Chapter 54: An Unexpected Discovery
In the days that followed, Ryan visited a lot of places, and he had to admit that Floo did have a convenient side to him. Let Ryan travel to many places to feast his eyes. But the only bad thing is that Ryan is a little dizzy, and basically rolls out of the fireplace every time. But in a hurry, this is the only way to go.
Whether it's the colorful wooden houses of the local residents that look even more beautiful under the polar sun, or the snow-capped glaciers, or even the sparkling light of the ice floes brought down from the glaciers in the river. These views make for a great travel experience for Lane.
On the Magic Side, he visited and fed the North Sea Monsters, lamenting that they might be bigger than the Hogwarts squid, and admiring the endangered species of the Sanctuary.
Naturally, Ryan took quite a few photos. He picked out a few of them and asked them to be made into postcards at the photo studio and sent to his friends through the Far North Owl Post Office on Sakya Street.
This caused him to receive a lot of owl letters the next day, some of whom his roommates expressed envy, and some of whom the Weasley twins asked Ryan to buy some unique Icelandic magic ingredients (because Ryan had read a lot of books, and once when the Weasley twins discussed a question that Ryan had read, Ryan answered in passing). After that, friendships were slowly formed).
It's just that Ron and Hermione's letters, in addition to the postcard thanking Ryan, all mention that they have never replied to Harry's letter, so they feel a little nervous.
Ryan didn't see Harry's reply either, and he estimated that his letter, like Hermione Ron's, had been intercepted by Dobby, the house-elf. So Ryan wrote to Hermione to tell them that Harry's safety had been on the radar of Professor Dumbledore and that there would be no major problems. But if you haven't heard back, you can go to Harry's house.
Time passes slowly on this leisurely tour, and the environment gives a sense of relaxation that you have never felt anywhere else. At least Ryan feels that his parents' tiredness from work seems to have decreased a lot.
One day, Ryan was looking around on the streets of Reykjavík as he prepared to visit a museum. Suddenly, an oil painting attracted him.
The painting belongs to an oil painter who sits on the side of the street and sells paintings. The level of the drawing is very ordinary, but the mountain in the painting looks almost the same as the mountain in the treasure map that I got myself.
So he went up to the painter and asked, "Sir, where is this painting? I have been traveling here for several days, but I have never seen the mountain on this painting." ”
The painter put down his pen and said: "This is a scene I saw a few years ago when I was hiking on Mount Ascal, and it was a sunny day, and I was preparing to go to Lake Viti to experience the thrill of swimming in the geothermal lake. Halfway through, the sky changed dramatically. ”
At this point, the painter shuddered as if he remembered something terrible, and then continued: "It was very windy, and we were all worried about the car being blown away when we sat in the car. Half an hour later, when the wind stopped, I saw a group of demonic peaks emerge from the previously empty ice sheet, appearing in front of me and disappearing in less than a minute. ”
"Later, I asked the residents of the neighborhood, and they told me that it was called Devil's Mountain, and legend has it that this place was where the devil lived. Most of the time it is hidden in hell, and only in rare cases does it come to earth. ”
Ryan listened to the painter's words and thought for a moment: most of the time it is not visible, and only occasionally can it be discovered. This is quite in line with what happens when wizards use magic to cover certain places. If some concealed magic arrays are not maintained, they will indeed occasionally malfunction over time.
Looks like we need to do a good job of investigating. After saying goodbye to the painter, Ryan found a hidden place, took out the cosmetics he had bought before, put makeup on his face for a while, and disguised himself as a Native American (all of them are yellow, barely able to disguise). This is something that comes with the Assassin Legacy). After that, we went to Sakya Street to inquire about the news.
Disguised himself as a Native sorcerer from the Americas, Ryan asked the shopkeepers about it in English with a Caribbean Spanish accent, and it soon paid off.
That place is a natural point of magic, so it forms a barrier of magic from anyone else to find out. Wizards only discovered this place more than thirty years ago. It's just that the wizards who explored it before only found an abandoned altar in that place, and nothing else.
Later, many wizards visited that place to study, but unfortunately they never heard of what they found.
So now there are basically no wizards visiting there. However, if you want to go, it is not difficult, use the Floo network to go to the alpine troll sanctuary of Vatnajökull glacier, and then rent a broom and fly for about ten minutes.
After collecting this information, Ryan felt extremely painful. I thought I had found a great treasure location, but it turned out that the place had already been discovered by others, and even opened up as a tourist spot, and it was still a place that no one went to because it had no characteristics. It gave him a strong sense of loss.
But to do things, the most important thing is to have a beginning and an end. Now that you've found your goal, it's a shame not to take a look.
After finishing his homework the next morning (the hard-pressed student party), Ryan packed his things and headed to the Devil's Mountain altar.
After spinning in the fireplace of Floo Net for dozens of seconds, Ryan appears in a small house hidden by magic. On the walls of the house are the instructions: If you want to take a dip in Lake Viti Tiu, change into Muggle clothes here.
Not far from the fireplace there was a counter where a middle-aged wizard in his 50s was dozing.
Ryan woke him up in the past: "I'm going to visit the Devil's Mountain Altar, can you rent a broom here?"
"Oh, another young man who has been pitted by the treasure legend, but unfortunately there are fewer and fewer people like you now. The middle-aged wizard said as he rubbed his sleepy eyes. "Rent 12 sicos a day and a deposit of five Galleons. With that, he took a broom that looked okay and put it on the counter.
After Ryan paid the money, he spent 3 Sike to rent a robe with a heating function and a goggles, after all, it was very cold to fly in the sky, and he was busy learning the Stuna Charm and some combat-related spells before, and he didn't have time to teach himself life spells such as the Thermal Insulation Charm.
This place is not far from the Devil's Mountain Altar, and you can even see the peaks that look like devils in a strange shape.
Ryan rode a flying broomstick, and it only took ten minutes to fly there, which was still because the broom was relatively old, and Ryan's piloting skills were also a bit problematic. If Harry had ridden his light wheel for two thousand, it would have been possible in five minutes.
Lowering the broomstick, Ryan discovers that the broom is parked at the beginning of a small gravel path. He lowered his broom and followed the gravel path to the altar in the direction indicated by the signs on the side of the road.