Harry Potter and the Great Old Ones

Chapter 84 Mystical Laws

Tiera lay in bed for a while, then rolled over and got out of bed.

It's only 5:15 PM now. Tiera only went into the Room of Requirement to brew potions after her afternoon nap.

Therefore, even after nearly three hours of potion brewing and being forced to shed her skin, Tiera was now wide awake and took out her shed human skin from the seamless extension bag containing the medicine.

While it might sound a bit narcissistic, Tiera felt that this was an extremely perfect human skin, more like a work of art than any human skin thangka he had ever seen in his previous life.

Tiera's freshly shed skin is quite intact and still retains some moisture, resembling soft rubber, with layers of tiny scales attached to it.

After Tiera took out her first molt, the "Inheritor" flew over like a puppy that had smelled meat, and even used the magic of the pages to extend a tongue to lick Tiera's palm.

"..." Tiera smiled and put her molted skin back.

The "inheritor" immediately wilted like a frostbitten eggplant.

It also made a "woofing" sound like a puppy.

This layer of Tiera's skin cannot be fed to the "Inheritors".

Although the "Successor" is still a few steps away from completion, he will have a great use for Tiera's first molt.

In the world of magic, some seemingly ordinary things can bring unexpected effects to magic.

The skin of the African tree snake can be used to brew polymorphic potions, but to brew Animagus potions, one must use the first molt of the African tree snake.

Similarly, ancient black magic curses required the use of a virgin's first menstrual blood as a medium.

The first or last full moon of the year is also considered the most suitable day for holding large-scale magical ceremonies.

These "first times" often don't have any particularly clear underlying principles, but after countless generations of wizards' personal experiments, these "first times" can indeed enhance the effectiveness of magic to some extent.

Even though the Necronomicon doesn't provide a more detailed and in-depth explanation of these "first-time" events, it specifically names this type of thing—which seems to have no underlying principle but can genuinely affect the effects of magic—as mystical laws.

From the perspective of mystical principles, the first molted skin from one's own body is the most suitable material for creating "inheritors".

Unfortunately, the twelve pages that form the core of the "inheritors" were made from Tiera's own fresh flesh and skin.

Feeding this shed skin back to the "inheritor" might save him a lot of trouble in the process of perfecting the "inheritor" in the future, but doing so would be a waste of resources.

Tierra carefully folded her skin and placed it into a small wooden box specially used for storing medicinal herbs.

Tiera was still somewhat hesitant to judge based on this superficial understanding, because the forbidden books he had read contained far too many intriguing methods of exploitation.

Tiera knew that Merlin's first molted skin after drinking the Hydra potion remained until his later years, where it was made into something called the "Lucky Charm".

Merlin learned a magical item similar to Chinese Taoist talismans from the "Seven Chapters of the Mysterious Lord's Secret Scripture".

Tiera didn't know exactly what it was about, since it wasn't written in Merlin's notes. He could only guess that it was related to Merlin breaking free from the control of the Old Gods, and he couldn't possibly open the "Seven Chapters of the Mysterious Lord's Secret Scripture" to see it.

Therefore, Tiera was a bit conflicted about the use of the first molted skin—

A wizard can only have one "successor" in his lifetime.

Moreover, the skin-like material has very few uses; it can only be used as book pages, curtains, or as robes and clothing...

Wait, besides that... Tiera seemed to suddenly remember something, grabbed the "Inheritor," and vanished in an instant.

The next moment, Tiera appeared underground on a planet tens of millions of light-years away from Earth.

On the seventh floor of the inverted pyramid-shaped library, Tiye took out a stack of thin, pale yellow leather books loosely sewn together with fine thread. Several large, crooked characters were written on the covers of the books.

As Tierra's fingers touched the words, a name suddenly appeared in her mind:

"Seraino Fragments"

This book is one of the few books in Merlin's Notebooks, besides the Necronomicon, the R'lyeh Text, and the Nameless Priest Book, that is marked as "readable and researchable" in terms of danger level.

Even though the original version of this book was handwritten in 1915—far later than Merlin's time—Merlin still mentioned it in his 15th-century diary due to the race of the Great Yith, and summoned and controlled four Byakki as his experimental assistants and materials based on this "Fragment of Seraino".

But clearly, Tiera is not opening this stack of fifty pages of manuscript to summon Byakki, but because Merlin mentioned a magic called "Life Reconstruction" in his notes.

Tierra turned to page twenty-two of "Fragments of Seraino" and began to read.

"Life Reconstruction" is the process of using a part of one's own body as the initial raw material, and through alchemy, potion-making, and dark magic, allowing that part to grow into a complete artificial life form with spiritual and simple mental dimensions.

Or it could be called a "living Horcrux".

Yes, although this artificial life form has many other uses, most wizards use it as a backup body.

Unlike authentic Horcruxes and anchors of dark magic, "Life Reconstruction" is a safer form of life-saving magic. The life form created through "Life Reconstruction" is equivalent to another body of the wizard in three dimensions.

As long as the wizard is not directly affected by an external god, or dies before even having time to react, even if the physical body is destroyed, the spiritual existence dissipates, and the mental energy is exhausted, as long as the wizard still has a trace of consciousness, or when the wizard realizes that he is trapped in a desperate situation with no way out, he can instantly transfer his consciousness through the connection between his main body and the "life reconstruction" life form, and instantly revive on the artificial life form.

"Life Reconstruction" offers a high degree of freedom in crafting; aside from the initial material being a part of one's own body, all other materials can be freely chosen.

It can be other magical creatures that have been sacrificed, or it can be dark magic items, alchemical items, or even a direct mixture of different kinds.

It is a type of magic with an even lower barrier to entry than Horcruxes.

However, of course, the strength you gain after being resurrected through an artificial life form depends primarily on what you added during its creation.

Therefore, even though this artificial life form has a very high degree of freedom in its creation, no one really adds random things haphazardly.

Although Tierra has now gained initial control over Tom Riddle's diary, an irreconcilable conflict exists between them: Tom Riddle will ultimately devour Tierra's spiritual and mental dimensions.

Although Tiera was prepared for this conflict.

However, plans can never keep up with changes, and he cannot guarantee that his plans will not go wrong during execution.

He must prepare for both the best and worst-case scenarios.

Perhaps he will die at the hands of the Outer Gods—the "Inheritor" or his remaining four fingers might be able to protect him from disaster.

Perhaps Voldemort has a way to penetrate his mental walls, and he will be used as a sacrifice for Voldemort's resurrection.

Thank you Alex for the 2000 points!
Thank you to the book-reading crab for the 500 coins!
And there's also the long-standing support from Korsi.

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