Chapter 97 The Dark Lord returns?

"Mr. Dracula...is he in this room?" Lucius looked at the waiter next to him with wide eyes and asked in a low voice.

"Mr. Dracula is in this cubicle, Mr. Malfoy." The waiter smiled.

Lucius swallowed, raised his hand several times to try to knock on the door, and then put his hand down again. He still couldn't believe that this door would really be opened one day, and that he would actually have the opportunity to step into it...

"Come in, Lucius."

At this time, Dracula's unique mellow voice came from the door, and the door to the dazzlingly luxurious room opened.

Lucius breathed a sigh of relief, opened the door, and walked into the compartment quietly.

Although as the current head of the Malfoy family, Lucius thought he had seen many big scenes, but when he entered this compartment, he still took a breath and couldn't help but look around a few times.

"Tell me, is there something important you asked me to meet with?"

Dracula took a sip of the golden-red wine contained in the crystal cup and smiled with satisfaction.

However, Lucius was still in shock at this time, and it was as if he was deaf and did not hear Dracula's words.

He hesitated for a long time, and finally couldn't help being curious and asked: "Mr. Dracula, why are you here?"

"Huh?" Dracula put down his wine glass and turned to look at Lucius, "Mr. Malfoy, if my memory is correct...didn't you stay after the school board meeting and hide it from others?" Did the school director invite me to meet at Bai Feilong Bar?"

"No, no, no, I mean, why are you in this compartment?" Lucius said quickly, "I heard that this door has never been opened in more than a hundred years..."

"Because this compartment was originally reserved for me." Dracula picked up the wine glass again and leaned comfortably on the soft cushions. "Do you have any questions?"

At this time, Lucius was calm on the surface, but there was already a huge wave in his heart.

As far as he knew, this luxurious compartment had a history of at least a hundred years. If the reason for not opening the door for more than a hundred years was really because of the Dracula in front of him, then this person would never look more than thirty years old. man, how old is he?

Thinking of this, Lucius completely lowered his mentality, lowered his head and replied:

"No more questions, Mr. Dracula."

"In that case, it's time to tell me what's important." Dracula refilled a glass of wine for himself, without any intention of giving Lucius a drink as well. "What's the matter? Can we just say it at the school board meeting?”

Lucius carefully placed his cane by his side, looked around and found that the compartment was quite tightly sealed, and then lowered his voice and said:

"Mr. Dracula, the Dark Lord is back!"

Dracula paused with the wine glass raised to his lips, then he chuckled and put the glass down.

"How could you think of telling me such a secret piece of news?" he laughed.

"You don't look surprised at all?" Lucius looked stunned. He had expected Dracula to be at least a little surprised.

"I have known this news for a long time." Dracula looked at the faintly exposed Dark Mark on Lucius's left arm and said casually, "Fenrir Greyback, a fellow Death Eater, you should know Is this a werewolf?"

"He was a werewolf who surrendered to the Dark Lord during the last Wizarding War." Lucius's identity was exposed by Dracula, and his expression was a little unnatural, "But he is not a Death Eater at all, just a black man. It's just a tool used by the devil. Has this idiot already revealed the news?"

Lucius felt a little depressed. If Dracula already knew the news about the Dark Lord's return, the value of the information he would provide would be greatly reduced.

"No, he didn't tell the news." Dracula said, "The werewolf got the Inferi made by Voldemort and was sent to cause trouble for me. But now that he has been captured, I can easily I found this news from his memory.”

"But the information Fenrir received must not be comprehensive enough." Lucius gritted his teeth and said further, "He was sent out by the Dark Lord to perform a mission a few months ago, and the latest information must not exist. in his memory.”

It turns out that Lucius really wanted to be a fence-sitter like before, jumping completely off the wall to whichever side's situation was better.

But after arriving at the Bai Feilong Bar today, he saw that the proud proprietress had reserved a luxurious compartment for Dracula for hundreds of years. This incident really shocked Lucius.

So he believed that Dracula deserved more information from him.

"Well... it's normal that the information about werewolves is not comprehensive enough." Dracula nodded and looked into Lucius's gray eyes with deep eyes, "But those are not important. What I am more curious about is... why are you Do you want to tell me information about Voldemort?"

"Is it because you got tired of being a Death Eater, did something wrong, and fell out of favor in front of Voldemort? Or is it because you, the Malfoy family, are used to being mere wallflowers and want to find more backup escape routes?"

Lucius's forehead was dripping with cold sweat.

"Mr. Dracula, I don't mean to be a faggot..." He said with force, "It's just that I did something wrong and I can't survive in the Dark Lord's team. In order to guard against inspection by the Ministry of Magic, I , took action on a very important black magic equipment of the Dark Lord."

