Hogwarts: This Dark Lord is so evil.

Chapter 492 The plan has changed... He has completely become the Dark Lord!

"Your time is running out, Vader," Death sighed softly.

How could she not know that the hope was slim?

However, since this timeline has a chance to be saved again because of Li Weide, she has no reason to completely sit idly by.

"Could you be more specific?" Li Weide's voice was somewhat low.

"Ten years, at most ten years, Vader. In ten years, these demons will open this rift..." Death said.

"Ten years?" Li Weide was startled upon hearing this. "Tell me... how can I make sufficient preparations within ten years, without being able to intervene, and then face these endless demons?"

Looking at the densely packed demons on the ground, Li Weide felt a chill run down his spine.

If a wisp of consciousness can slip out and transform into a monster vampire like Cain, then what if these things actually came to us...?

Li Weide simply couldn't see any hope of winning in the world right now.

“In the other timeline, when Li Weide discovered this secret, there were less than five years left before the portal was opened… But now, at least I can tell you, and you still have ten years to prepare…”

"What changes occurred during this period?"

“You’re very perceptive, Vader. Yes, things have indeed changed. In that timeline, you didn’t completely wipe out the vampire race, and Cain didn’t escape back to the Tomb of the Ancients, so the real invasion would have occurred when your strength had reached a certain level… But now, with Cain escaping into the Tomb of the Ancients, the invasion has been brought forward considerably…”

"I haven't fully developed yet, and I only have less than ten years left..."

"But you have someone from another timeline to help you. You have a system..."

"This system isn't helping me as much as I thought!" Li Weide said irritably.

"So, you need to fix it! It contains the key to your godhood..."

Li Weide clenched his fists tightly, suddenly feeling a heavy burden on his shoulders that made it hard for him to breathe.

“I think you can do it, Wade… In that timeline, you almost succeeded… And in this timeline, you have a deeper foundation than your counterpart in that timeline, so you can definitely go further than your counterpart in that world…”

Li Weide remained silent for a long time before speaking again, "I still have many questions."

“Very good, I will try my best to answer any questions you may have…” Death looked at Li Weide with an appreciative gaze.

If it were anyone else, they would have panicked by hearing such a heavy secret.

However, Li Weide completely adjusted his state within a few minutes and found the information he wanted to know.

"First, how do I fix my system? Second, I need to understand why the demons are so determined to attack our world. Finally, can I take a demon's corpse back to study it now?" Li Weide asked the three questions that were currently of most concern to him.

Death nodded, then extended a long, slender finger and said, "Let me answer your first question. If you want to fix the system, you must first understand why your system is having problems... In the beginning, your system should have been running normally. If I'm not mistaken, the biggest change should have occurred after you first came into contact with the parallel world."

"What is the relationship between this parallel world and the system?" Li Weide asked疑惑地.

"Your system's power comes from its own merit point calculation program... In theory, as long as you have a positive impact on the world, you can receive merit points as a reward. Although there are countless worldlines born from this world, the system can calculate them using its own program, as long as it calculates its own worldline. However... this doesn't work for other parallel worlds. The intersection of two completely different parallel worlds only has that brief point in time, after which they gradually drift apart again. When the two worlds separate again from their close intersection, your system can no longer calculate the merit points you earned in that world."

"I also have merit points in other parallel worlds?" Li Weide asked in astonishment.

"Of course there are. For example, that time you stole Grindelwald's Elder Wand from another world, which greatly reduced Grindelwald's strength and allowed him to be defeated by Dumbledore more quickly. As a result, you committed far fewer evil deeds. Do you think your act of stealing the Elder Wand that time earned you any merit points?"

“Yes…” Li Weide had no choice but to nod.

"However, once that parallel world is gone, your system can no longer calculate the merits from that parallel world, and the malfunction naturally occurs. This is also because your time in that world was too rushed, which created such a vulnerability in your system, and you just happened to encounter it..."

Li Weide frowned and said, "Then how am I supposed to fix the system? Do I have to find that parallel world and then wander around there?"

"Of course you can do that, but the world lines are endless. If you miss that intersection, finding that world line will be almost impossible. But don't worry, there's another way."

"any solution?"

"As I told you before, at any given point in time, countless world lines can be born again... So, it's difficult to find a specific world line precisely, but it's quite simple to find a few of the countless world lines that were born after that point in time. As long as you find any few of them, you can reactivate the system's merit point calculation program."

