A Scroll of Sins

Friday, 26th April 1991

After letting his Body rest, and return to peak condition, while familiarizing himself with his new magical energy level of a peak pre-OWL Student, Matthew returned to the Ruins of the Black Castle inside the inner parts of the forbidden forest.

Today was the day he would read the scroll he found inside the ruins with the help of Sarah and his scanning spell. He decided to use the Black Castle Ruins since he didn't want to alarm Dumbledore or any other Teacher if something should go wrong. The Ruins were far enough away from the Castle, and outside the Hogwarts Wards so Dumbledore wouldn't sense anything.

As he arrived at the Ruins, he opened the hidden entrance with the rune formation and entered into the darkness. Once he arrived at the bottom of the ancient staircase, he entered into one of the rooms which were used as a Laboratory once.

Inside the Room, he began his preparations to scan the scroll. To be as safe as possible, he let Sarah create a rune formation to shield everyone inside it from mental influences from the outside. He placed the scroll outside the formation and stepped back inside it, where he started to meditate to bring his mental defenses to maximal strength possible.

'Sarah is all preparations finished and all contingency plans in effect?', asked Matthew mentally the last time before he would begin to scan the scroll.

[Affirmative. All Plans are in effect. Rune formation working on maximal efficiency. Mental defenses are as strong as currently Possible. Quarantined space inside mindscape prepared for analyzing the content. Everything ready.]

"Good." Breathed Matthew out to calm himself as he began to stare at the scroll. He opened the Scroll from afar with a simple wandless spell, the content of the scroll glowed in a dark red and black color. Which already looked ominous, Matthew focused with the help of his Occlumency on something else so he wouldn't read the contents of the Scroll directly.

He hoped with all his preparations he wouldn't look like a fool, but even a powerful Wizard-like Raczidian fell into darkness and became a famous dark lord of his time through the Scrolls influence, which is apparently only one of many more. "Enodo!" he cast his self-created scanning spell and directly guided the string of information to the previously prepared quarantined space inside his mind which is under the control of Sarah.

[Registering Mind corrupting influence inside the Quarantined Space and outside the Rune formation. Rune formation is successfully keeping the corruption outside. Power is rapidly dropping. The host is recommended to close the Scroll again. Beginning analysis and removal of the corrupting influence inside the quarantined space.]

The rune formation is glowing brightly but the light became dimmer and dimmer. He focused himself and tried to close the Scroll wandless again. But dark-red pulsating energy was emitted by the scroll, and he felt a strong resisting force against his magical reserves. Matthew fought against that power with all he got, he felt his magical energy reserves depleting very fast, but the scroll slowly began to roll up again. But suddenly the Rune Formation he carved into the floor, which was protecting him from mental attacks, broke down.

[Warning! Detecting Mind Attack! Pausing all Tasks. All Processing Power assisting Hosts mental Defenses.]

"Shit! What is that!" exclaimed Matthew as he felt an infinitely Powerful force attacking his mental shields. All he could perceive was a gigantic shadow with glowing red eyes attacking his mental shields. The being felt ancient, and it seems to be only a tiny fraction of its Power. He never heard of anything comparable in the Harry Potter Universe, maybe the only being that would be similar was Death from the Story of the Three Brothers, but this being felt too malevolent to be Death, Death was just Death neither good nor evil. But this felt like absolute evil, only with the help of the AI Chip he was able to resist it. His defenses were approaching a critical point very rapidly.

In a last-ditch effort, Matthew used his wand to focus every drop of magical energy inside his body in direction of the Scroll. Just as his mental Shields shattered into countless pieces layer for layer he managed to close the Scroll and the dark presence attacking him vanished.

"Fuck, my head is hurting. This was a really close call." Thought Matthew as he inside his mindscape watched the last layer of his mental shields surrounding his mind Universe, standing. Cracked but still standing.

"What was that? That definitely wasn't a Wizard. It seems the World of Harry Potter isn't as simple as only some wand-waving Wizards casting spells and a few magical Beast only known from Mythology. There seem to be much more powerful beings out there.", concluded Matthew while thinking of that being.

'Sarah continue removing the mental influence inside the Quarantined Area. I really want to know what was written inside that Scroll. Maybe they are something like the Necronomicon from H.P Lovecraft or the Darkhold from Marvel. Wait. Sarah was there any mention of the Necronomicon inside the Harry Potter books or Movies playing inside the Wizarding World? The Necronomicon was used by many fictional works, maybe also in Harry Potter.' Thought Matthew as he asked Sarah in anticipation.

[Beep! Search complete. No results were found. No mention of the Necronomicon inside any official Harry Potter and affiliated official works. Only some Fanfictions hosts read in the past used it. It's unlikely the Scroll is part of the Necronomicon.]

'So that wasn't it. Well, it was a possibility. From what I saw at the moment I am not inside a Fanfic Version of Harry Potter. At least from what I could tell for now. The Goblins weren't using their ridiculous made-up greetings with the overflowing Gold and so on which most fanfiction used. Couldn't see anything that made Dumbledore an evil dark lord. Just a powerful old man who is getting into the Years.' Concluded Matthew while thinking about all the Fanfic cliches which came into his mind.

'Well doesn't matter for now. I need to be careful of that being. But it's Power, that's something I want. There seem to be more Scrolls if Azkaban and its Dementors are a Clue. Sophie continues with the Analysis while I rest and try to rebuild my mental defenses.' Ordered Matthew as he walked out of the room into the other room which served as a Bedroom in the Past. He quickly cleaned the room and took out bed stuff while preparing a makeshift bed for himself.

Matthew placed himself on his simple bed and started to meditate. He rebuilds his mental defenses part for part. Since he already did it once, he was able to rebuild them faster than before. Again he guided the energies inside his mental universes to the Border and formed shields out of them. He also used the shattered Splitters of his old defenses and strengthened his new ones with them. By using the Old and new ones he created his shields more Powerful than before. While meditating deep into the night he managed to rebuild already a fourth of his shields. Exhausted from the stress of today he fell quickly asleep.

The next morning he heard Sarah's voice inside his mind.

[Beep! Analysis complete. All mental influences were identified and erased. Ready to integrate the Scrolls knowledge into Hosts Database. Proceed?]

'Why would I hesitate. All the danger would have been a waste of time. Yes, do it, Sarah.' Requested Matthew and a large string of information appeared inside the Database of his Mind.

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