Traveling through thousands of realms at the same time, I need to add some dark blue

Chapter 214: Excuse me, Mr. Tom, but is this a Horcrux?

"Is that you, Mr. Tom?"

At the desk, Klein, who had just written this sentence, saw that the handwriting had disappeared!

The ink was absorbed instantly as if it was written on a sponge, and the color disappeared. Not even a scratch was left, and the page of the diary became clean.

The sense of déjà vu was getting stronger and stronger. Mr. Tom's diary... It should have been unexpected that something like this happened, but Xiao Ke found that he was not surprised at all.

Not only that, if nothing unexpected happens, new conversations will appear in this diary next?

"Hello, it's me, Tom Potter. Long time no see, Klein."

Sure enough... this diary has thoughts!
Most people would be shocked if they saw it, but not Klein, because he had read the book Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets before traveling through time. It was not the modified version on the bookshelf, but the genuine one.

In the Harry Potter series, Voldemort made many Horcruxes in order to live forever, which are equivalent to the lich's phylactery, but the settings are still different. They are not as important or as perfect as the phylactery, but multiple copies can be made.

It is suspected that he will become crazy and demented as he continues to split. Voldemort in the Chamber of Secrets is the tallest among the short ones and is considered very smart. Although Dumbledore still figured it out clearly, it is already quite good considering that he is a student of about sixteen years old.

Each Horcrux contains a fragment of the creator's soul. The creator will not truly die unless the Horcrux is completely destroyed.

The first Horcrux Voldemort made was probably a diary, "Tom Riddle's Diary".

Horcruxes are very dangerous. To be more precise, many dark magic items with thoughts are very dangerous and cannot be believed. In the novel, after Ginny gradually opened her mind to the diary, she could no longer control herself.

After seeing that the book here was called Tom's Diary, Xiao Ke guessed that perhaps this book also had a similar setting. Although he wrote on it on impulse at the moment, his vigilance had been raised to the highest level and he would never relax his body's defenses. He did not stop immediately because of his trust in Teacher Tom.

Of course, all this is useless. If Gu Meng is willing, he can control the three-person team now, regardless of whether Klein opens his mind or not. The level difference is too great. Mr. Fool is not in the gray fog, and in reality he is just an extraordinary person who has not yet reached the level of demigod.

"Excuse me, Mr. Tom, but is this a Horcrux?"

Klein thought about it for a long time and decided to write it directly, and tried to translate the Horcrux using relatively accurate words.

I believe that if Teacher Tom really used similar methods to split the soul, he should be able to understand what he meant.

"Horcrux? Where did you hear this? Who is your current teacher? Did he tell you about the story of Voldemort?"

Several lines of handwriting appeared on the paper again. Klein was startled and had a familiar feeling of being questioned by Teacher Tom.

A long time ago, when they were not so familiar with each other, Xiao Ke was almost expelled from the school by Teacher Tom because he was also a night watchman.

However, Teacher Tom rarely asked these questions later. Finally, he seemed to have discovered something, and his attitude towards Xiao Ke became obviously different. Before his death, he seemed to have negotiated directly with the goddess, cancelled Xiao Ke's official identity, and let him join the Saint Seiya.

Klein even speculated that Teacher Tom might have discovered that he was the Fool, just like Eve, the goddess of the Way of Forgetfulness.

In fact, after that incident, Klein had prepared himself to be exposed, but no one had ever talked about it, and Zuwang Dao had not increased the intensity of his pursuit or set up any dangerous traps. To be honest, the dangers he encountered were relatively moderate. The most dangerous one was one he asked for himself. When he was exploring the ruins, he encountered an evil spirit that was suspected to be a high-level powerful person.

It was the time when I met the Hot Pot Red Angel.

There are several possibilities. Either Zuowangdao doesn't want the news to leak out, or his original identity as Klein has died and now he has changed his appearance to become Sherlock Moriarty, which Zuowangdao is not aware of. Or Eve's clone was destroyed after the battle and failed to transmit shared memories back to the original body, nor did it send down the oracle.

