Chapter Forty-Six: Magical Affinity, Soul Transfiguration
"Clark, what do you think is the qualification of a wizard?"
Clark thought for a moment and replied, "It's the speed of learning magic, some of the magic you taught me, I feel like it's hard to learn." If I have more outstanding qualifications, I can learn all kinds of magic at once, and I will be proficient in a while, then I can be considered a genius. ”
"You call it memory, not qualification."
Tom Riddle shook his head, "In my hands alone, there are no less than three potions that can enhance your memory, and if you just learn fast enough, then the entire wizarding world is full of geniuses." ”
"Is that the amount of magic? I've heard that many spells require the amount of mana, and if the magic power is not enough, even the most powerful spell will not be able to make a splash. And if the magic power is sufficient, even a simple fluorescent flicker can burst out with great power. ”
Clark makes another conjecture, but Tom denies it.
"No, the amount of magic power can indeed determine the power of the spell, but too much magic power will cause oppression to the soul and body of the wizard, so genius is not the more magic the better."
After guessing wrong twice in a row and satisfying Tom's vanity, Clark asked, "So Tom, what exactly is a wizard's qualification?" ”
"The so-called aptitude of wizards is their affinity for magic!"
"Affinity?!"
"Yes," Tom nodded, "it's affinity, it's the affinity of wizard's magic to magic." ”
"Since you've been studying at Hogwarts, you must have bought wands at the Ollivanders Wand Shop, did you try a lot of them at the time?"
Clark understood what he meant almost instantly, and lied with great speed, "Yes, ash, unicorn tail hair, thirteen inches long. ”
"Well, it's a very tough kind of wood, not easy to bend and deform, with unicorn tail hair, a very standard combination." Tom muttered quietly, "Just as I thought, a stubborn and decent guy." ”
"Well, there are no two identical leaves in the world, and there are no two identical people, because of the soul, there will naturally be a small difference in the magic of each of us.
It is these differences that cause each wizard to have different wands, and different types of magic they are good at. ”
"For example, you, Clark," Tom looked at him, "and judging by your wand, Transfiguration and offensive spells don't really work for you. ”
Based on Clark's lies, he gave advice.
"Maybe you should try defensive spells like armor protection, as well as some healing spells. To be honest, as long as you do your part, you will have no problem applying for a therapist at St. Mungo's Hospital for Magical Injuries and Injuries after graduation. ”
Watching Tom Riddle use the agitation method there, Clark sneered in his heart, this guy's methods are not very clever, but they are often very useful.
In this world, the most difficult thing to resist is not a trap and deception, but the greed in people's hearts.
Why is it that sometimes, a very simple scam can deceive so many people, are they really stupid?
No, those who fall for it often see the unreliability of the scam, but in the face of huge interests, they still waver.
Fortunately, Clark is different, Tom Riddle is just facing an ordinary character in his disguise, and he doesn't know that the little wizard he is facing is actually the only heir of a pure-blood wizard family.
At the same time, he is also a reservist of the gods with great talent and infinite potential.
Those temptations of Tom Riddle are not worth mentioning to him.
However, Clark still accompanied him to act.
"Please, Tom, you should know that it wasn't my ideal to be a therapist when I came. Besides, since you've given me hope, stop teasing me, and tell me how I can change my affinity for magic. ”
"Okay then, since you insist." Tom nodded in satisfaction at Clark's insistence.
"If you want to change the affinity of magic, so that a wizard who is originally good at defense or healing spells is proficient in offensive magic, you need to change the soul attribute of the wizard, which is also a very dangerous black magic."
"Any kind of dark magic is very dangerous," Tom Riddle repeated, "especially when it comes to the soul, and if you are not careful, you can go insane and become insane." ”
He saw that Clark had become cautious, and continued.
"Therefore, if you want to change your soul's affinity for magic, the most important thing is to have a template, a template for your soul that is stronger than you and goes further than you in the direction you choose."
"So you chose the arrogant demon god Lucifer?" Clark asked.
Tom looked at the statue in harmony between the sacred and the depraved in front of him, "Yes, as the head of the Seven Demon Kings of Hell and the former archangel, Lucifer is the best candidate. ”
"Moreover, now that the gods and goddesses have disappeared into the long river of history, even if they prayed to them, there was no response.
On the contrary, it is a demon that is an aggregate of negative emotions and rules in heaven and earth, and even if no one presides over it, there is still a part of the spiritual response.
Of course, if you use Lucifer as a template for soul transformation, then you will gain an affinity for the dark arts. ”
"Dark magic affinity?" Clark looked hesitant for a moment, then asked, "So what are we going to do?" ”
He sensed that Tom's heart was happy at the moment, and it seemed that his disguised trick made him very happy.
Therefore, he did not hide it, his hands drew in the void, and a dark golden line with sparks appeared between his hands.
And with the rotation and dancing of his hands, a complicated magic array with the inverted pentagram as the main body appeared in front of them.
Tom showed Clark the magic array in his hand, "It's the magic array used to transform souls." ”
Just by showing it, he spread the magic beam in his hand.
"Of course, this is only one of the links, a complete soul transformation ritual, which is mainly divided into three steps."
Tom held out three fingers, and Clark began to listen intently, knowing that this was the real meat play.
"First, because of the stability of the soul itself, it is not easy to change it. Any means of violence will only cause harm to it, thus leaving hidden dangers.
