Mastering Lightning from Hogwarts

Returning to the ranch from Gaunt's old house, Anduin couldn't wait to get to his study, then carefully poured the ring onto the workbench.

Just as Anduin was about to study it carefully, he suddenly heard a whispering sound in his ear. The voice was full of bewitchment, like a worm trying to crawl into his brain through his ear.

However, Anduin, with his extremely strong willpower, quickly noticed the abnormality, and immediately mobilized his magic, using Occlumency to block his thoughts.

"Strange, my perception was definitely not wrong just now. This ring did generate a force that tried to interfere with my consciousness, and it was full of malice. Could this thing be alive?" Anduin frowned, his eyes becoming much more solemn.

Anduin could be considered knowledgeable, so even though he encountered such a weird thing, he didn't feel nervous. He was just increasingly curious about the ring.

Fortunately, after blocking his thoughts, he finally shielded the influence emanating from the ring, but the malice emanating from the ring did not diminish. He could even detect a probing gaze.

"Voldemort?"

Anduin seemed to have thought of something, and then tentatively asked in a voice full of magic.

After hearing his question, the ring suddenly vibrated violently with a 'buzz', accompanied by layers of transparent fluctuations. The magic fluctuations turned into solid radiation, constantly pressing towards Anduin.

But unfortunately, Anduin's Occlumency erected a solid thick wall on the surface of his mind. Even though the ring tried its best, it still couldn't affect him in the slightest.

"So that's it, a Horcrux..."

After seeing the ring's reaction, Anduin nodded knowingly. He had felt that the malice and magic emanating from the ring were very familiar, very similar to what he had sensed from Voldemort's soul.

But that was only similar. Anduin could still distinguish the difference. The thing attached to this ring was not the Voldemort soul he had once captured. This should just be one of his soul fragments.

And 'Horcrux', this kind of dark magic item, was not unfamiliar to Anduin. There were a lot of records in the information collected from the Phoenix and Silver Spear headquarters.

Therefore, after a simple distinction, Anduin recognized that the essence of the ring should be a Horcrux, or one of the Horcruxes.

"So the truth about Voldemort's immortality and the immortality of the soul is this. It's not surprising at all."

Anduin smiled mockingly, and then cleared up the cause and effect of Voldemort's suicide.

Splitting the soul and attaching it to objects to create Horcruxes is a rather crude means of longevity. The reason why Anduin called it 'longevity' instead of 'immortality' is mainly because it has many drawbacks.

First of all, to create a Horcrux, you must split the soul, and this split is almost impossible to recover. This alone is much cruder than the 'Three Purities Curse', a magic that allows the split soul to return.

Splitting the soul is also equivalent to splitting the consciousness, which will make the wizard no longer complete, and it is easy to cause serious mental problems.

Secondly, according to the records obtained from the Phoenix and Silver Spear, turning the soul into a Horcrux cannot truly achieve immortality.

Because the Horcrux itself will gradually be damaged over time, but this time is not short for ordinary people. It is conservatively estimated that it will take at least thousands of years.

But this also means that a Horcrux is not equivalent to immortality!

However, although Horcruxes have such disadvantages, their abilities are still quite powerful. First of all, as long as there is one Horcrux in this world, it can guarantee that the main consciousness soul will not be destroyed, just like Voldemort.

If the main consciousness actively seeks destruction, it will return to other Horcruxes. If there is more than one Horcrux, it will basically return according to the time the Horcrux was made.

"In other words, the current Voldemort should be in the first Horcrux he made." Anduin nodded knowingly, then turned his gaze to the ring again. "Then which one is this ring? How many Horcruxes did you make?"

"Forget it, let's suppress the consciousness in this Horcrux first, clear the curse, and then study it slowly. I wonder if I can find other clues along it."

After making up his mind, Anduin took out his wand, and shook his head self-deprecatingly, "I didn't expect to lose a Voldemort soul, and now you sent me another one back. It seems you still can't escape the fate of being studied by me."

After saying that, Anduin leisurely stretched out his wand and pointed it at the ring. The ring seemed to sense his actions, and the frequency of vibration became faster and faster for a while. He didn't know if it was expressing fear or anger.

But Anduin would not pay attention to these. After aiming at the ring, the tip of the wand immediately lit up with a viscous silver plasma like syrup, and shot straight at the ring.

【Wild Lightning】After hitting the target, it immediately squeezed, wrapped, and shocked the inside of the ring like it had life. Suddenly, there was a series of shrill screams from inside the ring that could almost penetrate the soul, causing the instruments in the laboratory to tremble constantly.

But the struggle of the Horcrux obviously had no result. After all, even Voldemort's main soul couldn't stop the Wild Lightning mastered by Anduin. The current Wild Lightning itself also has the effect of approaching life and suppressing spiritual bodies.

The reason why Anduin took so much effort to seal the consciousness instead of extracting it was mainly because of the special nature of the Horcrux itself.

After being made into a Horcrux, the internal soul is almost completely integrated with the object, and separating it is a very difficult thing to do. Therefore, when facing a Horcrux, you either completely destroy it, or you can only control the consciousness inside and prevent it from continuing to release evil thoughts to interfere with yourself.

After solving the Horcrux's troublesome mental interference, Anduin sat back at the experimental table, patiently observing, detecting, and removing the virulent curse attached to it.

After careful observation, Anduin found that the curse that Voldemort had enchanted on the ring was extremely aggressive. Almost anyone who touched it would be affected, and it was very destructive to wizards. Even he himself would be in big trouble if he accidentally got infected.

"Well, judging from the complexity of this curse, the complete Voldemort is not weak. It seems that I have to pay attention to this guy. If he really succeeds in resurrecting, he might cause big trouble."

"Please truly die, Voldemort..."

