HP: Embrace the Darkness

"Are you very free?"

"what?"

Snape tapped the parchment with his fingertips, and Artes followed his hand to the parchment.

"Well, I'm going to make a snake for Miss Medusa to accompany her. The above is a rough draft."

Asasi said, an idea flashed in his mind.

"Sev, can I make some changes to the cellar?"

Snape raised his eyebrows and glanced sideways at Artes beside him.

"Tell me."

"Hogwarts Castle is equivalent to a large alchemy prop. Its defense is unquestionable, but the defense of the classrooms inside is not good. Their role is more as a gear in the operation of the castle."

"I can strengthen the gears without destroying its original structure, just like an alchemy classroom. The defense inside is no longer weaker than that of the castle. Otherwise, I won't dare to let them refine it in the future."

"As for the cellar..."

Aces' eyes carefully scanned every corner of the cellar. He knew enough about the cellar and had no shortage of materials. If he really wanted to renovate it, he could guarantee that the cellar would still be there if Hogwarts was destroyed.

Snape understood what he meant and chuckled.

"So you plan to turn the cellar into a fortress? Besides, aren't you willing to live in it?"

The strange yin and yang energy, which was neither light nor heavy, didn't hurt or itch for Asseth, but instead gave him a numb feeling in his heart.

He laughed, stepped forward and rested his chin on Snape's shoulder.

"Sev, you clearly know why I refuse to move in."

“Why should I care about the cause?”

Of course Snape knew the reason, but this did not affect his eccentric attitude towards Artes.

"I only know that I overestimated my ability and repeatedly asked our distinguished alchemy professor to condescend to live in this simple cellar."

After Snape finished speaking, he pushed Ass's head away in disgust and moved two steps to the side.

"Since the simple cellar cannot satisfy the noble Master Cavendish, then please trouble our alchemy professor to start transforming it."

Artes was not annoyed when he was pushed away. He looked at Snape with a smile on his face, his affectionate peach blossom eyes narrowed in pleasure, and his eyebrows were curved just right.

The beauty was so stunning that Snape was stunned for a moment. These eyes were indeed beguiling.

Especially the detailed light and deep feeling inside.

"You don't want these eyes anymore?" Snape came back to his senses and said sadly.

Aces blinked and leaned closer, deliberately looking into Snape's eyes and looking directly at him.

"Sif, if you want it, give it to you?"

The next second, he was kicked by the potion master whose ears were red.

"Go away and do your thing!"

potion indoor

Snape looked at the bottles and jars on the table but did not move.

He's still a little dazed.

Some time ago, he deliberately kept a distance because Aces had too much influence on him.

But he didn't expect that Asses would torture himself like this in such a short period of time.

Thinking of this, Snape frowned.

He believed what Ass said, but he didn't think that Ass told him everything.

Aces definitely hid the most critical thing from him, but he couldn't force it out for the time being.

He also saw the fear in Artes's eyes that day. It wouldn't be impossible to threaten Artes with Occlumency, but the fear in those eyes was too...

Snape struggled for a long time and finally gave up on this method of questioning.

At the same time, Asseth on the other side was also thinking about this issue.

While he was drawing the transformation plan on the parchment, he was debating whether to tell Snape or not.

If they eat and live together, he won't be able to hide it for long.

Or……

Asseth thought of the medicine he had thrown away before. He now had a guess. If the guess was true, then the prophecy at this stage would be useless to him, and the PTSD would need to be treated and suppressed.

"Well, it looks like I still have to make a trip."

Time passed as the two were busy doing their own business, and soon it was night.

Aces was the first to finish the work at hand.

He leaned back on the chair, raised his hand to rub his brow tiredly, and then looked towards the potion room.

The lights in the potion room were still on, and it was obvious that the master of the cellar had not finished his work.

This time he didn't pay attention to the time. When he finished, he realized that it was already nine o'clock.

After waiting for a while, the people inside still didn't come out, so Asses called out Nina and asked her to bring dinner.

He went to the potions room and called for someone.

"Sev, eat first."

Aces opened the door, leaned on the door frame, and said to the potion master who was recording inside.

"Ah."

Snape responded casually without raising his head, and the movements of his hands showed no sign of stopping.

Aces walked over and looked at the records above. The optimization and improvement of the new magic potion above had reached the third edition.

"How much is left?"

Upon hearing Asseth's question, Snape raised his eyebrows, turned the quill in his hand, circled the name of one of the herbs, and clicked on it.

Aces understood, took a piece of parchment and started writing on the herb.

After a while, the two stopped writing.

Snape took Artes' parchment and was quite satisfied with the content on it.

"It seems that your knowledge of potions has not been fully returned to me."

Aces wrote about the conjecture that the herb and the new herb might be combined into a magic potion.

Snape was writing about a different herb.

"How can I be willing to give back the knowledge taught by such an excellent Potions Master, so can I eat now? My dear Potions Master?"

Snape snorted, "Glib."

Artes smiled and pulled up Snape, constantly responding, "Yes, yes, it's me who is glib."

The two of them walked to the potion room with each other. There was no figure of Nina outside. On the table was the dinner for two that Nina had laid out.

"Nina is still so efficient." Artes praised and took Snape to sit down.

Snape gave him a sideways glance. "That's just because she has a troublesome master."

"Now there are two."

"You said I'm troublesome?"

After the words came out, Snape was stunned.

Since when did he acquiesce in the relationship between him and Asseth, which is almost indistinguishable between you and me.

Artes was also stunned when he heard this, so Sif is admitting that he is Nina's other master?

Although he was indeed referring to Snape just now, he deliberately did not mention it clearly because he was afraid that Snape would be uncomfortable. Unexpectedly, Snape acquiesced.

Seeing that the potion master was restless and anxious because of his blunder, Asseth naturally took over his words.

"No trouble, we need Nina, it's not too late for her to be happy."

He thought of Nina's embarrassing behavior in the manor and smiled briefly, and his subsequent words also contained a gentle smile.

"She would be honored if you needed her."

"Of course, me too."