Hogwarts: From Selling White Peppers to Becoming a God

Chapter 363 Soul Weapon: The Basilisk

But as soon as he finished speaking, a cloud of black smoke suddenly shot out from the passage and came to Harry's side, then transformed into a young man with Tom Riddle's face.

"Dumbledore and another guy have broken in..."

Before he could finish speaking, a phoenix darted out of the passage, followed by a flash of fire, and Dumbledore and Grindelwald appeared simultaneously.

"Tom." Dumbledore glanced at the young man, then looked at Harry in shock, asking incredulously, "Harry? Is that you?"

"Dumbledore," Harry suddenly said with a look of delight, as if relieved by his arrival, "Professor, you've finally come."

However, at that moment, a beam of green light suddenly shot out from behind them towards Dumbledore.

"Albus, watch out!" Grindelwald shouted, then raised his wand, lifting several stone bricks from the ground and spinning them into a black iron shield that blocked the spell behind Dumbledore.

A boy who looked about sixteen or seventeen years old walked out from behind a stone pillar, with the same familiar face.

"Tom..." Dumbledore stared in shock at the two Tom Riddles, "You really did it? How many times did you split?"

But his attention immediately returned to Harry. "What did you do to Harry?"

Murphy was also a bit overwhelmed by the chaotic scene.

Including Lucas and Harry, he saw a total of five Voldemorts today!

This is practically stirring up Voldemort's nest!

"Professor, this Harry isn't Harry anymore; he's been controlled by Voldemort," Murphy explained simply. "The fact that he hasn't run away after seeing us means he must have some other plans. Let's take him down together."

According to Voldemort's statement, he must have taken control of Harry shortly after Sirius's death a year ago, but he still returned to the school and created so many clones, so he must be planning something.

"It's too late, Professor." Harry suddenly burst into laughter, then turned to the poolside. "Come out, my friend."

Suddenly, the water rippled, and a huge black shadow rapidly rose from the surface. Then, with a "boom!", the pool burst open, spraying water like a waterfall onto everyone. One of the enormous snake shadows raised its head and let out a piercing roar.

"It's a basilisk!" Lucas shouted. "Don't look into its eyes!"

The basilisk's eyes are imbued with powerful instant-death magic; whoever looks into them dies. Even through glass or other objects, it can petrify people. Even Murphy didn't know if he could withstand such an instant-death effect, and he didn't want to try, just as he didn't want to personally take the hit of an Avada Kedavra.

However, even with his eyes closed, the image of the basilisk was still clearly reflected in his magical vision.

Almost instantly, Murphy felt a tremendous sense of crisis, as if his body and soul were about to be frozen and turned into a lifeless thing.

Petrochemicals.

It is not a "hardening" like the petrification curse that makes the body stiff, but a real turning of living beings into stone.

Suddenly, Murphy was surrounded by lightning, and then transformed into a demon with wings on his back, instantly relieving the feeling of being petrified.

His Animagus avatar was complex, including a petrifying lizard component, giving him a strong resistance to petrification. In addition, he avoided making direct eye contact with the basilisk under his magical vision, which prevented him from being petrified.

However, he also understood the essence of the basilisk's instant-death effect through its eyes. This was a highly pure and specific transformation magic that could turn any creature that looked into its eyes into stone.

In terms of its magical abilities, it belongs to a superior species of petrified lizards.

Faced with the basilisk, everyone immediately seemed to be cursed with "blindness" and had to close their eyes. Murphy couldn't even close his eyes and had to look away.

This was the first time he had discovered that Magic Vision had such a side effect.

Harry and the other two Toms naturally wouldn't let such an opportunity pass, and immediately unleashed the Killing Curse upon them.

Fortunately, even without seeing, Murphy could judge the situation with his powerful hearing. He dodged the attack in a flash, then pointed a finger at the basilisk, and two wind blades shot towards the basilisk's eyes.

The basilisk twisted its body, and with two loud "bangs," two wind blades struck its head, but it was as if they had hit extremely hard steel, and they didn't even scratch its skin.

Murphy knew that this thing could defend against magic; even dragon skin could defend against spells to some extent, so it was impossible for the basilisk's thousand-year-old scales not to have this function.

Therefore, he used wind blades, which are physical attacks.

Although these two wind blades are not particularly noticeable, they can easily cut through trees as thick as a person's embrace. Even though the basilisk is tough and thick-skinned, it shouldn't be unable to inflict any damage.

But the next instant, the glimpse he had just seen through his magical vision returned to Murphy's mind. He froze, "You turned the basilisk into a Horcrux?!"

Yes, just a moment ago, in his magical vision, he saw the center of the basilisk's head, where the magical color was different from the rest, but exactly the same as that on Voldemort's body.

In the original story, this guy turned the giant snake Nagini into a Horcrux. Now, he's gone a step further and actually turned the basilisk into a Horcrux!

The basilisk was already very strong defensively, and now that it has become a Soul Weapon, it has received an epic-level enhancement, making ordinary spells completely ineffective against it.

Moreover, this guy is huge, and his eyes are so sharp that anyone he glares at dies. He's practically the strongest shield and the strongest spear!

Tsk, this is a bit troublesome. I should have taken it down back then.

The main reason is that this thing has survived for over a thousand years and its eyes have powerful magical effects. Murphy was hoping to capture it and study it someday, so he couldn't bear to part with it. But unexpectedly, Voldemort beat him to it.

"Choo!" With a high-pitched bird cry, the phoenix pounced on the serpent monster. As an immortal bird, it was not afraid of the serpent monster's eyes. It wanted to pounce on it and peck out the monster's eyes.

But with three Voldemors present, it was impossible for him to succeed. In fact, the Basilisk seemed to have become much smarter. It dodged the phoenix's attack and then unleashed several spells at Fawkes, forcing him to abandon his attack.

Both Dumbledore and Grindelwald had their eyes closed, but Dumbledore had the vision provided by Fawkes, while Grindelwald was able to evade their attacks with his strange precognitive abilities. Thus, even with his vision sealed, he managed to fight Voldemort and his men to a standstill.

At the same time, Murphy summoned a flock of lightning crows to share his vision with Lucas, who then attempted to disrupt the basilisk's actions using the Parseltongue.

For a time, no one in the secret room could do anything to the other.

After Harry's several unsuccessful attempts to kill Dumbledore with spells, he frowned, stopped fighting with the others, and went to the statue of Salazar Slytherin at the back of the Chamber of Secrets.

It faces the huge stone statue and hisses as it opens its mouth.

But Lucas understood what he was saying.

"Great Salazar Slytherin, the offerings are ready; enjoy your resurrection feast!"

(End of this chapter)