38 Evolution

After sliding down, what is with this slide thing and Salazar, I reach the chamber of secrets. I looked back where I came from and the hole I came in is closing melding itself to the background.

this is where the snakehead statues are. In front, I saw the three making dialogue with the basilisk.

[I am here. What is the news?] I asked.

[young master this basilisk is still a little groggy after waking up from a long slumber. her name is Selena, she is friendly so far. She did eat our gift for her. that is all for now. She is at the moment not aggressive.] answered Anita.

[asked her about Tom Riddle.] I said back while closing in little by little using the statues as my cover got to be careful with this snake I don't know her full story after meeting Tom.

Getting closer to the head statue of Salazar I heard their conversation more clearly.

[ what is your relationship with Tom Riddle?] ask Moriah.

[Ah master Tom he likes to be called Lord Voldemort, I have formed a familiar contract with him a few decades back. He said I should sleep for the moment till he gets back after gathering power for himself. ] answered Selena

"plan b, plan b!" I said in english. immediately Moriah flew and control the ground using the floor to hold down the Basilisk body except for a little part of the neck and the head. An arrow that came from Anita quickly hit a vital point in the nape disabling the basilisk movement after that Asuna was slithering toward the basilisk and stabbed the nape with both kris daggers. pull it up and stab it again this time with a slicing motion.

with the coordination of the three, the basilisk did not even have a chance to scream. Adding the newly awakened basilisk and she had just eaten a deer with a little weakening potion in it, it was a fast kill. Moriah improves her earth manipulation a lot.

[Nice work you three and a great improvement on you Moriah on your earth manipulation.] I said as I placed the carcass inside my mini world and the three.

inside the mini world, I called the elves to help the twins to gather the eyes fangs, and venom. I still need the body in almost complete condition to make the ritual.

According to Salazar's notes, he had completed the ritual to a perfect stage without any kind of side effects. The ritual circle should be inside the snake's chamber where it sleeps.

I exited the mini world and goes back to the chamber to find the ritual circle. walking to a long smelly tunnel looking around the premises. Finally, after a few minutes of walking, I found the basilisk sleeping chamber where the ritual circle is placed.

The most important part of the basilisk in this ritual is its blood. I need to pour blood in the circle until I cover the surface with blood. I summoned the carcass outside the circle and Moriah also and we went inside the circle. I cast a spell similar to 'Accio' but different for it gathers the blood from the basilisk to pour in the ritual circle. more like strong telekinesis.

the blood being drained from the basilisk filled the ritual circle and it started to smell like fishy iron rust. As the circle was now covered in blood I started the ritual.

[I, from the line of Lilith, ask the magic before me to transfer the magic within this blood to empower my lineage.]

The blood started to look like it was boiling but no heat came out from it. It was like evaporating in the air and the room is being filled with magic essence. Small particles started to gather and form a small orb that is getting bigger. After the size of that orb reaches the size of a volleyball's ball and all the blood in the ritual circle disappears it is starting to become a shape of a long thin rope of magic essence.

That rope moves towards me and Moriah. creeping all over our body and binding itself within our bodies, empowering our magic core and magic core veins.

Minutes passed and all the energy was transferred to me and Mattinea. Great noticeable changes occur. My magic core now has almost doubled, while my magic veins expanded almost double to I can now feel that I can use my stored magic essence more efficiently. Moriah on the other hand looks like she is being uncomfortable. with her eyes still close and her wings and body look like they are shivering. I do not feel pain from her from our connection so I think she will be ok.

I do think she is evolving somehow. I turn my attention to the remains of the carcass of the basilisk. I think the bones and skin can be still harvested. I do wonder what the meat will taste like. Wait, is it edible? I have never read or heard about basilisk meat. Well, they require a huge amount of knowledge and resources to summon. It was written in a book I read that the appearance of a basilisk can not be the same unless you succeed in summoning a twin basilisk. that would be astronomically lucky.

I put the carcass inside my mini-world and turn back my attention to Moriah. As I look at her I notice something different. She is getting smaller? no. She is shrinking what the hell is happening. I closed my eyes and focused more intently on our connection. She is not shrinking rather she wants to be small and be by my side all the time. Tsk, silly girl.

Moriah now had shrunken till she is 6 inches long and a couple of centimeters thick, her wings were gone but she still can fly or float I actually don't know the exact details. her color was so black like it absorb light itself. no shine can be seen from her except when she opened her eyes.

Her eyes are very pretty like a night sky with stars on them. she seems to be so happy flying around me over and over.

[Now I can be with you always. I can be on your shoulder and turn invincible. See...] Moriah lands on my shoulder and turned invincible.

[Silly girl, it's not like I want to not show you to others but I'm just being careful for now. we do not have enough power to protect ourselves from the world yet. but sure you can now follow me. now that my powers level up, I might not be able to defeat all the enemies but I am confident I can retreat safely with you.]

[YESSSSSS] she said appearing once again and rubbing her head in my neck.

[now let us leave this place.] hmm, I wonder..... "Gazlow!" no reply. there must be some anti-apparition in this area that even house-elves can not enter. I will investigate!

Returning to the bathroom Mrtyle is not present in the place still. That is good. "Gazlow" I called.

"yes master?" he appeared in front of me.

After checking in the marauders' map if someone is near the room of requirements. "Apparate me near the entrance of the room of requirements."

"At once master."

appearing in front of the entrance I paced three times and think of a room where I can store things in secret. The room of requirements' door started to form. I don't know if Dumbledore is aware of this door, which I highly suspected he knows for sure, it has no detection spell but the corridor on the way here is maybe he can't manipulate the door and add spells or runes that detects people's presence.

Anyway, I entered the room of lost things. I started to roam around and find anything useful or things that will interest me and put it in my mini-world. I also closed my eyes and used my magic sense to find objects that emit magic, there are many finds, including dark and cursed objects that emit a menacing aura. I stayed away from those.

After minutes and minutes of roaming, my main priority of coming here is in front of me. The vanishing cabinet. I would like to try if this works even inside my mini-world. I put it inside to check on later I roam around more to find all things that can be of use to me.

I went out after roaming and collecting for more than 2 hours I did not find anything like time turners, such a bummer that was.

Then I tried to experiment with just what does this room can do and what are its limits.