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Chapter 1114: Complete Dark Magic
🕑 Added 2024-05-15 14:00:08 +0000 UTC"Very powerful magic, isn't it?" said Riddle softly. "Slytherin has prepared everything, we just need to follow his arrangements. That's it; the key to activating this magic is his locket."
Evan took out Slytherin's locket, and the capital S on it also glowed faintly.
This locket had helped him many times, and it was also the reason why Evan’s magic power increased rapidly for the first time, far beyond that of his peers.
Apart from natural growth, it was difficult for a wizard's magic power to increase. This was not a problem that could be easily solved by reading many magic books or practicing magic many times.
Learning and practicing would allow a wizard to master more spells, become more powerful in a sense, and give full play to the power he already possessed, but fundamentally nothing would change, because there was still only so much magic in the body.
To become fundamentally stronger, one must increase their magic power.
The lack of a clear upgrade system for magic power had always been a source of inconvenience for Evan.
He had no way to improve his magic power through his own efforts and practice; at least not with the methods he knew of.
One could only passively wait for their magic power to increase with age, as was the case with other wizards.
It was like a container receiving water, slowly accumulating.
Generally, depending on the size of the container; the older the wizard, the stronger their magic power, reaching its peak between the ages of thirty and forty.
After a certain age, the magic power would gradually dissipate with the decline of the body's functions.
There was no way to quickly fill the container or make it larger other than passively waiting.
During the changes in history, wizarding cultivation methods had also been lost, which had kept the overall strength of today's wizards at a low level. They did not have the power to destroy everything, but they could use a lot of magic beyond imagination.
Otherwise, Voldemort would not have carried out dangerous magical transformation in order to make himself stronger.
Slytherin's locket could help Evan increase his magic power in a less dangerous way, not to mention that the locket had saved him many times. The magic left on it by Salazar Slytherin ensured this, which was the most rare and precious aspect.
"Obviously, the main soul once found this locket, but did not see the magic on it. The magic left by Slytherin is beyond the scope of our understanding. He must have thought that the patterns were just useless decorations," said Riddle. "He only cared about the significance represented by this locket, so he made it a Horcrux."
"You seem to have a soft spot for the things left by the Four Founders of Hogwarts?"
“That history is fascinating, isn't it?" said Riddle with a smile, pointing to what seemed to be an altar in front of the statue. "Come on, Evan, Dumbledore ordered that as long as you put the locket here, we can activate the magic to destroy the evil existence here."
There was a groove on the altar, the same size as the locket, and the groove was also engraved with similar patterns.
It looked like it could perfectly correspond to the patterns in the middle of the locket.
"Where is he?" Evan hadn't seen Dumbledore.
"Oh, he's down there observing the monster up close. If you want to go over and take a look, I don't object, but trust me, it's definitely not a pleasant experience," said Riddle, "especially for vampires."
"He's right, I do not want to go down and face that monster again," said Caresius. "Because of the connection in the blood, it affects us more than you can imagine. Elaine, you stay here too."
"I want to go see," said Elaine. Although she was afraid, she was still curious about that monster.
If you want to defeat what you fear most in your heart, you must first face it bravely. Holding back would only make things worse.
"Alright," Seeing the determination in Elaine's eyes, Caresius agreed. "You can go and take a look and see the fate and responsibility our family has borne for a thousand years, but you cannot leave the protection range of Evan’s Patronus..."
"Leave it to me," said Evan, and the light of the Patronus became stronger.
"If she loses control for a while, I think knocking her unconscious is the easiest way to deal with it," said Riddle in a smooth tone, pointing in the direction indicated by the end of the Slytherin statue. "Since the three of you want to go over, just follow this passage straight ahead until the end, where the creature's room is."
"You're not coming with us?"
"No, besides having a special effect on vampires, it also has a great impact on the soul. It's better for me to stay away from it," said Riddle with a smile. "You know, it wasn't easy for me to regain my freedom, and there's a lot I want to do. I don't want to disappear without a trace like that."
Evan stared at Riddle for a moment, then looked at Caresius.
"Alright, the three of us will continue to find Professor Dumbledore," said Evan. "Hermione, summon your Patronus."
Hermione nodded nervously, pointed her wand forward and shouted, "Expecto Patronum!"
Her Patronus appeared, and the barrier composed of white light almost became material.
"I'll go in the front later, and you two follow behind me," said Evan. "No matter what he tells you, don't believe him..."
Malfoy had been controlled by the eyeball monster before, but after he fell unconscious, he no longer kept getting hurt.
If they really couldn't resist, knocking them out directly wouldn't be a bad idea.
The five of them separated, with the gloomy-faced Caresius and the smiling Riddle forming a contrasting pair.
The phoenix Fawkes who had just been with them here, had disappeared somewhere. Evan, Hermione, and Elaine followed the direction indicated by Slytherin’s wand. After leaving the hall, they passed through a relatively small stone door, carved with exquisite patterns and seemingly meaningless words, which were Parseltongue.
The specific contents were unknown, perhaps recording methods of opening the stone door and Slytherin's warnings to later generations.
Riddle had apparently deciphered it, so the door was opened when it should normally be closed.
In the ruins under Aragog's lair, Evan had followed his descendants, a group of small spiders passing through the gaps in the rock wall.
In the center of the stone door were carved two intertwined snakes, their eyes inlaid with large, shining emeralds.
Not far above the snakes, there was a bat engraved, which was a feature that distinguished Slytherin's previous relics.
The bat's eyes were rubies, perhaps symbolizing Elaine's ancestors...
"Cooperation between snakes and bats?"
Behind the stone door, a long and narrow corridor extended forward into the darkness with no end in sight. Torches hang on the walls on both sides, seemingly recently replaced. By the light of the torches, they could see murals on the walls, depicting evil dark magic.
The ancient murals were abstract and eerie, but the magic on them was intact...