Therefore, if we want to carry out soul transformation, the first step is how to reduce the stability of the soul without harming the soul. ”
Clark nodded subconsciously.
Tom bent a finger.
"The second step, when the stability of our souls begins to decrease and become malleable, we will use the magic array just now to pray to the demon god sacrifice and get their attention and response, so that the soul will begin to tend to these more powerful characters and note the direction of future transformation."
Tom bent down another finger.
"As for the third step, when everything is ready, we just need to use some special 'carving knives' that can act on the soul and sculpt the soul into the way we want it."
He finished the three steps of soul transformation in one breath, and then looked at Clark with burning eyes.
"No matter which step you make, it will cause irreparable damage to you. Reducing Soul Stability for too long and too much will cause your soul to collapse.
Praying to the demon gods and touching the gods with their souls risks being assimilated, infected, and devoured. And if you don't pay attention to the soul, you will go a long way, so are you sure you want to continue? ”
However, Clarke's mind was not on Tom's inquiry at this time, and an idea suddenly popped into his mind after hearing the three steps of soul transformation just now.
At this moment, inspiration gushed out like a spring, where did he still have the heart to deal with this remnant soul of Voldemort, he directly pretended to hesitate, said that he still had to think about it, turned around and left the diary space.
Only Tom Riddle was left with a bewildered face, messy in the wind.
"How's it going today? Is it still going well? ”
As soon as Clark left Voldemort's journal space, a concerned face appeared in front of him, and it was Hermione.
Clarke had already told her about Voldemort's diary.
Clark shook his head and pointed outward, and the two of them walked out of the suitcase together, and he said with a smile: "Big catch!" ”
A smile suddenly appeared on Hermione's face, "It's great, even the Dark Lord has been tricked by you." ”
She didn't ask Clark what the big catch was, nor did she wonder if Clark was discussing some kind of machinations with Voldemort.
Those experiences last year had made her already full of admiration for Clark, and if he hadn't ascended to the throne now, this little girl would have been able to transform into a fanatical believer.
"Don't be too happy, this is a small remnant of the Dark Lord, or was he split when he was a student at Hogwarts.
It was arguably at his weakest time, and we were just dealing with an upperclassman, like Percy. ”
Hermione smiled, "He's so much better than Percy, by the way, that prefect cousin of yours came to you before, and I asked him, but he didn't say what it was." ”
Clark nodded, acknowledging that he understood, and began to tell Hermione about the information he had received from Tom Riddle.
"This is so shocking, who would have thought that the famous Dark Lord would actually be a believer in the devil!"
This was Hermione's first reaction when she heard the news.
Clark, on the other hand, was not surprised.
"It's not surprising, for Muggles, indecision, quantum mechanics; And for wizards and other extraordinary professions, when things don't help, gods and demons borrow power.
So this is also a very normal thing, in ancient witchcraft, there are many evolved from the divine arts obtained after sacrificing to the gods. ”
Hermione nodded, "Well, is what he said you need?" ”
At this time, Clark was burying his head in his head, holding a quill, and sketching on the parchment one by one, accompanied by the clarity of the lines of pen and ink, a magic circle of the same style that Voldemort showed him, just like that, jumped on the paper, exactly the same.
And when he finished the last stroke, wrote the last symbol, the parchment shone with an undetectable light.
This magical sight immediately made Hermione's eyes light up.
"Of course," Clark dipped his quill in the inkwell, "at least the magic circle is still useful." ”
"But presumably he doesn't dare to do anything in this regard, after all, it is a ritual to communicate with the gods, and if you make a slight mistake and communicate with other things in the deep space of the universe, it will be a big mess."
Clark made a joke and wrote what Voldemort said on another piece of parchment.
"But we have to know that this guy will never be so kind to help me as an ordinary little wizard.
No matter how much he disguises it, his ultimate goal must be to break away from that diary, obtain a new body, and return to the human world. ”
He wrote Voldemort's ultimate purpose on parchment, and then used a line to connect it to the three steps above.
Hermione also strongly agreed with Clark's statement.
"Indeed, this guy must not have expected that we know everything about him, and in his opinion, you are nothing more than a little wizard who got a diary by chance.
But in fact, we have been in the shadows, but it is he who is in the light.
Honestly, Clark, you're amazing! That's the Dark Lord, if you let others know, you can actually play with him in the palm of your hand, and you will be afraid that your jaw will fall. ”
"Shhh Low profile! ”
In the face of Hermione's appreciation, Clark took it all, he did have the ability to be conceited.
Not all young wizards can intrigue with Tom Riddle, an excellent student of Hogwarts once in a century.
Even the so-called Harry is only able to bravely go up with the support of Dumbledore, the White Lord, for many years.
Compared to Clark, who was alone with Voldemort, he was at least twenty Rons short.
No, maybe more!
Fortunately, he quickly gathered these proud thoughts, and the matter had not yet progressed to the final point, and it was still too early to say that it had succeeded.
"Now that we know the Dark Lord's ultimate purpose, according to his intentions, we can roughly reverse the means he buried in his plan."
Clarke drew a horizontal line on the last step Voldemort had spoken.
"How to carve the soul carving ceremony? Who will make it? These questions may be his purpose. ”
"You're saying he wants to take your body and soul by helping you change your soul's affinity for magic?"
Inspired by him, Hermione made a guess.