The Shopkeeper of All Worlds in the British Wizarding World

Chapter 57: The Giant Beast on the Clearing
No matter what happens, panicking is useless. Ryan took a few deep breaths to calm himself down, and then his brain started to work quickly.

Suddenly he saw a lot of rocks near the surrounding mountain walls. They should be the rubble eroded by the glaciers here. There were a lot of these rocks, of different sizes, and they were all angular. Seeing these stones, an idea quickly formed in his mind.

"Wingardium Leviosa." Ryan chanted a levitation spell to a stone half his height. Then he floated the stone above the altar and canceled the spell.

The stone quickly smashed down from the height of a three-story building onto a mummy, causing it to stagger and its strange howling stopped. This also caused the rhythm of the flashing light on the altar, which was like breathing, to suddenly become disrupted.

Seeing that this trick was effective, Ryan used his magic wand to find more stones from everywhere and smashed them on the altar. It was very likely that the altar had no extra energy to resist, and the monsters could only endure the smash. This also caused the blood ball, which was flashing brighter and brighter, to slowly turn dim.

The mummy on the altar discovered this situation, but because the ceremony was in progress, he could not command other monsters to attack Ryan.

Seeing that the ceremony was about to fail, the four mummies on the altar suddenly inserted their claws into their chests, and wisps of black and red smoke floated out from their chests and flew towards the baseball-sized blood ball in the air.

Following the mummy's actions, the monsters under the altar also changed. Soon they completely disintegrated, turning into a torrent of blood and flesh that flowed up the altar along the steps around the altar.

This situation was obviously an extremely evil sacrifice, and Ryan tried to interrupt the process. But when the sacrifice began, a transparent blood-red barrier rose on the altar, repelling all the stones thrown later.

Ryan saw that he had no other choice but to retreat to the mountain path at the entrance of the clearing, holding the magic wand in one hand and the spare grappling hook in the other. After all, he couldn't even handle the small monster just now, not to mention that a big one might appear next. So using the mountain path just now to fight became Ryan's only option.

As time went by, the blood-red mist around them became thicker and thicker. The monsters on the altar changed: the flesh and blood of the spliced ​​monster wrapped around the blood ball to form a huge blood-red cocoon, and the mist from the mummy's chest drifted towards the blood-red cocoon.

As the mist slowly flew from the chest of the mummy to the blood cocoon, the mummies also quickly weathered, and finally all the mummies turned into ashes. At the same time, the blood cocoon emitted a dazzling light, forcing Ryan to close his eyes.

After the light, Ryan saw that almost everything on the altar had disappeared, leaving only a giant blood-red wolf standing upright. It looked nearly two stories tall, and its sharp teeth kept dripping saliva, corroding small pits on the stone altar.

The giant wolf howled to the sky, and then cast its malicious gaze towards where Ryan was hiding. Ryan's pupils shrank, and his newly acquired sixth sense could sense the giant wolf's strong killing intent towards him.

This is a fight to the death. Ryan smiled bitterly. It was obvious that he had figured out what happened today. His actions near the altar might have awakened the long-dormant altar, which was originally intended to awaken a monster. However, Ryan intervened and destroyed part of the awakening ceremony. It was very likely that the monster did not wake up as planned, which led to its fight to the death with Ryan.

"I was just taking a vacation, how could I run into such a mess?" Seeing the giant wolf ready to pounce, Ryan quickly used ropes and grappling hooks to swing on the surrounding mountain walls to avoid the giant wolf's attack.

The giant wolf was extremely agile, and could even use its claws to hook onto the stone wall to move on the nearly vertical cliff. While dodging, Ryan also used various methods to fight back, but they were all ineffective. The magic that hit the wolf was like a drop in the ocean, with no effect. Only the flames of the fire dragon grass and the sunlight crystals could produce lethality, but each time it only left a shallow scorch mark on the wolf's fur, and it would recover in a few breaths.

Fortunately, in addition to its amazing defense and strength, this wolf didn't even seem to have the basic intelligence of a wolf. There were some places that could have been avoided, but this wolf was so stubborn that it just smashed through the rocks and rushed over. This also allowed Ryan to avoid the giant wolf's attack by turning several times while escaping.

Seeing that the wolf had smashed through at least seven or eight stone walls and was still chasing him, Ryan wondered if every evil force with a bit of power had the same idea when faced with sudden changes in the original plan.

Get rid of those who are in the way.

Whether it was Tom Riddle from the Triwizard Tournament or some monster who left this backup plan for this altar, the first priority was to kill the guy who suddenly jumped out.

Even though this giant wolf had obviously lost its intelligence due to an error in the ritual, it still couldn't bear to leave Ryan, as if its only goal since birth was to kill Ryan.

The giant wolf, having lost its intelligence, made all of Ryan's methods of disruption ineffective; it ignored everything else and focused on chasing and attacking Ryan.

Ryan felt that this was not a solution. After all, he was a human, not a robot, and he couldn't stay tired all the time. And looking at the muscles on the giant wolf's body, he knew that Ryan would definitely not be his opponent in a physical endurance competition.

At this time he had no choice but to take a risk. Ryan discovered from his observations that although the giant wolf kept waving its front paws, it did not swing with all its strength every time. On average, only one out of five times would leave scratches on the stone, and Ryan felt that he could withstand the other four times even with his Iron Armor Spell.

He had to take a gamble now, because Ryan couldn't afford to waste time, but the success rate of the plan was not too low. Even if he failed, there was an 80% chance that he would not be killed instantly, so he could give it a try. Although Ryan was almost certain that he was in a lucid dream, in the magical world, sometimes people could be killed in dreams, and he didn't want to be a victim of such a strange dream.

Thinking of this, Ryan slowed down, and something slipped into his right hand. The giant wolf noticed that Ryan had slowed down and attacked without hesitation.

Ryan was hanging in the air by the rope at this time, and there was no way to avoid the giant wolf's claws in this narrow range of attack. So he simply cast an armor spell on himself and let go of the rope and fell straight to the ground.

The giant wolf's instinctive reaction was not slow either. After seeing its attack miss, it did not retract its attack, but instead slid its claws downwards.

Because of this swipe, the giant wolf also exhausted the kinetic energy it had just accumulated. This move was blocked by Ryan with the Iron Armor Curse, but when the distance was shortened, the giant wolf opened its big mouth and bit Ryan.

(End of this chapter)