In any case, this is a good thing, otherwise Xiao Ke might not survive the savior-level hunt.

He was very sure that both the pros and cons had multiple angel-level and even god-like combat forces.

At present, the Pope of Saint Seiya is still a little young, and the goddess Athena of this generation is still a young girl. She looks incomparable to the rival Eve. Xiao Ke is not too clear about the situation of the top leaders of the Order of the Phoenix. In short, they are all existences that can be shocked to death by the aftermath of the confrontation, and even if they can be protected, they do not want to lose their freedom.

"Forget it, you don't have to say it, it's not important."

Just as Klein was hesitating about how to formulate a response to Teacher Tom, or simply refuse to answer in a firm manner, new words appeared in the diary.

"Since you have discovered this book now, it seems that my original body is indeed dead."

"As expected?" Teacher Tom had already foreseen his own death?

The words above flashed and disappeared, and then a new sentence flashed out.

"Although I don't know where you learned about the Horcrux, unfortunately, I am not a Horcrux. I am just a small piece of Tom Potter's memory, which remained before he returned to Tingen. It should have been woven. Some forbidden knowledge has been sealed and cannot directly help me revive. But my mission has not yet been completely completed. Maybe I will return briefly on the journey of death..."

"If you don't mind, can you tell me how I died?"

After seeing these words, Klein felt a little happy. He could return briefly during death?
But Xiao Ke did not answer immediately. He didn't know whether he should believe what Teacher Tom said.

Looking around, I found that there was actually a small bathroom in this study!
After giving his teammates a glance, Klein walked directly into his kingdom of God.

……

"Is Mr. Tom's diary dangerous to me?"

……

After coming out of the bathroom, Klein seemed relieved. Based on his trust in the teacher, he continued to write on the paper, recording the battle and its results that day.

"I see……"

After this line appeared in the diary, there was a slight pause, as if the man in the diary was thinking.

Xiao Ke thought for a while and wrote:
"Teacher Tom, I still have a lot of questions... The biggest question is -"

"You want to know why I died?"

In the diary, Teacher Tom directly wrote down Klein's question in the next line.

"Yes, I was immersed in sadness and emotion at the time, but thinking about it afterwards, since Master Snape said that you had such a strong desire to survive, and this desire guided him to come here, why didn't you keep the panacea for yourself?"

"Although you said that your life is not more valuable than anyone else's, it is not less valuable than anyone else's. Although the panacea, as you said, cannot preserve your strength and will make you a mortal in pain, and there may be some other sequelae, it seems to be much better than death. Why did you choose to use it to save Ms. Megose?"

"I think I have understood this after you told me my last words."

The handwriting on the diary disappeared again, and the new sentence that followed carried an aura that Klein was not familiar with, but was equally powerful:

"Nine nights hanging on a tree swaying in the wind."

"I was stabbed with a spear and offered as a sacrifice to Odin."

"Sacrifice yourself to yourself, on a tree that no one knows about!"

“There is no bread to satisfy hunger, no drop of water to quench thirst.”

"I looked down and picked up the runes, shouting as I picked them up, and they fell from the tree."

……

The words have been imprinted in Klein's mind. He seems to have sensed a new kind of words, a new power, or he can use this perception to practice a unique martial art.

"Rune martial arts? Or enchantment techniques?"

The words disappeared again, and this time they were replaced with familiar handwriting, carrying Mr. Tom's own breath, but the strength of the pen tip seemed to have weakened a little.

"That word is the Word of God, and that tree is the World Tree."

Xiao Ke guessed that the words that just appeared might have consumed his strength. Xiao Ke hurriedly wrote and told Teacher Tom not to do this again. Gu Meng ignored him and continued to direct the diary to appear again:
"This is an ancient legend from my hometown. What did you understand from this story? Oh, I can sense that your understanding is very clear. Have you ever heard this story?"

Klein hesitated for a moment, feeling that his identity as a time traveler had been exposed to the diary... but he did not hide it from Teacher Tom:

"Yes, I have heard of this legend before."

