Hogwarts: What are the four great masters doing?

"A sufficiently powerful or destructive spell, especially one that harms the soul—a powerful enough dark magic, for example—can destroy it."

Ryan naturally had no intention of hiding anything: "For example, the Fiery Curse."

"What are you waiting for?"

And Harry quickly said: "Destroy it!"

He said excitedly - he almost jumped for joy at the thought that he had destroyed one of Voldemort's lives with his own hands.

He even wanted to go right up to Voldemort, point at his non-existent nose and tell him: "This is just the beginning, you villain - we will kill you again and again, no matter how many times!"

but...

"Not urgent."

At this moment, Ryan seemed neither anxious nor impatient.

"I still have some things to confirm."

As he spoke, he picked up the locket in front of everyone's surprised gaze.

"confirm?"

And his words undoubtedly left Harry and Sirius looking confused.

But at this moment, Ryan obviously ignored their meaning.

He just looked at the locket in his hand.

Powerful black magic is constantly trying to invade his body through the locket.

But obviously.

This trick might have been effective last year, but it has almost no effect on Ryan now.

Then...

"clatter."

Ryan opened the locket.

Then, Voldemort's roar became more and more intense.

Ryan could even see that there seemed to be a dark and twisted mist surrounding the center of the locket.

There was no doubt that it was Voldemort's soul.

But Ryan was not looking for him - unlike the Ravenclaw crown, the locket was also a relic of his mentor to Ryan, but it was not that precious.

At least now that Nicolas Flamel had gone to the other side of the veil, he had no interest in finding another alchemist and paying a huge price to remove Voldemort's soul.

This locket is doomed.

And what Ryan was searching for when he opened the locket was...

"found it."

The green gem in the locket.

At this moment, Ryan recalled what the basilisk Tamh had said to him.

Slytherin left two things in the first chamber of secrets, both of which were keys to the second chamber of secrets.

One of the items taken away by Voldemort was a green gem - and Slytherin once told Tamh that the gem needed to be placed in a special, memorable object that he carried with him to work.

As for the specific content, it is hidden inside the gem.

Ryan knew very well that Slytherin didn't carry much with him.

This locket is one of them.

And considering that this locket was obtained by Voldemort - or in other words, Voldemort may have been deliberately searching for it after graduation.

Ryan naturally became more suspicious.

At this moment, the green gem that was clearly present in the locket was enough to prove that Ryan's guess was correct.

"The gem and the locket together form one of the keys, and Voldemort already has this part of the key. All he needs is the one in my hand... That's why he attacked Filch not long ago."

Ryan murmured in his heart.

And at this moment, he was even very skeptical.

"Perhaps the mysterious man who left the clues in Filch's memory also intended to guide me to this locket - even though that would expose one of Voldemort's Horcruxes, he was willing to do so."

"He wants me to find the locket, get the clues within the gem, and then open the Chamber of Secrets... That person must know Voldemort very well and be trusted by him..."

Ryan could almost understand the whole picture of this matter in his mind.

And most importantly...

"This is a conspiracy."

Ryan is well aware of this.

That's right.

Even though he knew that someone might be behind this matter, Ryan had to follow the plan.

He really needed the clues inside the gem, and he couldn't give up.

This was a complete conspiracy - the person behind it had a clear grasp of Ryan's demands and Voldemort's trump card.

"That would be a tough foe."

Ryan muttered to himself.

But his gaze was now looking into the locket.

There was a row of runes engraved on the top of the locket.

Ryan naturally recognized the rune.

"Cautious, calm, ruthless, and powerful."

He recited the meaning of the rune.

Then...

"Buzz!"

He saw a green glow beginning to emerge from the gem in the locket.

obviously.

Even after being refined into a Horcrux, the magical effect of the locket still remained and did not affect the green gem - or perhaps Voldemort intentionally retained the magic of the gem out of greed for the Chamber of Secrets.

but no matter.

At this moment, Ryan successfully saw the glow from the gem after a thousand years, outlining two lines of words.

[Lesson 3 of Notetaking: The True Chamber of Secrets Exists in Nothingness]

Throw yourself into the reckless flames, the inverted hourglass and the combined blood will open its door.

The two lines of words flashed before Ryan's eyes.

This scene made Sirius and Harry look bewildered.

They certainly wouldn't know what was going on.

"Secret Chamber... What secret chamber?"

"Ryan? What is that?"

They could hardly help asking.

But the next moment, they noticed Ryan's face full of deep thought.

So, they immediately shut up.

And in fact.

Ryan was indeed thinking frantically at this moment.

Obviously, he didn't expect that the clue left by Slytherin would be such a 'riddle'.

Of course, this is not surprising - Slytherins often act in a mysterious way.

So after a brief moment of surprise, Ryan began to analyze this 'riddle'.

He first noticed a problem.

"The riddle never mentioned me at all—not even when it used the nickname 'heir of the Big Four'."

Ryan was aware of the problem.

This is certainly not normal.

Because logically speaking, these treasures left by the four giants were left to him, and they could have left traces of Ryan in the clues.

For example, Hufflepuff did this - the prophecy she left to the Centaurs, and the Thomases passed it on to Ryan, clearly mentioned the term "heir of the Big Four".

But there was no such message from Slytherin.

And besides this.

"The third lesson in the diary... is that my magic diary from back then?"

Ryan pondered in his mind.

He and Slytherin had a tacit understanding, so he immediately realized what the diary Slytherin was talking about - in the early days when he followed the Big Four to learn magic, he had a magic diary.

The four giants would ask him to write down some of his experiences and thoughts about learning magic in a diary.

Of course, depending on the personalities of the Big Four, this requirement may be more or less - for example, Gryffindor doesn't care much about these, he cares more about actual combat.

Slytherin attached the most importance to this. He even asked Ryan to write down every detail of each magic experiment and review it every day.

Over the long years, Ryan has read his diary countless times.

So at this moment, he quickly recalled the contents of the third lesson in the diary based on his memory.

"It's 'caution'."

Ryan concluded.

That's right.