Then, he held his forehead and slowly picked up the ring that was already in a state of disrepair, with a look of contempt in his eyes.

"You also want to take over my body?"

Cyrus had devoured Voldemort's soul before his resurrection. At that time, Voldemort's remaining soul was no match for him, let alone now? From the moment Voldemort planned to possess Cyrus' body, his demise was doomed.

But judging from the results, his death turned out to be a valuable thing.

After swallowing Voldemort's soul fragment again, Cyrus clearly felt that his soul seemed to have become stronger.

The wizard's spellcasting is related to will, and will is related to the soul. A wizard with a strong soul must have extremely powerful spellcasting ability. At this moment, Cyrus was like eating an experience pack, and the power of magic immediately increased a bit!

So much so that when he looked at the golden cup and crown, his eyes became somewhat greedy.

However, he was not crazy enough to devour the souls in the two Horcruxes immediately.

After all, this is someone else's soul. Even if there are some special reasons that make Cyrus' soul compatible with Voldemort's soul, if there are too many fragments of Voldemort mixed in your soul, then at that time, am I Cyrus or Voldemort? This is an unavoidable question. The soul itself belongs to.

but……

"Once I have completely digested this soul fragment in the ring, I may be able to continue trying to devour the next soul fragment."

Cyrus thought.

Of course, he would not miss anything that could improve his strength, but the premise was that he would not leave any future troubles.

Just like those demons in martial arts novels who steal other people's inner strength, most of them will go astray because of the mixed inner strength.

Now Cyrus needs to slowly digest this fragment of Voldemort's soul and turn it into nutrients.

So in the following days, Cyrus stayed in Hogwarts. During the day, he mostly rested in the Room of Requirement or studied ancient magic. In fact, he had a lot of things to study, such as ancient magic, magical animals, blood curses, Horcruxes, and the Resurrection Stone...

Only at night would he go to look for the location of the Qiuzhi Pavilion.

But until now, he has not gained anything.

Fortunately, the days at Hogwarts are never too boring. Although the Pavilion of Knowledge cannot be found, the library can be entered and exited as one pleases. Many of the books in it are very useful to Cyrus.

A thousand-year-old collection of books, even Voldemort could not read them all, it is a huge treasure.

In his memory, there were some manuscript records of Slytherin's magic experiments. The other party's magic experiments were obviously not perfect and there were many problems. With nearly a thousand years of accumulated knowledge, there would always be one or two people who could answer these questions.

Even if there is no answer, it does not prevent Cyrus from being the one to answer it.

So, during this period of time, the two fire dragons became his experimental subjects.

Considering the preciousness of fire dragons and that Cyrus kept them more as pets than as experimental subjects, these experiments were not considered cruel. At most, they would draw some dragon blood or cut a small piece of dragon skin to try to guide out the ancient magic in the fire dragon's bloodline.

The most outstanding thing about fire dragons is their magic resistance, which makes them almost immune to most magic, and the death curses cast by ordinary wizards may not be able to kill them. The second is the fire of the fire dragon.

This flame is very powerful, and it not only burns, but also has an explosive effect.

Cyrus didn't take this very seriously.

The power of the flame is as strong as the Fiendfire, and if you want to add some explosive properties, you only need to fuse it with an explosion spell. The properties of these two spells are similar, and it is very easy to fuse them together, at least it is very easy for Cyrus.

Another area of ​​his research was the blood-cursed orcs, not only to help Nagini, but also because he was very interested in this kind of magic that was both a curse and a transfiguration.

Blood curses are very similar to normal animal transformations, both of which will cause the wizard to lose his will as a human, making it impossible to change back to human. However, blood curses erode the wizard's will for a longer period of time and are irreversible.

Cyrus could now wave his wand and turn Nagini back to her former human form, but even so, she would not consider herself a person.

When an Animagus turns into an animal, a second heartbeat will be heard, while the blood curse is more like the human heart will slowly stop beating and eventually be completely replaced by the animal's heartbeat.

Today, Nagini's body, mind, and even soul are no different from those of an ordinary snake.

If Cyrus hadn't seen "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them", he would never have imagined that such a snake was actually transformed from a human.

"Blood curses and wolfsbane are like a disease rather than magic, and there is no potion to cure them."

Cyrus actually thought about using the golden cup to conjure a potion that could break the curse, but obviously, the golden cup is not a wishing cup, and it is impossible for it to conjure something that does not exist in this world.

Time passed quickly, and during this time, Hermione sometimes tried to contact him. However, if it was not something very important, Cyrus usually would not respond. He did not want to turn the diary into a chat tool, especially those constant bombardment of messages, which he really could not stand.

However, there was some recent news that still concerned him very much. Sirius Black's case was completely overturned.

Dobby published the story in the newspaper he brought to Cyrus, and Hermione also told Cyrus the news through her diary. After Dumbledore imprisoned Peter Pettigrew in the Ministry of Magic, Sirius finally showed up and participated in the trial.

I heard that he didn't seem to want to overturn his own verdict at all, but wanted to commit murder in court and kill Peter Pettigrew directly.

But Dumbledore stopped him.

Of course, if that was all, then this piece of news would be a bit unremarkable to Cyrus, but things are obviously not that simple. The key point is that after the trial, Peter Pettigrew, who was supposed to be sentenced to the Dementor's Kiss, actually escaped before being punished! This is very interesting.

You have to know that Dumbledore was in the Ministry of Magic at that time, and Sirius had already said in court that Pettigrew was an Animagus in the form of a mouse. The Ministry of Magic should have a foolproof measure to prevent Pettigrew from escaping.

But why did this rat in the gutter escape like this? !

Cyrus didn't believe that this had nothing to do with Dumbledore.

He was more inclined to believe that the person who let Pettigrew go was Dumbledore himself, although of course, Pettigrew probably didn't realize this.

Think about it carefully. Now that Pettigrew has become a fugitive and even his Animagus form has been exposed, where can he go in this situation?

He has no choice but to join the weakened Voldemort. The Ministry of Magic is looking for him, and the Death Eaters will not let him go. There is only one way left for him, and that is to find the Dark Lord and help him resurrect!

Only in this way can he regain his foothold among the Death Eaters.

Dumbledore needs Voldemort to be resurrected, and it would be best if he used Harry's blood. Only in this way can Voldemort be completely destroyed.

Of course, variables still exist.

The only thing that Dumbledore was unsure about now was Cyrus.

He didn't know whether Cyrus could be considered Voldemort's Horcrux. If so, then as long as Cyrus was not dead, Voldemort would probably not die either.

But he was not really worried about this. Judging from the events of the battle in Gringotts, it was obvious that there was an irreconcilable contradiction between Cyrus and Voldemort. Even if left alone, they would go towards the path of opposition.

Because of this, Dumbledore was not as sorry about Cyrus stealing the diadem as he seemed.

The point is that he wants to find out what kind of person Cyrus is.

Judging from his current performance, Cyrus does not seem to be a huge threat, but Dumbledore is not sure whether this is the real Cyrus or an illusion shown by the other party.

(End of this chapter)