The Dark Lord didn't dwell on this matter for long, and instead announced something that would keep his Death Eater team from being too useless. After making sure everyone knew what they were going to do next, the Dark Lord announced his disbandment, but he left Snape and Malfoy behind.

"Severus, I still remember how you joined my team, when you and Lucius had just graduated from Hogwarts...."There was a rare look of memory in the Dark Lord's eyes---- this is very rare, not remembering, meaning not repenting.

Sensing that the Dark Lord was in a very abnormal state at this time, Malfoy hurriedly said, "Of course, master, but Severus was introduced to you by me..."

"I remember what happened back then, Severus, what about you, do you remember......"

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A crisp flapping of wings sounded outside the room, and Severus, who was curled up on the bed with his wand shooting flies, paused abruptly before slowly turning his head to look at the door to the side.

Who would contact him just a day after graduation?

Still, Severus got up and opened the door, and saw the familiar owl parked in the living room.

Lucius Malfoy?

Severus's numb face immediately showed a look of astonishment, and he hurried forward to take out some of the remaining bread and feed it to the owl, before removing the parchment from its feet. After reading the above hypocritical words quickly, Severus finally saw the point of the last sentence.

The Dark Lord is interested in the potions you've sent, and tomorrow night there's a meeting among the Death Eaters, and the master agrees to let you attend. Severus seized this opportunity, and maybe you too could contribute to the greatest wizard.

To meet the king who has recently set off a storm of pure-blood discussions in the wizarding world?Severus couldn't help but tremble slightly as he looked at the parchment that exuded a faint smoky scent.

Could it be that he could really serve that high king? But I heard that the wizard from the pure-blood family who had gathered a lot around him, what was there for him to pay attention to as a half-blood?

Frowning and thinking for a moment, Severus looked down at the letter in his hand again, the Dark Lord had seen the potion he gave to Malfoy, and then agreed to let him attend tomorrow's Death Eater party?

Thinking of this, Severus suddenly felt that he had an idea! Quickly putting down the letter in his hand, Severus immediately rushed into the bathroom, washed his face, tidied up the robes he had been wearing for three or four days, and immediately rushed back to the living room, grabbed the Muggle currency and Galleons he had left, and rushed out of the room.

After running straight through the Cauldron Bar to the potions store in Diagon Alley, he hesitated for a moment before heading in the direction of Tumbledown Alley.

I remember when he was six or seven years old, he used to come here with his mother, who had died, to buy some potion materials or sell some potions to support the family. However, every few times this behavior was discovered by his father, and he was forbidden by a violent beating.

Now walking on this dark path again, Severus not only felt some depression in his heart, but also deeply realized that he was really just a person from now on.

After spending the last Galleon on his body, Severus managed to buy the potion materials he needed, and then hurried through the night to return to the only house in Spider's Tail Alley.

Without a rest, Severus was in the basement that had been closed for years, cleaning the dusty tools, then setting up the crucible and lighting a fire with his wand, and began to expertly handle the potion materials.

The sky outside slowly lit up, and then there were human voices, the sound of cars passing by, the laughter of children on their way to school, and even places like Spider Tail Alley were very lively at certain times.

The room that belonged to Snape was still so quiet that the students who passed by thought it was a haunted house.

Severus was still intently boiling the potions in the cauldron in the basement, adding materials to it from time to time, keeping an eye on the potions' color changes.

Until the potion inside the cauldron slowly became like molten gold, splashing happily inside the small crucible, jumping on the surface like goldfish, but not a drop was scattered outside.

"Whew......" Severus let out a long sigh of relief, took out his treasured crystal bottle instead of the usual glass bottle for potions, carefully filled the potion in the crucible, and drank the last bit carefully.

As soon as he took the potion, he felt a warm current spread through his stomach, and in an instant Severus felt an uplifting sensation.

"Go to Malfoy Manor now!" he filled the potion and apparitioned to the outside of Malfoy Manor without even washing his tired face.

The Death Eaters' meeting was held in a mysterious manor, and Severus was led to that manor by Lucius Malfoy. The clothes on his body had already been changed into a black robe provided by Lucius without too many fancy, and because he had been focusing on study and research for a long time, the hair that reached his shoulders was loosely tied behind his head by a ribbon of the same color, revealing a face that was quite delicate after being cleared by bathing.

