It didn't take long for Aaron to search the stronghold inside and out.
Generally speaking, since dark wizards are marginalized figures in the magical society that everyone shouts about, they will be extremely cautious. In addition, many dark wizards have long been psychologically twisted and perverted, so searching their strongholds is often a very dangerous thing.
Dark wizards will leave vicious curses and traps in many hidden corners to protect their property. These arrangements have caused many experienced Aurors to capsize in the gutter.
However, for Aaron, these arrangements seemed too childish.
He has encountered countless dark wizard strongholds during his travels in the past three years. He is already familiar with how to search for them.
But this time, he strangely didn't find any vicious curses or mechanisms left in this stronghold.
This is how the same thing?
Soon, Aaron found the answer in the parchment on the bookshelf.
…
"Research diary."
"On February 16, I simply can't imagine the impact this research will have - the legalized application of black magic. If it succeeds, I will rewrite the underlying logic of magic, and the world will be turned upside down for me!"
"February 17th feels very close to me. The light is just ahead. Should I seriously consider the Daily Prophet's column?"
"February 18th, the great researcher, the genius beyond the times, this is me! What is the Daily Prophet? I have no time to accept their interviews. From now on, the history of magic needs to open a separate chapter... No, It would take a whole book to tell the story of my great life.”
"On February 19th, the research encountered a small setback. I shouldn't have started directly with the Unforgivable Curse - I was almost hanged by the Cruciatus Curse. Let's experiment with some simple curses first."
"On February 20th, the progress was blocked. It was strange. It must be because the damn werewolf was always howling and disturbing my thinking."
"On February 21, the effect of the simulation experiment was not as good as before. Damn it, did I go wrong?"
"On February 22, why couldn't even the simplest prank spell succeed? Is my theory wrong?"
"February 23, failed."
"February 24, failed."
"On February 25, there seemed to be a glimmer of hope, but it still failed."
"..."
"On March 10, I've had enough. Is this road impassable? No, no, there must be something wrong. I want to change it, change it..."
"March 11, failure."
"..."
"On April 4th, there are not enough materials for the experiment. I have to go to Bojinbok to buy more."
"April 5th, damn it. Phineas seems to have doubted me. We can't take risks now, but what about my materials?"
"On April 6th, poachers, they discovered my stronghold...cannot be discovered, otherwise my reputation will be completely ruined."
"On April 7, the material problem was finally solved."
"..."
"On May 9th, I can no longer go to class. I need to take a sick leave from Phineas, but...but...what disease do I have?"
"On May 10th, Lentis disappeared. He deserved it. Who told him to always play tricks on other students? I guess he must have got himself involved when he was playing some kind of prank, right?"
"On May 11, Phineas banned me from going to class. I think he is going to take measures against me."
"On May 12th, I have to leave. Although I have only taught black magic for less than a year, I have to leave, otherwise..."
The record ends abruptly here.
Aaron sighed and stuffed the parchment in his hand back into place.
A simple story. A certain professor at Hogwarts - Aaron thought he probably taught Defense Against the Dark Arts, got himself involved for some kind of research related to black magic.
This unknown wizard may once have been a genius. He was ambitious and wanted to enter the magical field that had not been visited for thousands of years and make a name for himself.
However, he failed.
The legal application of black magic - this is his research project.
Aaron briefly browsed the information he left behind, and roughly understood that the so-called legalized application of black magic is essentially to start from the root of magic and completely change the despised nature of black magic.
The reason why black magic is considered evil. The most fundamental reason is that to use black magic, you must have the inner malice to cause pain and harm others, and this malice is often very extreme.
The wizard's idea was to improve black magic and find a universal method to avoid the problem that black magic must be driven by malicious intent.
At first, his idea was to use some kind of magic that acted on his mind to deceive himself, pretending that he really had such extreme malice when casting the spell, and when there was no need to use black magic, he would return to normal. people.
The advantage of this is that you can use black magic without changing your personality——
It is difficult for a normal person to have enough malice to perform black magic, and when he has such malice, his personality has often completely changed.
The research of the unknown wizard is like putting shackles on the ferocious beast of black magic, so that upright people can also use its power.
However, he failed, failed completely.
Frequent experiments on his own thoughts caused his personality to change drastically. The wizard became more and more irritable and less and less like himself——
One simple piece of evidence is that his handwriting has become increasingly sloppy.
In the end, the wizard became a complete dark wizard and extended his evil claws to his students.
As for what happened after that, Aaron has no idea.
Maybe he escaped, maybe he was arrested by the Aurors of the Ministry of Magic, maybe his conscience was still intact and he took the initiative to go to Azkaban...
In short, everything is possible.
As for this basement, Aaron didn't find much except for the research information left by the dark wizard and some materials for black magic.
Dark magic items or something - maybe because the owner of the basement was caught just after he became an unknown wizard, so he didn't have time to create them.
Behind the cabinet, Aaron found three corpses, two adult wizards and one young wizard. These should be the poachers and missing students mentioned in the basement owner's records.
These three corpses were all mutilated—Aaron guessed that their missing parts might have been placed in jars.
He stepped forward to check and saw a necklace hanging around one of the people's necks. Aaron originally passed by it, but suddenly, he found that the shape of the necklace seemed familiar.
It was a cross with a handle, shaped like the buckle of a slipper.
Ancient Egyptian hieroglyph, symbol of life.
Aaron stretched out his wand and carefully inspected the necklace to make sure it was not dangerous. He also confirmed——
This is an alchemical artifact.
