The Shopkeeper of All Worlds in the British Wizarding World

Chapter 653 Retreat (Please subscribe, please bookmark, please vote)
Ryan and his group, along with more than twenty other people, squeezed into two elevators. The doors closed and the elevators began to rise.

"How long will it take?" Ryan asked, and Hermione raised her hand to look at the hands of her watch and said, "In two minutes and fifteen seconds, the wildfires placed in the Muggle-Born Registration Committee office will explode. In three and a half minutes, the Weasley fireworks that were placed with the bodies will also be ignited."

"The woman in the interrogation room should have gone out to report the news, which should create some chaos. The only thing is that we hope she doesn't go out too early to report the news, so that the higher-ups can completely block the exit." Ryan analyzed. "If everything goes well, we only need to hold on for five or six minutes after we go up, and twenty people can finish the job quickly."

"Eighth floor," just as Ryan finished speaking, everyone with a wand nervously held their wands and prepared themselves. Suddenly, a witch's cold voice in the elevator said, "Main Hall."

"Hurry up, rush to the fireplace. Don't look back if there's any movement." Looking at the large group of people in the hall, Ryan knew that it was absolutely impossible to sneak out with so many people this time. Fortunately, the killing in the courtroom just now may have really scared the survivor, and the courtroom was located in a remote place and no one noticed it. So when they ran into the hall smoothly, everything in the hall was normal, and there was no difference from before.

Along the way, many people found it strange that so many people were queuing up to run into the hall, but under Voldemort's rule, there were many strange things, and if you want to live well, you have to learn not to meddle in other people's business, so no one stood up to ask what they were doing.

The hall was a little darker than when Ryan had been there before. Originally, there was a golden fountain in the center, casting spots of light on the polished wooden floor and walls. Now, a huge black stone statue occupied the center. On top of this giant stone statue, a witch and a wizard sat on ornately carved thrones, overlooking the entire hall. At the bottom of the stone statue were several one-foot-high characters engraved: Magic is power.

"Voldemort is such an honest man, daring to carve such a truth on stone." Ryan thought after reading these words. "But from this point, it can also be seen that Voldemort is not a qualified Dark Lord. A real Dark Lord should be like Grindelwald, who would use high-sounding slogans like overthrowing the unreasonable Statute of Secrecy to gather people's hearts even if he is doing evil things."

Ryan was not idle while thinking about these things. At his and Hermione's call, these Muggle-born wizards went into the fireplace in an orderly manner and disappeared in pairs. The wizards of the Ministry of Magic stood hesitantly on the side, some with confused faces, some with fear and dissatisfaction, but seeing that Ryan and his group were numerous and organized, they just watched.

Just after two-thirds of the people had successfully passed through the fireplace and left, the hall finally became agitated. Several strikers in gray uniforms touched a metal button on their collars at the same time, then their faces changed and they ran towards the fireplace with their wands raised. They shouted as they ran. "Stop them, they are the Mudbloods who escaped from the court and just killed Abbott, the head of the Muggle-Born Registration Committee."

"Wow--" Different from what the strikers had imagined, the group of wizards who had been surrounding the area did not rush to catch the Mudbloods as they had imagined, but instead ran away screaming, even the wizard who had been loudly insulting the Mudbloods just now was no exception.

"A bunch of idiots." Ryan complained in his heart. If these attackers just said that the Muggle wizards escaped, many people would come to hinder Ryan and his men. In that case, even if these ordinary wizards were not strong, they could still cause a lot of trouble.

But now the group of strikers directly shouted that this group of people could kill Abbott, the director of the Muggle-Born Registration Committee in court. This news was too exciting for these ordinary people working in the Ministry of Magic. For them, it was no problem to deal with those escaped Muggle-born wizards whom they usually looked down upon, but if it was the kind of powerful and brutal wizard who could directly kill the director of the Muggle-Born Registration Committee in court, they would have to forget it.

After seeing that the staff in front of them did not stop the group of puff wizards as expected, the strikers had to speed up their pace. However, they soon stopped because both their own shadows and the wooden floor were doing their best to hinder their progress.

"Keep running, don't stop." Ryan shouted loudly to the stunned Muggle wizards, and then waved his wand to make wooden spikes appear on the smooth wooden floor and attack the strikers, while Hermione also manipulated the shadows of these people to turn into claws or ropes to hinder their progress. After seeing this scene, several strikers began to cast various spells at Ryan and his men, and after dodging a killing curse, Ryan released a finger of death to kill the guy who blocked his way.

After seeing their companions being killed, the other strikers slowed down their pace and the spells they cast became much less frequent. This calmed the remaining Muggleborn wizards down, and they bent over and trotted to retreat in accordance with the plan. After 15 seconds, the remaining eight Muggleborn wizards all successfully retreated along the fireplace.

Just after the last Muggle wizard left, a middle-aged wizard wearing a gorgeous, flowing robe inlaid with gold thread ran over from the direction of the elevator. Unfortunately, his gloomy and slightly cruel face did not match his gorgeous clothes.

"Catch those two little guys, don't let them run away." The gloomy wizard shouted in a sharp voice. "Otherwise none of you will escape the punishment of the Dark Lord today. Of course, if you can catch or kill them, the Dark Lord will give you enough rewards."

"The prerequisite is that they can survive until then." Ryan also shouted in a loud voice. "Besides, even Voldemort can't kill them all, of course I can't either, but I can still kill whoever rushes to the front."

After that, Ryan shot out another death finger, and the striker who rushed in the front was hit in the face by the green light and fell backwards. Behind him, a wooden thorn came out from the floor and pierced into the back of his head and came out from his left eye socket.

After seeing this scene, the morale of all the strikers who had just caught up with them, which had been boosted by rewards and threats, immediately withered as if a bucket of cold water had been poured on their faces. No matter how the gloomy wizard encouraged them, threatened them, or even cast the Cruciatus Curse on one person, the others still stayed where they were and hesitated.

"It seems that even if you occupy the Ministry of Magic, you still can't get rid of the smell of sewer rats on you." Ryan saw this scene and said sarcastically, then raised his wand and shot a pink spell at the large statue in the hall.

After being hit by the spell, the statue collapsed as fast as sand. In the billowing dust of the collapsed statue, Ryan pulled Hermione and Rose Crystal into the fireplace. After spinning for a few seconds, they were ejected from a flush toilet.

"How much do wizards love toilets?" Ryan complained. When Hogwarts was rebuilt, the Gaunt family hid the entrance to the Chamber of Secrets in the toilet, and the Ministry of Magic also hid the entrance in the toilet.

"That's because the toilet is well hidden, and no one will pay attention to what is going on in the next cubicle?" Hermione shrugged, then listened nervously to the movements around her.

According to the plan, they were going to ambush here again. On the one hand, they wanted to destroy the enemy's manpower as much as possible, and on the other hand, they wanted to create enough chaos to help those Muggle wizards run further.

(End of this chapter)