Li Weide understood somewhat. The system malfunctioned because many merit points scattered across other world lines had not been successfully collected, causing the system to fail. Now, he needed to travel to those world lines; once he arrived, the system would naturally be able to collect all the merit points for that world.

Since all those world lines originate from the same point in time, finding one will allow the system to recalculate and reclaim a portion of the merit points.

To put it simply, it's about recovering the unrecoverable debts from other worlds, then getting the calculation results right, and once the calculation results are correct, the system returns to normal.

"So, which specific timelines do I need to find to completely repair the system?"

"You don't need to be precise to any particular line; you can find any one. You also don't need to perfectly recover all the merit points. As long as the merit point recovery rate reaches more than 70%, the system's calculation program can be repaired. Your system is quite remarkable; don't underestimate your abilities, Vader."

"How do you know so much about the system?" Li Weide asked again.

"Because when you from that timeline threw the system back, I examined it carefully... I must say, the design was truly ingenious. Moreover, you from that timeline also added some safeguards to the system..."

What preventative measures?

“You’re taking precautions against yourself, Vader. Haven’t you ever wondered why the system made you the Dark Lord, yet also made you accumulate merit points?”

Li Weide frowned in thought, and after a while, he looked up in astonishment.

"It seems you've already thought of that." Death nodded.

Li Weide sighed and said, "To combat this calamity, my strength alone is simply insufficient to save everyone. Therefore, to prevent excessive casualties, I must quickly integrate the power of the entire world and make preparations together. To achieve this goal, I can only become a ruthless Dark Lord and rapidly unify the world... However, he made me the Dark Lord to integrate power, not to truly turn me into a scoundrel. So... he set up a merit system, so that I can only receive rewards for doing good deeds, to prevent me from going astray... Tsk, this is really awkward, another version of myself..."

"It is a bit awkward, but isn't it also quite cute? Okay, I will provide you with a way to travel to other parallel worlds later, and I will also leave an anchor point for you at the time point in this world. So that you can return to the current time when you left this world."

"If I go to other parallel worlds, will time continue in this world?" Li Weide asked.

"Theoretically, time in this world will continue to advance, and a new worldline will emerge if you fail to return... However, I will try my best to intervene within my authority. I can give you ten days, which means that as long as you stay in each parallel world for no more than ten days, nothing in this world will change."

Li Weide was silent for a moment, then asked, "You can offer me so much help now, so why don't you offer help to me in that timeline?"

Death paused for a moment, then sighed, "Because even I thought you were about to succeed, I didn't interfere and just watched you silently. Unfortunately, at the last moment, a great demon named Lucifer joined in... At that time, even if I wanted to help, with my authority, it was already too late to turn the tide."

“Lucifer…” Li Weide was slightly taken aback, remembering the name he had given to his own intelligent ancient flame, and then asked Death about the relationship between this flame and that great demon.

"Although your system's rewards come from various timelines and seem unrelated to the Great Hell, that doesn't mean there aren't things from Hell. For example, Lucifer... You must understand that back then, you already had one foot in the realm of gods. Even if you in that world ultimately failed to defeat Lucifer, Lucifer wasn't unscathed..."

"So, Lucifer's consciousness is indeed related to that great demon, or perhaps it's the part I knocked off him?" Li Weide's eyes blazed.

“Very likely. I'm sorry, Wade, even if I were Death, I couldn't possibly see the truth of everything.” Death shook his head.

Li Weide nodded. The story of the Three Deathly Hallows also showed that Death was not omniscient or omnipotent.

Otherwise, the youngest of the three brothers could not have escaped death for so many years.

Li Weide closed his eyes tightly and took another deep breath of the sulfurous air. "It seems... I have to abandon my previous appeasement strategy..."

Li Weide needed to integrate the world's power in a very short time, so his previous strategy of slowly eroding ideology was no longer suitable.

He has to resort to radical measures, which he really doesn't want to do if possible.

Because this means that many people who were originally friends will stand against you...

He's really going to become the Dark Lord...

Because of his experience in Hell tonight, even if he told others, few people would believe him; they would only think it was an excuse for him to achieve his own ambitions.

Unless Death himself steps in to vouch for him, but...

If Death could stand up without hesitation, why would she need to bring me to Hell alone today to tell me so much?

She should have brought together the most influential people in the world!

(End of this chapter)