章節 456: Interlude: Vali III. - Summoning the Devil or so...

The Malfoy Manor mirrored the standing and riches of the Malfoy Family, one of the wealthy pure-blood wizarding family and one of the Sacred Twenty-Eight.

The Sacred Twenty-Eight were, according to the author of the Pure-Blood Directory, Cantankerus Nott, the twenty-eight British families that were still "truly pure-blood" by the 1930s.

Due to the history of the rise of the Malfoy name, they were very rich, richer than most of the families of noble standing across the Wizarding World, as they made use of the cunning and, technically speaking, cheated muggles out of their properties and lands for entire centuries since the arrival of the Wiliam the Conqueror at Britain as part of the Norman Invasion of the islands.

This wealth was visible even in the Ritual Room, as it was Warded with the best wards that money could buy and performed by the best Ward Masters from the Goblin Clans.

As per the commands of Lord Voldemort to Abraxas Malfoy, the current Lord Malfoy, everything was paid for by the Malfoy Family and yet it seemed like a drop in the sea.

Lord Voldemort, as many knew him, or going by his birth name Tom Marvolo Riddle, stood in the Ritual Room as he was preparing to activate the Contract Flyer.

He was preparing to launch a campaign to conquer the world and for that, he wanted to enslave a devil that he would summon through the Contract Flyer.

He wanted to get access to higher forms of Magic and unlock the secrets of the Arcane to obtain even greater power, which would allow him to rule the world.

Be it an arrogance or confidence that would remain to be seen; he started carrying out the Ritual after he prepared everything needed to summon the Devil and subsequently enslave the creature to his will.

The Ritual took several minutes to activate as Lord Voldemort activated the Contract Flyer and started summoning the Devil here to the Earth.

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Meanwhile, on another side of the world, across the tunnel, Vali could see everything that the mortal human was doing.

In truth, when he looked at the human that was summoning him, he realized that he was barely as strong as Tier 1 Magician in terms of raw power... that would probably be a credit to the state of the world.

The lower magical worlds typically tended to have weaker magic users, as he could see that the man in question had Magic Reserves worth of 10 Mortal Units, which was... very low for the standards of anything.

Still, considering what he felt from the world as he broke through the World Barrier, he deduced that the man should be one of the most powerful Magic Casters in that world, as Mana Density was...

Almost non-existent and it was dying.

When Vali broke through the World Barrier, he sensed that he was being suppressed by the World, but surprisingly not that much, or instead, he only realized later that this state was not suppression but rather deprivation of Magic.

The World was leeching Magic off him, or rather taking the residual Demonic Energy he released and absorbing it to heal itself. It was a truly fascinating thing, as he immediately activated some programs through his Holo-Brain because he would be recording everything of this and giving it to his father.

Vali knew what was going on, as the Magic of the world was dying, the world was doing everything it could do to preserve it because once it died off entirely, then the consciousness of the world would perish with it too, meaning the world would become just an average planet.

Of course, he scoffed at the human mortal that had the audacity that he could enslave Tier 10 devil, one that was almost reaching Tier 11, but he wanted to see this world because since he came here, it was giving him very odd feelings very odd feeling.

Another thing was that he felt something of extreme danger coming from the planet, something that gave him fright and he was a Tier 10 powerhouse with enough power to wipe out entire Star Systems if he wished.

Yet he entered and soon enough, he found himself in the Ritual Room of that human worm that was thinking too much of himself.

Yet, as his father always said, these people are always easiest to manipulate to what he wished and for the first time in his life, he would be taking the shadowy approach of things.

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Earth, England, Wiltshire, Malfoy Manor - The Ritual Room

Lord Voldemort, aka Tom Marvolo Riddle, looked at the Devil he was supposed to summon and yet the thing he summoned looked entirely humanoid with shining blue azure eyes and silver hair, such a handsome appearance that would put all models to shame.

Suddenly Tom Riddle started growing very, very nervous when he looked at the silver-haired man. During his journey and pursuit of power, he developed a very dependable sense of danger and could very easily tell who was dangerous.

And when he looked at the man, he summoned every part of his very own being who was screaming at him to get out as soon as possible.

Still, before he could do anything else, suddenly the man looked at him, and with a wave of his hands, all runes around the Ritual Room shattered to countless pieces.

"Human... most peculiar."

The silver-haired Devil stated with a smile as the first reaction of Lord Voldemort was to take out his wand; only then he realized that he couldn't move an inch; even his breathing was strictly controlled by the main front of him.

"Will Binding Runes? This god-forsaken world with dying Magic has actually been that advanced? But they are, of course, of trash quality... "

Vali Lucifer examined the runes that were engraved all around the room, some with curiosity because it appeared that the knowledge of the Runes was relatively advanced in this world, which was most unusual considering that they were in a magically dying world.