Nine layers of Hell

by fvdv123

ROB, the Random Omnipotent Being, is pissed off at the Fan Fiction Authors for using and abusing his name in their stories. So, when I died, I got His revenge. Forced to live through my favorite stories, I have to avoid ending up in Hell. M for a reason, all the tropes will get their turn and there will be girls eventually. You know me, MR Cringe and Gary Stu are supervising.

29. Chapter 29

Disclaimer:

Mrs. J.K., and those Dudes from The Gamer… Meh, what can you do against me? I am messing around here without asking for money.

AN:

I fixed some of the stupid mistakes I made in the previous chapters, not all of them though, you have to be stupid to make stupid mistakes after all… did I just claim I am stupid? Now that would be stupid.

Previous:

When I went down into the kitchen for breakfast I grinned at Harry: "We are going to have fun today, Harry!"

29 The Game.

Mum tempered our fun: "Have fun after you complete your chores, your rooms have to be cleaned, and the garden needs attention."

Harry drank his potion, and nodded: "That won't take long, Aunt Petunia."

That is right, with Level 30 and a month of a decent diet, it made a big change, now with his body and Magic corrected, he needs to follow a potion regime for two weeks. Harry was already a totally different guy. Our chores were done in record time, I even got a new skill out of it.

New skill Acquired:

Gardening LV1

No comments! I never worked a day in the garden before, that was Harry's job, besides, I hate digging in the dirt. I probably never going to be an Earth Mage or Druid, even in my old life I didn't have green fingers, neither did my ex-wives have them. Even combined we managed to kill off all the plant life in our house, even Cacti and desert plants didn't survive our care in our home. So, getting the Gardening skill is considered a major achievement and an indication of Harry's teaching skills.

In my room I explained the display of our Status to Harry: "I changed a lot on the display, at first it was too detailed, the skills for example, Writing Level 5, Bicycle Riding Level 3, even Potty Training Level 8. I hid all those Skills and left the ones I considered important, or did not exactly understand.

Like the Magic Education, or the Magic from Voldemort, I even have Higher Education Locked, and I don't know why."

I straightened up and continued: "During my first levels I noticed I got distracted by my Stats, instead of killing Zombies, I wasted time checking my advancement after each kill. I changed that to set it to display it as status bars in my HUD, you know like in the Games, a bar for Health, and a bar for EXP. You would have a bar for Magic I suppose."

I shook my head and told Harry: "It still was too distracting, I had my attention more on those bars than on my surroundings, so I disabled them. All I do is check them when I leave the dungeon. Now that leveling is going fast enough, I don't feel the need to see how far I am from the next level, sleeping restores my Health and Stamina, so I kept those disabled."

I shrugged: "Keeping everything visible in your Status will take hours to read it all. I disabled the Achievements completely, it doesn't give rewards and it spams your Head-Up Display. The Achievement Tying your Shoelaces or Babies First Steps, are not that interesting."

Harry argued: "A Health bar and Magic bar would be a big help I would think, why didn't you keep it aside from distracting you."

I explained: "You will focus on those bars instead of your body. Those bars are needed in Games, you can't feel that character on your screen. Your body will give you enough information to tell you your limits. I am even going to combine the Weapon Skills later on."

That is something I transferred over from my old life. I loved those Gamer stories a lot, but some of those were ridiculous, they started out nice until they started to spam their Stats every time they leveled up or got a new Skill, in the end, I was scrolling more than reading. It kills the story. Now? I am too lazy to read them, so disabling them was the best idea I could come up with.

I sighed: "One more reason is that you need it to feel human, not a character from a Game or story. If you lose that humanity. You become cold and ruthless when you see other people as puppets from a story."

That was something I had to remind myself of every time I went to another Layer. That is also why I emerged myself in that character as much as possible. Last level I was not an old guy perving on some girls, I was Harry, a champion of the Tri-Wizard Tournament, Soul bonded and returned back in Time. Most of those Layers could be done in a few days, even this one.

But, like my Main Quest demands, I have to make it entertaining for ROB. This Layer, I fear it will take some time to complete it. With four speed runs, ROB will get bored if I do one more.

