Hadrian Slytherin and the Pagan Gods c3

Chapter 3

Before Salazar can do any moves, like augmenting his body or performing any rituals he needs to fix his mental state first.

It is not recommended to perform any rituals in close succession.

After all, he just done one which is his reincarnation.

So, he decided to continue sorting the memories he has, but this time he won't be doing it in the bedroom. No, he can feel in his very bones that the so-called Dark Lord did some questionable things.

Which will make him flip, he simply knows it. So, instead, he went to his training room and got comfortable on the floor.

Then he started to perform the breathing exercise, soon enough he ended up inside the black void which is his mind.

He can see the four bookshelves.

Now that he has some memories of Tom the Dark Lord sorted and transformed into books he can use the connection they all share.

In other words, memories are linked with each other, now he is going to use that to trace the rest of them.

With casual hand motion, Tom's memories started to fly towards its bookshelf.

Then they were sorted by the date so that there won't be too much confusion for Salazar later.

And so the Founder of House of Ambition continued to experience the memories of Tom Marvolo Riddle.

By this point, he got over the fact that magical Britain has become like a perverted muggle noble society.

The nonsensical blood dogma is silly on its own.

Nonetheless, he continued to watch Tom's Hogwarts experience…

Fifth-year…

Sixth-year…

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"Horcruxes? Seriously? Horcruxes? You want immortality and you use most bastardized immortality there is!!!" Salazar snapped seeing that, now he knows why he experienced instability when fusing with his Yang soul!

Because it was missing pieces of his soul! He is lucky enough to have consciousness awaken as it is!

After calming down he tried to continue watching the memories but he was having a hard time calming down!

He simply can't believe that moron performed such cheap soul magic ripped from ancient Egyptian by that idiot from Greece!

The reason the ancient battlemage calls it bastardized is because it was bastardized by that lunatic from Greece! Ancient Egyptian court magicians used this piece of magic to make their tombs haunted!

No sane wizard will turn himself into a wraith…

The longer you are a wraith the less human you are, the less human you are the less reason you have.

Easy right? Yet, this moron used it without second thought!

Salazar continued to watch, he saw him graduate, then working in a shop, collecting the relics of founders.

He even saw the Dark Lord wannabe get his hands on his locket!

"Oh, don't you dare you son of…"

Once again the founder snapped and started throwing a fit after seeing him use that piece of crap magic used on HIS locket.

"If only you were not a piece of my soul! I would have resurrected you back personally and then made you experience all the torture spells I learned and invented on you!!!" The green-eyed wizard said with fury in his eyes.

After getting over another fit the founder of house of Ambition returned to watch the life of his foolish descendant.

What he saw was much more interesting than what he saw before in Hogwarts, the quality of his school has severely dropped that was for sure.

So the later life of Tom was more interesting as he was finally out of that disappointing school.

Even so, the interest didn't last that long, even if the wannabe Dark Lord left the islands, as all the spells Tom learned were used by wand, nothing too interesting.

Then it became quite interesting again, when Tom returned to the country as more unstable than ever since he split his soul again several times….

He continued to watch with less interest as he saw how disappointing the nobles were of Magical Britain.

"They followed a mere orphan with second-hand magical knowledge…"

*Sigh*

"Pathetic…"

Salazar was disappointed in all that he saw, even the man who tried to rip off Merlin looks.

Nonetheless, he saw some good parts in this, he saw where the remaining parts of his soul were, which means he will be able to regain them and strengthen his already empowered soul.

And of course the relics of his fellow founders, he can claim them too, since their lines were completely gone he can claim those.

He was most amused that Helga's line survived the longest.

Almost to 18 century with his being second longest.

After sorting the memories of his most disappointing descendant, Salazar then sorted out the host memories.

They were only a few years of those, the only thing he learned from those is that muggles are pathetic, that was something he already knew so he only reaffirmed that.

Thus leaving him with memories of the outsider, a spirit that fused with his other two, allowed him to reincarnate properly and experience an increase in soul power in turn magic.

He steeled himself and started sorting them…

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"Hahaha…" One of four founders of a legendary magical school was on the ground rolling on his back laughing his ass off.

He has been like this for several hours.

What he experienced with the very last set of memories has completely changed how he sees the very world.

A soul from a world where magic doesn't exist? Where his very world is nothing more than entertainment?

Knowing such things would make one experience a complete mental meltdown.

Which he just did…

After going through an extreme set of emotions from anger to denial, to acceptance to point that he doesn't care anymore.

Salazar decided to end this…

To end the ritual….

The reincarnation ritual which he performed has three stages, the first one he did was 15 centuries ago, separating his soul into yin and yang pieces.

