The Shopkeeper of All Worlds in the British Wizarding World

Chapter 405 The action begins

Ryan and Hermione climbed to the top of the mountain along the route they had scouted before, and looked down. The scene before them proved that they had arrived.

This is a mountain basin surrounded by mountains. The basin is not small, and there is even a small alpine lake in the basin that provides water. There are several bonfires at the foot of the mountain, which are about the same size as ordinary bonfires used by Boy Scouts during camping. However, compared with the shadows of the surrounding six or seven meters high and like small mountains, these bonfires seem much smaller.

"Are they giants?" Ryan and Hermione were lying in a small pit on the top of the mountain, wearing camouflage nets and looking down with low-light night vision binoculars. "They are so ugly!"

Ryan agreed with Hermione. These giants looked heavier than elephants, and their skin was as rough as rhino hide. Their heads were like balls, covered with curly, thick, dirty hair. Their facial features looked like they were roughly hewn out of a large stone ball. Their short, thick noses were almost shapeless, their mouths were crooked, and full of strangely shaped yellow teeth the size of half a brick; their eyes were a cloudy brown-green color, and were small by giant standards. Their ugly heads grew directly on their shoulders, and there was almost no neck in between.

"Damn them!" Ryan cursed loudly after carefully observing the giant's camp.

"What happened?" Hermione turned her head to look at Ryan who was lying beside her. She found that Ryan's face looked very ugly, as if he was suppressing great anger in his heart.

"Look in their pot." Ryan said in a low voice. Hermione aimed the telescope at the big pot on a bonfire, and after taking a closer look, she let out a suppressed cry of surprise. Because what was turned up by the stick was a human hand.

"Hagrid never said that. No one ever told me that giants eat people." Hermione looked at Ryan in shock.

"In the past, they might have only occasionally eaten some Muggles who accidentally strayed into the valley, but it seems that after the Death Eaters arrived, these giants have become much more evil than before. They must have forgotten the painful lesson they learned from their failure last time, and awakened the evil power in their hearts."

Ryan pointed to a small cave on the other side of the cliff and said, "I feel like there are at least 20 people in there, but only two have magical reactions. It's very likely that the Death Eaters caught Muggles from somewhere to arouse the bloodthirsty nature of the giants. The Death Eaters don't think that the giants are their allies. In their eyes, the giants are just dirty monsters. They form an alliance with them just to use their fighting power to cause trouble for us. In this case, they will definitely use various methods to make the giants more brutal and barbaric."

After the two of them moved to the other side of the valley facing the cave, they confirmed their inference through the telescope: McNeill, wearing a black robe, was sitting at the entrance of the cave holding a wand. From the entrance, they could vaguely see some iron cages in the cave, some empty and some with people in them. Judging from the clothes on the people in the cages, they should be Muggles.

"What should we do?" Hermione asked. "There are too many people on the other side, but there are only two of us."

"Drink this first." Ryan took out a bottle of bright red potion. "Don't even think about sleeping tonight. We need to figure out where these guys are going and then come up with a plan of action."

After two hours of observation, they finally discovered a weakness of the other party. That is, the third Death Eater on the periphery had very little contact with the others, so if they were to be knocked out first, they would not have to worry about being discovered for at least a day or two.

The hidden Death Eater looked very cautious. He dug a hole in the trunk of a tree that was several meters high from the ground and hid inside. He used the Vanishing Charm to remove the wood he dug out, and finally covered the bark back to its original position. In this way, no one would find out that there was someone hiding in the tree in a short time. At the same time, from the small hole in the bark, he could monitor the top of the cave where the two Death Eaters were staying.

The Death Eater also set up a lot of defensive and surveillance magic around the tree, completely turning the area into a very good fortification.

Ryan was able to find this guy because such a tree was very abrupt in the perception of natural magic, just like a bright light in the dark night. The reason why the Death Eater left such a big loophole was naturally because there had not been a wizard who mastered natural magic in Britain for hundreds of years, so of course he would not consider this aspect.

