Hogwarts: What are the four great masters doing?

According to her theory, when soul magic reaches that level, the boundary between life and death will theoretically be crossed.

She will be able to give soul to matter - whether it is a stone or an alchemical tool, she can create their soul out of thin air, or use the soul to change and affect the matter.

And there is no doubt about it.

Now Dean Olivia is talking about the blood soul magic of her grandmother, the 'Blood Queen'.

The theory, from what Ryan roughly listened to, was apparently concerned with the concepts of both matter and soul.

The only difference between the two seems to be that Ravenclaw first influences matter through the study of soul magic, with the focus on the soul.

The Blood Queen's research is to influence the soul through the material "blood".

This undoubtedly made Ryan extremely curious.

"Have you found any inheritance about this kind of magic?"

he asked.

After hearing this question, Olivia also sighed.

In fact, that was exactly why she asked Neville to call Ryan over.

"I haven't found any—it's complicated, to be exact."

She said softly, "After greeting my mother, I went to my grandmother's former study... which also served as her library, and contained a large collection of books."

She said so.

"Ever since my grandmother disappeared, few people go there... Only my mother and I are allowed to go, but there are so many books in there."

"I searched in there for a long time, but I couldn't find my grandmother's systematic magic book—she probably didn't leave any behind."

"I only found a few fragments of my grandmother's legacy in some minor book fragments...but my mother and I couldn't understand them at all."

She said so and pointed casually.

Ryan saw a stack of documents flying out of a handbag on her desk, like a bird flapping its wings.

Ryan took the information.

He just glanced at it briefly.

His body straightened instantly.

At this moment, there were clearly strings of complex runes written on the information.

【ㄈㄨˊㄨㄣˊㄣ...】

It was a complex and ancient rune, and outside of the runes there were some letters and numbers, and even pictures.

"My mother and I thought it might be my grandmother's research records, but we couldn't understand it..."

Dean Olivia's voice was almost blurred in Ryan's ears at this moment.

Because at this moment, Ryan's heart was in extreme shock.

Because he recognized the runes and words on it - to be more precise, he recognized this encryption method!

"Ravenclaw's original encryption method..."

That's right.

The encryption method on this page is the unique encryption method of Ravenclaw - this most knowledgeable witch also has extraordinary achievements in this area.

As a Ravenclaw disciple, Ryan was very familiar with this encryption method.

So much so that he could understand the meaning of the top line of text at first glance.

[Royna is here. She asked me to complete the final experiment of soul magic for her. The experimental material is one of her magic apprentices.]

I heard about him—a pathetic, ugly man.

[This makes me miss Ryan. If he were here, the situation wouldn’t have developed like this.]

[It happened so suddenly, and her choice was decisive - I can understand her. For the sake of her daughter, embracing death is not unacceptable.]

I was going to laugh at her, but considering she was going to die... I didn't do it in the end.

[However, this will bring the plans of Rowena and the other three forward... The vampires must also be prepared.]

Below this text is text written in another font.

[Experimental Log-1]

[The curse is quite powerful, and the more powerful the wizard, the stronger the effect - Death is always so greedy]

[Experimental Log-2]

The curse's effects began to ease, and the subject barely managed to break free from the pain and despair, but he was still unstable. I doubt it would stabilize unless someone like Rowena took on the curse for him. But honestly, Rowena's decision not to kill him was already a great mercy.

[Experimental Log - 3]

My guess is correct. The unique flow of magic in the blood of magical creatures is also part of their souls. Blood is the currency of the soul. Both belong to the aspect of life.

[By using a variety of bloods with strong vitality and positive emotions, we successfully prevented the complete 'collapse' of the experimental subject's soul. I think this is a very important step.]

[The flaw is that the subject's soul becomes extremely extreme. I think...]

Looking at these contents, Ryan naturally had the answer in his mind.

Dean Olivia's guess was not wrong at all - this thing was the research data of the Blood Queen.

But at the same time, it is more than just research data.

It is also something close to a diary and a notebook.

And the content recorded in it was even more shocking to Ryan.

First of all, the experiment recorded in this document seems to be an experiment conducted by Ravenclaw and the Blood Queen together.

"Sometime after I left, a Ravenclaw teacher found her again and started this experiment."

"The content of the experiment is to conduct a soul experiment using one of Ravenclaw's apprentices as the experimental material."

These few lines were almost shocking to Ryan.

He wasn't surprised that Ravenclaw had an apprentice.

Because actually, it's not that weird.

'Apprentice' and 'disciple' are two completely different things in the wizarding world.

The former only follows the wizard to learn some basic magical knowledge, and provides help when the mentor needs it. Most of the help they need is just some hard labor and parts that are not of much value.

Apprentices have no access to a wizard's true knowledge, the most core things - to be honest, an apprentice is actually more like a subordinate or even a servant.

But disciples are different - disciples are the continuation of the wizard's magical path, and the relationship is closer than that of offspring.

In fact, when Ryan was still a thousand years ago, the four giants actually had some apprentices under their command. Most of them were students with relatively outstanding talents in Hogwarts.

So what really surprised Ryan was Ravenclaw's attitude towards this apprentice!

You know, that witch is not a Slytherin.

Although she has a cold temperament, her nature can actually be described as kind.

Normally, Ryan would never believe that she would use the soul of her apprentice as experimental material.

The Blood Queen's subsequent records further confirmed Ryan's guess.

According to the Blood Queen's records, it was not difficult for Ryan to guess a fact - the apprentice must have made some extremely despicable and ugly mistake.

The source of that error seemed to be a curse—one that would cause the apprentice to lose control of his emotions, falling into despair and pain.

And it was in this state of despair that the apprentice made an unforgivable mistake, and that mistake...

Related to the daughter of Ravenclaw.

"Helena..."

Ryan murmured the name under his breath.

At this moment, he could hardly control his emotions, which was extremely rare.

The girl flashed back in his mind.

That beautiful, lovely, elegant and generous girl.

She and Ryan grew up almost together, and they studied with the Big Four since they were young.

He almost considered her his sister.

And the thought that a Ravenclaw apprentice might have hurt her in some way... Ryan even found it difficult to control his emotions.

What Ryan couldn't accept was...

Based on the description in this record, it was not difficult for him to guess that Helena was not only likely harmed by the apprentice, but was also likely to have been cursed by a similar curse to that apprentice.

"Curse—according to the records, the curse seems to directly affect the soul, is related to death, and is extremely powerful."

And there is no doubt about it.

This obviously very special curse gave Ryan a strong sense of déjà vu almost instantly.

"The curse that Voldemort was struck with."

He almost immediately thought of the curse on Voldemort.

It also acts directly on the soul and is equally powerful. Even the legendary wizard Voldemort could not break it and could only barely avoid death by cutting his soul.

The two are obviously too similar in description.

And considering that the curse was so powerful that even Ravenclaw couldn't break it, the word "similar" could be directly replaced with "consistent".

There aren't many curses that can render legendary wizards helpless—at least this is the only one Ryan knows!

but...

"Isn't that curse mastered by the Slytherin teacher? No...that's not right..."

Ryan thought so, and soon discovered the problem.

He had been overlooking one point.

That is, Slytherin left a trap in the first chamber of secrets, which led Voldemort to a place where he was infected with a dangerous curse.

Ryan originally thought that the curse must have been cast by Slytherin.