The Shopkeeper of All Worlds in the British Wizarding World

Chapter 447 Transformation
"Ryan, are you okay? I just saw the Grim Reaper." When everything returned to normal, Hermione rushed over and looked at Ryan nervously. In her narration, the Grim Reaper was a man wearing a hood and whose face could not be seen. He suddenly appeared and told her how to leave when she asked.

"Oh, you idiot! Why didn't you leave just now?" Ryan said angrily, looking at the meteorite amulet on Hermione's neck that could resist a killing curse. "At least one of us can get out, rather than both of us being trapped here now-"

As soon as she said this, Hermione hugged Ryan and blocked his mouth with hers for several minutes, until both of them had flushed faces and then separated.

"I told you that I never want you to be alone when facing danger." Hermione said, tossing her hair in a chic manner. "And thank the god of death, you can't get rid of me now."

Ryan could clearly feel that the girl in front of him had connected her soul with his. Most importantly, this devotion was one-sided, showing Hermione's extreme trust in Ryan.

The system also told Ryan at this time that after Hermione entrusted her soul to him, she became a part of Ryan's soul to the system, which was similar to the rose crystal. In the future, she would not need additional offset points to travel to other worlds.

"Thank you!" Ryan had thousands of words in his heart at this time, but in the end it all turned into a pale and powerless word.

After sorting out his thoughts, Ryan began the process of making items containing the rules of life. Just as the god of death promised, all the tools he needed would appear around him as long as he thought about it, and the death power that filled the entire space around him was the best raw material for him.

With the support of the Eternal Fire, the two were able to work without food, drink or sleep, so they devoted all their time and energy to the refinement of the Rose Virgin. It must be admitted that Hermione's wisdom helped Ryan a lot in the experiment. With her help, Ryan felt that his research speed was 1/3 faster than independent research.

In his spare time while refining the Rose Madonna, Ryan tried hard to help Hermione resolve the effects of the death rule on her body. Fortunately, after their souls merged, Ryan was able to guide the energy in Hermione's body just like he was manipulating his own energy. With Ryan's help, Hermione gained some ability to control the power of life and death, which saved her from the danger of death.

However, in this way, the power of life and death will leave a permanent mark on Hermione. Fortunately, no matter what, her crisis of turning into a lich has been resolved.

The complexity of the production of the Rose Madonna has far exceeded the refining of ordinary alchemical items. It can even be said that the production of items of this level is the maker's understanding of the rules into a certain material. For Ryan, if he can make such a thing, it can prove that his understanding and mastery of the rules have reached the same level as Dumbledore, Voldemort, Nicolas Flamel or Grindelwald.

This is not an easy task, even though Ryan has an advantage that no other wizard in the world has: an alchemist who has mastered the rules will help him without having to try and figure it out by himself. But even so, knowing what to do is one thing, but doing it is another.

In the long time that followed, Ryan and Hermione spent their time in constant creation, failure, creation, and continued failure. The excessive mental exhaustion made their bodies obviously weak, but if one could see their souls, one would find that their soul flames were burning more and more vigorously and becoming more and more condensed. Especially Ryan's soul fire, which was transforming and sublimating towards an unprecedented realm.

Finally, after repeated trials and failures, Ryan felt as if he had broken through an unprecedented barrier, just like a chick hatching from an eggshell, or like the first golden sunlight tearing through the darkness in the early hours of the morning.

"I understand." Ryan said to Hermione, who also looked tired and just cooperated with his work mechanically. After hearing this, Hermione came back to her senses and gave Ryan an encouraging smile.

Then he waved his arms again. Countless blood-red runes flowed out of Ryan's hands like water again, and at the same time, various precious materials were produced from the void. This time was different from any previous time. There was no mistake in the middle that caused the energy in his hands to explode into fireworks, nor was there a lack of follow-up that caused the energy to be unable to condense further and gradually dissipate after aggregation. This time, all the runes and those precious materials finally condensed together to form an extremely small point, and then the surrounding death aura surged towards this point like a tide. The influx of death aura drove everything around, and for the first time in this dead environment, wind appeared, or something similar to wind. The breath of death swept past the two people, making their clothes rustle.

Part of the death force was repeatedly condensed, forming some heavy black liquid with some materials. The other part of the death force was transformed into concentrated life force, and merged with the remaining materials to form extremely fine golden powder.

"Life and death are interchanged. This is the manifestation of the power to master the rules of change." Ryan muttered to himself as he looked at the scene in front of him: "This is the legendary fifth element, the Rose Madonna, or the alchemist stone. It is also a reflection of the entire universe."

At this time, the surrounding death force was constantly transformed into two substances, and at the same time, the two transformed substances began to spin rapidly and merge together. Ryan could feel that the thing in front of him was constantly changing, and various transformations were happening inside it all the time. But at the same time, it was gradually becoming still, and began to have its own stable structure, and a force of life and creation slowly grew from it.

Ancient European philosophers divided all things in the world into four parts: dry, wet, cold, and hot. Now the production of Our Lady of the Rose is a combination of all of these. According to the legend, mercury and sulfur are the two main elements of the Philosopher's Stone. But in fact, this is just a code word. Mercury represents the wet and cold substances in the world, and sulfur represents the dry and hot substances in the world. Their combination symbolizes that all things in the world are integrated into a microcosm and a mirror image of the whole world.

When the energy was compressed beyond a certain limit, the first drop of red liquid appeared in front of Ryan and the others. After that, drops of the same liquid continued to pour out, slowly gathering together with the first drop of liquid as the core, and solidifying little by little.

Finally, a palm-sized translucent red stone appeared in mid-air. It showed a breath of life that was out of tune with the surrounding environment. Ryan reached out and caught it.

"Unfortunately, in this single, incomplete environment, the Madonna of the Rose produced is only a secondary version of the real Madonna of the Rose. It's a pity for those precious materials." Ryan felt the object in his hand and shook his head with some regret. "But this thing is enough to leave here."

"We--did we succeed?" Hermione asked, looking at the stone in Ryan's hand. Her eyes seemed to be attracted to the stone. It was no wonder that after staying in such a gray place full of death for a long time, a colorful thing that exuded the breath of life would naturally attract people's attention.

"Yes, we are..." Ryan opened his mouth in astonishment before he finished speaking. When he turned his head to look at Hermione, he found that the girl beside him was completely different from before: her face was pale and terribly pale. Her hair also turned into a lifeless gray.

"What's wrong with you?" Ryan grabbed Hermione's shoulder and asked nervously, but when his hand touched Hermione's shoulder, he felt his heart beat violently, because there was no body temperature at all, just like touching - a corpse.

"Oh, sorry! I forgot just now." Hermione looked at Ryan's astonished eyes and put her hands together on her chin, making an apologetic gesture. "This is a new ability I have acquired under your guidance. In order to better adapt to the surrounding environment, I am sorry to scare you."

After saying that, Hermione closed her eyes, and soon she returned to normal, even looking healthier than before.

(End of this chapter)