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At the same time as Harry was holding a family meeting. Voldemort was having a meeting of his own, except it was a lot less cheerful and pleasant.
"The one with the power to vanquish the Dark Lord approaches... Born to those who have thrice defied him, born as the seventh month dies... and the Dark Lord will mark him as his equal, but he will have power the Dark Lord knows not... and either must die at the hand of the other for neither can live while the other survives... The one with the power to vanquish the Dark Lord will be born as the seventh month dies..."
Voldemort listened with a focus that he didn't have before. "So that is my prophesy, Leader?"
Sung Jin-woo the leader of the Necromancer guild nodded " I have lived for a long time, being able to see if someone has a prophesy and read it is a simple thing for me. And this prophesy is the reason for your troubles. Fate has it's eye on you"
"Fate" Voldemort clenched his fist
Sung nodded "Yes from the memory you showed me of that night, I can conclude that it was a Sacred Gear that saved him. There was nothing else a baby could posses to save himself. Specifically it was a sacred gear known as Mirror Alice, since the spell was deflected back at you instead of being blocked."
"Sacred Gear... items made by the Christian God, to think such a thing stopped me"
Sung shook his head "It's not only that both of you are bound by fate, there are hundreds of individuals in the world like that. Until the prophesy is fulfilled both of you will have trouble in your lives, or when one of you dies.
Think of yourself as a character in a book. Everything goes well, you get stronger, more money and power, and then all of a sudden catastrophe strikes. This will keep happening until you die or the prophesy is fulfilled.
You have already experienced some of that, you grew stronger and arrogant once you got here. That didn't last long, good job regrowing your hand and arm after the others cursed them off"
Voldemort's eye twitched but he stayed quiet. The people here were as ruthless as him and they all had short tempers. With many necromancy spells that he has not even seen.
"Leader now that I have had my eyes opened... how are we allowed to do as we please when there are so many powerful gods and figures watching over humanity?"
"Hmm" Sung looked at Voldemort who was sweating just being in this man's presence "Well I guess I can tell you, you have contributed a lot to the guild recently with your rituals. Many of our members will use tonight's Full Moon for a ritual and your Inferi are interesting despite how weak they are.
But make no mistake, this is a secret so keep it to yourself. The reason we can do as we please is due to the contract we have with the Goddess you were instructed to pray to when you arrived."
Voldemort's eyes narrowed, he had always wondered about that rule, but he didn't care much and just did it so that he can get access to more knowledge. Every day you must pray to the Sumerian Goddess of Death, Ereshkigal.
"But why?"
Sung smirked, it was cold and malicious "She is desperate, her entire Pantheon is gone, she needs faith and souls to exist and keep the remaining of what power she has. We provide both, in return she provides us protection from other Death Gods and access to Death Magic and on rare occasions her blessings. I am one such person, the first one to be blessed by her. It was quite amusing to see a Goddess so eager to make a deal this bad"
Voldemort was shocked 'This man is in a different class than anyone I have ever met or heard of. He is practically scamming a goddess of Death.'
"Continuing on to your problem" Sung Jin-woo broke Voldemort from his musing
"Fate loves tragic and messed up lives and endings. Take a look at both of your situations, orphans, both ambitious, ruthless. The only difference is you were born earlier and ignored the warnings and triggered the prophesy that marked you as equals. The boy grew fast due to his efforts and talent, but also aided by the prophesy and he surpassed you.
Now you are growing at a faster rate to catch up to him. Honestly it's quite a rare and amusing prophesy" Sung chuckled as if he was watching an interesting show
"What should I do?" Voldemort asked for advice
"Since he possesses Mirror Alice, single target spells will be useless in front of him, that's roughly about 70% of your spell arsenal if I'm not mistaken. But you mentioned that the boy has stated that he wishes nothing to do with you, I'd say you agree to a cease fire"
"But if i do nothing I will constantly be targeted by Fate"
Sung frowned as he glanced at Voldemort " You will always be in danger in this world. Especially in our profession. Increased growth and luck for as long as both of you are still alive in exchange for more dangerous situations.
You just have to survive your own dangers and out live the boy. That's how you win. And that's a deal I would gladly take" Sung Jin-woo started walking away "Make your decision Riddle, it will be amusing either way"
Voldemort looked pensive as he thought about it 'Potter killed almost all of my supporters, he robbed me of my treasures and most of my Horcruxes. Which now i realize were a stupid idea, I lost most of my sanity and ability to make rational decisions. Now I have to gather merit points for soul healing items just to go back to the level I was all those years ago.
