Archaeologists at Hogwarts

Chapter 435 Heart and Moon

434 Heart and Moon

In ancient times, pure-blood wizards fought a war with Muggle-borns.

The exact details have long been unknown, and very little information has survived to this day.

For example, Muggle-borns built a city of their own inside Loch Ness to avoid the persecution of pure-blood wizards and to protect newborn children.

Pure-blood wizards regard Muggle-borns as cancerous tumors in the magical world, and must use extremely cruel means to torture them before they are willing to give up.

Thus, the captured Muggle-borns became devils.

This content that originally belonged to ritual magic was used as a punishment, and as a result, extremely rare human-shaped devils were born, instead of being in the form of magical animals like patron saints.

But little trace of the devil remained in the wizarding world, and few wizards later knew of their existence.

For the devils are all gone.

No matter who did it—a pure-blood wizard, a Muggle-born, or Merlin—couldn't stop Grindelwald's ambitions.

He saw Merlin on a full moon night many years ago, and since then he has started to study ancient magic—including the whereabouts of those devils.

He succeeded, hiding all the devils in his body, using himself as a container.

But the pain will still be passed on, and the devil suffers unbearable torture day and night, and these feelings will also be passed on to Grindelwald.

But he's figured out how to solve this problem—to get rid of all human emotions so that they can't continue to affect him.

Until he turned into a completely ruthless wizard.
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Slytherin's Chamber of Secrets.

Toby quickly came to the hall of the Chamber of Secrets, where there were still signs of the escape of Haierbo and Voldemort. Stones of different sizes were scattered on the ground, and a large piece of the foot of the Slytherin statue was missing. The guards were also injured to varying degrees.

The most serious thing was the armor. A part of its chest was sunken. It took Al a long time to repair it before he chiseled it back with a small shovel, but the surface was still pitted.

The reason for this injury is actually due to Andros's "credit".

Under the circumstances, Haier and Voldemort—mainly Haier, he needed to get out as soon as possible, and he didn't want to worry about the armor and Antioch who just kept shouting.

But at that time Voldemort was trapped inside the armor with the devil.

While Voldemort escaped successfully, the devil also escaped.

In order to prevent the devil from causing harm in the school, the armor finally got the hang of it—it didn't know how the two prisoners were able to escape, but it knew very well that it could not stop them by itself and Antioch.

Therefore, the rest of the time was spent on the armor and Antioch to contain the devil together, preventing it from escaping, and locking it back into the armor with great effort, so as not to cause more serious harm to Toby. trouble.

After Toby appeared, the insane Antioch skeleton greeted him with a roar, and then it continued to play with the stones on the ground with the cloth belt made by the mummy mask.

It seems to want to play the game of passing and catching the ball, but unfortunately the armor is unwilling to take care of it, and it turns a blind eye to the thrown stones. .

"Do you feel okay?" Toby walked over, looking at the dent on the chest of the armor and asked, "Have you experienced any symptoms such as difficulty breathing? Do you want me to dismantle your parts and let the goblins rebuild it again?" ?”

The face of the armor turned to Toby motionlessly. It couldn't understand what breathing was, but it still shook its head kindly, so that Toby didn't have to worry about himself.

Toby didn't go any further.

"Okay then, open the mask, I need to have a good chat with Andros."

The visor slashed across the top of his head, revealing the hollow in the armor's head.

Faint black smoke surged within the armor, and it couldn't escape outside.Toby had shown the students the magic circle on the surface of the armor as early as in class, which existed specifically to trap devils.

"Andros."

Toby scratched both sides of the visor, put his mouth close and shouted: "Invincible Andros, can you hear me? I know you have been inside the Mason Gate and brought back a special flame—— Merlin has already used up that little stuff, do you have any extra, I plan to talk to Merlin again——Andros, hello!"

It is impossible for Andros to have any reaction. As a devil, it is a completely different existence from the person in his lifetime-if wizards can become dementors, then they will only want to suck other people's souls after that. Instead of finding time to see your family or something.

