Harry Potter and the Great Old Ones

Chapter 626 Voldemort's Conjecture
"Hmph, a brat is still a brat, all he knows is how to coerce others with violence," Voldemort said contemptuously. "He has no idea that I've infiltrated the entire European Ministry of Magic, including the British Ministry, like a sieve."

"Hmph. That brat doesn't understand human nature at all," Voldemort sneered to himself.

The pure-blood families, whose interests had been harmed and infringed upon by Tyella's various reforms, and the half-blood wizards they relied on, no longer dared to openly rebel against Tyella's rule. However, one after another, they secretly colluded with Voldemort and his remaining Death Eater group.

This includes not only pure-blood wizards from Britain, but also pure-blood families from Austria, Hungary, France, the United States, and other European and American countries.

Most of them had no relation to pure-blood families, but through their own efforts or the legacy of their ancestors, they built enormous magical enterprises in the local magical world. Step by step, they took root and sprouted in the local magical world, eventually growing into a towering tree that sheltered the entire magical world.

But suddenly—

The appearance of Tierra was like a sudden wildfire. No, Tierra was even more terrifying than a wildfire. At least after a wildfire, they could still retain their deep-rooted roots, but this time Tierra dug up even their roots.

"That Tierra is despicable!" said Koschk Villalbá, the Austrian potions magnate who was the first to surrender. "Our Villalbá family has monopolized a third of the potions business in the European magical world since 1447! The British magical community even asked our family for help during the witch hunts, and now they're ungrateful and turn their backs on us! If it weren't for the potions provided by our Villalbá family, the British Ministry of Magic would have been wiped out by Muggles during the witch hunts!"

“Yes, yes, yes,” the other former heads of powerful families who had surrendered also nodded in agreement.

“You are a descendant of the Slytherin family,” said Koschk Villalbá, the Austrian potions magnate. “Your ancestor can be considered one of the founders of our wizarding world. We hope you can uphold justice for us.”

Faced with these people's surrender, Voldemort neither nodded nor shook his head, but simply looked at these opportunists kneeling before him with a cold gaze.

“But I’ve heard that my ancestors were on the side of Tyrell,” Voldemort said slowly after a long silence.

This was his biggest worry, and it wouldn't be an exaggeration to call it a hidden danger.

Through the information Snape gleaned from Harry's brain when teaching him Occlumency, Voldemort learned that a fragment of his soul was attached to Harry's body, and that Tyrell would not harm him until this fragment was removed from Harry's body.

Now that his life was no longer in danger, Voldemort's top priority was to stop Tyrell from ruining his ascension ceremony.

Voldemort initially thought Tyrell would use Salazar Slytherin, whom he controlled, to deny his Slytherin lineage and fabricate a completely unrelated origin story. However, Tyrell did not do so. On the contrary, through information passed down by Snape, Draco Malfoy, and other restless students within Hogwarts, Voldemort learned that Tyrell not only did not distort or fabricate Voldemort's origin story, but he also showed everyone in his Dark Arts class information about Voldemort from other people's memories—

They even made the students write reflections based on those memories!
This is practically helping to solidify and anchor oneself!
Could it be that Tierra was merely mocked by Tom Riddle when he was young? Or was it an attempt to undermine her revered status among the Death Eaters?
Is it just for this kind of thing that Tiera started to expose his true colors? As a god, doesn't he know that even the spread of such negative news can rapidly increase his support?

Compared to increasing her own anchor, being humiliated and having her private matters exposed is trivial. Surely Tiera wouldn't do this to help herself become a god?
After eliminating the least likely possibility, only one remains—

Tyra was unaware that she was becoming a god! That's why Tyra, who couldn't kill herself for the time being, used this method to destroy her sanctity among the Death Eaters, in order to completely dismantle any possibility of her gathering the Death Eaters.

Yes, while this result may seem unlikely, it is the most reasonable explanation after so much intelligence has been gathered together.

But why didn't Tyella know that she was going to become a god?
Or, to put it another way, why didn't Tyella realize that she was destined to become a god?
Taking advantage of Tyrell's absence from Hogwarts, he used Snape, an inside man, to raid Slytherin's Chamber of Secrets and copy Tyrell's, or more accurately, Gellert Grindelwald's, Book of Becoming God.

Although Voldemort was confident that he had concealed his tracks well, it was only a matter of time before Tyrell discovered that he had been looking through his Godhood Notebook. Voldemort predicted that Tyrell would discover that he had been looking through his notes, either immediately or within a month. At that time, Tyrell would definitely be able to guess that his goal was to become a god.

Voldemort had even prepared for his escape to hide in the east from XZ, but it didn't happen—

Tierra continued her search with the same intensity as always.

At first, Voldemort thought it was a delaying tactic, a show of force on the outside but a loose one on the inside, but a month passed, then two months, then three months.
Tyella showed no inclination to expedite the search, as if Voldemort were merely an ordinary fugitive, not deserving of any special attention from Tyella.

Voldemort simply didn't believe that Tyrell hadn't noticed his intrusion. After all, Tyrell, also known as Gellert Grindelwald, had been in that secret chamber for nearly fifty years. During that time, Gellert Grindelwald had placed countless subtle spells and curses on that chamber and those notes that Voldemort couldn't detect in his haste.

But Tiera still seemed oblivious, nor did she appear to be deliberately creating a diversion. This meant that after he left, and before Tiera discovered it, someone was covering for him.
Who could it be? Who could be covering for me?
This person must be someone close to Tiera, someone who enjoys Tiera's deep trust, and perhaps even someone who participated in Tiera's ascension to godhood in some way, and who also has a reason to help her.
Then the answer is obvious—

Salazars Slytherin!
Although Salazars Slytherin currently appears to be on Tyella's side, he is actually quite wary of his bloodline descendant and harbors a desire to help her achieve godhood.
But Voldemort was troubled by the extent to which Salazar Slytherin was willing to go to such lengths for him.

Is it merely to survive and avoid being found by Tiera, or is it to embark on the path to godhood?

This is something Voldemort needs to confirm.
"Mr. Slytherin." One afternoon after the break, Salazar Slytherin was comfortably sunbathing on the roof of the Hogwarts Observatory when a familiar voice suddenly broke his precious moment of relaxation.

"What is it?" Salazar Slytherin transformed back into human form, looking helplessly at Tyella who stepped out of the void behind him.

“Voldemort has come to his senses,” Tierra said with a smile. “He’s ready to seek help from his ancestors.”

(End of this chapter)