The Shopkeeper of All Worlds in the British Wizarding World

Chapter 579 Ceremony
After hearing Ryan's instructions, Hermione obediently walked to the other side of the grocery store and sat down, looking at Ryan. Ryan nodded seriously, turned around, took a deep breath at the alchemy array, and then began to throw those gray balls condensed from souls into the alchemy array.

At this time, the four light balls on the alchemy array were spinning at a speed that exceeded the limit of human vision under Ryan's control, and looked like a white halo floating on the alchemy array. After entering the white halo, the gray balls spun rapidly as if they were in a centrifuge, emitting a wisp of gray mist in all directions.

The mist was constantly attracted by the white halo, and finally merged into the halo and became part of it, while the gray balls became smaller and smaller. Whenever a gray ball disappeared, Ryan would immediately throw the next ball in.

During this process, Ryan felt that he appeared in a desolate land. The sky was covered with dark clouds, and the rusty red sky occasionally appeared in the gaps between the clouds. The earth was the same color as the sky, and it was also dead silent. The earth was covered with cracks, the widest of which was as thick as a little finger, and the narrowest was only as thin as a hair. You could vaguely see dark red magma rolling under some of the cracks. Only the extremely sparse dead branches of small shrubs stood on the earth, like desperate hands reaching towards the sky.

Ryan was walking on the land at this time, but he could feel that his real body was just like a machine, dropping the gray ball into the center of the alchemy array.

This feeling of one soul and two bodies made Ryan feel a little new, but he soon discovered that he could not control the body outside.

"This is the key to soul transformation." Ryan thought of Mr. Luo Zhen's advice and the fragmentary record of Nicolas Flamel on this matter that he had seen at Dumbledore's place. However, just as Mr. Luo Zhen had told him before, the situations encountered by each person during soul transformation were completely different, so Ryan could only rely on himself at this time.

After Ryan took a few steps, he suddenly felt pain in his feet. He lowered his head and saw a group of ant-sized gray smoke figures trying to poke him with hair-sized spikes. He just moved his feet forward slightly, and the gray smoke figures were completely destroyed and turned into a ball of gray smoke. Then, some extremely tiny light spots appeared in the gray smoke and sank into his body, while the rest of his body quickly dissipated between the sky and the earth.

Ryan could feel that after this transformation, he seemed to have established a very weak connection with this space. He immediately realized that this should be the necessary process for transformation, a process of change from body to soul. And now this space, which may be an illusion, is a concrete manifestation of Ryan's mastery of the alchemy rules.

"The core of the rule of alchemy should be change, so I should start from this aspect." Ryan thought about it and determined his direction. "But my illusion shows a world, even if this world does not look big. This shows that this rule is very powerful, and it will be extremely difficult to master this rule."

He began to walk on the ground, and then he realized that the small shrubs he had seen before were actually tall trees in equal proportions. Combined with the tiny cracks in the ground and the even smaller gray smoke man he had just seen, he felt that he might have turned into a giant, or come to a small country.

In the following time, Ryan followed his inner guidance and walked around to destroy every little man made of gray smoke that he encountered. Fortunately, these little men appeared in the same place, so he didn't have to look for them everywhere. Through this process, he found that those little men were actually the souls that had just been thrown into the alchemy array. When each soul merged into this world, Ryan could also feel the suppression of this world on himself.

As these souls were constantly destroyed, the power seeped into the surrounding space bit by bit, and Ryan slowly found that his connection with the surrounding space was getting stronger and stronger. He could slowly analyze the surrounding space and even began to manipulate part of the power to transform the space.

As the balls were continuously thrown into the alchemy array, Ryan saw more and more mysterious patterns flashing in this dead world. Some of them looked complete, while others looked incomplete. However, as time went by, the incomplete patterns were slowly completed, and more new patterns were born.

Finally, when all 100 small balls were integrated into the halo on the alchemy array, Ryan heard a sound from the deepest part of his soul, just like the first sound of ice breaking when the frozen river thawed in spring. Everything in front of him changed instantly. Ryan found that no matter where he looked, whether it was the ground, trees, or clouds. As long as he slightly concentrated his will, he could find that these things became purely composed of mysterious pictures and texts. At the same time, the suppression of this world on him also reached its peak.

"The next step is the most difficult one." Ryan thought after determining his current situation. After integrating the knowledge of several worlds, he did not want to simply master the rules like Dumbledore or Grindelwald, but hoped to go one step further so that he could break through the power limitations of the Harry Potter world in the future and reach higher places.

This is why he is completing this ritual in the Wanjie Grocery Store, because for Ryan, only this place is the world that truly belongs to him. At the same time, this place that can connect all the worlds is also the world with the highest power limit that he knows, which can lay the best foundation for his further development and mastery of higher power in the future. Of course, other people will not have this worry, because they don't know that there are other worlds at all, so naturally there is no way to talk about the so-called world selection.

Ryan began to communicate with the world around him, letting his energy slowly blend into the surrounding environment, while doing his best to strengthen his soul and maintain himself. As the energy was exchanged, his resonance with the surrounding world became stronger and stronger. Finally, his body suddenly turned into golden dust and flew everywhere. Everything that the dust passed by turned into a metallic gray mist.

At this time, Hermione in the Wanjie Grocery Store suddenly put down the book in her hand and stood up, because she felt that Ryan's life breath suddenly became looming. Fortunately, her soul connection with Ryan did not change. This made her worry and observe Ryan carefully for a long time, and finally breathed a sigh of relief after discovering that Ryan was not in any danger.

Just as Hermione continued to sit back in her original position, quietly flipping through the book and waiting for Ryan, the magical world had completely turned into a ball of gray mist, and in the center of the mist was a blood-red ball with countless runes constantly flowing.

"Now is the last step, to truly master my own path." Ryan began to recall the mysterious patterns he had just seen, "Transformation, change, and then - the birth of a new world."

As this thought came to mind, a faint light appeared in the endless gray fog. It was like the first ray of sunlight on the horizon at dawn. However, the light here was blood red. Countless rays of light radiated from the blood-colored ball in the center of the gray fog in all directions, piercing through the gray fog and bathing everything around in the blood-colored light.

As time went by, the blood-colored ball with runes slowly turned into a door. Then, as the gray mist continued to pour into the door, it became larger and larger, and finally a blood-colored door stood in the void. At the same time, the blood-colored ball floating in Ryan's mind in his real body also changed at the same time. After absorbing the spiritual power and magic power in his body, it also turned into a blood-colored door.

When the two doors took shape at the same time, the blood-red door in the void jumped out from the endless darkness and appeared in Ryan's mind, and then merged into one with the door in his mind.

Suddenly, Ryan felt his soul being injected into his body again, bringing with it a powerful force. His whole body felt an unprecedented sense of relaxation.

At this moment, Ryan opened his eyes. The first thing he saw was a pink gem the size of a newborn baby's fist appearing on the alchemy array in front of him: Our Lady of the Rose was born.

(End of this chapter)