The Shopkeeper of All Worlds in the British Wizarding World

Chapter 368 The Lake of Darkness
When several people came to the door, Mr. Weasley stumbled on the big umbrella stand made of a broken leg of the troll because he was not familiar with the place.As a result, he grabbed the two velvet curtains full of insect holes and pulled it apart.

"Oh, crap—" Sirius hadn't finished, when a terrible, deafening, bloodcurdling scream came from a portrait behind the curtain.

"Bastard! Bitch! Dirty and sinful bastard! Bastard, freak, ugly bastard, get out of here! How dare you defile my ancestral home—"

"Shut up!" Sirius grabbed the curtain, "You horrible old hag, you killed Regulus. I found him, and now I'm going to fetch him home."

"What, my child, Regulus, is dead?" The old lady suddenly turned pale, showing a sad expression.Every portrait of the wizarding world is painted with its own incomplete consciousness, many of which are slowly instilled by these portrait prototypes.This portrait of Sirius's mother should have been drawn before she died. Apart from a set of pure-blood concepts, the rest is dissatisfaction with the elder son Sirius and the memory of the missing younger son.So after hearing the news of Regulus' death, the portrait immediately showed a feeling of sadness.

"Yeah, it's all about you, my good mother. You caused him to die." After finishing speaking, Sirius drew the curtain vigorously, but at this time the woman in the portrait didn't roar as usual, but just stared blankly. Sitting there blankly.

In silence, the four of them and a house-elf walked out of the mansion.After that, Kreacher took them one by one into a large cave. After releasing a plant of lantern grass and holding it in his hand, Ryan could see a pool of water at the end of the cave.A stone stair led up from the water.The air around was still and cold, with a smell of the sea.It means that this place should be by the sea.

"It's here." Kreacher's deep voice came over. "The door that requires blood is right in front of it. Unfortunately, there is a strange magic inside. Kreacher's apparition can't accurately locate the space inside, so he can only come out from there, but he can't go in from the outside. Kreacher didn't A way to fulfill the master's order—" As he spoke, he was about to knock his head on the stone floor.Luckily Sirius stopped him.

"That's enough, so let's stop." After speaking, he walked to the rock wall pointed out by Kreacher and pointed his wand at the rock at that place.Suddenly, the outline of an arch appeared there, emitting a dazzling white light, as if there was a strong light shining behind the crack. "It should be here."

After speaking, he took out the wizard's blood that he had bought from his pocket and poured it on the outline of the arch.Perhaps Sirius was a little too forceful, and the entire surface of the rock was covered with shiny, dark red drops of blood.

After the rock wall absorbed the blood, the outline of the arch did not disappear as before.The blood-stained rock within the arch disappeared suddenly, revealing a doorway that contained what seemed to be endless darkness.

"Go forward!" After speaking, Sirius raised the lantern plant that Ryan had given him before, and walked in with the wand in the other hand, and the others followed him in the same posture while maintaining vigilance.Only Ryan didn't hold a wand, but he held a stack of thick yellow paper symbols in his hand.

Under the illumination of the light source in their hands, they saw a very strange scene in front of their eyes: they were standing on the bank of a large black lake, the lake was so wide that it stretched as far as the eye could see, and they couldn't see the opposite shore in the distance.The cave they were in was so high that they couldn't see the top of the cave when they looked up.Far away, as if in the middle of the lake, there was a dim, green light shining, reflected in the dead lake below.

What's even more evil is that, except for the light source in their hands and the green light in the distance, the surrounding area is completely indissoluble darkness.Even the lantern plant specially used to break the darkness can't shine very far.This means that the darkness here is likely to come from some kind of magic rather than a product of nature.

"Let's go on," said Sirius softly. "Be very careful not to step in the water. Get a little closer and let Ryan walk in the middle."

After adjusting their formation, they stepped on the narrow rocks by the lake and began to walk around the lake shore.Finally came to a shore.This shore was no different from the rest, just as dark and cold.However, Kreacher still recognized this place, and under his guidance, several people dragged out the boat that Voldemort hid here.

"We have to go to the other side of the island, where Regulus was dragged into the water. It is easier to find it only there. Not to mention that the lake here is too narrow for us to use. But this Only one wizard is allowed across the lake, so what do we do?" Lupine asked.

"Just let me go." Sirius said impulsively, but was stopped by Ryan.

"It's better for us to act together. After all, this place is too weird. It's not a good idea to act separately." Ryan stood by the side of the boat and made a few gestures, looked at the runes that emerged on the boat and said, "And I There's a way for us all to pass."

After the line caught everyone's attention, Lane explained. "I checked this ship just now, and found that the restrictions on it are not based on weight or soul, but on magic power. That is to say, the designer of this set of mechanisms only limits the magic power equivalent to an adult wizard's ability to pass through. his lake."

Speaking of this, Ryan smiled: "And I just have a way to block the magic power of the wizard." After speaking, he took out a few bracelets with a rune stone hanging from him, "Just wear it."

All but Sirius wore bracelets.Then squeezed into the boat in a way that Indians take transportation.As soon as everyone was on board, the boat set off immediately.Everything is automated, and there seems to be an invisible rope pulling it to the green light in the middle of the lake.

The surface of the lake is calm and the water is very clear.As we slowly approached the island, corpses began to appear at the bottom of the water. At first, there were a few scattered corpses, but then there were more and more corpses. In the end, corpses as white as marble could be seen stacked on top of each other at the bottom of the lake.

"Merlin, how many people did he kill?" Mr. Weasley groaned after seeing the corpses.

A few minutes later the boat bumped lightly against something and stopped.Under the illumination of the light source in his hand, Ryan found that they had come to a smooth rocky island in the middle of the lake.

The island is actually made of a whole piece of black rock, one to two hundred square meters, and the top is very flat.There is only a stone basin in the middle, and the green light comes from the potion inside.

"Okay, let me arrange it, and it can be started after the arrangement is completed." Ryan said after several people set foot on the island.Then he carved lines in the rocky ground with the dagger in his hand and filled them with a golden powder.

10 minutes later, with the final touch down.The entire island turned into a large magic circle, and everyone present felt that the magic circle was filled with vitality and light that was incompatible with the surrounding environment.

At this time, Ryan took out seven or eight cans of sunshine crystals from his pocket and said to the people next to him, "When I activate the magic circle in a while, you can evenly sprinkle the golden crystals in these jars into the surrounding water, and these corpses will It will climb up by itself. After touching my magic circle, it will be refined directly."

After speaking, Ryan distributed the yellow paper talisman in his hand to Arthur and Lupine. "But the operation of this magic circle has a limit. If a large number of ghost corpses accumulate, please throw this thing to a place where they are densely packed. This kind of magic item can slow down and weaken them." The two people took the paper talisman and clicked nod.

Ryan took out a few paper talismans and handed them to Sirius and Kreacher. "After you see Regulus, take a paper talisman in your hand and stick it on him, and then you can bring him in." Sirius and the others also nodded seriously.

"Okay, 3, 2, 1!" After making all the preparations, Ryan activated the magic circle.

(End of this chapter)