Hogwarts: Starting with full Unforgivable Curses

Chapter 119 Putreflorifera (Putreflorifera)! Evil research before school starts

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[Achievement]: Scolding stupid subordinates

[Description]: Although the Malfoy family is not your subordinates yet, they will be sooner or later. You fully demonstrated the majesty of a demon king and rebuked them without any dignity.

[Requirements for lighting up]: Start attacking Lucius.

[Achievement Reward]: Random Black Magic +1 at full level
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"Dark magic again?"

Compared to the initial panic when he first obtained the system and directly mastered the three unforgivable curses.

Now when Dylan saw the full-level black magic rewarded by the system, he could directly extract it without changing his expression.

Even a little excited.

"I don't know what kind of magic I can pull out this time. Maybe I can use it next time I rob other dark wizards."

He withdrew the reward.

In an instant, he felt that everything around him became blurred, and his consciousness seemed to be drawn into the deep and boundless space of the universe.

A pitch-black star hung high above his head. Dylan only needed to look up to sense a strong evil aura emanating from it.

"Come and smash me."

Dylan hooked his finger at the black stars in the sky.

next moment--

Swish!
The black star suddenly fell.

It hit Dylan head on.

Then, Dylan felt that he was standing in a dead place.

The surroundings were piled up with corpses of various shapes and sizes.

Some had ferocious faces and wide-open mouths, as if they were roaring in despair before dying.

Some of the limbs were bent at strange angles, sticking stiffly in the air.

Some bodies were incomplete, with broken arms and limbs scattered around, internal organs exposed, and the dark red blood on the ground dried up and formed black-brown lumps.

Dylan ignored the strong and pungent stench around him and slowly raised his wand.

"Souls bloom from the filthy earth, and rotten corpses turn into flowers. The decay of death is used to parasitize the spirit!"

As he uttered a low voice—

"Shhhhh!"

Blood-red light burst out from the tip of Dylan's wand, slithering towards the corpses like a poisonous snake.

Wherever the light touched, the corpse's body began to tremble violently.

Immediately afterwards, twisted black flower buds suddenly emerged from the corpse's eye sockets, nasal cavity, mouth, and various wounds on the body.

As soon as these flower buds appeared, they began to grow and expand at an almost crazy speed.

There are still traces of white veins on the edges of the petals, which slowly open up to reveal the stamens inside that emit a scarlet blood glow.

As the flowers bloomed, the decay of the corpse accelerated sharply.

The skin quickly cracked and peeled off, revealing the bluish-black muscles underneath, and the muscles instantly turned into pus and slowly flowed down along the bones.

In the end, even the bones were quickly turned into powder under the erosion of this force, falling down with a rustling sound.

But in the blink of an eye, all the corpses completely rotted and turned into pools of black mud that even lost its smell.

Only the broken clothes and scattered bone fragments mixed in it symbolize what the soil once looked like.

But at this moment, they are deeply rooted in a blooming black flower.

The flowers sway, carrying with them the creepiness of death and rebirth.

Dylan stood in the middle of this sea of ​​blooming flowers, his black robe fluttering in the breeze. From a distance, he had a unique beauty.

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[News]: Congratulations on mastering the maximum level magic - Putreflorifera (Flowers of Putrefaction)!

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Dylan completely regained his composure from the system panel.

After realizing the effect of the spell he had just mastered, his eyes lit up.

"This spell, like the Grimfire Curse, can be used to dispose of corpses?"

Of course, if you want to clean up the corpse, the Fierce Fire Curse is naturally the first choice.

However, this flower that grows out of decay naturally has its own special features.

"The black flowers that grow can be used as medicinal herbs?"

Dylan rubbed his chin with one hand, curious about the medicinal effects of this black flower.

With this in mind, he glanced towards the pile of trapped cockroaches.

The cockroaches crowded and crawled around each other, making a rustling sound, and their shiny shells glowed coldly in the dim light.

"Crucio!"

A beam of white light shot out.

