"Failure, failure, more fucking failure! You useless bastards, can't you do anything right?" A trace of exhaustion and irritation showed in Jerry's eyes. With dark circles beneath them, he stared at the five dying Dark Wizards before him, his voice full of frustration and disappointment. "You're going to die anyway. Can't you grit your teeth and hold out a little longer?"
"I'd better not fucking find out who did this! Otherwise, I'll show you why green is healthier!" Jerry picked up "Forbidden Alchemy" and quickly flipped to the last few pages. Looking at the missing sections, he let his hand drop onto the table in frustration and spoke through gritted teeth.
Someone had deliberately torn out those crucial sections beforehand. They contained the core records concerning the connection between a wizard's soul and the limits of their own magic—the very information he had failed to obtain despite capturing so many Dark Wizards and conducting painstaking experiments at any cost.
He could not be certain whether those missing pages contained the answers he had been searching for. But considering the special standing of "Forbidden Alchemy" among banned books, the horrifying Forbidden Human Alchemy it recorded, which violated every moral boundary, far surpassed anything in any other forbidden book.
Even "Advanced Dark Magic," which taught the Soul Curse and how to create a Horcrux, seemed conservative next to this extraordinary book.
Yet someone had deliberately torn out certain parts of it. That undoubtedly suggested that the information was not merely even more forbidden—it might overturn everything!
Jerry had asked Dumbledore and Grindelwald about this, and their answers had been identical: by the time they obtained "Forbidden Alchemy," the last few pages had already vanished. Seeing that both old men were willing to swear to it at any cost, Jerry had accepted their