Chapter 202: Horcruxes and Confession
Evan chuckled in his heart, this was not good news.
So far, he has destroyed two Horcruxes made by Voldemort, Tom Riddle's journal and Slytherin's locket.
In terms of numbers, it seems that his side has gained an advantage, destroying Voldemort's Horcruxes and bringing him one step closer to death, but in reality, doing so will not effectively weaken Voldemort's main body, but will make him more dangerous.
According to the book "Secrets of Cutting-edge Dark Magic", the essence of Horcruxes is soul fragments stored in specific containers, and dark wizards rely on the evil power brought by killing to forcibly split and strip these soul fragments from the main body, but there is still a weak connection between them and the main soul.
It is precisely because of this connection that as long as the Horcruxes are not completely destroyed, no matter how much damage the main body is damaged, it will not really die.
The connection and immortality of the soul is the main principle of this black magic.
But it is also because of this connection that once the Horcrux is destroyed, it is destined to affect the main soul and make it even more unstable.
In the case of Voldemort specifically, no matter how many parts he divided his soul into, he still had a complete soul until the Horcrux was destroyed.
He just used Horcruxes to keep his soul separate and keep it in different places.
Voldemort in this state may be ferocious enough, but he is still an evil dark wizard, a person, even if he has a very strong dark power, but he still has some scruples in his heart, and still has all the emotions that a human being.
However, with the destruction of the soul fragments stored in the Horcruxes, Voldemort's soul became incomplete, and the already unstable main soul became fragmented.
In this state, he will gradually lose all emotion and reason, and transform from a human to a monster, with no other thoughts than to bring endless killing and crazy destruction.
The soul becomes fragmented, which means that he himself is more evil.
This is also one of the reasons why Voldemort's power will be stronger, you must know that in addition to the powerful magic required to cast dark magic, the key to the strength of the spell power lies in whether the caster's soul is evil enough.
The more evil the soul, the more powerful the dark arts.
Splitting the soul is the purest evil, and the more shattered, the more evil it is, and the destruction of the Horcruxes means that Voldemort will become more dangerous.
Fortunately, he will gradually lose his mind in the process and become a monster that is devoured and controlled by the evil forces in his heart.
From this point of view, Voldemort is essentially weakened.
In Aven's opinion, the terrible thing about Voldemort is not how much dark magic he has mastered and how much power he has that ordinary people can't imagine, but the ability to figure out people's hearts.
From being a child in an orphanage, to being a student at Hogwarts, and then to becoming the Dark Lord, Voldemort has a great experience of demagoguery, sowing fear and divisiveness among people.
When he gradually lost his mind because the Horcruxes were destroyed one by one, he gave up his strengths, and chose to use his strength to conquer, he was already doomed to failure.
Making Horcruxes seems to make Voldemort stronger and has immortal power from now on, but in essence, it disperses his power and lays the groundwork for failure, which has to be said to be an irony.
Before you make a Horcrux, you should be aware.
For spellcasters, using this evil black magic, there is always much more to lose than to gain.
Voldemort must have known this, but he still chose to make Horcruxes and divide his soul into multiple parts. Evan didn't know why he did this, but if it were him, he wouldn't have chosen it that way.
He sighed and continued to flip the pages backwards.
Behind the Horcrux crafting method are the relevant experimental records, data, and how to destroy the Horcrux.
First, the soul can be made whole again through repentance.
As the book says, truly feel what you have done and repent of it, and you can merge the soul that has been split back together.
This method may seem simple, but it is extremely painful for a dark wizard whose soul has been split, and the pain alone is enough to destroy the penitent.
What's more, it was impossible for Voldemort to make a confession.
Since Voldemort does not actively fuse souls, the only way to destroy a Horcrux is to destroy it directly, with something extremely destructive, so powerful that the Horcrux can no longer repair itself with magic.
The reason this is necessary is because Horcruxes are different from normal human souls.
The reason why the soul fragments in it can survive is completely dependent on the carrier that casts a powerful protective magic, otherwise the soul fragments stored in it will not survive.
As long as the magic container is intact, the soul fragments inside it can fly in and out of the body of someone who approaches the container, absorbing the life force of others to strengthen themselves.
Of course, this proximity is not about how long you hold the Horcrux in your hand, it has nothing to do with contact. The key is emotional proximity, and last year Ron poured all his affection into Tom Riddle's Japan, which made him very easy to dominate.
If you like or rely on Horcruxes too much, you're in big trouble.
The same is true of the Slytherin locket just now, he hopes to lure Evan into falling through the desires hidden in his heart.
Because the Horcruxes themselves are fragments of the soul, they are able to inherit all the memories and thoughts of their original owners, and each of Voldemort's Horcruxes is as dangerous as Voldemort himself.
On the last page of the introduction to Horcruxes, there are a lot of dense notes, which are supposed to be the handwriting left by Regulus, and most of them are about the names of extremely destructive items that can destroy Horcruxes.
Because such items were so scarce, until the end, Regulus could not find anything that could destroy the Horcruxes, so he had to tell Kreacher to take the Horcreats with them.
Evan was glad that he had pulled out the basilisk's fangs.
The basilisk's fangs are capable of destroying Horcruxes, not because of how sharp they are, but because the basilisk's poison has only one antidote, the extremely rare Tears of the Phoenix.
There were very few things as destructive as the basilisk fangs, and Regulus couldn't find them at the time.
Behind the Horcruxes, Cutting-Edge Dark Arts Revealed also introduces a lot of evil dark magic. Evan flipped through it briefly, and if there was one word to describe what it was like to read such a thing, it would be shocking.
For example, the evil curse behind the Horcrux is based on the study of the Dementor's kiss, directly targeting a person's soul, extracting the soul from the body, so that he will never recover. Further on, there are several other curses, how to make a Yin corpse, how to control it, a detailed introduction to the three unforgivable spells, how to summon demons and sign contracts, and so on. (To be continued.) )