Chapter 211: The End of the Snake Eyes
"Could it be that there's more than just one blood diamond?"
Dylan silently observed the thorny silver setting and the blood diamond within the box.
"Three-petaled thorny setting, three diamonds..." Dylan tapped the rightmost empty slot with his knuckle. Currently, only one slot was filled by the blood diamond, yet it lay there isolated, like a tombstone guarding two vanished entities.
Dylan picked up the silver setting. Although he speculated that the other two slots might also hold something similar to this blood diamond, he hadn't seen them firsthand, so he couldn't be certain.
The silver setting rested in his palm. The surrounding light was very dim. Only the blood diamond emitted a strange glow, a mix of black and blood-red light. The distorted shadow of the thorny branches was cast on the wall, vaguely resembling countless withered hands reaching out from underground to grasp the gem on the silver setting.
"The design is pretty good." It seemed this item held considerable research value.
Beside him, Delphi cautiously observed Dylan's expression. —Although she couldn't see it at all. But she could clearly sense that her Master seemed to be in a good mood. This made her, now free from the Unicorn's curse, feel a surge of unexpected joy. Is this what it feels like to be useful? She was determined to acquire more treasures and wealth for the great Karsus!
—She heard that her useless, nose-less,waste father, before he died, left a considerable fortune to the Death Eaters. Delphi pondered. He's already dead, what good is all that wealth? She might as well take it and offer it to her great divine Lord!
"Alright, I'll take this. You did very well." Dylan placed the Unicorn blood diamond and the thorny silver setting back into the copper box, then closed the lid. A flash of fanaticism crossed Delphi's face before she lowered her head. "As long as you have any need, I am willing to sacrifice everything for you at any cost!"
Dylan glanced at her. Before, he hadn't understood why this girl would inexplicably become his fanatic. She had even imagined him as an omnipotent, true deity.
However, after controlling her soul and reading her memories, he had some guesses. "Dreams are truly interesting things."
Delphi, simply based on a few dreams, had brainwashed herself into a follower of someone she had never even met. Dylan didn't quite understand. Of course, if one considered Delphi's miserable experiences from childhood, and understood her as a lunatic, then everything would become reasonable.
"Alright, I will cast a spell on you. No one will be able to get information about me from you. You don't need to do anything, just relax and let me control you." Dylan's low voice emanated from beneath the black cloak.
Delphi showed no hesitation or refusal. She instantly dropped to her knees with a "thud." Dylan paused, the corner of his mouth twitching slightly beneath his hood. However, he said nothing, instead raising his wand.
"Mnemosyneveil!"
The tip of Dylan's wand suddenly burst forth with silvery-white starlight. These were magical particles, like fragmented diamonds, winding and swirling along the wand.
As the spell was cast, a spiderweb-like ripple gradually appeared in the air. The silver strands rapidly wove themselves around Delphi, centered on her.
Her kneeling figure was enveloped in a cocoon of light. Unidentifiable runes appeared beneath her skin, gradually climbing from bottom to top, reaching her brow bone. Then, all the light was absorbed into a single point in her forehead.
The moment the last strand of light wrapped around Delphi's brow bone, tiny silver glimmers flashed in her pupils. In that instant, countless memory fragments disintegrated in her eyes, then were reshaped.
However, they were reshaped behind an invisible mental barrier. Those memories concerning Karsus, like star clusters sucked into a black hole, rapidly collapsed into a blank space in her memory. —Except for herself and Dylan, no one else could read these memories he had shielded.
The reason Dylan used Mnemosyneveil on Delphi instead of Gate of Dreams was because Gate of Dreams had not yet been further refined and upgraded by him. For it to be effective, it required prolonged contact.
Dylan naturally couldn't take her back to Hogwarts. —He still needed her to continuously collect wealth for him outside, and also do things that were inconvenient for him to do personally, or that would waste too much time.
But Mnemosyneveil didn't require that. Dylan could cast it quickly, especially now that there was no need to consider anyone else's presence. Delphi, the target of the spell, had even opened her mind and let him do as he pleased.
Therefore, he could successfully cast Mnemosyneveil in a very short time, a spell he had already researched when Hagrid was taken away by the Ministry of Magic for interrogation. And the effect would be quite powerful.
After all, so much time had passed, he had even developed Gate of Dreams, so Mnemosyneveil had naturally been adjusted by him as well.
"Ah!" The very last second of the spell's completion. A strong wave of pain assaulted Delphi's head. She instantly collapsed weakly to the ground, unable even to kneel.
"Hmm? Why would this happen?" Dylan was a bit surprised. However, since he had adjusted this spell, he hadn't used it on anyone else. —This "anyone else" naturally referred to ordinary people.
Lockhart, that fellow, he wasn't sure if his brain had gone mad from all the Obliviate spells. It seemed he had forgotten what true pain felt like. Especially recently, Dylan had experimented with many spells on him.
This had caused Lockhart's pain threshold to become increasingly high. Therefore, when he used this modified spell on Lockhart, he hadn't shown any strong reaction.
"But it's also possible that Lockhart no longer had many memories, and if the memories I chose to hide were among a group of memories, there would be a hidden space. But if the only memories that could be hidden also had to be enchanted, then after they were hidden, the other person's mind would simply be blank." Dylan stroked his chin, then lightly flicked his finger. A surge of magic gently lifted Delphi. Then, healing magic rippled over Delphi. In a moment, she finally returned to normal.
"Tsk, my various Dark Arts are already at max level, but this healing magic, no matter how much I practice it, it seems impossible to reach max level?" Dylan sighed inwardly.
Delphi, feeling the magic healing her within, couldn't help but feel a strange sensation. She had never been healed by anyone before. Those people hated her to the extreme.
