Following the dirt path they had traversed in Ogden's memory, Evan and Dumbledore made their way to the woods next to the valley. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Unlike the renovated main road, the dirt road is still winding, potholed and rocky, and the hedges on both sides have become taller and denser.

They grow irregularly, filling everything around them, even obscuring the original path.

Nearly a hundred years have passed, but not much has changed here, and time seems to stand still in this place.

After crossing the dense trees, Aven once again saw the old home of the Gaunt family.

Now, it would be more appropriate to call this old house ruins.

The moss-covered walls still existed, stubbornly supporting the main body of the old house, covered with plants, the roof tiles were all gone, the exposed rafters began to rot, and the doors and windows disappeared, leaving black holes.

The sound of bugs crawling through the house was sounding from inside the house, and the dense nettles had taken over the place.

Voldemort hid the ring here, and Evan didn't know whether to say it was just an unobtrusive idea or a bold one.

In front of any intruder, this dilapidated old house could not serve as a protector.

But again, no one will be interested here, this dilapidated hut is worthless.

From this point of view, the Gaunt family is definitely the saddest pure-blood wizard family of all time.

However, it has a special meaning for him.

"This is it!" Dumbledore said, taking two steps forward before pausing again, "Do you feel anything?"

"What?" said Aven, surprised, looking at the dilapidated house in front of him.

"Magic, this place has seen magic. Dumbledore whispered, as if there was a spell or something spreading in the air, "Ivan, I told you before, feel with your heart, don't trust your eyes, that's unreliable. ”

He slowly spun in place, apparently concentrating on something invisible to the eye.

It was much harder than normal to feel the magic, and Evan closed his eyes, the magic around him seemed to distort in the house in front of him.

To use an analogy, it's like light, which originally came in a certain direction, but suddenly deviated.

"In the corner on the right!" Evan said slowly, looking for the area of mana change.

"Yes, you feel it too, it's there, let's go in and have a look!" Dumbledore said, striding forward.

"Professor, what kind of magic is this, is it the same as the layout in that cave by the sea?"

For that magic, Aven still remembers it vividly, and only by using blood can it be broken, and only then can he enter it.

"I don't think so, but it should be just as evil!" Dumbledore said, "and you have to pay a little bit to get that thing." Advanced dark magic is always like this, and this is what Voldemort expected, but I don't think it will be too difficult this time, he was only fifteen when he got the ring, about the same age as you, he didn't master as much forbidden magic as he did later, and perhaps, the soul wasn't so depraved, after all, this was his first Horcrux, and he had never killed anyone before. ”

Evan followed him forward, and Dumbledore meant that Riddle wasn't that evil at the time?

"Hogwarts doesn't have that much evil dark magic for him to know, though I'm sure he'd gone through every magic book he could find in the library's forbidden section!" Dumbledore said, leading Evan into the dark cabin, "but the books were sifted through and some of the really dangerous things had been kept out. ”

As soon as they entered, a deeper darkness swallowed them up at once, and the air thinned out.

By the glow of the end of his wand, all Aven could see was dust, and it was so dark that he couldn't see his true face.

The ceiling was covered with thick cobwebs, the walls of the house had collapsed, and weeds were overgrown among the rocks.

One end of a rafter fell down, slanting to the ground, while the other end struggled to support the weight of the entire house.

Evan followed Dumbledore cautiously inside, not daring to touch anything.

Everything here gave him the feeling that at the slightest touch, the house would collapse completely, burying them alive.

"He got the ring when he was fifteen years old, and carried it with him for a short time, and he soon found it to be too ostentatious, the Peverell family crest, and though he was willing to tell others about his long and noble lineage, he did not want to attract too much attention, especially mine. Dumbledore's voice sounded in front of Aven, and they had already entered the room on the right, "Because he can't explain to me how he got this priceless ring, you know, he had almost nothing before he arrived at Hogwarts." What's more, that ring was still a Horcrux, the first Horcrux he had made, and it was very unwise to carry it with him. I think he came back here shortly after Morfin was caught, probably during the Christmas holiday that year, and he hid the ring, which must have been the case, so he didn't have enough time to examine it. ”

"Professor, what's the power on that ring?" Evan asked, trying to figure it out, "why do you say it can solve the problems of vampires, the evil gods......"

"There are many possibilities, but I'm more inclined to Salazar Slytherin left some kind of magic on it, a magic that we don't know about now, but that can undoubtedly help us, a vital item. Dumbledore said, "You remember the wall you saw in the depths of the Eight-Eyed Spider's lair, carved with four Slytherin objects carved into it. ”

"You've been there too?"

"No, that place is ruined, and I can't get in. But not long ago, I saw the same wall in the vampire territory, with those four magical items carved on them. Dumbledore said, "That's why I believe the ring will help us, and it seems that only by collecting all four items can we unravel the secret left by Slytherin." ”

Evan had planned to ask where the twin serpent scepters were, but Dumbledore probably didn't know.

If he knew, he would have told himself or just picked it up, just like he did now when he came here to find the ring.

Ask Keresis this kind of question, that guy must know something.

The two men struggled their way through the ruins of the hut, and Dumbledore waved his wand to remove debris and rubble from the ground.

They reached the corner on the right side of the house, and in front of them was a large black wardrobe, which was probably the only piece of furniture left in the Gaunt family.