Fire Bearer at Hogwarts

Chapter 408 The Truth (Two in One)

"Dumbledore, this is not an ordinary spell." Madam Pomfrey looked at the old man lying on the bed, and said anxiously: "It may be some kind of extreme black magic."

"But no matter what...this is beyond my ability to deal with."

Madam Pomfrey's words silenced all the professors present, whether it was Minerva, Flitwick or Sprout, they all showed worried expressions on their faces.

"It's nothing, it's not your fault, Madam Pomfrey." Dumbledore smiled gently at her, "Maybe I should go to Severus."

"Minerva, please..." Dumbledore looked at Professor McGonagall with his head lowered and said, "Let him bring Harry back too."

"I see, Albus." McGonagall nodded slightly, then got up and walked out quickly.

"Albus, has he become stronger?" Sprout asked with her head down. Although she didn't name the person, everyone knew who she was referring to.

"Well..." Dumbledore coughed and nodded: "He, he is no longer the same as he was back then..." Dumbledore sighed, and then glanced at the silent Ash.

"Ash, you stay, can the others go out first?" Dumbledore looked at the professors surrounding him and said, "Please..."

"Hmm..." Flitwick and Sprout looked at each other, then cast a worried look at Ash.

"Clap."

As the door of the infirmary closed, only Ash and Dumbledore were left here.

"You're dying, Dumbledore." Ash nodded slightly and said, "Snape can't save you either."

Even Ash can't do anything about it. The power of the abyss eroded Dumbledore's body. Generally speaking, Ash has only one way to deal with people who are eroded by the abyss, and that is to kill them directly with flames...

But Dumbledore... Ash shook his head: "I can't save you either."

"I understand, I understand, Ash." Dumbledore nodded gently, he didn't look like someone who knew the date of death, on the contrary, he looked extremely peaceful, just like him back then.

"So, can you tell me something about yourself?" Dumbledore looked at Ash with curiosity in his eyes: "I'm curious... In just a few short years, why has the magic world changed so much? The change?"

Dumbledore's words made Ash shake his head slightly: "Albus, you don't want to know..."

"But I have to know, don't I?" Dumbledore laughed. "You should really call me Albus..."

Ash sighed, then found a stool, and slowly sat down beside Dumbledore.

"I know what you're curious about." Ash said, "I'm really not from America, nor a student of Ilvermorny."

"Hmm..." Dumbledore nodded slightly: "This is within my expectation. I have been to Ilvermorny. Although your name is on the document...but no professor is familiar with you."

"Then where are you from?"

Looking at Dumbledore's blue eyes, Ash paused slightly, and then continued: "I come from another world, a dilapidated, crumbling, and about to be destroyed world."

"I came here to save my world..." Ash's topic was a bit heavy, which made Dumbledore slightly stunned.

"To be honest... this is not what I expected." Dumbledore nodded truthfully: "I thought you might also be a dark wizard..."

Ash raised the corners of his mouth slightly and then shook his head: "I am much more evil than a dark wizard."

"I am the creation of the gods, and my purpose is to plunder another world for the sake of one world."

"Plundering?" Dumbledore shook his head, "But I've never seen you take anything."

"Because what I take away is something you can't see." Ash flicked the wand lightly, and the silver soul floated in the air and then slowly turned into a burning flame.

"What I took away was your soul."

"Soul..." Dumbledore was silent for a few seconds and then shook his head slightly: "Then you want to take my soul, too, right?"

"Of course, Albus...of course." Ash nodded, "Because my world needs it..."

"What about our world?" Dumbledore shook his head, and there was a little anxiety in his eyes, which Ash had never seen in him: "Tom... Hogwarts... and the wizarding world..."

"Harry will defeat him." Ash said quietly: "Don't you think so too?"

"Ah...yes...yes..." Dumbledore coughed and shook his head: "So, Ash, can I ask you...to help him?"

"..." Ash was silent. To be honest, when he saw Voldemort in this state, he felt a sense of retreat. After all, his purpose was to save Rodland. If he was injured in the battle with Voldemort... ...then all the hard work would be in vain.

Seeing Ash's silence, Dumbledore coughed and shook his head: "Don't you need his soul?"

"Need." Ash nodded truthfully: "However, when he colludes with Abyss, everything cannot be resolved by simple fighting."

"Abyss?" Dumbledore was stunned: "Is that the power of darkness?"

"Well." Ash nodded and then explained: "In my world, the world was born from a ball of fire, and the abyss is the darkness beyond the fire."

"They want to erode everything, devour everything, and then control everything." Ash shook his head and said, "Even in our world...it is not easy to deal with the abyss."

Dumbledore was silent for a long time, and finally he said: "So, why is your world declining, is it the abyss?"

"No." Ash shook his head: "It's because the flame is extinguished... The first fire uses the soul as fuel, and because of this, it needs to be constantly replenished."

"And I was born for this." Ash shook his head and absorbed all his soul back: "And the abyss is to stop all of this."

Dumbledore nodded slightly, he could understand Ash's meaning, but even if he understood now, he still couldn't do what he wanted.

"Then your soul counts mine... is it enough?" Dumbledore asked.

"Not enough." Ash shook his head: "I still need more."

A worried look appeared on Dumbledore's face: "So, who will you kill?"

His question made Ash smile softly. He understood what Dumbledore was thinking. He shook his head and said, "I will not kill my friends, nor would I want to plunder their souls."

: So you don't have to worry about Harry, and Hogwarts, and the Order of the Phoenix. Ash looked into Dumbledore's eyes and said, "They'll be fine." "

"Hmm... cough cough cough cough cough." Dumbledore coughed and nodded, then said, "So do you think the abyss will swallow the world?"

