Hogwarts 1991

Chapter 560 Breaking the Blood Curse

This is a cobweb-type cave tunnel, like the underground pipe network of Muggles, extending in all directions, and every time you walk, you will always encounter various fork roads.

Compared with the primitive caves formed naturally, the tunnels here have more traces of artificial intervention.
Or it can also be said... This dark underground tunnel did not evolve over a long period of time, it was formed by sudden drastic changes in a short period of time.

McGuffin speculates that this should be related to the giant magic plant above... Maybe its magical roots that were once used to absorb magic power and nourishment are unsustainable... After continuous withering, shrinking and water collapse, these relics were finally left behind.

McGuffin's conjecture is also reasonable. After all, normal caves are far from being so regular and smooth. All the caves here are slightly oval-shaped tunnels. Although the surrounding rock walls have some kind of folds, there is not a single bit of synaptic gravel...or any traces of water erosion.

Moreover, on the tunnel floor, there are layers of very thick wooden debris,
These things are sticky and rotten, and they are mixed with each other, fermenting in the damp underground tunnel to produce a slightly pungent smell like paint.

It also smells good.

And when they step on it, they still feel soft, like standing on a rubber runway.

There are many forked tunnels here...

The MacGuffin saw some graffiti glowing white, the marks Hagrid had made.

Dumbledore led the two of them along the direction indicated by the mark, to a relatively wide main tunnel, and continued to move forward.

Finally, when he reached a slightly wider place, the mark disappeared, and Dumbledore, who was walking in front, also stopped. He took out a magic item similar to a compass, looked at it, and said, "Okay, here it is!"

"This place should be out of the category of the giant magic plant remains, you can try to perform magic rituals."

He took out his pocket watch, looked at it, and went on,

"Besides, there's not much time left."

After finishing speaking, Dumbledore raised his wand. Under his magic, the ground rose, the cave expanded, and all the land and rocks around him were like plasticine... He kneaded and shaped it with ease:
Rectangular stone pillars rise from the ground and are pulled to become an altar; the surrounding rock walls are rolling like waves, deforming and expanding continuously; the soil and rocks of the dome are separated layer by layer... just like an eye is opened, a gap is opened, straight to the ground, looking towards the sky...

The bloody moonlight slowly falls from above,
A narrow red light spot formed in the darkness, shining on the rectangular stone altar.

After that, Dumbledore turned around and nodded to Snape, and then said to McGuffin, "Okay, Albert, let's start? You have to lie on that..."

Holding his wand, he pointed at the slightly permeable altar, and then formed complex rune marks on it.

McGuffin swallowed. He looked at the... stone altar shrouded in bloody moonlight in the darkness, extremely nervous.

He trembled a little.

Dumbledore's invitation turned into all kinds of terrifying fantasies in his mind... black magic corpse sacrifice, mummification, vampire... all kinds of horror legends circulating in the world of the Ministry of Magic, tumbling in his mind.

Looking at this situation, Snape sneered coldly, then pushed McGuffin away, and he took out three cauldrons from his pocket of [Unmarked Stretching Curse].

One gold, one silver, and one copper.

They come in different sizes, like nesting dolls...just enough to fit together.

However, now it is filled with some kind of translucent, amber liquid.

Snape separated them, placed them one by one on the corner of the stone altar, and ignited a dark green flame below it...or it could be said to be a flame,

The flame was small, and the potions in the three crucibles were being boiled gurgling.

Then, he took out three utensils with extremely different shapes and materials.

A vessel is in the shape of a unicorn, with a slight spiral pattern on it, and the blue fluorescent light spreads along the spiral, shining brightly,
It was carefully placed on an iron shelf by Snape,
Inside is some kind of silver-blue fluorescent mixture. The solvent is like a glass of bubbling soda, from the bottom to the top cu~cu...the tiny bubbles are constantly churning.

The second vessel is a half-broken golden-red eggshell, which emits red light, constantly changing and churning on the surface of the eggshell with light and shadow, like an invisible flame burning,
At the bottom of the edge inside the eggshell... there are a few crystal water droplets the size of grapes, which keep floating up and rolling down again.

