Hogwarts: What are the four great masters doing?

But he was eventually conquered by the great Gryffindor himself because of his evil attitude, and among those who participated in the conquest was the legendary heir of Gryffindor.

Of course, even for the Bloody Baron, this was just a rumor - because he entered Hogwarts relatively late, and the heir of the Big Four had disappeared.

However, as he roared, the blood mist around Bloody Baron turned into a thick wall at this moment.

It barely blocked the powerful spell and became entangled with the Grim Reaper's scythe.

After seeing this scene, Ryan also raised his eyebrows.

He thought to himself, "As expected."

His previous feeling was obviously correct - the Bloody Baron was different from other ghosts.

He apparently still managed to retain some of his magical power, and was even able to influence the spells cast by wizards.

but...

That is obviously meaningless.

But after a moment, the bright red blood on Bloody Baron's body was suppressed by Ryan's magic.

"what!"

Seeing this scene, Bloody Baron also let out an angry growl.

His figure suddenly flew away, as if trying to escape through the wall of the auditorium.

but...

As soon as he turned around, he noticed the abnormality around him.

The dome and floor of the entire church turned dark and ominous at this moment.

At this moment, Filch and his cat were suddenly swept away by Ryan's magic and flew out of the hall.

The Bloody Baron's fleeing figure crashed into the dark space the next moment.

Then, his ghost body that could pass through all matter suddenly stopped.

"Soulless Abyss!"

Ryan walked towards him, wand in hand.

"You think you can escape the blame by becoming a ghost? You're dreaming!"

Ryan's voice was cold.

As the heir of Ravenclaw and Slytherin, he is proficient in quite a few soul spells and dark magic.

Many of them are extremely cruel, even evil.

For example, the same is true for the 'Soulless Realm'.

This ancient magic can temporarily extract the souls of all creatures within an area and trap their souls within the area, making it impossible to escape.

The body without the soul will gradually die - this spell often appears in the tombs of some ancient and powerful dark wizards.

And obviously...

"It's fitting for you—for today, this will become your grave..."

Ryan looked at the Bloody Baron.

"who are you!?"

At this moment, Bloody Baron's voice was filled with obvious panic and violence.

"What is your relationship with Helena? Did she ask you to take revenge on me?"

"I've apologized to her, I've repented, I didn't mean to do that... I just lost control of myself."

He didn't even have time to finish his words.

Because the next moment, a huge fist condensed by magic power hit him.

When 'Star Soul Incarnation' is cast, the magic power around Ryan can directly damage the soul at this moment.

He knocked Bloody Baron to the ground with one punch.

"revenge?"

"I'm sorry—I don't think revenge is the right word for her killer."

Ryan said blandly.

"I usually call this—just revenge!"

As he spoke, he kept waving the wand in his hand.

Countless magical powers gathered into fists, continuously bombarding Bloody Baron.

The ferocious ghost screamed continuously - it was obvious that the magic power in him might make him different from other ghosts.

But when facing a wizard like Ryan, he still doesn't have many means of resistance.

And the next moment...

"So... let me see, you bastard—what did you do?"

Ryan's hand grabbed the Bloody Baron.

His magic began to spread towards the Bloody Baron's soul - after what happened with the Longbottoms, he was already very familiar with this act of exploring other people's souls.

The only difference is.

Previously, whether it was the Longbottoms or the remaining soul of Lily Potter, Ryan had carefully explored the memories hidden in their souls in a relatively gentle manner.

But when it came to Bloody Baron, Ryan used almost brutal methods without hesitation.

This caused the Bloody Baron to let out a sharp scream at this moment, and Ryan was able to see his soul.

It was a broken, even devastated soul.

An ominous, dark pollution lingered in his soul.

Ryan was no stranger to this kind of contamination—it was very similar to the contamination caused by the despair in the hearts of the Longbottoms when their souls were shattered.

But the taint within the Bloody Baron's soul was far stronger than that—much stronger.

The emotion that contaminated him was not despair, pain or any other negative emotion.

Because Ryan didn't feel anything from it - all he perceived was a quiet, deathly calm.

While feeling that calmness, Ryan even discovered that the emotions in his own soul and his magic power became as silent as death at this moment.

His soul seemed to be dragged by a vast and grand thing, and it wailed as if it was overwhelmed.

Fortunately, Ryan, as the incarnation of Star Soul, has stronger control over his soul.

So in an instant, he immediately gave up exploring the pollution and withdrew his perception.

And when his perception was completely withdrawn, he felt the emotions and feelings begin to return to his mind.

"curse..."

At this moment, Ryan was still a little scared.

He naturally understood what that strange erosion he had just felt was.

That must be the same curse that the Bloody Baron was struck by, and most likely the same curse that Voldemort was struck by.

This was also the thing that most surprised Ryan.

In his original estimation, he had some guesses about the effect of this curse.

He originally thought that the effect of this curse might be to intensify the negative emotions in one's heart, and directly lead to the collapse and disintegration of the soul, and inevitable death.

This speculation is undoubtedly reasonable - Voldemort's almost crazy behavior pattern can serve as evidence.

But now he found that the facts seemed to be just the opposite.

This curse brings complete emptiness to the cursed.

Ryan had no doubt that the human soul would also collapse in the emptiness where it seemed to be one with death and no longer had any emotions.

It reminded him of his discussion with Newt about the Obscurials.

At the time, Newt and he had been curious - when negative emotions accumulated to a real limit, would what would come next be empty numbness?

And now, this curse seems to be the embodiment of that emptiness.

"So, Voldemort's overly violent personality wasn't caused by the curse—quite the contrary. Voldemort's almost insane personality was most likely a necessary choice he had to make in order to fight the curse."

This is not difficult to guess.

Because Ryan had also seen in the Blood Queen's research notes that after the curse on the Bloody Baron was suppressed, he showed extreme obsession with Helena.

This may be the price one must pay after being cursed - they must use extremely strong emotions to offset the numbness brought about by the curse, as if everything is extinguished.

"Mr. Slytherin... where on earth did he find this curse?"

Ryan became more and more curious about this question at this moment.

And there is no doubt about it.

The answer to this question was right in front of him.

Ryan did not hesitate and began to check the Bloody Baron's memory amid his painful howls.

Then, the life of the Bloody Baron began to flash before his eyes.

Kalgar Barossef was born in a small village in England.

He was a pure-blood wizard - in fact, his parents were cousins, which meant that Calgar was one of the purest blood families even according to today's concept of pure-blood families.

That's why Calgar is proud of it.

"My body is strong and pure, and so shall my descendants be."

He was proud of his bloodline - of course, in that era, the concept of pure-bloodism was just in its infancy, so he didn't have much ill will towards half-blood wizards. He just felt that he was nobler than them.

At the same time, he had longed to find another equally, or even more noble, witch as his partner since he was young, to pass on his proud bloodline.

He had heard of Hogwarts at that time.

of course.

In that era, the concept of magic school was not deeply rooted in people's minds - for example, Calgar himself was taught magic by his parents himself.