#102 - Section 102

Green fireworks exploded again.

"Why bother with these futile efforts? Come down, let's talk, shall we?"

Once trapped inside, as long as Ethan is inside, this space exists. There's no way out. Apparition can only run around inside, not escape.

Little Tom looked at Ethan coldly, a wisp of orange flame emerging from the tip of his wand.

"I told you, but you wouldn't listen. You had to learn the hard way!"

"Mjolnir!"

Accompanied by a thunderous roar, a hammer flashing with endless lightning suddenly appeared above Little Tom's head, smashing down fiercely!

This sudden change forced Little Tom to abandon using Fiendfyre to break through the unknown magic that trapped him.

"Protego!"

Crack!

The moment they made contact, the blue barrier was shattered.

At the crucial moment, Little Tom transformed into a puff of black smoke. But he still couldn't escape being slammed to the ground by the thunder hammer.

Since you know this variant of the Levitation Charm, why didn't you use it earlier?

Wouldn't that be faster?

"Did you want to kill Ron?"

Lifting his head, Little Tom, lying on the ground, covered in electric sparks and showing signs of charring, stubbornly looked at Ethan.

That attack just now was definitely meant to kill, Little Tom was sure of that.

If he hadn't used this unfinished spell, transforming himself into smoke to disperse a lot of the damage, he would have been smashed to death, or at least fallen to his death, leaving only his soul to float out.

"What do you think?"

Ethan didn't answer directly, but instead approached Little Tom step by step.

He only used thirty percent of his strength just now!

If he had killed him, it would have been Ron's bad luck. Who told him to be floating in the sky? Ethan couldn't handle it well either way, and it would cause some damage no matter what, so it's better to be straightforward.

Facing Ethan's relentless approach, Little Tom's expression changed constantly. It seemed that Ron, this tool, had reached the end of his usefulness.

Immediately, a slightly transparent soul body separated from Ron's body, turning into a puff of black smoke while carrying the diary and running outside.

Ethan ignored the fleeing Little Tom, anyway, he couldn't escape.

Coming to Ron's side, he felt somewhat charred from the electricity, and his aura was quite weak. He had already taken a heavy blow, and then Little Tom, who had left his body, fiercely sucked away a large wave of his life force. It was really lucky that he hadn't died.

Ethan slapped him twice, and after confirming that he really couldn't wake up, he stood up satisfied.

"Gungnir!"

The lightning spear condensed in Ethan's hand, instantly turning into a bolt of lightning and disappearing.

"Ah!"

A shrill scream came from the distance.

If Ethan couldn't see the target outside, and couldn't sense the other party's magic, Gungnir naturally wouldn't hit anyone.

But inside Nibelungen, everyone's location was within Ethan's perception. As long as the magic flew far enough, Ethan could hit any target.

Unfortunately, Ethan's refinement of it wasn't enough. Otherwise, with just a thought, Ethan could appear anywhere in Nibelungen.

Arriving at the location where the scream came from, Little Tom was lying on the ground, his figure even more transparent than before, as if he would dissipate at any moment.

"You wouldn't be Dumbledore transformed by Polyjuice Potion, would you?"

With no hope of escape, Little Tom just wanted to figure this out.

From the moment they met, the magic Ethan used was not something a second-year wizard could use. There couldn't be anyone more talented than himself in this world. This was definitely the old guy Dumbledore pretending, he was just messing with him.

Losing to Dumbledore wasn't shameful.

"You think too much, but unfortunately, you're wrong!"

Saying that, Ethan directly took the diary from Little Tom's arms.

This was Little Tom's main body. Even if he had possessed Ron just now, the main body was still the diary.

Even if this Little Tom outside died, it didn't matter. As long as the diary was still there, absorbing enough life force and magic, he could still reassemble this appearance.

This was also the reason why Ethan could use Gungnir without any scruples. As long as the diary wasn't hit, even if he was headshot, it wouldn't cause much damage to the Horcrux.

Using the Banishing Charm, Ethan began to pull the soul branded inside outwards.

"What are you doing?"

Little Tom looked at Ethan's actions with a painful expression, but at this moment, he had completely lost the ability to resist and could only watch Ethan like this.

"Separating you from the diary, and then taking you in as a dog, do you have any objections?"

Ethan glanced at Little Tom and continued the movements in his hand.

"Rather than have me be a dog, you might as well destroy me."

Little Tom, with a ferocious expression, looked at Ethan venomously.

He was a direct descendant of Slytherin, the second generation Dark Lord. How could he be driven to be someone's dog? He would never be a dog, even if he died.

After glancing at Little Tom, Ethan increased the pulling magic. Suddenly, something similar to the soul fragment in Ravenclaw's diadem was pulled out by Ethan.

Equally ugly.

"Tom Marvolo Riddle, is this your true face!"

"No, this isn't me!"

Little Tom, who was somewhat illusory on the ground, was somewhat broken after looking at the ugly thing floating in the sky.

The Little Tom now possessed the thoughts of his student days, not the Voldemort who didn't care about appearance in his later years.

Ethan didn't listen to his nonsense, and immediately used the Banishing Charm to forcibly merge the two together, no matter how much Little Tom resisted, it was useless.

"Can we talk now?"

Ethan looked at this ugly thing. After merging with Little Tom, his intelligence returned.

The two were originally one, but after consciousness was born, Little Tom's image was a combination of some soul, magic, and life force. Now Ethan was just letting him return.

"Even if you use the lightning just now to scatter me, I won't be your dog."

"Is that so? That's not up to you."

