Fire, burning.

Bernard's body has been burned to charcoal, but Karun continues to use magic on him.

When he used to work at the funeral home, he would always worry that the crematorium wouldn't burn the bodies completely to save fuel, and he would have to use a small hammer to break the bones.

It didn't matter how much effort he put in, what worried him was that the guests wouldn't be able to get the complete ashes, as some large bones would be difficult to fit into the urn.

Regardless, Bernard was once a friend of Puerh Jinfani and Filias;

Out of professional courtesy, Karun wouldn't let Bernard leave with any regrets.

Finally, after the pit in the ground had sunk a large chunk, Karun bent down and blew on Bernard's already fluffy body.

Bernard had been roasted to a crisp,

In one breath,

The original human-like structure that could still be maintained had now completely turned into a pile of sparkling bone powder.

Karun picked up the broom in the cave, the broom head had long rotted away, leaving only a stone stick. He carefully stirred the bone ash with the stone stick, making sure there were no impurities or gallstones left;

Then, Karun took a large stone basin and put all of Bernard's ashes into it, making sure the cave was spotless.

After doing all this, Karun carried the stone basin to the seaside, walking along the coast and sprinkling the bone ash into the sea spoonful by spoonful.

He walked all the way, sprinkling all the way.

When he finished sprinkling, Karun put the stone basin into the sea and washed it carefully.

"Phew..."

Taking a deep breath, Karun realized for the first time that destroying the body was so complicated.

Indeed, Puerh in our family is the most insightful and safest way to scatter Bernard's ashes.

Karun picked up some beautiful seashells and put them in the stone basin, then walked to the grave with the basin in his hands.

There were still half a pack of cigarettes in his pocket, Karun poured them all out, inserted them in front of the tombstone, took out a lighter, and lit the cigarettes.

Watching the smoke rise, Karun couldn't help but smile:

"I wonder if in the future, someone will burn incense for me and my followers."

The words he carved on the tombstone were still clear and bright, needing time to smooth out all the abruptness.

"I probably won't come back to this island again, and I wish you all smooth sailing on your new journey."

Then, Karun walked back into the cave and placed the seashells he had picked up on Jinfani's stone coffin:

"I was a bit full of myself before, but if Puerh wants to come and see you in the future, I might come along again."

With that, all the finishing work was completed.

Karun found a stone stool and sat down, taking out two red crescent moons from his pocket. They were only as big as the thumbnail of his little finger, but they were bright red.

Everything that belonged to Bernard had been wiped away by Karun, handled cleanly and purified, with nearly ten applications.

During this time, Karun tried smashing them with stones and burning them, but they didn't cause any damage to these two crescent moons.

So, Bernard wasn't worried about Karun destroying his body earlier, because these two dark moons would definitely continue to exist. As long as these eyes were preserved, Bernard had a chance to "come back to life" again.

In fact, if Karun hadn't returned to the cave and confirmed Bernard's "feigned death", he wouldn't have been able to inspect Bernard's body so carefully.

But now the problem arises,

How should he use these two dark moons?

He couldn't use the white worm, he could only give it to Richard, but Karun felt that these two dark moons were very suitable for himself.

His current way of fighting heavily relied on the power of the Dark Moon Blade. If he had the Dark Moon Eyes again, the amplification effect would undoubtedly be significant when he used the Dark Moon Blade.

Bernard was willing to endure such torture to protect the secret of these eyes, and the reason he placed his coffin on the ground was probably to nourish them with the light of the Dark Moon every night;

Therefore, the value of these eyes must be extremely high, and it might even exceed Karun's imagination.

Karun tried to infuse his spiritual power into these two red crescent moons, but there was no response, which meant that their usage was different from other holy artifacts.

Should he stick them to his eyes?

Karun hesitated for a moment, then picked up one of the crescent moons and placed it on his own eye, but nothing happened.

Is there an internal triggering mechanism?

Karun pursed his lips. The awkward thing now is that if he can't grasp these things right now, when he brings them back to Dark Moon Island, it's very likely that the people on the island will sense them.

Although Bernard's descendants probably don't know about this burial item, the connection between this thing and the Dark Moon is too significant, and Karun can't be sure that everything will go smoothly.

"Tsk..."

Karun took a deep breath, took out a dagger, and cut his palm. Lately, his palms have been cut quite frequently.

After making a small cut, Karun placed one of the crescent moons on his wound, but still, there was no response.

Unable to merge, unable to trigger.