"I said you should be like this, what is it to always cover your face with your hair. Lucius whispered, pulling Severus to stand on the outermost part, "Wait here." ”

There were more and more people, and everyone formed a circle, and then Severus saw a man walk right in the middle of the circle and start talking. Severus listened to the Dark Lord's speech, and his hands clenched involuntarily, his words were too correct. It can almost be said that Severus has what he thinks, but he can't express it.

This is really a king he deserves to serve, a master who can achieve his ideals.

He is also willing to gather around him like those people and work hard for a common dream.

"Master, I have brought a companion today who is eager to join us. You've praised him before for doing a good job with potions. Hearing Lucius finally mention himself, Severus immediately straightened his back, subconsciously clenched the bottle of potion in his hand, walked to Voldemort step by step under the curious gaze of all the Death Eaters, and then knelt down on one knee and kissed the robe dragged on the carpet as the Death Eaters had done before. It wasn't until he straightened up that he shuddered slightly, "Severus greets his master. ”

After straightening his head, Severus realized that the face of the king in his heart seemed to have been burned, and his facial features were somewhat blurred and twisted like wax. The whites of the eyes seem to be forever filled with blood, scarlet and make people feel as if they can see through everything.

"Severus?" Voldemort said softly, Severus immediately lowered his head in shock, and stretched out the bottle of potion that he had exhausted all night to brew and sent it to Voldemort, "Master, this is a gift from Severus to you." ”

A pale finger took the crystal bottle from Severus's hand, and the whole circle fell into silence, and Severus faintly felt a sense of pride.

This kind of potion is not something that anyone can make.

Sure enough—

"Lucky potion?" Even Voldemort's always soft and cold voice trembled slightly, "Severus, I've heard Lucius mention it before, your potions are good, and you have good insights in dark arts, but I don't know ......"

"Severus was willing to serve his master. ”

"Very well!" Voldemort reached out and pulled Severus up, then drew his wand, "Since you want to be my friend, then ......"

Severus was slightly stunned, and then he felt a burning pain in his left arm.

"Hmm......" He subconsciously gritted his teeth to endure the pain, and after a few minutes, when it was all over, Severus opened his eyes and looked at his left arm, only to see a vivid mark of a snake poking out of the skull.

"This ......"

"This is my Dark Lord mark, Severus. I hope that your future performance will not make me regret my decision to give you this great mark today. ”

"Master, I will do my best to fulfill every order you have commanded!" The excitement in his heart washed away the pain in his arm for a moment, and Severus looked at Voldemort with rapid breath and swore an oath!

Severus sat quietly in the living room of Spider's Tail Alley, more than a month after he had officially become a Death Eater and had the Dark Lord brand on his arm. If he is still attending Hogwarts, then I am afraid that it has been a while since the beginning of the school year, and he should be in a busy and familiar school life.

But now, he had nothing to do but open the books left by his parents and look for the books on potions left by his mother.

Severus was looking through the musty book in front of him, but he hadn't read a single page for almost two hours. From time to time, he only stroked the still-painful branding mark on his left arm, and even occasionally lifted his sleeve to look at the snake that had emerged from the skull roaming his skin.

All he hoped was that the mark would suddenly become as dark as Lucius had said, and that his arm would hurt as if it had been branded.

For it means that the King on High needs him. And he, he won't be so idle anymore.

However, it had been more than a month, and although he had followed Lucius's advice to connect the house in Spider's End Alley to the Ministry of Magic's Floo Net, his arm had never stung, and the fireplace had never been lit.

Severus just repeated the life of almost exactly the same every day, waking up in the morning to take potions, then eating lunch, reading a book in the afternoon, and staring at the mark on his arm in the evening.

Perhaps, he should be grateful for the Galleons that Lucius had provided him after that meeting, otherwise he would not have been able to live such a "leisurely" life, and would have to continue to worry about life.

Closing the book in front of him with some irritation, Severus got up from his chair and paced back and forth in the room. Just as he was about to go out and buy some fast food to end such a boring day, his left arm suddenly ached as if it were burning.

"Ahh□□h However, a happy smile appeared on his face, and he struggled to his feet, rushed to the fireplace, grabbed a handful of Floo powder, and sprinkled it into the fireplace, shouting loudly in the green flames, "Malfoy Manor!"

