Harry Potter and the Great Old Ones

Chapter 93 The Dark Mark
"Why do you want to know this?" Tom Riddle said gently.

However, at that moment, he was thinking: [Damn it, could he be suspecting me?!]

Because Tierra had been controlling Tom Riddle's "food intake," more than half a year had passed, and Tom Riddle was in a state of neither starving nor getting enough to eat.

This put Tom Riddle in a passive and vulnerable position throughout the relationship.

Tom Riddle couldn't understand why either, although he had considered the possibility that Tiera had amazing control abilities and could control her magic output at will.

However, firstly, confident in his ability to legume, Tom Riddle believed that no wizard except Dumbledore could resist his legume.

Secondly, Tom Riddle had extremely strong confidence in his own talent.

He believed himself to be the most talented wizard of all living beings.

To put it in a more childish way—

I, Tom Marvolo Riddle, am the chosen one, the savior of the wizarding world!

In this world, even Dumbledore isn't as talented as me!

Not to mention a Muggle brat!
He simply cannot do or learn things that I, at my age, could not do!
I am the pinnacle of genius wizards!
So, after all the correct answers have been eliminated—

It must be that this mud-type has extremely poor talent!
This mud-blooded creature may be intelligent, but it is still a mud-blooded creature! It has a tainted bloodline!
Tom Riddle believed that this must be the reason why he couldn't be supplied with enough magic!
Unconsciously, Tom Riddle further hypnotized himself, becoming even more convinced of his bloodline supremacy.

Tiera is tired of complaining about the word "skewer".

At first, Tiera would roll her eyes as a sign of respect.

Tiera is now so tired and bored that she's rolling her eyes all the time.

They're too lazy to even complain.

"Do you think Lucius Malfoy would be a Death Eater?" Tierra didn't answer the question directly, but asked again.

"Lucius Malfoy?" Tom Riddle retorted.

[Damn it, Lucius, that idiot, has he been exposed?] Tom Riddle thought to himself.

“Yes, I’ve found some old newspapers in the Hogwarts library these past few days,” Tyella wrote. “They say that Lucius Malfoy was tried as a Death Eater, but he apparently escaped punishment.”

“Hmm, and then?” Tom Riddle asked.

“I think… if Lucius were to be captured by Azkaban as a Death Eater, Draco Malfoy would be in worse shape than if he were dead.”

"So you want to start with the Dark Mark?" Tom Riddle asked knowingly.

So it turns out they weren't doubting me after all.

I thought that Lucius, that idiot, had exposed me.

[Hmph, Lucius, that idiot, raised a son who's an idiot too.]

“Yes,” Tierra wrote. “I couldn’t get into their house at all, and I couldn’t find any other evidence. I could only rely on his most obvious features, since every Death Eater has the mark of the Dark Lord, doesn’t he?”

"If we can trigger his Dark Lord mark in public, we'll definitely get him arrested!"

“If it’s this mark…” Tom Riddle left the sentence unfinished, “I might be able to help you study it, um…maybe I can recreate it…but I’ll need your cooperation.”

Lucius may be foolish, but he won't be fooled by such petty tricks.

Perhaps... we should plant a seed in this mud... otherwise, given his tainted bloodline and innate magical talent, who knows when he'll ever grasp the power of dark magic.

Indeed, it's been a long time since I've summoned my "loyal" subordinates... They probably haven't felt the burning sensation of the Dark Lord's mark on their arms in ages...

Tiera smiled.

He knew that his “dull” performance in dark magic would one day exhaust all of Tom Riddle’s patience.

Sooner or later, even if Tierra didn't bring it up, Tom Riddle would definitely find an opportunity to plant the Dark Lord's mark on her. Even if Tom Riddle didn't explicitly say so in his diary—

Tom Riddle had thought about it countless times in his mind.

Despite Tom Riddle's facade of being a mentor and friend, Tyella is essentially just a tool in his eyes.

Therefore, as long as the thought of "the mark of the Dark Lord" flashes through Tom Riddle's mind...

Through the blessing of "knowledge," Tiera can accurately capture any knowledge Tom Riddle has about the Dark Lord's mark.

That's how Tiera learned about Fiendfire, and other dark magic including the three forbidden spells.

The principle behind the Dark Lord's Mark is very simple...

To put it simply, it's a kind of dark magic curse, a derivative and simplified version of the evolution of dark magic and the anchor of dark magic.

In other words, Voldemort, relying on Horcruxes, under extreme fear, used a curse to transform the magic and fear of the marked person into a dark magic, but instead of being devoured, it was simply combined. Then, according to Voldemort's will, a small portion of the magic was combined into a specific Dark Lord mark on the wrist in the form of a curse.

This mark of the Dark Lord is not merely a symbol of the Death Eaters, nor simply a vessel for dark magic in the material dimension; it is a dark magic artifact that grows upon the flesh of a Death Eater.

It's like a simplified copyright, an alternative anchor of black magic.

However, this Death Eater mark is clearly no match for the genuine Dark Magic Anchor.

Not only is the capacity of dark magic power much smaller, but it also lacks the function of the original Dark Magic Anchor, which allows dark wizards to safely and rationally maintain their dark magic state.

Death Eaters can enter a state of dark magic more easily than ordinary people by using the mark of the Dark Lord.

However, in turn, it becomes more difficult for them to maintain their sanity and mind while under the influence of dark magic.

This is why most Death Eaters—especially Bellatrix Rustrange, the crazy woman who supposedly had an affair with Voldemort—remained insane, even though she and her sister Narcissa Malfoy had almost identical upbringing and education. One went mad, while the other remained as elegant as a noblewoman until the very end.

Of course, Tierra is not trying to side with the Death Eaters.

Rather, it was his study of the Fiery Blaze—

Even though he fully understood the working principle of the Fiery Blade, he still couldn't use it.

Tiera can only attribute her failure to possess an exceptionally strong will to destroy—which resulted in insufficient initial fuel to sustain the Fiendfire's combustion.

After all, the sidekick next to Malfoy, Tyella forgot whether it was Crabbe or Goyle, was such a weakling that he could use Fiendfire in his seventh year.

There's no reason why Tiera shouldn't be good now.

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I noticed that many students said the diary was made by Voldemort during his student days and he shouldn't know what happened later.

This is how I understand it:
Although the Horcruxes were made by Voldemort during his student days, they weren't necessarily handed over to Lucius and locked in a dark room back then, right? They were probably handed over to Lucius for safekeeping after Voldemort gained power.

Moreover, a diary, being such a private item, would certainly have been carried with him before being given to Lucius, so the diary might have witnessed Voldemort's rise to power.

However, Voldemort still entrusted this private diary to Lucius.

And think about it, given how powerful Voldemort's Legilimency is, could he not see through Lucius's ulterior motives? Could he not see through Lucius's two-faced nature?

Anyone else would have been over it long ago, but Voldemort ultimately forgave Lucius. Not only that, he seized Malfoy Castle as his palace, forcibly squeezing a fourth person into the Malfoy family of three.

Moreover, in the movie, Draco Malfoy was the only Death Eater Voldemort ever hugged.

I don't know what everyone else thinks, but I'm a fan of Fulu, so feel free to do whatever you want.

To thank the generous donors Qianmu and Hanyan Leng for their 10000 coins yesterday, I'll be posting three chapters today, with two more coming later.

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