Hogwarts: From Selling White Peppers to Becoming a God

Chapter 173 Tom, Go Become the Savior!

Harry?

Harry seems to be the simplest option, since he did obtain the Philosopher's Stone in the original story. However, if the Philosopher's Stone is just a trial, then Harry completed the trial the moment he obtained it. If he wants to get the Philosopher's Stone from Harry, he might have to confront Dumbledore directly.

Moreover, Harry is someone Dumbledore will be watching closely throughout the entire process, and Dumbledore may directly intervene if he realizes Harry is about to interfere.

Unless, of course, Dumbledore's entire arrangement was solely for the purpose of protecting the Philosopher's Stone, without any further monitoring or intervention of Harry and the entire process, then it's still possible.

But if that's the case, he can just go and get it directly without any problem, and he doesn't need an agent at all.

Let's consider the worst-case scenario.

Harry had no choice but to give up for the time being.

Quirrell is being directly controlled by Voldemort and cannot move.

Professors like Snape are too difficult to deal with; we'll have to choose from the students...

Navee?

That's so stupid.

Ron?

too weak.

Hermione?

Perhaps we could consider...

As I was thinking, a thought suddenly popped into my head.

There's a guy we might be able to use.

"The diary, no, Tom. It's been a long time."

……

In the secret room, Murphy took out a diary that had been gathering dust for a long time.

Today, through his research into various forms of mind magic, Murphy has roughly figured out the principles behind the diary.

Besides being a Horcrux housing a piece of Tom Riddle's soul, it can also steal the magic and life of its owner by establishing a psychological connection with them. In that case, the diary becomes like a magical parasite residing in the owner, able to perceive the world through the owner's senses and even search the owner's memories for its own use.

This is Voldemort's trump card for resurrection.

However, just as Legilimency can be blocked by Occlumency, this mental connection must be based on the other person's trust in the diary.

If the other party does not trust the diary, their mind is as if it has been sealed off by a brain lock-in technique, and the diary is powerless to help.

Murphy's trust in the diary is always zero, so no matter how many lies he writes in the diary to Tom, he will not be controlled by Tom, and Tom will not be able to perceive the outside world through him.

Furthermore, once Tom believes his lies, he might even use this relationship to control the other party.

After all, communication is relative; who says you can't scam a con artist?

At that moment, Murphy opened his diary.

He switched to a cheerful handwriting and wrote on it: "On July 31, 2089, General Angel Bolton gave me this notebook. He told me that it is a notebook with thoughts, and not to believe its words easily."

Diary entry: "Hello, I'm Tom Riddle. It's nice to meet you. What's your name?"

"You do indeed have thoughts, but I won't tell you my name. I'm just a recorder. General Bolton asked me to document our battles. He said only this immortal diary can remember these things forever."

Diary entry: "...Okay. Who is General Bolton?"

"He was the previous owner of the diary. He was a great man; it is said that he was once an orphan who escaped from Night City to avoid being killed in a witch hunt. He also helped us escape the Arasaka Group's pursuit; he was the savior of wizards."

So after that guy learned a bunch of spells from me, he ignored me for ten years?!

There's a sense of frustration in keeping a diary that feels like it's been taken for free.

Damn it! He must have guessed that I could gain power through communicating with him!

He even warned the new guy, telling him to get something for free too!

Damn it!

I'm so angry I don't want to talk.

But the writer didn't seem to care, and would update a diary entry from time to time.

"December 2, 2089. We found another group of survivors who had hidden themselves more than a thousand meters underground using the Shrinking Charm and the Unseen Stretching Charm. But the Arasaka Group's magic monitoring network still found them. General Bolton led us in a rescue operation, and we ultimately saved twelve people, all children. The thirty-seven adult wizards among them all died covering the retreat."

Total known survivors: 127.

"February 12, 2090. We discovered mechanical worker bees near our camp and began our migration."

"On March 5, 2090, they encountered the intelligent war machine. Five wizards died in battle."

Total number of survivors: 122.

"April 1, 2090. A spy satellite carrying a magic monitoring network tells us that the satellite's surveillance range covers more than 97% of the globe, and from now on any spellcasting outdoors will attract the direct attack of 'Skyfire'."

"Our wands are locked."

"On May 11, 2090, three unmanned combat aircraft spotted us, summoned a swarm of aircraft, and the camp was bombed."

"13 people have died. Total number of survivors: 109."

"On May 13, 2090, the intelligent network predicted our location for Apparition, where an ocean of intelligent machines awaits us..."

"27 people have died. Total number of survivors: 82."

"May 14, 2090, escape."

Sixteen people died.

"May 17, 2090, escape. 11 people died."

"On May 19, 2090, 18 people died."

「2090年，5月20日，9人死亡。我们摆脱了智化机群。倖存者总数：28。」

That's terrible...

That's so tragic...

I don't know what to say in my diary anymore.

The wizards of this world live a life more lowly than the rats in the sewers.

They were clearly a group of exiles, but they were being hunted down and couldn't even mount a proper counterattack.

Is this the future?

Is this future something I created?

Even though he didn't feel any remorse, he still felt immense pressure. In a world like this, what good would it do for me to be resurrected?

"On May 23, 2090, General Bolton spoke to me and said that if he and two other adult wizards died, I would be the oldest of the remaining children, and I would be responsible for leading them to continue their escape."

"But where can we escape to?"

"There is no place for us in this world anymore."

"General Bolton said, 'Go north, there is a way for us to survive.'"

"On June 3, 2090, we began our journey north, our destination being the Scottish Highlands."

"We each took the wolf-transforming potion. It was left behind by a great prophet."

"We turned into a wolf pack and evaded the spy satellites."

"On August 19, 2090, we arrived in the Scottish Highlands. But the intelligence had been leaked, and a vast mechanical army awaited us, including mechanical wizards capable of casting spells..."

"We resisted... but we were constantly annihilated..."

"General Bolton gave me a magical artifact, a broken time-twister. He told me it was my last hope, and that I should take the diary to the ruins of Hogwarts Castle in the Scottish Highlands, where I could reverse time and awaken the Wizarding King once more..."

"Everyone is sacrificing themselves, while I'm just barely surviving..."

"I've arrived at a dilapidated mansion, but I'm still far from the castle... Ahead lies an endless army of mechanical soldiers... I can't get any further..."

"This is my final end, the end of a wizard's life."

"Tom, are you watching?"

"I wrote these words in despair."

"Because after I die, you will be the last wizard in the world."

"Tom."

"I know you're not a good person... You'll become a demon king who ultimately destroys our world..."

"But I've run out of options..."

"I can only rely on you..."

"If you were also a wizard..."

"Tom, please save us..."

I will open my heart to you.

"I would give my life and everything I have, just to bring you back to life."

"I will use the last time-changer in my hand to send you back to the past, while everything is still salvageable..."

"Go and steal the Philosopher's Stone, Tom."

"That's the trump card that can turn everything around, that's the tool that will make you the Wizard King."

With great power comes great responsibility.

"I trust you."

"Even if you are a demon, since fate has brought you to my side, to this moment, it must be for that inevitable arrangement."

Suddenly, the diary sensed a heart that was completely open to it, a heart that could even take everything from the other person.

At the same time, the last line appeared in the diary.

"Tom, go and become the savior."

(End of this chapter)