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 must bring a ferocious purple-horned beast with him to open the door to the secret room.
Coincidentally, among the batch of magical beasts that Newt had given to Cyrus, there were two purple-horned beasts.
This is a very powerful magical animal. Maybe it doesn’t have many special abilities, but its skin is as thick as a fire dragon and it is immune to most wizards’ spells. Moreover, it is very large and when it sprints, it is like a high-speed locomotive and can smash mountains and rocks 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 obtained the last memory and the token stored in the meditation basin without any hindrance.
Not surprisingly, this memory was still about Morgana. This witch finally embarked on an irreversible path. Her father, who was stripped of his suffering by her spell, became a body without emotions, and his eyes seemed to be covered with a layer of shadow.
But Morgana didn't care about it at all. Not only did she not repent, she even cast the same spell on her own students. She used fairy mithril to seal the huge negative emotions under Hogwarts, like a bloody, bleeding and constantly beating heart!
The four guardians wanted to stop her, but they were no match for Morgana. In the end, Sen Balka cast the Killing Curse, taking Morgana's life by sneak attack, and also sealed the terrifying magical power under Hogwarts.
The specific location is right below the Pavilion of Knowledge! However, 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 Pavilion of Knowledge, Cyrus raised this doubt to Fitzgerald, but the witch denied his guess.
"It is not so. Human emotions are not taken away all at once; they ebb and flow like the tides. Morgana drew her father away from the pain of loss, but it only temporarily eased his grief, like the tide receding after the moon sets. But it will eventually surge back again."
Cyrus understood what she meant.
At the beginning, the magic only extracted an emotion, but if it is not controlled, it will completely make people lose the ability to perceive emotions, or even lose the emotions themselves. It was because Morgana repeatedly extracted her father's inner pain that the tragedy occurred.
"You have completed four trials. Before we open the door to the last secret chamber for you, you need to make the four relics you collected into a special magic wand." Rookwood reminded.
The token that Rookwood mentioned was obtained together with the memory. Every time the guardian's memory fell into the meditation basin, a spiral ball of light emerged from the meditation basin.
When it comes to custom wands, Cyrus' first thought is to go to Germany. But this is a bit too far, Ollivander's wand shop is also a good choice.
This was the first time he had returned here since Cyrus had blown up Gringotts.
The gate of Gringotts that was blown away by Voldemort and the dome that was blown apart by the flames of the dragon's explosion have now been repaired, but the goblins standing at the gate have listless faces, as if someone owed them a lot of money.
Moreover, they are now not friendly to anyone. Even the wizards who plan to deposit money in Gringotts are constantly stared at 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 was a good thing for him. The goblins were already so bad to wizards who deposited money, not to mention those who planned to withdraw money. If this continued, who would be willing to store their property in Gringotts? This matter had been handed over to Lucius, and Cyrus was not too worried. The only thing that might change was the situation in the British wizarding world in the future. Especially when Voldemort was resurrected, it would be a huge challenge for the wizard bank.
Of course, it was 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. By then, the property of those people in the bank would naturally be like unowned property.
The more Cyrus thought about it, the more he felt that this plan was a good one, especially for a character like Lucius. Cyrus wouldn't be of much use if he kept him by his side. On the contrary, if he put him with Voldemort, perhaps he could make Voldemort feel uncomfortable.
He was not worried that Lucius would betray him. As long as he had Draco and Narcissa under his control, he would not be afraid that Lucius would not surrender.
Thinking of this, Cyrus knocked on the door of Ollivander's Wand Shop.
The space inside the shop is much larger than it looks from the outside, with boxes of wands displayed on the shelves, tens of thousands of them. Judging from the number of children going to school in the UK this year, I'm afraid the Ollivander family will have enough wands for several generations.
The old shopkeeper saw Cyrus and immediately came over to greet him.
"Okay, do you want to do wand maintenance?" He looked at Cyrus uncertainly.
Ollivander was not very familiar with Tom Riddle's appearance. He had only seen Tom once when he was in school. After that, when Voldemort's terror enveloped Britain, his appearance was completely different.
Not to mention, Cyrus' hair and eye colors are different now.
"I want to customize a wand." Cyrus took out the guardian's token, "I have prepared the materials."
He handed over the material, which immediately caught Ollivander's attention.
"I have never seen such a strange material."
Ollivander looked very surprised. The guardian's tokens now looked like both metal and crystal. Ollivander showed great interest.
Although he usually only uses materials from three magical animals, dragon, phoenix and unicorn, to make the core of his wand, this is also the result of long-term comparison. Now he can't wait to try out a new material that he has never seen before.
He even avoided the high cost of custom-made wands.
The wand would take some time to make, during which time Cyrus could only wait.
