The Shopkeeper of All Worlds in the British Wizarding World

Chapter 187 Temple Exploration Part

After getting the results of Xiaoqing's investigation, Ryan and his team walked a few steps and turned a corner. An extremely spacious house made of large square stones appeared in front of them. Stepping into the house, Ryan could feel the cool breeze blowing on his body, which immediately blew away the heat in the tunnel.

It seems that there is a vent in this place. Thinking of this, Ryan began to look around. At this time, Hermione also came out from the hole at the back. The cool breeze from the vent immediately cheered her up.

After looking around, Hermione asked curiously, "Isn't it said that after walking a long path in an adventure, there will always be a lot of things waiting ahead? Why is there nothing here?"

"The adventure novels written by my father are artistically processed. There are not so many treasures in reality. Besides, there is only one servant passage here. It would be strange to find good things here." After all, he had just walked in the passage for such a long time with a tense mind. Ryan also wanted to talk to relieve his mental fatigue.

"Wait." Ryan suddenly saw something. "You are not completely wrong. I think I found some treasures." At this time, Ryan walked to a stone basin in the middle of the stone room and pointed at the things in the basin.

"What is this?" Hermione leaned forward to take a look, but even with the Bubble Head Curse, a fishy smell rushed straight to her nose, making her step back quickly.

"This is the cheapest good stuff, 60 Galleons per pound, and I've never seen this stuff in Diagon Alley." Ryan said as he used his body to block Hermione's sight and took out a five-liter oil drum from the Wanjie Grocery Store. Then he put the yellow-white ointment in the basin into the oil drum.

"Wait, I think I've seen this in a book." Hermione thought for a moment after hearing Ryan's narration and said, "Is this the oil of the enchanted anaconda? The book says that adding the oil of the enchanted anaconda as fuel when brewing some potions can greatly increase the success rate of the potions."

"As expected of Miss Know-It-All." Ryan was a little surprised at Hermione's scope of knowledge, because this was a very niche knowledge. If he hadn't occasionally seen this thing in a book, he wouldn't have guessed what it was. "You're right, I just found out that this should be worth 200 Galleons per pound, because the longer this kind of oil is aged, the better the effect. The pot in front of us has been aged for at least a thousand years, and it has changed from milky white to light yellow. So it's not that there is no benefit for us to fall this time. At least even if most of the things in this pot evaporate, the remaining things can be sold for at least 300 Galleons."

Hermione did not show much excitement after hearing Ryan's words. After all, it was difficult to be happy in such a dangerous place, even if they had gained a lot of good things this time.

After putting most of the demonized anaconda oil into the oil barrel, Ryan put away the barrel and used a cup to pour the remaining oil into the two grooves on the wall in front of him, then used the magic wand to shoot sparks to ignite the oil in the grooves.

The blue flames burned slowly in the grooves, and as the flames burned, a faint fragrance filled the entire house. At the same time, the wall slowly rose up, revealing the passage behind it.

"How did you discover this mechanism?" Hermione asked curiously.

"You can see that there is nothing in the whole house except the stone basin. There are only two grooves on the opposite wall with some black burn marks on them. Considering the precious fuel in the stone basin, it is obvious how to open this mechanism. After all, this is just a passage for servants to pass through on a daily basis. It is impossible to set up various complicated mechanisms like a treasure point."

Ryan took the lead and stepped into the passage. This passage should lead to some important place, so there are a lot of reliefs on both sides. He looked at these reliefs and walked forward, feeling like Indiana Jones on an adventure. As we all know, archaeology has made a huge contribution to human understanding of ancient history, especially in the magical world. Sometimes the things excavated by archaeology even represent advanced productivity. But no matter what, for some owners who have stayed in ancient ruins for many years, whether they are Muggles or wizards, they definitely don't want to be dug out again.

So soon after Ryan stepped into the tunnel, they were attacked: two fully armed mummies smashed open the thin stone walls on both sides of the passage used for camouflage and jumped out, and used their obsidian spears to express their attitude towards Ryan and other outsiders.

"Unclean Silence!" As Ryan chanted the spell, he drew runes in the air with Clinway's teeth, and a pale ray hit a mummy. Perhaps because this place had been abandoned for too long, the wooden armor with runes painted on the mummy had mostly decayed and lost its magical defense ability. So this spell easily turned a mummy into a ball of ash.

But at this time, another mummy took the opportunity to approach, "Fainted!" Hermione's voice came from behind, but unfortunately the mummy was not alive, and the petrification spell only made the mummy pause for a moment. But this also bought time for Ryan, and he took this opportunity to release the Unholy Silence again to kill the mummy.

Aren't South American mummies only found in high, cold, and dry mountains? How can there be such a thing in the tropical rainforest? It can survive for thousands of years in such a humid place without decaying, which shows that the magic in this place is much more dangerous than imagined. Thinking of this, Ryan cast a spell on the knife in his hand: "Holy Weapon".

Clinwell's teeth emitted a faint white light after Ryan finished chanting the spell. As long as the white light did not disappear, it meant that the spell was effective: it could cause targeted attacks on any evil creature.

After all, the two mummies were ambushing too close to them just now. Ryan was worried that if the passage was narrower next time, there might not be enough space to cast the spell, so he added targeted magic to the knife to be prepared.

Sure enough, mummies jumped out from the stone walls on both sides one after another. These should be the defense lines to protect important places from intrusion by outsiders. Ryan and his people who did not obtain permission from the temple naturally touched them when they passed through the corridor.

Based on the examination of the two mummies just now, it can be judged that this civilization did not invent metal smelting technology, because the weapons on them are all made of obsidian.

For the indigenous wizards or warriors of this civilization, encountering these mummies whose bodies were as hard as metal, wearing wooden armor with runes on them and moving agilely in such a small place at close range was basically a matter of life and death. Naturally, the temple believed that this was a foolproof method of defense.

However, Ryan had a spell from another civilization that was specifically designed to deal with this kind of creature. The mummies had lost 70% of their power due to the long period of time. So Ryan and his men passed through the passage without any danger. Later, when Ryan was familiar with how to deal with these mummies, he even used the corpse-driving technique taught by the four-eyed Taoist priest to control six mummies and protect them.

Finally, they came to a stone door. According to the instructions on the map, as long as they passed through this stone door, they would reach the core hall of the entire temple.

(End of this chapter)