The Shopkeeper of All Worlds in the British Wizarding World

Chapter 56 Nightmare Battle
When you are at a loss as to what to do, your intuition can point you in the only direction. Doing something is better than sitting and waiting for death. So Ryan took action when the blood ball was ignited with an ominous black and red flame.

He created a cherry bomb in his hand, then stuffed the cherry into a bottle filled with sunlight crystals, and finally threw the bottle directly at the monsters on the altar while counting down.

Because the assassin's heritage gave Ryan unprecedented excellent athletic ability, he threw the jar straight into the open space surrounded by the mummies in the center of the group, and then it exploded, not giving the monsters any time to react.

Suddenly, a sun seemed to rise above the altar, and the monsters let out mournful wails in the sunlight that was full of vitality.

After the strongest flash of light passed, Ryan squinted his eyes and looked towards the altar. He found that the blood ball had completely disappeared, and it seemed that it might have been purified.

The monsters on the altar and those dancing around it were all badly damaged. Their bodies seemed to be burnt. Even a large number of the spliced ​​monsters under the altar were fatally hit and scattered into carbonized matter.

The mummies on the altar were stronger, and they were almost hit by a burst of sunlight, but four of the seven mummies still survived, although their appearance was burnt to the point of being no different from charcoal.

Naturally, these monsters discovered Ryan, the uninvited guest, and with a roar from the mummy on the altar, the spliced ​​monsters below rushed towards the direction where Ryan was hiding.

Ryan turned and ran when he saw this. After all, the real world is not a game. In any case, standing still and attacking with turrets is definitely not suitable for most scenarios. He thinks that it is best to use his mobility to slowly consume monsters.

While thinking in his mind, Ryan used his grappling hook to hook the mountain walls around the path and moved quickly on it, occasionally throwing a few sunlight crystals to the puzzle monsters that got too close (I have to praise the magic here. The assassin's grappling hook rope originally had a series of complex structures to ensure that the long rope could be rolled up without taking up space, but the magic spell of extension perfectly solved the contradiction between the length and volume of the rope). He used the sunlight bursts generated by the sunlight crystals after the collision to hinder the monsters from moving forward and bring them damage.

In this chase, two previously injured splicing monsters were repeatedly attacked because they rushed too far forward. After being injured many times, it seemed that the damage they could bear had reached its limit. After each of them received a sunlight crystal, they stopped there and did not move. Then a circle of charred marks slowly spread from the place where they were hit to the whole body, and finally scattered into a pile of carbon slag with a splash.

Ryan was encouraged by this victory and was about to continue to kill all these spliced ​​monsters with the kite-flying method. As a result, another scream came from the altar, and all the spliced ​​monsters immediately stopped chasing Ryan as if they heard some order, turned around and ran back to the original starting point.

Ryan felt something was wrong and tried to throw sunlight crystals at the retreating monsters. The monsters just tried to dodge but did not turn around to fight back against Ryan.

These monsters are obviously plotting something or preparing to use some big moves. Ryan is not the protagonist in the anime who waits for others to finish their preparations before taking the big move. It is obvious that there will be problems if they run back. So now, while the combined monsters have not returned yet, attack as much as possible to weaken them. This is definitely the best choice.

While chasing, he threw sunlight crystals at several spliced ​​monsters, but the pieces of flesh on those monsters kept moving, dispersing the damage of the positive energy to them. After throwing away some pieces of flesh that were too seriously damaged, these monsters ran faster, causing Ryan's hit rate to continue to drop.

Seeing that this trick didn't work, Ryan risked throwing out a grappling hook with a rope to grab the monster and tried to pull it over. But it just moved the flesh on its body slightly, and the grappling hook missed it. Ryan pulled it back with great force, almost hurting himself by mistake. Ryan then experimented with firing peas, flames, and psychedelic mushroom spores, but found that firing peas had recoil, which made him farther away from the monster, and pure physical damage was not effective against the monster. The range of flames and spores was not enough.

At a corner, Ryan took a shortcut by clinging to the stone wall and rushed to the front of the spliced ​​monsters, then used a grappling hook to set a tripwire to the waist to try to stop these monsters. As a result, the remaining six monsters rushed together and directly broke the rope.

Taking advantage of the monster's slowing down, Ryan fired several spells, but although all of them hit the monster, they had no effect. It can be seen that except for the light and life energy in the sunlight crystals, which are completely opposite to the monsters, other magic has little damage to these monsters.

All efforts to stop and kill the monsters in advance were ineffective. Apart from leaving a lot of scorch marks on the monsters and forcing them to give up a lot of flesh and blood, no monster was killed during the pursuit. Ryan could only watch them turn the last corner and successfully run into the open space.

After Ryan turned the corner, he saw a terrible scene: the blood ball on the altar that was thought to have been completely purified was floating in the air again, releasing blood mist to the outside.

These monsters began to recover after absorbing the blood mist. The burnt marks on their bodies slowly faded away, revealing disgusting pieces of flesh and withered skin.

Was all the work just now in vain? Ryan thought with some despair, but after careful observation, he found that things had not yet reached that point.

The destroyed monsters did not resurrect, and the missing pieces of flesh on the spliced ​​monsters did not grow back. The mummies seemed to have recovered, but the strange tattoos on their bodies disappeared.

The most important thing is that the blood ball that Ryan saw just now was at least as big as a football, but now it has shrunk to the size of a baseball at most.

When the monsters discovered that Ryan had chased them out, they did not attack him, but instead began to surround the altar and continue their strange ritual.

Ryan tried to stop it, but unfortunately a blood-red mist rose around the altar, blocking everything Ryan threw. Not only could the sunlight crystals not be thrown through, but magic was also blocked by this blood-red barrier.

Ryan tried to throw a few stones, and the stones easily passed through the barrier and hit the altar. This protective shield should only be against energy attacks. To put it bluntly, the sunlight crystal is also a solid condensed by energy, so it can't get through.

Ryan was a little frustrated that his only trump card was useless. Did he have to rush into the barrier and fight those monsters in hand-to-hand combat?

(End of this chapter)