The Shopkeeper of All Worlds in the British Wizarding World

Chapter 189 Entering the Tomb
Ryan put several layers of protective spells on the mummy, and even pasted seven or eight pieces of talisman paper on it. After the preparations were completed, the mummy stepped onto the stone bridge under the gaze of the two men.

The moment the mummy stepped onto the stone bridge, it was as if a gust of wind blew past, and the gray layer on the entire stone bridge was swept away, revealing the intricately carved crystal bridge body underneath.

"It seems to be just a welcoming ceremony?" Ryan just said this with a smile, and the black mist floating on the blood pool suddenly rushed towards the mummy on the bridge and enveloped him. Seven or eight seconds later, the black mist dissipated, and the mummy turned into fragments of bones and fell into the blood pool.

Ryan: Uh, that's a slap in the face a little too quickly.

At that moment, Ryan realized that the black fog floating on the blood pool was not fog at all, but a group of sesame-sized insects. These insects have a restraining effect on magic and have a very strong gnawing ability. Just now, when they were in a swarm, they easily gnawed the mummy that had made full magical defenses in just a few seconds.

Afterwards, Ryan tried to throw samples of various things on his body onto the bridge, but none of the items he had on him could stop the creature from biting him. However, during the experiment, Ryan also discovered that these bugs had two states, real and virtual, and that the virtual spirit state was even more lethal to living things than the physical state was to inanimate objects. (Under the bribe of five jars of sunlight crystals, Xiaoqing sacrificed an avatar to investigate this matter.)
Similarly, the magic defense of these bugs is also very high, and all magic has little killing power against them. It seems that forcing through will only add nutrients to the blood pool below.

"Or we can just go back and rush over from the main road." Hermione suggested after seeing Ryan standing here experimenting for a long time but still looking unhappy.

"The problem is that the group of people blocking the main road outside are terrorists." Ryan hesitated for a moment, but thinking about the information he had obtained about the Blood God Cult, he became more determined. "Wizards who fall into their hands will often become raw materials for their experiments. Compared to over there, at least they can die more quickly here. Besides, I think I have a way to deal with these bugs."

Ryan took out a piece of white cloth with various mysterious patterns from his space bag and spread it at the junction of the platform and the bridge, then sat cross-legged on the cloth. This piece of white cloth was made of spider silk obtained by the centaurs after the eight-eyed giant spiders in the forbidden forest were exterminated. Many runes were drawn on it using a lot of precious materials. The function of this cloth is to be used as a temporary altar in places where there is no altar, but it can only be used three times, after which the magic power on it will be exhausted.

After sitting on the white cloth, Ryan took out a knife from his bosom and cut a hole in his hand, letting the blood gather on the floor in front of him. Then he took out Clinway's tooth and dipped it in the blood to draw runes in the air. After being drawn, these runes became silver runes floating in the air and slowly rotated around Ryan.

"This looks like Chinese characters." Hermione whispered to herself. Indeed, this is the rune that can communicate with the dead in the Maoshan Shangqing Taoism.

If the life magic of the Nordic countries is like a raging fire, which is good at manipulating various dead creatures and the power of death, and has a good effect on those undead who have no self-awareness, then the means of communicating with the dead in the East tend to penetrate silently like running water, which is much gentler in operation and is also conducive to communicating with these undead who may have self-awareness.

"The Supreme Decree will bless you, your lonely soul, ghosts, and all living beings..." After Ryan finished reciting the spell, he glanced at the swarm of insects on the pond and found that they were flying even more chaotically.

This kind of requiem should theoretically calm the insect swarm. He decided to see what was going on. So he made a gesture with his left hand and said, "Open your eyes," and then silently opened his eyes.

Everything in front of him turned gray. He first checked himself and Hermione and found that the three orange-yellow life flames on their bodies were burning, which meant that their souls were temporarily safe. Then when he turned his sight to the blood pool, he was stunned. Because he saw countless blue will-o'-the-wisp floating on the blood pool, each of which represented a human soul after death. Now the bright spots on the blood pool meant that there were at least nearly 10 souls in this place, but unlike normal souls, these souls stayed there stiffly as if they were frozen, and each soul was bound by black mist chains.

But these souls should still have some instincts. Ryan saw them magically surrounding the platform where he was, silently hovering in the air. They should have been attracted by the spell Ryan had just cast to save the dead souls.

It seems that the mantra for salvation is effective. Thinking of this, Ryan added the power of merit while reciting it. As Ryan recited, the black mist wrapped around these ghost lights dissipated little by little. Finally, after reciting it 749 times in the mantra for salvation, the black mist finally dissipated completely. These ghost lights also slowly recovered from their original frozen state and began to have some spiritual breath.

But unlike the souls that were usually saved, Ryan's chanting of the mantras for salvation had no effect. And he felt that these souls seemed to have some information to tell him.

"They should have no ill intentions." Ryan thought as he sent a thought to the souls in front of him, hoping that they could select a few generations to tell him what they wanted to say.

A few minutes later, three will-o'-the-wisp fires that were larger than the others emerged from the crowd and appeared in front of Ryan, then sent a thought to him.

This thought contained a lot of information. After receiving the thought, Ryan spent several minutes to figure out what information these ghosts wanted to tell him.

This pyramid is indeed a temple, but it is also the tomb of the most powerful local wizard king in ancient times. In the era when the wizard king and his wizards ruled the earth, they could produce high-yield seeds, use powerful magic to change the flow of rivers and level the land, and make the wood and stone tools in the hands of the natives tougher than metal.

In this situation, the powerful local indigenous people quickly conquered large tracts of surrounding land, and a jungle empire was born. They originally thought that everyone could live happily under the rule of the wizard, but they forgot that wizards are also human beings and will grow old with the passage of time.

So the Witch King began to frantically search for the path to eternal life. One day, the Witch King left without saying goodbye, and returned here a year later with wounds all over his body.

From then on, the Witch King became extremely violent. He killed all those who advised him, even his favorite concubine and the most loyal minister. He began to force everyone to build this huge pyramid for him in the space he opened up.

All the souls in this pool of blood are the souls of the builders who were killed during the construction of the pyramid because they were not obedient enough.

(End of this chapter)