"Why, you want to serve the Grim Reaper too?" Shivin glanced at Riddle and asked jokingly.

Riddle's expression stiffened for a moment, then he tugged at the corners of his mouth slightly, and said to Xiwen, "How is that possible?" I just don't know what they're for, so it's a little confusing. ”

"There's nothing to be baffled with." Xiwen shook his head slightly and said mockingly. "When the temptation is big enough, humans dare to grab the food in the tiger's mouth, what is it to work for the Grim Reaper?"

"I heard...... The promise that the Grim Reaper had given them was great power, and eternal life......" Riddle's expression became a little deeper, and his tone drifted.

"Don't be fooled, Mr. Voldemort." Shivan's hand shook in front of Riddle's face and said amusedly. "Those so-called powerful forces and any immortality are just a means for death to deceive people."

"The so-called great power is to leave a mark on the human body to control the human body, and when the mood is good, the Grim Reaper may allow those servant-like beings to borrow a little power from him; As for eternal life, it is even more fake, if you completely invade a person's body and soul, let that person become one with death, or even if you can't say that you are one, you may just become a little ghost struggling on his cloak, do you think this is really eternal life? ”

Riddle froze, then laughed stiffly.

"I knew the Grim Reaper wouldn't be so kind!" He said loudly. "Those who believe in the truth are really stupid......"

In the middle of the conversation, the two unwittingly walked to the corner of the entrance courtyard corridor.

Turning the corner, Xiwen casually raised his head and glanced forward, and then his expression suddenly froze.

Here stood a girl with a freckled face standing around the corner, her whole body stiff and gray, looking at the waters of the Black Lake with a horrified expression.

The petrification of her body was not as stiff as the Bondage Charm, but her whole body was completely turned to stone, as hard as marble.

"Pani Mannis?" Xiwen's eyes widened.

He recognized the girl.

Mannis was a young wizard in the same class as Shevin, and the Sorting Hat assigned her to Ravenclaw.

She is usually timid and cowardly, she doesn't even dare to speak too loudly to people, and her presence in Hogwarts is very low, and Xiwen's impression of her is that she wears a sorting hat to the house table, and seems to have a good relationship with Manto Trelawney.

Hearing Xiwen's stunned tone, Riddle asked in a deep voice, "Rozier, do you know her?" ”

"Yes, we do." Xiwen nodded lightly and frowned. "She and I were in the same class, both parents were Muggles, and when school first started on the express train, she was cried by Abu."

"But I didn't expect her to be like this today. What kind of grudge would use such a vicious curse on such a harmless little girl? ”

As he spoke, Shivin held out his wand and pointed at Mannis's forehead.

"Finite."

Unsurprisingly, the Universal Cracking Spell did not lift the curse on Mannes.

"It's getting complicated. It's a bit of a boast, but there aren't many spells that don't even work with my universal spell. Shivin asked, looking at Riddle. Do you recognize this curse, Riddle? ”

In a state of mental tension, Shivin did not remember that Riddle had changed his name to Voldemort, but called out his last name again.

Riddle didn't refute, just shook his head slowly, and lowered his head a little helplessly.

Riddle, who lowered his head, naturally looked at Mannes's feet, and then, with a shocked face, he noticed that there were two large lines of blood-red letters engraved on the ground under Mannes's feet—

"The secret room has been opened, and the heir is the enemy, so stay vigilant!"

The font is distinct, like blood that has just been shed. However, because it was getting late, and the two of them had just studied Mannis's symptoms and did not look to the ground, they did not notice the environment under their feet.

Xiwen slowly read these two lines of blood-red handwriting, and his expression became extremely solemn!

"Now it's likely that one of two things is going to happen - either the Dark Wizards have invaded Hogwarts, or there are older wizards in the school who have been bewitched by death or someone else." He said. "This matter is no longer in the scope of our disposal, we should go to the professor to take a look."

……

After Shevin summoned Headmaster Duppet and Dumbledore with a Patronus Charm, the corner of the corridor in the entrance courtyard became a little crowded.

Dumbledore waved his hand and motioned for the group to disperse a little.

Then, pointing his wand at Mannis, he said—

"Fiem!"

A shining light swept over Mannis's body, so powerful that even the spell used by Headmaster Dippet to hide the wrinkles on his face was dissolved, but the petrification on Mannis's body did not change in the slightest.

"Is there any unforgivable spell-level black magic again?" Dumbledore frowned, looked at Headmaster Dipper, whose face had suddenly doubled the wrinkles, and asked.

Seeing that his wrinkles were exposed, Principal Duppert stopped hiding them and began to think intently about the symptoms on Mannis.

"I don't think it's so easy for black magic of the level of the Unforgivable Charm to appear." He shook his head and said. "And a wizard with the strength to invent this kind of dark magic, if he doesn't stir up a storm in this turbulent world situation, why would he come to Hogwarts to attack an ordinary student?"

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Dumbledore frowned, looked at Headmaster Dippet and asked, "What do you mean......"

"Don't you mean...... Is it possible that this magic was not caused by a wizard? Xiwen asked suddenly.

Headmaster Dippert glanced at Xiwen, nodded approvingly, and explained to the few people present, "Speaking of which, if it is from this location of the entrance courtyard, it is possible that other magical creatures will come close and attack Miss Mannes. ”

"After all, there are indeed a lot of magical beasts around Hogwarts, is it possible that some petrified animals suddenly pass near the castle? Also, Miss Mannis had been looking at the Black Lagoon below the corridor, and not elsewhere. ”

Dumbledore thought thoughtfully, then said, "Then we probably need to ask Sylvanus. ”

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