Who let this Dementor into Hogwarts!

Chapter 42 It doesn't seem that surprising
The good news is that Ali was the first synthetic organism to be blended in this laboratory, so she witnessed the entire experiment that led to the birth of Cohen.

"You can also call me big brother?"

Cohen, who was browsing the books on the shelf, asked curiously.

【? 】

Since only the whites of her eyes are visible, Yali looks like she is constantly rolling her eyes.

Although she didn't understand, Cohen's request had to be completed - Yali continued to talk about her origin.

[I was hatched from a stillborn unicorn fetus immersed in a liquefied curse]

"Wait a minute—what is the Liquefaction Curse?" asked Cohen. "Excuse me, this isn't taught in Hogwarts textbooks."

[I don’t know, I haven’t seen it—you can find it on the bookshelf, third row, fourth book. I heard those people discussing it.]

Yali lay on the ground with her legs bent, her jet-black mane seemed to be able to swallow even the flames.

It has stayed in that cage its entire life. Since birth, it has had the inherited knowledge of unicorns, but because it was born under a curse, it cannot release those holy magics at all.

Cohen pulled out the sticky book according to the location Yali said.

"Cleaned up."

Cohen swept the dirt off it, and the cover of the book read Secrets of the Darkest Art.

The book was a handwritten copy—Cohen knew why, since the only original copy owned by the author, Ole Bullock, was in Dumbledore's possession.

There are detailed instructions for making Horcruxes here, but Cohen doesn't need them.

Some people desperately try to tear their souls apart, while others are trying hard to put their souls together again - Cohen will not split his soul again.

The second half of the book is almost entirely the work of one man—Herbo the Mean.

Hercule was one of the most powerful and influential Dark wizards known in history. He was the first to create Horcruxes, invented many evil curses, and was even the first to discover that "incubating eggs with toads can hatch basilisks" - because he was one of the earliest Parseltongues, the basilisks could not resist his orders.

And here we have the "Liquefy curse".

It was liquid magic condensed from numerous mixed curse spells in an alchemical container. Since most high-level curses had "uncontrollable" chaotic characteristics, these liquids were not in a stable state of fusion, but were constantly entangled and fighting with each other, like a spell version of raising Gu.

Normal creatures that come into contact with this solution will be corroded to death by numerous completely different curses within ten seconds. The despicable Helpo once experimented with the liquefaction curse on dozens of wizards - "They seemed to have entered a chaotic state of deformation, sometimes expanding into rotten and swollen balls of flesh, and sometimes shrinking into shrunken and boneless mummies..."

But some noble lives will not be killed by this mixed curse, but will be reborn in a new form.

For example, the Phoenix - but Hailbo didn't catch the Phoenix, so there is no record of it.

Another example... unicorns.

They are actually very tolerant of curses. "The blood of the unicorn carries the curse of resurrection. If you drink it, you will be reborn, but at the same time your soul will be half-dead due to the slaughter of pure and fragile life."

But the magic on their pure horns can cure the curse, so the curse in their blood will not work on them.

Soak the newly dead unicorn baby in liquid curse, and it will rot, but rotting is not the end. The liquid curse will replace its flesh and blood, and a new individual will be born.

Hailpo named it "Nightmare" because he felt that this thing fits the definition of "nightmare creature" better than the skeleton horse.

"What are the people in this lab trying to do? Combine all the most evil creatures known to the world and create the 'most evil creature in history'?"

Cohen felt it was a bit absurd, especially since this experiment was conducted before Voldemort's downfall - surely Voldemort wouldn't want to create something that he couldn't control?

"Will someone send them the 'Most Evil Guinness World Record Ever'?"

Those people never said anything. They just focused on their research, occasionally sharing the progress and difficulties of their experiments. They even used code names instead of race names for their experimental subjects.

Yali yawned, which made it seem less creepy.

"Can't you hack into their brains?"

Cohen thought Yali had some kind of mind-reading ability—after all, it could project sounds directly into Cohen's mind. But Yali shook her head.

This should be the same as a radio signal station, which can only transmit signals but cannot receive anything back from the transmitted signals.

[You can hear my voice only because we are related by blood]

[They created you from my bones and blood, and maybe some other creatures. I remember they called you that...]

Ali pondered.

Homunculus

"There should be something like an experimental log here. I'm sure we can find other ingredients here—" Cohen planned to continue searching.

You don’t have to waste time anymore

Yali reminded.

[Important and precious things were stolen]

"?"

Cohen said alertly.

"Stole it? Who?"

[I remember him being a short, slightly overweight man who had a deal with those researchers before—wait…]

Yali recalled the name that person was called.

[My name seems to be... Mundungus, Mundungus Fletcher]

"..."

Cohen remembered the man.

In other words, it was a little unexpected, but not completely unexpected.

Mundungus is a long-time thief—in the original book, he steals a ton of stuff and often smuggles and sells stolen goods.

I feel like, "Oh shit, why is it you?" and "But if it's you, it seems reasonable."

[Not long after the explosion up there, I remember]

Yali added.

He came down and took away a lot of books, journals, alchemy tools, potions... and then left. Even though I knocked on the cage, wanting him to let me out, he left without looking back, as if he had made up his mind...

"I think he's just a coward," Cohen corrected. "If it's him..."

It can be said that retrieving those materials is like finding a needle in a haystack - but Cohen came to find these things out of curiosity, so he was not in a hurry.

"Forget it, let's stop here for now."

Cohen sighed.

Although the thief Mundungus had undoubtedly sold all the stolen goods, Cohen would find him and beat him up sooner or later.

No reason, pure malice.

Cohen moved all the books on the bookshelf into his pocket, and then the cage made of rune metal - this pocket could open very wide after using the traceless extension spell.

As for the empty flasks and junk instruments on the table, Cohen didn't take them with him, as Hogwarts already had them.

"Count, don't sleep, let's go!"

(End of this chapter)