After concluding their conversation with Alan and Andre, the Schmidt brothers left the scene early; after all, the environment there could almost be described as horrifying, with dismembered limbs and rotting flesh strewn everywhere, and the air filled with a strong stench of decay. Before leaving, Edmund decided that he would burn all his clothes when he returned, as keeping them might give him nightmares.
On the other side, Andre called upon the Aurors to begin the cleanup work; one team escorted the Muggles back to their homes and erased their short-term memories, while another team entered Phoenix's residence to restore it to its original state using magic.
The Aurors had actually been very concerned about the situation on the front lines, as the battle between Alan and Phoenix was on a grand scale, with various explosions and magical fluctuations raging back and forth, and even the ground could be felt shaking violently. However, they successfully carried out their duties, shielding and isolating the sounds and vibrations within this small area, without disturbing the surrounding Muggle community.
It was only when they truly entered that they understood what had happened; the ground from the first to the third floor was almost completely destroyed, and the basement was like a living hell, which also gave them an indirect understanding of how terrifying Phoenix's power truly was.
While the Aurors endured the filth and stench of the basement, cleaning up the scene, Alan returned alone to Phoenix's bedroom on the third floor, and after a simple search, he quickly found a spatial leather pouch faintly emitting magic. From its appearance, this leather pouch was clearly extraordinary; it had a very vintage design, looking like a luxurious lady's handbag, with its surface made of solid-colored leather and silver metal fittings. Upon closer inspection, one would find that the materials used were Hebridean Black dragonhide and goblin urim steel; just by looking at the materials used, Alan could determine that its internal space was likely not small.
At the same time, it had a toggle switch on the outside, which allowed the interior to freely switch between a normal lining and a spatial bag. It was very convenient to use the normal lining when in Muggle society and then switch to the spatial bag when needed; Alan had actually applied this function to his own briefcase, having learned it from Newt's briefcase.
Inside the normal lining, Alan only saw some very ordinary Muggle items, such as German and French Muggle currency, cosmetics, and so on. However, when he tried to open the spatial bag part, he found that it had a magic lock, which required a specific frequency of magic to open successfully; otherwise, it would completely lock the spatial bag portion.
Seeing this, Alan's heart filled with joy; having complex anti-theft measures proved that Phoenix highly valued the items inside, which also indirectly indicated their worth. As for the magic lock, such a thing was practically useless to an alchemist like Alan; he simply fiddled with it for a while before successfully cracking it.
After successfully opening the spatial bag portion, Alan eagerly checked the valuables inside, and what he saw made his eyes light up, making him feel that this trip was well worth it.
First, the space of this magic handbag was incredibly exaggerated, nearly a thousand cubic meters, even larger than his spatial ring, and it was already more than half-filled, meaning the supplies inside were almost equivalent to a small warehouse. Upon this discovery, he couldn't wait to take inventory of the items on-site and categorize them uniformly within the bedroom.
The first thing that caught his eye was a pile of gleaming Galleons; after a rough count, he found there were at least over twenty thousand, carrying so much money made Alan wonder if Phoenix had carried all her wealth with her. Additionally, the spatial bag contained a large amount of daily necessities, including at least a month's worth of clean water and food, which occupied the largest portion of the internal space; Alan basically just glanced at these items and set them aside.
Next were various magic materials, including a large quantity of herbs, hides, teeth, bones, and other magical creature by-products, as well as various magic metals, etc., but the quantity was enormous, similar to Alan's own inventory. From this, Alan roughly deduced that Phoenix should also be a wizard proficient in potions and alchemy, otherwise a normal person would not need to store so many raw materials. At the same time, the mere acquisition of these materials made Alan feel satisfied, knowing that this was equivalent to doubling his own inventory.
Subsequent discoveries also confirmed Alan's previous judgment; if the raw materials alone couldn't prove anything, the equally large quantities of finished and semi-finished products certainly did.
He moved out boxes of various potions from the spatial bag, including highly difficult to concoct Baruffio's Brain Elixir and Felix Felicis. Of course, he also found many poisons, curse potions, and potions with extremely high side effects like Blood Frenzy Potion, and the quantity of these was even greater than normal potions, which showed that Phoenix clearly preferred to research forbidden potions.
