Harry Potter: Transmigrated Detective Link

Licking his lips, Link was still rapidly copying down the contents from the stone book.

Although the formulas on it basically could no longer be used to make high-quality potions, they still held research value.

And as he continued copying, Link discovered an even more shocking truth.

This stone book was actually not just a pharmacopeia, but an experimental record.

Besides some potion formulas, it also recorded a lot of forbidden knowledge related to human modification and bloodline fusion.

This made Link can't help but suspect, the reason Voldemort later became that noseless appearance was because he performed human modification.

"You've seen enough, this isn't something you can look at." Snape coldly said this sentence, then closed that stone book.

Link, on the other hand, curled his lips.

Honestly, even if this kind of forbidden knowledge was given to him for free, he didn't want it. He didn't want to turn into a noseless monster like Voldemort.

However, Snape clearly didn't think so. He kept cautiously guarding that stone book, looking as if he was afraid Link would suddenly run over and read it.

This guarded posture continued all the way until the two of them finished collecting information in the Chamber of Secrets and returned to Dumbledore's office, only then finally ended.

"So neither the basilisk nor the heir, they're not in the Chamber of Secrets, correct?" After hearing Snape's report in full, Dumbledore slowly said.

He appeared very calm, as if he had already known this would be the result.

Seeing this, Snape seemed unsurprised. He nodded and directly placed the notes he had copied in front of Dumbledore.

"These notes I will organize and duplicate later, and place them in the restricted section. You two may go back for now."

Dumbledore picked up the notes and said this, and upon hearing that, Link and Snape both left the headmaster's office separately.

After leaving, Link's expression didn't look very good.

Not finding Arkam in the Chamber of Secrets meant the heir had already learned information about him through Arkam, and only then had Arkam been relocated.

And now that they had abandoned the fixed location of the Chamber of Secrets, the entire Hogwarts underground pipeline, the Black Lake, and the Forbidden Forest could all potentially be Arkam's hiding spots. Trying to find Arkam in such a large area was undoubtedly like searching for a needle in the ocean.

Sighing, Link finally still returned to the common room and opened his skill panel to start assigning points.

Compared to last time's hesitation, this time Link didn't think for too long. In fact, there really wasn't much to hesitate about.

The current lv3 Occlumency was already absolutely sufficient, and most other skills were either at a leveling threshold or had just been upgraded.

So the only one Link could choose was Sectumsempra.

[Points assigned successfully! Sectumsempra lv5 obtained!]

Along with a golden text flash, Link once again fell into a frozen state.

And when he opened his eyes again, there was a trace of enlightenment on his face.

After upgrading Sectumsempra to lv5, the gained effects were respectively, normal power increase, control enhancement, and wandless casting ability.

This part was pretty much what Link expected. After all, Sectumsempra had already been fully developed by Snape, so upgrading wouldn't bring many additional abilities.

But there was one point that surprised Link a little.

That was, after upgrading to lv5, when Link tried to use Sectumsempra again, he could no longer gain experience.

At first, Link thought he had encountered the same situation as when he previously maxed out the Refilling Charm, that is, his abilities and knowledge were insufficient to support further upgrade of the spell.

But when Link discovered that the experience bar for Sectumsempra had disappeared entirely, he understood.

This actually meant Sectumsempra had been trained to the maximum level.

This made Link somewhat disappointed, because he had been planning to use this golden finger to infinitely enhance a single spell and become a 'One Punch Man'.

But now it seemed, the system had implemented limits in this aspect.

Somewhat disappointed in accepting this outcome, Link continued investigating the heir.

And this investigation lasted more than a month.

The result, naturally, was disappointing.

Although Link had already narrowed down the heir's range using the footprint information from the Chamber of Secrets, and had even tested Ginny and others again, he still gained nothing.

Everyone behaved completely normally. Ginny was still secretly liking Harry every day. Ron was still that silly. Hermione still loved reading books as usual.

If one really had to say someone was behaving oddly, then it would be Harry and Draco.

Among them, Harry was injured accidentally in a Quidditch match, and then somehow let slip that he was also a Parselmouth.

That was it, Link was no longer the most suspicious guy in Hogwarts of being the heir.

Harry, relying on his "savior" label, instantly overshadowed Link in popularity.

Harry was naturally quite aggrieved, but unfortunately, there weren't many people willing to hear his explanation.

After all, everyone knew, the Potter family was also a famous pureblood family. A bit of atavism producing a Slytherin heir was quite normal.

As for Draco, this guy recently had been going around telling everyone he was the Slytherin heir. Especially in front of Harry.

The two of them had already quarreled many times over this. But no one really believed him. After all, he wasn't even a Parselmouth. And his motive for pretending to be the Slytherin heir was just too obvious.

Think about it, the current most likely Slytherin heirs in Hogwarts were one Gryffindor and one Hufflepuff.

This was simply a slap in Slytherin House's face. Draco was probably trying to restore Slytherin's honor by saying that, right?

That's what everyone thought.

But Link was different. He was very clear, Draco probably just couldn't stand that Harry had actually become a "Slytherin heir candidate."

After all, Draco's special feelings toward Harry, Link, who had been watching the whole time, knew far too clearly.

Back to the main topic, although the heir had still not been caught, at any rate, since there had been no more attack incidents, over the past month Hogwarts had gradually regained peace.

Many who calmed down began to think there was no Chamber of Secrets at all.

Mrs. Norris's attack and the blood on the wall were just pranks by someone who hated Filch.

Driven by this wave of thought, other houses in Hogwarts began treating Link better. Especially the Hufflepuffs, many among them privately approached Link and apologized to him.

Link didn't care. He never really cared about others' opinions in the first place. Link even kind of hoped the heir would attack again soon.

As long as the other party acted, they would definitely leave more clues, which would lead Link closer to the truth.

But what Link didn't expect was, that heir really did take action again.

And this time's victim… was Emily.

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