Chapter 403: One Week Passed

Shaylin spent the first week after the holiday at Malfoy Manor.

During this period, except for a trip to Green Manor, he devoted the rest of his time to studying magic.

Sharf and Latifa moved into the "Ella Cottage" left to Schelling by his grandmother, and handed the Scamander suitcase to them. After all, there were many magical animals and plants in it. Even though Schelling had built a complete ecosystem inside, it still needed someone to check it regularly to avoid any accidents.

Not to mention, in the suitcase space, there is also Schelling's private laboratory, which is full of terrible dark creatures. If one is not careful and lets them escape, it will cause serious consequences.

Ella's hut is Sherin's safe house outside the school. It is under a Fidelius spell, and Sherin is the only keeper of the secret. Its safety is beyond doubt.

There was also information coming from Yaxley.

Yaxley used his position in the Ministry of Magic to win over his followers and eliminate dissidents. Of course, Yaxley was aware of Sherin's plan for the Ministry of Magic. He cleverly avoided Amelia's Law Enforcement Department, Scrimgeour's Auror Office, Madam Vankanda's Improper Use of Magic Office, and the International Cooperation Department that was originally assigned to Crouch. Instead, he focused on the Department for Control of Magical Creatures, the Department of Magical Accidents and Catastrophes, and the Department of Magical Transportation.

It is said that he has successfully won over Pius Thicknesse, who works in the Department of Magical Transportation, who happens to be a member of the Wizengamot. In addition to adding a seat for Schelling to control the Wizengamot, it also represents the first time that Schelling's power has infiltrated the Department of Magical Transportation.

[Obtained by "Ally" Pius Thicknesse! ]

Information also came from Claude Foley and Squire Slahorn.

Since the loss of their direct descendants, the strength of the two major families, the Foley family and the Slahorn family, has been seriously questioned. The various branch families that had been eyeing the position of the main family have begun to secretly form forces loyal to themselves, intending to compete for the position of the main family. It seems that it is only a matter of time before the entire family falls into infighting.

Soon, the first week of summer vacation passed and it was July 7th.

When Xie Lin came out of the dormitory, he exuded a stronger power than before. After studying and researching so hard that he almost didn't sleep, Xie Lin once again mastered the secrets of the two unique skills, "Demon Swallowing Vortex" and "Immortal Incarnation".

[Learn the Avalon School's exclusive secret technique - "Demon Swallowing Vortex"! ]

[The Yaxley family's secret secret - "Immortal Incarnation" has been learned! ]

The Lestrange family magic supplement allowed him to further improve his sensory and torture magic - what surprised him most was that when he cast the Cruciatus Curse, he no longer needed strong evil thoughts, and the same was true when he cast other black magic.

This proved his guess.

Aslan had hinted before that the power of the Heart of Courage was not only to allow Schelling to master the secret of "Fighting Will to the Sky", it could also strengthen Schelling's personality, prevent black magic from corroding his mind, and increase his resistance to defensive spells. In short, from now on, Schelling would no longer have to worry about his soul being polluted when learning and performing black magic, and many powerful black magics could also become Schelling's trump card against his enemies.

This is too scary. You know, Sherin inherited a lot of dark magic books from the Malfoy family, the Black family, the Ravenclaw Chamber, the Ella Cottage, the Avery family, the Selwyn family, and the Yaxley family. It's not that Sherin doesn't know the many horrible forbidden magic moves recorded in them, but he is unwilling to take the initiative to learn and perform them. This is purely to avoid being attacked by the mysterious power.

From this moment on, he will no longer have any concerns in this regard, which will mean that Xie Ling's strength will be raised to a new level.

Now, it's time to implement your summer vacation plan.

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The villagers of Little Hangleton still called the house "Riddle House," even though the Riddles had not lived there for many years. The house stood on a hillside overlooking the village. The windows were boarded up, the tiles on the roof were broken, and the creeper had spread its claws all over the house. Riddle House had once been a beautiful house, the largest and most impressive building for miles around, but now it had become damp, desolate, and uninhabited.

Today, the house welcomed a little guest who had light blond hair and held a strange stick in his hand.

Xie Ling was walking on the wide road, and several curious villagers asked him where he was going. You know, any stranger in such a small village would make people curious. When Xie Ling told them his destination, the faces of the villagers who asked him changed. Obviously, in their impression, the house had a gloomy and scary feeling.

The murder case fifty years ago was enough to leave a deep impression on these little villagers, not to mention that not long ago, the guard of Riddle House, Frank, was also killed. After persuading them to no avail, the villagers shook their heads and left helplessly, puzzled by the boy's behavior, because no one wanted to get close to this gradually desolate house.

After Schelling entered Riddle House, he searched it carefully and made sure that Voldemort had not left any traces here.

When Voldemort and Peter Pettigrew secretly returned to Great Britain from Albania, they used this place as their base camp. It was also here that Voldemort planned to rescue Barty Jr., kidnap Moody Sr., and capture Harry Potter in the Triwizard Tournament.

I didn't expect them to be so careful and leave nothing behind.

However, Schelling had once placed a peephole here to monitor Voldemort's actions, and now it was just the right time to take it back. Anyway, Voldemort would never come back here again.

After leaving Riddle House, Schelling strode towards Great Hangleton.

There was nothing to see around him but tall hedges on either side, and he turned right down the path and came to a gap in the hedge.

It was a long, narrow dirt track, with hedges taller and thicker than those they had passed, and it was winding, bumpy, and rocky, and like the previous path it seemed to lead down steeply to a small dark wood below.

Overhead, the old trees cast dark, cool, dense shadows, and Schelling saw a house half hidden among the tangled roots of the trees, which blocked out all light and the valley below. The walls were covered with moss, and many of the tiles on the roof had fallen off, revealing the rafters here and there. Around the house grew dense nettles, so tall that they reached up to the windows, which were very small and thick with old dirt.

As for the door, there was a dead snake nailed to it.

This is the Gaunt ancestral home.