Klein did not specify whether it was his own peculiarity or whether he learned about it from the conversations with the Potter family or Mr. Fool, and Gu Meng did not pursue this point.

"What do you think of this legend?"

Klein thought for a moment and wrote down a short answer:

"In order to gain that wisdom, Odin lost his right eye in exchange for the runes... The legendary rune letters are a kind of spell. As long as it is engraved on wood, stone, metal or any other material, it can gain infinite power. There is also a whole system of rune magic, and the power has reached the realm of gods. Maybe this sacrifice is the right choice?"

"You are right. This is a sacrifice, and a very cost-effective one."

Although Teacher Tom's handwriting did not change as obviously as before, Xiao Ke suddenly felt that his thoughts were becoming fanatical...

"Odin performed a ritual of hanging himself upside down, a 'severe punishment' in their world, and sacrificed his own eyes to himself, thus gaining wisdom. Because of this hanging, the World Tree was called Odin's Horse."

"This legend is actually the most obvious origin of the Hanged Man in the Tarot card. Although Prometheus was tortured in another explanation, it was not so obvious. In this world, the Hanged Man was directly attributed to the omniscient and omnipotent Lord, symbolizing sacrifice. There are other reasons, and of course there are other legends, but the hole in the Son of God's hand after being severely tortured is more obvious..."

"In short, Odin's sacrifice has many important meanings and is necessary."

“Equivalent exchanges are not necessarily exactly the same, but the more precious the sacrifice, the better the effect.”

"It is the way of heaven that if you gain something, you must lose something."

This line of text was twisted and crawling like a worm, just like oracle bone script, a distorted part of the secret of the Heavenly Book/God of War Atlas, an existence like the Secret of Immortality, which aroused the martial arts in Klein's body, and a lot of knowledge actively flowed into his mind.

After this time, the remaining text has become weak.

"I already understand why I chose death... Just like the legend of my hometown, Red Hair, one of the Four Emperors, gambled one hand on the future, on Monkey D. Luffy."

Klein thought that the version Mr. Tom heard might be wrong. One Piece is not a myth and probably has no symbolic meaning.

The reason why Red Hair's hand broke was probably because no one intended to write it so long at the beginning. Luffy was already very powerful when he went to sea, and the gap between him and Red Hair was not that big. Or, Red Hair was not originally set to be a top-level fighter, so it was normal for him to fail while saving people.

But he still didn't say it. On the one hand, there was no point in worrying about it, and on the other hand, his head hurt so much, and he felt like he was overwhelmed by the knowledge that Teacher Tom had instilled in him.

"After being attacked, I was probably unwilling to lose my strength and linger on. Instead, I chose to sacrifice my life and bet my hope on you."

"That's probably why I chose you as the opener of the diary. Maybe I received a revelation when I was making it."

"Take me with you, and put all the books you can touch into my body and take them away. This is fate's choice."

……2,y,l……

After a series of ping-pong sounds, the messy mechanisms and floors on the upper floors were violently broken, and many strong men fell from the sky and fell into the dungeon not far away like dumplings.

They were the support forces of the Order of the Phoenix and the Saints. Klein also saw Audrey, Fors, and Xio... The two sides met in victory.

However, Xiao Ke, who was cracking the traps step by step, killing monsters and bosses, and coming down from the ancient house layer by layer to the underground, was a little speechless...

So what's the point of being careful about cracking the mechanisms along the way? However, those who can crack them by brute force probably have the privilege of a high sequence, or through the permission backdoor left by the Potter family builders. Anyway, the three of them cannot destroy the terrain.

A long time had passed since he entered the mysterious study, and Klein still took the diary away. However, it seemed that because it took too much energy to instill knowledge in Klein, Teacher Tom might not be able to respond in time when he wrote something later.

With a mission to accomplish, Klein did not try too much and continued to move forward.

Then came endless trials. The three of them even had the illusion that this dungeon seemed to have no end at all. There was a room behind each room, extending downward in circles. In the end, they couldn't even tell whether there was someone ahead, or whether they had already surpassed the theoretically existing enemies in the Zuowang Dao in the fork.

