Chapter Ninety-Six: Post-Death Arrangements

On the fourth floor, the door that had been tightly closed and could not be destroyed by several black magic methods had long since been burned to charcoal when Professor Harlenius opened the door to meet the Burning Charm.

The magic that sealed the room disappeared, and the magic that protected the room from damage naturally dissipated. The house-elves had already cleaned up the contents of the room, and because of Professor Danlin's orders, even a trace of dust had been put away by them in a serious manner, waiting for a later inspection.

At some point there stood a pair of medieval armor next to the doorframe, matching the doorway to the other professors' rooms.

Professor Malfoy glanced at the armor, and unsurprisingly, he noticed what seemed to be something snooping in the armor.

Without a trace, he followed Professor Dan Lin into the room. The rooms are clean and tidy, and the overall layout is no different from other rooms.

The thunder outside had stopped, there was no dead spot in the room illuminated by a few candles, the window in the living room that led to the outside was broken, and the whirring wind accompanied by the cold snowflakes blew the room without temperature.

Professor Merino held his wand and shook his head when he saw Professors Danlin and Malfoy come in.

"I escaped." He said.

"Professor Malfoy." Professor Danlin leaned sideways, allowing Professor Malfoy to step forward first.

Ranco actively ignored the black wraith hanging above Professor Merino's head, pierced by several spikes, and firmly nailed to the ceiling, and walked to the window to look out.

This window faces Durmstrang Castle, and the white snowflakes are not to mention the ghosts in the bright light, and the slightest strange color is a great disrespect to the Nordic weather.

Beneath the window is an abyss, covered by fog that makes it impossible to see the situation below.

"The Wraith can't leave Durmstrang, it's the place of its death, and it must come back every once in a while, even if it can leave for a short time, until a substitute is found."

Resentful spirits, water ghosts and other dark magic creatures that appear for various reasons have very strict environmental restrictions, such as now, if a resentful soul with a strange cause of death wants to get rid of environmental restrictions, it must let another complete similar life take its place with the same death, and it can leave.

So when it is said to be 'substitute for death', isn't it just looking for a substitute for the dead.

Of course, the will of the school protects all teachers and students, and even if it succeeds in 'parasitizing' the will of the school for some unspeakable reason, it cannot easily take the life of any professor or student.

Professor Malfoy once again ignored the cursed and polluted black tentacles that had fallen to his face on top of his head, and took out the rune paper he had written in gold dust under the gaze of Professors Danlin and Merino.

"The previous seal has lapsed, and we'll have to wait until it doesn't show up."

Spells written in the runes of the runes 'Thurisaz' and 'Hagalaz' do restrain resentful spirits, the former means protection and luck, and also symbolizes the 'hammer of Thor' in Norse mythology, the latter means the continuation of life, and the main symbols are 'limitation' and 'delay', which symbolize the dissolution of nature.

These are the symbols in the room that had previously blended in with the walls, but now had been cleaned of the spells by the house-elves.

Obviously, the wizards of that generation should have figured out what the problem was, otherwise they would not have used ancient magic scripts to suppress it.

"It's better to find that resentful spirit as soon as possible, otherwise it will be useless to have more rune paper."

He handed the rune paper to Professor Merino, ignored the other's scrutinizing gaze, whispered a word to Professor Danlin, and exited the room.

'Whew. ’

Professor Malfoy walked down the stairs with some cheerfulness.

The professors couldn't see the wraith, and he knew it all too well.

Maybe the will of the school will be aware of it, but it will not stop it, because what he wants to do next is also 'expulsion', as long as this thing does not run around, the will of the school will not easily and completely wake up.

As for the connection between the will of the school and the vice-principal of the school, judging from the fact that Professor Dan Lin and Professor Merino completely ignored the ghost above their heads, it should not be as close as he had thought before.

- It may be able to have a few brief exchanges, but the school's will is tainted by his curse, and taking the opportunity to give things away is what it instinctively desperately wants to do.

