Chapter 174 The Final Trial and the Eve of Resurrection

The last step of the ancient magic trial was simpler than Cyrus had imagined.

Although the black wizard named Sen Balka did not trust Cyrus, he had no choice but to tell Cyrus the content of the trial due to the existence of Voldemort.

He had to bring a fierce purple-horned beast to open the door of the secret room.

Coincidentally, there were two purple-horned beasts among the batch of magical animals that Newt had given to Cyrus before.

This is a very powerful magical animal. It may not have too many special abilities, but their skin is no less than that of a fire dragon. They are immune to most wizards' spells, and they are very large. When they sprint, they are like a high-speed locomotive, which can smash mountains and boulders into pieces!

At this moment, the two purple-horned beasts knelt down on their front legs and bowed to Cyrus.

Cyrus' eyes flashed with noble and majestic golden light, like a king standing in the sky.

After bringing the purple-horned beast to the secret room, Cyrus got the last memory and the token stored in the meditation basin without any hindrance.

As expected, this memory is still about Morgana. The witch finally embarked on an irreversible path. She cast a spell to strip away her father's pain and turned him into a body without emotions. Her eyes seemed to be covered with a layer of shadow.

But Morgana didn't care about it. Not only did she not repent, she even cast the same spell on her students. The huge negative emotions were sealed under the ground of Hogwarts by her fairy mithril, like a bloody, bleeding and beating heart!

The four guardians wanted to stop her, but they were not Morgana's enemies. In the end, Sen Balka cast the killing curse, took Morgana's life by sneak attack, and sealed the terrible magic power gathered under the ground of Hogwarts.

The specific location is right below the Pavilion of Knowledge!

But the only thing that made Cyrus feel strange was that Morgana's father and Fitzgerald had both had their negative emotions extracted by Morgana. Why did Morgana's father become a numb living corpse, but Fitzgerald seemed to be unaffected? Those students who were cast by Morgana did not seem to have heard of the irreversible tragedy that followed.

"Is it the difference between having magic and not having magic?"

After returning to the Knowledge Pavilion, Cyrus asked Fitzgerald about this question, but the witch denied his guess.

"It's not like that. People's emotions cannot be completely deprived of all at once. It's like the rising and falling tides. Morgana pulled her father out of the pain of loss, but it could only temporarily relieve his grief, like the tide that recedes after the moon disappears. But it will eventually spread again."

Cyrus understood what she meant.

At the beginning, the magic extracted only an emotion, but if this magic is not restrained, people will completely lose the ability to perceive emotions, or even lose emotions themselves. It was because Morgana repeatedly extracted the pain in her father's heart that the tragedy occurred.

"You have completed four trials. Before we open the door to the last secret room for you, you need to make a special wand with the four tokens you collected before." Rookwood reminded.

The tokens that Rookwood mentioned are obtained together with memories. Whenever the guardian's memory falls into the meditation basin, a spiral ball of light emerges from the meditation basin.

Speaking of custom wands, the first thing that came to Cyrus' mind was to go to Germany. But this is a bit too far, Ollivander's wand shop is also a good choice.

This is the first time Cyrus has returned here since he blew up Gringotts.

The gate of Gringotts that was blown away by Voldemort and the dome that was blown open by the flames of the dragon explosion have been repaired, but the goblins standing at the gate have listless faces, as if someone owes them a lot of money.

And they are not good to anyone now. Even the wizards who plan to deposit money in Gringotts are constantly watched by them with vigilant eyes, as if they suspect that the other party is another hidden dark wizard who intends to steal their money.

"It seems that the two attacks have made the goblins very sensitive." Cyrus laughed.

This is a good thing for him. The goblins have such a bad attitude towards wizards who deposit money, not to mention wizards who plan to withdraw money. In the long run, who is willing to deposit their property in Gringotts?

This matter has been handed over to Lucius, and Cyrus is not too worried. The only thing that may change is the situation in the British wizarding world in the future. Especially when Voldemort is resurrected, it will be a huge challenge for the wizard bank.

Of course, it is also an opportunity!

"Lucius should be allowed to hide undercover in Voldemort's place for a while, and transfer the property of those pure-bloods here." Cyrus thought. After Voldemort died, those people would be liquidated sooner or later, and the excuse of the Imperius Curse would not be used a second time. At that time, the property of those people in the bank would naturally be equivalent to ownerless property.

The more Cyrus thought about it, the better he thought this plan was, especially for a character like Lucius. Cyrus would not be of much use if he kept him around, but if he put him on Voldemort's side, he might be able to make Voldemort feel uncomfortable.

And he was not worried that Lucius would betray him. As long as he controlled Draco and Narcissa, he would not be afraid that he would not surrender.

With that in mind, Cyrus knocked on the door of Ollivander's Wand Shop.

The interior of this small shop is much larger than it looks from the outside, with boxes of wands in boxes displayed on the shelves, with thousands of them on display. Judging from the number of British wizarding children entering school in the next year, I am afraid that it will be enough for the Ollivander family not to continue making wands for several generations.

The old shopkeeper saw Cyrus and immediately greeted him.

"Okay, do you want your wand to be maintained?" He looked at Cyrus uncertainly.

Ollivander was not that familiar with the appearance of "Tom Riddle". He had only seen Tom once when he was in school. Later, when the terror of Voldemort enveloped Britain, his appearance was completely different.

Not to mention, Cyrus now has a different hair color and eye color.

"I want to customize a wand." Cyrus took out the guardian's token, "I have prepared the materials."

He handed over the materials, which immediately caught Ollivander's attention.

"I've never seen anything like this."

Ollivander looked very surprised. Those guardian tokens now looked like metal and crystal. Ollivander fell into it and showed great interest.