"The Dark Lord is extremely dissatisfied with me, and it seems that he may kill me at any time. And in my impression, I can only imagine that you have the ability to fight against Voldemort. So I immediately came to join you."

"An extremely important dark magic device?"

Dracula was originally not interested in Lucius's defense, but when he heard this sentence, he instantly became interested.

If the dark magic equipment Lucius took action was really something that Voldemort valued very much, it might be another of his Horcruxes!

After learning about Regulus's theft of the Horcrux, Dracula had already seen that Voldemort did not seem to attach as much importance to the secret of his immortality as most people imagined.

Otherwise, the Horcrux would never leave his body, or he should hide it alone in a place where no one could find it.

However, Slytherin's locket was discovered by a house elf, thus indirectly letting Regulus, his subordinate, also know the location of the Horcrux.

Although there was a reason for Voldemort's overconfidence, there was still a reason why he did not pay the highest attention to it.

So Dracula guessed that Voldemort definitely made more than one Horcrux!

From this point of view, if Lucius lost a Horcrux and was not killed by Voldemort, it can generally be proved that Voldemort had more than one Horcrux.

"What kind of black magic device did you take?" Dracula asked Lucius with great interest.

"Um..." Lucius froze on the spot, "Is this important? The main reason is that I had quite a lot of dark magic supplies at home during the raid by the Ministry of Magic. There were too many items for sale at that time. I can’t even remember the specific ones…”

"And the Dark Lord...he didn't ask me what I lost at all, as if he already knew..."

"Okay, I understand." Dracula nodded, "When we meet next time, please count up the black magic supplies you sold. It's best to make a list and give it to me."

"But... it's been half a year since this happened, and I've almost forgotten all those things..." Lucius looked a little bitter.

"Some things are not forgotten at all, but are deeply pressed into your mind." Dracula looked quite malicious. "Make a choice. I will personally use Legilimency to help you." Digging out the memory, or do you think carefully and make a list for me?"

"To tell you the truth, Mr. Dracula, I seem to suddenly remember what I did at that time!" Lucius changed his expression instantly and said righteously, "For your cause, even if I rack my brains, I I also need to search out those black magic supplies for you!"

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"Hey, there's no need to pretend in front of me." Dracula sneered, "Well, as compensation for providing this information, you can just be your wallflower."

"Mr. Dracula, you don't need to test me like this." Lucius stood up suddenly, stabbed the ground heavily with his cane, and continued to speak righteously, "How can I, Lucius Malfoy, be that kind of leader?" Where are the two-pronged and treacherous people? The Dark Lord and I are sworn in!"

"Okay, Lucius." Looking at Lucius's exaggerated expression, Dracula raised his lips, "In that case, help me assassinate Voldemort. The magical world will remember your righteous behavior."

Lucius' expression froze on his face.

"You...you are really good at joking, Mr. Dracula." He sat back on the sofa awkwardly.

"Okay, don't play nonsense with me." Dracula sat upright, resting his elbows on the luxurious table, crossing his hands to support his chin, staring straight into Lucius's eyes, "Lucius Si, what I need is just a wallflower."

"You continue to follow Voldemort. You just need to tell me a few words about the situation there every time the school board meeting is held. This shouldn't be difficult for you, right?"

For Dracula, a surrendered Lucius Malfoy was of no use to him——

He neither lacks such a weak fighting force, nor lacks the wealth of the Malfoy family, which they consider to be very wealthy. He just lacked an insider who could regularly report to him Voldemort's movements.

A young man riding on the wall just met his needs.

Lucius was also ecstatic at this time. He thought he would choose a side today, but who knew that Dracula would allow him to continue to be such a wallflower that no one looked down upon!

"There is such a good thing..." Lucius blurted out, and then he realized something was wrong and quickly changed his words, "...Ah no, I mean, I am happy to serve you, Mr. Dracula."

After receiving Dracula's promise, Lucius carefully recounted what happened to various Death Eaters recently——

It turned out that one day at the beginning of the summer vacation for the students at Hogwarts, all the Death Eaters with the Dark Mark tattooed on their left arms felt strangeness coming from their arms.

They all quietly found a place where no one else was, and secretly looked at the mark on their arm - the originally pale red Dark Mark gradually turned scarlet, and as time went by, the scarlet color gradually changed to a burnt black color.

Seeing such a situation, some people feel flustered and frightened, some feel confused and at a loss, and some feel ecstatic.

But all former Death Eaters know one thing -

The Dark Lord is back!

