The Shopkeeper of All Worlds in the British Wizarding World

Chapter 511 Curse
The small expedition team walked in the desert for a whole day, and Ryan took this opportunity to teach Hermione how to ride a horse. Although Hermione had ridden a horse a few times when she was a child, at that time she only rode a horse on a flat horse field, and she had never tried riding a horse on the road. So Ryan taught her how to ride a horse while traveling.

Fortunately, Hermione had gained excellent coordination and flexibility through multiple strengthening exercises, which allowed her to ride on a horse in just over half an hour. On the way, in order to prevent the descendants of the Pharaoh's Guard from intercepting them in advance, Ryan cast a secret magic on the entire team to conceal their figures, and asked Rose Crystal to call Jill out, using her ability to erase intelligence to completely remove the traces they left along the way.

After walking for an afternoon and a night, the stars on the deep blue sky faded and the eastern sky slowly began to light up again. Evelyn shouted loudly, "We are here now."

As soon as he finished speaking, a bright red line appeared on the distant horizon, and then a golden ball of light appeared in front of him. The sun rose up and showed its power. The temperature around him rose rapidly. Before the sun rose, he could still feel the cold wind blowing into his clothes, but now he felt as warm as if he was in a heated room.

At the same time, not far ahead, on the desolate Gobi desert where there was nothing, the air became blurred, and then a city built of yellow stones and earth bricks appeared out of nowhere.

"Hamunatta, this is Hamunatta! This is simply a miracle. I swear I have never seen such a strange sight in my life." Jonathan loudly vented his inner excitement.

Ryan used the method recorded in the Shangqing Dao Fa to open his heavenly eyes and then looked at the ruins in front of him. The scenery in his sight suddenly changed, and the dazzling golden sunlight on the Gobi Desert was almost completely blocked. Above the ruins was a thick black fog like a mountain, and from time to time a human face would appear on it.

Hermione also looked at Ryan at this time. It was obvious that she, who was sensitive to the breath of death, also felt the power hidden in the ruins.

But this was Ryan's goal, so he loosened the reins, squeezed his legs on both sides of the horse's belly, and the horse under his crotch rushed forward like an arrow shot out of a power. Hermione also rode up after seeing this scene.

After entering the ruins, they walked directly to a statue in the distance under the guidance of Evelyn. When Ryan got closer, he found that the statue had a wolf head and a human body. It should be Anubis, the god of death in ancient Egyptian mythology.

Evelyn was like a fish in water in such a place, and her knowledge was fully applied. Soon she found several metal discs. According to her, this was an ancient Egyptian mirror, a special tool specially made by ancient people to illuminate the underground with the help of sunlight. Finding this also means that there is a way to get down to the main ruins nearby.

Soon Hermione found a hole leading to the underground through the breath of death seeping out of the ruins, and then fixed the mirror to provide light underground.

The four people used magic to slowly descend, and then Evelyn found an ancient mirror and slightly adjusted the direction of the mirror. Instantly, the entire dark space was illuminated. It turned out that there were many ancient mirrors in the room, and these mirrors were cleverly fixed in specific positions. After the light came in, it could continuously reflect and illuminate the entire room.

"This is the preparation room. The ancient Egyptians made mummies here. What we are looking for is not here." After looking around, Evelyn gave her final judgment, so everyone had to move on.

Ryan then took out four safety helmets with headlights for everyone to wear, and then they walked through a long tunnel under the illumination of the headlights and reached another room.

"These should be the legs of the Grim Reaper statue above." Evelyn said as she looked at the stone platform with exquisite carvings in the corner of the room. This was an obvious situation because there were two pitch-black legs standing on the stone platform.

"The secret compartment should be somewhere at the bottom. According to the stone tablet in the Cairo Museum, the Golden Book of the Sun is hidden at the foot of the statue of the god of death in Hamunaptra..." Evelyn kept looking at the stone platform and muttered to herself. Finally, after knocking on the entire stone platform, she excitedly wanted to pry open a stone slab with the crowbar in her hand.

"Shouldn't archaeology be done with thick gloves and a small brush? What is Evelyn doing?" Hermione asked in shock when she saw the debris flying from Evelyn's crowbar. "Isn't this the characteristic of archaeology in this era? I remember that Schliemann, who excavated Troy, dug a huge trench directly above the ruins in order to get to the ruins of Troy as quickly as possible, which damaged or mixed up many of the excavated antiquities." Ryan replied after recalling a book he had read. "Of course, we can't let them do it so recklessly now that we are here."

Ryan stepped forward and stopped Evelyn who was trying in vain to pry open the stone slab. "Miss Evelyn, you need to consider that a normal person would set a lot of traps around a treasure like this, such as mechanical traps or worse, magical curses. And if you pry like you are doing, it's easy to get caught."

"You're right. I forgot about it in my excitement." Evelyn dropped the crowbar in her hand. "So what do you think we should do? Are you willing to release the magic?"

"Well, that's not possible." Ryan shook his head. "Because we feel that this entire ruin is shrouded in a special magical barrier. Once we use magic, it is likely to cause some bad consequences. But we have a backup plan."

A minute later, under the shocked gazes of Evelyn and her brother, two spider-like steel robots the size of a person crawled out from a dark blue door, inserted several steel plates into the gaps, and began to drag the steel cables connected to the steel plates outwards.

The power of the machine is definitely not comparable to that of humans. After a few minutes, with a loud bang, a whole black stone slab was removed, and a large amount of high-pressure white liquid sprayed out. The two steel cables were corroded and broken in an instant.

"That's some kind of strong acid." Hermione said after seeing this, and then turned to Evelyn and Jonathan next to her, "So I hope you can listen to us later and don't act on your own. Otherwise, some fatal injuries cannot be healed even with magic."

"Of course, of course." Evelyn and Jonathan were also frightened by the scene just now. If the strong acid that can corrode steel in an instant corrodes a person, the person will probably die on the spot.

After a while, when they were sure there were no other traps, they took out a large box from the hole behind the stone slab. Blowing away the dust on the box, Evelyn read the hieroglyphs on the lid: "Anyone who opens this box will inevitably be killed. Once this box is opened, the vengeful spirit that was originally sealed by the Holy Law will break the curse and return to the human world. He will kill all those who open the box, take their internal organs and blood, and revive himself. From a cursed vengeful spirit, he will become a monster that harms the human world."

As soon as the words fell, a strange sound echoed in the space. Everyone felt as if something had been activated.

"This is just a common intimidation in ancient Egyptian tombs. We--" Jonathan was trying to calm everyone down when he suddenly saw Ryan and Hermione staring at him with extremely serious expressions. "--This, can't be true?"

"It's true." Ryan nodded. "There is an extremely powerful magic item inside, and there are also several sources of curses. Once the box is opened, we think there is a high possibility that the curses written on the lid will come true."

"Then what should we do? After hearing what you said, I think what we are looking for is in this box. Are we going to go back empty-handed? You are wizards!" Evelyn seemed a little excited.

"That's not necessary." Ryan nodded. "We are professionals in dealing with such evil spirits, but we need to make a lot of preparations in advance."

(End of this chapter)