The Shopkeeper of All Worlds in the British Wizarding World

Chapter 191 The Final Trap
"Why do you carry everything with you? It's as if you knew something would happen today." Hermione asked curiously after taking a sip of water.

"You guessed right." Ryan also took a sip of water and said half-truthfully. "After all, what happened this morning was too strange, so I thought of bringing some things with me. At least it's better to be prepared than not. I didn't expect something to really happen." He shrugged.

After hearing Ryan's answer, Hermione wisely didn't ask any further questions. After drinking the water, she sat there quietly with her eyes closed.

After resting for a few minutes, they packed up and continued along the road towards the main tomb. Although this is a tomb on the other side of the earth, many places still conform to the Feng Shui concept of the Celestial Empire. So after a large number of forks appeared on the road ahead, Ryan chose the road that led to the tomb.

Because it was the right road, the further you walked, the more luxurious the road became. Mosaic patterns began to appear on both sides of the road, and even gold and gems were used as embellishments. But Ryan just walked past it without looking away. After all, let alone the magic world has a permanent sticking spell that can stick things on and cannot be removed, just think about the many treasures within reach in tomb-robbing novels, which are always various traps. Ryan would not cause trouble for himself at this time.

But looking at these good things but not being able to take them is also a very frustrating thing. Fortunately, after going around a huge stone pillar with reliefs telling the story of how the tomb owner became a god step by step, they finally found a spacious hall.

According to the distance they just walked, they should have theoretically crossed the entire pyramid. But the fact is that they are still inside the pyramid. In this case, the only possibility is that there is an independent space behind the golden door, and this possibility makes Ryan's assessment of the magical ability of the tomb owner take it to a higher level. After all, opening up another space in an artificial space is a very complicated matter, and only wizards who have studied this deeply can do this.

This hall is very similar to the square at the entrance of the pyramid, except that the totem poles in the square have been replaced with statues of indigenous wizards wearing feather crowns and holding feathered wands. At the other end of the hall, a heavy-looking wooden door stands there, with a word written in complex carvings on it: Kingdom of God.

Behind this door should be the final destination - the main tomb chamber. After all, for a crazy wizard who believes himself to be an immortal, the only place that can make him feel like the kingdom of God is where he is.

According to common plots in tomb-raiding novels, if there are no defensive measures along the way to the tomb, it is very likely that a powerful trap will be set up at the last level of the tomb, such as in this hall, to trap those unfortunate people who are not well prepared or who are a little too proud of themselves to accompany the tomb owner. In a magical world, the danger level of these traps will often rise several levels.

Since entering the golden door, Ryan's feeling of uneasiness has been growing stronger and stronger during this relaxing journey, which was no different from a picnic. When he saw the wooden door in front of him, he immediately subconsciously thought that if there was a problem, it must be in this hall.

Since there was a suspicion, it would not work to just rush in headfirst, especially with someone holding her back. Thinking of this, Ryan asked Hermione to retreat behind the pillar in front and told her not to come out no matter what sound she heard. At the same time, he asked Xiaoqing to hide on her body and protect her secretly.

After they hid, Ryan picked up a clone of Xiaoqing and threw it into the hall. It bounced twice on the ground and stopped on the road in the middle of the hall, but after waiting for a few minutes, nothing happened.

This was a bit embarrassing, but when Ryan was about to step into the hall, he suddenly stopped because he found something a little wrong: basically all the sculptures along the way were exaggerated abstract art sculptures with local indigenous style, which means that the proportions of all the contents on the sculptures were somewhat different from the real things.

Although the wizard sculptures in the hall now look exaggerated, their body proportions are basically the same as those of real people.

"Could it be that?" Ryan thought of a movie starring a famous director in his previous life, and muttered in his heart. But considering that the tomb owner could kill 10 people to create a blood pool, it is not surprising that he would do such a cruel thing. Thinking of this, Ryan took out more than 30 thumb-sized jade talismans. Each of these jade talismans was crystal clear, and if you look closely, you can faintly see golden lightning flowing inside.

"This is most of the stock I got from Uncle Jiu. I hope my guess is not true, otherwise I don't know when I can get such good jade to replenish the stock next time." Ryan muttered in pain while asking Xiaoqing's clone to place a jade talisman on each statue.

After everything was ready, Ryan walked into the hall holding a palm-sized jade token in his hand. As soon as he stepped on the floor of the hall, the stone skins on all the sculptures began to fall off. Ryan could even see that after some of the stone skins fell off, rotten fabrics and blackened skins were exposed.

"The Lord of the North Realm, the Seven Origins and the Seven Governments of the Big Dipper, Xuanming..." Ryan immediately recited a thunder spell upon seeing this situation, and finally activated the jade talismans placed on these mummies sealed in the sculptures before they raised their wands to cast spells.

When the jade talisman was activated, it suddenly released the powerful energy contained in it, and the whole hall was filled with golden lightning. Ryan had to squint his eyes to avoid being hurt by the strong lightning.

Ten seconds later, the lightning storm in the hall finally ended, and all the mummies were burned to charcoal. Ryan was about to go forward to clean up the battlefield, but he found that white soul fire was floating from these charred mummies.

They are actually alive! Ryan opened his eyes wide in surprise as he watched more and more soul fires float out from the wreckage on the ground, and then slowly formed human figures in the air. A few minutes later, more than 30 figures emitting milky white light floated in the air. It seemed that the Merit God Thunder not only destroyed those mummies, but also purified the souls inside.

The leading wizard, who was wearing a robe and a feather crown, bowed to Ryan as if he were a native, then stood up and began to mutter. Fortunately, the souls at the door had helped Ryan understand their language, so he could understand what the wizard was saying.

According to the story, Ryan learned that these wizards were once disciples or subordinates of the Witch King, and were later made into something called corpse cocoons by the Witch King. This thing has the soul of a living person, but the body is dead.

Their bodies were already dead and they had been deprived of control over them, but they could still feel everything in the outside world. The energy that continuously flowed from the blood pool outside the door prevented them from dying or going crazy, and they remained forever calm and endured the torture.

Because their souls belong to the living, they will not be destroyed by the magic in the tomb passage. And the living souls can also ensure that when outsiders enter this hall, they are flexible enough to cause serious damage to the intruders.

"Fortunately, I was more careful, otherwise I would be dead today." Ryan heaved a sigh of relief after listening to the soul's narration. Even though their fighting power after becoming corpse cocoons was not as good as before, the number of more than 30 was enough to cause serious harm to him.

(End of this chapter)