Hogwarts: This Dark Lord is so evil

"You're right, Tom, this Gaunt is indeed a little naive," Levid agreed with Tom's words.

Even if the real Slytherin wasn't as prejudiced as the world says, even if he never advocated pure-blood supremacy, so what?

For thousands of years, these fanatical pure-bloods have had their pure-blood supremacist ideas engraved in their bones.

Even if the family's heritage is indeed a distortion of Slytherin's ideas, they can't change!

However, it is very rare for such an anomaly to appear in a prejudiced pure-blood family like the Gaunts.

Besides that close friend of my upperclassman, this is the second one Levid knows of.

"Alright, let's continue. To be honest, I'm also a little curious about what the real Slytherin was like now. I also wonder if this naive Gaunt found the answer she was looking for," Levid said with a smile.

Tom snorted coldly and said, "Whether this person found the answer or not, her efforts were in vain. No one knows better than me whether the Gaunt family has changed because of her investigation!"

"In that case, perhaps Slytherin really was as prejudiced as the legends say. After discovering that the truth was different from what she thought, this Gaunt had even less of a way to change her family's thinking," Levid guessed with interest. "Let's go, I hope to see her messages later on!"

With that, the two continued forward.

However, the smooth road came to an abrupt end!

Levid and Tom both had to stop in front of an iron gate.

Unlike the previous doors, this door was locked!

Moreover, like the previous doors, two strange symbols were engraved on the door.

"It seems we have to solve a puzzle before we can open the door," Levid said, stroking his chin.

"That shouldn't be. We didn't need to solve any before, but now we have to here? Could it be that the furthest anyone exploring before got was here? Or... did we take the wrong path?" Tom also felt very puzzled.

The previous doors were all unlocked, but this one wasn't, which was indeed very strange.

"Maybe the mechanism of this door is different from the previous ones, and it might return to its original state after a while," Levid said, observing the surrounding information.

"Possibly... but, do we really need to solve the puzzle? It's just an iron door... Perhaps we just need a Blasting Curse..." Tom sized up the flimsy iron door.

This broken and old iron door, not to mention Levid, even Annie could blast it open!

"Oh? Then may I ask, clever Mr. Riddle, why weren't the previous iron doors blasted open? Instead, they were honestly unlocked by solving the puzzles?"

Levid's Snape-like cadence made Tom's scalp tingle.

"Can you not speak in that tone? It's really asking for a beating! Even if what you said does make sense..."

Levid smiled and didn't agree. Snape's tone was quite interesting.

In this strange place, it was safer to follow Levid.

This side path seemed less smooth than the previous road.

Many of the floor tiles on the entire road were raised high, making it uneven.

If you were to pass over it, you would have to climb up and down, which might take a lot of effort.

Of course, this was not difficult for Levid and Tom, because they didn't have to walk at all.

"Whoosh..." The two used the Levitation Charm to rise directly into the air, lightly gliding over the strange floor tiles.

Soon, the two landed at the end of this side path.

After landing, Tom looked at Levid with a strange look, "Why is the mist white when you fly up? Isn't it black?"

"Black is too evil, it doesn't fit my persona, so I slightly modified it and turned it into righteous white," Levid said as a matter of course.

Tom scoffed and didn't speak anymore.

In his opinion, evil black was the most suitable color for Levid!

He was clearly a guy darker than the bottom of a pot, but he always pretended to be a white lotus. Didn't he feel awkward?

"Look, there's a snake-shaped stone sculpture over there. Maybe it's the mechanism for the iron gate," Levid said, pointing to a stone sculpture on the wall in front.

When Tom heard that there was a snake-shaped sculpture, he hurried over.

However, just as he was about to use Parseltongue to say 'open', he suddenly discovered that the base of this snake-shaped stone sculpture seemed to be composed of two rotatable dials.

And on the sides of the two dials, some strange symbols were engraved, and some symbols were hidden behind the dials, not visible from the front.

"It seems that we need to rotate the dials to combine the two correct symbols in order to open the iron gate... These symbols also seem to have some special meaning..." Tom pondered, "But, how am I supposed to know which combination is correct? I've never seen these symbols before... Could it be some knowledge inherited by the Gaunt family?"

No wonder Tom thought that way. The Slytherin descendants in front seemed to have solved the puzzle, except for him, who had no clue.