——Dylan recently added a random colored attack effect to his wand, which cost him a full thousand Galleons.

However, Dylan is quite wealthy now, so even though he has to save the lion's share for the suitcase, he is still happy to spend these small amounts when he is researching the beautification functions.

When the Cruciatus Curse was thrown into the pile of cockroaches, the little guys who were originally crawling around wildly instantly started struggling frantically.

The tentacles waved wildly and the thorny legs kicked back and forth.

——Because the cockroach's heart is composed of multiple ventricles, the pain they endure is even more intense.

In just a moment, half of the cockroaches lost their vitality and fell straight down.

"Putreflorifera!"

Dylan waved his wand again.

A strange purple-black light flashed.

In the blink of an eye, small but bright black flowers slowly emerged from the pile of dead cockroaches.

Dylan took a quick sniff and smelled a peculiar sweet scent.

It's very faint, but it does exist.

The surviving cockroaches around seemed to be attracted by the fragrance. They were originally fleeing in panic, but now they turned around and crawled towards the new flowers.

"Oh?"

This discovery surprised Dylan a little.

He did not stop the cockroaches from biting the flowers, but wanted to observe what changes would occur to the cockroaches after eating these black flowers.

"rustle"

Because there are so many cockroaches, the sounds they make appear denser.

Their tentacles swung wildly, their mouthparts opened and closed, and some even started biting each other in order to compete for a position close to the flowers.

Dylan watched with interest as a slightly larger cockroach crawled to a black flower, repeatedly touched the petals with its antennae, and then opened its mouthparts to take big bites.

As it continued to swallow, strange changes began to occur.

The cockroach's body swelled up visibly!

The body, which was originally only the size of a thumb, is gradually approaching the size of a middle finger. Even the shell seems to be getting harder and looks a lot thicker.

This guy's movement and reaction speed increased significantly, and the smaller ones around him were all knocked away by his reckless charge.

"This……"

Dylan raised an eyebrow.

"So, this flower contains some special factor that can stimulate biological growth?"

Dylan became very interested in these black flowers.

He moved closer and carefully observed the little bugs that were still trying to get close to the flowers, with curiosity and confusion in his eyes.

"If these flowers really have a factor that can cause biological growth, then maybe I can use it to develop a new potion!"

But Dylan is still not sure whether the effect of this black flower is immediate or long-lasting.

"Besides that, I can't be sure that the type of flower is consistent. No matter where you get the black flower, the effect is exactly the same."

"Or does it mean that the flowers that grow from the corpse of a certain creature can only be used on that creature and have no effect on other creatures?"

Dylan couldn't help but think about it.

"If the medicine can really be developed, it might sell like hotcakes..."

Dylan didn't even bother to complete the spell refinement task. He stood up, waved his wand, and crushed the little guys who tried to approach the black flowers.

The cockroaches around were so scared that they jumped on the spot and retreated a long distance.

"Huh? Wait, I think I used the wrong spell."

These little cuties shouldn't be crushed directly.

"But can flowers grow from a broken body?"

With the idea of ​​giving it a try, Dylan turned his wand again.

What surprised him was that flower buds actually emerged from the piles of powder.

"Not bad!"

Dylan was very satisfied with the result. With a wave of his wand, all the black flowers floated up and drifted to his side.

Dylan took the cockroaches that had eaten the black flowers out of the circle, placed them in another place, put them in petri dishes, and stored them separately.

"It looks like we'll be busy from now on."

Spell refinement, magic training, potion research...

He also has to keep up with his reading schedule every day and can't afford to miss out on studying for even a single day. "Ah, this is the trouble of happiness."

Dylan felt the knowledge he possessed constantly accumulating and his magic becoming stronger bit by bit. The sense of satisfaction he felt was indescribable.

Time goes by day by day.

Until school is about to start.

Dylan then emerged from the suitcase.

"I didn't expect that the spell of Return of the Dead could actually be used on these little bugs."

The return of the dead allows Dylan to control the corpse.

The flower of decay can transform corpses into magical materials.

