HP: Embrace the Darkness

"Now - the auction item No. 22 is up for auction. After multiple appraisals by our auction house, it is an alchemy tool that is not weaker than the magic stone."

A professional auctioneer is very good at arousing the interest of the auctioneer and pausing at the right time before continuing with the introduction.

"It was made by a real master of alchemy and took seven years to come into being. It...is auction item No. 22 - the Key to Immortality!"

Auctioneer No. 1's voice suddenly rose, hitting everyone's heart, especially Voldemort's.

"The starting price is one hundred thousand gold galleons."

There was an uproar in the venue. This price was too cheap for an alchemy item comparable to the magic stone.

Some smart people immediately realized that there was either something wrong with the Key to Eternal Life, or the auction house was very confident in its prediction of the transaction price.

Auctioneer No. 1 gave the audience some time to react before raising his voice again.

"Now, one hundred thousand gold plus bulge to shoot!"

"One hundred and ten thousand gold galleons."

"One hundred and fifteen thousand gold galleons."

"One hundred and eighteen thousand gold galleons."

"One hundred and twenty thousand gold galleons!"

……

The temptation of eternal life is too great, and no one gives in.

The people who are most afraid of death are not those who have nothing, but those who are successful and powerful. They have too much and cannot let go of more.

Greed blinds their eyes. Even if it is not eternal life, just living ten more years, a few years or a few months is still a rare blessing for them.

In less than two minutes, the price doubled.

Aces stood in the highest box, looking down at the people who were rushing to bid for the opportunity of immortality without knowing whether it was true or false, even at the expense of all their fortunes.

"Isn't it ridiculous?"

Anna came to her son's side and watched with him the ugly people below.

"It's really funny."

Asses's voice was vague, and a waning Nico seemed to appear in front of him. He was hunched over and his eyes were full of sorrow, repeating word by word that eternal life is punishment.

"Mother, do you want to live forever?"

Anna was startled and looked at Asseth's expression nervously. She considered it several times in her mind and made a rough draft.

"I lived a very happy life in the first half of my life, and the rest of my life will be very happy with you, so I don't pursue or hope for eternal life."

She looked at Asseth seriously.

"If you have this idea, I will try my best to dispel your idea. I am a mother and will not watch my child go astray."

"Two hundred and forty-three thousand gold galleons."

While the two were talking, the price of the Key to Eternal Life had reached two hundred thousand, and it was still increasing.

Aces looked at the box where the quotation was made.

If he remembered correctly, this was the box of the International Potions Association, but he didn't know whether the person inside who was raising the price was the president who was nearly a hundred years old or the vice-president who was over a century and a half.

In the left ear was the sound of crazy quotations, and in the right ear was the sound of Anna's hatred for steel.

The completely different attitudes gave birth to a strong sense of absurdity, which split Ass's soul in half.

"Why do you say it's a wrong path?"

"A person wanders the world alone, witnessing the death of relatives and friends around him one after another, and then their children and their descendants. Gradually, two hundred years later, this world is no longer the world you are familiar with. Everything is strange to you. , without belonging.”

"I can't just watch my child endure such torture."

torture...

The torture in Anna's words is the eternal life that countless people are seeking, and it is also what Voldemort pursues throughout his life.

What an irony.

Aces thought so and said so.

Anna finally breathed a sigh of relief.

"You kid, if you didn't tell me earlier, you know how to scare me every day. I thought, I thought you were really going..."

"How come? I'm not interested in this." Asseth glanced at the box next to him. "There is someone else who is interested. He probably can't stand it any longer."

Only half a minute after Asses said this, the waiter in the box next door came out to quote.

"Three hundred thousand gold galleons."

As soon as the price came out, the auction house was strangely silent for a while.

The reason for the silence is partly because the price suddenly increased by 50,000 yuan, and partly because sitting in this box is... a person whose name I cannot even mention.

"Three hundred thousand once."

"Three hundred thousand twice."

"Three hundred and three——"

Just as Auctioneer No. 1 was about to knock down his auction hammer, someone finally couldn't help but jump out.

"Three hundred and three thousand gold galleons."

Auctioneer No. 1's auction hammer almost stopped, just a few centimeters away from the key to eternal life belonging to Voldemort forever.

"Three hundred and three thousand gold galleons once."

"Three hundred and five thousand gold galleons."

The waiter in box number two continued to bid.

Someone opened the door, and other staff had no scruples and continued to call out prices.

"Three hundred and eight thousand gold galleons."

"Three hundred and eleven thousand gold galleons."

"Three hundred and twenty thousand gold galleons."

Voldemort in the second box forcefully crushed several cups, holding the wand in his hand. He stared coldly at the first box that jumped out to bid, wishing he could cast some death curses on the people inside now.

He ordered the waiter to continue to increase the price, paying no attention to Lucius, who was pale and on the verge of crying.

Lucius regrets that.

Why did he follow Voldemort, a moody master who liked to torture people and now wanted to empty his treasury?

Paying so many Galleons for Voldemort in vain, wouldn't it cost his life?

Not daring to accuse Voldemort of his behavior, Lucius could only look at the waiter who walked out to quote the price with heartache, squinting at Voldemort from time to time.

But he knew in his heart that Voldemort would not go back on his word.

Now, more than half of his treasury was about to be emptied. The family treasury that Malfoy had saved for decades was destroyed in his hands.

Lucius regretted it.

The price went higher and higher, and after approaching 400,000 yuan, there were only three bidders - Voldemort, the International Potions Association, and an unknown man in black robes.

The Potion Association has a rich stock of potions, and the auction house stipulates that potions can be used to pay Galleons, so there is no shortage of Galleons.

So they filmed it extremely arrogantly.

Three thousand, three thousand plus.

Voldemort took the family fortune calculated by Lucius and calculated whether he could continue to shoot. After confirming that he could continue to shoot, he called the waiter.

It was not his own Galleons, so he didn't feel bad about squandering them at all. Voldemort waved his hand and continued the auction, the same three thousand, three thousand Galleons.

After being devastated by the strong wind and rain, Lucius had a profound realization. He closed his eyes and recited various magic spells silently, pretending that he could not hear the bidding sound.

The last man in black among the three was particularly vigilant. He hid in the shadows and never showed his face from beginning to end.

He seemed to understand very well that the closer to the last moment, the more calm he had to hold his breath, and he took his time in calling out the starting price, adding one thousand, one thousand, and more.

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