Alley and Gringotts, things went fairly smoothly. SHIELD took control of the area until the British armed forces could arrive to take over.
As I had suspected, the magical wizarding citizens had no idea that the statute of secrecy had been blown apart by Voldemort a few days before. The civilians had all fled for cover when the fighting started, and the bullets and spells went flying everywhere. Once the fighting ended, they slowly returned to see who had emerged victorious. Many of them thought that it was Aurors or even the Order of the Phoenix that was fighting the Death Eaters. When they found out it was actually Muggles, needless to say, they were shocked. Then they were even more shocked to find out that Muggles had defeated the Dark Lord and wiped out his forces.
Following that, the armed forces decided that it would be better to fully evacuate Diagon Alley, Knockturn Alley, and the Leaky Cauldron. There weren't more than a hundred or so civilians anyway, so it only took an hour to complete the evacuation. Even if the Death Eaters return to try and reclaim it, they'll find everything abandoned and all of the businesses closed down. I also imagine that the goblins will be moving as quickly as they can to leave as well. With magical shrinking charms and bags of holding being real things, the goblins will probably have all those vaults emptied before morning.
I sat down on the comfy bed as I finished drying my hair off. Once again, I had shamelessly used the Stark company card for this five-star hotel room. I really needed to get my own place, though, soon. Now that my intelligence stat had reached 50, I could start practicing with the sling ring again. According to the system, it should start working for me.
[You won't be crossing galaxies anytime soon, but traveling around the planet shouldn't be a problem anymore.]
I pulled the small sling ring out of my inventory and held it in my palm. I always thought the MCU was pretty comical when it came to these things. Asgardians, people of an advanced magi-tech society, were only able to teleport with the power of the Bifrost or dark magic. Meanwhile, humans, who all the other space-faring societies look down upon, have figured out the best and easiest method of teleportation in the whole verse.
[It is pretty funny. Even for high-level gamers, an instantaneous wormhole that can open up anywhere in the universe is an extremely effective method of travel. There's not much that can top it.]
I put the ring back in my inventory before I spoke up. "All right then, system. I completed my latest mission; it's time for me to get my reward."
[You got it. Mission complete! Now distributing the reward.]
There was a flash of golden light in front of me as something materialized from thin air. A second later, a heavy metallic object plopped down on my lap. I looked down at what I had gotten…
'Is this really all I got for that quest?' I complained in my head. I honestly was expecting more. Not that this wasn't nice and all.
[Not all the rewards can be bangers…]
I looked at my reward in front of me that I had gotten from saving Fleur. It was a golden sword. A sword made of actual gold. "What exactly am I supposed to do with this?"
[It's a sword… Use it for sword stuff. Or you can sell it.]
"It's made of gold. You can't use gold as a weapon. This is pretty much worthless for anything except being a trophy. Even as a trophy, it just comes off looking gaudy…" I said as I held up the hundred-kilo gold blade. I suppose it could look cool if I ever decided to cosplay. With some minor alterations, I could get it to look like Excalibur. Then again, the system might just give me the real Excalibur as a reward in the future. I stashed the gold sword in my inventory. I'd probably just end up selling the thing to Tony later. He likes gold. I'm sure he'd get a kick out of it.
[QQ… Just so you know, that sword is made of 100% pure gold… It's worth at least a few million dollars. It was a very generous reward for such an easy mission.]
That made me pause for a moment in thought. That was a surprisingly easy mission. The entire time, I never felt myself in any real danger. Even when facing up against Voldemort, I wasn't nervous at all. In fact, I was itching for revenge.
[...Had you stabbed him anywhere but his gut, you probably would have one-shot him. You should have–]
"Don't say it!" I exclaimed with a whine.
[You should have gone for the head…]
"Fuck you, system."
KNOCK KNOCK
Someone was knocking at my hotel door. I stood up from the bed and went over to see who it was. Through the small eye hole in the door, I could see a familiar redhead on the other side. Layla opened the door.
"Hey, Layla. Just so you know, we have a briefing with everyone tomorrow morning. They all want to know more about the Great Sund–WOW!"
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