Chapter 18: Legacy of the forgotten

[Rohan POV]

After sundown, I returned back to my hotel and started packing, if everything was according to plan, then the renovations should be done by tomorrow and I can finally move in.

At night, I was sitting on the couch, gazing intently at the smartphone screen. After around 5 hours of waiting, the first record was deciphered. What I found were around 112 images of what seemed to be notes written in large and distinct handwriting. After converting the images, I used an image upscaling app to improve the image quality and finally compiled all the images to make a pdf document. I named this document 'The Omega Records' mostly because of the omega symbol on the first page and a play on the word 'record'.

I then started reading intently. The pages were white while the writings were in black; everything was written in large format, probably as a safety measure for any distortions in the text left after conversion.

**"If you are reading this, then that means you have successfully unlocked the secrets of the records. Congratulations. You can call me 'the forgotten one' and these records are my Legacy to you.

To tell you the truth, I never thought that anyone would find these records, let alone spend time deciphering them without knowing what they were. To answer what the records are, they are backups of research I was involved in. Because of reasons, you will know later. I was going to destroy all of them, but my wife stopped me at the last second and told me about a prophecy she had.

My wife was good at divination, she had perfectly predicted many times, and I was able to become quite rich because of that. Back to the matter at hand. She told me that someone in the future will come to walk the same path as me, so I should pass on the knowledge instead of destroying it. I agreed to it.

I bought the place she told me to buy and I created and hid the records in the basement such that not just anyone could find them. My wife told me that she would look after them for as long as she could, so she soon left for London."**

When I started reading, I was shocked to find that the reason the house was in the location of the sanctum santorum was not that the place was special. But because it would get my attention. I don't think anyone would have suspected anything special about the records if they had found them. They would think that they had been damaged in all these years. The only reason I put so much effort into it was that the location was special to me and me alone in this world.

This got me thinking, ' am I also following fate? That's not possible as I am not a part of it here. I dropped the topic temporarily and started reading again.

**"To explain everything, let me start from the beginning. I was born in 1860, when I was five. I awakened my magic, and that's when I was taken away by MACUSA.

When I was taken away, I still hoped to return to my mother someday, but when I was eleven, I finally learned that they were Obliviated and that everything about me was erased from their minds. They obliviated my parents but left me as I was only five. But little did they know, I had a perfect memory and I could recall every little detail about my parents. Things like how my father treated me as a monster because of my magic; how my mother loved me regardless of it, everything. I was very angry, but I could not do anything as I was just a child.

When I first enrolled in ilvermorny, I was a model student. I had a good relationship with all my teachers and classmates, but deep down, it was all an act. Deep down, I really despised wizards and the wizarding community. But on the contrary, I loved magic. This contradiction would shape me for the times to come.

I would always be stuck inside the library trying to find a way to reverse Obliviation. In my search, I had gone through many books that I had also memorized. By my seventh year, I had memorized almost half of the library.

In my seventh year, I was top of my class and even got a job recommendation at MACUSA. I didn't know how to feel about it. In the American wizarding world, there were no old wizarding families like in Europe. MACUSA maintained everything here with an iron fist. Jobs in America were mostly in MACUSA. Other options were in enchanting items and potioneering, which were very competitive fields and were highly regulated, and the workers were also tracked.

After finishing school, I joined MACUSA. Not because I liked them, but because I wanted revenge. I started working and for years, I secretly gathered information about MACUSA and how they operate. In the meantime, I used to do research on potions. One day I was able to make a potion that earned me a lot of money that I invested in the no-mage world. I needed to plan ahead if I wanted to give a big blow to MACUSA and so I slowly started to make a secret network in the no-mage world in case I needed to go into hiding in the future.

In the year, 1894 I was going to my office when I saw some wizards bring a guy in. He was being levitated and unconscious. I went to them and the wizards told me that they found this no-mage looking around the entrance trying to open the wall so they captured him and brought him in to Obliviate.

I told the wizards that I would be doing that, as I already had a good reputation; they let me take him.

I didn't want to Obliviate anyone and I was more interested in knowing how a no-mage was able to find the entrance. When he woke up, we talked and he told me that he was a scientist and he was doing some experiments related to wireless power, and so during his experiments, he noticed that there were some places where electricity acted different than normal and so in his studies, he found a suspicious wall and next thing he knew, he fainted.

I was really amazed by him; it was not every day that anyone does this sort of thing. So I did not erase his memories but told him all about magic and the secret community. He listened closely and then thought for a second. Unexpectedly, there was no fear in his eyes like most no-mage do. He only had curiosity. I had a very good impression of him and so, I invited him to do research with me.