"I've called you all here today to introduce you to a few new companions. First, "Voldemort was still standing in the middle of the circle, and walked in front of one wizard with silver masks," Severus, you step forward. ”

Severus looked at the figure that stopped in front of him, took a deep breath, and then took a trembling step forward.

"Yes, master. He stood in front of Voldemort and watched as his pale and withered fingers slowly moved up to his face, then grabbed the mask from his face and grabbed it off.

"This is Severus Snape, who joined our great team a month ago. He had great ideas on potions and dark arts, and supported every great point I had. ”

All the masked Death Eaters nodded at Severus in turn, and then returned to their positions.

"Severus, from today onwards, you are standing here, between Karkarov and Crouch. Voldemort pointed out a spot to Severus, "Then it's your place." ”

Crouch?

Severus was slightly stunned, then stood in the position that Voldemort was pointing at, put on his mask again, and carefully observed what was supposed to be Crouch.

With black hair and a pointed chin, Severus shuddered slightly, remembering Barty Crouch Jr., who had graduated a year before him.

It turned out to be him!

Severus almost couldn't help but smile at the thought that the son of Crouch, who always stood opposite Voldemort in the Ministry of Magic and hated dark magic to the extreme, could be a Death Eater.

The king he chose was indeed charming. Even the sons of their enemies were willing to take refuge in him.

"Now, I'm going to introduce you to a smaller companion. Voldemort glanced at Severus lightly, then walked quickly to Malfoy, "Did anyone bring it, Lucius?"

Severus looked down at Malfoy, who faintly peeked out of the golden hair between the cloak and the mask, only to see him bow slightly, and Severus's familiar voice sounded behind the mask, "Master, the man has arrived." He said as he stepped out of the way, as he had introduced him that day, and led out a man who had made Severus frown involuntarily.

Blake turned out to be Sirius Black's brother in Slytherin, Regusta Black.

Severus shuddered slightly at the face that resembled Sirius Black, and watched as the boy, who was pale and had a completely different expression from his haughty and arrogant brother, walked up to the ambitious king as he had done more than a month ago, knelt down on one knee and kissed the black robe.

What about the Black family, didn't one of their heirs also kneel before his king?Severus looked at Regusta Black, who was certainly not yet an adult and somehow slipped out of Hogwarts, and the corners of his lips slowly hooked.

Enough is enough, just seeing this situation, he thinks it is enough.

It was enough that the most famous pure-blood families in the wizarding world, the Malfoys and the Blacks, knelt before Voldemort and became his servants like the once-ridiculed half-blood.

Severus didn't even notice what Voldemort said at the end, he just passively followed Malfoy out of the party, and then Apparition appeared in an apparently Muggle neighborhood. Follow all the companions to use magic to blow up the glass of those houses, the street lamps of the streets, and all the Muggles hiding inside the houses and screaming.

But the whole street was magically separated from the rest of the street, and their screams couldn't get through.

"Alajo Cave open!look, I used such a simple spell......" One woman laughed maniacally, the first to blow open the door of one of the houses, and rushed inside. A few seconds later, all the people rushed into the houses.

Severus followed and rushed into a quiet house, and with a sweep of his eyes, who had lived in too much darkness, he found a little boy hiding behind a coffee table.

He walked over step by step, watching the boy look at him with frightened eyes, but the wand clenched in his hand hesitated slightly.

"What about your parents?" he asked.

"They, they leave ......"

"Avada suo!" a cold, frantic female voice sounded behind her, and then a green light grazed Severus's robe and shot at the little boy, who collapsed lifelessly on the carpet in front of Severus, still with the panicked expression on his face that he had spoken to him.

Severus hesitated for a moment before turning to look at the Death Eater with the Death Requisition Charm.

"Severus, you're moving too slowly, how about we see who killed more people in this event?" Bellatrix Lestrange laughed maniacally, the mask on his face already unknown where it had been lost. She burst out of the house with a barrage of crazy laughs.

Severus was stunned for a moment, then turned to see the body still alive before rushing out of the room, and the streets were already full of Muggles driven out by the Death Eaters, who were disheveled and running barefoot in the streets full of shards of glass......

"Severus, come along, it's fun!Ahahaha!! Avada is killed!!Hearts and bones!!Avada is ......"

Severus looked at the Muggles running in front of absolute power, and without hesitation, he raised his wand and aimed it at a screaming man: "Avada ...... life"