The Shopkeeper of All Worlds in the British Wizarding World

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In the following practice, the members of the reading club showed the results of their recent training through magic demonstrations. Ryan felt that everyone present had made great progress during this period and had mastered the real way of fighting. The only shortcoming was the lack of actual combat experience.

However, there is no way to train for practical experience right now, so Ryan can only look for ways to help everyone as much as possible from other directions.

So in the remaining time, Ryan and Hermione took turns to conduct one-on-one combat exercises with the members of the reading club, hoping to make up for this shortcoming as much as possible. In addition to one-on-one combat exercises, everyone also practiced team cooperation of two to three people. They learned to cover each other and prevent the enemy from attacking their comrades' backs during battle.

After the curfew bell rang, the members of the reading club left the classroom in twos and threes, exhausted but excited. Ryan and Hermione were the last to clean up the place. When everyone left the classroom, Hermione asked, "I feel like you're a little anxious. Can you tell me what happened recently?"

"According to my judgment, the intensity of the war is likely to increase greatly in the next few months. Because Lupin told me last week that on the one hand, the number of wizards entering Southeast Europe, especially those from Greece and Turkey, has increased significantly. A wizard in charge of border inspection told him that many of these wizards are dark wizards. On the other hand, the number of inexplicable disappearances and attacks has been much less than before."

"Isn't it because Rose Crystal and the others destroyed the Dementors last time that they backed off?" Hermione asked curiously.

"No." Ryan shook his head. "The rose crystal destroying the Dementors can only curb the disorderly attacks of the Death Eaters, and the attacks directed by the You-Know-Who will not be reduced. For a dark wizard like the You-Know-Who, do you think he is the kind of person who considers the mood and safety of his subordinates?"

"You mean, the You-Know-Who's power is increasing, but their actions are decreasing?" Hermione showed a thoughtful expression. "You're right, this is indeed abnormal. It seems that they are indeed planning some big action. That's why they are hiding now to accumulate strength."

"It should be like this." Ryan nodded. The incident at the end of last year had warned Ryan that according to the inertia of the plot and everyone's needs, many things were bound to happen. But when these things happened, they might not follow the original plot process.

For example, Malfoy was indeed repairing the Vanishing Cabinet as in the original text, but Professor Dumbledore was intact this year, and it was impossible for him to go to the center of the Black Lake hidden in the cave and drink the poison. In this case, Ryan felt that the attack in the original text might appear in front of everyone in a completely different way, so he recently strengthened the monitoring of the door of the Room of Requirement and the corridor to prevent any major mistakes.

Everything was peaceful in the following days. Ryan and Hermione were improving their strength step by step. Until one day before dinner, when he was studying the application of runes in the alchemy laboratory, Ryan suddenly felt that the red ball of light in his mind began to shrink and expand, beating slowly like a heart.

"Ryan, what's wrong?" Hermione, who was brewing potion, noticed that something was wrong with Ryan, so she asked.

"I think it's time for me to break through." Ryan said to Hermione with a smile after closing his eyes and quietly feeling his physical condition for a while.

"This is fantastic." Hermione clenched her fists and waved them in front of her. "Let's get started now."

"Yeah." Ryan nodded, and then walked into the Wanjie Grocery Store with Hermione. As soon as they entered here, Ryan walked to the alchemy array with four small balls floating and rotating on it, representing earth, water, fire and wind. He felt an unprecedented sense of closeness from this alchemy array.

Ryan immediately penetrated his spirit into the alchemy array and began to manipulate the energy above. Soon, the four small balls began to flicker according to the amplitude of Ryan's heartbeat. Hermione sat quietly on the side and felt the changes in the power in this small space. In the next week, Ryan devoted himself to controlling the energy of this alchemy array except for going to another world to eat and wash. In Hermione's perception, Ryan's resonance with the energy in front of him became stronger and stronger.

After a week, Ryan's resonance with the magic circle finally reached its peak. This also meant that the most important process in the production of the Rose Virgin was about to begin.

"Next is the soul, preferably the soul of a dead intelligent creature." Ryan thought silently as he began to take out one gray ball after another from his side. Each ball contained 1 souls of intelligent creatures at the same level as humans.

In the process of making the Madonna of the Rose and feeling the rules, Ryan did not need to remain silent all the time except for a few times. He even felt that chatting with Hermione would help him maintain a good state of mind. So after Hermione understood what the gray ball was through her own perception, she confirmed that Ryan could speak at this time and asked her own question. "These souls - where do they come from?"

"All the souls here were related to me when they died." Ryan suddenly wanted to make a joke, so he said in a low voice. But Hermione did not react as excitedly as expected, but looked at him with a smile. Her eyes seemed to say: "Don't I know what kind of person you are?"

"Okay, it's like this." Ryan laughed after finding that he didn't surprise Hermione, but he quickly stopped laughing and introduced it seriously. "These mainly come from three worlds. The least part comes from the raiders and mutants that were cleared out in the Fallout world. The second most comes from the world of A Song of Ice and Fire, which are the souls of nomads, slave-owner armies, and pirates killed in the war. The most comes from Mordor and the Misty Mountains in the world of The Lord of the Rings, which are the dirty souls of goblins and orcs. I spent a lot of effort to purify these souls."

"So, this is the souls of 100 million intelligent creatures?" Hermione asked, pointing at the gray balls placed around. "Does the creation of the Philosopher's Stone, or the Madonna of the Rose, require so many souls?"

"Actually, 30 is the minimum." Ryan spread his hands. "But 30 is very risky. Whether it's Mr. Luo Zhen or Nicolas Flamel, I estimate that the souls they used are around 50, and they were all collected from the Black Death that swept across Europe."

"So, you've got a million souls but you don't have the moral guilt that those two might have," Hermione said.

"You could say that this is very helpful for my inner peace. But in a way, I may be more cruel than both of them, because the deaths of these one million souls are all related to me." Ryan whispered, and Hermione keenly discovered that his will seemed to be declining.

"I don't think so." Hermione hugged Ryan from behind after realizing something was wrong, and then said in a decisive tone, "Because I know that if these evil creatures don't die, more truly innocent creatures will die."

"Thank you!" Ryan turned around and grabbed Hermione's hand, then kissed her gently. After their lips parted, Ryan looked into Hermione's eyes and said, "In the situation just now, the fluctuation of magic amplified my mental fluctuations. In fact, my condition was a little dangerous a few minutes ago. Thank you for pulling me back. Next, I can start the most important step."

(End of this chapter)