The Shopkeeper of All Worlds in the British Wizarding World

Chapter 54 An unexpected discovery

In the following days, Ryan visited many places. He had to admit that the Floo Network was indeed convenient. It allowed Ryan to travel to many places and feast his eyes. But the only bad thing was that Ryan was a little dizzy with the Floo Network, and he basically rolled out of the fireplace every time. But in order to save time, he had to do this.

Whether it was the colorful wooden houses of the local residents that looked even more beautiful under the polar daylight, or the snow-capped glaciers, or even the floating ice brought down from the glaciers in the rivers that reflected the glittering light, these scenes all brought Ryan an excellent travel experience.

As for the attractions on the magical side, he visited and fed the Kraken, exclaiming that these Krakens might be even bigger than the giant squid in Hogwarts. He also admired the endangered animal Silent Bird in the reserve.

Naturally, Ryan took a lot of photos, and he selected a few of them and asked the photo studio to make them into postcards, which he sent to his friends through the Far North Owl Post Office on Saga Street.

As a result, he received a lot of owl letters the next day. Some of them were from roommates expressing envy, and some were from the Weasley twins asking Ryan to purchase some magical ingredients unique to Iceland (because Ryan had read many and diverse books, once when the Weasley twins were discussing a question Ryan had read, Ryan answered it without thinking. After that, they gradually established a friendship).

However, in the letters from Ron and Hermione, except for the postcard thanking Ryan, they both mentioned that they had not received a reply to their letters to Harry, so they felt a little nervous.

Ryan did not see Harry's reply in this batch of replies. He estimated that his letter was intercepted by the house elf Dobby just like Hermione and Ron. So Ryan wrote to Hermione and others to tell them that Harry's safety was always being watched by Professor Dumbledore and there would be no big problem. But if there was no reply, they could go to Harry's house to check.

Time passed slowly in this leisurely tour, and the relaxation this environment gave people was something they had never felt anywhere else. At least Ryan felt that his parents' fatigue from work seemed to have been reduced a lot.

One day, Ryan was walking on the streets of Reykjavik, looking around and preparing to visit a museum. Suddenly, an oil painting attracted him.

This oil painting belongs to an oil painter who sells paintings on the street. The painting quality is very ordinary, but the mountain in the painting looks almost the same as the mountain on the treasure map that I got.

So he walked up to the painter and asked, "Sir, where is this painting of? I have been traveling here for several days, but I have never seen the mountains in this painting."

The painter put down his brush and said, "This is a view I saw when I was hiking at Askja Volcano a few years ago. The weather was very clear that day, and I and a few friends were going to Lake Viti to experience the thrill of swimming in the geothermal lake. But halfway through the journey, the weather suddenly changed."

At this point, the painter shuddered as if he remembered something terrible, and then he continued: "The wind was blowing very hard at the time, and we were worried that the car would be blown away. Half an hour later, the wind died down, and I saw a group of devil-like peaks emerging from the previously empty ice sheet. They appeared in front of me for less than a minute and then disappeared."

"Later I asked the residents nearby, and they told me that it was called Devil's Mountain. Legend has it that the devil lives there. Most of the time he hides in hell, and only comes to the world in very rare cases."

Ryan thought deeply after hearing what the painter said: Most of the time it is invisible, and only occasionally it is discovered. This is quite consistent with the situation when wizards use magic to cover up certain places. If some concealed magic circles are not maintained, they will occasionally fail over time.

It seems that I need to investigate it carefully first. After Ryan said goodbye to the painter, he found a secluded place, took out the cosmetics he bought before, and made up his face for a while, disguising himself as a Native American (they are all yellow people, so it’s barely disguiseable. This is something brought by the assassin’s legacy). Then he went to Saga Street to inquire about the news.

Ryan disguised himself as an indigenous wizard who came from America to travel, and asked the shop owners about this matter in English with a Caribbean Spanish accent, and soon he got something. That place is a natural magic point, so a magic barrier is formed to prevent others from finding it. Wizards only discovered this place more than 30 years ago. However, the wizards who explored it before only found an abandoned altar in that place, and nothing else.

Later, many wizards went to that place to visit and study, but unfortunately, no one ever heard of any discovery.

So now basically no wizards go there to visit. But if you want to go there, it is not difficult. You can use the Floo Network to go to the Alpine Troll Sanctuary of Vatnajökull Glacier, and then rent a broom and fly there in about ten minutes.

After collecting all this information, Ryan felt extremely frustrated. He thought he had discovered a treasure location, but he found out that the place had already been discovered by others and even developed into a tourist spot, but it was a rare place with no special features. This made him feel very disappointed.

But when it comes to doing things, it is important to have a beginning and an end. Now that I have found my goal, it would be a pity not to take a look.

The next morning, after finishing his homework (poor student), Ryan packed up his things and headed to the Devil's Mountain altar.

After spinning in the fireplace of the Floo Network for dozens of seconds, Ryan appeared in a small house hidden by magic. There was a notice on the wall of the house: If you want to swim in Lake Viti, please change into Muggle clothes here.

There was a counter not far from the fireplace where a middle-aged wizard in his 50s was dozing off.

Ryan went over and woke him up: "I want to visit the Devil Mountain Altar. Can you rent a broom here?"

"Oh, another young man who was deceived by the legend of treasure. It's a pity that there are fewer and fewer people like you now." The middle-aged wizard rubbed his sleepy eyes and said. "The rent is 12 Sickles a day, and the deposit is five Galleons." After saying that, he took a broom that looked pretty good and put it on the counter.

After Ryan paid the money, he spent another three Sickles to rent a heated robe and goggles. After all, it was very cold to fly in the sky, and he was busy learning the stun spell and some combat-related spells, and had no time to teach himself daily spells such as the insulation spell.

This place is not far from the Devil Mountain Altar, and you can even see those strange-shaped devil-like mountains from afar.

Ryan rode his flying broom and it only took him more than ten minutes to get there, but that was because the broom was old and Ryan's driving skills were a bit problematic. If Harry rode his Nimbus 2000, he might have gotten there in five minutes.

Ryan lowered the broom and found that the broom was parked at the beginning of a small gravel road. He put down the broom and followed the sign on the side of the road to the altar.

(End of this chapter)