Dumbledore really cared about Snape when he asked him not to practice those magics for the sake of the crystal.
But he didn't understand why Snape said this method was stupid. As long as the souls were divided correctly and as long as there were soul fragments still existing, his main soul would survive no matter how many times he died.
How brilliant.
Snape didn't expect that they would disagree on this point: "Of course it's better for the soul to be intact."
In Peacock's words, don't even think about using soul magic under the Great Fairy of the Wonderland. Splitting the soul is extremely dangerous even for the Great Fairy, not to mention humans whose souls are inherently fragile.
"But your notes also recorded that your magic power was enhanced after splitting your soul." Riddle was not stupid. If splitting his soul had not really brought him power, he would not have continued to do it. He could feel the increase in his power.
"A wizard's magical power naturally increases with age. Besides, it's like this bowl. It's this big and can only hold a pudding this big, but break it." Snape cast a spell on the bowl of pudding, breaking it into two pieces.
Snape moved the two halves further apart and showed them to Riddle: "This way there's a gap in the middle, and you can put a bigger pudding in there without it leaking. But it's not strong after all."
The soul is like this bowl, and magic is like this pudding. If the bowl is broken, it can hold a larger pudding, but it is not solid. If that part of the pudding is eaten, the half of the bowl connected to the pudding will also fall down.
The same is true of the soul.
It is not the splitting of the soul that makes one strong, but being strong enough that one can split the soul.
This was the first time Riddle had heard this, after all, he had never discussed Horcruxes with anyone other than Slughorn.
Riddle stared at the bowl of pudding in a trance.
"What if you create a device that can store souls, so that as long as the stored soul exists, you can exist as the main soul?" Riddle glanced to the side, where the magic of sound insulation and image blocking was being cast, before continuing.
Snape thought for a moment, then simply and roughly scraped off a layer of the inside of the bowl, and then destroyed the scraped layer.
This way, the space in the bowl where the inner side was cut away was expanded, but the bowl wall was also thinner. Riddle understood the rest without Snape saying anything.
The number of Horcruxes produced depends on the soul and cannot be produced indefinitely. His soul can be compared to clay. If the amount of clay and the size of his main soul remain unchanged, the more secondary souls are split, the thinner and more fragile his main soul will become.
Thinking of the pain caused by his split soul, Riddle could not suppress his anger.
Humans always fail to see the problems before them because they have something on their minds. He is the same. He fails to see the problems before him because he has eternal life in his mind.
But the problem in front of him was pointed out so easily by Snape.
He suppressed his anger, tried to maintain a peaceful attitude and nodded: "This is indeed stupid."
Snape took back his notes. "So my research was interrupted, because it was impossible for me to split my soul."
"Smart idea." Riddle managed to say a few more words, then found an excuse to leave. He was somewhat grateful that he had drunk a soul stabilizer before coming, otherwise he would definitely make a fool of himself in front of Snape.
Watching Riddle's departure, he said to Peacock, "He definitely has a split soul."
"Well, that's hard to imagine." Peacock didn't expect Riddle to do such a thing.
Because there was a copy of Riddle in the mirror space, and Snape had dissected the copy hundreds of times, he naturally would not think that Riddle's phenomenon was just an ordinary crack in the soul, but a more serious existence.
Before the holiday in the fifth grade, he found the Ravenclaw Diadem in the Room of Requirement. Peacock detected a familiar magic on it. Combined with the book on the Split Soul that Peacock gave to Snape as a joke, they naturally knew most of the truth.
This was originally a test of counter-attack, a test that was planned as soon as the holiday started.
It's just that Snape noticed that Riddle was in an abnormal mood today, so he took advantage of it.
"People only have two eyes. If they see one thing, they can't see the other. Just like when Crystal just woke up, we were concerned about whether he was feeling uncomfortable, cold, or in pain. We watched him whimpering and were so anxious that we couldn't find the problem, but we forgot that he needed to drink water." Snape said jokingly.
"He was like that too. He saw the power of a split soul but couldn't see the danger."
(A word to readers who are also reading Reversal Journey: The update of Reversal Journey is in the scientific world of the fourth volume, not after the literary world of the fifth volume.
The Bunno arc is finished, and I'm resuming the Science arc that was suspended due to the weird character designs.)
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