"It isn't a real Game either," I said to Harry, "It doesn't give quests, we are not in a story, the only difference is the Dungeons, and we can see our progress in numbers. Even that is relative, take Intelligence for instance, it doesn't measure our IQ, I started with 8, a slug has more than that! I doubt we will be designing Spaceships when we reach Level 200. Maybe it calculates our thinking power or the amount of Magic you can cast?"

I frowned: "We gain a point every level in each stat and five free points to spend where we want it. At first, I wanted to train my body outside of the Dungeon to raise my stats, I realize that is impossible, we are already miles beyond normal boys our age."

Harry was puzzled: "Then why are we not buffed up? I still am skinny and you are still fat, not as much as two months ago, but still, you are fat, Dudley. I am stronger, I feel stronger, but I look the same as before."

I shrugged: "We better not think too hard about these illogical phenomena, we just have to make the most of it. Now for my big news: I got to LV50! I changed my Class to Mage, just like you. I even unlocked my Magic Education, the first year. I haven't activated it yet, you said you need a Wand for those first-year spell books."

Harry smiled: "I got Teaching LV2 today when I showed you how to work in the garden, I can teach you Wandless Magic."

I grinned: "We are wasting time flapping our lips, Harry, ID Zombie Dungeon! Teach me oh mighty Wizard!"

Xxxxx

I got my Wandless up to LV5, killing Zombies was fun doing Magic, I even demonstrated to Harry all of the First year spells I knew, we understood now, High Intelligence and Wisdom increase the comprehension to understand the spells and the speed we learn it by. Anyway, Harry, after two hours in the Dungeon, gained six levels and is a solid LV36 now. That bastard has a cheat!

Harry James Potter

Human Mage.

Age 10

Level 36

Str: 42

Agi: 48

Stam: 48

Int: 53

Wis: 45

Mag: 113

Stat Points: 151

Skills

Basic Education: 84%

Basic Magical Education 54%

Accidental Magic: LV8

Cooking: LV20

Herbology: LV7

Stealth: LV25

Unarmed Combat: LV5

Spear Mastery LV8

One-handed Axe LV9

With every level, he gets 2 points for his Magic! Unfair! Then again, I have The Gamer, I will outpace him no matter how hard he tries.

We studied the Magic books, in the Empty Dungeon, the good news is that the books don't disappear when we learn them the normal way. I enabled the warning that we learned something new.

New Spell learned: Furnikulous

New Spell learned: Taragnalatella

New Spell learned: Flippendo

The list went on and on, once we learned it we moved on to the next spell. Even that got a bit boring, we went outside to play for a bit. At a ratio of one to ten, we didn't even spend an hour in real-time.

Harry asked: "When are you going to tell them? Uncle Vernon is still anti-Magic, even more so now he found out what they did to us. I think he made his peace with me being Magical, but you?"

I shrugged: "Aunt Lilly was a witch, it must be in the family. I can sell it this way, that with Magic I can defend us against them. No matter how you look at it, we are in danger just because we are related to you."

Xxxxx

Mum called us in: "Duddikins, Harry, we have visitors!"

Tonks Senior was here and I recognized Madam Bones, Scrimgeour, and Shacklebolt, and one more… ah, an unspeakable.

I heard Tonks explain: "As you can see, Madam Bones, this house is riddled with illegal spells. You have read the report from Gringotts, and you can see the Magic signature of Dumbledore himself. This is criminal action against my clients and their Ward Heir Potter. The worst spell got deactivated by Sharpclaw, it forced my clients to hate their Ward Heir Potter and caused them to abuse him for nine years! The fact that Both adults didn't like Magic to begin with amplified that spell to make them do awful things."

Tonks noticed us come in: "Harry, come here, I'll introduce you. Madam Bones, Lord Croaker, This boy is Heir Harry Potter. Harry, This is Madam Bones, the head of the DMLE, Head Auror Scrimgeour, and the head of the Department of Mysteries Lord Croaker. And Auror Shacklebolt."

Tonks said: "To come to the point, we demand that the Magical Guardianship is revoked from Dumbledore for crimes and abuse against his Ward. A Guardianship he illegally forced to get using his positions of power in our communities. I pointed out the actions he took to get rid of his legal Guardian Sirius Black, and I don't even dare to think what he did to others to gain control over Heir Potter."

