True Dragon Throne
The Chamber of Secrets. Reading M
Rita Skeeter, who had reverted from her beetle form to her human form, stood respectfully with her hands at her sides, her head bowed, facing the seventh-tiered platform in the center of the Chamber of Secrets.
On the seventh-tiered platform stood a majestic throne, with a dark green bead inlaid on its back, emitting a faint green glow. This was the seat that Skylar had specially placed here for his personal use.
As Skylar's strength increased, the chair seemed to gradually change as well.
On the back of the throne, surrounding the dark green bead, were originally carved four enormous silver-white pythons, their long bodies coiled around the bead's base, while four fanged heads circled above it, like the most loyal guards protecting the bead. But now—
The four silver pythons had vanished.
Instead, there was a golden, serpentine creature. Unlike real snakes, their scales were no longer fine and smooth-edged, but rather sharp, triangular. The surface of the scales was no longer smooth, but rather slightly raised with strange black and red patterns that undulated and felt rough to the touch. Staring at the patterns for too long could create a strange feeling of oppression.
Even more striking are the two rows of spines resembling those of the Norwegian Ridgeback growing on the skin of the snake-like creature's back, standing straight up like swords and blades, and two long, light brown curved horns growing abruptly on the left and right sides of the snake-like creature's head.
This chair was crafted with great care by Skylar; the materials used alone are of exceptional quality.
The wood inside came from the treasures of his alien ally, Prince Bathory —a artifact called "Dracula's Coffin," the resting place of the Vampire king Dracula, imbued with his accumulated power over the years. The magic practiced by Vampire royalty is a completely different system from that of wizards; they revere death and pursue power closest to the edge of death. Therefore, this coffin is filled with a dense power of death, capable of transforming any living being or creature into the Living Dead, commonly known as the undead.
If a Muggle lies in it, it will turn into a low-level Vampire has lost its mind and whose mind is filled only with the desire to kill and drink blood within a night; if an ordinary dog lies in it, it will turn into a black, bloodthirsty, saw-toothed demon hound, an extremely terrifying dark creature. Although it is not large, it is ferocious and fearless of death. If there are enough of them, it can even kill a Fire Dragon.
If the person lying inside is a sufficiently powerful wizard, their magic power can, to some extent, counteract the effects of the death force.
Of course, Skylar wouldn't do that, making himself uncomfortable. Willingly sitting in a chair that could potentially erode his magic and soul would offer no benefit other than showing off, and that was definitely not Skylar's style.
To neutralize the intense death energy emanating from them, Skylar used Transfiguration to transform four of the Slytherin 'Parseltongue Sorcerer's Stone into four large serpents that coiled around them. In mysticism, serpents represent greed and ambition, as well as devouring; legendary ancient serpentic beasts were said to be able to devour the sun, moon, and heaven and earth, truly devouring everything.
The Parseltongue spells that Slytherin himself carved on the stone tablet endowed it with the power to devour. As a legendary Grand Sorcerer, Slytherin's strength was arguably no weaker Dracula's. The power contained within the stone tablet was enough to devour the death energy within the wood used for the chair.
Death magic is, in fact, a type of Dark Arts.
As for Parseltongue magic, even though Slytherin never acknowledges it, it is difficult to escape the category of Dark Arts.
When this chair was first designed, death and snakes were the core themes.
Through the intense power of death, it was devoured by the giant serpent and then transformed into pure bloodline power, which was absorbed by Skylar, who was sitting in the chair.
This bloodline power isn't something just anyone can absorb. After all, it originated from the Parseltongue Mahoutokoro left behind by Slytherin himself, and this transformation process inevitably became tainted with Slytherin's own magical philosophy.
"Pure-blood Forever".
This bloodline power is best suited for Pure-blood families members, the older the bloodline origin, the better. Young wizards who have already awakened their bloodline talents are the most suitable candidates to receive this power. Having experienced three magical upheavals and one bloodline purification ritual, Skylar awakened the bloodline talents of both the House of Malfoy and House of Black. This power is practically tailor-made for him.
Now, compared to when the throne was first built, Skylar's strength has made great progress. After his bloodline resonated with the members of the Sleeping Dragon Society, triggering the third magical surge, he possessed an inexplicable and mysterious power—a power of time, space, and an indescribable destiny.
From then on, he sat on the throne without the slightest confusion or bewilderment, and even in the depths of darkness, darkness could not corrupt him in the slightest.
The serpentine stele thus evolved slowly.
Skylar then realized just how much of a chair he had created—
Although it lacks consciousness and spirituality, it is a growth-oriented organism.
It will change as its owner's strength increases!
The giant python that the stone tablet originally transformed into was no longer a snake in the strict sense, but rather a new kind of creature that was somewhere between the "King of All Snakes" Basilisk and the Fire Dragon subspecies, the Serpent Snake King Dragon.
Skylar naturally understood what was going on.
The essence of magic is to make one's wishes come true. Magic is a reflection of the user's mind. Skylar pursued was nothing more than power, enough to protect everything he valued!
The Patronus Charm is a magical spell that best reflects the user's mind. This is why ambitious people often have snakes as their Patronus, while warriors and duelists often have large felines like lions and tigers as their Patronus Charms... But Skylar's Patronus is a dragon!
The dragon represents both danger and power.
As Skylar used the throne time and again, it began to fill with Skylar aura, and the serpent that the stone tablet had transformed into began to change into a dragon-like creature.
The giant python sheds its serpentine form and transforms into a dragon; the slumbering Dragon is about to awaken!
Skylar gave this chair a resounding name --
The True Dragon Throne!
The True Dragon represents the most primordial Ancient Divine Dragon, also known as the Ancestral Dragon or the Primordial Dragon, and is the progenitor of all Fire Dragon and sub-dragons today. In that era, apart from the Ancient Giant, no other creature could rival it!
Skylar stood on the high platform and slowly sat on the True Dragon Throne. The green beads on the back of the chair emitted a dazzling green light, and the faint sound of dragon roars echoed in the void, as if the surrounding air had frozen.
Rita Skeeter, standing below the platform, suddenly felt an overwhelming pressure bearing down on her. She lost her balance and abruptly knelt on the ground.
It felt as if a heavy boulder had been suddenly placed in her heart, making her feel inexplicably heavy and oppressed. A suffocating feeling enveloped her, leaving her completely powerless and unable to move even a finger.
Rita Skeeter, Special Correspondent for The Daily Prophet.
Her reputation was so great that she infuriated and cursed everyone who knew her—except the editor of the Daily Prophet —because she always managed to pick up rumors and gossip from who-knows-where, and then deliberately exaggerated and distorted the facts to slander others.
Rita Skeeter serves no one; she is simply herself. She seems to have a grudge against the entire world, enjoying criticizing everything in the wizarding world and interpreting others with the utmost malice.
All the big names in the wizarding world have been targets of her writing, from star author Gilderoy Lockhart to Minister for Magic Connelly Fudge, and even the greatest white wizard of this century Albus Dumbledore, have all been her prey.
Rita Skeeter also has a "secret weapon"—a dark green Quick-Quotes Quill.
This pen has its own thoughts and is adept at altering people's language, embellishing it, and can automatically record ordinary sentences from Rita's interviews into unrealistic and extravagant ones on paper.
Its articles are mostly sensationalist and fabricated, exaggerating the facts.
For example, Rita asks a wizard, "Are you human?"
The wizard replied, "I am."
Quick-Quotes Quill would scribble on the paper. "So-and-so wizard said that in the wizarding world, apart from him, no one else is human!"