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Those who use the resurrection stone will descend into madness due to this hopeless longing and ultimately choose to commit suicide.

So in a sense, the true purpose of the Resurrection Stone is not to bring the dead back to the world, but to bring the living into death.

This is similar to the archway and drapery before him. Zicomo did indeed feel the power of death on that drapery.

Moreover, Zicomo learned from Lukewood's memories that the archway was already there before the Ministry of Magic building was even completed.

In other words, the Ministry of Magic was built here because of the archway.

In the minds of the Silent Ones, this archway symbolizes death and the unknown world, an ancient subject that their Bureau of Mysteries has been dedicated to studying since its inception.

Therefore, Zicomo boldly speculated that even if the world behind the veil was not a world of death, it was inextricably linked to death.

When Hermione heard that the world behind the archway was a world of death, she grabbed Zicomo and tried to get away from it.

If time and fate are considered special forces in people's minds, then death is taboo. No normal person would intentionally confront the question of death.

Of course, this excludes those like Zikomo who have the power to control death.

Hermione snuggled closer to Zicomo and said, "Cousin, let's get out of here quickly."

This place is eerie, and the curtain is moving. Who knows if something might suddenly pop out from behind it?

The little witch had absolutely no desire to stay in this room any longer.

Zicomo nodded and said, "Okay, let's leave right away. But there's one more thing I need to do before we go."

"What is it?" Hermione asked.

"That means taking it with you."

Having said that, Zicomo activated the power of death within him, and golden and black power surged out from his body, covering the entire stone pit.

Then, to Hermione's astonishment, the entire stone pit rose from the ground.

Zicomo waved his hand and stored the entire altar into his system space, intending to study it carefully later.

As for why the altar wasn't placed in the "Zen Garden"?

He and Hermione shared the same thought: who knows what might emerge from behind the curtain?

After doing all this, Zicomo erased all traces of himself and Hermione from the Ministry of Magic, and then left with Hermione.

When Zicomo left, it was already dusk. Soon it was time for the Ministry of Magic to begin its workday.

Then the Ministry of Magic employees discovered that their workplace, the prestigious headquarters of the British wizarding world, had been invaded!

Especially those silent people, they're all going crazy.

Most of these people were scholars who remained aloof and focused solely on studying magic.

In their view, the Department of Mystic Affairs was a place where they studied ancient, profound, and even lost magic, a sacred temple for their pursuit of advanced magical knowledge.

However, today, their temple was robbed.

The room that sealed the power of love was opened, the Time Hall was looted, and the Death Hall was completely dug out.

This is equivalent to robbing them of half of their foundation, which is even more ruthless than cutting off their lifeline!

The silent crowd was outraged and stormed into Fudge's office, demanding that he catch the murderer.

Even worse, some directly blamed Fudge for his negligence in allowing thieves to break into the Ministry of Magic.

These silent individuals are scholars focused on knowledge, the kind with high IQs but low EQs.

So they didn't know what politeness was, and they started yelling at Fudge, making him so angry that his face turned red.

Fudge dealt with them hastily and then immediately gathered people to handle the matter.

The Department of Magical Accidents and Disasters, in conjunction with the Department of Magical Law Enforcement, conducted a large-scale raid on the Ministry of Magic. While assessing the Ministry's losses, they attempted to search for any trace left by the intruders.

But how could Zicomo leave them any evidence?

The traces erased by the immense power of a god were beyond even Dumbledore's ability to restore. Zicomo didn't even leave a single hair on Hermione's body.

Therefore, the Ministry of Magic's attempt to trace Zicomo's intentions by searching for clues left behind was destined to fail.

However, Fudge's expression softened considerably after learning that only the Department of Mysteries had been robbed. In his view, the people in the Department of Mysteries were a bunch of money-losers, constantly consuming his vast sums of Galleons every year.

Now that we know their research projects have been reduced by half, it's a good opportunity to help them cut back on expenses.

Of course, regardless of the circumstances, this theft was a disgrace to the Ministry of Magic, so someone had to be held accountable.

The ones pushed to take the blame were Lukewood, who was on night shift last night, and another unfortunate soul who didn't even deserve a name.

The Aurors of the Ministry of Magic had tried to perform Legilimency on the two, but both had lost all memory of the previous night and had no recollection of what happened.

Ultimately, the Ministry of Magic dismissed the two men for dereliction of duty and issued a bounty of 100,000 Galleons through the Daily Prophet for the thief who broke into the Ministry of Magic.

Moreover, anyone who can provide accurate information will receive a bounty of one thousand Galleons.

It's worth noting that even though Sirius Black was once wrongly accused of killing more than a dozen Muggles, the bounty on his head after his escape was only 10,000 Galleons.

