The Shopkeeper of All Worlds in the British Wizarding World

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Ryan brought back a number of products for his own use, such as a memory eraser stick and a matching magic mirror, a small spaceship, and a large box of various weapons.

Among them, weapons were the focus of Ryan's test. After dealing with some things in the world, the next day, Ryan and Hermione began to test the effects of these sci-fi energy weapons on wizards' magical defense.

These tests started in an open space, with several robot dolls placed in the center. Ryan and his team first released various defensive magic on the dolls, and then began to shoot at the targets with their weapons.

During the experiment, they found that all weapons using solid ammunition were very ineffective against the armor spell commonly used by wizards. Even magic cast by an ordinary Hogwarts graduate could block almost all live ammunition weapons, even the most powerful Gauss rifle.

"This is to be expected." Ryan turned to Hermione and said, "Since wizards discovered this magic, they have been improving its defense against kinetic damage. It has remained the same from medieval swords to today's firearms."

"That means it's hard for people who don't master magic to do any harm to wizards who wantonly harm them, such as Death Eaters." Hermione's face also became serious. "That's why all wizards think that Muggles are weaker than wizards."

"That's true from an individual perspective. Wizards who master magic are indeed much more powerful than ordinary people." Ryan nodded slightly. "But humans, as intelligent creatures, have never become the top creatures on the food chain just because they are powerful individuals."

After saying that, he picked up the Atomic No. 4 pistol and started shooting at the targets. After that, Ryan clearly felt that after these energy ammunition hit the defenses on the targets, the defensive magic was quickly consumed.

"Sure enough, magic defense is not very effective against energy attacks." Ryan said after using a portable three-barrel plasma cannon to blast away the target in front of him. "This may be because magic is just a way to utilize energy, so when facing energy attacks, we can only resist by simply consuming energy."

"It's not just because of that." Hermione also used the Atomic No. 4 pistol in her hand to shoot several times to destroy the magical defense on a target. "To be precise, magic can use energy more efficiently. For example, the Shield Charm. The book I saw in the library recorded the earliest form of this spell. At that time, this spell was very long and crude. It could only block some attacks such as swords or projectiles such as bows and javelins."

"You mean, this spell was originally used only to defend against attacks from ordinary people?" Ryan asked in surprise. He had never read books of this kind before, so he really didn't notice this.

"Yes." Hermione raised her eyebrows and said excitedly. For her, there were not many opportunities to teach Ryan. So this time, after discovering that Ryan had knowledge that he didn't know, she naturally started to explain happily. "You need to know that in the early history of the wizarding world, wizards lived together with ordinary people, and the battles and conflicts at that time were mainly concentrated between wizards and Muggles. In this situation, the Shield Charm, a magic that can attack ordinary people, was naturally invented as one of the common magics of wizards."

"But then the conflict between Muggles and wizards grew bigger and bigger, and eventually turned into a war. Due to population issues, wizards, at least Western wizards, chose to close themselves off and hide themselves. At the same time, the signing of the International Statute of Secrecy confirmed this." Having said that, Hermione took the water handed to her by Ryan and drank it.

"And then there's the conflict between wizards and wizards and other magical creatures, right?" Ryan asked as Hermione finished her water and put away her cup.

"Yes, the next part is the key content of our magical history. In those wars, wizards established their dominance in the magical world. It must be said that these wars were indeed cruel, but they also promoted the development of magic. The same is true for the Armor Spell. A spell that can only resist physical attacks is not very effective when facing other creatures, so wizards invented more defensive magic."

"However, too much defensive magic has caused serious confusion. It is difficult for ordinary wizards to accurately identify attack magic and choose the corresponding defensive magic when facing an attack. Therefore, under the research of a large number of magicians, today's Iron Armor Spell that can directly defend against various magical and physical attacks was invented." "So this is why the Iron Armor Spell is not effective when facing these energy weapons." Ryan continued, "Because the wizards' magic is not static. It changes with time and circumstances. They have never seen this kind of energy weapon, so naturally there is no way to make targeted improvements to these magics."

This is the conclusion drawn through experiments. Ryan found that the Iron Armor Spell cleverly arranged magic power to focus on defense against magic attacks and physical attacks. In this case, the user only needs to pay a little magic power to achieve a nearly perfect defense. However, this ingenious magic power structure that has been studied through thousands of trials and tribulations also makes it difficult for Ryan to improve this spell at his current level.

Despite this, in order to prepare for future improvements to the spell, Ryan and Hermione spent three days blowing up nearly a hundred targets and collecting enough data.

In addition, Ryan also fed Xiaoqing the blood-red amber that was made by alchemy and sealed Selina's prototype.

After turning into a snake, Xiaoqing swallowed the amber. Soon, it connected with Ryan's soul and told Ryan that it needed a large place, and what it had just eaten was prompting it to evolve.

Evolution? Xiaoqing's words shocked Ryan. As a pet he had cultivated before, Ryan himself had no idea how a creature like Xiaoqing, which was considered unique in the world, could grow.

Because of this, Ryan was very happy when he learned that Xiaoqing would evolve. After all, a brutal war had broken out. In this situation, getting a new and powerful helper was very good news for Ryan.

So he immediately took Xiaoqing to the edge of the cleaned up glowing sea, because it had said before that the radiation had no harm to it. And this uninhabited place could prevent it from losing control and hurting others during the evolution process.

After arriving at the designated location, Ryan placed Xiaoqing on the ground. After Xiaoqing touched the ground, it changed its previous snake shape and turned into a large group of tangled vines. Then it quickly spread out with this as the core. After 15 minutes, when the vines stopped expanding, Ryan was surprised to find that he was standing on a green field of vines as big as four football fields.

"My master, let's see each other in six months." After Xiaoqing said the last sentence, he fell into hibernation. Ryan set up several defensive spells around and told his subordinates to keep an eye on this place and not let anyone in. Then he left the place while praying silently in his heart.

After everything was done, Ryan and Hermione said goodbye to the scientists who were busy because of the large amount of things delivered this time, and then returned to the Grocery Store of All Worlds.

"We have figured out some of the runes about space this time. I think we should start researching right away and we will soon come up with results." Ryan originally planned to go back to Hogwarts Castle to rest, but Hermione put forward her own opinion. She didn't want to postpone this most important matter any longer.

"Okay." Ryan nodded helplessly. Facing someone as serious and hardworking as Hermione, Ryan felt that he did need to work harder sometimes.

(End of this chapter)