It was very likely because he had grown up outside since he was a child and had not inherited some kind of knowledge that Slytherin descendants should inherit.

"Never mind, let's just try it! It's just a combination of two marks, we can always figure it out!" Tom said, and began to turn the turntable.

"Wait…" Levid wanted to stop him, but it was too late.

Tom had already started turning it.

By the time he heard Levid's words and stopped, the two symbols on the wheel had been changed by Tom.

Before Tom could say "What's wrong?"

The snake-shaped stone sculpture suddenly came to life! It raised its head and bit at Tom!

Levid flicked his wand lightly, and Tom's figure was suddenly pulled over by him, and slammed heavily on a protruding stone brick behind him.

However, the snake-shaped stone sculpture just missed, leaving a deep tooth mark on the ground!

After that, the snake-shaped stone sculpture turned back into a stone sculpture again, as if nothing had happened just now.

Tom looked at the deep tooth mark on the ground, and felt that his heart was about to stop beating.

Therefore, even though he was pulled over by Levid and hit the stone, and his internal organs seemed to be displaced, he still felt extremely lucky.

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Being bitten by that thing is not as good as being hit and vomiting blood!

"Don't be so impulsive, Tom… How could there be no punishment mechanism for this kind of puzzle solving? Otherwise, wouldn't you be able to figure it out easily?"

"But… this is too exaggerated!" Tom said, looking at the tooth mark, still afraid.

"It's not exaggerated at all… Slytherin probably thinks that he has already lowered the standard of his test to this extent, and if you still get it wrong, you don't deserve to be his descendant. That's why he made the punishment mechanism so brutal, directly humanely destroying this failing descendant." Levid smiled.

"You can just say I'm stupid, I'm used to it." Tom said with a straight face.

"You're not stupid, just too rash, not observant enough, not thoughtful enough, and not cautious enough in your words and actions." Levid smiled.

"In summary, there's not much difference from being stupid…" Tom said dejectedly, "However, since you say it's simple, then you must have the answer, so, do you recognize these symbols?"

Levid looked at the strange symbols and said softly, "We don't need to know what these symbols mean… Have you forgotten? The iron gate just now had two special symbols engraved on it!"

"You mean, the answer is the two symbols that were engraved on the door just now?! But they're not here?" Tom immediately looked like his IQ had been insulted.

"Most likely." Levid said, stepping forward and continuously turning the two turntables. "Those two symbols should be hidden in the blind spot behind the turntable, and need to be turned out to be seen, so you didn't think of it. Actually, it's not your fault either."

Sure enough, as the turntable turned, the two special marks on the door just now were also turned out.

When Levid stopped, a "click" sound came from a distance, obviously the iron gate had been opened.

Tom looked at the two familiar symbols, his heart as dead ashes, "Don't comfort me, I really am an idiot…"

No wonder Levid said just now that Slytherin had lowered the standard… The answer was engraved on the door!

Lowered the standard? Strictly speaking, it's like flooding the sea!

And yet, he was thinking of using the elimination method, trying it over and over again…

He really cried himself stupid!

If he were Slytherin, facing this kind of stupid descendant, he would have to let the snake bite them!

"I think, from now on, you will become much more careful." Levid said happily, "People teach people and can't teach, but things teach people and they learn quickly!"

Tom's face turned red, and after a long while, he said shamefully, "Don't tell anyone about today… I beg you."

"Haha, I can make fun of this secret for the rest of my life!"

"Why don't you just kill me…"

… …

On the road ahead, everything returned to normal.

Many iron gates were opened, and some that were closed again were also successfully unlocked using the method above.

And they also successfully found the second and third letters left by that naive Gaunt family member.

The second letter said that she had been lost for a long time until she lit the brazier before finding the correct path.

This shows how difficult the maze here is to navigate. Fortunately, Levid's Nightmare magic is first-rate at scouting the way, otherwise they would have spent a lot of time finding the way.

But the third letter made Tom very happy!

Because the letter recorded that when that Gaunt turned the turntable, she also made a mistake and was almost bitten to death by the stone snake.

Knowing that he was not the only idiot, Tom's mood became cheerful!

However, Levid said leisurely: "Note that she just made a mistake, but someone, couldn't think of it at all…"

The smile on Tom's face suddenly disappeared.

"Why don't you just kill me…"

Realizing that he was still the only idiot, Tom felt that life was hopeless.

A temporary mistake turned into a lifetime of introversion…