Chapter 214 Excuse Me, Mr. Tom, Is This a Horcrux?

"Is that you? Teacher Tom?"

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

The ink was instantly absorbed like writing on a sponge, and the color disappeared. Not even scratches were left, and the page of the diary became clean.

The sense of déjà vu is getting stronger and stronger. Mr. Tom's diary... This kind of thing should have been unexpected, but Xiao Ke found that he was not surprised at all.

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

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

Sure enough...this diary is thoughtful!

Ordinary people might be surprised if they saw it, but Klein wouldn't, because he had read the "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets" before traveling through time. It was not the modified version on the bookshelf, but the original.

In the "Harry Potter" series, Voldemort made many Horcruxes in order to survive forever, which are equivalent to the Lich's phylacteries, but the settings are still different. They are not as important and not as complete as the phylacteries, but they can be made. Multiple servings.

It is suspected that he will become crazy and insane as he continues to split. The Voldemort in the Chamber of Secrets is considered very smart among the short ones. Although he was still clearly figured out by Lao Deng, as a student of about sixteen years old, it is pretty good. .

Each Horcrux contains a fragment of the creator's soul. Unless all Horcruxes are destroyed, the creator will not truly die.

The earliest Horcrux made by Voldemort was probably the diary, "Tom Riddle's Diary".

Horcruxes are very dangerous. To be precise, many black magic items with thoughts are very dangerous. It is unbelievable that in the novel, after Ginny gradually opened her mind to the diary, she couldn't help herself.

After seeing the book here called Tom's Diary, Xiao Ke had a guess. Maybe this book has a similar setting. Although he impulsively wrote on it at this moment, his vigilance has been raised to the highest level and he will never relax. The body's defense line did not stop immediately because of its trust in Teacher Tom.

Of course, these are of no use. If Gu Meng is willing, regardless of whether Klein has released his mind or not, he can now control the three-person team. The level difference is too big. Mr. Fool is no longer in the gray fog. In reality, he is just a half-baked man. God's Extraordinary One.

"With all due respect, Teacher Tom, is this a Horcrux?"

Klein thought for a long time and decided to write it directly. He also tried his best to translate the Horcrux using more accurate words.

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

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

Several more lines of writing appeared on the paper, and Klein was startled. He had a familiar feeling of being questioned by Teacher Tom.

A long time ago, when they were not that familiar, Xiao Ke was almost cleared by Teacher Tom because Xiao Ke was also a nighthawk.

But later on, Teacher Tom rarely asked these questions anymore. In the end, he seemed to have discovered something, and his attitude towards Xiao Ke was obviously becoming more and more different. Before his death, he seemed to have directly negotiated with the goddess, and canceled Xiao Ke's official status. Let him join the Saints.

Klein even speculated that Teacher Tom might have discovered that he was a fool, just like Eve, the goddess who had forgotten the way.

In fact, Klein had been mentally prepared to lose his horse after that time, but no one had ever said anything about it. Zuowangdao did not increase the intensity of the pursuit or set up any dangerous traps. To be honest, the dangers he encountered were still It was relatively moderate, but the most dangerous one was when he asked for it himself. When he went to explore the ruins, he encountered an evil spirit who was suspected of being a powerful person.

It was the time I met Hot Pot Red Angel.

There are several possibilities, either Zuowang Dao didn’t want this news to leak out, or his original identity of Klein has died and now he has changed his identity to Sherlock Moriarty, and Zuowang Dao didn’t know about this, or It was Eve's clone that was destroyed after the battle, and could not return the shared memory to the main body, nor send an oracle.

In any case, this is a good thing, otherwise Xiao Ke may not be able to survive in the face of a savior-level pursuit.

He was very sure that both the pros and cons had the combat power of multiple angel levels and even near-godlike beings.

The current Saint Seiya Pope is still a little young, and the current goddess Athena is still a young girl. She looks incomparable to her counterpart Eve. Xiao Ke is not sure about the situation of the higher-ups in the Order of the Phoenix. In short, there are only a few aftermaths after a confrontation. An existence that can shock him to death, and even if he can protect him, he doesn't want to lose his freedom.

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

Just when Klein was hesitating about how to formulate an answer to Teacher Tom, or just be tough and refuse to answer, new writing appeared on the diary.

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

"Sure enough?" Teacher Tom has already foreseen his own death?

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

"Although I don't know where you learned about Horcruxes, unfortunately, I am not a Horcrux. I am just a small memory of Tom Potter. It stayed before he returned to Tingen. It should have been woven into some taboos. My knowledge has been sealed and cannot directly help me resurrect, but my mission is not completely over yet. I may return briefly during my journey to death..."

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

After seeing these words, Klein was a little happy. Can he return briefly after dying?

