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Chapter 322: Dumbledore Can't Save You
Chapter 322: Dumbledore Can't Save You
Riddle was furious, his eyes fixed on Kyle with a murderous glare. Even when he was called a monster at the orphanage, he had never felt such hatred towards anyone.
But now, this person had appeared.
He was the heir of Slytherin, Riddle was absolutely certain.
That Kyle... how dare he call him a fake!
Riddle cast a spell without hesitation...
"Avada Kedavra!"
A streak of green light flew past, but Kyle was prepared and had already hidden behind a pillar.
"Killing Curse!"
This was a spell Kyle had learned from the book, Advanced Potion Making, which Snape had meticulously recorded in his youth. It wasn't too difficult to learn.
Riddle didn't dodge or deflect, and even a mocking smile appeared on his lips.
The Killing Curse passed through him as if it had hit air, leaving no trace except for a thin black line.
And this black line quickly disappeared as well.
"Useless," Riddle laughed loudly, "Your spell can't harm me... Avada Kedavra!"
Another streak of green light.
Kyle quickly retreated behind the pillar.
"Do you think you can escape?" Riddle approached step by step, "You must die, even if Dumbledore comes, he can't save you!"
The Killing Curse was ineffective...
Kyle felt helpless. It seemed like he had to resort to technology, but this was too much.
He thought of the diary hidden under the statue's foot.
Unfortunately, it was a bit far, and it would take at least five or six seconds to get there, but he couldn't make it with Riddle casting the Killing Curse at him every time he showed himself.
At this moment, the Basilisk slowly crawled out of the mouth of the Slytherin statue.
Kyle had originally wanted it to bite the diary, but after careful consideration, he gave up... With the Basilisk's intelligence, it would be difficult to understand what a diary was.
"Kill the fake!"
"Kill him!"
The two shouted in unison.
Riddle still had a glimmer of hope, thinking that since he had controlled the Basilisk a few times, he might be able to use their familiarity to appeal to its emotions.
It wasn't until the Basilisk turned its head towards him without hesitation that he finally lost all hope.
"Bang!"
Riddle exploded into a cloud of black mist, and his wand fell to the ground.
However, the black mist quickly re-condensed.
Although the Basilisk's gaze could directly affect the soul, Riddle was still a Horcrux, and as long as the diary was intact, he couldn't die.
"You fool, I am your master, the true heir of Slytherin!" Riddle roared, "I was the one who commanded you all along, it was me!"
But the Basilisk didn't care about any of this. Seeing the little bean still jumping around, it directly bit into his head.
The next second, Riddle exploded again.
"Bang!"
"Bang!"
"Bang..."
In the following moments, the Chamber of Secrets was like a fireworks display, full of noise and excitement.
Riddle, relying on the fact that he couldn't die, didn't bother to dodge. He kept speaking Parseltongue, trying to regain control of the Basilisk.
Until he unintentionally saw Kyle pick up the diary from under the statue...
Riddle's pupils shrank, and a terrifying thought flashed through his mind.
"He knows he's a Horcrux!"
Once this thought emerged, it couldn't be suppressed.
Especially after seeing the smile on Kyle's face, Riddle panicked.
He no longer focused on the Basilisk, quickly picking up his wand from the ground and aiming it at Kyle.
"Avada Kedavra!"
"Cruciatus Curse!"
"Explosion Charm..."
In his haste, Kyle easily dodged these spells, which naturally lacked precision.
Riddle's spells eventually landed on the Slytherin statue behind him, blasting a large hole in it.
A pile of small animal bones and snake shed fragments fell out of the hole.
"Tsk...look what you've done."
Kyle taunted, "You don't even respect Mr. Slytherin's statue, how can you claim to be his heir..."
Riddle ignored Kyle's mockery, his sole focus now was on killing Kyle and retrieving his diary.
Fortunately, Horcruxes are difficult to destroy, so it didn't matter if it fell into Kyle's hands; he still had time.
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"Avada..."
Just as Riddle was about to release another spell, a pair of bright yellow eyes suddenly appeared before him.
"Bang! Clatter..."
Riddle was blasted again.
"Wand, fly here!"
Ron's wand bounced twice on the ground before flying straight into Kyle's hand.
At that moment, a chaotic mix of footsteps and voices suddenly echoed from outside the Chamber.
"Here, Potter...come...open..."
The voice was faint and intermittent, but it was likely Professor McGonagall.
Kyle also heard Harry's name.
Perhaps the professors had guessed that the entrance required Parseltongue to open, so they summoned Harry, who could also speak it.
In any case, it was about time.
As he watched the constantly twisting black mist, Kyle shook his head and recalled the Basilisk, preparing to have it take a bite out of the diary before the professors arrived, bringing this incident to a close.
He had broken quite a few school rules this time, and he hoped to lose fewer points later...but the Basilisk was probably beyond saving.
However, Kyle didn't notice that just as he was about to place the diary in the Basilisk's teeth, a golden object fell out of the hole in the statue behind him.
The object was round and looked like a golden pocket watch, but unlike a regular watch, it had five hands.
"Tick..."
The pocket watch dropped to the ground, causing all five hands to move simultaneously.
In an instant, the Basilisk, which had just opened its mouth, began flying rapidly backward. Ron's wand returned to Riddle's hand, and the bones and rubble on the ground retreated back into the statue. Three spells flew from behind towards Riddle's wand, disappearing into its tip...
Time was flowing backward.
Everything around Kyle, except for himself, was rapidly reversing.
It all happened too quickly.
By the time Kyle came to his senses, he realized the Basilisk was gone, Riddle was nowhere to be found, and Professor McGonagall's voice had disappeared from outside...
The vast Chamber was now empty, with only Kyle and the diary in his hand remaining.
"What's going on...what happened?"
Kyle looked around the empty Chamber in a daze, feeling as if he were dreaming.
Could Riddle have a Time-Turner?
But that didn't make sense; if time was flowing backward, why wasn't he affected...
Could it be that he was truly dreaming!
Like the other day, everything he saw before him was fake, and he was still asleep in the Hospital Wing?
Kyle pinched his thigh hard.
It hurt!
This seemed to indicate that he wasn't having a bizarre dream.
(End of Chapter)
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