Inferius Soul Transfer

A hint of despair crept across Yaxley's pale face, covered in wounds and blood. Still unwilling to give up, he said in a strained voice, "What do you want? Do you really want to wipe us all out?"

A chilling, terrifying green light flickered in Skylar's pupils as he coldly declared, "I demand that you and Selwyn swear the most severe magical oath: that your families, for generations to come, will serve the House of Malfoy as masters, becoming its vassals. Any breach of this oath will result in Blood Curse that will punish you for generations to come—"

"A vassal family?" Yaxley was shocked. He had expected Skylar to demand more benefits, but becoming a vassal of the House of Malfoy family undoubtedly crossed his bottom line in negotiations. Selwyn, on the other hand, made no attempt to hide his anger. He snorted and said sharply, "My life is now in your hands. You can kill me if you want, but don't even think about having the House of Selwyn submit to you!"

Yaxley remained calm, saying with a bitter expression, "Young Master Malfoy, you've gone too far. You should know that the power of our two families is not much less than that of your House of Malfoy, and our families have many hidden strengths that you are unaware of. Do you want us to become vassal families simply to humiliate us?"

The so-called vassal families are similar in form and rule to vassal states in the Muggle world—usually, the weaker party chooses to attach itself to the stronger one, and the two parties will enter into a contract. The vassal family will swear allegiance and submission to the overlord family in exchange for the overlord family's protection.

This is not uncommon in the magical world. For example, the House of Goyle and House of Crabbe were vassals of the House of Malfoy; the Borgin family was a vassal of the Burke Family; and the House of Bletchley and Wankanda Family were vassals of the House of Selwyn. However, the Wankanda Family later learned to adapt to changing circumstances and switched allegiance to the House of Malfoy.

Skylar's proposal was nothing short of an insult to Selwyn and Yaxley —by no means had the House of Selwyn or House of Yaxley fallen to the point of needing to become vassal families.

"Humiliate?" Skylar sneered. "Less than a day ago, I fought a fierce battle with Voldemort, the Shadow of the Magic Dragon, and the Pirate King, almost annihilating the Shadow of the Magic Dragon. And every single one of you Death Eaters became my prisoner—do you think I would waste my precious time to humiliate you?"

"Madman! Insane!" Selwyn could no longer contain his rage, and he roared in a hoarse, unpleasant voice, "You want us to submit? Impossible! You're dreaming!"

"My opinion is the same as Selwyn's," Yaxley slowly shook his head. He closed his eyes, sighed, and then said in a resigned tone, "I'm sorry, Master Malfoy, we cannot comply with your proposal. You can kill us—but you must think carefully. The consequence will be that you will declare war on both the House of Selwyn and House of Yaxley families, a war to the death. Even if you achieve final victory, you will lose the opportunity to gain the wealth, status, and power of both our families..."

No matter how powerful Skylar's magical abilities were, Yaxley still found it hard to believe that a 15-year-old boy would have such courage and determination—to give up the benefits he had in hand and instead drive them to the brink of destruction, forcing them to make a decision that would lead to mutual destruction.

"Death? Hahahaha..." Skylar burst into maniacal laughter again, laughing for a full minute before his expression turned serious, and he said softly, "Do you think death is a privilege you can simply obtain here?"

He gently beckoned, Sha'erfu immediately understood. She opened a hidden compartment in a corner of the cell and used Levitation Charm to move a corpse to the center of the cell.

The corpse was none other than Avery, one of the Death Eaters had appeared at Little Hangleton Cemetery that day.

Poor Avery was the first to meet his end that night— Voldemort had just been resurrected, and Avery eagerly answered the call of the Dark Mark, wanting to return to Voldemort's ranks and seize the opportunity to lead his family to glory once more. Unfortunately, he was first tortured by Voldemort with the Cruciatus Curse as a warning to others, and shortly after Skylar appeared, he was struck by a Killing Curse transferred by Skylar, dying at the hands of the very master he so desperately wanted to serve. Thus, his ambitions were cut short.

Amidst the grim gazes of the Death Eaters, Skylar drew his wand, pointed it at the corpse, and uttered a long incantation in a low, sinister voice.

After reciting a long string of tongue-twisting syllables, Skylar shouted, "Dance of Corpses!"

Avery's body moved!

Avery slowly stood up, his empty eyes looking around. When he saw Skylar, he dragged his feet slowly toward Skylar, then knelt down and bowed to Skylar in a standard servant's posture.

Avery could not possibly come back to life. Apart from Voldemort, who created Horcrux, there is no magic in the magical world that allows the dead to resurrect—even if such a secret technique existed before the Middle Ages, it has long been lost to the river of time.

The way Avery was behaving was certainly not unfamiliar to the two well-informed, Pure-blood patriarchs who were also well-versed in Dark Arts.

"You... you turned him into Inferius?" Yaxley said in a trembling voice.

Yaxley's fear at this moment is not hard to understand. The death of a wizard is not the end of everything, because after death they can become Ghost or go to the Afterlife.

No matter who it is, no one will feel good knowing that after death they will be turned into Inferius and controlled by others, that the dead will not rest in peace, and that their body will be desecrated.