But the Leader was right, it's more beneficial to leave Potter alone. The more he improves the more I do to keep up with him. We are equals and fate will see it that we have a chance to kill the other.
Another scenario would be we become weaker or stronger in each other's presence to balance things out. So the solution is just to avoid each other. And focus on getting stronger. First one to die from outside interference loses.
He sighed as he retreated back into his room 'I should write a letter no matter how distasteful it is. If Potter is really as ambitious and ruthless as me he will agree to this.'
~ Potter Manor
Harry stood outside, in front of him was huge holographic map of the property. There were several locations marked. Each location was connected to a new screen, showing the exact ritual, the materials and what time it will be activated.
Since there were so many rituals it was impossible for all of them to happen exactly at midnight.
"Titus you move the materials to the Manor.
Winey get these to the Gardens, I'm doing the first ritual there a 30 minutes before midnight.
Rocky spread these out through the edge of our property. I want a giant circle, make a drop of ingredients every 50 meters.
Linsy and Cippy I will teleport you to the other locations to help them out, they are not doing too well "
Along side the elves many of his Fragment Clones were also moving.
"He looks like a construction manager" Ted couldn't help but comment.
Hope just wisely kept quiet. She was more aware what was going on in other locations, and Harry was anything but nice there.
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Various other locations where his people are stationed.
" Get up Barbra, Get up! Move it, move it, MOVE IT!" Harry yelled out
"I can show a movie on your but Fatso!"
" No LEFT! Place it more to the LEFT!"
A few were yelling out to the workers. especially one fat man who was getting all the comments. Barbra was not having a good day.
"Marcus, Michael you are the strongest of them. Set a faster pace"
'Slave driver' Michael the Wolf Alpha carried a bunch of big bags which carried an insane amount of materials on them. Even though he was excited about the possibility of getting his human form back, he has been running around almost the whole day.
'He is more of a devil than I am...' Marcus didn't even have a ritual, yet here he was being worked like a horse. 'Stupid devils and their stupid greedy secrecy. Couldn't they have sold a devil ritual somewhere on their black market?' he grumbled in his mind. He and Harry have looked around asking through various networks about a ritual that works on devils. They found nothing.
'So they are most likely being kept as a family secret even among cousins and marrying into other families. Which makes sense from what I have experienced in their society. Keeping connections while backstabbing each other in the back just to improve their social standing and political power.'
Most devils these days are weak because they are born into luxury, with no major war and no pressure, they are lazy and weak. Only those who fought and survived the Civil War are worth mentioning.
"Move it people or you are getting a pay cut this month!"
Grumbles were heard throughout the base but people still kept working. Nobody wanted to piss Harry off, his pettiness was legendary at this point
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Priority Rituals: Manor, Harry Mind Ritual, Astoria Ritual.
These will happen exactly at Midnight, when the effect is the strongest, but also the mana is the most turbulent and it's more dangerous.
Every other ritual will start earlier.
Hope and Wolf Pack. Along with the Greenhouses and Vivariums will be 30 minutes before midnight.
Everything else will be one hour before. So it's easier to control and less painful. And after a few hours it was time for them to get it done.
"Umm, am I the only one that is nervous" Dora couldn't stop fidgeting. There were several blinds put over in make shift zones.
Every person had to be naked during the ritual as it impacted the whole body.
"Hmm, I'm fine" Sirius yelled out from his little cube. "It's going to hurt, I'm going to scream, then I'm getting drunk to forget about the pain. Sounds pretty simple to me"
"Sirius stop talking and Nymphadora suck it up, you are a grown woman and your first ritual is on one of the most important days to us." Andromeda called out, she was already ready and standing in the middle of the spell circle.
"MUM! Don't call me that!"
Andromeda ignored her daughters whining, she was curiously studying the formula and the ingredients used. 'Harry really went all out on this one. Hope said the ritual on the manor alone took up half of his accumulated wealth and resources. He is going to be working us to the bone later on, but it is deserved.
Using rituals requires more than just laying down some materials and drawing some lines, and then just hope for the best. Each one has to be specifically tailored to that person, then taking in account environmental factors like locations, the measurements must be precise, too little or too much can destroy the balance and might just kill you'
" Five more minutes people and the first wave of ritual starts!" Harry's voice echoed in the area they were in. It was just outside the property of the Manor, Harry didn't want the residual magic from the rituals to effect the Manor Ritual.
He already calculated the Greenhouse and Vivarum ritual into the big one. ' I ran the calculations multiple times. I have even more leeway since the rituals aren't done at midnight so these should be fine. As for the big ones, I can only hope for the best
Lady Luck don't fail me now'