Second one he did two days ago, which fused his souls back together, which is like a gamble, as the soul's piece might have attraction each other there is still a possibility they never will meet each other again.

The very last one is called the 'melting'.

This was the most important part to finalise the merger, as right now his souls are 'sewed' together, and not truly singular one.

The merger will fix that, making him one singular being.

The founder of the house of Ambition finally sorted them out and familiarized with requirement needed for merger so, he used his parselmagic to initiate the last past part.

The moment he initiated it, his body simply collapsed and he lost consciousness.

What the ancient battlemage didn't knew is that Soul magic heavily relies on one's ego.

As he has barely just started with his training on this extremely obscure art before his death, he didn't realise that a merger requires for main personality to have a strong ego before initiating it.

And at the start of the merger, his ego experienced severe beatdown from learning the 'truth', making it weaker than the secondary strongest ego…

The ego of Otaku was all-time high when he realised that he was in Potterverse, a distinctive different still Potterverse nonetheless.

The amount of excitement he had, the possibilities of this world and everything in between was so high, that Salazar had to do certain things which would otherwise affect the stability of their fragile soul fusion.

By certain things... which were standing in front of a mirror and having a pure-blood sneer and talking how he will tell stuff to his father…

While the ego of Tom was not that high at all, since it was partial Horcrux, not an intentional one, to begin with, it was a semi-awake one in the first place.

And the original host ego? It was nothing at all compared to hyperactive otaku and ancient battlemage.

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*Groan*

Slowly a pair of emerald green eyes opened, looked around, taking in the surroundings.

"Damn… what hell of experience." The boy slowly changed his position into a sitting one and looked around.

That moment he realised that he had been here before, he changed the duelling arena.

He started training his physical body too.

"This is so weird…"

Instinctively he used his Occlumency breathing technique to control his breathing and calm down.

Moment later he entered his mind and saw the bookshelves nicely sorted out and ready for him.

Funny enough he doesn't need to do check any of the memories as he remembers them all!

It's like experiencing life four times and YET feel like you are living for the first time!

"This is so weird! Is that because I am in Harry's body? Is that because I am just because I am in seven-year-old body!?"

*Sigh*

"This won't going to do… I need a new identity, I can't call myself Harry when he only makes an extreme minority of everything I have experienced." He said that with a thoughtful look.

That moment he recalled that there is a way to claim a new name and get his lordship too.

"So stupid. They stopped using Merlin's system once they created their silly Wizengamot." The boy shook his head.

He was extremely disappointed in all of this, unlike the current system, the one created by Merlin allows one to claim titles anywhere in British isles.

Not only that, as if a Lord died on the battlefield then the Lord's ring would automatically move to the Heir.

The system was perfect, and back then everyone only wanted to seek the peak of magic, yet everyone forgot about that and instead wizards turned on each other and started to horde other people lordship and their wealth.

'No doubt they learned this from filthy muggles…'

A sneer appeared on his face before it disappeared moments later.

He took a deep sigh trying to reign in his distaste for the non-magical kind.

He can feel Tom's influence there too with Salazar's he got an extra dose of that distaste.

"Right… time for new identity…"

The boy closed his eyes and activate his magic it was so natural to him like walking, breathing, or even thinking.

Something like that should be obvious as he posses close to a hundred years of experience with magic.

Next moment his eyes slightly bulged out seeing a thin layer of green energy surrounding him.

The boy lifted his hand and looked at it.

"This is like when Gods using their authority…" He softly said that as he inspected this phenomenon.

The glow was nowhere near from records he read about God's authorities, as they would burn like aura from Dragon Ball.

His was just barely visible glow.

Nonetheless, this shows that his soul has reached a new level of power.

More than he remembers as Salazar.

"Still need to retrain magic, but before that…"

He closed his eyes and focused on his magic, then he started to think for an appropriate name for himself.

Remembering the wall separating Britain from the wilds in the North…

" I Hadrian Ignotus Slytherin hereby claim Lordship of Most Ancient and Most Noble House of Slytherin, so mote be!" He said that while a slow snake hiss escaped from his lips.

He announced his claim and proof at the same time while using his parseltongue slightly.

That moment his magic reacted to magic outside, as if testing him…

A smile appeared on the boy's face as he knew Merlin's system was still working!

Next moment he felt something appeared on his right-hand index finger.

His eyes went on his hand and saw a familiar silver ring, manifested on his hand.

This means his request has been successful and right this very moment new papers should have appeared in ministry.

The new Lord Slytherin has no doubt he just caused a massive shit storm which he doesn't care about at all.

It's not his fault that everyone forgot about a much better system running in the background, he doesn't care about the paperwork of ministry, their society is a magical one, not some muggle based one.

Most importantly he just showed middle finger to Tom and Dumb-as-door followers.