The last container is made of - two ordinary glass vials buckled together upside down, combined to exist like an hourglass.

It's just that, unlike the sand in the hourglass...the liquids in the two vials are absolutely not the same in terms of material or color...
One is red, the other is black... one is heavy, the other is frivolous... They are clearly separated from each other, like two poles of a magnet, far apart and never meet.

McGuffin recognized that the horny potion should be the blood and horn of the unicorn, and he probably guessed the rest... the eggshell and tears of the phoenix, the original blood and the poison of the snake spirit.

The characteristics of each material are quite distinct.

Then, Snape sank three different potions into each crucible one by one.

The golden crucible contained the tears and eggshells of the phoenix, and the silver crucible was filled with unicorn horns and blood, primordial blood and snake spirit poison. Snape cast a spell on that strange glass vial, which simultaneously took out the two solution materials inside... and poured them into the copper crucible.

The solvents in the three crucibles, which were originally the same, turned and changed in a short while, becoming different from each other.

The amber solution in the golden crucible was jumping and shaking...it gradually turned golden red, and made violent waves, and the solution inside spontaneously splashed out...things like golden fireworks.

The solution in the silver crucible turned into some kind of rotating starry sky, bits and pieces of silver-blue stars constantly shining, forming an irregular dazzling nebula...rotating counterclockwise.

Inside the copper crucible appeared countless dense, finger-thin bloodshot threads...

McGuffin took one look, then turned his attention away.

At this time, Professor Dumbledore urged again,

"Time is running out, McGuffin Albert... Hurry up to that stone platform, or it will be too late."

--All right!
With difficulty, McGuffin raised his legs and feet, walked to the stone altar step by step, and lay on the side where there was no cauldron.

"Well, almost ready to begin, Severus!" said Dumbledore.

Snape remained silent, his sallow face was filled with a sense of stiff anxiety, it seemed that he was not very willing to lift the [Blood Curse] for McGuffin.

However, this guy still obeyed Dumbledore's order and started the final step of configuring the anti-curse potion.

"Idiot, it's not like I want to kill a pig, you're so stiff, why hide from me?"

Snape's cold hands tightly wrapped around McGuffin's wrists and arms, pulling him to the center of the altar made of stone.

Then he broke him into the shape of a 'big' character. After that, this guy simply used a spell to fix the McGuffin on the stone platform to prevent the McGuffin from struggling.

Except for the head, McGuffin cannot move the rest of the body.

— This worried him a little.

By feeling the existence of the wand in his inner pocket, McGuffin did not directly use magic to break free.

All he could do now was twist his neck as hard as he could to see what Dumbledore and Snape were doing.

Dumbledore was waving his wand, gathering the bloody moonlight that shot down from above the ground...and focusing it on the potions in the three crucibles.

Holding the wand, Snape commanded the potions in the three crucibles...automatically stirring, rotating,...dissolving the ingredients inside, and injecting magic power into it bit by bit, making it constantly change its nature.

"It seems that you are right, Severus! You are the only one in Europe who can brew three potion ingredients with completely different properties at the same time, and the last step of fusion...is even more difficult than this..." Dumbledore said.

Snape didn't say anything, his eyes were fixed on the potions in the three cauldrons, and he seemed to be highly concentrated.

Then, he shook his wand violently, the flame on the bottom of the cauldron was extinguished, and the potion inside suddenly jumped out...jumped into the air, and was pulled into three thin strands like noodles...

They are entangled with each other and merged... Gradually, they turned into a finger-thick blood-colored blood snake.

"Okay, it's your turn for Dumbledore!" He said coldly, and then directed the blood snake-like filament to wander in the air while looking at McGuffin.

Maybe I saw the fear in McGuffin's eyes——

This guy Snape said sneeringly, "Albert, it seems that you are also afraid sometimes!"

McGuffin said nothing, he looked at Dumbledore.

With Snape ready, Dumbledore raised his wand high, facing the gap in the dome of the cave... the bloody moonlight inside.

The moonlight, as before... Gradually began to gather, shining on McGuffin like a spotlight, and shining on the altar where he was lying.

