The Shopkeeper of All Worlds in the British Wizarding World

Chapter 728: Excavation of Relics
After the war against the werewolves, Ryan and his team spent half a month in the clearing in the forest to study this magical relic. Through the excavation of a large number of puppets, an ancient city of considerable size appeared in front of everyone.

During the time they were digging, the outside world had also changed a lot. When the alchemy dolls sent the rescued hostages back to the Hogsmeade Town Hospital and their own manor, they also brought Ryan and his team the latest information from the outside world.

Voldemort's previous harassment of Hogwarts was indeed to contain Dumbledore, but to Ryan's surprise, in addition to ambushing himself and containing Dumbledore, Voldemort concentrated all the Death Eaters he could control to raid Azkaban Castle and almost succeeded.

Fortunately, under Moody's command, the Azkaban guards did not suffer much damage. The group of Death Eaters rushed into the prison for serious criminals on the top floor of the castle from the top of the castle and triggered the magic circle that Ryan had set up before.

The magic circle overloaded and exploded after sensing a large number of unauthorized personnel entering. Everyone in the range was hit hard by a strong soul shock. According to the letter from Sirius, who was in Azkaban at the time, brought back by the alchemical puppet, 80% of the prisoners were killed on the spot, and three Death Eaters were also killed because they were too close to react.

At the same time, the survivors suffered serious spiritual damage, which forced them to evacuate Azkaban Castle with all the living people and some corpses while they had an absolute advantage.

In short, Voldemort's action failed again, and the loss was heavy. At least the annihilation of the werewolves was an irreparable loss for Voldemort, especially at dawn the next day after the attack, Ryan found the backbone of almost all the evil werewolves including Fenrir Greyback in a pile of shattered corpses.

The biggest impact of the near-annihilation of the werewolves on Voldemort was that he could no longer threaten others by using the effective means of terror such as werewolves, which also greatly reduced Voldemort's control over the areas he ruled. For example, the letter from Lupin brought back by the puppet indicated that there were many more wizards fleeing to the north recently than before.

Of course, in addition to telling Ryan this information, Lupin's letter also expressed his gratitude to him in a long paragraph at the end. Because he had experienced the painful first half of his life after being bitten by Fenrir Greyback, and now Ryan and his team successfully killed Greyback in the battle, which also made Lupin put his mind at ease.

In addition to the letters from Sirius and Lupin, they also received letters from other people during their time in the jungle, such as greetings from Harry, Percy, Neville, the Weasley twins and even Luna. These letters also brought a lot of fun to the boring excavation work, and reading these letters under the light of the tent and replying to friends became their rare entertainment during this period.

After half a month of excavation, the outline of a city in the jungle was sorted out. According to the archaeological map drawn, they found that the scale of the city was large enough to accommodate 1 people. Considering that this city was a city more than 1000 years ago, it can be said that this city was almost a miracle in Britain at that time.

"To be precise, it is a building relic from more than 1400 to 1500 years ago." After using a combination of scientific and magical methods to test a large number of building components and even some of the excavated utensils, Hermione roughly deduced the existence time of this relic.

"I think I can determine what's going on in this place." Ryan had just cleaned up a red pottery bowl with only the lower half left. Judging from the remaining part, the bowl was smooth, hard, and evenly colored, and should have been used by the nobles. After turning the bowl over, there was a mark on the bottom of the bowl with a word engraved in Latin: Camelot.

"Camelot, the capital of King Arthur?" Hermione, who had read many books, became excited when she heard Ryan perform this word. "I always thought it was just a legend."

"How can it be a legend?" Ryan showed the bottom of the bowl to Hermione. "Don't forget that in the history recorded by wizards, Merlin really existed, and the Order of Merlin was originally created to commemorate wizards like Merlin who helped ordinary people. It specifically stated that King Arthur did exist in that era." "And this also gives us a direction for the next step of our investigation." Ryan said as he took out a book from his space bag, then turned to a certain page and pointed to it and read it to Hermione word by word: "- Because King Arthur's father, King Uther, once carried out a wizard massacre in the country, Camelot is a holy city that cannot be invaded by evil magic."

"In other words, the inability to use magic in this land is related to the wizards who died here thousands of years ago." After listening to Ryan's reading, Hermione raised her eyebrows and said, "After all, legends can't be made up out of thin air."

"Yes, all kinds of legends always leave a shadow of the truth." Ryan closed the book and nodded. "And if it is related to the soul, the power of death you control can play a big role in this situation."

Sure enough, in the subsequent targeted search, they easily eliminated a large number of places that did not make much sense, and finally focused their search on the empty space they had just found.

Now the soil and grass used by the Death Eaters to camouflage the entire open space have been removed by the alchemical puppets, leaving behind a ruined wall that was previously hidden under the ground. Due to the serious damage caused by various natural and human factors over a long period of time, the highest part of the remaining ruins is only one and a half meters high at most. However, the exquisite reliefs that occasionally remain in the remaining part and the pigments that remain in the corners of the reliefs all show how magnificent this castle was before.

"It's a pity that we can't tell ordinary people about all the discoveries in this place." Hermione sighed after the whole place was cleaned up. "Otherwise, the name Camelot alone would be enough to shock the whole world."

As she spoke, she used her magic wand to gently brush away the dust on a piece of ochre marble plaque buried under the wall, and a scene depicting a knight riding a horse and fighting a dragon appeared on it. "This is marble from Syria, which was considered the best marble in ancient Roman times. Its appearance here shows that international trade more than 1000 years ago was much more prosperous than what people know today."

"Because outside researchers have ignored wizards and magic." Ryan said as he looked at the marble slab. "Don't forget that a wizard can easily carry dozens of tons of marble across the Mediterranean to Britain in three days, but if someone who doesn't know magic were to do it, it would take at least 30 people plus a month to accomplish this feat."

"You're right." Ryan nodded. "And even with the help of wizards, these top-quality marbles from foreign countries are extremely precious. So I can be sure that we have dug into the core area of ​​the castle now."

After that, Ryan held Hermione's hand and summoned Our Lady of the Rose. Soon, with the cooperation of the two people's magic, a pink light wrapped in a wisp of red mist spread in all directions with them as the core.

"Found it." The two people opened their eyes at the same time and said in unison. At this time, five or six meters in front of them on the right, an area with a diameter of three meters began to seep out wisps of gray mist.

"It seems this is the place we are looking for." Ryan and his friends walked over, then bent down to look at the stone floor that was no different from the surroundings and said, "I hope we can find something that surprises us later."

(End of this chapter)