Harry Potter and the Great Old Ones

Chapter 2 Merlin
Suddenly everything disappeared, and everything returned to calm.

The mutation disappeared.

The frantic babbling and screaming disappeared.

The incomprehensible image disappeared.

The scenes inside the library looked as if a poorly edited editor had switched them to a completely different scene.

Tiera maintained the posture of touching the spine of the book with her fingers, pointing directly at the R'lyeh Text, the book preceding the Seven Chapters of the Mysterious Lord.

Tiera froze for a few seconds, then pulled her fingers off the bookshelf as if burned by a hot iron. Without looking back, she moved away from the bookshelf, sat back down at her desk, and slumped onto the stone steps with a somewhat dazed look in her eyes.

He remembered everything that had just happened perfectly.

Suddenly, the "Seven Chapters of the Mysterious Monarch's Secret Scripture" flew off the bookshelf, accompanied by insane babbling, incomprehensible images, and terrifying physical mutations.

Suddenly everything went back to a few seconds earlier, back to the time before his fingers touched the "Seven Chapters of the Mysterious Monarch's Secret Scripture".

Tierra gasped for breath and raised his left hand to wipe away the cold sweat.

"My hand..." Where Tiera's left little finger used to be, only white bone remained. Although these finger bones could bend freely according to his will, it was clear that his escape from danger was not without cost.

"Phew~" Tiera let out a deep breath.

What he worried about most happened.

He did indeed travel through time.

Not only that, he also traveled to the Cthulhu universe.

He had just read those parchments and felt a little puzzled by words like "Supreme Mother Goddess," "Goddess of Dreams," and "Crazy Twins."

Now he was certain.

"This is really dangerous," Tiera couldn't help but smile wryly.

"I thought I'd transmigrated into some kind of urban superhero or business tycoon, but it turns out it's a Cthulhu universe. I guess I'll just have to behave myself..."

At this point, Tiera paused for a moment.

Something seemed to have suddenly appeared in his mind.

It is a kind of purest skill.

It was as if he had rehearsed this skill a thousand times, a skill that moved at will and was ready to be unleashed.

Tierra pointed her hand to a point in the air.

A black, hair-like thread grew out from under his fingernail, getting longer and longer.

When the filament grew to ten centimeters long, it suddenly emerged from under his fingernail and floated lightly onto the wooden table.

As the strand of hair fell, Tiera felt a sense of lightness throughout his body, and the dizziness and discomfort he had experienced, along with the old and new bruises from the beatings he had sustained before his transmigration, all disappeared.

Apart from still being hungry, he is currently in excellent physical condition.

But as the black threads fell off, Wu Muming's dizziness disappeared, but he felt listless.

This skill is called the Cursed Worm. I also gained another skill called Communication with the Lord of the Stars.

The curse worm can condense damage, disease, and curses from itself or others into a worm with semi-living characteristics. This worm is best implanted into another life form within 24 hours, otherwise it will return to itself.

This cursed worm has no way to escape physical hunger, exhaustion, and mental lethargy.

In other words, the curse worm can only transfer excess parts of itself or parts that have died.

Another way to communicate with the Lord of the Stars is through rituals that project one's soul into a specific starry sea, thereby gaining superhuman magical powers.

Of course, doing so is almost entirely offering oneself to an unknown evil being in the starry sky.

In the world of Cthulhu, greater power means greater danger.

Communicating with the Lord of the Stars can make someone a god on the spot, but it can also cause them to die instantly.

Just like Tiera just now, if it weren't for that unknown power, he might have become a mass of cells with power but no self.

Tiera decided to stop searching aimlessly and instead turned her attention to the rolls of parchment.

The books inside those caves were far too dangerous. Although these parchments might contain forbidden knowledge, statistically speaking, the chances of him dying from reading the parchments were far less than if he read the books directly.

But he couldn't not read, because what was more terrifying than that knowledge was not knowing anything at all, and that he might unknowingly commit a taboo at any time.

Moreover, based on the random reading he had just done, he guessed that this was something like the research log of the library's former owner.

However, just to be on the safe side, Tyrell did not read the entire parchment. Instead, she only read the first and last paragraphs of each parchment, and only began reading the middle parts little by little after confirming that there was no possibility of danger.

This greatly slowed down Tierra's reading speed.

He passed over some parchments after only reading the beginning, not because they might be dangerous, but because the beginnings of those parchments were obviously experimental records. As a science student, he had that kind of judgment. He wasn't in a hurry to read the previous owner's experimental records, but he needed to figure out what this place was and what taboos it was, so as not to accidentally mess things up again.

About four or five hours later, Tiera finally finished reading all seven parchments, but he had basically figured out what they were about.

The library's former owner was named Merlin.

Yes, it's Merlin, the legendary greatest wizard in England.

But this library was not built by Merlin. Merlin, like him, was an outsider. Back then, he was just an ordinary rural boy who accidentally fell into a valley while herding sheep.

As the saying goes, those who survive a great calamity are sure to have good fortune, and there is always a secret manual hidden beneath a cliff.

While searching for a way out, Merlin discovered this inverted pyramid-shaped building. He entered the library from the top of the pyramid, and thus a legendary wizard was born...

This ring was crafted by Merlin after he achieved great success. It is a portal ring. When Merlin was over six hundred years old, he moved the inverted pyramid library, located in a valley in England, to a planet tens of thousands of light-years away that is very similar to Earth, and crafted this portal ring. As long as one possesses the ring and roughly recites the incantation hidden in the ring's inscription, one can travel to this library.

According to Merlin's later research, he believed that the library was built by the Great Yith race. It was one of the earliest libraries they built while they were still living on Earth, and was used to store dangerous knowledge from great beings in the universe.

Most of the books here come from the Great Yith race, with only a small portion coming from Merlin's own collection.

For example, the few Herbo stone tablets placed in the third-level grotto, and when printing technology first emerged, he directly moved a whole set of finely printed magic textbooks.

Of course, these books were simply Merlin's collection; given Merlin's magical prowess at the time, he had no need to read such beginner-level material.

The set of books was brand new; Merlin had never even opened it. It was neatly stacked in the grotto opposite the wooden table, covered in dust.

(End of this chapter)