Undying Avatar
There were no classes that afternoon.
But this didn't mean Skylar could steal a moment of peace— Sarf had sent him a message asking him to go to the Chamber of Secrets.
Upon arriving at the Chamber of Secrets, Skylar was still overjoyed by what he saw, even though he had been mentally prepared.
The House Elf of the House of Yaxley and House of Selwyn knelt side by side, heads bowed, avoiding eye contact with Skylar, but their trembling shoulders betrayed their inner fear.
On one side lay a mountain of books, chests overflowing with treasures, and Dark Arts items exuding an ancient and dangerous aura. Everything was neatly arranged on the ground, clearly visible.
Skylar summoned Latifa, Dobby, and Winky with his mind, and the three of them, along with the four House Elf, began sorting and organizing the items.
Most of the ordinary books were handed over directly to Latifa, who placed them in Skylar's Private Library for sorting. Latifa estimated that after this acquisition, the number of books in her Private Library would exceed one thousand for the first time, making it comparable to the Hogwarts library in terms of quantity, and even surpassing it in terms of the rarity of Private Library collection.
[A large number of magic books have been obtained!]
The House Elf were in charge of handling all sorts of treasures, including many alchemical items, precious Potions, rare Fantastic Beasts and materials from plants, etc. After two full hours of sorting, they filled four large wooden crates, more than the treasures in the House of Malfoy's Chamber of Secrets.
[Gain access to tons of treasures, Potions, and materials!]
The remaining Dark Arts and books are dangerous, so they must be handled by Skylar or Sarf.
These items and books are the fewest in number, but they take the most time to process and are the last to be sorted out.
As expected of the second and third ranked Pure-blood families in the Britain wizarding world, their collection of Dark Arts books is still amazing even with Skylar's current perspective and knowledge.
Skylar only glanced through the books before finding several that interested him. One book even described how to create the long-lost troll statue. Although most of the materials needed for it had long since disappeared in modern times, there were still many aspects of its production method that Skylar could learn from.
There was also a book that actually described Bloodthirst Curse that could transform a person or beast into a superhuman, insane, and violent monster. Of course, since the monster created was uncontrollable, this spell was considered a forbidden art and rendered useless.
It's clear that these spells almost all bear traces of ancient war magic, and in today's world, where there haven't been large-scale magical wars for a long time, they actually have little practical value.
But the study of magic has never been about its practical value, according to Skylar.
All magic has its value for study; the principles behind magic abandoned by time can often provide new inspiration for magical innovation.
Setting aside the books on Dark Arts, Skylar picked up the secret magic of the House of Yaxley and began to read it intently.
"This is truly an extraordinary magic!" Skylar exclaimed, completely absorbed in the reading. If it weren't for the extremely high entry barrier, the overall strength of the House of Yaxley today would be far greater than it is now.
This secret magic is called "Undying Avatar," which can create a zombie-like clone for the caster. This clone has the ability to share vision, thoughts, and magic power with the caster and can also cast spells. Most importantly, this clone is immortal. Even if it is shattered into pieces by the Killing Curse, the pieces will automatically return to their original positions, stitch together, and restore the clone to its original state.
Of course, it's not without its limitations. This clone is only one-third the speed of the original body in terms of both movement and casting speed, and it consumes three times the mana of the original body each time it casts a spell.
In other words, the primary purpose of this clone is to act as a meat shield to withstand attacks, rather than as a main damage dealer.
The reason this magic was not mastered by the House of Yaxley is that the minimum requirement to learn it is to have the magic power of Grand Sorcerer —which alone excludes more than 99% of wizards in the world.
But Skylar is an exception—don't worry, Yaxley, I'll bring your family's secret incantation back to life!
[Dark Arts Book Obtained!]
[Obtained the House of Yaxley's heirloom spell, "Undying Avatar"!]
Skylar carefully put the thin scroll of the secret spell into his pocket space, intending to learn the magic as soon as he had time, so as to add a Killer card to his deck.
Taking advantage of this moment, he glanced at Sarf. Sarf was biting her Snakewood Wand with her cherry-like lips, intently and slowly flipping through a book called "Charm from the Heart." The cover of the book featured a dark-skinned female Nymph striking a seductive pose. Skylar was stunned for a moment, and although he was about to say something, he ultimately chose to remain silent.
Then, he eagerly opened the secret magic and core inheritance sent by the House of Selwyn.
He was both surprised and delighted to have found the other half of the Lestrange family's magic he had always longed for.
The House of Lestrange has several branches in France, but in Great Britain, only the brothers Rabastan Lestrange and Rodolphus Lestrange are considered direct descendants of the family.
If the illegitimate children leave the family, they will only be allocated a sum of gold, but the family's ancestral home and all magical inheritances must remain with the main family. After the two brothers were imprisoned, the family elders also promoted the underage Gallup from the illegitimate children to the direct line of the family tree. The purpose was to prevent the family from being leaderless if anything happened to the two brothers in prison. The underage Gallup was not yet mature enough to be manipulated by the family elders as a puppet.
Therefore, Gallup only learned the superficial aspects of the Lestrange family magic; he had no concept of its true inheritance.
Although Rabastan and Rodolphus were somewhat irrationally obsessed with the Death Eaters' ambitions, it didn't mean they were ignorant fools. They were also worried that the greedy and ambitious elders were eyeing their direct family inheritance. So, before things went wrong, they stored all their wealth and precious magical items in Gringotts, which only the two brothers and Bellatrix had the right to access.
As for those Dark Arts books, family magic, and core inheritances, they were divided in two. One half was given to Bellatrix's most trusted mother, Druella Black, while the other half was hidden in Chamber of Secrets in the family's ancestral home.
The portion that Druella had been in charge of fell into Skylar's hands long after her death.
The portion in the family's ancestral home's Chamber of Secrets was forcibly seized by the ambitious House of Selwyn, who, as the patriarchal family, had now fallen into Skylar's hands once again.
Now, he can finally combine the two separated and incomplete parts into one, truly obtaining the complete Lestrange family magic.
[Obtained from the Lestrange family Magic Compendium!]
Lestrange's family magic primarily involves distorting the five senses and torturing the victim. In addition to the Cruciatus Curse commonly seen in the original books, there are also more advanced applications of the Cruciatus Curse, such as using various sensory stimuli to break a person's will, and even turning a person's mental world into an irreparable fragment, the end result being a soulless walking corpse who only acts according to instinct and needs.
After carefully putting away the Lestrange family's secret spell scroll again, Skylar picked up the House of Selwyn's scroll to examine it.
While the House of Selwyn does possess some powerful family-inherited spells, they are all similar in level to the House of Malfoy's "Blade of Light and Shadow" and "Shield of Light and Shadow." These might be astonishing inheritances for ordinary small or medium-sized families or young wizards from Muggle families, but they are somewhat inadequate for Skylar.
Skylar frowned—something was wrong. How could the House of Selwyn, ranked second in power, only have such an ordinary lineage?