Chapter 64 Prelude
Section 1
"Damn it!" Harry chanted a spell loudly, and a bright red light shot out from the tip of the wand. The next moment, he skillfully reversed his wand and drew an arc in front of his wand, "armor protection"
A ball of flame burst out in front of him, causing violent fluctuations on the magic shield, causing Harry to stagger back.
"Goodly done." A low voice came from all around, with a faint roar, like talking loudly in an empty room.
Harry tried to calm his breathing, squinted his eyes and looked at the opponent standing opposite him - the black flame burning around Sauron, completely covering his figure. The flames leaped and exuded invisible power, making it difficult to look directly at.
It has been nearly a month since he stepped into this strange magic circle. Sauron and Harry have been staying in the magic circle, repeating harsh training day after day. At the beginning, Harry had no power to fight back when facing Sauron. The energy radiated from Sauron was unbearable, let alone fighting. Sauron did not even have to wave his wand or recite a spell. He could knock Harry to the ground with just one thought, making him feel uninspiring. This made Harry realize that his past understanding of power was so absurd and ridiculous.
"Humiliated and helpless." Sauron stood in front of Harry, looking down at him from a high place, "If your ability is only there, what courage or belief are you talking about?"
This sentence cuts on the body like a cold blade, causing Harry to suffer, but also arouses his blood. Harry did not retreat, and he was knocked down again and again, and got up again and again. In the torture of pain, Harry grew rapidly. The key to this growth was not the use of spells or practical skills, but the power of his heart and the transformation of the soul to a higher level. With the help of magic circles and the fire of the origin, Sauron confused the rules of the world, stripped them from the complex appearance, and exposed them to Harry. With his training during the day and meditation at night, he quietly built a connection with him. Even Harry himself did not realize that he had taken the first step in his pursuit of immortality and eternity, and this step was exactly what many wizards could not take for their entire lives.
Harry's growth fell in Sauron's eyes. In fact, not only Harry, but Sauron is also completing the transformation of the person himself. As Sauron said to Harry, under his guidance, the fire of the origin constantly burned Sauron's body, transformed into the rules and energy of nothingness, and finally freed his will from the constraints of the rules of the material world.
This process is undoubtedly dangerous, so that even Voldemort did not dare to take the initiative to do so. If he was not careful, the soul that had lost his body would be destroyed; or he was captured by the dark side of this world and wandered forever in the gaps of the rules, life was worse than death. Soren knew very well that he sealed the fragments of his soul in several Horcruxes, using this as a deed to establish a guide for returning to the material side.
First there was hair, then the skin, then the muscles and blood. Now, Soren's body was almost completely ignited by his original fire. Under the raging black flames, there were actually white bones. Only the golden knife pupils in his eyes were still clear, emitting a cold and refreshing light.
Sauron looked at Harry. He had performed well just now, but it was not perfect. Sauron swung his wand slightly, and a bright white spell shot towards Harry. Harry waved his wand and broke the spell. Then he pushed forward with his left hand. A huge force surged towards Sauron, but it only made the flames around Sauron sway slightly.
"I said, those little tricks are useless." The air around Sauron roared with a low voice, "Frost!"
The ground under Harry's feet was filled with white frost, and the cold and numb feeling spread rapidly along his legs. Harry was startled first, and then, to Sauron's surprise, he disappeared from the spot and flashed to the side, but he might have been unskilled or numb, and sat down on the ground.
Sauron raised his eyebrows. Although he had no eyebrows for a long time, Harry learned to flicker and surprised him a little, but this was not the key. Just now, at the moment when he flickered, Sauron felt that familiar power - the fire of Harry's origin. Sauron realized that in this short month, with Harry's inner strength and perception of the origin of magic, the power that was originally suppressed by Sauron's power and hiding deep in Harry's soul was awakening...
Section 2
In the Burrow Living Room, the brothers Ron, Hermione, Ginny and Fred were all there, sitting on the sofa chatting, with Mrs. Weasley's newly roasted cookies on the table next to it.
"I really don't understand where Harry has gone." Ron muttered while eating cookies, "It's been a month, and the Quidic World Cup will begin in a few days. It would be a pity if I missed it."
"No one knows where he is, Ron." Hermione said, and she glanced at Ginny, the little girl seemed a little worried. "When he wrote the letter before, he said he was with Sauron, but there was no reply to the letter I sent to the old house."
"Will something happen?" Ginny's little face turned pale, full of worries, "You guys say, could it be... Could it be, Death Eater..."
"Oh, don't scare yourself." Hermione said to comfort the little girl, "Since the mysterious man fell, the Death Eaters disappeared. They dare not commit crimes openly. The Aurors in the Ministry of Magic are not decorations."
"That's natural, and don't forget, Harry and Soren are together." said one of the twins, and they lowered their voices, "Hey, do you know why Slytherin is afraid of Soren? We heard from Lee Jordan that there have been several attacks related to Soren..."
"Assault," Hermione frowned tightly, "Attack Muggles?"
"No, of course not." The twins' voices lowered. They looked at the direction of the kitchen and confirmed that Mrs. Weasley could not hear them. "They were the escaped Death Eaters, you know. At that time, many Death Eaters used various lies and excuses to escape punishment and were not locked up in Azkaban. But they did not have been free for too long. Do you know that many of them have disappeared or been killed in the past few years, and there is evidence that these cases are related to Sauron."
"You mean, Sauron killed the Death Eaters." Ron opened his mouth wide in surprise, and Hermione's brows frowned even more.
The twins nodded, they looked at the expressions of the other people, as if enjoying their surprise, and then the twins breathed a deep breath, "The most interesting thing is to remember the dark phoenix of Soren. They said that someone found it at the scene of the murder..."
"Fred, George, come and help me!" Mrs. Weasley's voice came from the kitchen, interrupting the twins' words.
"Okay, mom." The twins responded, then blinked at them, got up and left.
"Oh, please." Ron complained, "It's a shame every time it's like this."
"Do you think that's true? Sauron has killed someone." Ginny asked in a low voice, looking at Hermione with some fear, "He and Harry are brothers, probably not."
"Who knows?" Hermione said, feeling her throat was a little dry. She had experienced Sauron's coldness. If he had a murder on his hand, she was not unable to believe it, but looking at Ginny's nervous look, she didn't say it out in her heart.
"Okay, Ginny, at least you don't have to worry about Harry's safety. No one will harm him." Ron said indifferently. "If Harry and Soren were together, I would have been able to learn a few beautiful magic tricks when I met again, just like last semester, right? Hermione, you said that Harry's patron curse was learned from Soren."
Hermione's heart burst, and she suddenly remembered that night - the dazzling white flames, and the pair of silver pupils that were as cold as the moon. Hermione vaguely realized that the abnormality between Harry and Sauron might be related to what happened that night.
"Hermione!" Ron patted her and pulled her out of his thoughts, "What's wrong with you?"
"Oh, oh, nothing." Hermione said, "I'll go to the kitchen and see what can I do." After that, she left in panic, leaving Ron and Ginny looking at each other...
Chapter completed!