The Shopkeeper of All Worlds in the British Wizarding World

Chapter 509 Heroine

After entering the museum, the air around them suddenly became cooler. Because Egypt has a dry desert climate, the places where the sun doesn't shine directly are much cooler than the places where the sun can shine. Of course, this coolness also refreshed Ryan and the others, and they felt much more energetic.

After entering the gate, a local security guard wearing a red hat came out and seemed to want to stop the two people. But after Hermione put down her hood and said in English that she wanted to visit, she retreated. After all, Egypt is still under British control, so the other party went back after seeing that they were British.

Maybe it's because it's hot at noon, or maybe it's because there aren't many people who love ancient Egyptian civilization these days. There's no one in the museum now, and there are a lot of ancient Egyptian sculptures, coffins and even mummies in the dim hall. At this time, mummies are placed in the open air, not in glass cabinets like in later times. So the whole hall looks like a large cemetery, and people feel a chill.

However, as wizards, Ryan and his friends were not afraid, but they still subconsciously drew their wands and held them in their hands. But unlike the common plots in horror movies, no mummies emerged from their coffins at this time. They successfully passed through the hall and came to what looked like an office area at the back.

"There's nothing we want in these places ahead." Hermione said after walking through the hall. As she was learning to master the rules of death, she clearly sensed that the mummies in the hall were just simple mummies, not the kind with extraordinary powers they were looking for. "But I found something interesting."

After saying that, Hermione turned around and waved her wand at a painted wooden coffin containing a mummy. A man's scream came from inside the coffin. Fortunately, at this time, a loud noise of something collapsing in the office completely covered the man's scream.

"What the hell?" Ryan walked to the coffin where the scream came from, holding his wand and looked inside. He found a wretched-looking man in an off-white suit being pinned down by the mummy that Hermione had just activated with the breath of death. Under Hermione's control, the mummy blocked the man's mouth with its entire arm when he opened his mouth to scream. That's why Ryan only heard one scream.

"Is it a trend to sleep in a coffin with a mummy now?" Ryan joked as he looked at the scene in the coffin. "I only know that in this era, mummy powder was sold in pharmacies in London."

"It should have nothing to do with this." Hermione came over, "This seems like a prank. We'll know if we let him out and ask him." After saying that, Hermione waved her wand again to let the mummy let go of the man, but surprisingly, the man did not jump out of the coffin.

"It looks like he fainted from fright." Ryan put his finger under the man's nose and probed, then said, "Let's get him out first."

Soon, this guy was taken out of the coffin by Ryan using a levitation spell, and then Ryan pointed his wand at his face and said, "Wake up soon." A few seconds later, the man woke up with a groan.

After opening his eyes, the man wanted to scream, but Hermione quickly cast a silencing spell. The middle-aged man opened and closed his mouth in surprise after being cursed, and then looked at Ryan and the others with fear.

"Okay, we are not bad people. We have something to ask you. If you are willing to cooperate, just nod and don't shout. Otherwise--" Ryan signaled Hermione with his eyes, and Hermione waved her wand. All the mummies around were instantly activated by her at once. Under the control of the power of death, the mummies moved instantly and began to perform sit-ups in the coffins.

This scene almost frightened the middle-aged man to death, but when he saw Ryan and the other two pointing the small wooden stick at him, he immediately reacted and nodded desperately.

After the spell was lifted, Ryan and the others figured out what this middle-aged man was like in just a few words. His name was Jonathan, and because he had recently obtained a treasure, he wanted to show it to his sister Evelyn, a scholar who was proficient in ancient Egyptian culture, hoping to make her happy. "So this is it?" Hermione held an octagonal metal copper box in her hand and examined it carefully in the dim torchlight around her. "It does have some magical reaction, but it is not a magic prop. Instead, it seems to have been contaminated from something with magical reactions or a space rich in magic."

"But this is indeed a good thing." Ryan said as he looked at the box. As someone who had mastered a lot of mechanical knowledge, he easily found the mechanism on the box. After gently pulling a protruding part on the side of the box, the lid opened like a flower, revealing a piece of papyrus folded into a small piece inside.

"Let me see, this looks like a map." Hermione came over and said, "Huh... Hamunatta? The map shows how to get to Hamunatta, but the question is where is Hamunatta?"

"Hamnuta, are you talking about Hamnuta? The city of the dead, Hamnuta, is said to be the treasure house of the early pharaohs!" A young woman's voice came from behind. Jonathan tensed up when he heard the voice, and he shouted loudly. "Evelyn, run, run."

"What?" Evelyn was stunned for a moment, but when she just reacted and was about to run away, Hermione Apparated in front of her and blocked her way. Then with the help of the full-body binding spell, Ryan and the others finally made the two siblings quiet and listen to Ryan and the others' explanation.

"Wizards and witches." Unlike Jonathan who was shaking with fear, Evelyn seemed extremely excited. "So there is a supernatural power called magic in this world, right? That means both the City of the Dead Hamunaptra and the Golden Book of the Sun, which contains all the secret spells of ancient Egypt, should exist, right?"

"Well, we're not too sure about this either." Ryan said, looking at Evelyn who was looking at him with hope. "But because we're not sure, we came here to try to find the book that was mentioned, and now, we've found the most important evidence of that magical place." Ryan handed over the map he had just found.

"Let me see, the floral decoration on the monument on this map is the royal seal of Seti I, and there are these words..." Evelyn then said a lot of very professional archaeological terms. Ryan found that he didn't even understand 1/10 of these things. He looked at Hermione helplessly, and found that Hermione also had dull eyes and didn't understand what the person in front of her was saying at all.

"Um, who is Seti I?" Jonathan asked the first question.

"The second pharaoh of the 19th Dynasty of Ancient Egypt. Under his leadership, Ancient Egypt defeated the surrounding countries and maintained a powerful empire." Evelyn looked at her brother with some regret. "You are a disgrace to our parents. I really don't understand why you didn't inherit any of their strengths."

"Don't say that, my dear sister." Jonathan said with a grin. "At least I know that there must be a lot of gold, silver and jewelry in this Hamunaptra."

"We are not interested in those jewels at all." Ryan said. This was indeed his true words. Ryan might be short of other things now, but he definitely has no shortage of worldly wealth. Not to mention the countless treasures he had obtained in his previous adventures in various worlds, even now Ryan's several countries in other worlds are constantly providing him with wealth. "But as wizards, we really want to obtain those books that record ancient Egyptian magic."

"In that case, let's organize an expedition team and set off!" Evelyn said happily.

(End of this chapter)