Voldemort: Yesterday's Reappearance

Voldemort: Yesterday's Reappearance

Basil wasn't merely watching everyone else receive packages and letters, secretly feeling sour about it.

In fact, he was also quietly doing something else.

It was something he did every morning.

His left hand was loosely clenched as the Magic Field slowly rotated with the faint help of the emerging Dragon Knight.

In fact, Basil had discovered that after the magic attribute in his personal status panel had transformed into attack power, his spiritual power also slowly seeped into the semi-material Magic Field while it rotated.

In Professor Flitwick's words from Charms, in this state, his field could resist spells infused with spiritual power.

In other words, advanced spells.

The attack power represented by [Basic Attack], his unique ability in this world, also possessed the characteristics of an advanced spell.

If they had no time to cast a defensive spell and could only dodge through various means, ordinary wizards could only use around 10 HP to withstand it head-on.

And with the Grimoire's enhancement, his attack power was currently 16.

For Basil, [Basic Attack] only required a wave of his wand.

As long as his arm didn't get sore, he could keep it up indefinitely.

"Basil, your package." Hermione's words made Basil, who had been immersed in training, raise his head.

Sure enough, a dusty gray owl was flying toward him.

Judging by its shape, the package tied to its leg was a square box.

The instant his hand touched the box—

Ding-dong! Congratulations, player, you have obtained 10,000 gems!

Ten thousand? When did the plot change again?

That's nearly thirty thousand already!

Basil forced himself to remain calm.

In front of Hermione, Harry, and the others, who had gathered around, he opened it.

It was a silvery-white book.

He examined it carefully. The cover was woven from silvery-white unicorn tail hair, radiating a holy Magic Field.

The contents inside were blank.

There was a note tucked inside, written in thin, looping handwriting:

Your father left this with me before he died. It should now be returned to you. Use it well.

"You have unicorn tail hair too?"

"And you made it into a cover?"

"That's really extravagant."

"Do you really still need to sell Gillyweed pus through us?"

Fred and George walked over and inspected the book in Basil's hands from top to bottom.

"It's his dad's keepsake!" Ron leaned close to his brothers and whispered, "Also, why didn't you include me when you found a way to make money? I'm your brother!"

Ron and the twins broke into an intense whispered discussion.

Hermione, meanwhile, looked at Basil with concern.

As if he were some precious, fragile object.

Basil gave a hearty laugh. "I'm not that fragile."

Besides, this might not necessarily be his father's keepsake.

While his Magic Field had still been rotating just now, he had clearly sensed an extremely concealed, cold, evil field beneath that holy field.

He knew this field well. It was just like the one hidden beneath the wise, wind-like field of Ravenclaw's Diadem.

And the 10,000 gems meant it was definitely a key plot item.

There was no doubt about it.

This was a Horcrux, and Voldemort's Horcrux at that.

Judging from the fact that the world's deviation was being attributed to him—

The only thing that could be connected to it was his killing of Fenrir.

Basil had no time to thank Fenrir before immediately thinking the matter through.

Lucius Malfoy had set his sights on him again?

Why?

The Malfoy family's sealed shops that Ron had mentioned, their lost board seat, and Draco Malfoy's recent difficulties all connected in his mind.

To retaliate against Dumbledore, demonstrate the Malfoys' strength, get rid of a Dark Magic item, and vent his anger on Basil in the process.

That owl was probably disposable.

The looping handwriting was probably an imitation of Dumbledore's as well.

The cover was likely something Lucius Malfoy had added to ensure it could be delivered smoothly into Hogwarts.

Thinking this, he hurriedly opened the first page, but there was no T. M. Riddle written on it.

That's impossible, isn't it?

The twins' older sister had a movie collectible that was supposedly a one-to-one replica in her bedroom.

She loved it. She would make him wear Slytherin robes and call him Lord Riddle.

He knew this book as well as he knew which part of her body had a mole.

Was it different in the novel?

Or was the power of the unicorn tail hair covering suppressing it?

"And you said you were fine." Hermione looked at Basil's furrowed brow with heartache.

Basil took Hermione's right hand.

After sacrificing a little of his looks, Hermione finally quieted down.

Basil could finally do what he needed to do.

He blinked.

Crack!

Photo of Horcrux: The Diary has been obtained. Spend 3,000 gems to create a Summoning Card?

As expected, since its original form is just an ordinary Diary, it isn't as expensive as the Diadem!

The Diadem cost 10,000!

"Yes!"

Gems: 29538.289 (-3000)

Horcrux: The Diary

Magic Consumption: 7

Summons a Diary sealed by a unicorn-hair cover. Infuse 100 HP to summon Voldemort: Yesterday's Reappearance. Ignores damage below 50.

Remove Cover: Can bind an enemy unit and cannot be discarded. Only 90 HP is needed to summon Voldemort: Yesterday's Reappearance. Infuse liquid to converse with Voldemort: Yesterday's Reappearance and enter his memories. After trust has been established with the enemy unit, can actively absorb the enemy unit's HP and temporarily possess the enemy unit's body. Possession duration is determined by the enemy unit's willpower and degree of trust.

Weakness: Holy Magic

HP: 100

Voldemort: Yesterday's Reappearance

HP: 0.1–90

Note: As long as the Diary is not destroyed, HP will not fall to 0.

Magic: 7

Family Traits: Parseltongue (Awakened), Proficiency in Dark Arts: Advanced (Awakened)

Now the level-three Grimoire's experience bar is at 200.

Advanced? Such a level of talent in Proficiency in Dark Arts? As expected of the Dark Lord, even in his youth.

No Luck stat? He isn't considered a player unit?

But most importantly, Voldemort's knowledge base has opened itself to me!

It seems Fiendfyre, Basilisk fangs, and the Sword of Gryffindor strengthened by absorbing Basilisk Venom aren't necessarily required to destroy a Horcrux. Instant damage above 50 works too.

The Diary deals no damage in its normal state? In the movie, Ginny established trust with the Diary at the start of the school year, and it lasted until the end of the term—nearly a whole year.

Let's calculate it as one year.

90 HP divided by 365 is roughly 0.2.

Only 0.2 damage per day. Ridiculous.

Basil was speechless inside.

Nearby, Neville was showing off the Remembrall he had just received.

Everyone's attention shifted over.

Basil took the opportunity to swap spaces, and the Diary in his hand appeared in Slytherin's Chamber of Secrets.

On the now-empty bookshelf inside the mouth of Slytherin's statue, a place Harry had never set foot in during the original plot and where the Basilisk could not approach—

A page of the Grimoire lit up, and a new Diary appeared in his empty hands.

With a thought, the holy magic on the cover faded away.

The words T. M. Riddle began to appear on the Diary's first page.

The life force from Fenrir Wolf Echo crazily poured into the Diary.

When his false life dropped to 52.347, the silver words Voldemort: Yesterday's Reappearance on the Horcrux: The Diary status panel in the Grimoire turned gold.

Youthful Voldemort acquired!

Thanks, Fenrir! (ω)

Thanks to classmate Yuchi Jinyin, classmate Starlight, classmate 202110317163618953 for the monthly passes, and to the other classmates for their recommendations!