Meanwhile, in the manor, the Death Eaters gathered.
Bella and other Death Eaters who escaped from Azkaban were all feeling very distressed and anxious. They thought they had gained the Dark Lord's trust and would summon them immediately once the Azkaban prison breakout was announced, but it seemed that this was not the case.
Although the pain from the Dark Mark became more intense day by day, the imagined call did not appear.
And their magic wands were naturally also obtained by Lucius with great effort.
"Why hasn't the master contacted us yet? Is he dissatisfied with our failure?" Augustus Rookwood paced back and forth in the manor in panic. He was also a loyal follower of Voldemort, but now it seemed that Voldemort was disappointed with them.
After Voldemort's fall, although these people did not surrender, they were quickly defeated. Perhaps it was because of this incompetence that Voldemort became disappointed in them.
"Maybe the owner just doesn't know we're back yet!" someone said.
This guess obviously convinced Bella.
"I told you we should have used a Resurrection!" Bella said frantically, "We're going to the Ministry of Magic right now, killing those Aurors and officials, and then releasing the Dark Mark!"
She was not proposing but announcing. As she spoke, she had already walked to the door of the manor, but a somewhat old voice stopped her.
"Calm down Bellatrix." An old Death Eater stood up.
He is about the same age as Voldemort, and is an old member who has followed Voldemort since his school days. Perhaps because the prison break took place earlier than in the original book, this old man is still alive.
At this moment, he was holding a newspaper and spread it out in front of everyone. Cyrus appeared on the newspaper.
"The master did not summon us, obviously he has 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 thought he was dead, but it turns out that he has returned!"
The old wizard slapped the Daily Prophet with his dry palm, which also attracted the attention of the Death Eaters.
Although Voldemort had changed a lot more than 20 years ago, if you look closely, you can still see a little bit of similarity from Cyrus's wanted poster.
The old wizard put away the newspaper and said, "What we have to do now is to wait quietly for the master's call, so as not to disrupt the master's plan."
As he finished speaking, even though Bella had many dissatisfactions in her heart, she did not dare to make a big mistake just because of her momentary happiness.
At the same time, another sharp sound suddenly rang out among the crowd, like an eagle appearing among a flock of ducks.
"Sensible speech, Mr. Bulstrode."
A thin, shabby man with a scar on his face appeared among the crowd at some point. Nearly a hundred Death Eaters immediately became alert and raised their wands in unison, aiming at the man.
"Remus Lupin?!" Lucius' pupils shrank slightly. He obviously didn't expect this person to be here. Could it be that Dumbledore had discovered what was going on here? If that was the case, it would be bad.
"Remus Lupin? No, it's me, Barty Crouch!" The skin on Lupin's face bulged, and in a series of changes, he became a different person.
Everyone is familiar with this face, one of the Dark Lord's trusted Death Eaters, 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 the tips of their wands, ready to cast 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 else.
"Are you sure that the person who died was really me?" Batty chuckled, "Do you want me to remind you that if you die after drinking the compound potion, you can't change back."
When he said this, the Death Eaters immediately understood that Barty Crouch, who died twelve years ago, was replaced by someone else. It was at that time that the real Barty Crouch had escaped from Azkaban.
This answer caused dissatisfaction among many Death Eaters.
"You've been away from Azkaban for twelve years?!" Bella rushed to Barty Jr. with a bad tone and grabbed his collar. Her nails were twisted due to long-term torture, and the nail surface was thick and showed an ugly gray color.
"Why didn't you go find the Dark Lord?!"
"I have been serving my master since I escaped!" Little Batty was not afraid at all. He even looked down on him. "I saw the report about your jailbreak in the newspaper. Who planned it?"
The accusatory tone in his voice made the Death Eaters who had originally proposed the prison break dare not reply. On the contrary, it was Lucius who took the initiative to take a step forward and assumed this responsibility.
"I am the one who gathered them."
"Very good, Lucius." Little Barty looked at Lucius strangely, as if he didn't expect the other party to have such courage. However, Little Barty didn't say anything more about it, but instead reminded him.
"No matter what, the master is carrying out his plan now. He doesn't want to fail due to any stupidity, so you'd better not do anything before being summoned by the master."
After saying that, he used Apparition to leave the manor without caring about what Bella and the others were feeling.
Little Barty took several trips before returning to Hogwarts.
"The master has returned from France. The potion and body needed for resurrection are ready. As for that loser Karkaroff, all he needs now is Harry Potter's blood, and the master will be reborn!"
His eyes were full of excitement and joy, and he licked his lips excitedly, as if he couldn't wait.
In the Death Eater's manor, Bella and others thought that Barty Jr. was talking about Cyrus.
(End of this chapter)