For a while, McGuffin felt a little dizzy.

Just when he was a little puzzled, Dumbledore waved his wand, and then tapped lightly on McGuffin's left and right wrists.

what--

McGuffin snorted.
He saw... where Dumbledore's wand had touched... the blood vessels began to swell, protruding obviously from under the skin.

Then, a palm-sized blood snake began to emerge, around the left wrist...circling.

Then, starting from there, two wounds on McGuffin's wrists... were automatically opened at once.

He was lying on the altar like that, the blood all over his body flowed from his left wrist... along the engravings on the stone altar... slowly flowing. (And the open wound on the right wrist is like a hollow)
Dumbledore waved his wand and whispered the anti-curse spell, "—Ancient Blood, Ouroboros, Curse Poison."

"—Ancient source blood, ouroboros, cursed poisonous body."

As Dumbledore chanted it over and over again, McGuffin suddenly found that the blood flowing from his body was galloping and flowing on the carved paths on the altar... like a bloody snake crawling rapidly.

Moreover, the scales transformed from the blood snake were shining brightly under the bloody moonlight.

The blood snake was getting longer and longer, and McGuffin's body and limbs were getting colder and colder... Although he didn't have the symptoms of weakness and weakness, he felt that his body's reactions began to slow down, the flexibility of his wrists and limbs began to decline sharply, his eyelids became heavier, and the thoughts and self-awareness in his mind gradually slowed down.

"Severus, hurry up!" Dumbledore seemed to hear Dumbledore's anxious urging when McGuffin finally passed out.

When McGuffin woke up again, he saw the blood-colored filaments floating in the air...the blood snake solution exuding amber luster, coming from the hole in his right wrist little by little...

—injected into his body?
"This is?" McGuffin couldn't help screaming in shock, and he struggled with some resistance.

"Relax...Relax, Albert! This is a process of breaking the curse... [Blood Curse] Once cast, it will completely corrode, and even merge with the cursed person's blood."

"A simple solution to the curse, or some kind of magical potion... can only treat the symptoms, not the root cause.——You should understand this."

"When we saved Nagia, it was because we didn't realize this that we failed in the end... From this aspect, Voldemort is worthy of being the most talented wizard in modern times. He was able to combine astrology, potions, transformations, spells... and even the study of vampires... These multiple subjects are combined... When the blood of the cursed is drawn out, at the same time, it maintains its vitality and purifies the blood of the cursed..."

"Well, it's much easier to break the [Blood Curse] this way."

When Dumbledore explained to McGuffin,
Snape waved his wand, continuously gathering the 'Blood Snake' drawn from McGuffin's body into the three crucibles,
The blood snake kept merging with the remaining solution in the crucible, and it jumped in the three crucibles until it was purified to colorless... Finally, it jumped up directly—biting the thin blood snake in midair, and followed it into the McGuffin's body.

On the other hand, the head of the blood snake that came out of McGuffin's body on the other side bit the blood snake that was brewed with medicine.

Their heads... bit each other's tails.

- forming a closed loop.

The [Blood Curse] in the blood is constantly being purified, and then continues to penetrate into the McGuffin's body along the original blood vessels.

Dumbledore recited the second half of the curse again in a low voice, "—reincarnation is endless, reincarnation is endless, eternal curse."

"——Reincarnation is endless, reincarnation is endless, eternal curse."

Dumbledore kept chanting the undoing spell.

The solution in the crucible, the light from the ground, gradually began to shrink and became extremely dim.

The two blood snakes gradually merged into one and disappeared.The wounds on McGuffin's left and right wrists also began to heal gradually.

All the abnormalities have disappeared.

McGuffin's body is not restrained and can move freely.

He hurriedly looked at the parchment system in his mind——

[Task: Find a way to break the blood curse—completed]

[Rewards obtained: Parseltongue MAX, Snake Transformation MAX, Half Snake Transformation (gray, abandoned, unavailable), talent points 3*100*X points]

However, the most beautiful word for MacGuffin is this——

[Status: Blood Curse (grey state~abandoned, has been cleared)]

finally--

[Blood Curse] was finally lifted.

(End of this chapter)