Mastering Lightning from Hogwarts

Chapter 824: Voldemort: Why Am I So Unlucky?

The sudden turn of events caught Voldemort completely off guard. Before he could even figure out what was happening, he was once again being invaded by Anduin's Legilimency.

It wasn't that Voldemort didn't want to resist, but having just awakened from a Horcrux, he was not only suffering from confused memories but also in a state of extreme weakness. Just trying to mobilize his mental strength to resist would cause excruciating pain to his soul.

In this state, weaker than even being half-crippled, he couldn't even commit suicide again, and could only watch helplessly as Anduin's consciousness delved deep into his soul.

Anduin naturally had no reason to be polite with someone like Voldemort. As soon as his consciousness entered the other's mental world, he began to rampage, violently rummaging through the hidden memory fragments.

However, because Voldemort's method of suicide was inherently damaging to himself, his memories were much more fragmented than those of ordinary people.

In this situation, even Voldemort, a master of Legilimency, would have to expend a great deal of effort to sort out his memories, and would even need a long period of recuperation to recover.

Therefore, in this fragmented mental world, it was difficult for Anduin to immediately find the information he wanted.

And for the sake of his subsequent plans, he couldn't waste too much time slowly sorting through these memories, because staying in the mind world for too long could easily leave traces.

With Voldemort's skill in Occlumency, it wouldn't be easy to completely hide from him.

To this end, Anduin could only collect the information that he cared about most and that was most important.

That was the location of Voldemort's remaining Horcruxes!

Since this was the most important memory in Voldemort's mind, they were naturally stored in the deepest part of his mental space.

Therefore, Anduin didn't spend too much time finding them, but this memory, even for the arrogant Voldemort, had been given sufficiently strong mental protection.

Coincidentally, however, the protective magic Voldemort used was actually the 'Slytherin Mental Protection Art' that Anduin had obtained from the Tevras family.

Faced with familiar magic, Anduin naturally handled it with ease, and soon the secrets behind the protection were easily obtained by him.

The first Horcrux, Tom Riddle's diary, stored in the Malfoy Manor vault, this Horcrux has already been acquired by Anduin.

The second Horcrux, Marvolo Gaunt's ring, stored in the Gaunt shack, is the one he now holds in his hand.

The third Horcrux, Salazar Slytherin's locket, stored in a seaside cave that Voldemort discovered in his childhood.

The fourth Horcrux, Helga Hufflepuff's cup, Voldemort entrusted to his confidante Bellatrix Lestrange for safekeeping, and is now stored in the Gringotts vault.

The fifth Horcrux, Rowena Ravenclaw's diadem, is stored in the Room of Requirement in Hogwarts Castle.

In addition to these five existing Horcruxes, Anduin also learned from this memory that Voldemort initially planned to split his soul into seven pieces, meaning he was preparing to create six Horcruxes.

"It seems that Voldemort isn't unaware of the side effects of blindly creating Horcruxes, but making six Horcruxes is a bit too greedy." Anduin mocked inwardly as he browsed through this part of the memory.

"But this old guy's eye for choosing Horcruxes isn't bad, he actually chose all the relics of the Hogwarts founders, so he originally planned to make Gryffindor's sword the last Horcrux?"

"And these locations for storing the Horcruxes are also quite special, a cave hidden with dark magic, Gringotts, and even one in Hogwarts."

"But what is this 'Room of Requirement'?"

"Opposite the tapestry of Barnabas the Barmy being clubbed by trolls on the eighth floor of the castle, if the user concentrates on the space they need and walks past that section of wall three times, a very smooth door will appear on the wall?"

"There's such a strange place in Hogwarts? Interesting..."

Anduin contentedly withdrew his consciousness from the memory fragments, and then carefully restored the protective magic.

The information obtained from Voldemort was very useful, but now he didn't have time to quietly admire them, Anduin had to hurry up and 'clean up the scene'.