But Xiao Ke didn't answer immediately, and he didn't know whether he should believe what Teacher Tom said.

Looking around, I saw that this study actually has a small bathroom!

After making eye contact with his teammates, Klein walked directly into his Kingdom of God.

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

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

"I see……"

After this line appeared in the diary, he paused for a moment, as if the person in the diary was thinking.

Xiao Ke thought for a while and then wrote:

"Teacher Tom, I still have many questions...the biggest question is-"

"You want to ask why I died?"

Teacher Tom in the diary wrote Klein's question directly in the bottom line.

"Yes, I was immersed in sadness and emotion at the time, but after thinking about it, since Master Snape said that you have such a strong desire to live, and this desire guided him here, then why not keep the elixir for yourself? ?”

"Although you said that your life is not more precious than anyone else, it is not inferior to anyone else. Although the panacea, according to you, cannot retain your strength and will make you a mortal in pain, and maybe it will There are some other sequelae, but it still seems much better than death. Why would you choose to use it to save Ms. Megoose?”

"I probably already understand this after you told me my last words."

The handwriting on the diary disappeared again, and the new sentences written subsequently had an aura that Klein was not familiar with but was equally powerful:

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

"Strung with a spear, I was sacrificed to Odin."

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

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

"I looked down and picked up the Runas characters. I shouted while picking them up and they fell from the tree."

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This handwriting has been imprinted in Klein's mind, and he seems to feel a new kind of writing, new power, or he can use this understanding to develop a unique martial arts.

"Rune martial arts? Or enchanting skills?"

The words disappeared again, this time replaced by familiar handwriting, carrying Mr. Tom's own breath, but the pen tip seemed to have weakened a bit.

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

Xiao Ke guessed that the words that had just appeared might have consumed his power. Xiao Ke quickly wrote and asked Teacher Tom not to do such a thing again.

Gu Meng ignored it and continued to direct the writing on the diary again:

"This is an ancient legend from my hometown. What did you understand from this story? By the way... I can feel that your direction of understanding is very clear. Have you ever heard of this story?"

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

"Yes, I have heard this legend before."

Klein did not specify whether it was because of his own specialness or whether he learned it from the conversations with the Potters or Mr. Fool, and Gu Meng did not pursue this point either.

"What do you think of this legend?"

Klein thought for a while and wrote a short answer:

"In order to gain that wisdom, Odin lost one of his right eyes in exchange for runes... The legendary rune letters are a kind of incantation. As long as it is carved on wood, stone, metal or even any material, You can get infinite power, and at the same time there is a complete system of rune magic. The power has reached the divine realm. Maybe this sacrifice is the right choice? "

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

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

"Odin used his own eyes as a sacrifice to himself through the ritual of being hung upside down, a 'severe punishment' in their world, and gained wisdom. The World Tree was also called Odin's Horse because of this hanging upside down."

"This legend is actually the most obvious origin of the Hanged Man in the Tarot card. Although Prometheus is also tortured in another explanation, it is not so obvious. In this world, the Hanged Man is directly attributed to that person. The omniscient and omnipotent Lord symbolizes sacrifice. There are other reasons. Of course, there are other legends, but it will be more obvious if the Son is severely punished and has a hole in his hand..."

"In short, Odin's sacrifice had many important meanings and was necessary."

“Exchanges of equal value may not necessarily be exactly the same, but the more precious the sacrifice, the easier it is to achieve better results.”

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

This line is twisted and crawling like worm-like text, just like oracle bone inscriptions. It is a distorted part of the secrets of the Heavenly Book/God of War Catalog. The existence of the Secret of Immortality stirred up the martial arts in Klein's body, and a lot of knowledge poured in. his mind.

After this time, the rest of the text has become weak.

"I already understand why I chose death... Just like in the legend of my hometown, the red-haired one of the four emperors bet one hand on the future, on Monkey D. Luffy."

Klein wanted to say that the version Mr. Tom heard may be wrong. One Piece is not a fairy tale, and it probably has no symbolic meaning.

The red-haired man who will break his hand probably didn't want to write it so long in the beginning. Luffy was very powerful when he went to sea, and the gap between him and the red-haired man is not that big. Or the red-haired man was not the top-notch combat power in the initial setting. Save It's normal for people to miss.

But he still didn't say anything, on the one hand because 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 instilled by Teacher Tom.

"I'm afraid I didn't want to lose my strength and linger after being attacked. Instead, I chose to use my life as a sacrifice and bet my hope on you."

"This is probably why I set the diary to be opened by you. I may have received the apocalypse when I was making it."

"Take me with you, and put all the books you have access to into my body and take them away. This is the choice of fate."