The Ministry of Magic had only suffered a theft; there were no injuries. Yet, the reward was a full 100,000, demonstrating the importance the Ministry of Magic took this theft so seriously.

The Daily Prophet rushed to print a new edition that noon to report on the theft at the Ministry of Magic, and Zicomo also subscribed to the Daily Prophet.

Upon seeing the news in the newspaper, Zicomo and Hermione exchanged a smile and paid no further attention to the matter.

After lunch, Hermione went back to her room to catch up on sleep, while the energetic Zicomo, who didn't need much sleep, decided to go out again.

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Zicomo's destination was a dilapidated old house in Hangleton, which had once been the home of the Gaunt family.

Yes, this is Voldemort's father's house.

The walls of the old house were covered with moss, and even many of the roof tiles had fallen off, revealing the rafters underneath.

The house was surrounded by a dense thicket of nettles, which grew so abundantly that they even obscured the windows of the old house. Of course, this was also related to the fact that the windows were very small.

The outline of the window could be vaguely seen through the gaps in the nettles, and it was covered with a thick layer of old grime.

The most distinctive feature is the entrance to the house, where a dead snake specimen is nailed to the door.

Zicomo came here mainly to take the Resurrection Stone.

He didn't have anyone he particularly wanted to resurrect. Even if he did, he could do it with his own human transmutation techniques, so there was no need for such an ethereal method as the Resurrection Stone.

Zicomo had only thought of collecting the Resurrection Stone, a 4.5 Deathly Hallows artifact, last night when he was reminded of the altar of the Grim Reaper.

However, in Zicomo's opinion, the Resurrection Stone really doesn't deserve the title of Deathly Hallows.

In the legend of the three brothers, the eldest brother's Elder Wand was made by Death from elderwood found by the river, while the second brother's Resurrection Stone was a stone that Death picked up by the river.

Only the third brother received Death's own invisibility cloak.

Therefore, the first two of the three Holy Relics of the Dead are completely worthless; they are just little gadgets that Death made on a whim.

Only the Invisibility Cloak can be considered a Deathly Hallows; the other two are best left unmentioned.

Zicomo came to retrieve the Resurrection Stone simply to keep it as a collectible; he didn't expect it to do anything.

When Voldemort was 16, he came to Gaunt's old house and knocked out his uncle Morpheus.

It's fair to say that Voldemort was quite adept at framing others.

Most importantly, after doing all this, he stole the horse, the donkey, and the pheasant.

Of course, Voldemort didn't know that it was the Resurrection Stone.

Chapter 170 The Useless Resurrection Stone: The Grangers Discover Something amiss

Voldemort assumed it was a family heirloom of the Gaunt family—a black stone ring engraved with the "Paveriel crest".

He didn't even know that Peverell was the surname of the three legendary brothers, and simply assumed that the coat of arms was some kind of symbol of the Gaunt family.

But thinking about it, it makes sense. How could someone like Voldemort read something as childish as The Tales of Beedle the Bard?

Voldemort later turned the Resurrection Stone ring into a Horcrux and placed it back in Gaunt's old house. He also used many powerful spells to protect the ring around the house.

However, these so-called protections were useless to Zicomo; he didn't even need to try to break through them and walked straight into the Gaunt mansion.

Zicomo was able to handle things so easily because during his trip to the Albanian forest last summer, he obtained a large number of Voldemort's diaries, which contained instructions on how to avoid or break the spell on the old house.

This incident teaches us not to write everything in a diary, and it's best not to keep a diary at all.

Otherwise, if your diary were to be leaked one day, you would be completely doomed.

Zicomo found the Resurrection Stone in a cupboard in Gaunt's old house. After easily breaking the dark magic Voldemort had left on the Resurrection Stone, Zicomo picked up the ring.

The black gemstone on the ring is a rhombus-shaped octahedral crystal, through which the Peverell's coat of arms, the symbol of the Deathly Hallows, can be seen.

The symbol consists of a vertical line, a circle, and a triangle, representing the Elder Wand, the Resurrection Stone, and the Invisibility Cloak, respectively.

As Zicomo30 looked at the symbol, a thought popped into his mind: why is the diamond-shaped Resurrection Stone symbol a circle, while the quadrilateral Invisibility Cloak symbol is a triangle?

However, Zicomo did not dwell on such trivial matters.

Zicomo dismissed the question, which was destined to remain unanswered, and began extracting Voldemort's soul from the Resurrection Stone with practiced ease.

A short while later, Voldemort's remnant soul transformed into a black crystal, which Zicomo retrieved into his system space.

Although Zicomo did not intentionally oppose Voldemort, he has destroyed four of Voldemort's Horcruxes so far.

Now that Nagini has been taken away by Zicomo, it's unknown whether Voldemort has finished making his seventh Horcrux.