In the next 25 years. A lot happened. I had my revenge by obliviating the memories of many MACUSA officials. They thought that a new dark lord is out attacking them. During this time I was able to make a lot of money in the companies I invested in. The World War especially helped. I left MACUSA and permanently lived in the no-mage world freely. Luckily MACUSA didn't know my identity, so I was safe. I even got married to a girl. she was a girl I had saved from becoming an obscures. We then fell in love.

As for the guy I saved that day. His name was Nick; he was a genius like me, In the beginning, he just watched and helped me whenever he could with my research, but in just 5 years, he was able to do his own research. In these years, we had become like brothers. With the money I had, I had made many labs across America. Nick and I never met in public; we only met for research. He achieved great things in both the magical and scientific worlds in these years.

One day, he told me that he was interested in runes. He believed that for removing the Statute of Secrecy, no-mages needed to be on equal grounds with wizards, so runes were the best options for that. I did tell him that runes were ancient magic and that they were now only used for translating old texts, but it did not stop him. He worked on them. It was like he was built for this. He could design and test magic ruins in his head somehow before making them real. This was a terrifying talent. We both worked on it for years to come.

Around 1926, he called me to a lab in New York. He told me that he had made a breakthrough. When I went to see him, there was a big cylinder in the middle. He told me that he had successfully created a magic storage device. This was a groundbreaking invention, as until now it was impossible to store magic in any form. There's only one example in history, the Philosopher's stone.

When the device was first started, it worked fine, but slowly it started to overload with magic and soon it exploded into a big firestorm. I was able to save Nick in the last second, but both of us were wounded and so I left with him quickly grabbing whatever I could find near me.

The next day, I saw a front-page article that said a magic bomb went off and what seemed to be the work of the darklord testing bombs. I should have seen it coming; my magic residue must have been left when I apparated from there. Luckily they didn't know my identity yet.

For the next 8 months, Nick worked secretly in a lab while I was in hiding, making sure I was not near any Aurors. The enchanted items on me could only do so much.

One evening, I got a distress signal. It was from Nick, he told me that he was captured, so I quickly apprated to the lab. There I saw a young man holding a weird wand to Nick's temple. We had a conversation and the young man said that he was not with MACUSA but he was looking for the creator of the magic bomb. When he went searching, he found a little trace of a no-mage so he was able to track him down. When he read his mind, he was shocked to find that the creator was none other than him.

The young man then went on to tell me that no-mages were a threat and how wizards should subjugate them; he also called me a traitor. We had a duel but what shocked me was that he was able to go toe to toe with me, being so much younger than me. After some time, the dual ended in a draw. He soon escaped, but I was not so lucky. The commotion had been noticed by a lot of Aurors, so they soon surrounded me. This time I was not so lucky, they had seen my face!

In a desperate attempt, I quickly grabbed Nick and started the second prototype. There was a small explosion this time, but I was able to escape, but now I was known as a dark lord, which was a problem. I escaped to a safe house I had made beforehand. After examining Nick's mind, I found that the young man had used Legilimency on him and then the Cruciatus Curse to torture him; this meant that Nick's mind was permanently damaged. I have used all my life studying memory charms so I was able to heal him partially, but I had to erase almost all his memories. I decided to erase only the memories related to magic and me as this would not affect his daily life, but sadly he would never be the same. I left him in his house and walked away. The only thing I wanted now was to hunt down that bastard.

After that day, MACUSA Aurors were able to find a number of my secret labs and safe houses. I was on the run across America destroying the research data we had made as I didn't want MACUSA of all people to find them. This is where my wife comes in; she saw a prophecy about you, and so agreed. if you are the one the Prophesy told about, please continue where we failed, our dreams to open up magic to the rest of the world.

At this time, I had to send all the research journals across the ocean, without alerting the wizarding world, so I decided on using records, the key that you found belonged to Nick, infact he was the one who invented this method. In this method, pictures are converted enough so that they were immune to obliviation as the information was destroyed on the record and it had to be recreated to be seen again.

If you are reading this record, then it means all the remaining research has been sent to you and all sources are destroyed. After sending this record, I will be embracing my identity, as a Dark Lord fully and hunting down that son of a bitch; i have reason to believe that bastard will be using the plans of the prototype he got from Nick for something bad.

These records are only the first part of the legacy, if you are the one prophecy fortold, then i believe you will be able to find the second part.

Good Luck and take care."

'HOLYSHIT' isn't this something? Nick? who is Nick? Sounds familiar, Tesla maybe? the timeline matches. The powerful young man with a weird wand.... Grindelwald? does match the description. That would explain him damaging Tesla's mind as he seemed as a threat to the wizarding kind. its really unexpected'

I then tried to make other pages from other records and it was all there. journals regarding all kinds of things, from magical plants to runes.

After looking at what I found, I was sure that this would help me greatly. If I could successfully convert all the records, I would have 20 years' worth of knowledge in my hand. I was really excited.

The only thing i was concerned about was that about fate and how i was a part of a prophecy. I will need to see into it.