Chapter 177

"This is my own choice."

"For the greater good, I am willing to do this."

"After a year, I have figured out the situation at this time. At this current point in time, you have not yet become the true you. Because you have not yet met the Prophet; he is your spiritual mentor, and he will lead you to become the great Wizard King."

"Due to the broken Time Converter, my body has shrunk into that of an eleven-year-old child. After you consume my soul, you can happen to use my body, and then go to seize the Magic Stone; it can enable your true resurrection."

"I have already made the arrangements. You will be admitted to Hogwarts as an orphan."

"The name I registered for you at the orphanage is Lucas Tom Brightson."

"Now, I can tell you my name. My name is Lucas Brightson; from now on, you will become me and live on in my place."

After he finished speaking, he wrote the final sentence in the diary.

Then, he knelt down and held the diary to his chest.

"Good luck, Tom."

……

The third step is complete.

Murphy let out a sigh of relief. This whole operation was no less than filming a doomsday sci-fi blockbuster—he had even arranged the romantic subplot.

If not for the massive amount of game and movie imagery in his mind that he could use for reference, he really wouldn't have been able to pull this off in such a short time.

Moreover, images alone are not enough to become memories; he needed to store the emotions, feelings, and even some associated knowledge related to those images inside.

This workload was immense, but he had already had multiple experiences using Total Recall and copying knowledge from memories. Although he hadn't used it on others before, the principle was the same.

The memories he crafted were not only complete with the five senses of sight, sound, taste, touch, and smell, but even the psychological states were simulated vividly. When he read them himself using Legilimency, he couldn't find any difference from real memories. With the abilities of 16-year-old Tom in the diary, it was unlikely he would discover any flaws.

These memories were enough to make him believe his own story, and then "consume" Albert Runcorn, who had been transformed into the appearance of a Muggle child.

And once he finished absorbing Runcorn's soul and life force, Runcorn would naturally die, and the effect of the Polyjuice Potion he had taken would completely solidify, so Runcorn would die maintaining the appearance of the Muggle child Lucas.

Tom Riddle had the ability to control Inferi; attaching to this body and making it behave like a normal living person was not difficult.

At the same time, Murphy had already sent people to take away and adopt the real Lucas Brightson from the orphanage, so after Tom completed the possession, he could replace him and appear in this world.

Thus, his deception would become reality.

But, this was not enough.

In the diary state, Tom could only obtain limited information, so there was no pressure in deceiving him, but once he really returned to the real world, given his ability and intellect, it was not impossible for him to see through some truths.

Moreover, he was not a guy who would obediently listen.

Not to mention that he might not honestly go to steal the Magic Stone, even if he really went and stole it, what if he kept it for himself and used it to resurrect himself?

By then, Murphy's whole operation would have been fierce as a tiger, only to end up making a wedding dress for someone else; Voldemort would laugh himself awake in his dreams.

Therefore, it was necessary to also put a collar on him.

Murphy drew his wand and pressed it against the forehead of Runcorn, who had turned into a child, "Notamservitutis (Slave Brand)!"

……

"Tom, go and become the Savior."

When he saw this line of text, Tom felt a completely open mind.

He hesitated for a moment; he wasn't particularly interested in being a Savior or anything, but this was a chance to be resurrected.

Perhaps, he could test it out.

Following that open channel, he quietly extended a wisp of a tentacle, reached into the channel, and quickly established a connection.

In an instant, he came into contact with that riddled soul.

The other party must have suffered immense pain and endured unbelievable mental torture.

He cautiously pulled the other party's memories to verify if this was a trap.

Soon, he caught a memory.

"What is that? A missile? A tactical nuclear warhead?"

Following this term, he searched again, dug out knowledge fragments related to it from the other party's memories, and was then startled.

"A nuclear bomb, so that's what this thing is..."

It was too terrifying, truly too terrifying.

Are future wizards actually fighting against Muggles who possess such weapons?

At this moment, he no longer had any doubts about what the previous "two holders" had written in the diary.

Then, he began to pull more memories, "Mechanical worker bees, intelligent tanks, drone swarms, spy satellites, Skyfire..."

The original thought that "they were beaten like this because they were too weak" gradually disappeared.

If it were him, he would be done for just the same!

When he finished reading the memories of "Lucas Brightson," he suddenly felt a bit ashamed.

I, a mere Tom Riddle, what right do I have to be called a Savior by you?

In this doomsday, even a hundred of me couldn't save it!

But fortunately, in the final memories, Lucas Brightson seemed to have returned to 1990, 48 years after he created the diary; at that time, the war with Muggles had not yet occurred, and the outside world should still be safe.

Thinking of this, Tom no longer hesitated and immediately began to absorb the other party's magic power and life force with all his might.

Suddenly, a massive amount of magic power surged in, which startled Tom; this guy's magic power was equivalent to that of an adult wizard, and although his life force had weakened somewhat, it was still enough to use.

"After consuming this guy, I can be resurrected!"

Tom was overjoyed.

As for being a Savior, we'll talk about that later; anyway, it's still a long way from the war with Muggles, but that Magic Stone is something to consider getting his hands on.

After he was completely resurrected, he could slowly accumulate power, and then figure out what was going on with the Muggles' technology; if those terrifying powers could be grasped in his hands, unifying the Wizarding World would be as easy as pie, and then he could consider how to deal with the Muggles.

Declaring war rashly is not advisable; perhaps... he could infiltrate?

Once he fully mastered magic and Muggle technology, and dominated both the Wizarding and Muggle worlds, war naturally wouldn't break out, and wouldn't he then have become the Savior?

It flows! This logic is impeccable!

Tom felt that he had grasped the key; so that was it, this is my path to being the Savior!

So that was what the prophecy meant!

Just, what is a Prophet?

While thinking, Tom continued to plunder the other party's life force; suddenly, something seemed to enter his body along the channel.

Before he could figure it out, a huge suction force suddenly surged over from the other end of the channel.

A portion of the magic power he had just absorbed underwent a mutation; that strange magic power began to wrap around like chains, and it actually seemed to be infiltrating into the diary!

"What's going on?! What is this?!"

(End of chapter)