Harry Potter and the Great Old Ones

Chapter 262 Speculation on "Voldemort's Shield"
Tiera's right arm was planned to be forged from a living half-basilisk—

Of course, it wasn't Slytherin. Although Tiera wasn't human, she still had her limits. Instead, it was a three-dimensional serpent bought from the Magical Zoo, over a meter long. Tiera directly fed the serpent a vial of Hydra potion, and then used Slytherin's blood, fangs, and scales to accelerate the serpent's transformation into a basilisk—

Once the transformation is complete, Tiera will use the half-serpent monster as the main material for her right arm, and several cursed worms as the fingers of her right hand. Using her flesh magic and the alchemy she learned from Nicholas Flamel, she will fuse the half-serpent monster and the cursed worms together to form her right arm.

After receiving the alchemical arm and prosthetic eye crafted by Nicholas Flamel, Tyrell stayed at Nicholas Flamel's house until early August. Besides Tyrell's attraction to Nicholas Flamel's extensive alchemical knowledge, Dumbledore seemed to be intentionally keeping her away from "Giddy Lohart"—more precisely, Dumbledore seemed to be intentionally keeping Tyrell away from everyone else.

Because Tyella noticed that on the first day he moved in, Dumbledore had cast at least twenty different isolation and protection spells outside Nicholas Flamel's hut, and if it weren't for the special connection between Tyella and the "Parasite," the "Inheritor," and the "Mad Walker," he wouldn't even have been able to find himself.

Even after Tyrell's arm was fully repaired and his body had recovered to a strength even greater than before his injury, Dumbledore still insisted that Tyrell continue to live in Nicholas Flamel's cabin, citing the need for rest and recuperation.

This made Tiera feel as if she were under house arrest.

However, Tyrell didn't care about this. Putting herself in Dumbledore's shoes, if she were in Dumbledore's position and faced with a brat who had been causing trouble since the beginning of the semester, possibly her ex-boyfriend's artificial life form or the "holy son" of some mysterious organization, Tyrell felt that she was already being kind by not killing this brat.

Moreover, Tierra's life under house arrest seems quite comfortable, and Nicholas Lemma's alchemy hut seems like a nice place as well, except for the really bad food there...

Apart from being rather bland and tasteless, everything else suited Tiera's taste perfectly.

Especially after Tierra was allowed to freely peruse Nicholas Lemère's notes and ask him questions, Tierra's alchemy skills improved by leaps and bounds.

Moreover, during Tierra's confinement, he used the power of the Time-Turner for the first time—

Just as he promised, it was purely for learning.

I also took the opportunity to visit the Dreamlands and exchange 350,000 of the 500,000 Galleons I "borrowed" from Gringotts for a sufficient amount of Sky Gold.

The time Tierra spent living with the Nicholas Lemaître family was a golden period for learning alchemy, a period she had never dared to dream of before. Having such a master alchemist guiding her was far more beneficial than any instruction from Tom Riddle.

Speaking of Tom Riddle… Tierra misses him a little again. Honestly, you only truly know someone when they're gone.

After losing one Horcrux, Tiera realized just how much she wanted another one.

In the course of practicing alchemy, Tiera gradually came up with a conjecture—

A method for using magical items to circumvent the Killing Curse.

It's important to understand that while Tiera's "Inheritors," "Parasites," and "Mad Walkers" are fearless, their true form, the "foundation" of their ascension ritual, is clearly not powerful enough to ignore dark magic like the Death Curse.

Furthermore, according to information from the original books, Tyella knows that the Killing Curse is not a specific type of curse. Although a normal person would die instantly if hit by it, it can be blocked by a phoenix, a creature created through transfiguration, or Harry's mother before it strikes.

So Tyrell wondered if he could use a Horcrux to resurrect Voldemort.

Tierra could do some more research and change the ritual, turning the resurrection ritual into a resurrection + alchemy ritual, allowing Voldemort to be resurrected directly in the form of a shield.

Then Tierra attached the Voldemort Shield to her arm—and then added an automatic deflection spell to her arm so that if anyone attacked her with dark magic such as the Death Curse, the attack would land directly on the "Voldemort Shield".

Moreover, the advantage of choosing Voldemort as a shield lies in—

This shield can be used multiple times.

After all, aside from the diary he'd already discarded, the pendant, and the tiara, Voldemort still had his physical form, Harry, Hefpatch's golden cup, his mother's ring, and the giant snake Nagini, which he'd only recently completed creating—

Even if Tiera randomly selects one of the lucky ones to forge the shield, there are still four Horcruxes, which are four anchors of dark magic, providing anchor points so that the shield won't immediately die after being struck by the Death Curse.

As long as she doesn't die immediately, Tiera can use her authority of "creation" to extract the Killing Curse from Voldemort's Shield in the form of a cursed worm.

In other words, theoretically, every time Tiera uses Voldemort's Shield to block a Killing Curse, she can reap a Killing Curse-infused curse worm.

This is practically a risk-free, highly profitable business!

Sigh... I'm not going to talk about it anymore. The more I talk about it, the more I think of Voldemort.

Unable to express her longing, Tyella could only drool over Voldemort when she was bored in Nicholas Flamel's alchemy hut, through the artificial demon she had buried inside Peter Pettigrew.

Just like in the original story, Peter Pettigrew has now found Voldemort. Peter Pettigrew and Barty Crouch Jr. brought the now-disfigured Voldemort back to the dilapidated Riddle family home in Little Hangleton.

And on the very first night of his stay, the grumpy baby Voldemort used Avada Kedavra to kill the Muggle Warden, and in doing so, created the final Horcrux—

Nagini the Great Serpent.

Because of Peter Pettigrew, Tyrell witnessed Voldemort plotting his resurrection plan from beginning to end. What surprised Tyrell was that even after so much time had passed, Voldemort still remembered her.

"That wretched Mudblood!" Voldemort cursed viciously from his armchair. "That wretched Mudblood! And that damned Lockhart! I'll kill them both—"

“No! I want Nagini to devour him alive! I want to see Lockhart struggle desperately inside Nagini's belly, to be digested bit by bit!” Voldemort continued, “That damned little Mudblood—”

"I will turn him into a living Infernal—" Voldemort said hoarsely, "I will make him wish he were dead, I will make him kneel at my feet for all eternity!"

Tierra, thousands of miles away:

Awesome, awesome.

Isn't that a coincidence? You want to use me as a corpse, and I want to use you as a shield.

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