As the only professor who can handle this matter at present, Ranko is alone, and as long as the school is not stupid, it will not tell the principal and vice principal about him during this time.

Of course, although it is only a small probability that the school will turn its face and refuse to admit it, Professor Malfoy will never pin his hope on other people's mouths and consciences.

Shut up the school's will, and it can be regarded as the end of tonight's matter.

So now only one last question remains, why was Alvin Peralta cursed by him?

Ahem, the reason for this is to blame fifty years ago.

Being cursed to death by Grindelwald on the spot was something that Ranko didn't expect at the time.

If it weren't for Oreo (Phoenix Quail) who was reborn in advance and resisted part of the effects of the death curse, with the Elder Wand, Grindelwald in his peak state would probably have to let him, the wizard who watched the Elder Wand, die on the spot at the hands of the Elder Wand, and he would not even have the possibility of fake death.

Fortunately, in order to prevent all kinds of accidents and save himself, he revealed some of his plans in advance to the only trusted 'person' at the time, the house-elf teacup, so that he escaped the tragic end of being buried in the Malfoy family cemetery forever in the case of fake death.

Then, in order to prevent being dug up (say you junior!) ), and the malicious detective (Dumbledore, the old man, was also very bad), Teacup personally arranged a series of funerals for him, including putting all the cursed objects and some precious dark magic artifacts into the room where he 'lived', filling all the places in that room little by little, and then following the instructions to inform the then head of the Malfoy family, Abraxas, about his brother's arrangements.

As for Abraxas's relays of believing it or not, a house-elf...... Believe it or not, believe it or not, and in that case he would not have been able to get close there.

Surrounded by a multitude of dark magic artifacts and cursed objects, anyone who entered it would be mortally cursed, even his brother, and even the curse would only become more vicious depending on the blood connection.

Ranko didn't trust his brother at all, he didn't trust anyone at all in that environment.

Even his house-elves have been given these things to it through various dark magic curses and unbreakable contracts to achieve 100% 'control'.

And his own unoptimistic state made the curse that had deliberately made it unstable even more manic.

Alvin Peralta's divination was strong, but it was because of his strength that he was in a state of very bad Ranko, who was surrounded by a curse, which caused the almost uncontrollable curse to penetrate Durmstrong's protective spell along this ethereal connection, cursing him.

Even though Alvin Peralta, who was also on the roster, was protected by the will of the school and did not die on the spot, the curse invasion was fast and accurate, and in Durmstarang, although the home field was the will of the school, and the curse that spread like a virus wanted to protect people and kill people, this level of tug-of-war made the divination professor completely crazy after a while, falling into a state of destroying others and self-destruction.

After Alvin Peralta's suicide, the confrontation between the curse and the will of the school did not end, and the curse completely took over the soul of the deceased.

If it wants to continue to spread, it is naturally impossible for the school will to let it go on a killing spree in Durmstrang, so it can only be sealed in the room with the soul of Alvin Peralta, who has been completely blackened.

At the same time, the will of the school also needs to take into account the soul of a professor (even if it is cursed), and then the principal at the time also arrived, and immediately sealed it, but in the end, no one could help anyone.

But as time passed, the curse did not dissipate, but instead turned in a direction that no one expected.

Gradually, it began to erode the will of the school through some special channels.

This process was slow and hidden, but perhaps the subsequent arrival of the curse source (Malfoy) directly affected the strength of the curse, and the power of suppression and the power of struggle appeared in a month, which made the resentful spirit almost escape.

And this is the curse, the apex curse that can invade, infect, spread, and mutate in any form as a medium!

As a spellcaster, Malfoy, the master of curses, would naturally feel honored to face such an ending, and lo and behold, Durmstrang's protective magic was no ...... Oh well, he also has a little bit of a problem that bothers him.

Even this curse wants to kill him, what is the situation of this spellcaster?