The Shopkeeper of All Worlds in the British Wizarding World

Chapter 98 Nick's Invitation

Ryan's so-called new magic was actually learned from the Maoshan Taoist Canon. He thought that this magic against ghosts should make Nick happy.

So under Nick's curious eyes, Ryan took out a small incense burner, a handful of incense sticks, and a pair of candles from his space bag. Finally, he took out two pieces of chocolate from the pocket of his robe.

After taking the things, Ryan arranged the incense burner and candles on the box in front of him, and then placed the chocolate behind the incense burner. After everything was in place, Ryan lit the two candles with his wand.

Ryan then picked up a handful of incense sticks and lit them on the candle, then he closed his eyes, held the incense stick and muttered something.

Nick didn't know what Ryan was doing, but he could tell from Ryan's actions that he was doing it very seriously, so Nick kept quiet at this time to avoid disturbing Ryan.

For a moment, the storage room fell into silence. Only Ryan's gentle chanting echoed in the room. And outside, the sound of someone wearing wet shoes tapping in the corridor seemed particularly clear at this time.

After three or four minutes, Nick saw Ryan put the incense in the incense burner, then opened his eyes and blew hard at the incense.

The incense sticks were completely burned up within a few seconds after being blown by the breath, and the smoke produced by the burning was absorbed by the chocolate on the table.

After blowing that breath, Ryan returned to normal. He picked up the chocolate on the table and handed it to Nick, saying, "Sir, you can have some chocolate. It will help you recover your mood."

Nick reached out to take the chocolate from Ryan's hand and said, "I'm glad you came to comfort me, but you have to know that we ghosts can't..."

Before he finished speaking, Nick's expression changed drastically, because he could feel that he seemed to have picked up something, a feeling he had not felt for 500 years. After all, among all the ghosts in Hogwarts, only Peeves, a ghost who was not a ghost, could touch real objects, while other ghosts could not touch anything.

Nick withdrew his hand and found that the two chocolates were still in Ryan's hand. However, he was holding two milky white translucent chocolates in his palm.

"What is this?" Nick asked Ryan in surprise.

"You know, my bloodline is from the East. Recently I learned some Eastern magic, and this is one of them. Through the power of incense, ghosts can also enjoy food."

Nick put a piece of chocolate in his mouth with a shocked expression, and then Ryan saw tears flowing from the corners of his eyes. After all, he hadn't eaten for 500 years.

After eating two pieces of chocolate with tears in his eyes, Ryan found that the frustration on Nick's face was gone. He said to Ryan happily: "Thank you for letting me taste the delicious food again. Compared with this, not joining the Dullahan team is not a big deal for me."

After he finished speaking, Nick suddenly became embarrassed: "Ryan - I think I have a presumptuous request - No, it's too much, you have helped a lot, I shouldn't bring it up -"

"Sir, what exactly do you want to say?" Ryan asked Nick, who had a conflicted look on his face.

"Uh, I just want to ask you if the magic you just performed was difficult for you? Because I saw that you actually cast the spell without a wand." Nick finally asked his question.

"It's not too difficult. This is the magic of the Celestial Empire. Just like African wizards, they cast spells without wands. So it's not as difficult as it looks. But I can only make five or six dishes of food that ghosts can eat a day. And these foods can only be kept for seven days at most." Ryan replied. "It's like this." After struggling for a long time, Nick finally made his request. "This Halloween is my 500th birthday. I will invite ghosts from all over the UK to attend my inheritance banquet. Can you prepare food for me?"

At this point, Nick thought of something and quickly added: "Of course, this will take up a lot of your time and energy, so I will have a generous gift for you. You know, I have lived in this castle for 500 years and know a lot of secrets that other people don't know."

"Okay, I promise you." Ryan replied. "Come and call me a week before Halloween, and we'll start working in the Room of Requirement. But let me make it clear in advance that my cooking skills are average, so I guess you'll have to find someone else to cook."

"That's no problem. I'll just tell the house-elf in the kitchen." Nick was very happy when he heard Ryan's agreement, and quickly assured Ryan that he didn't have to worry about issues like meals and could just leave it to him.

Afterwards, Nick happily said goodbye to Ryan, because he would spend several days thinking about what the menu would be this time, and then he could give all the ghosts a surprise at the party.

After seeing Nick leave through the wall, Ryan also returned to the Gryffindor common room.

The common room was very lively. Because the weather had been bad these days, everyone wanted to stay in the warm common room.

At this time, the Weasley brothers were feeding a salamander with fireworks, causing the salamander to fly around the lounge with flames and explosions. Fortunately, fireworks in the wizarding world cannot ignite things under the influence of magic, otherwise it would be too easy to cause a fire in this house full of flammable items such as carpets, tapestries, and wooden furniture.

Then there was the sound of Percy scolding the twins and some classmates cheering.

At this time, Ryan squeezed into the crowd and handed Fred some data related to the human body that he had learned from Madam Pomfrey, because they had said before that they wanted to study some interesting candies, so they needed this data.

Ryan suspected that they were already starting to study the quick-acting candy for skipping classes, so they needed this data to determine the dosage of some drugs.

Taking the small notebook from Ryan, Fred asked Ryan, "Hey, Ryan. Would you like to join our research?" Ryan didn't have time to answer. Percy suddenly popped up and asked, "I hope you are not doing some messed up research, otherwise I will write a letter to my mother."

"No, of course not." George replied. "We just want to ask Ryan some questions about brewing potions and using some healing spells, because we saw Madam Pomfrey teaching him alone in the hospital two days ago."

"Really?" Percy asked excitedly.

"Yes." Ryan nodded.

After that, Percy expressed a series of feelings about the twins' prodigal behavior. Finally, after Percy finished speaking, he left.

After seeing Percy go and scold a group of first-year students for being noisy and disturbing others, Ryan told the twins that he was honored to join their research.

Ryan was very curious about what new ideas the twins would come up with after he joined them and with more financial, material and knowledge investment.

(End of this chapter)