If it weren't for spiritual guidance, they would have given up long ago.

Klein felt that this dungeon was too deep and it was not something that the three of them could clear.

I don’t know why Mr. Conan has confidence in them. Is it also fate’s choice?

Wake up, you are a Saint Seiya, not the Riddler of the Order of the Phoenix!

So later on, he found another opportunity to go to the Grey Mist and directly contacted people through the Fool's channel. It seemed that Audrey and the others had already found the top leaders of the Order of the Phoenix.

"Mr Malfoy, Mr Flitwick..."

The three of them paid their respects to the two leaders of the Order of the Phoenix. Although they were not in the same organization, they still had a close relationship.

"Ah, thank you for your hard work. You must have suffered a lot to get to this level."

Mr. Malfoy always remained aloof and elegant, and spoke relatively little. When he appeared, it was Mr. Flitwick, who was slightly shorter and had a larger head than normal people, who was more likely to say:

"The setting of this dungeon is actually very interesting. It was built by our ancestor Harry Potter himself. It is not only a dungeon, but also has many secret rooms. It stores a large number of sealed objects and copies of precious books. After the family headquarters was attacked and destroyed, this is actually the reason why we were able to rise so quickly..."

"It's not hard, it's not hard, I'm sorry, I can't help much."

Klein waved his hand.

"No, there are many weird rules here. For example, only humans can kill ghosts. You cannot stay in the house for one hour every day. You cannot walk with ghosts, you cannot trust ghosts, and you cannot refuse ghosts' application to enter the door... You can only meet the treasure you want with a strong desire, and you cannot take out the treasure you want... The self in the mirror... can only move forward and not backward. There is no end to the road. When you reach the end, you can get freedom and become the real master of the dungeon... The dungeon master is the prisoner at the bottom, and the prisoner has no freedom, etc... Oh, don't worry, you are Saint Seiya. Although you are only bronze, you can be exempted from many rules."

Flitwick spoke very quickly. He mentioned more than a dozen rules in a row, which sounded a bit contradictory. Klein even felt like he was listening to a ghost story.

"There are a lot of low-level logic here that can be fooled by people of the Zuowang Dao, but as long as there are Saints present at the same time, they can be effectively disrupted. Thanks to your efforts... let me see... oh, although the people of the Zuowang Dao are very close to their goal, they have not yet arrived. We have arrived. They have obviously failed."

I see... I understand Mr. Conan a little better now. I think the enemies of Zuowang Dao must have found a way to tie up Backlund's permanent forces, and then split up into teams to go to the dungeon. When there's no one to interfere, their speed will be faster.

However, the journey for the three people was not completely miserable. They actually obtained a lot of materials along the way.

And Klein also picked up Mr. Tom's diary. He thought, he might as well take the diary out. This is also a safety measure. What if this is really a Horcrux?

"Ah, it's my father's memory, you——"

Mr. Malfoy began, then paused mid-sentence.

Klein had heard about the relationship between Mr. Tom and them, having raised them from childhood. He was a little surprised by what Mr. Malfoy said, but after thinking about it carefully, he felt that it was normal. The grace of raising is greater than the grace of giving birth to a child.

The invisible Gu Meng glanced at Malfoy, emm... In a sense, the vegetative person cloned by cutting off the finger is his biological child, right?
But it seems that it is not a Horcrux, unless Mr. Malfoy has also been deceived, or these are simply illusions - unlike Brother Huowang, who has been beaten repeatedly, Klein will occasionally have some thoughts, but he will not really doubt them.

Just like the brain in a vat hypothesis, it cannot be falsified, but if someone really and completely believes that the world is an illusion, he would probably be considered a mental patient.

Klein thought of their kinship and said that he could give the diary to Malfoy. This was also Teacher Tom's legacy, but he shook his head.

"It seems that the person my father chose is you. This is his will, and I will not change it."

……

　Thanks to the reward from the big boss who created special effects.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)