Inside the Sefirah Castle, Loki activated his spirit vision and looked at himself.
His body although still white in colour showing his good health, looked a little dim, 'It's not as bright as it used to be.' Loki noted.
'Why did I feel compelled to do what Tom wanted me to do? Why did I place the Diary on the table instead of inside the Sefirah Castle like I usually do?' Loki wondered and did a slow and thorough check of his entire body, and that's when he found it.
"Excess Beyonder Characteristics? What!? Where did this come from!?"
'The time he absorbed me into the book?'
'How do I purge it out of my body!? Can I even get it out of my body? Why haven't I lost control yet? Do I need Madam Pomfrey's help-'
Interrupting himself was his sight that rested on the two items that were on his table.
'Cards of Blasphemy.'
'That should help me.' Loki thought and pulled the Error Card and placed it inside his spirit body.
His spirit body immediately transformed, a plague doctor mask was hanging from his neck and a monocle lay on his right eye, a tall top hat and regal clothing adorned him along with a silver walking stick that gleamed like gold leaving anyone that would stare at it in a daze.
A regal aura erupted from Loki as he sat on his chair in the Sefirah Castle and a similar smile hacked his expression.
'This should do it.' Loki thought and used the temporarily raised authority to expunge the induced Beyonder characteristics that had been forced into his body without his knowledge.
'-Wait a second.' Just as he was about to push out the Beyonder characteristic Loki had a new idea.
Loki looked at the Beyonder Characteristic that was in his body and stared at it unblinkingly.
Pulling the Ring of Harvest to himself using a sacrificial ritual, Loki decided on his next course of action.
Closing his eyes Loki allowed his astral body to drift the spirit world as he repeated a single question.
'Which pathway and sequence does this Beyonder characteristic belong to?'
'Which pathway and sequence does this Beyonder characteristic belong to?'
'Which pathway and sequence does this Beyonder characteristic belong to?'
…
'Which pathway and sequence does this Beyonder characteristic belong to?'
And as soon as he was done, Loki received the information in the form of a vision.
A student kneeling in front of an altar came into view, the student seemed to be mumbling something inaudible and not long after the student finished his prayers a roll of parchment fell onto his altar, seemingly appearing out of nowhere.
The boy happily unrolled the parchment and looked at it.
'Sequence 8 Unwinged Angle.'
Loki's pupils immediately narrowed and he looked at the information written on the parchment with focus after which the vision broke away.
'Strange…'
'But why is there the Sequence 8 Beyonder characteristic inside me?'
'Tom? But why would he send his Beyodner Characteristics inside of me?'
'Did he do the same to Ginny?'
'No, since he gave me the Sequence 8 Characteristic, Ginny must've gotten the Sequence 9 Characteristic if I'm not wrong.'
'But why would he need to transfer his Beyonder Characteristics into a different person?'
Loki thought for a while but he couldn't think of anything concrete so he tried theorising by using his knowledge from LOTM as a base.
'Giving his Beyonder Characteristics to a person, wouldn't that cause them to lose control easily since they've not attained the level through acting?'
'But Ginny seems to be stable, is Tom using some magic to keep her from losing control?'
'But why does he need to transfer all his Beyonder Characteristics into a person?'
'To resurrect using the person? Like Celestial Worthy of Heaven and Earth did for Klein?'
'....that's a little…unexpected?'
'Damn…this is getting complicated.'
'But he gave me a little of his Beyonder Characteristics so that I would meet ginny due to Law of Beyonder Characteristic convergence?'
Spending a little time trying to gain more information through divination, Loki felt suffocated since he couldn't gain more information about the situation without alerting Tom that somebody was onto him and revealing himself.
So Loki spent a little bit of time contemplating the matter when all of a sudden a brilliant idea struck him.
'Hehehehe~'
'I don't know exactly why he wants to transfer his Beyonder characteristics into someone else, but it seems like he wants to, so why not rob him of all of it?'
'It seems like talking to him continuously allows him to transfer the Beyonder Characteristics into another person and also give them mental suggestions to do a particular task-
'-So all I have to do is pay attention to when I begin to lose control and then shift into the Sefirah Castle to steal away the characteristic he has worked so hard to stuff into my body.'
'But…'
'I guess Ginny Weasley will be back in my room today, or maybe Tom will try to control me to give Ginny back the diary.'
'If he attempts to do something harmful to me I can just ignore the suggestion he uses to control me and destroy the diary after knocking out Ginny.'
'If I allow him to use me…Maybe he'd leak the way to enter the chamber of secrets? There could be a wealth of information Salazar Slytherin might've left behind that might be worth stealing.'
After Loki moved out of the Sefirah Castle he dropped back onto his bed and fell asleep.
It was only later when the night deepened, that Loki felt his body stir and wake up.
'So he's making me take the book to Ginny?' Loki wondered with a little disappointment that he couldn't have all the Beyonder Characteristics in the book but otherwise didn't interfere with Tom commanding him.
He pretended to be in a daze but made sure to take his wand and wear his Ring of Harvest so that he could be prepared for whatever was about to happen.
As an extra layer of protection, Loki employed his illusion skill to disguise himself by changing his hair colour, eye colour and the basic structure of his face along with his shoulder width and spine length.
Before leaving his room, Loki felt Tom control him and cast a spell on himself by tapping his wand on his head. It felt like someone had broken an egg on his head as its contents poured all over him and caused his body to blend in with his surroundings, like a chameleon.
'The disillusionment charm?' Loki recognised.
'How convenient. But given how easily he manipulated my spirituality to perform the charm, shows how much better than me he really is.'
'But since he's using Ginny as his vessel, I should be able to confuse him because he currently only has a Sequence 9 Beyonder Characteristic in her, while I'm a Sequence 8.'
'Plus he doesn't really have any reason to suspect my appearance..he doesn't even what I look like.'
Loki felt a little nervous about all of this, but as he walked into the cool atmosphere of the dungeons he relaxed.
'At worst I'll have to come to Professor Snape or Madam Pomfrey.'
'And I'm sure if all of this is 'Adam's' plan…nothing too bad could happen to me.'
'Besides, Sunny and the shadow pet are all guarding me…'
'I wonder what 'Adam' wants from me though…'
'Become Harry's friend? Become indebted to him?'
'I don't know…and I can't know.'
'Not yet.'
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