Hogwarts: From Selling White Peppers to Becoming a God

Chapter 365 Resurrection

Murphy saw Lucas.

She appeared to have lost consciousness and was bound to one corner of a six-pointed star magic circle.

"Voldemort," Murphy said, looking at Harry, "What are you trying to do? It can't be that you're actually going to resurrect Slytherin, can it?"

"Ah, Slytherin," Harry laughed, "I did borrow his ritual."

As he spoke, he pointed to the pottery coffin beside him, "He's right here."

Murphy looked toward the ceramic coffin, his gaze piercing through the ceramic walls to reveal a mummified corpse inside.

At this moment, the corpse was rapidly growing flesh and blood as magic was channeled into it. At the same time, an extremely deep passage opened behind the corpse. When Murphy looked over, he seemed to see an endless desert, a desolate ocean, and a fortress that appeared and disappeared in the mist. After that, he also saw a shadow.

The shadow was creeping darkly along the passage opened by the students' magic and life, crossing the distance between life and death from an unknown spiritual realm, attempting to return to the material world.

"This Chamber of Secrets is Slytherin's masterpiece. He connected a small part of the spirit world with the material world and placed his own body in this Chamber."

"With enough power, one can break through the barrier between the mortal world and the spirit world. With a small coordinate, he can locate his position in the spirit world and use that magical channel to return here."

"Of course, this involves countless complex black magic spells, which even I cannot fully understand, but he is close to succeeding."

"When they founded the school, they chose a location where magic was most active, and such places are usually closer to the spirit world, which is why Slytherin built the Chamber of Secrets here."

"And where would be more suitable to find enough wizards to be sacrificed than a school? There are thousands of young wizards gathered here, and they have almost no ability to resist the powerful magic."

Murphy looked at him. "But resurrecting Slytherin is clearly not your goal."

He stared at a spot on the corpse that bore the same magical color as Voldemort's. "You turned this body into your Horcrux?"

"You can see it?" Voldemort asked, somewhat surprised. "You seem to possess a very unique ability to observe. Harry Potter's memories mention a technique for observing magical power, is that right?"

Murphy didn't deny it, but glanced at the room's layout. At the corners of the six-pointed star array, besides Lucas, there were two Voldemors standing at the other two corners. One was about sixteen years old, who should have been resurrected through the ring, and the other was about eighteen years old, with bloodstains all over his arms. He was the one Murphy had encountered before.

In another corner, there was a pendant, and another corner was empty. The terracotta coffin seemed to have been moved from its original central position to the last corner.

"I guess the last corner is the basilisk?" Murphy asked.

"Ah, you guessed it." Voldemort laughed. "Indeed, seven is a magical number. And to accomplish this, I must divide my soul into seven pieces."

"Then, let them each gather their magic to fill the gaps in the soul, and then combine them into one."

"In this way, I can break free from the shackles of this world and become the greatest wizard in history... just like Merlin before me, becoming the god of wizards."

"And to do that, I need a little deception."

"Seven ordinary souls alone cannot break through what limits our power, unless one of the souls comes from a thousand years ago, in an era when the oath was not yet fully widespread."

"After leaving the school, I studied a lot of Slytherin information and finally discovered the true purpose of the Chamber of Secrets. It was not to purge the Muggle blood in the school, but to build the Chamber of Secrets for his own resurrection."

"In fact, I'm glad I didn't completely open the secret room when I was younger."

"Because, if I'm not mistaken, the Slytherin heir, as his bloodline, will act as a 'coordinate' and vessel in this ritual. If I open the Chamber of Secrets then, I'll likely become his puppet."

"But now I have surpassed my ancestor. I have seen through his plan. I have attached a fragment of my soul to his corpse. Slytherin will be resurrected on his own body and then become my nourishment."

Murphy frowned; he understood.

Voldemort was one of the most talented wizards in history. He reached the "ceiling of wizarding" early on, and he wanted to break through it by using the power of Horcruxes.

Horcruxes can be resurrected by absorbing the magic of others through certain means. The seven soul fragments are the power of seven Voldemorts. If they could be combined into one, theoretically the total amount of magic should exceed that "ceiling".

However, this method was too simplistic and crude. To ensure success, he even turned Slytherin's body into a Horcrux.

Since Slytherin lived over a thousand years ago and was not bound by that "ceiling," when Voldemort's soul fragments combined with Slytherin's soul, which had returned from the spirit world, they also possessed the ability to break through the ceiling.

Then, it merges this soul fragment with the other fragments into its main body, thus achieving its breakthrough.

Horcruxes are essentially a kind of invincibility cheat, allowing Voldemort to defy death and attempt many extreme measures. However, Horcruxes cannot increase magical power, so he created seven. His first Horcrux, the Diary, possessed the ability to absorb the magical power of others and resurrect, laying the foundation for his magical power. But simply increasing magical power might still not be enough to break through the ceiling, so he turned his attention to his ancestors.

This act of resurrection is reminiscent of Murphy's use of the Mind Seed on Albert Lencoon's corpse to transform Tom into Lucas's shadow.

Murphy felt it was quite feasible.

"Are you still going to stop me, Professor Murphy?" Harry looked at him.

Murphy hesitated. On the one hand, he was curious to see if Voldemort's methods were feasible, and he also wanted to know if this method could break through that "ceiling," since he was also constrained by it, and Voldemort's actions could provide some reference for his own predicament.

But if they don't stop him, Lucas and his students might have to sacrifice themselves.

After thinking for a moment, Murphy smiled. "You keep calling me Professor, but are you really just Voldemort now?"

Harry was taken aback.

Just then, a lightning raven landed on Lucas's head. The next second, a burst of electricity burned through all the ropes binding her, and then with a bang, it disappeared from the spot with her.

Ultimately, Voldemort's actions can only serve as a reference, not Murphy's own path. For Murphy's own path, Lucas's role as a "quasi-general artificial intelligence" is actually very important.

It's not worth risking your own things just to watch the spectacle.

"Damn it!" Harry roared, raising his wand to attack Murphy.

"Ho—"

But at that moment, a terrifying gasp suddenly rang out from inside the pottery coffin, followed by a withered hand covered in age spots reaching out of the coffin.

At that very moment, Murphy had a sudden thought.

He finally sensed a trace of the Holy Mother's presence.

It's right here!

(End of this chapter)