Hogwarts: From Selling White Peppers to Becoming a God

Chapter 366 Black Ship

A desiccated corpse, now covered in flesh and blood, rose from the terracotta coffin. Only one eye remained intact in its socket, and that eye stared at Harry.

"My heir, what have you done?"

Harry ignored him and glared at Murphy resentfully. Suddenly, the six-pointed star magic circle on the ground lit up, and Slytherin's body, which had just crawled out halfway, froze.

In Murphy's magical vision, the magical color belonging to Voldemort on his head suddenly swelled up, and countless fine threads emerged.

The thin threads twisted and grew, reaching into Slytherin's magic like the tentacles of an octopus, as if roots were growing in the soil, burrowing into Slytherin's magic, gradually dividing it and gripping it tightly.

"Magic parasite..." Slytherin managed to utter in a hoarse voice.

Now that Slytherin had awakened, Voldemort no longer had time to deal with Murphy and immediately activated the six-pointed star magic circle.

He didn't even have time to summon the Basilisk. Since he was already missing Lucas, the seven-in-one plan for today was obviously impossible. So he decided to merge the most important Slytherin first.

Slytherin's magic color was close to the same deep purple as the Virgin Mary's, and their magical level was higher than Voldemort's. They shouldn't have been controlled by Voldemort in the first place.

However, his body was turned into a Horcrux, and when he returned to this time through the passage, Voldemort's soul fragments were already embedded in his soul, just like a foreign parasite mistaken by the immune system as its own organ. His magic was unable to recognize the other party's magic and destroy it.

However, under the influence of the six-pointed star formation, the opponent placed him in the position of a sacrifice, allowing them to launch an attack against him.

Slytherin was horrified to discover that his magic was being assimilated by Voldemort.

Murphy glanced at Voldemort and Slytherin's situation and then paid no further attention. His focus was not on them, but on searching for the Virgin Mary.

Voldemort's plan unfolded completely unexpectedly. At this moment, there was no absolute conflict of interest between him and the other party. Murphy had not forgotten that his fundamental goal in coming to the school was to kill the Virgin Mary. The fleeting feeling he had just experienced was the first time he had detected any trace of the Virgin Mary since entering the school. He had to determine its location first.

Compared to this, Voldemort's priority is somewhat lower.

However, there was nothing resembling a portrait in this hall, so where could the Virgin Mary be hiding?

Under the magical vision, Voldemort's magical colors and the students' magical colors filled the entire hall. If you looked closely, the magical channels of the hundreds of students resembled a blooming chrysanthemum, with their magic connected to the pistil—that is, the six-pointed star magic circle.

The magic of hundreds of people was mixed together, and the colors of the magic were so bright and dazzling that they were beyond Murphy's ability to distinguish.

However, in the instant he looked over, his eyes seemed to catch a glimpse of a tiny, extremely purple color. It wasn't the large patch of purple over Slytherin's side, but rather a very small patch of color in another location.

Although it was very inconspicuous among countless magical colors like blue, green, and yellow, like a dot among hundreds of thousands of pixels, Murphy still noticed that something was amiss.

Extreme purple, a magical color close to ultraviolet.

That was magic far beyond the level of ordinary students; it shouldn't be there.

Even Voldemort didn't have this kind of magical aura. It was somewhat similar to Slytherin's magical aura, but still different.

Upon closer inspection, under optical vision, he saw something with an ultraviolet hue.

Slytherin's pendant.

That's it!

The locket is a Horcrux, but you can put a small photograph inside it.

The Virgin Mary was hiding in the locket!

God knows how that guy managed to hide there!

However, just as Murphy discovered the location of the Virgin Mary, the tiny violet hue in the locket suddenly expanded, and the illusory image of the Virgin Mary emerged from the locket, even startling Voldemort.

The ghostly figure lowered its eyes and opened its hands slightly, chanting a spell as if incantation: "Ferryman of the afterlife, Ship of Morgan, take away the treacherous thief..."

Screw you!

Murphy flashed to the side of the locket and reached out to grab it, but the six-pointed star magic circle emitted surging magic power, repelling him like a tidal wave and pushing him away.

He extended his finger, and a spell emanated from his fingertip, striking the locket. The spell was weakened by the magic of the magic circle, and although the locket was undamaged, it was still opened by the power of the spell.

A small portrait is placed in the middle.

That guy's really good at dodging!

If it hadn't revealed a slight flaw, it would have been really difficult to find it amidst the chaotic magic.

But now that it has been found, Murphy is naturally not going to let it go.

He drew a specially made wand with a core structure that was custom-designed so that Murphy wouldn't need to tune his magic himself; as long as his magic passed through the wand, it could generate a magic frequency specific to the Virgin Mary.

He had already made this preparation before coming to Hogwarts.

But before Murphy could aim his wand at the pendant, Voldemort, thinking he was about to attack his Horcrux, unleashed a magical shockwave, forcing Murphy to cast an armor spell to defend himself.

Just a moment's delay, and then a sudden change occurred.

Trapped within the six-pointed star magic circle, Slytherins struggled violently, wailing hoarsely, "It's coming...it's coming..."

Amidst the thick fog, the silhouette of a large lake suddenly appeared in mid-air.

The lake drew closer, and the sound of rushing water could be heard. A large black ship drifted from the lake, with a long black-haired figure standing at its bow.

Suddenly, a chain shot out from the ship, with a huge iron arrow with barbs at the end. In the next instant, the iron arrow emerged from Slytherin's terracotta coffin and pierced his upper body from behind.

"No, no!"

Slytherin roared, but the chains snapped back instantly, pulling a transparent figure out of the half-dried, half-flesh corpse.

Less than a minute after climbing out of the spirit world, this former wizarding tycoon's chance to experience the real world expired.

Furthermore, because he was connected to Voldemort by the six-pointed star array, Voldemort and his Horcruxes were also pulled down into the abyss passage behind the terracotta coffin.

Murphy was also startled by the chains on the black ship.

Directly pulling the soul to the spirit world, isn't that equivalent to an Avada Kedavra?

What the hell is this thing?

"The Anchor of Souls!" Just then, Dumbledore and Grindelwald finally found a way in. They were both surprised by what they saw, but Dumbledore recognized the chains.

This thing is exactly the same as the spell he used to imprison Grindelwald.

Anchor of the soul?

Acting on the soul?

In mid-air, Voldemort was also struggling desperately, but he was surprised to find that he could not break the connection with Slytherin and could only let the iron chain drag him toward the Black Ship like a string of potatoes.

Voldemort instinctively felt a surge of fear; at this moment, he felt closer to real death than ever before.

Even the students whose magic was channeled into the six-pointed star magic circle seemed to be being pulled by those magical lines, with pale blue shadows appearing on their bodies, and their souls being torn away from their bodies.

"We must destroy this magic circle. No matter how many incarnations or fragments a soul may have, the Soul Anchor will take them all with it. But these students are only connected to Voldemort through magical bonds," Dumbledore said. "Breaking this magic circle will sever their connection."

(End of this chapter)