The Shopkeeper of All Worlds in the British Wizarding World

Chapter 59 The final truth
The surviving humans built the last altar near this volcano, which is the one Ryan saw. This is also the only surviving altar in Iceland, and the other altars were destroyed in the war.

They first used this altar to communicate with the surrounding environment. Later, except for the wizard and his disciples, everyone else committed suicide with hatred and desecrated the altar. The altar was transformed from a natural altar into a blood altar.

Using the resentment of lost lives, the Viking wizard communicated with the powerful energy contained in the underground of the nearby volcano, and contaminated and channeled this power through a makeshift blood altar.

After absorbing this contaminated power, the wizard and his disciples temporarily gained powerful strength, which opened the barrier between the world where Ryan was now and the real world in one fell swoop. Then this powerful force brought the wizards and those magical creatures to this world.

As the barrier was broken, except for this small area, the rest of the space was filled with powerful space turbulence. Most of the magical creatures were caught in the space turbulence and died, while the rest fought a tragic battle with the wizards.

Finally, the Viking wizard swallowed the only treasure he had taken with him when he left his homeland: the blood of a mythical giant wolf. He turned into a giant wolf and died together with the few remaining most powerful magical creatures.

As time went by, the spatial turbulence subsided. But the dead souls still wandered in this world. Ryan released a large number of sunlight crystals and various plants in the real world. The powerful vitality activated the resentful souls in this world. After the resentful souls woke up, they performed ritual magic according to their obsessions in the previous life, and brought Ryan in.

Because they were vengeful spirits, they just instinctively attacked all living creatures. Ryan had to fight them for this reason.

Ryan also discovered that this world was between reality and illusion, but it was more like the soul world. So plants like his could not be released in this world, and his body was affected by the age of his soul and became about 20 years old.

After absorbing this memory, Ryan woke up. He lamented the hardships and sacrifices of mankind in creating the mountains and forests. He dug a pit under the altar to bury the remains he could find, and then bowed three times respectfully. He expressed his respect for these human pioneers. Although he did not agree with the wizard's behavior of sacrificing his compatriots and killing them wantonly.

Obviously, the first group of humans who landed on the island died, and more than 90% of the magical creatures on the island were also killed. This allowed the later humans to successfully take root on the island. Although due to the effect of magic, the later humans have forgotten that there was a group of humans who landed on the island before them and all died. (With the navigation technology of that era, it was very normal for a ship to disappear without a trace after going out to sea.)
Maybe their hometowns thought they had died at sea in a shipwreck. After all, that was an era without the Floo Network, Apparition, and even the flying broom. For wizards, traveling far away was no safer than for ordinary people. No matter wizards or Muggles, they were equally vulnerable in the face of nature.

After lamenting the lost truth, Ryan began to carefully recall the memories he had just absorbed, trying to find a way to leave here. As a result, when he was sorting out his memories, he found that he had a new gain, which was the life magic mastered by the Viking wizard.

Yes, life magic, not the undead magic as imagined. The Viking wizard was called a shaman in that era, a wizard who communicated with nature and life and death to gain power. However, due to his madness during his lifetime, all the magic that communicated with nature was annihilated, leaving only the life magic related to life and death.

The life magic he mastered was divided into body and soul. Ryan read the inheritance carefully and discovered that in fact, these life magics themselves did not have any tendencies, but were the embodiment of the power of life and death.

If used for good purposes, this magic can heal the sick, strengthen oneself, soothe the soul, and drive away evil spirits. It can even have a strong killing power against all twisted and unnatural life. But once it is used for evil, this magic can enslave souls, drive corpses, and even create countless twisted monsters, such as the spliced ​​monsters made of meat and blood that I have seen here, which are one of them.

Ryan originally thought that these monsters were extremely evil, and he was extremely disgusted with the magic that caused all this. But after carefully looking at these things, Ryan hesitated. He was undecided about whether to learn these magics. On the one hand, he was eager for power, and on the other hand, he was afraid of the consequences that might be caused if he lost control.

After a brief thought, Ryan decided to accept this knowledge. After all, he now controls the Universal Grocery Store, and will see countless worlds and countless powers in the future. Looking ahead and behind will definitely lead to nothing.

Moreover, he found that this power was not an evil power. Instead, it showed different manifestations depending on the user's inclination. Most of the magic Ryan learned at Hogwarts belonged to this aspect, so there was no need to worry too much.

For example, everyday spells like the Levitation Charm may seem safe, but if you use this spell to float a person and then remove the spell, the effect will be no different from the Killing Curse.

This is in line with an old proverb Ryan had heard in his previous life: Never throw the baby out with the bathwater.

After figuring out this problem, Ryan began to study the contents of this world in the inheritance so that he could return to the real world.

This world was not the world created by the Viking wizard as Ryan imagined, but the wizard used the power of nature to block a small piece of the original world for his own use. Now, with the passage of time and the disappearance of the resentful souls inside, the power of the blockade gradually dissipated, making it much easier for Ryan to leave.

The essence of this world is actually a spiritual world composed of the consciousness of all natural life, and it is also the main component of world consciousness or Gaia consciousness. This world is not dead, and many spiritual beings live here.

Some wizards who are sensitive to spirits or nature can easily enter this world. Even some Muggles may enter this world under certain coincidences. Many myths are compiled by ordinary people after entering the world and seeing what happens in this world.

After accepting the inheritance, Ryan quickly mastered the method of entering and leaving this world. After making a gesture and reciting a spell, Ryan successfully left this world.

(End of this chapter)