It was as if she shouldn't have been born into this world at all. No matter how battered and bruised she was, even if she had to fight beggars for food, she ultimately had to lick her own wounds. But now... her Master was so compassionate towards her...
Delphi slowly raised her head, looking up at the tall "deity," her eyes gradually becoming misty.
Dylan's Legilimency allowed him to perceive Delphi's emotional changes. Coupled with having read her memories, he understood why this girl's personality had become this way, and why she chose to worship him. He roughly understood what Delphi was thinking at the moment.
Dylan, however, did not respond. Instead, he slowly spoke. "Leave."
Delphi paused, a hint of hesitation appearing on her face. "Master... how will I know your message?"
"If I wish to summon you, the Dark Mark I left on you will give you the answer." Dylan looked down at her. "If your life is threatened, I will sense it." Dylan didn't intend to give her a means to contact him.
Heaven knew what this girl, who seemed to have completely inherited her mother Bellatrix's mad traits, might do that he couldn't possibly anticipate. If old Dumbledore were to discover anything, it would be very troublesome.
"Recruit followers for me, and you will also gain my power." Dylan raised his hand. A snake eye appeared out of thin air. This was an eyeball that Dylan had refined. It was entirely pale bluish-white, with a vertical slit pupil surrounded by spiderweb-like blood vessels. The whites of the eye vaguely churned with murky, misty shadows. It was as if something was stirring deep within it, perhaps a snake, or perhaps a worm. It exuded an indescribable sense of distortion.
Dylan casually tossed the snake eye to Delphi. She hastily caught it. The eyeball gave a "gloop" and squirmed twice in her hand. Dylan's faint voice rang out. "Holding it will cause others to feel an instinctive fear of you. Unleash its power, and your enemies will fall into endless illusions." Dylan casually explained, "But, never underestimate your enemies, and never use its power recklessly."
This was essentially an alchemical creation Dylan had made using his super characteristic — The End of the Snake Eyes.
His Eye of Finality had three abilities: Serpent's Bane of Finality, Serpentine Curse, and Fear Feedback. Serpent's Bane of Finality allowed Dylan to forcibly put all approaching snakes into a rigid state.
For enemies other than snakes, simply making eye contact with him would drag them into an illusion, making them endure an overwhelming, endless fear of snake disasters. Serpentine Curse allowed him to transform Parseltongue into chapters from the Apocalypse of Worms.
The Apocalypse of Worms was a magical book that existed between reality and illusion. This book could cause strong mental contamination to others. As for Fear Feedback, it was purely to enhance the effect of his Serpent's Bane of Finality.
If it were just Serpent's Bane of Finality, Dylan might not have been able to apply this characteristic to an alchemical creation, but with Serpentine Curse, it was different.
This was because the Apocalypse of Worms was a book that Dylan could directly summon, giving it a physical form. With a physical form, Dylan naturally found it easier to transfer characteristics to his creations.
This snake eye was an alchemical creation he had specifically made by dissecting the eyes of snakes and then utilizing the characteristic abilities of The End of the Snake Eyes. —It was also one of his recent research achievements.
Initially, he only wanted to try if he could extract characteristics from his body and turn them into mass-producible physical objects. Although he had achieved some results, they weren't particularly perfect.
This was because the snake eye he created wasn't made by killing just one snake. —Instead, it was made by killing hundreds, even thousands! Thankfully, his pet space world could spontaneously promote the reproduction of creatures, preventing any single species from being driven to extinction by Dylan, which would cause the entire ecosystem to collapse.
It must be said, after all this time, Dylan still had to sigh. His Galleons were truly well spent! Not wasted at all!
They saved him countless troubles. Moreover, what was more crucial was that although his pet world's initial ecosystem was relatively simple, containing only some very common creatures, after Dylan's visit to the magical creature market last time, he discovered something.
That is, if the creatures he brought into the pet world could play a role in the entire ecological chain, then they would be recorded by the world and then spontaneously breed! Of course, becoming a member of the food chain was not that easy.
Therefore, if a creature couldn't integrate into the ecosystem, it would also be ostracized by the world, becoming an "invasive species." The manifestations were roughly as follows: if a creature was overly strong, it would be suppressed by stronger creatures to prevent it from hunting too many weaker creatures.
If a creature was weak, stronger creatures would simply ignore it. In short, the basic idea was: if you're strong, don't be overbearing. If you're weak, just survive well.
After all, they were creatures brought by the master of the world. It wouldn't be good to simply get rid of them. But it was also impossible to have too many of these creatures.
So, unless Dylan himself created a complete food chain by pairing the creatures he brought into the world — not even a perfect one, just one that fit well enough into the entire ecosystem — then his pet space would automatically adapt.
Of course, creatures like snakes were produced naturally in his world, and snakes had many offspring. So Dylan found it much more convenient to use them.
"Such powerful magic..." Delphi felt the snake eye in her hand. —She could sense that this eyeball was emitting an extremely strong mental interference. If she were to use magic to activate it, it would definitely cause anyone trying to attack her to stumble badly!
Delphi held the snake eye in both hands. When she looked up, her eyes were filled with awe and gratitude towards Dylan. Her voice trembled slightly, yet it conveyed immense piety. "Thank you for your grace. I will use it to protect your absolute will!"
Dylan gave a cold smile. "I don't expect you to bring me many surprises. Gather all the treasures and wealth you collect at Borgin's. I will go and retrieve them."
"As you command!" Delphi heard Dylan's untrusting words. Her eyes darkened slightly. But more determination surged in her heart. She would prove to her Master that she would be the most worthy follower!
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