The Shopkeeper of All Worlds in the British Wizarding World

Chapter 445: The Other Side of the Curtain
"What about Ryan and Hermione?" Harry shouted as he struggled as Lupin pulled him away. "They're still on the stage."

Just as Harry was shouting, the tentacles made up of countless human bodies, accompanied by a large amount of death breath, once again slapped the mist-like barrier. Harry clearly saw Ryan and Hermione spit out blood at the same time.

"I'm going to save--" Harry was knocked unconscious by Lupin's spell before he could finish his words, and then he was quickly carried out. As people who had experienced cruel wars, they knew that this was not the time to be sentimental. If they returned at this time, it would be useless except that more people would die and everything Ryan and his men had done would be in vain.

When the members of the Order of the Phoenix left, everyone who passed by Ryan and Hermione nodded quickly with a serious expression on their faces, even Professor McGonagall was no exception.

"It feels like a farewell to a corpse. Everyone has a stern face." When all the members of the Order of the Phoenix climbed up the stairs, Ryan turned his head and said to Hermione beside him with a smile on his face. However, the blood on his face made people feel like crying for some unknown reason.

"I think that's probably because they felt they forgot to bring a bunch of white lilies." Hermione answered quietly, and smiled. Although Ryan faced most of the impact head-on, the aftermath still caused Hermione a lot of damage. Now her face was pale, and she didn't look any better than Ryan.

After everyone had safely disappeared from the entrance at the top of the stairs, Ryan prepared to use the emergency escape function of the Wanjie Grocery Store to run away with Hermione. As a person who likes to prepare in advance, Ryan basically would not fight an unprepared battle, and now was the time to use the prepared method to escape from danger.

But just as Ryan was about to launch the attack, the death aura that had hit the barrier like waves disappeared without a trace, as if it had never appeared. At the same time, the power that imprisoned his wand also disappeared, allowing Ryan to easily withdraw his wand.

"This is--" Before Ryan could react, a huge suction force suddenly came from the stone archway and directly sucked Ryan and Hermione outside the door in.

As soon as he was pulled into the arch by the suction force, his heart sank suddenly, and a strong sense of unwillingness surged from his heart. Although Ryan died once, he would never get used to this kind of thing. What made him even more frustrated was that this time not only did he die, but also implicated people who were very important to him to die.

"Death is nothing to be afraid of. If you're lucky, you might be able to return to your original world." Ryan encouraged himself, "It's just that I've implicated Hermione. She didn't have to come -"

But he soon realized that if he died, he shouldn't have these thoughts. Ryan, who had closed his eyes and prepared to wait for death, suddenly opened his eyes and saw white flames coming out of the two rings on his and Hermione's tightly clasped hands. These flames spread from their hands to their whole bodies, protecting the two people tightly. When he cast his eyes on Hermione, he found that Hermione's eyes were now tightly closed and she was mumbling something.

Ryan immediately thought of what was going on. Behind the arch should be the death side of this world. The death rule can indeed kill everyone who enters instantly. However, Ryan and his rings contain the power of the eternal fire. Although the power is not very strong, the status is not low.

The power of death around them could not penetrate the basic power protection from the creation of another world. Even though Ryan and his companions were facing the power of death from the entire world, this little bit of eternal fire was enough to provide complete protection for Ryan and Hermione.

The surroundings were filled with gray fog, and the two could only feel themselves falling. Although the escape system could still be activated at this time, unless they lived in another world forever, they would return to this place once they returned.

"I should have immediately chosen to run away after the pressure in the arch decreased." Ryan thought with some regret, but who could have thought that the arch would not only release the power of death outwards, but also suck things outside in.

"Ryan, where is this? Are we dead?" Just as Ryan was struggling, Hermione's whisper came into his ears. "We should be dead, but it's not painful at all. Fortunately, Ryan is by my side, so it's not too bad, and we saved so many people. The only bad thing is that we are both only children. What will our parents do if we die——"

"The good news is that we are not dead yet. The bad news is that we are now trapped behind that arch, which means we can't get out of that world of death for the time being." Listening to Hermione's incoherent mumbling there, Ryan immediately interrupted her.

"Well, being alive is better than anything else." Hermione opened her eyes and looked around, looking optimistic. "Is there any way for us to change this state, such as stopping our fall?" "I think I have a way." With Hermione's calm tone, Ryan regained his composure. At first, he waved his wand and released several spells, but these spells were distorted or even completely ineffective in this environment full of death and rules. After thinking for a while, he bit his left hand and drew bloody runes in the air one after another, and then used these runes to mobilize the eternal fire in the ring to check the surrounding environment.

Hermione first saw Ryan wave his wand, but only the head of the wand simply lit up a few times. But soon Ryan gave up the wand and directed some blood-red runes to rotate around him, and then those runes were wrapped in a layer of white flames like theirs and flew in all directions.

But soon the runes flew back and formed a gray flame full of death in the two people's tightly clasped hands. After that, Ryan kept chanting some kind of spell to the gray flame. And every time he chanted, the flame in his hand would shake violently, and an invisible wave would suddenly spread. Hermione was surprised to find that with the energy fluctuations again and again, the surrounding mist seemed to be slowly solidifying.

However, Ryan did not notice these at this time. As the waves spread, he was affected by the surrounding gray fog and fell into a trance. Some sounds that he had never heard before began to ring in his mind.

"No, I don't want to die—" "Just a few little mudbloods, er—" "What—"

……

"Kill - kill -" "Head, Gugo, hit, break it -"

……

"Master, I'm sorry, I tried my best." "I want to live, I have to live no matter what."

"This is the Tsepesh family, how could someone break in?" "Huh? A strange puppet, ah——" "For the glory of the Tsepesh family, charge forward——"

Countless noisy voices entered Ryan's soul, making him feel that his soul was becoming stronger and stronger, as if he could control everything and know everything.

"Ryan, Ryan——" Just as Ryan's perception expanded rapidly, as if he was holding everything around him in his hands, he felt someone calling his name and shaking his body.

Ryan's thoughts retreated back into his body like a tide, and cold sweat broke out on his back. Just now, he used life magic to try to communicate with the world of death around him, but he didn't expect that this world was too powerful. Even with the protection of the Eternal Fire, he almost got lost in the vast world of death around him. Fortunately, Hermione, who had a soul contract with him, called Ryan's soul back from the bottom of her heart.

"What is this?" Ryan opened his eyes and was surprised to find himself lying on a gray tiled floor. Hermione was kneeling there with her head on her knees, stroking her face and calling his name over and over again.

"You're awake!" Hermione cheered happily when she saw Ryan open his eyes.

"What the hell just happened?" Ryan asked after sitting next to Hermione with her help.

(End of this chapter)