Harry Potter and the Great Old Ones

Chapter 124 Treatment
Tierra flew back to her dorm looking pale and sickly.

After washing away the stench and the anger and fear in her heart with a hot bath, Tiera lay down on the bed.

The matter is now quite clear: the so-called "Hydra potion" on the Halbo stone tablet is not Halbo's true method for mastering the Parseltongue.

That's just an upgraded version of the Blood Curse Orc Potion.

Blood Curse Orcs typically lose all human language and physical form by the time they are in their twenties or thirties.

The Hydra potion, however, prolonged this process by dozens of times, but ultimately—

He will still turn into a monster who only knows how to kill and submit to Herpo.

After all, what respectable person would keep a diary?

How could a dark wizard who seeks immortality possibly go to the trouble of carving his research findings onto a stone tablet?

Tierra then realized that she seemed to have fallen into a cognitive trap—

He thought that Herbo carved words on the stone slab because stone slabs were the only material available in that era, but that was not the case.

Tierra recalled a documentary she had watched in her past life—

Papyrus was invented around 3000 BC, and during that time, it was exported in large quantities from Egypt to ancient Greek and Mediterranean civilizations.

The history of papyrus use by shamans, who belonged to the highest echelons of ancient civilizations, seems to be even longer.

Even before the invention of papyrus, the Greeks did not use the primitive method of carving stone tablets to record information. Instead, they used reeds dipped in ink to write on leaves, bark, or clay tablets.

Unless the information needs to be preserved permanently, like the inscriptions inside the pyramids.

Helbo carved his Hydra potion recipe on a stone tablet, not merely for record-keeping, but to ensure its formula would be passed down through the ages.

In order to trick more wizards, and to build an army of basilisks for his own immortality.

Haierbo is disgusting, so damn disgusting.

The despicable Herpo lived up to his name; even after thousands of years, he could still disgust Tiera, a modern man.

But Tierra did not despair—

Merlin's notes clearly state that he found the Helbo Stone in a cave in Greece one afternoon in the 13th century. At that time, he was an ambitious, aspiring young man over a hundred years old, determined to unify the world, and eager to pursue any method that could enhance his power.

Almost at the same time he obtained the Helbo Stone Tablet, Merlin took the Hydra Potion.

For the next several centuries, Merlin was never troubled by the Hydra potion.

To be precise, after his ascension to godhood at over two hundred years old, Merlin discovered that the effects of his Hydra potion had miraculously disappeared.

From this part of Merlin's notes, Tiera drew two conclusions—

First, the Hydra potion did not truly begin to cause his mental and physical mutations until at least two hundred years later.

Second, the ascension ritual can wash away the effects of the Hydra potion.

However, on the other hand, according to the principles of the ascension ritual in Merlin's Notes, what is there that cannot be washed away?

Hmm... In other words, he still wants to go through the ascension ceremony if he has the opportunity, since the most crucial item for the ascension ceremony is—

The Philosopher's Stone was already in his hands; the remaining preparations were insignificant compared to crafting it.

However, we'll have to wait until Tom Riddle summons Yog-Sothoth before drawing any conclusions.

Although Merlin seems to have no reason to harm him now, Tiera will not completely trust Merlin.

Compared to Merlin, Tyrell was more inclined to believe Yog-Sothoth.

Life after the secret room was opened didn't change much, at least on the surface, it was the same as usual.

No student attacks were reported.

Of course, apart from the occasional hoarse whispers that Harry began to hear coming from inside the walls, everything was normal.

Harry told Tyrell about it, but Tyrell dismissed it and told Harry not to overthink it.

Tyella knew that the basilisk was wandering around in the Hogwarts tunnels.

The basilisk is not so easy to control—especially after it has been asleep for fifty years. Its morning grumpiness and hunger make it impossible for it to stay still unless Tiera, like Tom Riddle, completely seals off the chamber.

Fortunately, Tiera can still control him to some extent, for example, if Tiera says this:
"Helpo's orders say we are not allowed to harm the Muggles here...and all the wizards—"

The basilisk would then obediently go to the Black Lake to hunt fish, shrimp, mermaids, and rats in the sewers.

Tiera looked at it and felt truly sorry for it—

Occasionally, during his free time, he would take the basilisk out of school for a treat.

In reality, Tiera simply used the "Inheritors" and "Parasitics" to lure a few unruly eight-eyed giant spiders out of the Forbidden Forest and to the shores of the Black Lake, whereupon the basilisk lurking within the lake devoured them whole.

However, basilisks usually prefer to petrify the spiders first, and then eat them like they're eating Doritos.

These things usually happen in the middle of the night. Anyway, Tiera, who has built a fourth mental wall, basically doesn't need to sleep except when her mental energy is greatly depleted.

The long night stretched on, and Tiera didn't want to spend all her time researching magic. She needed a balance between work and rest—that was essential for her studies.

Especially when it comes to learning dark magic, ordinary spells are fine, but wizards like Tierra, who fell into the cesspool of forbidden books the moment they stepped onto the path of magic, need to use meaningless things to adjust their mood—

Otherwise, Tyrell was truly afraid that one day she might end up like Merlin, unknowingly pursuing the so-called "truth of the universe."

Tiera, now integrated into the "parasite," floats silently above the Black Lake. The basilisk has also emerged from the water, its scales reflecting a shimmering green light in the moonlight. It rests quietly against a rock on the shore of the Black Lake, its gaze somewhat vacant as it stares ahead.

“Tiera…it itches…” the basilisk said.

Tiera sighed helplessly, and a pale golden tentacle drooped down from the "parasite" and landed on the basilisk's head.

"hiss--"

The pale golden tentacles reached into the basilisk's skull as if there were no obstruction, igniting a few sparks of spiritual energy within it, while the basilisk—or rather, the Slytherin—hissed in pleasure.

Ever since learning that the Basilisk was a Slytherin in disguise, Tyella has been trying to restore his sanity.

The cursed worm Tierra tried it, but it didn't work. It couldn't even extract the effects of the Hydra potion from itself, let alone the Slytherins who had been immersed in the Hydra potion for thousands of years.

Hydra appears to be a potent genetic modification agent.

Tiera didn't even understand the fundamental principles of magic—

However, the moment he drank the Hydra potion, its effects would expel a portion of Tiera's original three-dimensional attributes through a molting process—

This allows one to instantly merge with Tiera's spiritual, mental, and material dimensions.

In other words, the Hydra potion had been on Tiera's body ever since he shed his first layer of skin.

Tiera was unable to separate the Hydra potion using the cursed worms that could separate alien energy.

However, it can be burned away along with that contaminated spiritual dimension through precisely controlled spiritual fire.

Although the Hydra potion has already existed as a primary entity, there are still slight differences between it and the spiritual dimension that constitutes the primary entity.

Hydra's bioactivity is far less than that of the host itself.

In other words, when the Spiritual Fire of Tyranna burns Slytherin's soul, it also burns away a portion of the Hydra potion's contamination and Slytherin's soul simultaneously.

Of course, this level of burning is only effective if it doesn't damage the core of the soul—

In other words, the mental dimension coordinates are completely irrelevant; they will grow on their own before long.

Yes, that's right. Just as the body has the ability to repair itself, the soul also possesses this ability.

Furthermore, the soul's self-healing ability far surpasses that of the body.

Therefore, after Tyrell controlled the Spirit Fire and burned away a small portion of Slytherin's soul, Slytherin's soul quickly recovered.

A portion of the pure, untainted soul of Slytherin was reborn—

This calmed the basilisk down considerably, but it also made it a bit simple-minded.

Because along with that part of his soul, his memories and his cognitive structure were also being burned.

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