At the same time, besides potions, quite a few semi-finished and finished alchemy tools were also found; first, Alan recognized one of them, which was the Inferi Summoning Pouch, indicating that Phoenix possessed more than one of these powerful tools. The other alchemy tools were also very dangerous and bizarre in their functions, such as various intricately designed and cursed pieces of jewelry, whose effects varied widely; some could cause the wearer to suffer from different diseases, some could directly lead to death, while others would induce negative states like madness, unconsciousness, or infatuation.
Upon checking them one by one, Alan also found quite a few active alchemy tools, such as an item resembling a perfume bottle; once activated and thrown, it would suddenly explode, releasing a corrosive, colorless toxic miasma, similar to an enhanced gas bomb, with both impressive power and area of effect. There was also a peculiar handheld cosmetic mirror; when not activated, it was just a vintage-style cosmetic mirror, but once activated with magic, any object illuminated by its surface would spontaneously suffer severe corrosion, which was incredibly potent. Alan even nearly fell victim during his inspection; fortunately, out of caution, he didn't hold it up to his own face, otherwise, he might have been disfigured on the spot.
After organizing the various alchemy equipment Phoenix had stored, Alan couldn't help but let out a long sigh of relief, muttering to himself how lucky they were that their sudden attack hadn't given Phoenix much time to react. Otherwise, if she had used these tools, their battle would likely have been much more difficult, which was why he had never treated Phoenix as an enemy in the same way he treated Thunderbird.
Someone like Thunderbird, although incredibly powerful and domineering, used relatively singular methods in combat, simply overwhelming opponents with astonishingly powerful magic. And his strong aversion to alchemy tools also meant Alan didn't need to consider too many complex factors, which is why Alan even dared to face him alone. But for an enemy like Phoenix, perhaps her pure combat power couldn't compare to Thunderbird's, yet her overly bizarre methods made her far more dangerous than Thunderbird; therefore, from the very beginning, Alan never considered facing Phoenix alone. The current discoveries proved that his concerns were indeed correct; without understanding the functions of the equipment Phoenix possessed, he could truly have been ambushed unexpectedly.
After a brief moment of reflection, Alan composed himself and continued to sort through Phoenix's belongings, and the remaining items immediately made his spirits soar. Because he found a vast array of textual materials, so numerous they could fill a large bookshelf. This discovery made Alan's eyes light up; for him, materials and money were external things that could be collected, but only knowledge was truly something that directly helped him. Therefore, he immediately began a rough inspection and classification of these materials, and soon Alan divided them into three main categories.
A very small portion of these materials was completely useless to Alan, but their value was not low, as they were documents from the Silver Spears. These included many records of black market materials belonging to the French branch, including personnel lists, warehouse inventory lists, addresses, and other information. Additionally, there were some materials from the German side, such as information on East German civilian groups she personally contacted, personnel lists, responsible persons' files, records of past operations, and briefings. From this, one could indirectly see how extensive the club's infiltration into the German political and business circles was; many prominent figures could be found in the files. Although these things were not very useful to Alan, they were a godsend for Andre; with them, he would be able to deal with the club more effectively, and these materials alone served as extremely strong evidence.
Besides these, the remaining materials were very valuable to Alan; the first thing that caught his eye was a large quantity of rare magic books and handwritten notes. Many of them were unique copies Alan had never seen before; most of these books were related to alchemy, potions, and Dark Arts, and there was even a considerable amount of information on the soul and mind, which was extremely precious to Alan. In Alan's eyes, their value was probably higher than all the materials and supplies he had found earlier combined.
The last remaining portion of materials was the smallest in quantity, but its value was equally significant, as these were Phoenix's exclusive research notes! Alan only briefly flipped through them and found that they contained a large number of potion recipes invented by Phoenix, alchemy tool blueprints, and original drafts of spells she developed. Among them were the magic spells he had witnessed before: Soul Elegy and Shadow of Destruction!