Resurrection Stone and the Ring

The Box World, the Magic Research Lab.

The Resurrection Stone Ring floated in mid-air, slowly rotating.

Dozens of magical runes, flickering in and out like a miniature constellation, circled the ring, lighting up and extinguishing in a certain pattern.

Lucien wore the Plague Doctor's bird-beak mask, using it to aid in deciphering the curse on the ring, and watched the flow of information returning through his dark lenses.

Although it's not enough to remove the curse from the ring yet, he has figured out the conditions that triggered the curse.

Simply touching it won't trigger the curse, and even holding it in your palm won't cause any problems.

The real trigger is "wearing the finger".

The curse is activated the moment the ring is slipped onto the finger, spreading along the finger and heading straight for the heart.

However, precisely because the triggering conditions are so stringent, the resulting curse is exceptionally powerful.

Lucien looked at the ring and secretly assessed the situation. If Dumbledore hadn't been able to control his impulse and had put the ring on, Dumbledore's power might have been able to temporarily suppress it, but what would have happened next...?

According to the original story, Dumbledore was tricked by the curse on the ring, unable to eradicate it, and his life was nearing its end.

Lucien waved his wand and made a slashing motion across the ring.

"Click--"

With a crisp, light click, the four golden claws gripping the Resurrection Stone simultaneously released their grip.

The black gemstone detached from the gold ring, floated slowly away, and stopped half a foot away from the ring.

"Huh?"

Behind the lenses of the bird-beak mask, Lucien's eyes flashed with surprise.

He was maintaining his magic of observing souls, and everything in his field of vision was shrouded in a faint glow of souls—the souls of living beings were bright, with the warm hues of life; while the soul fragments in the Horcrux were dark, like stains clinging to the surface of an object.

But what he saw now was somewhat unexpected.

On the golden ring, the dark, sinister aura of Voldemort's soul still lingered, emanating a chilling and unsettling energy.

However, the Resurrection Stone that was removed was very "clean," as if it hadn't been tainted by even a trace of soul.

Lucien had examined this Horcrux ring before, but at that time the ring and the gem were still one, and the fluctuations of the soul fragment covered the entire ring, indistinguishable from each other.

These subtle differences were completely masked and were not noticeable at all.

Only now, when the two are separated, does the difference become so glaring.

To confirm this more clearly, Lucien waved his wand again.

A ray of silvery-white light burst forth from the tip of the staff, condensing in mid-air into a silver owl.

Lucien's Patronus Charm and Patronus Power, along with his ability to perceive souls, made the soul aura on the ring even clearer and more distinct as the Patronus appeared.

Under the glow of the Patronus, Lucien finally confirmed it— Voldemort's soul fragments were all concentrated on that ring of gold.

The Resurrection Stone itself was completely untouched.

It's as if the amulet and the gemstone were always two separate entities, only to be forcibly joined together.

Lucien frowned; this didn't make sense.

When Voldemort created this Horcrux, he must have entrusted the fragments of his soul to the complete object, the "Gaunt's Ring," and it's impossible that he deliberately chose only the band of the ring while avoiding the gems.

Moreover, Voldemort probably didn't know that the black stone was the Resurrection Stone; in his eyes, it was just an ordinary ancestral black gemstone.

The current result is that the soul fragments are only attached to the golden ring, avoiding the Resurrection Stone.

Resurrection Stone...

Legend has it that this stone can summon the souls of the dead.

Lucien's thoughts raced. If the legend was true, the Resurrection Stone itself possessed some kind of magical quality related to the soul—and that quality might have produced some strange reaction over the decades after Voldemort created the Horcrux.

For example, the Resurrection Stone's inherent properties allow it to act like a "rejector," slowly pushing away the foreign soul fragment and ultimately compressing it all onto the golden ring.

Regardless of the underlying principle, the current outcome has saved Lucien a lot of trouble.

He had been pondering a question: was it possible to eliminate the soul fragments attached to the Horcrux without damaging its Horcrux body?

After all, the items Voldemort used to create Horcrux mostly had special significance or magical value, such as Slytherin's Locket, Hufflepuff's Cup, and Ravenclaw's Diadem...

It would indeed be a pity to destroy those precious magical relics as well.

Well, aside from that worthless diary, who keeps a diary, even a decent person?