After dealing with the monocle, the study fell quiet again.
Voldemort began focusing on the study of the Divine Script—or, more accurately, on the pyramid.
Reading Ominous Tomb from cover to cover quickly was still difficult for Voldemort.
Learning the Divine Script was far harder than learning any language he had encountered, including Chinese, which Lin Zuo had already mastered.
The script demanded extreme precision in every tiny detail of its form, down to the angle, length, and width of each stroke.
"Does God use a typewriter to write?"
Voldemort couldn't help complaining, but it did nothing to ease the arduous process of learning.
As a result, he had to abandon the idea of learning the Divine Script first and then reading Ominous Tomb.
His time was limited, and the problem of merging with a Dementor had to be resolved as soon as possible.
So he only read what he needed to know.
But without understanding the Divine Script, even that proved quite difficult.
Fortunately, he had a way in: the section introducing the Veil of Faith.
Over the past few days, aside from arranging matters for his departure and dealing with the unexpected upheaval involving Rowling, Voldemort had spent all his remaining time studying the Veil of Faith.
And not long after dealing with the monocle, he finally managed to fully grasp this relatively short passage of Divine Script.
According to the book, the Veil of Faith was more than just a burial shroud.
It possessed many properties, such as:
Protecting the body from decay, with a faint restorative effect;
Protecting the soul from disintegration, also with a faint restorative effect;
Ensuring that the sleeping soul did not lose its way in slumber, and that the body's functions did not deteriorate.
Besides these properties, it had another ability that