After repairing the protective magic, Anduin immediately let his mind float up, returning to the shallow layer of Voldemort's mind.

At this time, the Dark Lord had lost consciousness because of Anduin's rampage in his mind space.

Speaking of which, Voldemort was really unlucky, to fall into Anduin's hands. He always adhered to the principle of making the most of everything, and would never give up until he had completely squeezed out the remaining value of his opponents.

After returning to the shallow layer of his mind, Anduin immediately boldly gathered Voldemort's short-term memory fragments, and then destroyed all the memories from his second suicide until now.

At the same time, Anduin deliberately made the part of Voldemort's memory from the Quirrell period, when he met and became familiar with himself, more fragmented, and even eliminated some key memories during that period.

Finally, Anduin concentrated his attention, condensed a small, very subtle mental power, and attached it to an inconspicuous memory fragment.

After completing all this, Anduin slowly withdrew from Voldemort's mind space and dispelled the Ethereal Form.

"How is it? My lord?" Hogg asked with concern after discovering that Anduin had returned to normal.

"The information I needed has been obtained, and a positioning spell has been injected. Can you try to use the magic network backend to lock onto him?"

This series of refined operations was quite a burden on Anduin. He wiped the sweat from his forehead before ordering Hogg.

"Yes, my lord." Hogg straightened his body, knowing the importance of this matter, so without any delay, he immediately began operating the equipment on the experimental platform.

After a while, Hogg smiled with joy, "I can receive the location! Voldemort has been included in the magic network tracking system."

"Very good!" Anduin nodded with satisfaction. "Then we can start the bait plan."

Breathing a sigh of relief, Anduin immediately placed the ring in his hand on the operating table, and at the same time took out a small piece of LeMay alloy, creating something on the spot.

After a while, when Anduin finished, the Gaunt ring in front of him had been restored to its original appearance, including the rhomboid gemstone on the ring.

However, at this time, the rhomboid gemstone had been replaced by an artificial product from the Resurrection Stone.

Anduin repeatedly observed the ring, and after confirming that there were no omissions, he took it through the Arcs door and left Hogwarts, returning to the Gaunt shack and placing the ring back in the position where he had obtained it before.

After completing all this, Anduin also specially tidied up the old house, ensuring that it was no different from when he had last been there, and eliminating all traces, before returning to Hogwarts with peace of mind.

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A day later, Voldemort, who was lodged in the Gaunt ring, slowly woke up.

As he regained consciousness, he only felt that his soul was heavy, as if someone had stuck a stick in his brain and stirred it violently.

It took Voldemort several hours to recover from this dazed state, and when he used his perception to see the environment he was in, he couldn't help but be shocked.

"What's going on? Why have I revived in the ancestral ring? Isn't this my second Horcrux? Have I committed suicide twice?"

Voldemort was horrified, and then he couldn't wait to sink his consciousness into his mind. He couldn't remember what had happened before his resurrection, so he could only seek answers by checking his memories.

But after entering the mind palace, Voldemort found that his memories were more chaotic than he had imagined, as if someone had cast a Blasting Curse in his head.

"Has the situation become so serious? What exactly happened? Even my mind has been damaged to this extent. Damn it, who is it? Who is working against me?"

Faced with the ruin-like mind space, Voldemort fell into impotent rage. At this time, he didn't even know who the culprit who caused all this was.

However, after venting, he forced himself to calm down, and then, with exhaustion, began to check the recent memory fragments.

But because Anduin had severely damaged it before leaving the memory space, Voldemort's short-term memory had a lot of gaps, and the remaining memory fragments had become unusually scattered.

After Voldemort's patient sorting, he barely managed to figure out what had happened before.

It seemed that he had initially parasitized a wizard named Quirrell, and then followed him back to Hogwarts to steal the Sorcerer's Stone.

During this period, something seemed to have happened that led to the failure of his plan, and then he fell into the hands of an alchemist named Anduin. As for Quirrell and many things that happened during that period, he couldn't remember at all.

