The Shopkeeper of All Worlds in the British Wizarding World

Chapter 648 Protocol and Traps

"——This agreement is not bad. We just need to pay some unimportant marginal knowledge. But we can get a certain amount of potions we urgently need every month. Besides that, the most important thing is that we can transfer the wounded who need complex magical protection and treatment. After all, St. Mungo's is no longer safe now, and everything in the new location is a bit shabby." After carefully reading the final signed agreement, Lucius commented seriously.

"It's just a way for French wizards to keep the enemy out of the country. As the most open-minded country in Europe in terms of bloodline, they definitely don't want to have neighbors like the You-Know-Who. In this case, we pay with blood and lives, and they pay with money and manpower. This is fair." Ryan said, "Even if we don't pay anything, they will give these things in the end. But in order to maintain a good relationship between the two sides, it's better for us to pay something."

"You are right." Lucius said, "I must retract some of my previous prejudices. Although you are Muggle-born, you have a more accurate view of the current situation than most pure-blood wizards."

After hearing this, Ryan and Hermione smiled at each other. The reason why they could see so accurately was not because of their high talent, but because they had accumulated rich experience after ruling over more than 1000 million people in several worlds.

In the following week, Ryan and Hermione began their exchange activities in Beauxbatons. After discussing with the French alchemists, both sides gained a lot. In addition, they also attended several banquets to keep in touch.

Of course, they also encountered people sent by the Ministry of Magic in London at the banquet. Although both sides wanted to strangle each other, fortunately, neither Ryan nor the Ministry of Magic personnel sent over were the kind of fanatics who could not control themselves. So they were able to remain calm on the French territory.

In addition, Ryan and Hermione also went to multiple worlds to stockpile a large amount of supplies. After knowing that the special envoy this time was Lucius Malfoy, they made a big action plan.

Lucius Malfoy did not participate in these activities. During this period, he had been secretly contacting pure-blood wizards in France and individual British exiles for the Hogsmeade Ministry of Magic and Hogwarts. Ryan's public activities during this period were actually to cover up for Lucius from a certain perspective.

When the week was over and they were preparing to return, Lucius also showed his results. Thanks to his activities, the trade with Europe that had been completely cut off was reopened. Although the volume was only 1/5 of the past, at least the imminent problem had been successfully solved.

After the celebration on Friday, Ryan and his team also ended their visit and prepared to return to Hogwarts. However, unlike when they came, when they returned, in addition to using their space equipment to purchase urgently needed supplies, they also made some changes to the way they returned.

After saying goodbye to Madam Maxime, Ryan and his companions took the Beauxbatons carriage back to the landing point when they came to France. After watching the Beauxbatons escort drive the carriage away, Ryan took out the saddle from his space pocket and unloaded the Thestral from the carriage.

"Are we going to ride the Thestrals back now?" Lucius Malfoy asked in confusion. "I clearly learned from my son that -"

"No, no, no, it's just that the two of us will ride the Thestrals back, and you only need to pay one hair." Ryan waved his finger at Lucius, then looked at his shiny light golden hair.

"What are you going to do--" Lucius suddenly figured something out, and after saying the beginning, he looked around cautiously and changed the subject. "Then I wish you all the best."

"Thank you for your blessing." Ryan nodded to Malfoy, and then Hermione walked up and disappeared with Malfoy. Ryan opened the space door and summoned the rose crystal.

"Good morning, brother." Rose Crystal walked out of the space door and gracefully saluted Ryan with her skirt, then raised her head. "It's nice to fight side by side with you again." "I'm glad to hear you say that." Ryan opened the space door and took out a puppet of himself. "You will enter this puppet and pretend to be me in a while, but you can give up this disguise once you encounter the enemy."

"Understood." Rose Crystal nodded and got into the puppet. A few seconds later, the Ryan puppet opened its eyes.

"Are you ready?" At this moment, there was a sudden snapping sound nearby, and Hermione came out from the thin smoke. At this time, she had sent old Malfoy back to Hogwarts and promised that Lucius Malfoy would not appear in front of anyone before they returned.

"Okay." Ryan said as he took the platinum half-long hair from Hermione's hand and put it in his mouth, turning into the appearance of Lucius Malfoy. Then he took out a set of clothes that was the same as the one Lucius Malfoy was wearing just now and put them on.

"Put on this traveling cloak." Hermione threw a gorgeous velvet cloak over. "This is what old Malfoy gave me just now. He thought it would be difficult for you to disguise his temperament, so he asked you to put on this traveling cloak and put on the hood, so that the intercepting people can't see your face. Also, the first spell he would use when he met the enemy was the Killing Curse."

"Killing Curse, luckily I can use a new spell I learned to pretend this time." Ryan put on the travel cloak and put the hood on his head. After dressing up, he saw that his puppet controlled by Hermione and Rose Crystal also put on a similar cloak.

"Let's go!" With Ryan's order, the three Thestrals, who had taken off their horse clothes, flapped their dragon-like wings and flew up. The climbing speed of this creature was not much worse than that of an ordinary flying broom. Soon Ryan found that the clearing in the forest where he took off had turned into a vast green forest.

"Do you think someone will really kill us today?" The wind in the sky was so strong that it was hard to open one's mouth, so Hermione simply asked Ryan through the Phoenix Mark. "It's not a comfortable thing to fly against the wind for five or six hours for nothing."

"I will definitely do that." Ryan said, staring at the blue sky ahead. "Don't forget that the Malfoy family is now at the top of the list of people that the You-Know-Who wants to kill. Although Lucius did pay attention to secrecy when he contacted those people a few days ago, he contacted too many people. In this case, he definitely couldn't hide the fact that he was traveling with the two of us."

"So, the You-Know-Who and his men will definitely ambush us, because for the You-Know-Who, letting a traitor like Malfoy live there is a great provocation to him. It may even shake his foundation, because the You-Know-Who relies on strength and brutality to control his subordinates. Once he shows any signs of weakness, his rule will immediately lose stability."

"I feel it." Hermione suddenly said at this time, "There is a strange bird following us about five or six hundred meters behind us. It should be the attacker's spy."

The power of death made Hermione more sensitive to living creatures than ordinary people, so the magical creature, which was at most the size of a ping-pong ball, could not hide her whereabouts.

"They won't attack now. This is France. An attack here may lead to unexpected events. I guess they will take action after we leave the French border for a while. But it's better this way. When no one is watching, we can use many things more conveniently." Ryan said to Hermione after concentrating his mental power to scan the place he pointed out. He found that the one following them was a bird similar to the Golden Snidget, but its feathers were all black, as if it was under a curse.

"Let's fly a little higher up the clouds. Since we're camouflaged, it's better to make it more realistic." After making sure they were being monitored, Ryan and his team climbed above the clouds and flew westward.

(End of this chapter)