The Shopkeeper of All Worlds in the British Wizarding World

Chapter 446 Death (Please subscribe, please bookmark, please vote)
After being helped to sit up by Hermione, Ryan found that there was gray mist all around him, except where he and Hermione were, as if a hemispherical protective shield enveloped the two of them.

"Just now I saw you conjure up a grey flame, and then the flame grew bigger and bigger under the influence of your spell and enveloped the two of us. Then the grey flame disappeared, and we appeared here." Hermione briefly introduced what had just happened, but she was also confused about the situation.

"I think I know what's going on." After sitting for a while and feeling that he had recovered, Ryan helped Hermione stand up, then raised his hand with the ring and used the power of the ring to circle around the two of them. A gray mist similar to the surroundings emerged from the wand and sank into the ocean of gray mist.

As he cast the spell, the fog around them suddenly became lighter. Hermione was surprised to find that they were now in a foggy hall with a hard iron-gray floor! The little floor tiles before were only a tiny part of the hall.

Hermione took two steps forward and felt the ground was very solid, just like real stone. Looking around, she saw a gray-black mist covering everything she could see. Except for the hall she was in, she could not see anything except the mist, as if this was a kingdom of mist.

Where is this? Hermione turned to look at Ryan, but Ryan was confused at this time. He had just tried to communicate with the surroundings using life magic and the death part of Maoshan Taoism, and he received a response. Now being in this hall was the best proof. But he didn't see anything here that he could communicate with.

Because Ryan couldn't find anyone to communicate with, such as the god of death who lived in the world of death as the wizards said, he had no choice but to explore the surroundings, and he found that everything around him seemed illusory, only the floor under his feet was solid.

He knelt down on one knee, observing the ground through the faint mist, while Hermione quietly walked to his side and stood there, observing the surroundings vigilantly.

After opening his Yin-Yang eyes, Ryan discovered that the gray tiles on the ground were not the plain tiles he had imagined before. On each tile, there were figures of men, women, old people, young people, and even some that were not human. For example, Ryan saw an image that was obviously a centaur.

Each figure on the bricks is extremely simple, even crude, but they all convey an extremely vivid feeling, as if they have life.

Possessing life? When this thought came to his mind, Ryan immediately thought of something. He reached out and touched a floor tile with a centaur painted on it.

Instantly, a series of pictures appeared in Ryan's mind: he was born in a tall wooden house, and learned to stand on four legs in his childhood. In his youth, he found his lover and became a hunter in the tribe. The birth and growth of his child, as well as the huge blow caused by the departure of his lover when his temples were white, and he accidentally caught a cold, which made this old horseman close his eyes forever in his house.

These images passed through Ryan's mind so quickly that he didn't have time to see the details clearly. However, he still learned about the life of an old horseman and figured out what these bricks represented.

Souls, the souls of those who have died. Ryan thought about it and touched a few bricks again. Those bricks would also bring up the memory images of the dead in Ryan's mind. Some of them died of old age like the old horseman, some died of murder, some died of accidents, and some died of plague.

But regardless of gender, age, race, or method of death, the only thing they have in common is that they are all dead.

Ryan would be very happy to come to this mysterious place if it were any other time. Being able to come into close contact with the rules of death would actually help him master the rules. But now that Hermione was around, Ryan just wanted to get out as soon as possible. Even if the Eternal Fire could provide enough defense, the ubiquitous rules of death would still have an impact on the two living people.

The Eternal Fire did prevent the infiltration of the power of death, but what Ryan did not expect was that under the premise that the surroundings were full of death rules, living people would be infected by the death rules as long as they saw, heard or even sensed them. Ryan was not affected much. Even if he only had a preliminary understanding of the power of the rules, he was able to eliminate the influence of the death rules on himself, but Hermione was different.

"Hasn't it been said by wizards that there is a god of death? Where is he now?" Ryan thought anxiously, because at this time he found that Hermione's breath began to permeate a faint, desolate feeling, and the spirit in her eyes began to become a little dull. Suddenly he had an epiphany, stood up, put his hands together and began to pray to the god of death in his heart. Sure enough, not long after, gray mist gathered in front of him. First the hair, then the head, then the neck, and the shoulders all the way down. The surrounding mist sank into the human figure in front of him one by one, as if human flesh and bones constituted the human body.

Finally, the fog in the hall completely disappeared, and a person stood in front of Ryan and Hermione. This was a very beautiful girl, who looked like a Eurasian, but if you look closely, you can see that this is Ryan after the beauty enhancement.

This shouldn't be what the god of death really looks like. Just as Ryan thought of this, the girl opposite him spoke, and an indescribable deep voice echoed in the hall.

"This body was created just to facilitate communication with you. I know that intelligent creatures often like to communicate with the opposite sex, so I created this image based on the appearance of the communicator."

"Are you the God of Death?" Ryan asked hesitantly. He had never known that there were gods in the world of Harry Potter.

"No, I'm just the god of death that you imagined in your mind, just like everything around you. But in this place, fantasy and reality can be transformed into each other." The girl opposite said. Ryan realized at this time that everything around him was solidified, as if it was embedded in a huge piece of amber.

After asking a few questions, Ryan discovered that the Grim Reaper in front of him was not some kind of god with his own personality, but just a set system that would only respond to certain questions.

This means that there are no personified gods in this world, and the so-called god of death is just a nickname for the embodiment of these death rules. The three sets of Deathly Hallows are probably magic props made by a powerful wizard after mastering the rules of death. The saying that collecting the Deathly Hallows can conquer death should refer to the knowledge about the death rules that can be obtained from the Deathly Hallows.

Ryan thought about this and said directly: "I want to leave here with my companions, what should I do?"

"Just pay the price." The Death in front of him said unexpectedly. "It's just that your price is much higher than your companion's. After all, you have touched the edge of the rules, and she is just an ordinary wizard."

"Can you tell me what the prices are?" Ryan asked.

"Your companion only needs something that is equivalent to a life, and you need something that can contain the rules of life." The death god opposite said expressionlessly. "And these things cannot come from other worlds."

Just after he finished saying this, the Grim Reaper in front of him was stunned for a moment, and then said to Ryan: "You only need something that can contain the rules of life. Because your companion chose to use the power of a life as a bargaining chip to entrust everything she has to you, now in my eyes you can be regarded as one."

At this point, Death added: "Since your companion has given more than she asked for, I will provide you with everything you need, except life itself."

After he finished speaking, the Grim Reaper nodded and disappeared, and everything around him resumed its flow. Only one balance remained in place, with one end of the balance sticking up high out of thin air, and the other end was a gray translucent ball. Ryan could see the shadows of himself and Hermione inside the ball, and it seemed that the Grim Reaper meant that as long as both sides were balanced, he could get out.

(End of this chapter)