Both are extremely evil black magic, but Dylan has recently devoted all his energy to these two magics.

After dinner, Dylan chatted with his family for a while and then returned to the bedroom and got into his suitcase.

At this time, the 100,000 cubic meters of space in the suitcase had changed drastically.

A large area is filled with bookshelves.

A small part of the space was divided out by Dylan to serve as his research institute.

At present, this area is divided into several parts again.

In the first area, cockroaches are crowded together.

In the second area, there is a group of spiders, some hanging upside down on the spider web, and some crawling quickly between the webs.

The third area is a shelf, which is Dylan's laboratory table. There are many petri dishes on it, including separately stored, huge cockroaches and spiders, as well as many black flowers.

The fourth area is the most eye-catching. It is a huge transparent water tank filled with turbid Yin water, with wisps of cold air rising from the surface of the water.

Dylan created the water tank using a Transfiguration spell. He has also recently been studying how to engrave the spell on an object.

Similar to how to make a broomstick.

This water tank is the result of his research.

It is engraved with a stable transformation spell, allowing the water tank to always maintain its current shape.

As for the water in the water tank, it was created by Dylan through the spell of return of the dead.

——Return of the Dead cannot simply resurrect the corpse.

On the contrary, he had to rely on Yin water to allow the corpse to be soaked in it and given new life - to become a Yin corpse.

Therefore, there are quite a few insect bodies moving in the water tank.

But because of long soaking, they have become swollen, and the shells have lost their luster, becoming gray and mottled.

In addition, although they swim in the water, their movements are very stiff.

Dylan gradually approached, observed it for a while, and then casually threw a few living cockroaches in.

After the live cockroaches were thrown in, the spider corpses that had been soaked for several days opened their compound eyes collectively, and a scarlet light from the same source as the black stamens flickered in their pupils.

At the same time, their former companions also gathered around, grabbed the live cockroaches, and pressed them to the bottom of the water tank.

In the end, they died together.

But soon, they, which had already died, began to move again after being soaked in the Yin water.

——They are resurrected.

He also became a member of the army of Infernal cockroaches and Infernal spiders.

"The Yin water must be continuously poured into living things to maintain its existence. Otherwise, it will evaporate and dissipate bit by bit."

Dylan glanced at the large water tank.

He has spent a lot of effort recently to produce so much Yin water, but it has reached its peak. At present, he has no way to increase the production of Yin water.

Because if he wants to make more Yin fluid, he needs more dead bodies, but the number of insects here is limited.

Although Dylan could throw them directly into the water tank after using them to complete the spell refinement task, he also needed to leave some of them to grow black flowers.

——Dylan discovered that the life of black flowers is also time-limited.

Although it is not as fleeting as the Epiphyllum, it only has a lifespan of one day.

After a day, it will quickly wither.

When Dylan first discovered this, he lost a lot of research materials.

Therefore, in order to keep up with his research progress, he had to set aside a portion of the corpse every day to perform the Decaying Flower.

Fortunately, for now, he doesn't need to ask for too much in terms of the amount of Yin water.

In order to create a Yin corpse, the corpse must be completely immersed in Yin water.

Just like the big lake that Harry fell into.

If he was really dragged to the bottom of the lake by the Inferi and drowned completely, then Harry would become a living corpse controlled by others.

But Dylan was not in a hurry to make a corpse. After all, it would not be of any real help to him.

Compared to creating Yin corpses, Dylan would rather study whether the Yin water tool has the ability to be refined into potions, or has other functions.

"Although I haven't been researching this for a long time, I'm almost certain that these flowers contain an extremely powerful energy!"

Dylan took out a black flower, looked at the clearly visible patterns on it, and turned it over and over.

The pattern on the petals looked like an ancient rune, but it was too blurry for Dylan to determine its specific appearance.

Through his tests and research during this period, he determined that there was a kind of energy in these flowers, but after a day, the flowers would die and the energy would dissipate.