Ethan disgustedly pressed his hand on Little Tom's bald head, a gray magic power emerged from Ethan's arm and began to wrap around in a clockwise direction, all the way from Ethan's arm to Little Tom's feet.

The ritual was complete. Now, as long as Ethan moved his mind to activate the magic, he could shatter Little Tom's soul into pieces, and also use magic to scorch his soul, causing him unbearable pain.

"You should know what the contract we just made represents."

"Two choices. First, become my dog, and I'll help you resurrect, get rid of this ugly appearance, possess your own body, and completely separate from the main soul."

"Second, if you don't want to be a dog, then eat dog shit. You know I can control spiritual bodies. I'll give you a little life force to maintain a semi-corporeal form and have you search the streets for dog shit to eat. After eating the dog shit, you'll endure the pain of soul scorching."

"Choose for yourself, be a dog or eat dog shit?"

After saying that, Ethan coldly looked at Little Tom. I, Ethan, am still very humane, aren't I? I've given you a choice, haven't I?

"Be a dog!"

"Louder, what did you say?"

"Be a dog, I'll be your dog!"

Little Tom shouted out loud, somewhat broken down. Who exactly is the Dark Lord?

Even himself, at most, would only grant the other party death. He never had evil thoughts like Ethan.

But unfortunately, the current him can't even achieve death.

"Remember, you're going to be my dog. Being a dog requires the awareness of being a dog."

Ethan looked at Tom, who was curled up on the ground, wishing he could die, and said indifferently.

He wants to die now, but once he truly comes back to life, Ethan believes he won't want to die again.

As for whether he hates him or not, that doesn't matter. With the soul contract, he can control his life and death.

Moreover, his strength is stronger than his, so he can only obediently do things below. Can he rebel?

"Got it!"

Little Tom shouted with all his might, afraid that Ethan would say he couldn't hear him.

"I don't know if this will be useful to you?"

As he spoke, Ethan took out a silver goblet from his pocket, the container that sealed the soul fragment in Ravenclaw's diadem.

He opened it, releasing a strange thing just like Little Tom.

Both were soul fragments, both were split from Voldemort. If they met, and one of them developed spirituality, it was unknown whether it could devour and merge.

Ethan had read many novels where people transmigrated to the world of cultivation and, after developing intelligence first, devoured their twin brothers.

"I can devour him to strengthen my soul, and I can also obtain his memories, which will benefit me."

Little Tom was the first Horcrux created, which led to his memories only staying in his school days. He knew nothing about what happened later, let alone magic and experience. Some of what he knows now was told to him by Ron.

"Alright, then I'll leave it to you."

Originally, he planned to keep it to trade with Dumbledore or Voldemort, but increasing Little Tom's strength was also good. This was the second Horcrux, made a few years after graduation, so it could be considered somewhat useful.

In reality, there weren't many things on the two of them that were worth Ethan's attention. In Dumbledore's case, only the phoenix and Gryffindor's sword were eye-catching, but would Dumbledore use them for a trade?

He saw Little Tom suddenly suck a thing as ugly as himself into his stomach, and his entire body swelled up several times.

Now Voldemort's Horcruxes were directly reduced by one.

"You stay inside for now. When the time is right, I will resurrect you."

As he spoke, Ethan also controlled him, put him back into the silver goblet, and sealed him up, because he still had to face Dumbledore later.

Picking up the diary, after the extremely ugly, infant-like soul that had been the core of the Horcrux was pulled out, the two no longer had any connection.

A wisp of Fiendfyre ignited from Ethan's fingertips, directly burning in the middle of the diary. In a moment, it pierced through it, and the fire continued to expand until only a third of it remained, then Ethan extinguished it.

The soul fragment had just left, still carrying a bit of evil, decaying smell. It was good to hand this thing over to Dumbledore.

Anyway, when Little Tom is resurrected, he will lose the function of the Horcrux and exist as a separate, living person.

This is the same as destroying a Horcrux.

Chapter 134: Hogwarts Special Contribution Award

Pulling Ron with one hand and holding the diary that had been burned to almost nothing with the other, Ethan procrastinated for a while before dispelling Nibelungen.

Taking a look at the quiet Gryffindor tower in front, Ethan once again summoned a crow with magic, directly carrying Ethan and Ron, and flew in from the gap that Little Tom blasted out.

At this moment, Harry's dormitory and the corridor outside were empty. Ethan could only put Ron on the floor.

For a time, he didn't know where the professors had moved the people to. He could only take out the wizard mailbox to send messages to Fred and George, but he didn't know if they had time to look at it.

However, looking at Ron, who was already dying, the only thing Ethan could do was to cast a healing spell on him, but the effect wasn't obvious, as it was for external injuries.

Ron was hit by Mjolnir and fell from a high altitude. Although Little Tom's magic had protected him a little, it was clear that his bones and internal organs were injured, and a wave of life force was absorbed.

Ethan could only barely improve his condition.

The real treatment still required potions, but Ethan didn't have the habit of carrying healing potions with him.

Before long, a faint blue light flickered on the cover of the wizard mailbox that Ethan had placed at hand. This meant that someone had sent him a message.

Ethan looked at it and saw that it was Hermione who had sent it, asking how he was now, where he was, and that Dumbledore and Professor Snape had gone out to find him, as well as their current situation.

One message after another.

Ethan also patiently read them all, saying they were going to find him, but he hadn't encountered Snape and Dumbledore!

It seemed that they couldn't find him after Nibelungen was activated. In that case, Dumbledore and Snape had most likely run to the Forbidden Forest.

Hermione knew this news, so Fred and George must have told her.

For these questions, Ethan also replied one by one, and told them that Ron's condition was not very good.