……2,y,l……

After a ping-ping-pong-pong sound, the messy mechanisms and floors above were violently cracked, and many tough men fell from the sky, clattering like dumplings into the dungeon not far away.

It was the support force of the Order of the Phoenix and the Saints. Klein also saw the figures of Audrey, Forsi and Xio... The two sides met victoriously.

However, Xiao Ke was still somewhat speechless as he cracked the mechanism step by step, eliminated the mobs and killed the boss, and walked from the ancient house to the underground layer by layer...

So be careful to crack the mechanism along the way, but the ability to crack it violently is probably a high-sequence privilege, or through the permission backdoor left by the builder of the Potter family. Anyway, the three of them cannot destroy the terrain.

A long time has passed since he entered the mysterious study. Klein still took the diary away, but it seemed that too much effort was spent on instilling knowledge into Klein. If he writes words later, Teacher Tom may not be able to respond in time. .

Klein didn't try too much and kept moving forward.

Then came the endless trials. The three of them even had the illusion that this dungeon seemed to have no end at all. There was another room behind a room, extending downwards in circles. In the end, they didn't even know whether there was anyone in front of them or whether they were already there. Enemies beyond the theoretically existing Zuowang Road in the forked road cannot be distinguished.

If not for spiritual guidance, they would have given up long ago.

Klein felt that the water in this dungeon was too deep for the three of them to clear.

I don’t know why Teacher Conan has confidence in them. Is it also their fate?

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

So after that, they found an opportunity to go to Gray Mist and sway people directly through the Fool's channels. It seemed that Audrey and the others had already found the top brass of the Order of the Phoenix.

"Mr. Malfoy, Mr. Flitwick..."

The three of them greeted the two leaders of the Order of the Phoenix. Although they were not the same organization, their relationship was still very close.

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

Mr. Malfoy always remained cool and elegant, and spoke relatively few words. When he appeared on the stage, it was mostly Mr. Flitwick, who was slightly shorter and had a larger-than-average head, saying:

"The setting of this dungeon is actually very interesting. It was built by the ancestor Harry Potter himself. It is not only a dungeon, but also has many secret rooms, which store a large number of sealed artifacts and copies of precious books. After the family headquarters was attacked and destroyed, This is actually the reason why we can rise rapidly..."

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

Klein waved his hand.

"No, there are many weird rules here. For example, only humans can kill ghosts, you can't stay in the house for 1 hour every day, you can't walk with ghosts, you can't believe in ghosts, and you can't refuse ghosts to apply for entry... only strong desire can meet the desire. The treasure you want, the treasure you want to get cannot be taken out... The self in the mirror... can only move forward but not backward. The road has no end. When you reach the end, you can be free and become the true master of the dungeon... The master of the dungeon is the prisoner at the bottom. Prisoners have no freedom, etc... Oh, don't worry, you are saints. Although you are only bronze, you are already exempt from many rules."

Flitwick spoke very fast. He just mentioned the rules and said more than a dozen in a row. It sounded a bit contradictory. Klein even felt like he was listening to some supernatural story.

"There is a lot of underlying logic here that people who sit in the Forgotten Way can also fool, but as long as there are Saint Seiyas present at the same time, they can effectively disrupt. Thanks to your efforts... let me see... Oh, although the people who sit in the Forgot Way are very close Their target was reached, but before we arrived, they clearly failed."

I see... I understand somewhat about Mr. Conan. The enemies who want to come to sit and forget the road should find a way to entangle Backlund's permanent force, and then split into groups to go to the dungeon. Their speed will be faster when no one interferes.

However, the journey of the three of them was not completely miserable. They actually gained a lot of material along the way.

Moreover, Klein also picked up Mr. Tom's diary. Thinking, he simply took out the diary. This is also an insurance policy. What if this is really a Horcrux?

"Ah, it's my father's memory, you——"

Mr. Malfoy started, then stopped mid-sentence.

Klein had heard about Mr. Tom's relationship with them since he was a child. He was a little surprised by Mr. Malfoy's words. After thinking about it carefully, he realized that it was normal. It is better to show kindness than to show kindness.

The invisible Gu Meng glanced at Malfoy, emm... In a sense, the vegetative person whose fingers were cloned was his biological child, right?

But it seems that it is indeed not a Horcrux, unless Mr. Malfoy has also been deceived, or these are simply fantasies - unlike Brother Huowang, who has been beaten repeatedly, Klein will occasionally have some thoughts, but they will not be real. doubt.

Just like the brain-in-a-vat hypothesis, it cannot be falsified, but if anyone truly believes that the world is illusory, he will probably be considered mentally ill.

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

"It seems that the person father has chosen is you. This is his will and I will not change it."

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Thank you for the special effects, which is a reward from a good boss.