Chapter 424: "The Computer"
Chapter 424: "The Computer"
Sherlock stared at Voldemort on the ground, his gaze as if he were looking at a cockroach.
He had, of course, heard the Dark Lord's mad claim of wanting to merge with Harry and completely assume his identity.
While Sherlock had also taken someone else's place, the original Sherlock had already given up and lost his life before he arrived in this world.
Continuing to live under this identity was never Sherlock's intention.
Moreover, Sherlock believed that he had done nothing to betray the original owner. His actions always aligned with the original owner's aspirations.
He had taken over the identity but had never disgraced it.
However, Voldemort's intentions were clearly different.
Aside from the forced nature of his plan, the things Voldemort intended to do after taking over Harry's body were utterly despicable.
If Voldemort succeeded, Harry Potter's future reputation would be irreparably tarnished.
Seeing Sherlock's sudden appearance, Voldemort's face showed clear shock and hatred. He clearly hadn't expected Sherlock to be here.
However, Sherlock's hand, which was gripping Voldemort's hair, never let go. He pulled Voldemort's handsome face close to his own.
"Whether it's a good or bad reputation, you are still a Dark Lord. How can you even consider taking over a child's body?"
Voldemort's face contorted, whether from the pain of having his hair pulled or from hatred.
"This is all because of you, Sherlock! You have destroyed everything I had! You have made me become this way again!"
Sherlock's response to Voldemort's impotent rage was to slam his head into the ground!
"Don't be in such a hurry to hate me on behalf of your main soul. All your pretense in front of me was just to cover up what your main soul was doing, to divert my attention, right?"
In his soul state, Voldemort wouldn't suffer much physical damage from Sherlock's actions, but the sheer humiliation made him hate so much that he wanted to grind his teeth to dust.
"What does it matter if you know!"
He glared at Sherlock with red eyes.
"Do you have any way to help your student? Or are you going to kill your own student to kill me?"
Without a word, Sherlock pressed Voldemort's head into the ground again, hard.
"You talk too much. But there is one thing I have to thank you for. The number of Horcruxes you chose to create was just right. Including the one in Harry's body, there are exactly seven. I was just a little short."
His voice was calm, and as he spoke, the hand holding Voldemort began to glow with a dull gray light!
At that moment, Voldemort, who had been held down by Sherlock, seemed to sense something and began to resist fiercely!
"What are you doing! This is inside your student's body! I have become an inseparable part of Harry Potter! You can't do this!"
A heart-wrenching scream echoed.
Sherlock showed no signs of stopping. The gray light had spread over Voldemort's entire body, making it impossible for him to maintain his human form.
Harry, who had just recovered, looked on in shock at the scene before him.
He hadn't seen the battle in the orphanage, so he didn't know how Voldemort had been killed, but the sight before him was still a great shock.
The Dark Lord who had terrorized the Wizarding World for decades was being eliminated as easily as squashing a flea?
Unlike Harry, who was shocked, Sherlock was fully aware that the Voldemort he had just "killed" was not Voldemort himself.
Instead, it was the fragment of Voldemort's soul that had split off during that fateful night over a decade ago, entering Harry's body and turning him into a Horcrux.
The soul-stitching magic left by Selena had a natural restraining power against such a fragment, which is why Sherlock could so easily dispense with it.
If the main soul of Voldemort had been the one hiding in Harry's body, Sherlock would not have been able to accomplish this so effortlessly.
This last fragment in Harry's body, combined with the fragment Sherlock had "consumed" from the Golden Crown before coming here, had now perfectly filled the "crack" in Sherlock's soul that he had initially identified.
Now, his soul was flawless, and he could truly be considered a complete individual.
According to Sherlock's original plan, after sewing the last fragment in Harry's body, he would enter a state of unparalleled power, from which he would then use to separate Voldemort's main soul from Harry's body.
However, after his soul was fully restored, Sherlock found himself in a wondrous realm.
His surroundings were filled with vibrant, ever-changing light, permeating the entire space.
Directly in front of Sherlock, a luminous sphere floated, its color shifting from light to dark continuously. The sphere emitted a familiar aura that Sherlock recognized instantly.
Fixating on the glowing orb, Sherlock's Control Magic expanded involuntarily, and at the same time, information about the sphere flooded his mind.
From the casting of all Wizards in this world, it was clear that magic was a highly subjective force.
For example, the basic Transfiguration spell, which first-year students learn to turn a beetle into a button, requires no understanding of the beetle's structure or the material composition of the button they are transforming it into.
Despite the two objects being entirely unrelated, the caster does not need a deep understanding of their properties to perform the transformation.
The entire casting process is simply a matter of waving the wand, uttering the spell, and having an unwavering belief that the beetle will turn into a button, along with a clear mental image of the button's appearance, all driven by the wizard's magical power.
This process is not like a mathematical calculation, where a precise formula is followed step by step to reach a correct result.
Instead, it is more like using a computer.
Waving the wand and reciting the spell are like inputting numbers and operations into a formula, while magical power is the electricity that powers the computer. The resulting magic is the output of the computer based on the input.
Wizards have never realized the existence of this "computer."
They have only discovered that combining "numbers (wand movements or gestures)" and "symbols (spells)" yields "results (magic)." Non-verbal casting is like inputting the conditions mentally instead of writing them down.
The luminous sphere before Sherlock now was that very "computer", which had never been recognized in the Wizarding World but was essential for all Wizard casting!
(End of Chapter)
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