Mum commented: "We lived in hate all these years, there was no joy here, we spoiled Dudley just to show Harry that he was nothing to us, we forced him to sleep in the cupboard under the stairs! Dumbledore turned us into monsters. And even now I know he won't get punished, because he is too well connected and your society is corrupt to the bones."

Madam Bones was offended: "We are not all corrupted, Mrs. Dursley! There are some rotten apples but there are more good people than you think."

Mum looked condescending to Madam Bones: "I will apologize for that remark the day Dumbledore spends his first day in Azkaban. What do you think, Madam Bones? Will he get convicted because he used some spells on... what do you call us again? Muggles. They will be offended that you even want to put him on trial for that. I remember what they said after those blood purists tortured and killed my parents. We were not worth the trouble. Those were the words of the investigators, they wore the same uniform as those two here."

Now I know why Mum is so bitter about Magic, I would be too. Anyway, they had the decency to blush when Mum gave her rant.

Madam Bones tried to save face: "Those days are gone, Mrs. Dursley. The leader of that group lost his life due to Mr. Potter. Even now we celebrate that day."

Harry asked: "It doesn't feel like celebrating to me, I caused that man to die, and my reward is nine years of torture? Dumbledore put me here after that Civil War was over to get me abused, why? The ledgers in Gringots show that he took large sums from my Vault, yet my Aunt never got a Knut for my care."

Harry looked directly at Madam Bones: "Maybe my Aunt won't get anything done with your kind, but she will in my name As my normal Guardian she can file a lawsuit for House Potter."

I added: "If this won't get us anywhere, then we can leave the country, Dad got offers to lead a branch in the States or Down Under."

Threatening to move The Boy Who Lived out of the country works every time, it is as if he is a national treasure.

Madam Bones felt the heat, she finally said: "I need to involve others to make it happen. Mr. Tonks, do you agree with involving the Gray Faction? I plan to invite Lord Greengrass here tomorrow."

Tonks nodded: "Dumbledore is at the ICW until the end of the month, I need to have it settled before that."

I butted in: "What if someone warns that man? I bet he has his spies everywhere. Maybe even here."

I remember that Shacklebolt was sucking Dumbledore's dick… wrong mental picture… Nasty mental Picture… can't shake it… Fleur's pussy, my naked girls… Harry's naked girls… I am getting depressed.

Croaker commented: "I have everything I need, the reports from Gringots confirmed it. We leave it up to the DMLE, Madam Bones, we will only interfere when it gets out of hand."

Mum remarked: "Tomorrow after dinner, Vernon has to be here too."

Xxxxx

It was too good to be true, leveling became harder, after five hours of killing Zombies I only gained one level. I vented my frustration on my punching bag, no, I told you before we use a real one now. Meh, talking to myself is the first sign of insanity, or was it talking in the third point of… we are not amused when you laugh!

Anyway, I boosted Harry the next morning, we did a four-hour session, and he got to level 50 too. I was pushing it, with Lord Greengrass coming over, it could change a lot of things.

Harry reported: "Dud? Do you see it too? Check that Announcement."

Your Level reached LV50

You may choose to change or upgrade your Class

Upgrade it to (Elemental) (Druid) (Summoner) (Magic Crafter)

Or choose new Class (Rogue) (Archer) (Warrior)

Harry asked: "What do I choose, Dud? I want to upgrade Mage, but what are those Classes anyway?"

I answered: "My best guess is that Elemental is like Fire, Water, Earth, Wind, and maybe Lightning. Druid is all about Nature, plants, and shit. Summoner… I don't know, summon servants or animals perhaps. Magic Crafter is Potions, Wards, like the Blood wards here, maybe Enchanting stuff with spells. What you pick is up to you, Harry."

After hesitating, Harry took Elemental Mage.

Harry James Potter

Human

Class: Elemental Mage

Age 10

Level 50

Str: 56

Agi: 62

Stam: 62

Int: 67

Wis: 59

Mag: 141

Stat Points: 165

That bloody naffer's Magic is almost triple of mine! Must Not Hate… Harry Hunting is more appealing now… I can't even brag about my higher level.

I commented: "We are on even footing now, Harry. From now on it is going to be harder to raise our level. I needed five hours to get to Level 51, and think it will get harder later on."