Anduin sighed quietly, then pointed the ring again with his wand, releasing a wisp of faint magic threads, and cleared the curse little by little.

After nearly an hour of effort, he cleaned the curse, and then Anduin picked up the ring and observed it carefully in his palm.

"Huh? The Resurrection Stone doesn't seem to be tainted by Voldemort's soul. Is this because the Hallow is instinctively repelling the intrusion of foreign objects?"

After observing for a while, Anduin found that the rhombus-shaped stone was not part of the Horcrux. After realizing this, he separated it without hesitation.

After taking out the Resurrection Stone body, Anduin temporarily stored the ring body as a Horcrux. Compared with the Horcrux, he was obviously more interested in the Resurrection Stone, this Hallow.

"It is said that the Resurrection Stone has the ability to bring the dead back to life. I wonder if it's true."

Feeling the smoothness he experienced when his fingertips stroked the Resurrection Stone, Anduin slowly input his magic into it.

Immediately afterwards, Anduin found that there were several familiar but somewhat unfamiliar figures beside him. They were Lily, James, and Gideon and Fabian Prewett, members of the Order of the Phoenix who had passed away.

Seeing the other party's substantial figure, Anduin couldn't help but be shocked, and couldn't help but whisper, "Lily?"

But after hearing his call, Lily, who was not far away, did not respond in any way, just smiled and looked at him.

This made Anduin feel that the two seemed to be very close, but also very far away. At the same time, the figure in front of him could not completely overlap with the Lily in his memory.

"Alas..."

Anduin sighed regretfully, and then his eyes regained clarity again, "Sure enough, there is no such thing as bringing the dead back to life in this world. Everything is just an illusion."

"But..." Anduin focused his gaze on Lily's body again, "It doesn't seem to be entirely an illusion in this state."

Thinking of this, he couldn't help but stand up, slowly approached those figures, and tried to touch them.

But as he gradually approached, those figures seemed to follow a certain procedure, always maintaining a distance from him, making people feel that the other party seemed to be by their side, but they could never really approach them.

"You won't even let me touch you? How stingy..." Anduin complained speechlessly, and then withdrew the magic injected into the Resurrection Stone.

After all the figures disappeared, Anduin returned to the operating table and mobilized the various equipment in the laboratory to conduct a comprehensive inspection of the Resurrection Stone.

In the simple contact just now, Anduin found that the figures that emerged were a substance that was more real than the soul and more illusory than the entity. Although they could not be really touched, they really carried a trace of death and soul breath.

In other words, they cannot be completely described as illusions, anyway, they are not the kind of illusions generated by influencing thinking.

But after a period of comprehensive inspection, Anduin couldn't help but frown.

Because the internal structure of this Resurrection Stone is too complicated, it cannot be understood in a short time.

However, after a brief observation, Anduin still found some clues.

"This Resurrection Stone... why does it look so much like a part of an item?" Anduin raised his hand and stroked his chin, muttering while looking at the rhombus-shaped stone under the testing instrument.

"And as it seems now, the Resurrection Stone at least contains the runes of 'thought', 'memory', 'death' and 'soul'. At the same time, it can convert magic into extremely strong soul energy with unique characteristics, but this soul energy does not seem to be just to let people see the dead."

"This energy seems to need to be processed in some way, or perhaps combined to exert its true effect. This stone gives me the feeling that it is more like the core of a more complex alchemy tool, an energy converter!"

After groping for a long time, Anduin came to a conclusion that surprised him.

"But the legend of the Resurrection Stone has a long history. What kind of tool can make it a part of it? That thing must have existed before the legend appeared, right? Can we still find or restore its previous appearance now?"

Anduin tilted his head in confusion, then his eyes lit up, "Could it be that the three Deathly Hallows themselves are a tool that can be assembled and used?"

Thinking of this, he felt that it made more and more sense. The legends of the three Deathly Hallows all came from The Tales of Beedle the Bard, and they are inherently connected.

And the story also says that whoever possesses these three Hallows can be the master of Death.

This may be an hint that they can be combined!

Thinking of this, Anduin recalled the symbol representing the Deathly Hallows, a graphic that looked like a triangular eye with a vertical line in the middle of the pupil.

Could this graphic itself also foreshadow something? Judging from the symbol, the Resurrection Stone is indeed in the most central position, which coincides with Anduin's guess that it is the core.

But how should a stone, a wand, and an Invisibility Cloak be combined?

Just guessing is really no clue. Anduin sighed helplessly, "Then if you want to continue the research, you have to put the three Hallows together."

"The Invisibility Cloak is with Harry. It's not difficult to borrow it from him for research, but the Elder Wand... that's Dumbledore's wand. Will he agree to lend it to me for research?"

"Maybe I have to find a chance to have a good talk with Dumbledore. Developing it together with him is a good idea." After Anduin muttered a few words, he put away his thoughts and carefully put away the Resurrection Stone.

After ending the exploration of the Resurrection Stone, Anduin took out the Horcrux ring again. Since he couldn't figure out the Resurrection Stone for a while, he should toss Voldemort's soul first.

Thinking of this, Anduin didn't talk nonsense, and simply manipulated the Horcrux in his hand.

He wouldn't be polite to this thing, directly casting high-intensity Legilimency, like a sharp dagger piercing into the soul fragment in the ring.

"Aww!"

Due to the lack of control of the main consciousness, the soul fragment in the ring only retained some of Voldemort's subconscious and instinct, but the pain of the soul being injured still made it scream involuntarily.

But at this time, this remnant soul that was split out was like a lamb to be slaughtered in Anduin's hands, unable to resist at all, and he could hold it in his hands.

And Anduin completely ignored the wailing of this soul fragment, just rudely let his consciousness penetrate into it, and extract the memories and information he needed.