Hogwarts: This Dark Lord is so evil.

Chapter 215 The point is, what kind of person do you choose to be?
"Why?" Levitra asked calmly, "You have just experienced the power of the Cruciatus Curse. So, you should understand now... Black magic can be the sharpest sword in your hand."

"Of course I know! But..." Tom frowned and said, "It feels really bad to be cursed, Wade..."

"Tom... I am really surprised by what you said!" Li Weide said in surprise: "You are a person who pursues the ultimate power, but now you are not thinking from the perspective of the caster, but from the perspective of the cursed! What made you change?"

"I don't know... Don't look at me like that. I really don't know what I'm thinking. I... It's very complicated. Maybe the pain of the Cruciatus Curse has disturbed my mind. Now, I don't know how to express my feelings. It's just... I'm just... very angry! Yes, I only feel angry now!" Tom looked at the bones on the ground again.

"Angry? I think I understand a little bit..." Levitra said gently: "You are angry. Why is Slytherin really the same as the rumors in the world...stubborn, cruel, vicious..."

"I think you are partly right... Because of his boring trial, I was hit by a Cruciatus Curse. And... she..." Tom pointed at the bones on the ground, "Although I have no good feelings towards the Gaunt family, but... I still think that people like her... Nocto Gaunt, should not have died here. And this boring trial of Slytherin is actually screening out such people... Thinking about her previous naive thoughts... I think what you said before is indeed correct. After all... it is the old man Slytherin who has failed his descendants."

Tom turned his eyes away from the skeleton and looked at Levitra. "So... although I originally did not reject the Dark Arts and was very eager to become stronger, now... I suddenly feel disgusted with Slytherin and everything he advocates! So... I don't want the things inside, you can take them. How strange... I used to be proud of being a descendant of Slytherin."

Tom said, with a look of confusion in his eyes.

He clearly knew how precious Slytherin's heritage was!

He also knew clearly that these things were what he had always dreamed of!
But now... he just felt inexplicably disgusted... deep disgust.

He would even rather pack it up and send it to his old enemy, Li Weide.

When did I start to change?
Li Weide said calmly: "I have to emphasize it again. Behind this door is Slytherin's study, which may contain his legacy. With these things, your strength may improve by leaps and bounds. Are you sure you really want to give up?"

Tom was silent for a long time before he slowly said, "Admittedly, I did feel the power of the dark magic myself just now, but... before that, I also experienced fighting in the same way as Dumbledore! I suddenly found that doing it like Dumbledore seemed pretty good..."

Tom's eyes became brighter and brighter, and he became less and less confused.

"You know, even if Professor Dumbledore doesn't use dark magic, he is still the most powerful wizard! So... Wade, the most powerful magic may have already been in my hands..."

"Are you talking about the magic of love that you never believed in before?"

"Yes, the magic of love..."

Li Weide said happily: "It's good that you suddenly realized this, Tom. But... you still have to learn the dark magic, even if you don't want to use it! Even if you hate it... especially these methods left by Slytherin!"

"Why?" asked Tom.

Li Weide explained: "If you don't know anything about the dark arts, how can you protect yourself? If your friend is hit by the dark arts and you don't know about it, how can you save him? I guess Dumbledore thought the same when he sent you the manuscript on the dark arts. Besides... even a wizard like Dumbledore who doesn't use the dark arts very often, his research on the dark arts is extremely profound."

Tom nodded. "My father seemed to have said something similar to me before... He said that Dumbledore sent the manuscript to me so that I could learn how to protect myself, not so that I could use it."

Li Weide smiled and said, "It seems that what your father said is right!"

"Did you miss a word on purpose and take advantage of me?" Tom glanced at Li Weide and corrected him, "It should be 'your dad and me'!"

"Don't worry about this detail, Tom! There are more exciting things now!" Li Weide waved his hand and said.

"What's the matter?" Tom asked puzzledly.

"Haven't you noticed that the strength of your magic power has become stronger again?" Li Weide said with a smile.

"Is it?" Tom frowned and examined himself. "It seems so...but why?"

"Have you forgotten? Magic is subjective... Haven't you experienced this before? Your state of mind right now is purer than ever before..."

"Really..." Tom quietly felt the feeling at the moment, just like when he was at Riddle Manor.

"In fact, there is nothing wrong with pursuing power, even if you pursue the power of black magic. What's important is what kind of person you choose to be...where you want to use your power..."

After Livid finished speaking, he walked into Slytherin's study, leaving Tom standing alone at the door, thinking about issues far beyond what he should be thinking about at his age...

After a while, Tom came back to his senses. He looked at the bones on the ground again and then sighed.

"Well... after all, you are my elder, even if you are a Gaunt... I can't let you sleep in a place like this forever... I guess you also hate being so close to that old guy."

As he spoke, Tom tore a piece of cloth from his robe and used Transfiguration to turn it into a handbag.

Then he used levitation to slowly put the bones on the ground into the bag.

When he had finished packing, Tom put the five letters into his bag as well.

Then he walked into the Slytherin study.

As soon as he entered the door, Tom saw a wall with a carving of a Slytherin's head with loose hair.

However, Tom just glanced at it and walked up the escalator next to him.

"I finally understand why this trial level is so unreasonable." Li Weide said while holding a yellowed manuscript. "Oh? What did you understand?" Tom came over with a briefcase.