Toby stood there silently thinking of a solution.

He really wanted to talk to Merlin - Death was everywhere, and he must know a lot of secrets.

The most important thing is that Toby wants to find out what Merlin is thinking, whether he has acquiesced in Grindelwald's actions, and whether he also dismisses Muggles.

And the devils.

In any case, they can be regarded as Toby's compatriots, and they should not be controlled by people like Grindelwald.

"The devil. Silently."

Toby murmured, and he suddenly thought of a method that didn't know the details - since Hai Erbo can use Arianna's silence to bring her back to life, can the devil also do the same?
The specific method is only known to Hai Erbo and Merlin, but Harry told Toby that Merlin would not teach him this method.

There are many reasons for his refusal.

At that time, if Angela wanted to get rid of her Horcrux identity, the best way was to let Hai Erbo kill her personally—but at the same time, Angela also needed to hold the resurrection stone, so that Haier Bo The one who really killed would only be his own soul, and Angela would not be hurt.

However, the resurrection stone has been destroyed, and Merlin also told Harry that there is a way to get Angela out of her Horcrux identity—that is, to follow the way of Ariana's resurrection again.

But in this cruel method, first of all, Angela needs to be forced into Moran, and then she must be killed, and then Moran is placed in the body of another "fairy in the lake" in a special way— ——No one knows where the fairy in the lake is, and Merlin also said that there is only one of them.

Unless Toby can find something else.

But even if it succeeds, it won't be the original Angela who will be resurrected, but a person with an empty mind.She will not have the original memory, will no longer remember Toby and Al, and will forget everything.

Except for Hai Erbo, no one has the ability to do this.

Even if there was, it would be very difficult to get rid of this cruelty.

So Merlin simply didn't tell them the specific method, and instead let Toby figure out a solution by himself.
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But the devil is different from Moran, Toby has no idea how to give Andros the ability to communicate.

He needs to understand the devil as soon as possible.

Grindelwald was able to appease so many devils in his usual state, and it certainly would not be an easy way. It is not enough to just get rid of emotions—not to mention that Grindelwald has not yet reached the level of thoroughness. The point of ruthlessness.

"The devil. How can I understand the devil better. The method of getting rid of emotions doesn't work for me, and I can't stop myself from feeling for anyone"

Thinking of this, Toby couldn't help but doubt—could Grindelwald really do this?

He is obviously a human being, but how could it be so cold that he doesn't look like a human being?

What kind of weird magic is this.

Over the years, how far Grindelwald has researched.

"It's good to live a long time."

Toby said with emotion: "If I can live decades earlier, maybe I will be the one who discovered the devil in advance-I can also become like Grindelwald, using myself as a container, and let the devil hide in it." Inside me. But now."

Toby stretched out an arm, and under his intentional control, the arm turned into black smoke while maintaining the appearance of the arm.

But when he touched the armor with this arm, he passed directly through it.

The armor thought that Toby was also going to play a game with him, so it put the mask back on silently, rubbing it secretly to express its rejection.

"Half Devil. Half Devil"

Toby kept chanting, and his thoughts became more and more.

Earlier, whether it was Al or the half-devil, Toby became what he is today in order to avoid the curse of death.

At that time, he didn't know the true identity of the god of death, but even if he knew, it was useless, because it was the god of death who cast the curse, not Merlin, these two completely different existences.

This is a curse that is difficult to explain. Generally speaking, it can make Toby vaguely feel his own death.

That might sound like a prophecy, but it's actually quite different.

Many prophecies cannot be understood before they actually happen, and the reasons for them are intricate, but the prophecy itself will have many explanations, each of which makes sense until it is finally fulfilled.

The curse of the god of death didn't have so many explanations, and it was easy for Toby to understand—it wasn't a sudden sign, it wasn't that Toby would die suddenly when the time came, but an unspeakable torture.

