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The black cat squatted on the moonlit hillside, watching the small wooden house from afar. After a long time, the magical light leaking from the wooden window no longer flickered. Dana waited a while longer until he could no longer hear any movement, then he carefully approached. He hesitated for a while at the fifty-yard warning line before gritting his teeth and running over. Leaping onto the windowsill, he found the inside of the wooden house in a mess.

John Flint was sprawled on a large table, long gone silent. The house had been ransacked, it seemed Donna Avery had taken the tapestry before leaving. Dana had always wondered why Donna Avery was involved in John Flint's deciphering of the tapestry. From the information he had gathered, the Avery family was just a knife John Flint borrowed to deal with his own family. The Avery family had found a scapegoat, so they should have had nothing to do with John Flint.

And that was indeed the case later on. After he was locked up in Azkaban, only Sally Avery and John Flint came to his house to steal the tapestry. To find out the whole story, it seemed he still had to ask Donna Avery herself. But that wasn't the key issue. Because through this coincidence today, this accident that he just happened to stumble upon, Dana learned of the extraordinary nature of his mother's family.

The tapestry certainly didn't belong to the Avery family. The so-called claim that Dana's grandfather took it from the main family during the separation was purely a smokescreen. If this tapestry belonged to the Avery family and was related to Merlin's treasure, how could the Avery main family possibly have given such a thing away? Moreover, with the Avery family's foundation, if Donna Avery could find Merlin's tomb with the tapestry within four years, wouldn't the Avery family have found Merlin's treasure long ago over the centuries?

So the most likely truth was that the tapestry was actually an item from his mother Anna's family! And his mother's responsibility all along was to protect this tapestry that held the secret of Merlin's treasure! Emrys—this was the name the Druids in Wales used to call Merlin, meaning "immortal." Dana had learned this while reading extensively in the library this semester. In other words, his mother's family was very likely a descendant of the great mage Merlin.

If that was the case, then his golden finger, bloodline, and the tapestry that started it all could all be explained. As for the bizarre disappearance of the treasure key and the beardless Merlin corpse that was dug up... Dana probably had something to say: Donna and John weren't lying, because both the key and the beard had been summoned by Dana.

Looking at John Flint's corpse, Dana wondered if he should leave some clues here. For example, using cat claws to write 'The murderer is Donna Avery' on the ground? However, he quickly rejected the idea. Even if Donna Avery was arrested and given the Dementor's Kiss, it would just be a death, no different from Sally Avery. That punishment was too light. Besides, Old Avery could still find a scapegoat to save Donna Avery, just like he saved Guy Avery. So that wouldn't work.

Dana frowned, somewhat disgusted, and collected John Flint's corpse, which was likely to be a "key prop" for revenge against Donna Avery in the future. Fortunately, the extra-dimensional space in the necklace was large enough. Dana even arranged a separate area for John Flint. Wasn't John Flint always trying to find Merlin's treasure? Now that he and the treasure were together in the necklace, it could be considered a fulfillment of his wish, right? Thinking this, Dana left the place.

Past midnight, time for summoning. Dana was eighty percent sure that Merlin had been dead for many years. And Donna Avery and John Flint had dug up Merlin's bones, and after taking the key, he didn't know if they had reburied the body properly. If his reasoning was correct, Merlin was Dana's ancestor, and it was probably not appropriate to leave the ancestor's body exposed in the wilderness.

So Dana prepared to reluctantly waste a summoning opportunity to summon his ancestor Merlin's body. "Merlin's corpse!" First of all, the small note did not appear, which meant that there was indeed Merlin's corpse. Then, Merlin's corpse did not pop out of his palm. Dana had never encountered this situation before. Dana looked suspiciously at the clock that Moody had repaired—it was past twelve o'clock.

The next moment, a sharp pain came from his palm. He quickly looked over and saw that it seemed to have been torn open by something. He quickly aimed the opening at the floor of his house because he felt that something was about to squeeze out of this opening!

"Pfft!"

"Thump!"

A smooth, naked body fell to the ground—tsk, why isn't he wearing clothes! But Dana suddenly realized that Merlin's robe had already been summoned. This... This is hard to say. He made up his mind that no matter how good that purple robe was, he would never wear it again.

The corpse of Merlin on the ground was, as John Flint said, very "fresh." It didn't look like a corpse at all, more like a sleeping old man. As soon as Dana saw Merlin's face, he knew that he must be Merlin's descendant, because looking at Merlin's face, which was already so old that there was no flesh left, his appearance was exactly the same as when he had just come out of Azkaban!

The old man's body was very well preserved, with no traces of being gnawed by wild beasts. It seemed that although Avery and Flint suspected each other of stealing the body, they still honestly put the coffin lid back on at the beginning. After all, they kept shouting "Merlin's beard" every day, and they probably still had the most basic reverence in their hearts when they saw Merlin's body.

Only... Since the ancestor was properly buried back, then he, who summoned him over, was the most disrespectful to him! Never mind! Since he had already been summoned, there was no way to return him, after all, he didn't know where the tomb was.

Based on the principle of not leaving empty-handed, Dana pressed his palm on the forehead of his ancestor Merlin. Even the beard could bring him a lot of magic power, there was no reason why a whole body wouldn't work, right? He didn't know if Avery and Flint were blind, but the magical mist emanating from this corpse was visible to the blind! Why didn't they notice?

However, this doubt couldn't stop Dana. Since Donna Avery and John Flint had missed the opportunity, then this opportunity belonged to him! The next moment, vast magic power began to flow into his body. In just an instant, Dana had a feeling of being stuffed... His body seemed to be about to explode, and every part of his body hurt.

He wanted to pull his hand away but found that the magic channel had already formed. Even if he left the corpse, the magic power contained in the corpse would continuously pour into his body. This was as painful as the so-called change of bloodline last time.

Oh, right, maybe it wasn't changing the bloodline last time, but activating the Merlin bloodline that he already had in his body through that marrow-like thing? Dana knelt on the ground, sweat flowing down his cheeks to his chin, and then dripping onto the floor one drop at a time, gathering into a small puddle in a short while.

He didn't know how long it took, but the magic infusion finally ended, and Dana stood up weakly. Although his body was very weak, he had a feeling of controlling everything in his heart. He put the Merlin corpse, which had lost its magic power, into the necklace, and put it in a separate space with the beard. Then he wanted to go back to the house to rest.

But the next second, he found that he was not walking, but floating in the air. I'm going! This phenomenon is very common in the wizarding world—but it usually occurs after a small wizard's magic power bursts. In other words, this is evidence that the body cannot effectively control magic power... Great, he overdosed on magic power.

End of the Chapter.

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