After applying a small healing spell to his palm, Karun conjured the Dark Moon Blade, but it had no effect on the crescent moon, and the crescent moon had no effect on it either.

Well,

The only thing that can be confirmed is that it must be an extremely advanced holy artifact, and to some extent, it may have already surpassed the level of a holy artifact. After all, it's already so complicated to use at an entry level.

If only his cat and dog were here, they would definitely know what to do.

But now it's already dawn, and he really should go back. Should he take the risk and bring these things back?

It's really hard to accept leaving them here.Previously, when Karun was transporting the body of Bernard, he resisted the temptation of the burial objects. However, this time, he found it difficult to resist because the value of these objects varied. The rationality of any person has a price tag.

Next, Karun used the power of order, the power of light, the ancestral power of Allen's water system, and even summoned the black chains, but none of them had any effect.

Unfortunately, he had already let Mr. Eisen take Richard and activate the teleportation array. If Eisen were here now, he could use the magic square to analyze these crescent moons.

There was no other way. As a precaution, he decided to seal them in a simple way and hide them somewhere.

Karun held them in his left hand, tossed them up, caught them, and weighed them.

Just then, Karun's ring finger on his left hand suddenly shook.

Karun lowered his head and found that a crescent moon was stuck to the silver ring on his left hand's ring finger.

Since he put on the silver mask left by his grandfather, the mask had made a home on the ring made by Mr. Lemar, changing its original style and color.

Karun raised his hand and looked at the crescent moon fixed on the ring.

Is this useful?

Karun put the other crescent moon on it, and it was also stuck.

"Heh..."

Karun didn't know what would happen next. He didn't know how to use this pair of crescent moons, and he didn't know the true purpose of the silver mask left by his grandfather...

No, he had worn it once and met Loya in the sealed space, and once he had disguised himself as the elder of the temple in the light ball space with its help.

But Karun knew that this was definitely not the true purpose of the mask. He had just triggered a few peripheral effects by chance.

Now, both of them were things he couldn't control. He wanted to see if there would be any sparks between them.

At this moment, Karun sensed that the silver ring began to heat up, and the crescent moons started to emit red light.

Karun reached out and touched the ring, twisted his neck, and put the silver mask on his face.

Immediately, the two crescent moons that were previously stuck to the ring detached and floated in front of Karun. They began to rotate alternately.

This sign indicated that the pair of Dark Moon Eyes had been successfully triggered.

Well, although he didn't know the principle, the current situation seemed pretty good.

The two crescent moons rotated alternately and finally collided, turning into a moonlight that enveloped Karun.

Karun, wearing the silver mask, remained motionless. After the moonlight fell on him, it gathered at the position of his eyes.

At this moment, Karun felt his eyes were dry, but this uncomfortable feeling quickly disappeared and turned into a refreshing sensation.

Gu Lin

Karun blinked hard. He found a layer of dark red shadow in his field of vision. Fortunately, the shadow was gradually dissipating, and after a while, his vision completely recovered.

Is it... over?

Karun tried to mobilize the spiritual power in his body and was surprised to find that the spiritual power in his body was gathering at the position of his eyes, as if being absorbed by his own eyes.

"Hiss..."

This process seemed unstoppable from the beginning. Karun knelt on the ground in pain. The speed at which his spiritual power was being extracted was even more exaggerated than when he used the Resurrection Technique to revive a corpse.

"Hoo... hoo..."

The process lasted for about an hour, and Karun felt that his spiritual power was almost drained.

Fortunately, it finally stopped.

After it stopped, the spiritual power that was previously absorbed at the position of his eyes began to spread outwards, forming a circulation.

"Storage effect..."

Karun realized what had happened. It was equivalent to having another reservoir for storing spiritual power in his body. And now, he clearly hadn't filled the reservoir provided by the Dark Moon Eyes. It had only absorbed the equivalent of his original internal storage.

In other words, when he fully rested and replenished his physical condition, the spiritual power in his body would double!

You should know that his original advantage was the storage of spiritual power beyond ordinary people. Now, this advantage had doubled.

In the future, when using spells and in battles, unless it was an extremely critical moment, he basically didn't need to worry about overdrawing his spiritual power.

However, just as Karun stood up straight, his eyes turned red again, and a tearing force targeting his soul attacked him.

After storing his spiritual power, was his soul going to be divided?

All of this happened without any warning, and the indescribable pain hit Karun directly, making him experience what Bernard had gone through before. But with the silver mask emitting light, the division of his soul stopped.

Karun felt as if he had been pricked by a needle, but there was nothing else. His face was covered in cold sweat.

