The Shopkeeper of All Worlds in the British Wizarding World

Chapter 709 Entering the Core
The view inside the top building of the Sky City is astonishing, because there is basically no sign that anyone has ever been inside the building. The entire space is full of green, looking like a huge primitive jungle.

"Are we inside a building? This building is so magnificent." Baru looked at the huge trees and said with emotion. Suddenly, he looked at the top of the tree, then pointed upward and shouted. "Everyone, look, the sky——"

Ryan and the others looked up in the direction of the finger and saw a transparent structure like glass. But Ryan clearly remembered that the walls of these places looked white and opaque from the outside.

"It's amazing!" Although Ryan also had this one-way transparent material, he was still shocked by the grand plan of using the one-way transparent material to make a super-large greenhouse and then building a small primitive jungle with internal circulation inside.

However, after passing through this small jungle, a truly shocking scene appeared before him: a huge, miraculous tree stood in the center of the entire building, and under the tree was a vast and flat lawn.

A broken robot stood under a big tree. In front of him, there was a huge black slab embedded on the ground and the tree. There were many things engraved on it in cuneiform script that had never been seen before. This was completely different from the English that was commonly used in this world.

"It would be nice if I could understand these words." Hermione looked at the slate with some regret and said, "It must contain a lot of knowledge and stories about this civilization. Maybe it also records why those people gave up the city and left. But it feels terrible not to know these words now, just like not having the key to the vault door."

"I guess it's a warning to future generations," Xida said. "They must have done something wrong and had to leave the city, so they left this stone tablet before leaving to warn future generations not to make the same mistake as them."

"Even if it's carved into a mural, at least we can guess what happened." Ryan complained. "This kind of fully mature abstract text makes it impossible for people to guess. In terms of the transmission of culture and knowledge, the accuracy of pictures is relatively low, but at least once there is a break in civilization, it can tell the most important warning to future generations."

"By the way, Sheeta. Judging from your secret name, you should be a descendant of the ruler of Laputa, the city in the sky." After hearing Ryan and the others' complaints, Baru turned to Sheeta and asked, "Does your family have any knowledge of this language?"

"Sorry, I really don't have any." After thinking for a while, Xida said with regret, "Our family only left behind various spells, but unfortunately those spells need to be used with the pendant."

"Okay, let's look here again. Maybe we can find more written records. If we collect enough text, I will try a prophecy magic to see if I can translate it." Ryan shrugged and looked up at the sky. He was surprised to see that the color of the clouds in the sky outside seemed to fade, and the storm surrounding the city also became smaller.

In his impression, the clouds around the city should dissipate in the morning of the day after tomorrow. But if the clouds dissipate at the current speed, Ryan estimated that the barrier formed by the storm around the city would disappear in just one or two hours.

Ryan's gaze up at the sky quickly attracted everyone's attention. After following his gaze to the window, others soon noticed that the clouds and storm surrounding Laputa were dispersing.

"I always thought that the stone used as a pendant was the key." Hermione said to Ryan through the Phoenix Mark. "But I didn't expect that this sky city actually uses bloodline detection. It seems that Laputa's technology is more powerful than we thought."

"Oh no, the fog has dissipated." Sheeta showed a worried expression on her face. "We just intercepted the military radio, saying that they will send flying battleships to find Laputa. What if they control this floating city? I'm worried that this city will become a tool for ambitious people to achieve their evil goals."

"Then what should we do?" Baru looked anxious, then turned to look at Ryan, "As wizards, do you have any magic that can make the military unable to find this sky city?" "There is a way." Ryan nodded. "But it is definitely impossible to cover up such a big city in a short time. Even if we work together, we can't hide the whole city before the flying battleship arrives."

Just think about how half of the magic world took more than half a year to cover up a World Cup venue that was not as big as this one, and you will know that it is impossible for two people to perform so many complex magics to hide such a large sky city within 48 hours. And simple visual invisibility is basically useless for those who have the pendant as a guide.

"In addition to using magic to hide this city in the sky, we have other solutions that can also solve the current problem." Hermione said at the side, "With the technological level of our spaceship, we should be able to easily shoot down the flying warships that are coming. To be precise, our spaceship can destroy all aircraft in the world with its powerful energy. As long as they can't leave the ground, it will be impossible for them to seize this city in the sky."

"No, we can't do that." Xida shook her head after realizing what was happening. "If we kill like this, then what's the difference between us and those ambitious people?"

"Then what do you think we should do?" Baru scratched his hair in distress. "We can't hide such a big city, nor can we eliminate those who might harm the city. Can we just watch the city fall into the hands of some villains and bring darkness and killing to the world?"

"I have an idea." Ryan said, summoning the Rose Mother, "I'll see if I can find the control room of this sky city. Maybe I can find a good solution."

"How beautiful!" Baru and Hida exclaimed at the pink gem floating above Ryan's head. Soon, under the guidance of Ryan's spell, a pink light flew out of the gem. After circling around a few people, it flew to the door of the building.

Everyone followed the light out of the building and ran to the edge of the platform. Due to weathering, the original path down was gone. Fortunately, the giant tree on the top floor had grown countless roots that covered the entire sky city, allowing them to follow these roots that were thicker than a person all the way down.

With the help of short-distance Apparition, they finally reached the plank road next to the black hemisphere in the lower half of the sky city at the fastest speed. At this time, the pink ball of light rotated on a wall and disappeared directly into the air.

"Yes, it's here." Ryan said, looking at a thumb-sized Laputa badge on the wall, "But in theory, the pendant is needed to open the door to the core area."

"So what should we do now--" Baru asked, but he was stopped by Ryan before he could finish. "But my Rose Mother can also open this door. It only takes a little time."

After saying that, Ryan held the Madonna of the Rose in his hand and drew runes in the air. After seven or eight minutes, these runes made of light in the air gathered together to form a light spot that looked almost exactly like the pendant, and then sank into the wall.

Instantly, a hexagonal door appeared on the wall, and Ryan stood at the door and made a gesture of invitation. "Okay, let's go in. Inside should be the core part of this sky city."

(End of this chapter)