A Startling Discovery! The Demon God's Origins

Xiwen recounted in great detail to Dumbledore and Flamel the information brought by Strange, the manual for using Demon God spells obtained in the eerie forest, and the battle against the Demon God projection.

Helena also added to Xiwen's account, making it more detailed and accurate.

"By now, we have gained some basic understanding of that so-called Demon God." Dumbledore nodded thoughtfully, then casually took out his wand and wrote down the items he had just heard on the small blackboard in Flamel's workshop.

"First, let's summarize that Demon God's abilities—he can cast Blood Curse on his followers, he can strip living beings of their life energy and control their corpses through Necromancy, and he can also manipulate a powerful Dark Barrier that suppresses the flow of magical energy..."

Dumbledore used his wand to write down these abilities on the blackboard, his brow slowly furrowing as he did so.

"Most importantly, his abilities can be used by those believers. This is quite troublesome..." he said solemnly.

"Although the Demon God can allow his followers to use these abilities, it's not entirely unsolvable," Xiwen added, hovering beside the blackboard.

"I discovered that if believers want to use the power of the Demon God, the Demon God must leave a unique mark on those believers. The fallen dark wizards must use this mark to communicate with and invoke the power from the Demon God, and only in this way can they control his unique dark magic."

"Therefore, as long as his energy is not infinite, he cannot create an infinite number of powerful and threatening dark wizards!"

"You're quite right, Doctor Strange Demon God has another ability..." Dumbledore shook his head slightly and wrote the next line on the blackboard. "That Demon God can Absorbing Man emotions to use as his power!"

"In the current war environment, negative emotions are virtually limitless!"

Upon hearing this, Xiwen fell silent, knowing that this was the most difficult point to resolve.

"But given the current situation, this war probably won't end anytime soon," Flamel said thoughtfully from the side. "So, since we can't address this issue at its root, perhaps the only solution is to work on his process of absorbing negative emotions."

"Will the Patronus Charm be effective in dispelling negative emotions?" he asked Xiwen.

"I don't know if the Patronus Charm will have a specific effect on the Demon God, but it's at least useful for the forces he controls," Xiwen nodded. "For some reason, the Demon God has the ability to control Dementor. This morning when we fought him Helena and I were surrounded by countless Dementor and almost didn't make it back to Hogwarts!"

Dumbledore nodded and added another entry to the blackboard, "Controlling Dementor".

"So why is the Demon God able to control the Dementor? Is it merely because of their natural alliance as both being forces of darkness?" Dumbledore asked, frowning.

"I recall the earliest record of Dementor being from the fifteenth century, when I was probably around a hundred years old," Flamel explained to Dumbledore and Xiwen, pondering the information about Dementor. "At that time, it was generally believed that Dementor were created by the dark wizard Ekrizdis."

"Ekrizdis was one of the original inhabitants of Azkaban. He was obsessed with practicing all sorts of Dark Magic on the island, and often lured passing Muggle sailors into his fortress, where he tortured and killed them in order to study Dark Magic."

"After Ekrizdis's death, the concealment charms he placed on the fortress and island of Azkaban gradually disappeared, so the England Ministry of Magic became aware of the island's existence and investigated it. However, apart from the fact that the structure was teeming with Dementor, the investigators refused to discuss any other discoveries they made in Azkaban!"

"Just because of this weak evidence, did the Ministry of Magic at the time conclude that Ekrizdis created the Dementor?" Dumbledore raised an eyebrow, asking with some disbelief.

"That was indeed the final characterization, but there must have been other secrets on that island of Azkaban that the Ministry of Magic investigators didn't want to reveal," Flamel said with some regret. "So there must be many more undocumented secrets involved, but unfortunately I didn't pay much attention to it at the time."

"You already know enough, Flamel," Xiwen smiled at Flamel and said casually. "At least this little-known history gives us an important piece of information—the birth of Dementor has another secret!"

"Yes, that's why I've never believed that Damocles Rowle, the Minister for Magic England the early 18th century, made the right decision to use Azkaban as a prison." Flamel shook his head helplessly and said to the people present, "The existence of these creatures is like a time bomb; you never know when it will explode!"

Dumbledore nodded in agreement, saying, "Indeed, Dementor are inherently fickle and unreliable, and I also believe that the Ministry of Magic's alliance with these creatures was a mistake."

As Xiwen listened to the two men's assessment of Dementor, a bizarre thought suddenly arose in his mind, recalling their sudden birth.

Once the idea appeared, it became unstoppable, taking root and growing wildly in his mind!

"Do you think... it's possible that these Dementor were created by that Demon God?" He took a deep breath, interrupting Xiwen and Dumbledore's discussion, and asked.

"The Demon God may have already been able to open a crack in his seal back then, absorbing the negative emotions of this world through this crack, thus creating Dementor— creatures that can bring him even more negative human emotions!"

"If we consider the dark wizard Ekrizdis of Azkaban as a follower of the Demon God Lord, and the Ministry of Magic investigators who went to investigate as wizards influenced and controlled by the Demon God's power, then all the problems will be solved! There is only one culprit, and that is the Demon God!"

Xiwen, somewhat dazed, uttered this guess that seemed absurd yet perfectly reasonable to him.

Dumbledore and Flamel first frowned in skepticism, but after a moment of thought, they widened their eyes, clearly realizing the possibility involved.

"If, and I mean if, we assume your theory is correct, then we can deduce some of the history of the Demon God backward!" Dumbledore said, looking into Xiwen's eyes with a serious expression.

"If Dementor were created by Demon God, then that means this Demon God attempted to invade our world a very, very long time ago, but was sealed away in another dimension by a powerful wizard at the time!"

"Over the centuries, the seal on the alternate dimension gradually loosened, and the Demon God found a crack in the seal, projecting his power like the projection you encountered today. Or rather, the seal was still quite strong at the time, and he only transferred a very small portion of his power to Azkaban's location."

"Then, the Demon God used his limited but higher-level power to bewitch Ekrizdis, the dark wizard of Azkaban, making him his follower and ordering him to lure Muggle sailors ashore. Ultimately, by exploiting their suffering during torture, he created Dementor, creatures that belong to a non-existent category!"

Dumbledore deducing this history, everyone present showed expressions of disbelief and gasped in astonishment.

It's well-reasoned, logically consistent, and seems... very likely to be what he speculated!

However, Xiwen still had some doubts, so he suppressed his shock and asked, "If the Demon God really came to our world a long time ago, why don't we have any records of it?"

"No, it's not necessarily true that there are no records at all," Flamel said, shaking his head. "It's very possible that the time period was too long ago, and the customs and tools for recording specific history were not available at the time, or that historical records were affected by some disaster and destroyed."

"These all fall under the category of uncertainty in early historical memory. Oral historical stories tend to last longer than recorded historical records. However, those stories are constantly being altered in the process of being passed down, and they have probably long since lost the historical truth they contain."

Upon hearing Flamel's words, Dumbledore wearily reached up to rest his bearded chin on his hand and sighed, "It would be good to find those stories passed down orally; at least they could provide us with some information."

Before he could finish speaking, Dumbledore suddenly widened his eyes and exclaimed, "Perhaps there really is a strange story that mentions an ancient Demon God!"

He and Flamel exchanged a glance, and they both exclaimed in unison—

"The Tales of Beedle the Bard!"