Harry Potter and the Great Old Ones

Chapter 123 Sarasas Lightning

The girls' restroom was empty at this time.

Even Myrtle wasn't there.

"Go to the sink."

Following Tom Riddle's instructions, Tierra arrived at the huge handwashing basin at the far end of the washroom.

"Find a tap that isn't running, then repeat after me—"

“Open (the parsleyan),” Tom Riddle said.

“Open it!” Tiera said in a parssing voice.

Suddenly, the faucet emitted a dazzling white light and began to spin rapidly.

Then, the pool started moving.

Tiera watched as the pool slowly disappeared from sight, revealing a very thick water pipe large enough for two or three people to crawl into side by side.

Tierra transformed back into a "parasite" and floated lightly into the cave entrance.

The pipe twists and turns, winding and turning, with a very steep slope all the way down.

After an unknown amount of time, Tiera appeared deep underground in a pit filled with countless rotting mud, bones, and garbage, emitting a foul, putrid odor.

Tiera was floating in the middle of the pit—

Try to stay as far away as possible from the bottom silt and the walls of the pit covered with fungal patches.

The Tyrell, attached to its host, doesn't need sight to see, so even in the dark, it can accurately locate the entrance to the Chamber of Secrets in Slytherin.

There was a huge, bright green snakeskin—

The "inheritor" excitedly approached, sniffed like a puppy, and then opened the book—

As if drawn by something, the snakeskin was pulled upwards and stuck to the page of "The Inheritor".

The "Inheritor" emitted a faint light, and like a hamster eating a leafy vegetable, the thirty- or forty-meter-long snakeskin was slowly pulled into the Inheritor's body—

After the last bit of snakeskin was devoured by the "Inheritor," the cover of the "Inheritor" thickened, and suddenly small, dark green scales appeared, reflecting a strange light, covering the entire book cover except for an equilateral triangle on the front—

The equilateral triangle on the book cover protrudes slightly upwards, and a vertical rod appears in the center of the circle contained within the triangle.

From a distance, it looks like a simple line drawing of a giant reptile eye.

The "Inheritor" let out a cheerful, incomprehensible cry, then whirled around Tiera merrily—

Tiera lifted the "parasite's" sleeve—

A hand suddenly emerged from the empty sleeve.

Tiera ran her hand over the cover of "The Inheritors" and tapped it.

“Not bad,” Tiera said, then beckoned the “inheritors” to continue on their way.

Tiera passed through another winding tunnel and came to a solid stone wall with a round metal door on top, and seven snakes crawling on the metal door.

“Say it again—” Tierra heard Tom Riddle say to her.

"Open (Snake voice)"

A slightly smaller metal snake crawled out from where the tails of the seven snakes met, circled around the circular metal door, and each time it passed a snake's head, that snake's head would retract slightly.

After the small snake had crawled around once, all seven snake heads retracted into the inner circle of the metal door, and the circular metal door slowly opened—

A wide, empty corridor was revealed inside.

Many stone pillars carved with coiled and intertwined snakes stand on both sides of the corridor.

Emerging from the bottomless water on both sides of the corridor and disappearing into the dark ceiling above, they cast long, eerie shadows across the entire room, which was filled with a mysterious, verdant mist.

Tierra floated forward along the corridor for a short distance—

Then we arrived at the end of the corridor, where there was a huge, plaza-like platform. Both ends of the platform, like the corridor, were surrounded by tall stone pillars and deep, dark water.

On the wall at the far end of the square, there is a huge stone face almost as tall as the room itself—

It was an old, monkey-like face, with a thick, long beard that blended into the square. Tiera transformed back into human form mid-air—

However, it remained suspended in mid-air. The "parasite's" red shawl transformed into two enormous wings made of worms, dragging Tiera through the air.

Tiera closed her eyes.

He heard a strange sound, as if something was moving inside the statue's mouth. Something was rustling and sliding upwards from deep within the statue.

“Close your eyes,” Tom Riddle reminded Tierra.

Tiera staggered back a few meters in mid-air.

The "inheritor" who had just been happily spinning around instantly hid behind Tierra.

A massive creature fell from the mouth of the Slytherin statue onto the hard brick floor.

It was a gigantic, monstrous snake with bright yellow eyes and a shimmering, venomous green body. Its body was as thick as a truck, and it flicked its tongue at Tiera, who hovered before it.

It seemed to be carefully trying to catch Tiera's scent.

At that moment, Tom Riddle's voice echoed in Tyella's mind—

"How is it? Isn't it particularly ferocious now, like it wants to eat you up—quick, do as I say, tell it—(Parsleyan) I am your master, Slytherin, and I command you not to eat this boy, but to keep an eye on him—"

But what Tom Riddle was really thinking was—

[That foolish Mudblood, the basilisk will attack him the moment it smells the filth in his blood—just like that foolish Myrtle—at such close range, sometimes even I can't stop it—and after this danger, he'll definitely be terrified—]

However, the basilisk in front of Tiera did not attempt to attack. Instead, it slowly moved towards Tiera, flicking its tongue and displaying a behavior that was both affectionate and wary of her.

The basilisk looked strange; it didn't appear completely submissive like someone meeting a long-lost master, but rather—

Instead, it resembled the way anacondas greeted and tentatively approached each other in a snake documentary that Tierra had seen in her past life.

A sudden, absurd, and terrifying thought surfaced in Tiera's mind—

This conjecture is so terrifying and disgusting—

"Who is your master?" Tiera asked in a Parsleyan voice.

“Hai… Erbo—” the basilisk replied immediately.

“Who…who are you?” Tiera asked again.

This time, the basilisk seemed to pause for a moment, then, as if drunk, it screamed and frantically slammed its flat, massive head against the nearby stone pillar—

Those stone pillars seemed to be blessed with special magic; no matter how the truck-like snake heads rammed into them, they remained completely unmoved.

“Who am I… I am Helbo’s loyal servant… No… Who am I… Who am I… Who am I…”

Until the basilisk saw the statue he had crawled out of—

That old, decrepit, monkey-like stone face—

A fleeting glimmer of clarity, a hint of sadness, and a dash of despair seemed to flash in the basilisk's large yellow eyes—

“Salazar… Salazar… Slytherin…” the basilisk seemed to have exhausted all its strength as it spoke, “I am Salazar… Slytherin…”

After saying that, he suddenly threw his head back and let out a long howl, then began banging his head against the wall again—

“I am Helbo’s loyal servant…I am Helbo’s loyal servant…I am Helbo’s loyal servant…”

Once the basilisk had calmed down, Tiera's expression had turned quite grim.

Tierra's face turned ashen, and she asked with a serious expression:

"who am I?"

The giant basilisk suddenly turned its head, extended its forked tongue, approached Tiera, and then said—

“You are also…you are also Helpo’s servant.”

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