Not long ago, Laverne had graduated from school and joined Gringotts as an official curse dispeller.
As an inexperienced newbie, he would not be directly engaged in outdoor archaeology. Instead, he would be sent to relatively mature ruins such as the Great Pyramid and the Valley of the Kings, where he would be promoted bit by bit based on his performance and achievements.
Ever since Gringotts entered Egypt, the excavation of those ruins had been going on for centuries.
In other words, it was very difficult to find anything new there, and the remaining curses that had not been broken were also very troublesome.
Last year, under Bill's guidance, Elwyn had visited the work of the curse dispellers in the Great Pyramid. One of the curse dispellers had left a deep impression on him. Those newbie curse dispellers were divided into teams of five, divided into four teams, and used a magic on a stone wall day and night to consume the power of the curse on it.
This was the dispelling of the curse. The whole process was quite tedious, boring, and also very tiring.
Bill told Elwyn that with the current speed, in another hundred years, they would be able to consume the power of the curse on this wall and enter the back.
As for what was behind the wall, it would be best if it was an undiscovered treasure.
But based on previous experience, it might still be a wall …
The boredom of this so-called curse dispelling work was simply unimaginable, but every newbie got through it this way.
Fortunately, Laverne just happened to be in the heat of the Sun ruins excavation.
She had been in Zuo Sai's team before, and was very familiar with the Sun ruins. This experience allowed her to join the current team.
Just like Laverne had always said to Elwyn, this was her chance, and she had to grasp it.
If she could not grasp it, she could only go back to doing the boring dispelling work like the others!
This girl was probably prepared to dedicate her life to the cause of Egyptian archaeology, and desperately wanted to prove her ability. As long as they could find enough valuable treasures in this excavation, she could stay in this team and continue to excavate other newly discovered important ruins, or even form her own excavation team.
After considering it all, Elwyn felt that he should still help Laverne to the best of his ability.
Although they hadn't known each other for a long time, Lavier had helped him a lot. He couldn't just watch her go back and waste her life …
This was also the main reason why Elwyn didn't join Paul's alchemy team, and instead accepted Lavier's invitation to join her excavation team. This team was the official excavation team of Egypt's Ministry of Magic and Gringotts, numbered 19. They were mainly responsible for exploring the east side of the second excavation route that Lavier and Elwyn had mentioned.
There were about twenty-five people in the excavation team, including ten spell dispellers, five fairies, and ten support staff.
There were also four alchemists hired like Elwyn, forming a thirty-man excavation team.
The captain was a fairy with a strange-sounding name called Pendulum.
Pendulum was a typical fairy. He had worked in England's Gringotts headquarters for a long time, and had rich experience in appraising jewelry and ancient relics. He was also the one who tried to invite Elwyn to join his team. Perhaps because he had worked in England for a long time, he knew Dumbledore better than the other Egyptian wizards and fairies. When he found out that Elwyn was recommended by Dumbledore and Nico Lemour, he became interested in Elwyn.
He hired Elwyn for a month and paid him a thousand gold coins.
That was about thirty gold coins a day. It seemed like a lot, but with the current market, it wasn't very high.
After all, there were many private teams that offered tens of thousands of gold coins to hire alchemists.
However, with the greed and stinginess of fairies, this was definitely a higher price that Gringotts was currently willing to pay.
Elwyn had privately inquired about it. The other four alchemists hired with him received even less …
This was what he learned after joining the excavation team. This fairy was really talkative.
Pendulum and Elwyn talked about the excavation of the Sun Ruins, the alchemy mechanisms inside, the current situation, the impact of the return of Lord Voldemort, concerns about the future of Gringotts, and even the legendary magic item 'Gryffindor's Sword' that was kept in Hogwarts.
It was obvious that he was still brooding over this.
As everyone knew, this famous sword was made by fairies.
Although Gryffindor had paid them back then, the fairies had always insisted that they had the ownership of the sword. Gryffindor only had the right to use the sword, and after his death, he had to return the sword to the fairies.
It was probably the same for the other fairies, and they had always wanted to take the sword back.
Elwyn didn't think so. The sword had now become the symbol of the Gryffindor Academy. Not to mention, after he found the scabbard, the sword possessed extremely strong magical power. In fact, even if Gryffindor's sword was returned to the fairies, they wouldn't be able to keep it for long.
The magic that Gryffindor left on it allowed every real Gryffindor to pull the sword out of the Sorting Hat.
Apart from having a special fondness for treasures and fairy products, Pendulum gave Elwyn a good feeling.
But he also knew that what he saw was probably just the surface.
Fairies were unreliable, and they had a natural hatred for wizards.
Although Pendulum and Elwyn seemed to get along well, no one knew what he was thinking.
Apart from that, there was a vice-captain sent by the Egyptian Ministry of Magic in the excavation team.
He was an Arabian. His name was too long, and Elwyn couldn't remember it. He and the others called him Mr. Sayed.
Mr. Sayed was the vice-captain. This was the main surveillance measure taken by the Egyptian Ministry of Magic after Zuo Sai's incident. They checked Zuo Sai's treasury, and found many cultural relics and ancient magical items that should be handed over, as well as evidence that he sold them to European pure-blooded Wizard families.
This made the Egyptian wizards extremely distrustful of fairies, and they finally had an excuse to interfere with the excavation.
The Ministry of Magic sent special investigators to every Gringotts excavation team as vice-captains.
But to be honest, even a layman like Elwyn felt that Mr. Sayed was a hindrance.
Firstly, as a typical Arabian, he couldn't accept the existence of females in the excavation team. Mr. Sayed almost never spoke to Lavier, and didn't treat her well either. Even Elwyn, who was invited by Lavier, was hostile.
Secondly, he seemed to loathe fairies. Every time he spoke to Pendulum, he would look angry.
Thirdly, he seemed to hate foreign sorcerers, especially those from Europe and America. He always targeted them.
This made the eight European spell dispellers in the excavation team feel very awkward, and they were ostracized by the other Arabians.
Fourthly, he didn't know anything about excavation or dispelling spells, but he loved to express his opinions.
Moreover, he represented the Egyptian Ministry of Magic. This identity meant that the excavation team had to listen to him for many things.
Lavier told Elwyn that it was because of Mr. Sayed that the normal excavation progress was slow.
This was the detailed situation of Gringotts' 19th excavation team. It was troublesome, but it had nothing to do with Elwyn.
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