Harry shrugged: "I am okay with that Dud, We are far ahead compared to others. Let's go outside and do a workout. It shows that you are losing weight already."

Of course, it shows, I am eating normal portions now and am training my ass off, Dad has it harder, being older, his muscles have to work harder to get in shape, and instead of feeling hate, he is feeling hungry, the poor guy, no wonder he is grumpy all the time.

Xxxxx

After dinner, Tonks and Madam Bones arrived with… Two Lords? Lord Davis came along with Greengrass, their wives are cousins if I remember it right, and grew up together. Mum did her side of the story while I sat next to Dad to give him moral support and control his anger.

Tonks commented after Mum: "As you can see for yourself, this is a high-profile case that I alone can not handle. You read the reports from Gringotts and have checked the spells and wards around this house yourself. We ask to place Heir Potter and his family under your protection. I feel that is the only way to stop Dumbledore."

Greengrass and Davis looked at each other, Davis nodded, I bet they already have it planned out. Lord Davis said: "There are a few ways to make it happen, the most secure way is to tie Heir Potter to our House, that is a betrothal between Heir Potter and one of our daughters until he is of age, he has to live in our home. His Aunt and Uncle have to sign the Contract and Heir Potter must press it with his ring Willingly. This is the most secure way. Another way is for His Aunt and Uncle to sign Heir Potter to one of us as a Ward, again he has to live in our home with us. That can be fought over by Dumbledore, the chance of him winning is 50/50."

Lord Greengrass commented: "The abuse of Dumbledore to your family here will not make it to the courts, as Mr Tonks already predicted. I am afraid that when Dumbledore returns, he will reactivate the spells and claim it that is in the nation's best interest, for example, to harden you for your future life as a Lord. And he will probably get away with it."

Wow! These guys are full of bullshit! I can see what they want, Harry under their thumb with two wives, and Harry's money in their vaults. In a way that is still better than what Dumbledore is offering though. With Dumbledore, he gets buggered… Nasty mental picture…. Miley on her wrecking ball, in her undies at the pool… Ah, so much better.

Tonks added: "As much as I hate to admit it, the first option is the most secure for Heir Potter. Living with them will make him familiar with the Magic community and customs. Being a celebrity, they will expect a lot from Heir Potter."

I asked: "How fair would that contract be for Harry or the girl? Can they cancel it? How safe is Harry's fortune? Dumbledore is robbing him, what if Harry is trading one for another? I mean no offense but these are life-changing decisions."

Everyone looked surprised at me, I defended myself: "Hey! I read books! I heard stories! It is possible is it not?"

Mum and Harry looked slack-jawed at me, I never voluntarily opened a book in my life, now I am claiming without even blushing I read books? I bet Mum will have a long talk with me when the guests are gone.

Lord Davis answered: "You have a point, young man. Therefore Solicitor Tonks will help your parents write a proposal. This concerns my daughter Tracey, and Cyrus' daughter Daphne. Mr. Tonks will explain the details. It all depends if Heir Potter is willing. We guarantee to treat you fair, Harry, we feel that you need this to prepare for Hogwarts."

Harry looked at me for support, I shrugged and said: "Do it, as long as they don't rob you, you will learn what a future Lord has to know, that is something Dumbledore tries to prevent. Maybe you get lucky and those girls are pretty."

I looked at Mum and Dad's surprised faces and said: "What? They could look like Trolls, we can't know that."

Lord Greengrass shook his head and showed a picture to Harry: "My daughter Daphne is blond, Tracey is the black-haired one."

Aaaand... Harry is sold. I bet he got the Achievement Love Struck or First Crush, maybe His First Boner, yeah both are 9.8 on a scale of 10… Last Layer, Tracey was a Lesbian… but that was a Fan Fiction, I am not sure what this one is.

Greengrass saw that the loot was in: "Keep the picture, Harry. You will study our ways with them if you agree."

Son of a bitch! That sneaky bastard! I have to see that picture, I bet it is them on the beach in a bikini… nah, they are Victorians, how far are they willing to go to fetch Harry?

Xxxxx

When the two Lords were gone, Tonks explained the line continuance and concluded: "The Magic society is still old fashioned, and betrothals as such are normal."

