Harry Potter and the Great Old Ones

Chapter 67 The Inheritor

Hermione and Ron were having a similar hard time. They weren't as miserable as Harry because they weren't as famous, but nobody wanted to talk to them anymore, except for Ron's brothers—mainly George and Fred Weasley, the mischievous twins who celebrated Ron's eventual defiance of school rules.

However, Ron's other brother, Parsey Weasley, harshly criticized the three troublesome brothers and threatened to write a letter to Mrs. Weasley.

This made Ron's head droop.

Hermione no longer showed her face in class, and even occasionally seemed a little absent-minded while studying.

It seems that Tierra is the only one who hasn't been affected by this.

Tiera remained as busy as ever, shuttling between her dormitory, classroom, and study room.

The concept of collective honor was already thrown into the sewer after Tierra High School encountered a homeroom teacher who forced the entire class to stay at school to practice morning exercises before the monthly exams for his own bonus.

Even if he heard bad things about his Gryffindor classmates, or was mocked by Malfoy to his face, he would ignore it...

No, to be precise, it's not a complete ignoring of it.

At such times, he would firmly remember these memories of being ridiculed, discriminated against, and isolated, and then, after a certain degree of artistic processing, he would feed them back to Tom Riddle in his diary at the appropriate time.

Tom Riddle always believed that Tyella was living in dire straits.

Therefore, when Tierra asked Tom Riddle about some dark magic questions, Tom Riddle readily answered them one by one—such as the black death spell and decay curse in "The Plague", the spell to summon the desert death god in "The Necronomicon", or the spell to summon the fire spirit, as well as flesh magic recorded in "The Nameless Priests" and "The Dokian Book".

Of course, these are some basic applications of magic, but they are still not things that a young wizard of his age should learn.

So Tyrell deliberately showed Voldemort a scene where she accidentally stumbled into the Room of Requirement and found an ancient spellbook.

Based on the Christmas Day treasure hunt at the House of Requirement.

The moment Tierra received the "book," she acted like a child who had just received a new toy, sharing the knowledge inside with Tom Riddle.

While enjoying Tom Riddle's teachings, he continued to pretend to be a poor child who had turned to dark magic because he was being bullied.

With Tom Riddle's guidance, and given Tierra's already strong foundation, Tierra made rapid progress in her studies of dark magic.

Tiera began crafting her first dark magic item.

Tiera opened the Book of R'lyeh and saw a dark magic item called the "Inheritor".

It is an extreme, extremely evil black magic item.

It can be any form of object, but most of the time it is a book.

The creation of this magical item began about two weeks after Tiera learned how to brew the White Elixir.

Because one of the materials used in this book is one's own skin.

Tiera peeled off nearly a third of her own skin to create a book that was 60 centimeters long and 30 centimeters wide, with only a few pages and no cover...

Or... this "Inheritor" can't even be considered a book yet, because it only has a pitiful twelve pages—twelve pages obtained by Tiera repeatedly peeling off the skin from her back after being healed with the White Elixir.

Even as a half-finished product, it revealed its brutal nature—with just a few soft, white leaves, it began to constantly plot to strip away the skin and flesh of all life around it except for Tiera. This forced Tiera to carry it with her at all times.

It's like a mad wolfhound, meek and submissive in front of its owner, but ready to pounce and bite at the first sign of an attack.

With Tom Riddle's teachings and the pain of being skinned multiple times.

Tiera is now able to begin to combine emotions such as pain with her spiritual dimension and use some simple black magic.

For example, perhaps due to Tiera's knowledge of biology from her previous life, or perhaps because of her frequent skinning, Tiera first learned the magic of flesh growth recorded in the Nameless Priest Book.

It is a rudimentary manifestation of profound flesh magic.

Tiera can only speed up her recovery by using the White Elixir or by eating large amounts of meat.

Tierra can also consciously control some plants—but only ordinary small flowers and grasses, controlling their opening, growth, or morphological alterations.

Creating the "Inheritors" is of paramount importance to Tiera.

It's not just because the process of creating a "Successor" involves studying emotions such as pain and using a large amount of black magic.

More than anything, it was because he needed a book that contained forbidden knowledge.

Magic capable of traversing the universe is extremely rare, even within the Cthulhu universe, and almost all such magic is directly linked to the Great Key to All Doors.

But when faced with the key to all doors, a mere glance from an ordinary person is enough to make them lose their reason.

Even Tiera's other blessing, "Time," was ineffective when facing the three pillar gods.

"The successor" is the method of preserving rationality in the event of an accident.

The principle of "Inheritors" is similar to that of Horcruxes, except that "Inheritors" do not need to cut their souls. Instead, they back up a copy of their personality, memories, and values ​​through a special black magic container. This copy is used when the original body goes insane or mutates due to some indescribable thing.

The "Inheritor" will automatically activate emergency measures, swapping all memories, cognitions, and the personality, memories, and values ​​backed up within the "Inheritor" in the spiritual dimension.

Due to the law of the immortality of the spirit, when one perceives the truth of the universe, one's spiritual dimension is merely shattered, not annihilated.

Therefore, after a complete and normal cognition and memory are inputted, these fragmented mental entities will slowly reassemble.

At this point, the "inheritor" will take over the forbidden knowledge and ultimate truth—becoming a true forbidden book.

No matter how powerful a wizard is, he can only have one heir in his lifetime.

Most of the books in this library—the Nameless Priest Book, the Necronomicon, and of course, the original book of the Seven Secret Chapters of the Mysterious Lord that caused Tiera to lose a finger—were actually the "inheritors" of several great wizards.

Including the book Merlin had shelved, titled "The Camelot Manual," which was the only original text among all the books containing forbidden knowledge—

Merlin's own "successor".

(End of this chapter)