Harry Potter and the Great Old Ones

Chapter 83 Brewing
Even during the summer vacation, Tierra did not relax.

I still get up at 6:30 every day, have lunch at 12:30, take a one-hour nap, have dinner at 6:30, rest for another hour until 10:30, and then lie in bed to rest while reading books on black magic.

Because the school was on summer vacation, the only people left on campus besides him were Hagrid, the gamekeeper; Fitch, the librarian; Mrs. Pince, the librarian; and Mrs. Pomfrey, the head nurse.

The usually bustling campus suddenly became deserted.

Even Dumbledore wasn't there—

Tierra hasn't seen Dumbledore's name on the Marauder's Map for at least two weeks.

It seems that Dumbledore left Hogwarts after that year-end party.

So, on a night during the second week of summer vacation, Tierra secretly put on the Invisibility Cloak that Harry had left at school and the Marauder's Map that the Twins had left him, and went back to the eighth floor, to the wall opposite the tapestry of the trolls beating Barnabas.

"I wish I had a laboratory where I could brew potions."

"I wish I had a laboratory where I could brew potions."

"I wish I had a laboratory where I could brew potions."

Tiera stood in front of the blank wall and muttered to herself.

The current Tierra is different from the one at Christmas. With the gradual improvement of his mental barrier and brain-blocking techniques, Tierra can now keep his thoughts out of the mental barrier while concealing the Tom Riddle diary he carries with him.

As Tiera finished her three silent recitations, a large black door gradually appeared on the previously empty wall.

Behind the door was a chemical experiment that perfectly matched his understanding of chemistry.

Mortar and pestle, straight condenser, drying tower, dropping funnel, distillation column, conical flask...

These common glass containers are all available, along with water baths, vacuum filters, and rotary evaporators, placed in various corners of the lab bench.

Tierra even saw a centrifuge.

Tierra was pleasantly surprised, and then nostalgically touched the centrifuge...

Oh, it's just an outer shell; the inside is empty.

Tiera withdrew her hand in disappointment.

Tiera touched the water bath again...

Oh, it's just an outer shell; the inside is empty.

It seems that the House of Requirement is still influenced to some extent by the requester's subjective impression.

While she was silently reciting, Tiera involuntarily recalled the chemistry lab where she had once studied in college.

However, it is still limited by the knowledge of Tyrell himself.

Just like a water bath and a centrifuge.

Tiera only knew what they looked like, how to use them, and some basic principles, but she had no understanding of their internal structure.

Therefore, the Room of Requirement can only be presented as the outer shell of a centrifuge and a water bath.

Even so, these glass instruments alone are sufficient for brewing Hydra potion.

Tierra chose the Room of Requirement over Voldemort's portable laboratory not only because the Room of Requirement was more likely to create a laboratory that suited his experimental habits, but also because of its secrecy.

As long as no one can see through Tiera's thoughts, it is almost impossible for them to suddenly break into his laboratory while he is brewing potions.

Tiera took out a small cloth bag from her wizard's robe, and then took out the medicinal materials needed to brew the Hydra potion one by one, gradually filling half of the experimental table and arranging them in three rows according to the order of brewing the potion.

Finally, the "Inheritor" flew out of Tiera's small package and floated in mid-air.

After carefully reviewing the Hydra potion brewing process in her mind again, Tiera waved her wand, lit the alcohol lamp, and placed a brand new cauldron on the iron stand...

……

Three hours later.

Tierra emerged from the House of Requirement, her voice hoarse and drenched in sweat. Clearly, Tierra had successfully brewed the decoction.

But no one had ever told him that taking Hydra would be such a painful experience!

The moment Tiera took the Hydra potion, she seemed to lose control of her body.

Tiera could clearly feel her limbs gradually shrinking, her body constantly changing and elongating, and her skin cracking little by little into foul-smelling, hard scales.

Fortunately, Tiera was still conscious.

Quickly control the "Inheritor" to feed him the scorpion-tailed snake's gall bladder.

The change stopped the instant Tiera swallowed the scorpion-tailed snake's gall.

But then came a sharp, intense pain, as if it were tearing his body apart.

Tierra has started to shed her skin!

Tiera's vision gradually blurred, and layer upon layer of hard white scales bulged from Tiera's skin, teetering on the verge of breaking off from his not-yet-fully-regenerated flesh.

The whole process lasted an hour.

Then Tiera stood up from the ground, panting.

He carefully put away everything he had brought into the laboratory—including the scaly human skin he had shed—before leaving the Room of Requirement.

Back in the Gryffindor common room, Tierra took a shower to wash away the dust she had picked up while rolling around on the floor during her molting, and then went to bed early to feel the changes in her body.

He failed twice before finally succeeding on the third attempt, albeit by a narrow margin.

Tiera was in so much pain at the Room of Requirement that she didn't notice it until she took a bath just now, when she realized that she seemed to have grown a little taller than before.

Muscles, as well as mental and magical abilities, have also experienced extremely subtle enhancements.

This enhancement was not particularly noticeable, and was far less significant than the enhancement of mental strength that the Heris potion that Tiera had taken had.

However, after taking the Hydra potion, an almost biological instinctive knowledge was instantly imprinted into Tiera's brain.

All of this—the growth of the physical body, as well as the development of magic and mental power—is brought about by this molting!
Hydra potion is not simply a potion that teaches people Parsleyan speech.

Learning the Parseltongue and controlling magical snake-like creatures is a side effect of this potion.

Hydra potion is an extremely powerful bloodline potion developed by the evil ancient Greek black wizard Helpo through decades of wicked experiments on living people!
Wizards who take the Hydra potion will experience an excruciating molting process every four months.

However, this molting process is accompanied by an increase in physical strength, magical power, and mental power.

This increase is not noticeable in the first few molts, and is even less than the magical and spiritual power that a wizard naturally gains as they grow.

However, with each shedding of the skin, the growth of physical, magical, and mental power increases.

When the skin has molted for the seventh time, this growth will exceed the increase brought about by the wizard's natural growth.

Moreover, the growth rate increases significantly as time progresses, with virtually no upper limit.

In other words, the longer a wizard who has taken the Hydra potion lives, the stronger his magic and mental power will become.

Of course, this is only in theory.

As people age, the rate of physical aging gradually outpaces the increase in physical size caused by shedding of the skin.

In other words, the Hydra potion cannot grant immortality; at most, it can only slow down the aging process.

Moreover, with age, each shedding of the skin becomes increasingly painful and dangerous.

All of this should be written on that incomplete and blurred half of the Halbo stone slab.

No wonder... no wonder Helbo was the legendary first dark wizard to successfully forge a Horcrux...

With Horcruxes keeping him alive, Helbo could indeed pursue theoretically limitless magical power...

(End of this chapter)