The Shopkeeper of All Worlds in the British Wizarding World

Chapter 369: The Hero Returns Home
After the magic circle was activated, a bright, golden-red ring of fire rose from the island, even suppressing the green light in the stone basin. At the same time, Mr. Weasley and Lupin used their wands to direct the jars of sunlight crystals to explode near the lake.

The sunlight crystals in the bottle fell like raindrops, and when they fell into the lake, they immediately emitted light. When objects touched the lake water, they also triggered the magic set here. The lake surface was violently stirred, and white heads and hands emerged from the black water everywhere, men, women, and children, all with sunken, sightless eyes, floating towards the island.

However, because these corpses were weakened by the sunlight crystals thrown into the water, as soon as they arrived at the fire circle formed by the magic circle on the island, black smoke immediately came out of their bodies and they quickly turned into ashes. Everyone on the island could see milky white souls slowly rising from the ashes, their faces changed from ferocious to peaceful. Finally, they bowed to Ryan and turned into golden light and dissipated.

With the help of Mr. Weasley and Lupin, even though some Inferi gathered, they did not pose any threat to the magic circle itself. More than 20 minutes later, Sirius suddenly shouted, "I found it." After saying that, he and Kreacher rushed out. Soon, the two rushed in, holding the corpse with a talisman on its forehead.

The corpse had black hair and looked a bit like Sirius, but was smaller and not as handsome as Sirius. I guess this should be Sirius's brother Regulus.

"Can I eliminate all the corpses here before I leave?" Ryan looked at the souls who saluted him in the air and left the world with a smile with a compassionate look. As the successor of the Maoshan Sect, he felt that he had an obligation to free these poor people.

"Of course, as long as you can hold on." Sirius said hoarsely while holding his brother, and Mr. Weasley beside him also echoed. "Once the Inferi gather in sufficient numbers, they will be very dangerous. Now destroying them completely will also successfully weaken the power of You-Know-Who. So we will all help you do this." Lupin also nodded firmly.

"Thank you." Ryan continued to operate the magic circle carefully to refine the waves of corpses, while others were responsible for dealing with those who gathered in piles and were difficult to deal with. Finally, after more than four hours of fighting, they cleared out more than 5000 corpses in the lake.

"We succeeded." After waiting for seven or eight minutes and seeing no more Inferi crawling onto the shore, several people raised their wands to check the surrounding conditions. After making sure that the bottom of the lake was clean, they sat down. After fighting for four hours, everyone felt extremely exhausted both physically and mentally.

"By the way, what kind of magic do you use? Why have we never seen it before?" Mr. Weasley asked, sitting there panting.

"It's a magic from the East, which is very effective against the undead or dark creatures. But it's much less effective against living people." Ryan's explanation made Mr. Weasley nod his head in understanding, because he just accidentally touched the fire circle and only felt a little hot, but was not burned. He immediately understood what was said.

After resting for a few minutes, several people packed up their things and walked out. Sirius refused the help of others and carried his brother's body on his back. Everyone was quiet along the way, and only Kreacher's low sobbing could be heard.

Using another bottle of blood, they opened the stone archway and walked into the cave. The four people were led by Kreacher back to No. 12 Grimmauld Place. When the door of the house was opened, all the gas lamps in the corridor lit up in an instant. The curtain covering the portrait of Sirius' mother was opened, but this time the portrait did not scream or curse, but just looked at the body behind Sirius and covered her mouth and cried. Then, all the portraits in the corridor started crying.

"You're back? Is everything going well?" It was late at night, and the rest of the Weasley family had gone to bed, leaving only Hermione with Mrs. Weasley, drinking coffee and waiting for them to come back. After hearing the noise at the door, two people came out of the tea room on the first floor to greet them.

"Everything went smoothly. We recovered the remains of the hero and eliminated several thousand Inferi. It can be said that we completed our plan very successfully." Mr. Weasley said to his wife as he hung his robe on the hanger.

While they were talking, Ryan, Hermione and Lupin helped Sirius put Regulus's body on a temporary table, and then Ryan performed the refining. This was Ryan's expertise. This was what his master Uncle Nine was good at, so Ryan naturally learned the whole set. As the spell was recited, a trace of black air emerged from Regulus's body and disappeared. The expression on the body's face also became gentle, and finally, the soul that was trapped in the body by black magic was freed.

The soul floated in the air and looked at the people below. Seeing this scene, Kreacher burst into tears, and Sirius' tears kept flowing down his face.

"He has something on his mind." Ryan said, looking at the soul that was unwilling to transcend. "Quickly bring the locket over."

Kreacher quickly teleported to the living room on the second floor, and returned with the broken locket. After seeing the opened locket, Regulus's soul finally smiled, and then disappeared in a golden light. At the same time, the frown on the corpse's face also relaxed, as if he had fallen asleep.

That night, Ryan stayed up all night and used alchemy with the help of Hermione to make a coffin with the furniture and silverware in the mansion to put Regulus in. After that, when everyone went back to their rooms to sleep, Ryan saw Sirius and Kreacher sitting in front of the coffin and whispering something to Regulus.

The next day, everyone buried Regulus in the Black family cemetery. Dumbledore came specially to give a eulogy for Regulus. After the funeral, Sirius asked everyone to leave first, and he wanted to say a few words to the tombstone.

Half an hour later, Sirius returned with Kreacher, who wore the locket that had been Voldemort's Horcrux around his neck.

"I told him that now in order to defeat Voldemort he can only temporarily bear the reputation of a Death Eater. But one day I will let everyone know that my brother is a hero." Black said loudly to everyone after he came back, and at the same time engraved this oath into his soul.

After this day, the mansion has changed a lot. The portrait of Sirius' mother no longer yells and curses, at most rolling her eyes at those who look down on her. And Kreacher also seems to be much more energetic. With his help, the progress of cleaning the room has been greatly accelerated. In just one day, they have cleaned 1/3 of the room. At the same time, they have fixed a wall clock that likes to spray screws at people and a robe that tries to strangle everyone.

Hermione found a ferocious ghoul in a bathroom, which was the opposite of the cute ghoul in the Weasley family. But just when the ghoul's claws were about to grab Hermione, the rapier in Hermione's hand had already pierced the ghoul's brain.

"Well done." Ryan praised Hermione's skill. However, Sirius, who was disinfecting the carpet on the other side, was shocked: "Are the students taught in Hogwarts so good now?"

Hearing this, Ryan and Hermione smiled at each other, and then continued to clean up the rooms. The one who has changed the most recently is Sirius. After returning from the cemetery, he seems to be full of energy and a lot more sunny. According to him, he is not living alone now. In his future, he not only has to live his own life, but also has to fulfill his brother's wish. So he must face every day positively in the future.

Therefore, he now devotes himself to the work of the Order of the Phoenix, and decides to avenge his brother by defeating Voldemort, and at the same time fulfill Regulus' dream of revitalizing the Black family.

(End of this chapter)