"Yes, or not." Ash thought for a while and said, "Because when I ignite the first fire, all dark forces will be weakened to the extreme."

"But the premise is that you can ignite the first fire..." Dumbledore looked at Ash and muttered to himself, "But I saw hesitation in your eyes."

Ash was slightly taken aback, Dumbledore is very smart... I did hesitate a bit, although this is a blasphemy against the gods, but in the words of Londore Cassana, Rhodean and Ashemir.

And in the memories of the distant age of fire in the past...Ash found...all of these things are far inferior to this world.

That is the world of Hogwarts...

Although he didn't know why, a world was born to burn others to survive, and a world didn't need anything to be so beautiful.

But he knew that all the differences came from that flame, that initial fire.

Sometimes Ash wonders...would everything be different without the flames?
Hey... Ash sighed, all of this is King Gwen, and it is a problem faced by his predecessors.

Seeing Ash's struggle, Dumbledore nodded slightly and said, "Ash, can you tell me... what will happen if the flame goes out?"

"..." Ash was silent for a while, and then slowly said: "The world has fallen into darkness, and everything will be meaningless."

"But, weren't you born in darkness?" Dumbledore looked at Ash's face and said, "Before the flames appeared... the world was like that..."

"Besides, the burning of the flame will change some things no matter what?" Dumbledore sighed as he said that, after all, he didn't know that world that well.

On the contrary, he doesn't even understand his own world now.

"Albus, sometimes I can't gamble." Ash thought for a while and replied, "Because there is still life in that world... If, if I can't see what is behind the flames, I can't gamble."

"I understand what you mean." Dumbledore nodded: "But isn't our life just a bet?"

"It's just that our bet is our own life."

"But I'm not advising you to take risks, Ash." Dumbledore sat up coughing, and after drinking some soup, he seemed to feel much better.

"I just hope that your world can be as alive as ours."

He looked at Ash and nodded slightly, then continued, "Ash, can I ask you to do me a favor?" His blue eyes were full of pleas and sincerity.

"..." Ash sighed, then shook his head: "I can't protect Harry, nor can I protect him for long..."

"Because I will return to Rodland one day."

"And after returning to Rhodeland, I can no longer influence everything here."

"No, no, no..." Dumbledore shook his head lightly, "Ash, I don't want you to protect that child..."

"I hope you can help him destroy the Horcrux before leaving." Dumbledore looked down at his left hand and said, "The reward for all this is the soul."

"My soul."

Dumbledore's words made Ash raise his eyebrows. He didn't expect that Dumbledore could take his own soul... He was thinking about it when he saw Dumbledore lightly shake his right hand and call out the soul from his body .

"I've been thinking about it since you cast that curtain for the first time..." Dumbledore nodded in Ash's surprised eyes: "Finally I understand, you rely on the soul..."

"This is also thanks to the clues you left when you took the Sorcerer's Stone." Dumbledore smiled and looked at him: "The soul is not a power for us, but it is for you."

"So, I want to use these souls to hire you, Ash, to protect Hogwarts before you leave."

Ash looked at him speechless for a while, if Dumbledore can manipulate the soul, it means that he can dissipate his own soul before death...

If Dumbledore dissipates his soul, it means that Ash will completely lose this king-like power...

This is indeed what Ash did not expect, he did not expect Dumbledore to have mastered this ability.

"Please, Ash..."

"Look at Harry, Ron, Hermione, Volka... and everything in these four years..." Dumbledore looked at the Christmas gift gloves from two years ago in Ash's hand and shook his head slightly: "Help Huo Gwartz this time."

"..."

Ash sighed quietly, everything in the past four years seemed to flash before his eyes, he was surprised to find that he didn't need to read the diary to remember everything in the past four years...

He was silent for a while, then finally nodded slightly.

"Albus Dumbledore, I grant your request."

In the cold tone, there was finally some emotional color, it was hard to say whether it was excitement or something else, but in the end, it turned this heartless person into a human being.

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"Good evening, Elizabeth." In the silent Fire Passing Sacrifice, a lonely white-haired woman sat in a corner, and beside her was a woman in a black robe.

She is the long-lost Cassana.

Representing Londor, she finally arrived here today, and then she was able to see the person who had the most influence on Ashes.

"Good evening, Kassanna." Elizabeth was not rubbing the statuette in her palm, but slowly raised her head to look at her: "Are you looking for me here?"

"Hmm..." Cassana nodded, and then said: "The power of the abyss is constantly increasing, and the souls accumulated in the ashes are also increasing."

"So you're here to persuade me to accept your ideas, right?" Elizabeth shook her head lightly, "All my thoughts are respected by Lord Ashes."

"No, no, no..." Cassana waved her hand, she looked at Elizabeth's face and said, "I'm not here to persuade you, but I hope you can see it."

"Can you see?" Elizabeth was stunned for a moment. She remembered the matter of her eyes, but for some reason, all she felt was nervousness and uneasiness.

"As a fire prevention girl, I shouldn't see everything."

"But as a fireproof girl, you shouldn't have a name, Elizabeth." Cassana looked at her and shook her head: "Everything should have an end, right?"

"Reincarnation, fire, death..." Cassana gently took out a small box from her arms: "This is what you need."

"Also...you should know."

She said and put the small box by Elizabeth's lap, then sighed lightly, and sat down on the other side of the steps.

"I can only stay here for a few days." Cassana said and shook her head: "After all, the power of the abyss is getting stronger, and Amy also needs protection."

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(End of this chapter)