Although he usually only uses materials from three magical animals: fire dragon, phoenix and unicorn to make the core of the wand, this is also the result of long-term comparison. Now a new material that has never been seen before makes him Can't wait to try some.

He even avoided the high cost of customizing the wand.

The wand took some time to make, and in the meantime, Cyrus could only wait.

At the same time, in the manor where Death Eaters gathered.

Bella and the other Death Eater elders who escaped from Azkaban felt very tormented and anxious. They originally thought that they had the deep trust of the Dark Lord and thought that once the Azkaban prison break incident was announced, the Dark Lord would immediately summon them, but this did not seem to be the case.

Although the pain from the Dark Mark became stronger day by day, the imaginary call did not appear.

So much so that those Death Eaters who had betrayed them secretly laughed at them. Bella pulled out her wand and cast a spell to punish them severely.

And their wands were naturally found by Lu Xiu with great effort.

"Why hasn't the master contacted us yet? Could it be that he is dissatisfied with our failure?" Augustus Rookwood paced back and forth in the manor in fear. He was also a loyal believer of Voldemort, but now it seems that Voldemort seemed to be disappointed with them.

After the fall of Voldemort, although these people did not surrender, they were quickly defeated. Perhaps it was because of this incompetence that Voldemort was disappointed with them.

"Maybe the master just doesn't know we're back yet!" someone said.

This guess apparently convinced Bella.

"I have long said that there should be a corpse reappearance!" Bella said crazily, "Let's go to the Ministry of Magic now, kill those Aurors and officials, and then release the Dark Mark!"

She was not proposing, but announcing. As she spoke, she had already reached the door of the manor, but an old voice stopped her.

"Calm down Bellatrix." An old Death Eater stood up and stood up.

He is about the same age as Voldemort, and he is an old member who has followed Voldemort since he was in school. Perhaps because the prison break is earlier than in the original work, this old man is still alive.

At this moment, he held a newspaper and spread it out in front of everyone. The person exposed on the newspaper was Cyrus.

"The master didn't summon us. He obviously had his own ideas." The old wizard said, "As the master said, he has gone further than anyone else on the road to eternal life. Twelve years ago, everyone Everyone thought he was dead, but it turned out that he had returned!"

The old wizard slapped the Daily Prophet with his withered palm, which also attracted the attention of the Death Eaters.

Although the Voldemort of more than 20 years ago has changed drastically, if you look carefully, you can still see a little bit of similarity in Cyrus's wanted poster.

The old wizard put away the newspaper, and then said: "What we have to do now is to wait quietly for the master's call, so as not to break the master's plan."

As his words fell, even though Bella had a lot of dissatisfaction in her heart, she didn't dare to make a big mistake because of her moment of enjoyment.

At the same time, another sharp voice suddenly sounded in the crowd, like an eagle appearing among the ducks.

"Speak wisely, Mr. Bulstrode."

A down-and-out man with scars on his face who looked thin appeared in the crowd at some point. Nearly a hundred Death Eaters immediately became alert and raised their wands to point at the man.

"Remus Lupin?!" Lucius's pupils shrank, obviously he didn't expect why this person would appear here. Could it be that Dumbledore discovered his affairs?

If that were the case, that would be terrible.

"Remus Lupin? No, it's me, Barty Crouch!" The flesh on Lupine's face bulged, and in a series of changes, he took on another look.

Everyone is familiar with this face, one of the Death Eaters trusted by the Dark Lord, Barty Crouch!

However, seeing this face was more surprising than seeing Lupin.

No one put down their wands, and some even had green sparks coming out of their tips, ready to fire spells at any time!

"Barty Crouch is dead!" Rosdorf took a step forward with a gloomy face. The young Death Eater died not long after entering prison, and they knew this better than anyone.

"Are you sure that the person who died is really me?" Barty chuckled, "Would you like me to remind you that if you die after drinking the compound potion, you will not change back."

When he said this, the Death Eaters immediately understood that Barty Crouch, who died twelve years ago, had been replaced by someone else. At that time, the real Barty Jr. had escaped from Azkaban.

This answer caused dissatisfaction among many Death Eaters.

"You left Azkaban for twelve years?!" Bella rushed to Barty Jr. with a bad tone and grabbed Barty Jr.'s collar. Her nails were twisted due to long-term torture, and their nails were thick and ugly gray.

"Why didn't you go find the Dark Lord?!"

"Ever since I escaped from prison, I have been serving the master!" Little Barty was not afraid at all. He was even a little contemptuous. "I saw your escape from prison published in the newspaper. Who planned it?"

There was an accusatory attitude in his tone, which made the Death Eaters who had originally proposed to rob the prison suddenly dare not reply. On the contrary, it was Lucius who took the initiative and took on this responsibility.

"I am the one who gathers them."

"Very good, Lucius." Barty Jr. glanced at Lucius strangely, as if he didn't expect that the other person had such courage. However, Barty Jr. did not say anything more about this, but reminded him.

"No matter what, the master is making his plan now. He doesn't want to fail due to any stupidity. Therefore, you'd better do nothing until you get the master's call."

After saying that, he didn't care about the mood of Bella and others, and directly used Apparition to leave the manor.

Little Barty traveled several times before returning to Hogwarts.

"The master has returned from France. The medicine and body needed for resurrection have been prepared, as well as that trash Karkaroff. Now all he needs is Harry Potter's blood, and the master will be reborn!"

His eyes were full of excitement and excitement, and he licked his lips excitedly, as if he couldn't wait any longer.

In the Death Eater's manor, Bella and others thought Barty Jr. was talking about Cyrus.