The Shopkeeper of All Worlds in the British Wizarding World

Chapter 312 Combat
Harry was now in an extremely awkward situation: someone in the surrounding woods attacked him, but because the opponent was in the woods and he was in an open space, he could only take the beating but it was difficult for him to fight back as he could not find his opponent.

"Harry, I just saw Gustav from Gamstrom nearby." Ginny provided information about what she had just seen.

"Thanks." Harry took out a test tube filled with yellow powder from his waist, and smashed it against the dagger tied to his thigh. Instantly, a yellow-green smoke enveloped the entire open space. Harry took the opportunity to bend down and quickly ran in the direction he had previously favored. At this time, another red magic shot over his head. It seemed that the attacker saw that the situation was not good and directly attacked the position where Harry was just now.

"Why hasn't Ryan solved the problem yet?" Harry thought nervously while hiding behind a tree. In the plan, he was the bait, and then Ryan followed behind to deal with the attacker. But Ryan seemed to have disappeared just now. Where is he now? Is there an emergency? Harry clenched his wand tightly when he thought of this. It seems that he has to rely on himself to get through this period.

Harry's guess was not wrong. Ryan did encounter a problem beyond his plan. The person preparing to attack Ginny was not only Mr. Gustav from Durmstrang. Mr. Gustav was at most a praying mantis in this trap, with a yellow bird hiding behind him.

When Harry was attacked, Ryan was just about to follow the clues to kill the exposed attacker, but before that, due to the psychological trauma brought to him by the Rita Skeeter Beetle a while ago, he habitually used life magic to scout the surroundings, and unexpectedly discovered that someone was hiding nearby.

"Natural Vision." Ryan activated a natural magic, and a hoopoe flew over the place where people might be hiding. Unexpectedly, Ryan did not see any human figure on the ground at first glance, so he controlled the bird to land on a branch at that place and began to chirp for closer observation.

Finally, he discovered that there was something wrong with the light in that place, as if there was something transparent in the air.

"Krum." Ryan confirmed who was hiding there by analyzing the approximate size of the thing, because the two French girls were not so big, and the other Mr. Gustav was fighting with Harry. Ryan could even clearly hear the trajectory of Gustav's activities in the woods from this position.

It seems that Krum was planning to ambush Ryan here, because the uniform equipment worn by Ryan and Harry when they set out indicated that they would act together. So now Harry's behavior as bait was easily seen through by Krum. The only thing that is unclear is how he persuaded Gustav, who was at odds with him, to cooperate with him. But it is estimated that there must be various private transactions.

However, Krum, the ambusher, did not expect that Ryan, a fourth-year student, not only had a good grasp of alchemy, but also mastered rare natural magic. Therefore, his ambush was discovered by Ryan, who had the home advantage.

"Dizzy!" After lurking not far from Krum, Ryan suddenly cast a spell. The red light did not knock Krum unconscious as expected after hitting him. With a flash of blue light, the red spell disappeared completely as if it hit a magic barrier.

Fortunately, with Ryan's attack, Krum's Disillusionment Curse also failed. Ryan saw with his sharp eyes that Krum was wearing a brass bracelet on his wrist.

This should be considered as shooting oneself in the foot, right? Ryan did not expect that he could actually see his own work at this time. Krum waved his wand, and a ball of yellow-green light shot over. Ryan quickly hid behind a tree. He heard the light ball hitting the tree trunk and made a sizzling sound. When he turned out from behind the tree, he saw that the part that was hit had been completely carbonized.

Acid ball, Ryan recognized this magic, a kind of magic that is considered black magic in the UK. Once hit, the effect is no different from being splashed with a bottle of sulfuric acid.

"It's a bit vicious." Ryan thought as he waved his wand and cast another Stunning Spell, while making a gesture with his left hand. Krum had just dodged the Stunning Spell and before he could catch his breath, he felt a gust of wind coming straight at his crotch. Fortunately, years of Quidditch practice saved him. He struggled to fall to the right, and out of the corner of his eye he saw a tree root rising from the ground and whipping upwards. If he hadn't reacted in time, this would have definitely made him lose his combat effectiveness.

He still lost his advantage after falling to the ground. He used the magic shield of the brass bracelet to block a stun spell again before he successfully stood up and hid behind a tree.

"Despicable Hogwarts contestant, I really don't know why Hermione would like him." Krum also recognized who attacked him. At this time, he dodged several tree roots on the ground with lingering fear, found a place without tree roots, stood there leaning against the tree trunk, and then summoned a water curtain to check Ryan's position through reflection.

"No one?" Krum began to get a little nervous. Although many of the spells Ryan used just now were common ones, he also found that Ryan moved in the Forbidden Forest as if walking on flat ground. Normal people know that in a battle, if the opponent is familiar with the venue, the longer it drags on, the more disadvantageous it will be, so Krum hopes to end the battle quickly.

Suddenly, a small sound came from above his head, and Krum subconsciously raised his wand and looked up, and saw something swooping down.

A long flaming whip emerged from the head of Krum's wand and directly hit the thing that pounced down, but just as the flaming whip hit the thing, he felt something was wrong: his hand felt light and fluttery, and it didn't feel like hitting a human body at all.

"Oh no!" It was too late for Krum to turn around. He felt a sharp pain in his neck, and then everything went black in front of his eyes and he knew nothing.

With a thud, Krum fell onto the thick pile of fallen leaves, revealing Ryan who was holding his elbows up behind him. It was Ryan who had activated the natural affinity effect to eliminate the sound of walking in the forest. While Krum was hiding behind a tree and his vision was limited, he climbed up a nearby tree and then jumped along the branches to the tree where Krum was hiding.

After discovering Krum looking around under the tree, Ryan first threw down a stone wrapped in his wizard robe to attract his attention, and then chose Krum's blind spot and fell from the sky to hit Krum's neck on the side with his elbow.

This kind of physical attack was not part of the bracelet's defense, so it did not trigger the bracelet's defense. Ryan thus successfully defeated Krum.

After removing the bracelet and giving Krum a stunning spell, Ryan emptied the contents of the gold medal bag on his waist. It seemed that Krum was quite slow, and there were only two gold medals in the bag.

After putting the gold medals in his bag, Ryan tied Krum up with a rope and threw him under a tree. Anyway, every contestant and hostage had been cast with a positioning spell before departure, so he was not worried about any danger if he threw them here.

After finishing the current matter, Ryan moved towards the open space. He was worried that Harry might not be able to hold on. So he didn't care about hiding at this time and ran quickly from the branch to the open space.

(End of this chapter)