Destroy

The Gaunt Ring lay quietly in the soil. Though he had shaken off its mental influence, Dumbledore still had Eli remove the curse from the ring completely.

Compared to Dumbledore, Eli's method of breaking curses looked far more spectacular.

Eli cast all manner of advanced magic, utterly wiping out the curse on the ring.

Clapping his hands, Eli looked with satisfaction at the floor, now reduced to a massive crater. He was very pleased with how perfectly he had broken Voldemort's curse.

With a wave of his Wand, Dumbledore made the ring float up. After inspecting it, he confirmed that there was indeed no hidden magic left.

The Gaunt Ring rested in Dumbledore's palm without causing any trouble.

Yet when one sensed it with soul power, one could hear a shriek coming from within the ring.

"That is a soul shriek—the wail of the fallen," Dumbledore said, looking at the ring in his hand without the slightest trace of sympathy in his eyes.

Although the curse on the ring had now been broken, its nature as a Horcrux had yet to be removed.

Dumbledore used several methods to block the Horcrux's perception of its surroundings, preventing it from causing any trouble.

Why were Horcruxes said to be the most evil and foul things?

Splitting one's soul was a terrifying act, let alone splitting it through murder.

The process of creating a Horcrux was exceedingly bloody.

Once completed, a Horcrux possessed powerful magic. While protecting itself from destruction, it would also affect its surroundings.

Take Voldemort's Horcruxes, for example. Since he himself was an extraordinarily powerful legendary wizard and possessed the purest evil, his Horcruxes constantly bewitched the creatures around them.

But at the end of the day, it was only a Horcrux. Voldemort himself could not do anything to Dumbledore,