Due to the terrifying deterrent power of the Dark Lord, no matter what mentality they were in regarding the return of the Dark Lord, all the Death Eaters still active in the British wizarding world disapparated and rushed to Little Hangleton and Riddle where Voldemort was. Family cemetery.

Among them are Alecto Carrow, Amycus Carrow, Antonin Dolohov, August Lukewood and many others who escaped during the Wizarding War more than ten years ago. The wizards imprisoned in Zikaban, Severus Snape and Lucius Malfoy are among them!

Voldemort successfully frightened everyone with the body he created using the bones of old Tom Riddle. In other words, even if he only had an incomplete body, he was more powerful than all Death Eaters!

Facing the army of Death Eaters who were still quite large after more than ten years apart, Voldemort expressed to them that he was very pleased, whether they were sincere or not.

As for why he was eager to show up before he had regained his full strength, it was actually because he was worried that the former Death Eaters would be gradually divided and cannibalized by Dumbledore and Dracula.

In fact, Voldemort was never worried about the most powerful wizard Dumbledore, but the Count Dracula of the vampire family!

Voldemort knew that Dracula did not have a strong enough moral bottom line like Dumbledore. If he wanted to weaken the Death Eaters wholeheartedly, he would probably use any means to force, threaten, or even kill the Death Eaters. Vigorous.

This will have a great impact on Voldemort, who has not appeared for more than ten years.

So Voldemort appeared, summoned his Death Eaters, and told them personally - "I am immortal, no one can kill me, and none of you can even think of escaping from my control!"

At the same time, he once again reiterated his philosophy of pure blood supremacy, allowing these wizards who want their families to gain more benefits to see from his words the future of pure blood they want!

Voldemort's words of cruelty and pie-in-the-sky were also extremely effective. Many wavering wizards gave up their thoughts of turning to the Ministry of Magic or Dumbledore, and instead returned to the arms of the Death Eaters.

After all, they all thought that Dumbledore was old, but Voldemort was immortal!

Lucius originally wanted to regain his once glorious status as a Death Eater and seize the benefits of pure-blood society for the Malfoy family.

It wasn't until Voldemort praised Snape's contribution to Hogwarts as an undercover agent that he severely reprimanded him for losing his important things - Lucius even received a painful punch on the first day Voldemort announced his return. The Cruciatus Curse of Bone Marrow.

For this reason, Lucius changed.

He knew that he had fallen out of favor in the Death Eater camp, and there would be no future for him if he continued.

However, in Lucius's heart, Dumbledore, the only one who could fight against Voldemort, would not make dirty deals with him.

Then he thought of Dracula.

After witnessing Dracula's actions at that school board meeting, and hearing his son Draco's praise of the professor, Lucius realized with a sudden glance that Dracula's strength was definitely not weak!

In his opinion, even if Dracula loses to great wizards like Voldemort and Dumbledore, he will not be far behind them. Most importantly, the Defense Against the Dark Arts professor has a more flexible moral bottom line, which is very suitable for his cooperation needs.

So he used the school board meeting before the start of school to invite Dracula to the White Dragon Bar in Knockturn Alley, hoping to discuss cooperation matters in such a confidential place.

When Lucius came to the White Dragon Bar and saw Dracula sitting in the cubicle that had been closed for a hundred years, he thought of the parchment in Dracula's hand that could expel members of the school board——

Lucius suddenly realized that Dracula's identity might be much more complicated and profound than he imagined!

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"Interesting." After listening to Lucius's story, Dracula raised his lips with interest, "I'm thinking that when Voldemort summons you with the Dark Mark next time... I will directly follow you and apparate there. , how about disposing of his new body?"

Lucius was shocked.

"Mr. Dracula, please don't!" He quickly dissuaded him. "Even if you can defeat the Dark Lord, as long as you don't kill him completely, he will doubt me the next time he comes back!"

"I hope you will spare my life for the sake of me providing you with information..."

"Okay, it seems that I can't bully him for a while." Dracula curled his lips and said a little boringly, "You can go, remember to send me the list of the black magic equipment you took. .”

"Definitely!" Lucius wiped the cold sweat from his head and hurriedly left the luxurious compartment.

Talking to a person who always talks about "bullying the Dark Lord" is really a bit stressful...

After Lucius left, Dracula gave himself another glass of red wine, but he suddenly lost interest in drinking.

"School is about to start. Why haven't I found a tool... um... a teaching assistant..." Dracula collapsed on the soft sofa and looked out the window with some worry.

Through the crystal window, he looked at the shabby-looking wizards and various dark creatures on the narrow streets of Knockturn Alley.

"Huh?" Dracula suddenly said softly.

He saw a thin figure wearing round glasses.

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