After being caught by Anduin, he committed suicide for some reason. As for why he committed suicide, he only found fragments of his emotions of humiliation and anger at the time.

After that, he followed his first Horcrux, transferred to the hands of a little witch, and entered Hogwarts again.

Then he was very unlucky to fall into Anduin's hands again. Why was he so unlucky?

Then Voldemort finally found the reason for his second suicide.

It seemed, perhaps, that Anduin was preparing to use Legilimency to attack his mind space, and he was forced to commit suicide again?

"So I've fallen to this point because of that Anduin? And my mind palace is so dilapidated because of the previous confrontation with Anduin?"

Voldemort gradually sorted out his thoughts, and then anger arose from his heart.

"Anduin! I swear I will never rest until you are dead!"

Voldemort roared loudly in his mental world, but soon he suddenly froze.

Because when he uttered this roar, his subconscious recalled that this didn't seem to be the first time he had shouted this.

Realizing this, Voldemort became even more annoyed. This anger continued to spread and magnify in the mental time, and in the end, he actually 'gagged' and fainted from anger.

After Voldemort woke up again, his heart was filled with a bleak emotion.

Voldemort really couldn't understand, where did this Anduin come from? Why was he working against him everywhere? He even caused him to lose a Horcrux.

You must know that every Horcrux represents a part of his soul, so losing each Horcrux will make him weaker.

At the same time, every time he commits suicide, his period of weakness will be longer, and such a price is unacceptable to him.

And as soon as he thought of Horcruxes, Voldemort suddenly thought of something, and quickly sank his consciousness into the deepest part of his mind space.

When he confirmed that the mental protection that kept his biggest secret still existed, he breathed a long sigh of relief.

"Fortunately, at least so far, I've only lost one Horcrux, but the location where I am now is the Gaunt shack. This place is still too dangerous. Who knows if that Anduin will follow the clues to find this place."

"No! I must leave this place and recover my strength as soon as possible." Voldemort pondered for a while, and finally made up his mind, "Acting alone is too inefficient. It seems that I have to risk seeking help from the Death Eaters."

Seeking help from someone was, in Voldemort's view, an extremely risky act.

Because he didn't want to trust anyone from the bottom of his heart. After all, his situation was too weak. It was hard to guarantee whether those former subordinates would have ulterior motives.

Moreover, showing his weakness in front of his followers would in itself reduce his prestige.

So Voldemort had never considered doing this before.

But the situation was different now. He had committed suicide twice in a row, and now he was almost exhausted. If he continued to recover by absorbing the life force of small animals as before, wouldn't he have to wait until the year of the monkey?

"The most loyal to me among the Death Eaters is undoubtedly Bella, but in my memory, the Lestrange family seems to have been wiped out by the Ministry of Magic. She is probably still suffering in Azkaban at this time."

"So who else can I rely on?"

"Lucius? No! My diary would inexplicably leave Malfoy Manor. It must be related to him. This guy is not trustworthy."

"Antonin Dolohov or Barty Crouch Jr.? They should also have fallen into the hands of the Ministry of Magic. Snape? Is that guy still loyal to me now?"

Pondering his former subordinates, Voldemort suddenly realized that he didn't seem to have anyone available. Those who could ensure loyalty were all in prison, and he couldn't trust the rest at all.

After struggling for a long time in distress, Voldemort suddenly had a flash of inspiration, "That's right, there's him! Although that guy lacks loyalty, he's timid as a mouse, and he probably wouldn't dare to resist my will."

Thinking of this, Voldemort made up his mind. He didn't have any chance to hesitate now.

Immediately afterwards, Voldemort mobilized his remaining, newly absorbed magic power and spread his consciousness out.

Soon, with good luck, he found a rat rummaging through boxes and cabinets in the old house. Without much effort, Voldemort controlled the little rat, causing it to dig out the ring that housed his soul and carry the ring into the distance!