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How was this possible?

Tom Riddle was caught in a state of shock and confusion, as it seemed to him that the language of the serpents was a gift given to him by his blood, one that no one else could master.

Ivan was still trying to adjust his voice to match Tom's earlier voice, but it soon began to resemble his own.

"What do you think? Tom, do I have good pronunciation?" Ivan asked Tom after a few tries.

Tom was still in a daze, and it took him a while to regain his composure. He looked at Ivan with a mixture of emotions in his eyes.

"You're quite right…"

"That's good to hear! It seems snake language isn't as hard to learn as you make it out to be…" Ivan was relieved. He had been worried that there was more to the language than met the eye, and now Tom confirmed it.

Ivan then changed the subject. "Tom, what did you mean when you taught me the language?"

"That means death!" Tom Riddle explained, then thought better of it and asked, "Hads, have you ever been exposed to snake language before? Who are your parents? Has he ever tried to talk to a snake?"

Tom Riddle found it hard to believe that Yvonne could speak the language, and she was learning it so fast.

He only demonstrated it a few times…

Ivan shook his head, indicating that there was nothing special about his birth other than his ability to learn.

Ivan then rushed Tom Riddle to teach him the next word…

Unwilling to give up, Tom Riddle tried to teach Ivan a few more words, and was finally able to confirm that Ivan had a talent for learning the language.

This discovery made Tom Riddle regret his decision to reveal so much important information to Ivan so that he could lead him to the Chamber of Secrets.

After devouring the flesh and soul of a spider, Tom was able to appear in the real world, albeit barely, and once back in the Chamber of Secrets, he was able to control the basilisk and kill Ivan.

Tom's patience had worn thin over the course of the past few days, and he had little hope of being able to control the young wizard in front of him.

Instead, he wanted to escape the other party's control and find the next easy target.

Therefore, he took the initiative to mention the concept of bloodline fusion and explained that it could greatly increase one's strength and talent.

Tom was well aware that Ivan, a young wizard keen on the study of magic and improvement, would not be able to resist the temptation.

However, despite his careful calculations, he did not anticipate Ivan's ability to master the most crucial language of all, the language of snakes.

This meant that the young wizard in front of him had the ability to leave him behind and go alone to find clues to the secret room.

Thus, after a few words of instruction, Tom stopped with an ugly expression.

"What's the matter?" Yvonne asked. She was trying to fill in the gaps in her snake-speak and was surprised when Tom suddenly stopped speaking.

"That's enough for today. I'm still too weak to keep this up forever," Tom said with a sigh, withdrawing all the black mist and returning to the diary. He needed some time to think…

Ivan was confused, but he soon realised that he had let Tom's plan go down the drain, and that Tom would not be able to teach him everything he knew.

"Then we'll learn it tomorrow…" Ivan nodded, but did not force Tom Riddle.

"By the way, you still haven't told me where the entrance to the Chamber of Secrets is. Are there any traps or booby traps? Are there any other dangers? Why don't I take you with me when I learn how to speak snake and enter the Chamber?"

Tom Riddle, who was about to return to his Horcrux, stopped and stared at Ivan, remembering that he had another card to play, other than the language of snakes.

Tom Riddle's hopes were rekindled.

However, Tom had a vague feeling that something was wrong, but he couldn't figure it out. He just felt that the young wizard in front of him seemed to have spoken too coincidentally…

"Alright, I'll teach you tomorrow!" Tom nodded with a strange expression and agreed, turning into a black mist that entered the Horcrux.

When Tom nodded, Ivan's anxious heart relaxed, and he managed to get away with it.

However, Ivan frowned at the thought of the dark stain on the door of the Room of Requirement and decided to keep the diary with him in the pocket of his wizarding robe.

…

Over the next few days, while learning the language of the snake with Tom Riddle, Ivan kept an eye on the Room of Requirement.

She hoped to find someone who could sneak into the Room of Requirement while she was gone.

However, Ivan did not find anything for several days, nor did he lose any of the decoys he had deliberately placed in the Room of Requirement. There was no sign that anything had been disturbed, as if he had imagined the stains…

This confused Ivan even more. Was it really an accident?

Ivan was depressed for a while. Fortunately, after learning the language for a few days, he finally managed to decipher the system's runes.

As Luna had guessed, it was just a statement,

Salute the great forerunner, Salazar Slytherin!

Ivan's face grew strange as he tried to recall the meaning of the characters. He recalled what Tom had said to him when he had released the basilisk.

From the looks of it, this password is also used to open places, and the contents of the password are exactly in line with Salazar Slytherin's usual narcissistic style…

When Ivan checked on the progress of his mission, he found that he had reached forty-five percent.

What was missing was the place where the password needed to be opened, and Ivan guessed that it was probably where Salazar Slytherin was conducting his experiments, presumably somewhere in the Chamber of Secrets…

[Hales, I've taught you everything you want to know. Can we go to the Chamber of Secrets now?]

The diary on the table began to turn of its own accord, black ink appearing on it.

Yvonne read the Horcrux diary in silence.

Over the past few days, Ivan has fobbed off Tom Riddle's pleas for all kinds of reasons, and the relationship between the two sides has reached freezing point, not far from total breakdown…

So much so that Tom Riddle would not answer any of his questions, but would repeat them over and over again like a repeater asking when he could take him to the Chamber of Secrets.

Given this, Ivan stopped pretending and did not attack the Horcrux for the time being because the other party still had some last bit of information…