"The trial we just went through was indeed set up by Slytherin, and it was indeed set up by him for his descendants. Strictly speaking, this is a way to train his descendants! Moreover, this place is only used when Slytherin is in school... In other words, when he built this place, he did not expect that he would leave because of differences in ideas with several other giants. Slytherin originally intended to pass this place down from generation to generation to train his descendants. And with his sudden departure, this place was not passed down." Levid explained.

Tom understood a little. "That is to say, Slytherin would have been observing his offspring participating in the previous trials, and hoped that his descendants would also be able to participate in such trials under supervision?"

"Yes, if I'm not mistaken, every trial should be entered by two people together. That's why he didn't consider the situation where other descendants would break in alone in the future. After all, in the situation that Nocoto encountered, even if she was Slytherin's favorite descendant who could use black magic without hesitation, she had no way to leave this damn place because she came in alone. In that case, the trial would lose its meaning." Levid nodded.

"Then how can he ensure that every generation after that will have two heirs..." Tom realized his own stupidity before he finished speaking. "That is to say... he originally planned that every descendant of Slytherin would have to bring a friend to participate in the trial, and then... at the final stage, only by using the Cruciatus Curse on their friends could they get out?"

Levitra snapped his fingers. "All right! And the friends who can be brought to participate in the trial together... are undoubtedly close friends. If you don't have the determination to use the Cruciatus Curse on your close friends without hesitation, how can you use the dark magic well? Of course, if your good friend uses the Cruciatus Curse, I think Slytherin will probably be even angrier."

"Tsk..." Tom groaned when he heard this, "Don't you think this is a bit...perverted?"

"Dark magic has side effects. Dark wizards who study it excessively will gradually become psychologically abnormal, and become more and more extreme and crazy... When you think about it this way, it makes perfect sense that Slytherin's style of doing things is so extreme." Levid explained.

"So... Wade, since you like studying black magic so much, have you... become a mentally ill person?" Tom couldn't help but ask.

The normal Levid is so difficult to deal with, what if this guy goes crazy...what should I do?
"No, because I seldom study black magic...Why should I study something that I can learn after just one look at it?" Li Weide spread his hands.

Li Wei De's learning ability is indeed very strong. Apart from nightmare magic, which he often studies, he basically masters other black magics very quickly.

"Tsk... you've got me again!" Tom just felt envious and jealous...

"Also, although I know a lot of black magic, I don't use it very often. Black magic that I don't use won't have much impact on me. So, if you want me to go crazy because of black magic, I guess you won't be able to wait for it in this lifetime." Li Weide said happily.

"You'd better be telling the truth, Weider... I don't want to deal with a lunatic named Li Weider!"

"Okay...here, take this and put it in her grave when you bury this Nocto Gaunt." Levid handed over a piece of worn parchment.

"What is this?" Tom took it.

"An answer... the answer that Nocto is looking for."

Tom looked at the parchment. The writing on it had become very faint due to its age.

And the grammar is also very obscure, it seems...

"Is this a page of manuscript left by Slytherin?"

[…I’m afraid that there is a huge difference between me and them. Not even one person is willing to accept my point of view. I originally thought that Godric and I had similar views, because he also believed that the disciples we accepted should all be outstanding talents! But the problem is that he was also brainwashed by such a stupid idea! He said that people of Muggle birth have the same potential as pure-bloods! When I expressed my dissatisfaction with his wrong idea, Godric flew into a rage!
I was tired of the fighting and the incompetent children shoving each other in the corridors, pretending to be witches or wizards.

At this moment, I have come to the heavy realization that I must leave this place.

Next, I will place the creature into a state of slumber until someone who shares my vision awakens it. The chosen one will undo the sins that the others have inadvertently committed, while those who are unworthy will only tarnish my legacy, and my offspring will take on the responsibility of purifying Hogwarts.

"Well... that's indeed the answer... although it may not be what Nocto Gaunt wants to see. However..." Tom looked at the last paragraph, "What is that creature? Purifying Hogwarts? What does that mean?"

Li Weide said: "Perhaps he left a very powerful creature in Hogwarts, and hoped that a Slytherin descendant with the same idea as him would release the creature and kill all the non-pure-blood students in Hogwarts."

"Is he crazy? If a large number of students die in Hogwarts, Hogwarts will be closed!" Tom said in shock.

Li Weide smiled and said, "You are right, but... it might not have been illegal to do this a thousand years ago..."

"So... that monster is still alive? Hiding in some corner of Hogwarts?" Tom suddenly felt a little creepy.

Seeing the smile on Li Weide's face, Tom suddenly asked timidly: "Are you... planning to go after that monster again? I won't go this time even if you kill me!"

"No, Tom, I have no interest in that creature. In fact... I have no interest in all the manuscripts here. After I read through them, I will tell Dumbledore about the existence of this place, of course, including the matter of that creature." Levid said with a smile.

Tom raised his eyebrows. "After you read it once? You can memorize it after reading it once..."

Well, this is better than dragging myself to find that unknown monster and experiencing the excitement of dancing with death again...

"Are we leaving now? I think I found the door out." Tom found a door in the middle of the second floor of the study.

He knew that there must be other doors here. Otherwise, would Slytherin have to walk through that long and boring maze every time he came into the study?
"Give me an hour, Tom... I need to look through these manuscripts carefully. Maybe there will be information about blood-cursed orcs in Slytherin's interesting dark magic experiments." Levid said as he flipped through the ancient manuscripts.

Tom took a look at the book in front of Li Weide. Those horrible illustrations made Tom's sanity drop drastically after just one look, and he almost vomited...

"You actually described this horrific black magic experiment as 'interesting'? How can you have the nerve to keep emphasizing that you are a good person..."

(End of this chapter)