The Shopkeeper of All Worlds in the British Wizarding World

Chapter 356: Killing is to protect life, killing karma is not killing people (Please subscribe, please collect, please vote)
When Hermione started to act, Ryan followed closely. In his observation, Hermione chose to go to the basement to rescue the hostages first. This was not the best option and it was easy to put herself in danger. However, this approach was in line with Hermione's habit of putting helping others first.

After entering the basement, Hermione finally saw what was happening in the prison through the iron bars. Before, she had only heard a general introduction about this place from Ryan and had made some mental preparations. But now after seeing it with her own eyes, she realized that the evil level of what Ryan had described here was far less than 1/10 of the reality.

After seeing a so-called customer cosplaying as Dr. Hannibal, the extreme evil revealed in his elegance made Hermione feel like a string in her mind suddenly broke.

Ryan noticed from behind that Hermione's magical reaction suddenly increased, and then blood-red and black smoke visibly gathered around her, covering her, and she could only be seen vaguely.

"As long as there's nothing wrong with the soul." After Ryan used his magic eyes, he saw that there was nothing wrong with Hermione's soul, so he withdrew his steps to support her and continued to just follow behind her.

Such a big commotion was seen by both the surveillance and the basement, but those people had no way to deal with the situation in front of them. They fired wildly at this strange thing, but all the bullets disappeared directly after hitting the mist. As Hermione moved forward step by step, the killers in the rooms on both sides fell down silently one by one. If you could go in and check, you would find that they all lost their lives in an instant due to brain stem hemorrhage.

What reassured Ryan was that Hermione did not kill the security guards who fired the guns, but used shadow magic to disarm them and tie them up. This meant that Hermione was now normal and had not completely lost her mind.

The monitoring room above saw everything that happened in the basement, and they closed the elevator in an attempt to trap this strange thing underground. Unfortunately, this was completely ineffective. After cleaning up the basement, Hermione and Ryan easily returned to the ground along the elevator shaft.

After that, the process in the basement was repeated. Because of the ghost wall around them, everyone could only wait to be tied up or killed one by one like lambs to be slaughtered.

Half an hour later, after the last security guard hiding in the rooftop mezzanine was tied up by his own shadow, this battle that could not be called a battle was over. In this battle, Ryan learned through practice that Muggles could not cause any harm to wizards simply by relying on light weapons.

For example, those people shot at two people with at least 100 bullets, and even a few grenades exploded near them. However, neither the grenade shrapnel nor the bullets could break their armor. It can even be said that this kind of gunpowder-driven kinetic weapon attack can be immune to magic defense.

Based on his previous experience with technological weapons, Ryan believed that only certain high-energy weapons could cause sufficient damage to wizards, such as nuclear weapons that exploded at close range or large-scale laser weapons. They could only harm wizards after using their energy to consume the magical energy used by wizards for defense.

In short, magic has a great advantage in defending against Muggle weapons that use kinetic energy to cause damage. Some people think that they can deal with wizards with guns, which is really an oversimplification of wizards and magic.

Ryan and Hermione began to use blood magic to check whether these security guards had killed anyone. If they did, Ryan and his team would naturally send them to God to repent. The problem now was that most of the security guards had not killed anyone.

"They are indeed guilty, but they don't need to die to pay for their sins. I think we should spare their lives." Hermione said to Ryan after dealing with the last security guard who had killed someone. At this time, her emotions had calmed down, and the red and black mist wrapped around her body had dissipated. But her face looked a little pale and she was not in good spirits.

"You are indeed a kind person." Ryan sighed softly.

"You are not trying to cheer me up because I am in a bad mood. I have killed fifty or sixty people today. And now you say I am merciful." Hermione looked at Ryan in confusion. "Of course I am merciful." Ryan handed Hermione a small bottle of golden wine from Qingting Island. This wine actually tastes as sweet as champagne, and the alcohol content is not high. It is quite suitable for Hermione, who didn't drink much before.

After watching Hermione take the bottle and take a few gulps with her cheeks flushed, Ryan continued, "You are powerful enough but not cruel, you don't like to kill, and you cherish life. This is true kindness, so this is why I told you before that Professor Moody is a kind elder. Although he is rough in his actions, he chooses not to kill the enemy when he can kill him. This is true kindness. And think about how many people you have saved by doing this? If you let these bad guys go, how many people will they harm?"

"Thank you. I feel much better now. It doesn't feel good to take someone's life, but someone has to get their hands stained with blood to save lives. Since I've chosen this path, I can only keep going." Hermione put down the empty bottle. She just drank a whole bottle of 350ml golden wine in one breath. Fortunately, the alcohol content was not high, and Hermione still looked sober. "By the way, what should we do with the remaining people?"

"They are just like the guards who guarded Auschwitz back then. Even if they didn't kill anyone, they are still evil. But don't worry, I will take care of the next thing." After saying that, Ryan walked to the security guards who were gathered together.

After using his eagle eyes to see the cause and effect of their actions, Ryan cast a mixture of life magic and Maoshan Taoism to allow the spiritual imprints left by those who died tragically here to enter their souls. In this way, as soon as they close their eyes, they can see those who were indirectly killed by them. Depending on the degree of evil they have done, the length of time those memories will accompany them will also be different. The lightest ones will only have nightmares for more than a year. But the heaviest ones are estimated to have such nightmares for the rest of their lives. Moreover, in this world without magic, no one can remove the curse on them.

After dealing with the killing factory, holding a life magic ceremony to appease the dead souls and releasing all the kidnapped hostages, the two immediately rushed to the villa of the boss behind the organization. Unfortunately, they were a step too late. The boss had already escaped, leaving only a group of security personnel here to try to ambush.

"What should we do now?" After discovering a large number of human heads hidden in the villa, Hermione became more determined to hunt them down. After discovering that the leader of the organization had escaped, Hermione asked Ryan.

"It's simple. We have enough time to eliminate every member of this evil organization one by one. It just takes a little time." Ryan replied with a smile.

Two months later, the two of them wiped out more than 200 members of the organization distributed around the world. In the process, they encountered many difficulties and crises, but they overcame them one by one. Hermione also grew rapidly under Ryan's guidance and practical practice.

Finally, they blocked the leader of the organization who had escaped before in an abandoned underground military warehouse in the Ural Mountains. The leader of the organization seemed to be half crazy because of the huge pressure before.

"You, it's useless for you to kill me. I was just lucky to do this business, but the evil of human nature hidden behind this business will never disappear. One day, others will come back. Uh-"

Before he could finish his words, Hermione waved her hand and told him to go and confess to God.

"Yes, you are right. But for me, as long as I can eradicate the evil I see, that's enough. I'm not a savior, and I won't take on the responsibility of saving the world beyond my ability. But I will do the best I can, just like purging you and your organization. I am happy to have saved many lives and prevented them from being threatened by fatal threats. That's enough. As for the return of evil, that's another story. The worst that can happen is to purge it again like we are doing now."

(End of this chapter)