Following Skylar's direction, Avery danced a bizarre dance with agility, making all sorts of comical and funny movements. His nimble movements made it impossible for him to be a mindless, manipulated Inferius.

"You... you're so cruel!" Selwyn's eyes were bloodshot, but he dared not utter another insult to Skylar. The evil and cruelty of Skylar's methods far exceeded his expectations. He himself was a dark wizard who had killed countless people, but he had never thought of playing with the corpses of his enemies after killing them. At this moment, he felt an unprecedented fear for the first time in his life. He was facing an end more terrible than death.

Skylar was very satisfied with the effect of his current performance.

"Well done, Sha'erfu," Skylar said with a cruel smile, praising, "The body is well preserved, and the soul is also well preserved."

Sha'erfu, who had left the cell sometime earlier, stepped gracefully back in. In her hand she held a thick, long black iron chain, the other end of which was connected to an iron ring collar, which was fitted onto a boar-like creature.

"Thank you for your praise, Master," Sha'erfu bowed slightly and said softly, "It's all I should do."

The creation of Inferius is a type of Dark Arts recorded in "The Secrets of the Darkest Art," a book that describes the most extreme and evil levels of Dark Arts.

Although Skylar had placed his own and the Greengrass Family Bones family's collections of books into the Sleeping Dragon Society's shared library for the organization's core members to study and reference, this clearly did not include the secret magic of the various families, nor the forbidden books of Dark Arts in Skylar's possession.

These were all Skylar's trump cards, his most Killer secrets, which he naturally couldn't easily reveal. Moreover, Dark Arts books could affect the reader's mind and tempt them to depravity, making them unsuitable for teenagers still in school. Therefore, in reality, only Skylar and Sha'erfu had actually read these forbidden magic books.

Therefore, although Astoria was in charge of the Dragon Tail team responsible for logistics, the dark green Potions needed to refine the Inferius was actually refined by Sha'erfu alone in a secret laboratory in her Suitcase Space. After spending countless amounts of money and resources, Skylar finally managed to create a Potions pool of about ten square feet in the laboratory, which Skylar named the "Demon-Refining Pool".

(Note: The setting of soaking the Inferius in a dark green Potions is taken from the scene in Fantastic Beasts 3 where Grindelwald creates the Inferius.)

After Sha'erfu captured the group of Death Eaters, she also brought back Avery's corpse, which was lying there, and soaked it in the Demon-Refining Pool.

Only in this way can the various functions of the corpse be enhanced by Necromancy, eventually transforming it into Inferius. However, this is not the end of the magic. The Inferius also needs a caster to cast Animation Charm on it, giving it a certain degree of action, thought, and reaction ability, so as to integrate a complete combat instinct. It can be said that at least 80% of an Inferius's combat ability is determined by the Transfiguration skill of the caster who casts the Animation Charm.

The highest known achievement in Transfiguration is the Animagus, followed by Human Transfiguration. Skylar not only mastered both but also created the "Amphimagus," which combines the advantages of both. It can be said that Skylar's Transfiguration is at the top level in the world. Just a few months ago, when he completed the Second Task of the Triwizard Tournament in his Amphimagus, the International Animagus Seminar invited him to participate in the next symposium as a VIP guest. The tone of the letter placed Skylar's status on par with Transfiguration masters such as McGonagall and Zhang He, demonstrating Skylar's standing in the international academic community of Transfiguration. But we will leave these aside for now.

Let's turn the camera back to the cell.

Seeing that he had played around enough and had achieved his goal of scaring Selwyn and Yaxley, Skylar decided to dispel the spell.

"Corpse Burial!" As the incantation was uttered by Skylar, the magic controlling the Inferius was dispelled. An eerie green light shone on Skylar 'Avery body, and his entire body slowly stiffened before finally collapsing to the ground.

At this point, the Death Eaters abandoned their desire to die. They finally understood that although Skylar was young, his methods were no less ruthless and his mind was more vicious than their master Voldemort's, and perhaps even more so.

Unfortunately, they still underestimated Skylar.

"This isn't over yet," another startling word escaped Skylar's Skylar. His eyes gleamed with an unsettling light, and he grinned coldly, saying softly, "The real show is just beginning... You—watch closely!"

Skylar's wand trembled rapidly as he shouted, "Soul-Sealing Curse!"

A faint, dragon-like, horse-like cry echoed in the void, and a golden light burst forth from the tip of Skylar's wand with astonishing force, transforming into countless golden specks that enveloped "Avery".

A silvery-white spirit was roughly ripped from Avery's corpse, and the spirit's face was clearly that of Avery.

At this moment, Avery, in his spirit form, was in agony. He struggled violently, emitting extremely piercing screams. Clearly, this Dark Arts that extracted the souls of the dead could harm spirits.

An absolute silence fell over everyone present.

The Death Eaters have become numb.

What they were seeing was beyond their wildest imagination.

Desecrating the corpse is evil enough, but now they're even going so far as to venge the soul of the dead?

"You've all seen it too—" Skylar said coldly, "Avery, who died less than 24 hours ago, had his soul and body sealed away by me using special methods. Then I turned his corpse into Inferius. As for his soul..."

"Soul Return!" As Skylar's incantation rang out, Avery's soul was forcibly forced into the body of the boar-like creature.