Hogwarts: From Selling White Peppers to Becoming a God

Chapter 344 Digital Ascension

"I almost killed Professor McGonagall, and Arthur Weasley... he's Ron's father..."

"They used to be my friends..."

"And I did something that can never be forgiven."

"I am no longer their friend."

"I betrayed them."

It turned out to be the case.

That's why Lucas felt he was using her as a tool. Objectively speaking, sending Lucas to deal with the Order of the Phoenix seemed to completely disregard her feelings.

Murphy frowned. "I'm sorry, I didn't think it through. It's really inappropriate for me to ask you to do this."

The Order of the Phoenix has many capable agents, and among the experts he can use, Lucas is the most reliable. At the same time, he is also in charge of Plan B. Given the circumstances at the time, having Lucas in charge of annihilating the Order of the Phoenix was indeed the best choice in Murphy's mind.

It's estimated that Lucas himself wasn't aware of this risk at the time.

Harry Ron and the others played a significant role in Lucas's awakening, and therefore Lucas deeply cherished his friendship with them.

"You don't need to blame yourself too much. Killing Sirius was an accident. If anyone should be held responsible, it should be me."

"I was the mastermind. It was my conflict with the Order of the Phoenix that led to Sirius's death."

Lucas's brow remained furrowed.

"Professor, is it really a good thing to know how to love and understand others?"

“Of course,” Murphy said. “Even from the most pragmatic perspective, these things can help you better predict and judge other people’s behavior. Why do I ask?”

"I often feel exhausted. In the past, I could carry out my ideas without any scruples and ignore the feelings of others, but now, I seem unable to do so. I have become hesitant and restrained..."

Murphy thought for a moment and said, "We can understand this problem from two perspectives, Lucas."

"First of all, you've just entered this completely new field. It's like having some new rules added to a set of familiar, simple rules. Naturally, you'll need some time to adapt. This is both normal and an essential part of progress."

"In the past, you may have been able to ignore the feelings of others, but those feelings did exist."

"Just like some ditches and obstacles on the road ahead, you can't see them in the past. Although you can stride forward because of them, you may also stumble and suffer a great loss."

"Purity is a wonderful quality, but ignorance should never be encouraged."

"Secondly, from another perspective, you now have an additional standard to measure your own behavior. Because this standard aligns with people's aspirations for good qualities, we can simply call it a moral standard."

"Once you set such a standard, you believe you should reach that standard and become a better person. But what you're doing now makes you feel like you're still as despicable as you were in the past."

Lucas looked at Murphy intently and nodded.

"But Lucas, many things in this world have nothing to do with morality."

"Killing Sirius was not something you did willingly; it had nothing to do with your will. And even if you did do it willingly, it wasn't for any despicable purpose."

"Our conflict with the Order of the Phoenix stems from our differing ideologies and different understandings of the same issues. It's an ideological clash arising from differences in our beliefs, from differing perceptions of our future aspirations and directional views. We may be able to determine who is right and who is wrong, but we cannot judge it by moral standards."

"Moral standards are only suitable for measuring everyday, mundane situations, but what we and the Order of the Phoenix are currently facing is a fundamental structural conflict that goes far beyond the everyday."

"So, you just haven't mastered the application boundaries of this newly learned standard yet; you've expanded it too broadly."

Lucas seemed to understand, but ultimately nodded slightly. "I think I understand some things, but I don't quite understand them either. However, I feel much better. Thank you, teacher."

"Don't you think I'm lying to you?" Murphy smiled.

Lucas's cheeks were slightly flushed.

"Even if you are a liar, you are the most brilliant liar in the world. Just as you said, people always live in their own world. Even if my life is really just a complete lie, if I can't see through this lie, then what's the difference between it and the truth?"

"So, teacher, if you are really deceiving me, then I hope you can let this lie continue until my last moment."

Murphy frowned.

No, that's not right. What I meant was to help you take initiative.

But somehow, when it comes to you, you have this yandere vibe.

What's wrong with this girl?

"Teacher, let's start moving."

Okay, if we keep talking like this, the Virgin Mary will really have to run away.

Murphy suppressed the urge to treat the other person's psychological problems and focused on the task at hand.

However, there wasn't much for him to do. The Horcrux transfer was mostly done by Lucas himself, and Murphy only reminded him of the most crucial hardware location.

"Let someone bring the death row inmates here..." Murphy said.

"No need, teacher." Lucas smiled. "Killing is merely to shake one's own soul. Sirius, that's enough."

"See you later, teacher."

Murphy nodded. "Be careful."

"it is good."

Lucas drew his wand and chanted a long incantation.

The creation of Horcruxes is also a magical ritual. Killing, chanting spells, and objects are all elements of the ritual. Therefore, Voldemort would choose items that have special meaning to him to create Horcruxes.

After a long chant, she pointed the spell at her chest, and then her body suddenly went limp.

Murphy reached out and supported her, not too worried; it was an inevitable process.

Lucas's soul fragments still remain in the Horcrux, so the Horcrux is her true form. Her physical body is actually just a shell for the magic or spirit that the Horcrux drives. Therefore, if the Horcrux malfunctions, she will "go offline".

The indicator lights started flashing, and countless fans turned up their power and ran frantically. The noise in the server room instantly increased by more than ten decibels, and the power consumption of the entire server room increased several times in an instant.

On a screen in front of Murphy, countless characters flashed frequently. Sometimes it was an entire line of programming language, but more often it was meaningless gibberish.

The transfer of Horcruxes naturally involves a large flow of magic, which can lead to errors in the precision calculation unit.

If we were to use this supercomputer to perform addition calculations, out of ten thousand additions of one, there would certainly be dozens or hundreds of times when the result would not equal 2.

"Bang!" A large number of GPU chips in a server rack overloaded, burning out the circuitry, and a burnt smell wafted over.

The huge precision air conditioner was running at full capacity, but the cold air it blew out turned into hot air after a few breaths.

Damn it, I should have used a water cooling system.

Or perhaps we could move the next supercomputing center to Siberia.

As these thoughts were swirling in his mind, the shrill hum of the fan suddenly stopped.

The entire server room went dark in an instant.

Immediately afterwards, a line of text appeared on the screen.

"I did it! ヾ(≧▽≦*)o"

Murphy frowned, looked down, and sure enough, saw that Lucas had woken up. But the latter still had his usual indifferent expression, his eyes calmly looking at him, seemingly without any ripples.

No... Sister, you're so excited to be using emoticons, how come you still look so calm?

Mood and expression are separate matters, right?

I have a feeling that this apprentice's illness has gotten worse.

(End of this chapter)