The feeling of dead silence will gradually fill his heart.

As for the specific method of death, Toby is not clear, after all, he has never died.

This is the price he paid for summoning the god of death by mistake when he was a child, and he has been targeted by the god of death ever since.

Only by using a very special method can Toby continue to live in this world.

First, Al, Toby found it in Mason's door, and brought it back to the outside of the door at the cost of losing the patron saint-this is a very wonderful feeling, Toby can feel that something is going on. It was stripped from my body little by little, and finally lost completely, and my heart was also emptied for a while.

But after getting acquainted with Al, this feeling disappeared, and there was a very special connection between them, not only the original patron saint, but also more feelings-this is probably the Mason Gate Credit, the things in it originally appeared because of emotions.

This incident allowed Toby to avoid the first curse.

From then on, he probably understood how to avoid the curse - he had to continue to pay the price.

Not just emotionally, maybe physically too.

So, when Toby found Andros' devil in the temple, he soon came up with a second plan - to turn himself into a devil through the special function of the Goblet of Fire.

Compared with Al, the change this time is more thorough.

With the help of Al and Angela, Toby reached the project without any risk.

He wasn't quite a wizard anymore, nor was he a true Muggle-born except at heart.

Toby has become a combination of the devil and flesh and blood, something that cannot exist naturally in the magic world.

It is worth mentioning that there is the same legend about Merlin - he has the blood of a demon, but he is also a wizard.

It is also for this reason that Merlin, like other Muggle-borns, has been persecuted by pure-blood wizards, and decided to stand on the side of Muggle-borns, using his own brain to make a magic ball, which can protect him forever. The persecuted wizard.

"Half devil."

Toby was still muttering non-stop, and he felt a sense of curiosity for no reason—has Merlin tried to become a pure demon?

Whether he tried it or not, at least now Merlin wasn't really a human being, but the omnipresent Grim Reaper.

And the moon.

In ritual magic, the full moon has always played a very important role.

Coincidence or not, the full moon transforms werewolves and provides a rare aid during ritual magic, allowing ancient wizards to cast even more powerful spells.

"Today is not a full moon night, but even so, maybe I should give it a try. Try to understand the devil better."
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When Angela and Al returned to the office tiredly, they found that Toby was not here.

The strangest thing is that Dumbledore is still there.

"Is that what Toby tried to train?"

Dumbledore looked at the filled playground outside the window, and he asked deliberately: "It turns out that Toby doesn't just care about the students in the school, he also sympathizes with the house elves."

"This has nothing to do with you." Angela said vigilantly, "Why are you still here? Where's Toby?"

"There's no need to be angry about such a trivial matter, Angela." Dumbledore said gently, "Toby is busy with his own business, he is in the Chamber of Secrets—but I advise you to leave him alone."

"I don't know what he is going to do, but since he didn't drive me away, it means that this matter is not as simple as imagined-someone must stay to protect you, and maybe he must be able to help him settle the trouble in time."
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Chamber of Secrets.

It also gradually deepened.

Toby suddenly walked up to Antioch, he stretched out a hand, and took off the pharaoh's mask from the skull face.

Toby couldn't get rid of his emotions as a human being.

But he turned into a cold mummy.

The bright moon rose in the night sky, and Toby also picked up the pharaoh's mask at this time.

He thought about it for a while, and suddenly decided not to cover his face with it, but pressed it on the position of the heart on the left chest.

A miraculous scene happened—the strips of cloth protruding from the edge of the mummy mask became like spider limbs, and they were inserted hard into Toby's heart, but no blood flowed out, and Toby didn't feel any pain.

"You can't be created because of the devil."

Along with Toby talking to himself, his sight was covered by countless cloth strips.

But at the last moment of sobriety, Toby turned one of his arms into devil's smoke, hooked on the body of the armor, and stretched into its head along the visor.

"Let me see what you remember, Andros"

(End of this chapter)