Even the body of the cockroach that ate the flower will shrink. Although it will not shrink completely to its original appearance, it clearly shows that part of the energy that has been digested by the cockroach will dissipate directly along with the flower at the same time.

Dylan stared at the cockroach in the petri dish that had swelled to the size of his palm, and suddenly picked up the molting exuvia with tweezers.

Those translucent shells that should have been fragile now reflected a metallic luster like mithril under the light.

When he immersed the insect shell into the Yin water, ice crystal-like magic runes suddenly condensed on the water surface.

“It’s a wonderful existence.”

After this period of tossing and turning, Dylan discovered that the energy in the black flowers had a bit of corrosive properties, and the cockroaches would become quite wilted when they retreated.

And when it just eats the petals, it looks a little crazy, as if its instinctive desires have been stimulated.

These are all problems - problems that Dylan must eliminate if he wants to develop a potion that will sell well in the market.

It’s best to keep only the positive effects of devouring the flowers to really sell them.

Otherwise, as a medicine with negative effects, some people might buy it, but it would never become popular.

"But this isn't the most important thing. The most important thing is that I truly feel the power of life from this flower!"

After reading the Jewish Book of Abraham, although Dylan was unable to make the Philosopher's Stone directly, he gained a lot of insights into how to make the Philosopher's Stone.

The Philosopher's Stone represents immortality, so when Dylan was studying the black flowers, all the knowledge he had learned would emerge in his mind.

This has enabled him to make continuous progress in his research recently, with new breakthroughs and discoveries coming from time to time.

"Perhaps this energy, after continuous extraction, will be as valuable as unicorn blood in the study of immortality!"

After studying for a while, Dylan tidied up his research table, relaxed, raised his head, looked at the dark environment around him, and his eyes moved.

"Hmm... it has that flavor."

——An evil wizard who conducts weird, sinister, cruel, disgusting and inhumane experiments in the laboratory day and night.

"But if we can research new substances, and in the process of research, apply, master, and even generate new knowledge—that's really exciting!"

Dylan smacked his lips.

However, despite studying so many corpses and dark magic, his mind has never been twisted.

A corpse is a corpse.

Black magic is magic.

Apart from research, he had no other dark thoughts.

——This means that his overall temperament has not been affected by these experiments.

"School starts tomorrow, so I need to ask my parents for some more money. And after school starts, they have to remit money to me regularly every month."

Dylan left his suitcase, packed up, and lay down on the bed.

He plans to wait until school starts and spend money to create a real nature area in the Pet Space suitcase.

—Or two.

One area is used as a necromancy research institute.

A place for pets and magical creatures to live.

"In that case, the pet space would have to be expanded. After all, I need to capture a lot of magical creatures, and the activity area for Coal Ball and Beta would also need to be larger."

Dylan lay in bed and sighed.

When you count it all, there is money everywhere!

Poor, or too poor!
"Dangdang——"

The crescent moon outside the window frame sprinkled silver frost on the bed.

As the grandfather clock in the attic struck ten, Dylan's potion-stained fingers drew silver-green runes in the air.

The air suddenly rippled, and the coal ball leaped lightly from the distorted light curtain, its black fur soft and shiny, its tail raised, and its amber pupils flickered like Gublai fairy fire under the light of the room.

"How are you and Beta doing lately?" Dylan hadn't paid much attention to the two pets recently, and was concentrating on research.

School is about to start tomorrow, and he plans to spend some time with Coal Ball today.

"Moo!"

Coal Ball glanced at Dylan sideways, and was arrogant for a moment, but found that Dylan was just looking at it with a smile, without saying a word. Then it walked gracefully to Dylan's knees and curled itself into a ball of fluff.

Dylan chuckled, touched Coal Ball's head, and prepared to go to sleep.

The pine-scented night breeze blew through the window. Before the last wisp of consciousness sank into darkness, Dylan vaguely felt Coal Ball resting its furry head on the "Water of Life and Death" chapter of his book "Advanced Potion Making".

The moonflower in the illustration on that page is quietly blooming in the moonlight.

(End of this chapter)