The Shopkeeper of All Worlds in the British Wizarding World

Chapter 678: Secret Chamber (Additional chapter for book lovers)
"Something is wrong, but it's not that the defense is lax, but there are many contradictions in the defense." Ryan held Hermione and flew forward while explaining to Jill who was floating beside him, "In terms of the number of defenders, there are indeed too few people here, but the set of magic props used for vigilance that I saw in the guard room just now is expensive and difficult to deal with. If I hadn't mastered alchemy proficiently, ordinary wizards would not be able to prevent the news from leaking out even if they could kill the guards in the guard room."

"So why is it?" Hermione frowned slightly, "Why did the Death Eaters choose to wait for orders far away and be ready to rush here at any time when they knew that this place was very important?"

"That's why I said this place is full of weirdness." Jill nodded solemnly. "So we must be vigilant when we go there. I'm worried that this is an important place with as few people as possible, and they are conducting some dangerous magic experiments."

In less than a minute, Ryan and his team flew to the hill behind the warehouse. Ryan thought that the reason these people dug a pit here was because this was the only place in the entire manor where a huge space could be dug out of the stone ground. However, for Ryan and his team, this made it easier for them to monitor this suspicious location.

"There is absolutely no magical reaction that should exist here, but in this situation, the lack of reaction is the most abnormal situation." Ryan said after releasing the reconnaissance ball again and flying around the small house. "If one of the reconnaissance balls released had not had an ultrasonic detection device, I would not even be able to find that there is a huge space under the room in this place."

"Then we have to thank the wizards, especially the pure-blood wizards who are not interested in technologies that have nothing to do with magic." Hermione said quietly while looking at the house at the foot of the mountain. "Otherwise, they wouldn't have left such a big loophole for us to catch."

"What should we do next?" Rose Crystal asked impatiently. "Should we directly attack the warehouse and its attached underground space, or do we have other plans?"

"Well, you are the fastest flyer among us, so go and place these magic gems on the magic nodes of the entire plantation first. After you have placed them all, we will act together." After saying that, Ryan marked several important points through the soul connection and passed them to Rose Crystal, then took out a palm-sized bag and handed it to her.

Rose Quartz opened the pocket and found that the leather bag was filled with bean-sized gems of various colors, and in the middle of each gem there was a rune that seemed to be formed by light.

"Are all these beautiful gems going to be used up this time?" Rose Crystal said with some pain in her heart. Maybe because of her name, Rose Crystal, who was named after the gem, had a special love for these shiny things. So she felt a little bit painful to use these gems as disposable items.

"Sometimes, in order to achieve our goals, we always have to pay something." Ryan touched Rose Quartz's little head, "If you really like these things, next time you can go directly to my treasure house to look for them. There are many more gems there than here."

"It's not that I want the gems, I just felt a little sad." After saying that, Rose Crystal tied the bag tightly and flew into the sky. "I will be back soon after I put these things away. You just need to wait for a while."

Rose Crystal moved quickly, and she flew back only five minutes later. At this time, Ryan also roughly determined the number of people in the room by observing the ultrasonic information transmitted by the reconnaissance ball.

"I'm back, and everything has been placed in the designated places." Rose Crystal said after descending from the sky. "There are warning magics in those designated locations, but luckily I'm not a human and won't trigger those magics at all."

"Thank you for your hard work." Ryan nodded to Rose Crystal and asked him to sit next to him. "Now that everyone is here, let's arrange the next task. Based on the investigation just now, we can confirm that--"

"That is to say, it is confirmed that there are at least three people staying in such a small house on the ground, and it is still uncertain how many people are in the space below." Rose Crystal looked at the others in surprise. "You are right, there is indeed something wrong with this place." "So we must be absolutely cautious, and even need to assume that the mysterious man himself is inside." After Ryan finished speaking, he took out a few amulets from his space bag and distributed them to the ladies. After seeing that they had taken them, he waved his hand, and then the four of them set off together. However, they did not go straight to the only entrance and exit of the room below, but flew to the roof of the house with the help of magic.

"There are a few defensive spells, but they are not a big deal." Ryan said after sensing the roof. He quickly lifted the magic on the roof and let everyone fall down. Hermione said with a bit of complaint after falling down. "It's too clumsy to fly in the air just by magic. I feel like a sitting duck. I must find a real flying magic next time."

"I'll help you." Ryan said, pulling out his wand. "Okay, now everyone stand in your position. When I count to three, we will blow open the roof and jump down together."

"——One, two, three, torn to pieces." After seeing everyone signal that everything was ready, Ryan and the others simultaneously blew up the roof under their feet and jumped down. When he passed through the roof, everything in the room appeared in front of him.

There were only a few dim lights in the whole room, and three wizards in black clothes were holding wands and observing the surroundings vigilantly. However, it was obvious that they did not expect someone to break through the roof, and they were all eliminated by Ryan and his team the moment they raised their wands.

"They are all Death Eaters again." Ryan came to a conclusion after briefly checking the arms of the three men. "But these people are much more elite than the ones in the guard room just now. It seems that there should be something very important down there."

"Then I'll be the first one to go." Jill said, "I think the people below already know what we did just now, so it's safer for me to go first."

As she said, the previous movement did alarm the people below. As soon as the door to the underground tunnel opened, several green spell lights flew out. Fortunately, Jill turned into a ghost in time and dispersed to avoid the attack.

"Damn it, I can't get in at all." Rose Crystal cursed after being forced back. He originally wanted to rely on his small size to charge in, but he was quickly forced back by several spells.

"We have to think of another way." Ryan turned his head and looked at Hermione. "The floor of this place has been specially strengthened by magic. I can't dig it down for a while. Do you have any good ideas now?"

"Now I just don't know if there are any hostages down there." Hermione thought for a moment and said quickly. "We are making quite a lot of noise now, I guess the enemy's reinforcements are on the way. If there are hostages then we have to retreat now, if not we can use some special means."

"You're right." Ryan nodded and released pink light from his hands, which slowly penetrated into the basement through the opened entrance. He found four dark wizards holding their wands nervously and staring at the entrance and exit of the basement. As long as someone showed up, they would attack with a violent spell. Behind them was a metal wall covered with defensive magic, with only one exit that could accommodate one person.

"The wall behind should have good defense. I have a solution now." Ryan said as he opened his space pocket and took something out of it.

(End of this chapter)