The Shopkeeper of All Worlds in the British Wizarding World

Chapter 727 Times have changed
More and more red dots appeared on the display screen until the number approached 200. But at this time, the red dots had turned into a red circle that completely surrounded the open space.

"Awooo--" A gray wolf that was bigger than the other wolves came out of the woods first, then raised its head and howled. In an instant, the tall wolfmen rushed out of the woods one after another, and then rushed directly to the small tent in the middle of the open space on all fours like real wolves, howling loudly as they rushed.

"Get ready to shoot Hermione, switch to the auxiliary aiming system. It is much more useful than manual aiming when facing a large group of enemies, and it is also the best way to cooperate with the power armor we are wearing." Ryan said into the microphone.

"Okay, I've seen that the werewolves that rushed out have red circles on their heads." Hermione's voice came from the headset. "What should I do next? Although I have received training before, I have never worn this thing in actual combat."

"Relax, in fact, this power armor is fully intelligent. You just need to trust the computer in the armor." Ryan comforted. At this time, some werewolves had left the cover of the woods and rushed over directly.

"Now - shoot!" Ryan shouted, and instantly two silver-white Gatling guns started firing. Ryan could feel the power mecha arms holding the Gatling guns and quickly shooting at targets under the control of a large number of hydraulic pumps.

The ammunition fired by the machine gun was blue, and it was only the size of a marble. When it exploded on the ground, it would bring up a lot of dirt like a grenade, and once it hit a werewolf, it would create a football-sized hole. Even a creature like a werewolf with strong physical strength, recovery ability, and endurance could not stand up again after being shot in the torso.

In addition, Ryan and Hermione's mechas each had two small explosive pistols called crickets on their backs. With a series of clicks, all the joints on the power armor from the back to the feet were locked, and something appeared on the feet to grab the ground.

"Fire." Ryan and Hermione shouted at the same time. After a slight vibration, four fireballs shot out from the muzzles of their shoulders and headed straight for the gathering place of the group of werewolves. After a loud bang, the entire ground near the point where the shells landed, along with everything on the ground, was torn apart and flew into the sky.

Under this combined attack of firepower beyond the times, the entire open space turned into a slaughterhouse. Everywhere was blood, body parts and dirt turned up by the explosion. However, these things did not prevent Ryan and his men from continuing to shoot. The life radar could not be blocked by dust. Gatling's atomic blasting ammunition continued to successfully create huge holes in the werewolf's body or head.

In less than a minute, all the red dots on the radar screen that represented the enemy within the open area disappeared. After confirming that no one was rushing up, Ryan and his men finally stopped shooting.

Soon the smoke cleared, and a messy ground appeared in front of them. The entire open space was ravaged by the large and small craters formed by the explosion. And around each crater, there were incomplete bodies of werewolves and even more incomplete fragments.

"The You-Know-Who arranged such a big move, mobilized so many people, and even spent powerful magic props like the jumping pot. And the result is like this?" Looking at everything in front of her, Hermione said in an unbelievable tone. "To be exact, 46 seconds, not only did they fail to kill us, but we almost wiped out this group of werewolves. If I didn't know the hatred between the You-Know-Who and us, I would have thought that the You-Know-Who was on our side to help us eradicate evil."

"It's because times have changed, Hermione." Ryan answered as he searched through the bodies to make sure no one was pretending to be dead. "Under normal circumstances, after the prohibition of magical abilities, we can only choose swords or ordinary gunpowder-powered firearms. These can't cause any effective damage to a group of werewolves, and those heavy weapons are not something that the two of us can operate."

"I think according to the werewolves' thinking, they thought they could rush in front of us and tear the two of us to pieces with only single-digit losses at most. But these werewolves and even the mysterious man probably didn't expect that the two of us could possess heavy firepower that a single person could handle. The information asymmetry naturally led to the current situation."

After confirming that the surroundings were safe, the two people withdrew from the power armor. But when they pulled out their wands and waved them to try to cast magic, they found that they were still unable to cast magic. "I thought everything around was arranged by the mysterious man, but now it seems that it is not." Ryan began to have some curiosity about this place. He wanted to know why this place made magic ineffective, but allowed the technology products to be used normally.

It just so happened that the group of little puppets and the large alchemical puppets sent later had not come, and Ryan and his men had no way to move the nearly ten people in the tent, so while waiting for reinforcements to arrive, Ryan began to look for something wrong around him. Unexpectedly, just over a minute later, Hermione found something unusual next to a huge crater blown up by the little cricket.

"Ryan, look, there's something a little unusual under this crater." After discovering the anomaly, Hermione waved her hand and signaled to Ryan, "I think this place is not an ordinary open space at all."

"You're right." After walking to the edge of the pit and taking a look, Ryan quickly found something wrong. Based on his knowledge of plants, it was obvious that the grass and soil in this place were recently brought from somewhere else, and it might not have been more than a week.

What made Hermione feel wrong was a piece of stone at the bottom of the pit. This stone was square and obviously could not be a natural product. Hermione even found several marks on it that should have been chiseled by workers during renovation.

After finding out that something was wrong, Ryan and his team immediately re-entered their power armor and began to dig the pit using some simple tools. When reinforcements arrived, they happened to see two power armors equipped with special shovels working hard to dig the pit.

"It's great that you're here." Seeing the arrival of the reinforcements, Ryan manipulated the armor to jump out of the pit that was already more than three meters deep and said to the leader Rose Crystal, "Let those alchemical puppets take away the unconscious people and the pot in the room first. After all, this place is really not suitable for those unconscious people to stay."

"What about you, brother?" Rose Crystal nodded and signaled the puppets behind to enter the tent to move people, then raised her little face and asked, "Is there anything going on here?"

"Well, I found some abnormal phenomena here and I want to study them carefully." Ryan then briefly explained what they had just discovered.

After hearing Ryan's discovery, all the puppets agreed to stay and accompany Ryan and his friends to explore the mystery of this place. According to the leader, Mercury Lamp, she and her sisters must investigate this strange magical phenomenon. The knowledge contained in it can be used as a gift to their father Luo Zhen.

In the next few days, Ryan and his team dug up a lot of ground with the help of a large number of puppets. After the entire ground was dug up, Ryan discovered that the lawn in the forest was purely artificially created in a short period of time. Through digging, they found that the ruins of an ancient castle were buried in the soil under the lawn.

Miraculously, after dawn that day, both the surrounding fog and the restrictions on magic power disappeared. The entire area became no different from the nearby jungles, and nothing like that night happened in the following days.

(End of this chapter)