thefictionvixens Chapter 377 The Grim Reaper's New Idea! The Origin and History of Azkaban!
Chapter 377 The Grim Reaper's New Idea! The Origin and History of Azkaban!
Regardless of its nature, once a being develops self-awareness, it inevitably generates various desires and distracting thoughts.
Even Death is no exception.
Earlier yesterday, Death, observing the decline in souls in the world of the dead and the miraculous experience of the ghost cultivator Mo Xuan, who died and was resurrected only to die again, astutely deduced the existence of a new god.
The intention behind identifying this new god as someone to lure Him into the world of living beings is unclear.
Out of a cautious desire to protect himself, Death chose to yield.
But what happened next repeatedly provoked Death's nerves, even though He had no nerves.
The deceased Potters and the Dumbledore family are all considered souls treasured by Death.
Among them, the soul of Aurelius, which can give rise to the legendary wizard-level Obscurus, is a top-tier collectible in the hands of Death.
As a result, they were all taken away by that new god!
Even a clay figure has a bit of fire in it, let alone a deity who rules the world of the dead.
Death was furious, but he barely managed to suppress his anger and comfort himself, thinking that it was just a few scattered collectibles and not worth risking his life and wasting his divine power.
This finally calmed me down.
How long has it been? Less than a day!
Just now, 1795 of his collectibles were released in a rush, like water being released from a dam!
Most of them are high-end goods that He favors!
It is either the soul of a powerful magical creature or the soul of a wicked human, exuding an aura of evil and depravity.
This new god is utterly shameless, dancing wildly in His minefield, slapping His face hard!
Although, He does not have a real face.
But none of that matters. What matters is that Death no longer wants to endure it, nor does it need to!
To resurrect so many living beings at once is a clear violation of the laws of life and death in the world.
As the god of death, He went to the world of living beings to resolve the root of chaos, which was in accordance with His divine duty and the laws governing the world.
On this journey, He will not only not need to expend divine power to break through the limitations of traveling to the world of living beings.
Furthermore, it can receive the blessing of the Law of Death itself, and unleash the power of the Law of Death on those ignorant new gods without any loss!
As Death thought this, he stood up lightly, his figure blurring as he prepared to traverse the spatial barrier and enter the world of living beings.
But the next moment...
"Holy crap?! What's going on?!"
Death encountered strong resistance when it crossed the boundary between the world of the dead and the world of the living.
The resistance was only slightly less than before; without expending a great deal of divine power, He still couldn't go to the world of living beings.
Death's wrath vanished in an instant.
He stopped moving and no longer went to the world of the living, but sat back down on the decaying, withered wood of the world of the dead.
"This time, the new god didn't resurrect people or magical creatures; he simply took my collection to the world of living beings! Otherwise, the world's rules wouldn't still be against me entering the world of living beings!"
Death quickly realized the key point, his mind filled with lingering fear, "Before, I only suspected that the new god wanted to lure and harm me, but now I can be sure!"
That new god is plotting against me! And...
That new god knew my preferences perfectly, and kept escalating the situation, repeatedly provoking my anger, trying to make me lose my mind and fall into His trap!
How does He know me? Yes! I can see the life experiences of the dead, and He can also see the experiences of the dead in the world of the dead!
Perhaps He had already seen some clues from the souls of those two dormouses and devised a plan to harm me!
However, being a relatively new being, He was unaware of the world's rules that restricted Him, and thus, He made a crucial mistake and failed to succeed.
Now I've seen through His plan; let's see if He can hold his temper.
If He loses patience and resurrects countless beings, then that will be the time for me to go to the world of the living and settle accounts with Him once and for all!
Death sorted out his thoughts and returned to his calm and composed state.
In the future, whenever there is a severe shortage of souls in the world of the dead, He will attempt to travel to the world of the living to sense whether the world's rules have removed any restrictions on Him.
Once the restrictions were lifted, He set off decisively!
If the new god only extracts souls from the world of the dead, without resurrecting a large number of the dead...
Death thought for a moment and made a decision.
His patience is not limitless; if it is absolutely necessary to fight to the death, then he will fight!
……
Living World, No. 4 Privet Drive, Dursley House, second floor, Dudley's bedroom.
A soul-creating operation is underway silently.
Dali looked inward at the Soul Control Space within his body, and smiled as he saw the 1795 extra souls.
The first thing he did was extract all the memories of these souls, collect all the knowledge contained within them, and enrich his own knowledge base.
Incidentally, I also browsed through some of the life experiences in the memories of the human soul.
This gave him a clear understanding of the origins and history of the Azkaban wizarding prison.
Azkaban was not originally a wizarding prison, but a bloody retreat created by a powerful dark wizard for himself.
The powerful dark wizard was named Ex-Tess, who was the last human soul that Dudley had just collected on the island.
He was a 15th-century wizard whose magical skills were close to those of a legendary wizard, and he was very skilled in dark magic.
He was the one who built the first fortress on Azkaban using magic, and he also added powerful concealment magic to the entire island, making Azkaban unknown to outsiders at that time.
X. Tess's greatest hobby was luring Muggle crew members from Muggle ships passing by Azkaban, tricking them into going to the island, imprisoning them in a fortress, torturing them madly, and then killing them when he was done torturing them.
This is also why Dudley was able to resurrect some evil Muggle souls in Azkaban.
Not all the Muggle crew members captured and tortured by Ex-Tess were good people; naturally, some Muggles met the criteria and were restored and had their souls taken by Dudley.
Due to X. Tess's long-standing and persistent Muggle torture, every wall and every brick of the island fortress he built was imbued with pain and madness.
This attracted a large number of Dementors to settle there, and from then on, Azkaban became associated with the Dementors.
After X. Tess lived to the end of his life in Azkaban, the concealment magic attached to the island gradually lost its effectiveness, allowing the island to slowly come into the view of other wizards and become known to them.
Later wizards considered destroying it, but were afraid that destroying the Dementors' lair would provoke retaliation from the Dementor race. They also worried that homeless Dementors would run to human settlements and become an intractable menace.
Therefore, the plan to destroy it was abandoned.
In the early 18th century (1718-1726), Damocles Roll, a tough-minded man with a poor view of Muggles, became Minister for Magic of England. He defied public opinion and transformed Azkaban, the stronghold of Dementors, into a wizarding prison.
This will replace the small prisons of the past that had poor security and were prone to wizard escapes.
This has continued to this day.
Using Azkaban as a prison has obvious advantages: the possibility of escape is greatly reduced compared to the past, and it also saves wizards' manpower, since the jailers are Dementors.
However, there are also drawbacks.
Some criminals may not have committed serious crimes, nor were they particularly aggressive or dangerous. However, after being imprisoned in Azkaban and having their dementors drained for months or even years, they are guaranteed to become deranged thugs and commit even greater crimes upon their release.
Furthermore, some criminals are old, frail, or sickly. Even if they commit minor crimes and have short sentences, they cannot survive until their sentences are over and are tortured to death by the Dementors.
In Dali's view, if criminals were screened...
If only the most heinous criminals who don't deserve to be released are imprisoned in Azkaban, and then Azkaban is encased in a powerful anti-escape barrier, then this wizarding prison of Azkaban will have only advantages and no disadvantages.
This is simple; just have Old Man Dumbledore give the current Minister of Magic, Kingsley Shackleberry, a heads-up.
A thought flashed through Dali's mind, and he continued to process the souls in the Soul Control Space.