The Shopkeeper of All Worlds in the British Wizarding World

Chapter 730: Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Dust (Please subscribe, please bookmark, please vote)
Under the illumination of the golden and black lights, one after another, glimmering figures emerged from the light ball in the middle of the cave. At the same time, the surrounding cave walls made a buzzing sound due to the resonance of magic, as if responding to Hermione's spell.

After leaving the light ball, the figures grew larger and larger, and finally became the size of ordinary humans. At the same time, the details on their bodies became clearer and clearer. They were no longer the vague human silhouettes of the past, but became human ghosts made of smoke one after another.

They were dressed in ancient costumes and looked just like the people in the paintings of Hogwarts. And from their souls, Ryan could feel that they were not ordinary wizards when they were alive.

After squeezing out of the light ball, they gathered together after a brief excitement and began to talk in ancient Latin. A few minutes later, an elderly wizard soul with a white beard and an ancient woolen pointed wizard hat was recommended by other souls. He slowly floated in front of Ryan and performed an ancient wizard etiquette to Ryan. It seemed that all the souls wanted to communicate with Ryan through him.

"Please wait a moment." Ryan returned the same courtesy, and then said in ancient Latin, "Please let my companions release everyone before we talk, so that we can deal with the situation you are facing at once."

Fortunately, once the magic ritual Hermione was presiding over was successfully run, she didn't need to invest too much energy, and everything that followed would naturally fall into place. As the souls continued to leave, the ball of light began to flicker, and the frequency of the flickering became higher and higher.

Half an hour later, as the last soul left the light ball, the light ball suddenly lit up and then completely disappeared, just like a burnt candle. At the same time, those souls were crowded in this small underground space. It even reminded Ryan of the train station during the Spring Festival in his previous life.

Fortunately, the soul can fly, so after a brief discussion, some ghosts flew up and formed a hemispherical shape in the cave with other ghosts. The two people who were at the center of their attention were Ryan and Hermione.

"Young man." Just after all the ghosts were arranged, the old ghost who was chosen by the ghosts as their representative stood out from the group of ghosts and said to Ryan and the others, "Please tell us what era it is now?"

"It is January of the year 1998 AD." Ryan answered the ghosts, and then asked, "By the way, do you know the definition of AD? That is--"

"Yes, we know this method of calculating time from people who don't know magic." The old wizard's soul interrupted Ryan impatiently, then sighed softly. "More than 1000 years have passed. I think our kingdom should have disappeared into history."

"Yes, you are right." Hermione said, "After King Arthur left the world forever and went to Avalon, the Kingdom of Britain completely fell apart, and the people were scattered to various places."

Hermione's words immediately made the souls of these wizards noisy, and some ghost wizards showed sad expressions on their faces. Some ghost wizards even cried bitterly.

This chaos lasted for several minutes before it was suppressed by the soul of the old wizard who was elected to communicate with Ryan and the others. After everyone quieted down, the soul of the old wizard continued to ask, "I see that you two are wizards like us, so what is the situation of wizards now? Are they still feared and feared by ordinary people?"

"The current situation of wizards is still okay, but all wizards are now separated from ordinary people because of the witch-hunting movement that broke out among ordinary people hundreds of years ago. In order to protect both parties, wizards passed a confidentiality law." Ryan answered seriously.

"Hunting sport, confidentiality law." These endless new words made the wizards who had been constrained for thousands of years feel at a loss for what to do. So after whispering for a few minutes, the soul of the old wizard asked Ryan if he could explain the current situation outside.

Ryan was naturally willing to fulfill the little wish of these poor ghosts, so he took out two chairs from his space bag and sat down with Hermione, and then began to talk about the development history of the wizarding world over the past 1000 years that they had seen from the previous magic history textbooks and various collected materials. This lecture lasted more than three hours, and even though he and Hermione took turns to talk throughout the entire process, Ryan felt his throat was extremely dry. Fortunately, after the lecture was finished, these ghosts were dazed because they received too much information in one breath. He also took this opportunity to take out two cups of honey mint herbal tea from the space bag and gave one to him and Hermione.

Only after the two of them finished drinking the herbal tea did the wizards' souls slowly calm down. Then the old wizard soul who had been communicating with Ryan and the others came out again and asked Ryan and the others, "Can you tell me what arrangements you have for us undead souls?"

"We will send you to where the dead should go," Ryan said. "After all, the world belongs to the living, and you are not suitable here."

"That's good," the old man nodded. "In our time, there were countless evil guys who loved to enslave souls, especially the souls of wizards like us. We are lucky to have met young, powerful and kind wizards like you two."

After he finished speaking, the old man's soul nodded slightly. Then the souls of all the wizards present reached into their chests and took out a small ball made of gray mist the size of a ping-pong ball. Then they threw the ball out together.

After these small balls flew out, they began to flatten slowly, and the edges and corners appeared, and finally turned into A4 papers made of gray smoke. All the A4 papers slowly gathered together under the command of the leading old wizard, and finally turned into a book in the state of soul.

"I heard that over a long period of time, a lot of wisdom from the ancient times has been completely forgotten. So in order to thank you for your help, we all took out all the knowledge we have mastered and put it in this book. I think powerful wizards like you will definitely be able to draw enough nutrition from it."

"Thank you." Ryan and Hermione performed an ancient wizard etiquette at the same time, and then Ryan took out a rosewood box covered with cinnabar charms from his arms and put the book on the state of the soul in it. "We will sort out this knowledge bit by bit, and then pass it on to those suitable wizards."

After completing the communication, Hermione held Ryan's hand to allow the magic of both parties to resonate, and then used this powerful magic to activate the power of the Black Book of the Undead and the Golden Book of the Sun.

Instantly, golden and black lights gushed out from the two books, forming an ancient Greek-style gate with two colors interlaced in the air. In the middle of the gate was a rolling black fog, which contained a strong power of death. However, unexpectedly, this power of death was not evil, but gave people a sense of peace.

"Is this the world of the dead behind this?" As dead souls, the ghosts of these wizards quickly knew the purpose of this door. They floated past Ryan and the others, saluted, and then walked through the door with their heads held high.

After more than 300 souls left, the door flashed in the air and disappeared completely. At the same time, Hermione fell limply into Ryan's arms.

"You're still too impatient." Ryan said softly after turning the chair into a recliner and helping Hermione lie down on it. "It's still too much for you to open that door now."

(End of this chapter)