"You stay here and monitor the movements of the giant below. Use your ring to notify me if anything happens. I'm going to deal with the Death Eater hiding in the dark first." After Ryan instructed Hermione, he crawled out of the observation point backwards, and then stood up behind the tree, climbed up the tree and left.

"Good luck!" Hermione said in a voice that only she could hear after watching Ryan leave, and then raised the telescope to continue staring at the giants below and the cave opposite. Ryan jumped quickly on the branches in the forest until he stopped about ten meters away from the tree where the Death Eaters were hiding. Because he felt that there was a magical defense around him.

"Let me see." Ryan took out a purple crystal ball and made a few gestures to it. Many runes soon appeared on the crystal ball.

"Safeguarding safety, protecting everything, setting traps for enemies. It seems that the magic used by this Death Eater is also very common - what is this?" Ryan suddenly found that the crystal ball displayed a magic that he had not known before.

"Soul, perception, shock wave, any intelligent creature will be shocked in the soul after approaching? This magic is quite new. It seems that the guy hiding in the tree is a wizard who is good at attacking the soul." Ryan thought and took out a few talismans for soul defense from the space bag to bless himself. Then he began to crack the surrounding defense and magic.

Every time a spell was completed, the rune representing that spell on the crystal ball would disappear. After 15 minutes, the last rune disappeared, and Ryan checked his equipment and jumped out.

After arriving at the tree where the man was hiding, Ryan touched the tree beneath him and communicated quietly with the tree. Soon he figured out the specific hiding place of the Death Eater: the guy was now sitting against the wall of the tree hole, looking around through the small hole in the movable bark.

"Leaning against a tree, that will be easy." Ryan smiled after discovering this, then took out the enemy fencing sword he got from the "Lord of the Rings" world last time and walked to a branch above the Death Eater.

"Now - do it." Death Eaters are human beings after all, and the moment they felt the guy in the tree hole lower his head to drink water, Ryan, who was standing on the branch with his eyes closed, suddenly opened his eyes and jumped down from the branch headfirst.

The wind whistled past his ears, and the earth rushed towards him. But Ryan's brain was still working at a high speed and calmly.

"1, 2, do it." After counting two numbers in his mind, Ryan, who was sure he had reached the position, suddenly thrust the sword in his hand into the tree trunk. Under Ryan's control, this magic sword forged by the elves successfully penetrated the 20cm thick wood and a layer of magic defense and went straight out of the other side of the wood and pierced into the Death Eater's neck. Then the tip of the sword came out directly from the guy's throat.

The Death Eater died on the spot. After all, even though wizards have stronger vitality than Muggles, they will still die on the spot if their cervical vertebrae and the nerves inside them are all severed in an instant.

It happened in a flash. The moment the sword pierced into him, Ryan immediately let go and used the force to somersault in the air to adjust his posture. Then he landed steadily on his feet and rolled to absorb the impact.

Soon he stood up again, holding his wand and warily aiming at the enemy's position on the tree trunk. But the expected counterattack did not appear.

After using life magic to sense that the person inside was indeed dead, Ryan directly eliminated the trap under the tree, retrieved his sword, and then moved the piece of bark away.

"Amycus Carrow." After lifting the corpse's chin with the tip of his sword, Ryan recognized the identity of the Death Eater he had killed. As one of the ten Death Eaters who escaped from prison, Ryan had seen his photo in the newspaper before. This also explains why the surrounding defenses are so ordinary, because this person was also known for his simple mind, but he was good at fighting and extremely cruel. It is very likely that he would not have arranged those complicated defenses.

"The first goal has been achieved, and the surrounding area has been cleaned up. The next task is to deal with those core issues." Ryan thought about it and roughly packed up the spoils, then hurried to meet up with Hermione.

(End of this chapter)