Hogwarts: What are the four great masters doing?

There seemed to be helplessness in her voice.

"Remember—you are special, you are unique, and the closer you get to death and the truth, the more blurred the line between life and death becomes."

"Dangers and enemies will come one after another. You must find something trustworthy... I believe you have the vision."

"We'll do our best to hold them back and ensure you don't encounter too many enemies... until you come here and fight alongside us once again."

As she spoke this.

"Okay, Rowena...it's about time."

Ryan heard the voice of Hecate Alanthel again in the message.

"The reflection on the other side of the curtain may have..."

She said this, and the message from Ravenclaw ended there.

And at the same time...

"Buzz!"

The blood in Bloody Baron's body, which was constantly flowing and changing, also began to run wild at this moment.

His ghostly body suddenly twitched violently, and the blood that made up his body flowed out of him as if being stirred by invisible hands.

They kept circling in the air and finally gathered in front of Ryan.

Ryan saw a drop of blood fall on his robe and then disappeared.

"Ah ah ah ah ah ah ah!"

At this moment, Bloody Baron let out a huge, painful roar.

Ryan saw that at this moment, his soul began to disintegrate and rot at a speed almost visible to the naked eye - a dark, empty and ominous curse surged in the depths of his soul, like maggots on a corpse.

His indifferent expression changed in an instant from indifference to endless, intense pain.

But at this moment, his extremely painful eyes were looking at Ryan.

"You are...he...you..."

He seemed to want to say something.

Maybe he was expressing his hatred for Ryan, maybe he wanted Ryan to convey his guilt, or maybe he just wanted to ask for help.

But in the end, he couldn't say anything.

Before Llane, he saw the Bloody Baron's soul like a rotten piece of wood—his entire soul began to fall apart.

Every inch of his soul began to decay, as if his skin had been drained of blood and began to dry up and crack.

The huge, empty darkness seemed to turn into a robe, covering everything about him.

"..."

Ryan widened his eyes, looking at the changes in the soul of Bloody Baron in front of him in disbelief.

He knows...

"Soul decay."

What the Bloody Baron was experiencing at this moment was the special transformation he had investigated that happened to non-existent beings such as Dementors and Obscurus.

He called it 'soul decay' - as the name suggests, it is the irreversible decay of the soul.

Ryan watched as the Bloody Baron's eyes gradually became less like those of a human—he became empty, like death itself.

For just a moment, he almost became something like an Obscurus and a Dementor.

But that's still not all.

In front of Ryan, the transformation of the Bloody Baron continued.

The curse within his soul continued to take effect.

He continued to decay, to shrink, and to collapse.

First comes the concept of the five senses, then the concept of the limbs, then the concept of the head, then the concept of the body, and finally... the concept of 'individual'.

That's right.

When everything comes to the end.

In front of Ryan, the individual once known as 'Bloody Baron' no longer existed.

Instead, there was a dark mass that could no longer be called an existence.

It is like a piece of rag, or a cloud of mist.

He's even less formed than a Dementor or an Obscurus.

And it was at this moment.

Ryan seemed to hear the sound again in his ears.

That was the grand, overlapping sound he heard before when he touched the Resurrection Stone.

“Come…come…”

"Let us...become one..."

The voice said.

At the same time, Ryan's hands suddenly began to tremble uncontrollably.

He can sense it.

That was the Resurrection Stone in the ring in his hand - at this moment, when that voice appeared again, this one of the Deathly Hallows seemed to begin to tremble.

It seemed as if something was trying to struggle out of the Resurrection Stone.

But the next moment...

"..."

The rotten decay continued.

Along with the last trace of Barrow left in the world - the dark fog dissipated without a trace.

Then, the sound also disappeared into thin air.

Everything in the entire auditorium returned to its original state.

Ryan's hands also stopped shaking.

All except one Hogwarts ghost is gone forever.

It was as if nothing had happened.

"..."

At this moment, Ryan was looking at the key in front of him.

There was an almost unconcealable flicker of horror and confusion on his face.

Of course, he would not show any mercy to the demise of Bloody Baron's soul.

Again—he never intended to forgive the Bloody Baron.

People always have to pay the price for their choices - what the Bloody Baron did to Helena, the pain he brought her was real.

And Ryan can also see it clearly through the memories of the Bloody Baron.

Although Bloody Baron's behavior at that time was indeed affected by the curse to a certain extent.

But the true effect of the curse was not to make him kill anyone, but to amplify his inner negative emotions and even erode his soul.

The reason he killed Helena was essentially because he had such dark thoughts in his heart.

He lost control of himself, and Ryan thought he deserved to die.

Ryan had no extra mercy or sympathy in this matter.

What really surprised Ryan was Ravenclaw's message and the changes in the Bloody Baron's soul just now.

First, a message from Ravenclaw.

She anticipated the changes in the Bloody Baron - this was not surprising. After all, the fact that the Bloody Baron, who was cursed by that curse, could exist until now was due to the joint experiments of Ravenclaw and the Blood Queen.

Even from the subsequent situation, it can be seen that the existence of Bloody Baron as a ghost itself relies on the special blood magic in his body.

And after this magic got out of control, he should naturally be swallowed by the curse.

What surprised Ryan was what was revealed in Ravenclaw's words.

She said the magic within the Bloody Baron was a key—and it was.

Ryan remembered the drop of blood that had just flown onto him—that was obviously the so-called key.

According to Ravenclaw's message, she said that this key could guide Ryan to find Hecate Alanthel - this sentence was obviously very crucial.

"Lady Hecate stayed..."

This sentence is enough to illustrate a fact.

That is, the Blood Queen Hecate seems to still exist on this side of the veil.

She is not dead, but has actually survived from thousands of years ago to the present day.

And this key is the clue Ryan uses to find her.

This is undoubtedly of great significance - because now Ryan can be sure that the Blood Queen should be one of the people who knows everything for sure!

In addition, the more crucial thing is Ravenclaw's last message.

That seemed like a prophecy, or a hint.

And from it, Ryan could smell the scent of many things.

For example, the thing that puzzled him the most before was why Dumbledore, Nicolas Flamel and the Big Four always seemed to be reserved when speaking to Ryan.

Ravenclaw's message clearly pointed out part of the reason.

Everything in the world of the living has a reflection on the other side of the veil - just like ghosts, whose essence is the reflection of the souls of the dead.

This also explains...

"If there is a powerful, unspeakable entity on the other side of the veil, it is the enemy of the teachers."