The Shopkeeper of All Worlds in the British Wizarding World

Chapter 311: Journey to the Forbidden Forest (Please subscribe, please bookmark, please vote)

Scotland in mid-February was not as cold as in winter, with only some snow on the distant mountains. The Forbidden Forest had turned green because most of the trees in it were evergreen.

After landing at the edge of the forbidden forest, Ryan and his companions changed their clothes directly under the cover of a large rock. Then they raised their wands and walked carefully into the forbidden forest.

The moment they walked from the shallows of the lakeshore to the tree, the gold medals in their hands began to buzz and vibrate at the same time, which gave Ryan the illusion that he was holding a mobile phone to receive text messages in his previous life. After raising the gold medals, they found that there were three dots on each of their gold medals, which also marked the scope of the competition and the location of the exit.

"Well, let's take a comprehensive look and search one by one from near to far. After finding the hostages as quickly as possible, we will return to the exit. After all, we are the weakest group, so it is better to avoid conflicts with other contestants as much as possible." Ryan said directly to Harry after looking at the content on the gold medal. Harry nodded after listening, because this weakest group was his hindrance, so he agreed with Ryan when he proposed the plan to reduce fighting with others.

It took the two of them seven or eight minutes to reach the edge of the lake where they could no longer see the edge of the forbidden forest, but in fact they had only walked a few hundred meters. However, the forest had become increasingly dense, and various plants began to appear under the trees, revealing a vibrant forest ecological environment.

The plants under the trees also greatly hindered Ryan and his companions from traveling, especially Harry. Harry had always followed the path when he came to the Forbidden Forest before, and had no experience in traveling in such a primitive jungle. Fortunately, as a master of natural magic, Ryan was very adaptable to this environment. Under his guidance, Harry stumbled and followed his steps.

Half an hour later, when the gold medal buzzer sounded again, Ryan and Harry had already won three gold medals and were on their way to the fourth point.

"It seems that there are at most five people entering the Forbidden Forest now." Ryan looked at the gold medal in his hand as a detector and counted the number of gold medals displayed. He said, "We should hurry up. For the time being, we have unilateral transparency in the stadium, but I don't know how long this transparency can last. So we have to hurry up as much as possible to avoid a head-on collision with people from other schools."

Fortunately, they saw a gold medal belonging to someone else on their way to the fourth point, so they took the gold medal belonging to Gustav, another Durmstrang contestant.

At the fourth point, Ryan and his friends finally saw a hostage: Hermione was sitting quietly on a branch, looking at the sky boredly. After seeing Ryan and his friends, she greeted them easily: "Good morning, Ryan, Harry. I haven't seen you for several days. How have you been during this period?"

"Not bad, we can even order what we want to eat directly. I once even ate very authentic Chinese-style cold noodles and roujiamo." Ryan pressed the golden circle under the tree with his gold medal, and the circle quickly disappeared.

Seeing the circle disappear, Hermione immediately jumped down from the branch more than four meters high. Before Harry could even exclaim, Hermione had already landed gracefully.

"How cool!" Harry praised sincerely.

"Thank you." Hermione raised her eyebrows and turned to Ryan and said, "The circle is too small and the ground is too dirty. So I just climbed up the tree and sat down. It's not only clean but also can see farther."

On the way to the next point, Ryan finally figured out what was going on today: Hermione and the others were called to Professor Dumbledore's office early this morning and told that they were hostages. Then, they were led into the Forbidden Forest by several headmasters. In the Forbidden Forest, after walking a certain distance and reaching a predetermined point, the hostages were placed one by one in the circles drawn by the three headmasters. There was magic power on these circles. Hermione tried and found that she couldn't get out at all, so she could only stay inside and wait to be rescued by Ryan and the others.

Harry, who struggled to pull his feet out of a tree pit full of fallen leaves, looked at Ryan and Hermione, who were as agile as elves in the forest, with some envy. After finding Hermione, the team's marching speed increased again. Many times when they encountered difficult places, he would be directly pulled by Ryan and Hermione to walk through, saving a lot of time on detours. Especially after walking in the forest for more than half an hour, Harry's physical strength was greatly reduced. This kind of help was of great benefit to the overall team's march.

For wizards, magic can indeed help in the process of traveling, but in order to use those magics, good physical fitness or other prerequisites are still required.

For example, without enough practice, the Light Body Charm can only make people fall down constantly, and in a messy environment like the Forbidden Forest, it is easy to keep bumping into certain obstacles. As for Apparition, if you don't know what the destination looks like, you can't appear in the right place at all. Not to mention that some temporary physical enhancement magic principles are overdrawn, which is only useful in the final sprint.

Harry naturally felt that he was the one who was lagging behind when the team was advancing in the Forbidden Forest. He was very puzzled that these two friends who were just hanging out in the library every day could walk faster than a professional athlete like him in the Forbidden Forest. Especially since Hermione, as a girl, was in better physical condition than him, he could not accept it. However, the facts were in front of him, and in this case, his self-esteem supported him to bite his teeth and keep up to avoid further embarrassment.

"Wait, I think we may need to fight with others." Just after the three of them climbed up a two-story high stone wall, Ryan suddenly called everyone. On the gold medal in his hand, a point belonging to someone else that was very close to their fifth point suddenly disappeared.

"You mean someone is going to come and ambush us?" Harry quickly saw why Ryan asked everyone to stop.

"If this person can see the location of other people's gold medals, I guess he is very likely to do so." Ryan nodded. "And we spent so much time on the road, I think by now other people's gold medals can also show our location."

"Then what should we do?" "We should--" After a brief discussion, Ryan and his team changed their formation and began to move cautiously towards the next point.

At the next point, there was still a hostage, in a clearing in the woods, Ginny was sitting there with her legs hugged against a stone. Harry ran over in a hurry after seeing Ginny, while Hermione waited at the edge of the woods.

But Ginny's eyes widened when she saw him, and she shouted something to Harry. Because the distance was a bit far, Harry could only see that Ginny looked quite excited, and then pointed to the woodland on the other side of the clearing.

"There's an ambush—" Harry finally realized it and rolled on the ground while running, just passing by a red beam of light.

He raised his wand vigilantly and aimed at the place where the magic came from, but he only saw the bushes in that place shaking slightly. The attacker should have moved to another place.

(End of this chapter)