The Shopkeeper of All Worlds in the British Wizarding World

Chapter 206: The History of Pure Blood and the Forgotten Trophies
Hermione seemed to have thought of something because of the gift, and looked at Ryan with wide eyes in disbelief. Ryan nodded seriously.

"Your guess may be true. Our act of accepting this gift is actually very similar to the ancestors of those pure-blood families gaining unique powers and becoming pure-blood wizards. If explained scientifically, it is a directed genetic mutation."

At this point Ryan remembered the contents about human body modification that Slytherin left in his secret room. He paused and continued, "Of course not all pure-blood families have gained this power by signing contracts with powerful lives. Some powerful wizards have also kept the power constant in their blood through their research, and then passed it down from generation to generation."

"After possessing this power inherited through blood, the ancestors of these pure-blood wizard families gained unprecedented advantages. After all, wizards at that time were still in the exploratory stage of using magic power. Relying on the power of blood inheritance can ensure that the entire family will not be cut off from inheritance due to various reasons."

"After establishing their advantage, they naturally gained more resources. The more resources they had, the greater their advantage. In this virtuous cycle, the family's power also expanded like a snowball, and finally formed the pure-blood family that dominates the British wizarding world today. The reason they are called pure-blood is that in the early years, in order to preserve the power in their bloodline, they had to resort to the means of marrying close relatives."

"However, as time goes by, even if the power of inbreeding is completely lost, your parents are dentists, so you should know that such inbreeding is very harmful. Therefore, a large number of pure-blood families have to choose to marry other pure-bloods or even Muggle wizards. However, because they have accumulated enough advantages before, even if the power of their blood disappears completely, it does not endanger their dominant position.

Of course, there were some stubborn families, but they gradually disappeared in the long river of history. Now I know that there are only two families left who can inherit the power of their ancestors in their bloodline."

"Wait, according to legend, the You-Know-Who was born speaking Parseltongue. Could it be that their family is one of the families that inherits the power in their blood?" Hermione asked Ryan's question after listening to his explanation.

"You're right. I was looking through old newspapers in the school library and found that the Gaunt family is the descendant of Slytherin. However, from the newspapers a hundred years ago, that family was famous for its temper, mental problems and extravagance caused by inbreeding. Until 50 years ago, that family completely disappeared. The last member was imprisoned in Azkaban for killing Muggles and eventually died there. The other one is the ancestral phoenix of our headmaster Dumbledore's family. Fortunately, their family signed a long-term contract with the immortal species, so they don't need to marry close relatives like the Gaunt family."

"So that's how it is." Hermione nodded, then picked up the teacup and began to drink tea quietly. Ryan only then realized that in addition to the two drops of blood, he also got some things from the pyramid as trophies. It's just that he has been busy since he came to this world, so he has always ignored the existence of this trophy.

Hermione was sipping her hot tea when she heard a clang. She looked in the direction of the sound and saw Ryan taking a dirty animal leather bag from his belt and placing it on the table.

"What is this?" Hermione asked curiously, fanning away the dust with her left hand.

"The spoils from killing the Blood God in the temple last time. I was so busy that I even forgot about it. I just remembered it when you mentioned it. Let me see what's inside?"

It was the time to open the box, Ryan rubbed his hands and prayed before opening the pocket. What surprised him was that although this pocket was a space bag, the space inside was very small, at most a circle larger than an ordinary school bag.

"Why is the space so small?" Ryan complained somewhat dissatisfiedly.

"You have to know that portable space equipment was very rare a thousand years ago. What was popular at the time was to use certain creatures that naturally possessed space powers and then process them into space bags. For example, the one in front of us was obviously made by peeling off the skin of some animal and then using special means to shrink it to the size of a palm." Hermione said after putting the teacup on the saucer.

Sure enough, Ryan looked carefully and found the animal's limbs and tail on the bag, and the animal's mouth was made into the opening of the bag. "How did you know this?"

"This was clearly taught in class, which shows that you didn't listen carefully in Professor Binns' class. He specifically mentioned this when he was talking about the magical world a thousand years ago." Hermione said this quickly.

"It's not my fault." Ryan shrugged. "Besides you, I really can't think of anyone else who can listen carefully to the whole class of Professor Binns."

After saying that, Ryan took out a plain gold box as long as his arm and several medicine bottles made of natural crystal from his bag. Through the bottles, he could see some black stuff piled at the bottom.

"This should be the blood of some magical creature, but it has all gone bad after so long." Ryan looked at a few bottles, uncorked them, sniffed them, and put them aside. Then he took the golden box.

There was only one buckle on the golden box. Ryan took the golden box to the center of the living room and used magic to open the buckle.

As soon as the lid of the box was opened, a dead scorpion fell out.

"This is a very rare rune gold scorpion, extremely poisonous. It should have been the Blood God's pet, but unfortunately it died with the Blood God." Ryan turned around and explained to Hermione. As he spoke, the dead scorpion quickly weathered into a pile of ashes.

Ryan took the box and returned to the table. There was a silver dagger in the box, and there were many words engraved on the lid of the box. After looking at it for a while, he found that it was actually a letter, which recorded how he was injured in the process of seizing the blood source stone. And the box contained the weapon that injured him that year. He swore that one day he would stab this weapon back to his master.

"It seems that his blood source stone was found in Europe back then, because this dagger is obviously of European style." After pouring out the dagger, Ryan said while looking at the silver dagger inlaid with rubies.

"I think we have found something good." Hermione picked up the dagger, looked at it carefully, and said excitedly.

"Oh, when did you learn to identify antiques?" Ryan asked curiously. Because from this dagger, he could only determine that it was of European medieval style and might have been made by a goblin, and he couldn't tell anything else. So he was very curious about how Hermione identified it.

"Look, isn't it written very clearly?" Hermione pointed to the guard of the dagger, and Ryan discovered that there was a string of letters engraved on it.

"I was still a little careless." Ryan took the dagger and looked at the letters, then was surprised to find that the words engraved on the guard of the dagger was a very familiar name: Godric Gryffindor.

(End of this chapter)