Dad commented: "We have marriage contracts for rich families too, it protects their fortune in case of a divorce."

Tonks nodded: "Then you will understand the terms I propose. Those girls will bring in their own dowry, depending on what the financial situation of Heir Potter is it is custom that the groom will grant them a vault with a percentage of his fortune for personal use. It is a matter of prestige, and in most cases for bragging rights, to grant them a big sum. I propose no more than 10% of the contents of the family vault."

Mum said: "They must have a chance to cancel it, in case they hate each other."

Dad added: "For as long as they are his Guardians, they must do their best to manage Harry's belongings and go after the money Dumbledore pilfered from Harry."

My contribution: "Harry must be allowed to visit us at least once a month and we visit him if he wants to. If not, he will only remember those nine years instead of this month. Also, arrange a trial for Sirius Black."

I feel sorry for Harry, the kid is still looking at that picture like I did when I saw my first Playboy magazine. Miss March, a platinum blond with a nice set of tits, wanking material for months. Too bad my sister found it and tore it apart, the bitch.

An hour later, Tonks left with the first draft of the contract. It wasn't Dad's money so he was generous for the girls, 10% each! They fell with their asses in the butter! They struck the mother load! We saw the ledgers, Harry is loaded! 80 Mill! Yes, 80 with six zeros behind it! Eight million for each girl!… I think Dad still hates Harry a bit.

Harry agreed with everything Dad and Tonks proposed, do I have to save him? Let's see, he gets two wives, smoking hot wives, he still has sixty Mill left. Did I say he got two smoking hot wives out of this deal? Nah, fuck him. I know what I am looking at in the mirror, I can go after Millicent Bulstrode at best. Make it 40% Dad.

Xxxxx

When they looked at the numbers, the Lords agreed with everything, a week later the contracts were signed and Harry was packed and ready to meet the wives. I convinced him to leave the Magic books here for me, they have a library full of Magic books after all.

I nudged him: "Dude, you have an owl, use it, will you? I keep you in my Party, but I don't know how far it will reach. Be careful to whom you show your wandless Magic, I bet it is pretty rare, so only the ones you trust and demand a vow of secrecy or something."

Harry rolled his eyes, he said: "I distributed my extra points remember, I won't be easily fooled."

I slapped the back of his head: "Can you look at that picture of your future wives and say that again? I bet they only have to blink with their pretty eyelashes and you will tell your darkest secrets."

I got serious: "Remember, Harry, that secret is not yours alone, when they find out how you got so strong, they will come after me and my parents. We are not strong enough to fight them, if those blood purists find out, we will be dead before the year is out. Ask for books to protect the mind, I think there are some Wizards that can read your thoughts."

He is a powerhouse though, he upped his Intelligence and Wisdom to 100 each, and his Magic to 211 with his free stat points. This last week I was boosting him up to level 60. And he still has 71 points left to spend.

I saw him leave to his ball and chains, the poor bloke was even happy to go there. We will miss him, now I have to do all the chores… who's idea was it to let that bastard go? Well, it is too late now, the bird left the nest, he moved to another nest. The Goblins got rid of all the Wards and Spells, suddenly I feel naked.

Xxxxx

I went berserk in the Zombie Dungeon. I too distributed my free stat points. I raised my points the same as Harry, 100 Int, 100 Wis, and 200 Mag. Let me tell you it made a bloody big difference! I mowed Zombie heads off like I was mowing grass, a few cutting curses in a pack of Zombies made a big mess, my strategy you ask? I made a lot of noise to lure them to me and I retreated to a dead-end street, then I fired overpowered Diffindos in the pack, killing them by the dozen. When the week was over, I was level 64. With my auto loot on I raked a lot of money in, even with 20 Pence for a Zombie, I made a killing, literary.

The bad news? School starts again next week, I have to spend a year with brats who remember me as the school bully.

My stats?

Dudley Dursley

Human

Class: Mage / Warrior

Age 10

Level 64

Str: 80

Agi: 75

Stam: 75

Int: 113

Wis: 113

Mag: 215

Stats Points 80

Basic Education: 54%

Higher Education; Locked

Magic Education: Year 1– 4 100% unlocked

Wandless Magic 30

Observe LV36