He reached out and touched the mask. This mask had protected the integrity of his soul.

"Hoo... It should be completely over now?"

Karun stood still for a while, and when no other changes occurred, he confirmed that the fusion was complete. Karun opened his palm, and the Dark Moon Blade appeared. However, this time, the summoned Dark Moon Blade was three times longer than before, and the power of the Dark Moon on it was purer.

When using the power of the Dark Moon, Karun's eyes also turned blood-red.

He swung it a little, and several grooves were immediately scratched on the cave wall.

"Not only did the storage double, but when using spells, there is also an additional power output."

Karun felt that in the next melee, he should be able to fight on par with Ophelia, and that was a conservative estimate.

After all, as long as he didn't fall behind from the beginning, in a stalemate, Ophelia would definitely not be able to match his consumption.

"In the future, as long as my opponent doesn't defeat or severely injure me from the beginning, as long as I can hold on, I have the ability to turn the tide in the middle and late stages."

Karun reassessed his own strength once again. However, the actual effect still needed to be tested on someone, like... the captain.

Once he returned to Vienne, he could spar with the captain and get his evaluation.

A thought crossed Karun's mind, and the silver mask on his face disappeared. But Karun noticed something new inside the silver ring.

He activated the ring again,

The silver mask reappeared on Karun's face, then vanished.

Immediately, Karun transformed into Mr. Pavaro, then back to himself.

"Another mask has appeared..."

Karun stimulated the ring again, and in an instant, he transformed into another person. He walked to the mirror inside the cave, which had been polished to a smooth finish, and took a look. Although the reflection wasn't very clear, he could roughly make out who it was.

It was... the skin mask of Berna.

"Damn! That's disgusting."

This didn't mean that there were any remnants of Berna's aura or spiritual imprint, as Karun had cleaned it up thoroughly.

It could only be said that the Eye of the Dark Moon retained the existence inertia of its first master, and this existence inertia was replicated by the mutated silver ring. Of course, the main credit went to the silver mask left by his grandfather.

"I guess Lemar didn't know that the ring he made could evolve..."

No, it couldn't be ruled out. After all, the parent puppets he made for Selena could even develop to the point of emotional breakdown and divorce.

"When I get back, I'll ask Kevin and Puerh to help me see if they can remove Berna's mask, or maybe ask Lemar?"

Although Mr. Pavaro's image was greasy and slightly bald, Karun didn't mind his mask. On the contrary, Berna, who looked clean and well-maintained, made Karun feel physically and psychologically uncomfortable.

Overall, he had gained from this incident.

Not only did he learn about the organization "The Silent Ones", but he also obtained the Eye of the Dark Moon. Additionally, he helped the captain and Puerh scatter Berna's ashes.

Alright, it was almost noon.

Karun checked the cave again. His Sword of Arlus and the scabbard had been taken away by Richard, so there was nothing else he needed to carry.

After confirming that there were no other traces left behind, Karun left the cave and arrived at the teleportation array.

The array activated, and a white light enveloped Karun.

"Hum!"

Karun appeared on the carpet of the master bedroom. Mr. Eisen and Richard were not there, they were probably waiting for him in the carriage outside.

However,

Just as Karun was about to open the bedroom door to leave, he heard footsteps and voices coming from the stairs.

"Are you all a bunch of useless people, even losing the body of our ancestor?"

"General, we failed in our duty, but at that time, all the guards we could use were concentrated in the legion. There simply weren't enough people available at the Palace of Remembrance."

"Spare no effort to find the body of our ancestor, and seal this news. It must not be leaked out. Also, notify the Elder Council to sense the location of the ancestor's body through prayers to the Dark Moon. The body of our ancestor must still be on the island, or at least, in the nearby sea!"

"Yes, General!"

"Also, there's another thing. Besides the remnants of the Light who were killed in the Palace of Remembrance, aren't there a bunch of them locked up in the dungeon? You go personally and arrange for them to secretly leave the island by boat."

"General, this..."

"Do as I command."

"Yes, General!"

The captain of the guard left, and Tafman looked at the bandage on his arm. The island's doctor had just treated him. Although the contamination of the evil spirit had been removed, this arm was completely beyond recovery.

However, Tafman wasn't too saddened by this. Instead, looking at his empty shoulder, he felt somewhat relieved.

He continued up the stairs, "Who could have stolen the body of our ancestor?"

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Upon reaching the third floor, he was about to go to the study when he suddenly stopped in front of the master bedroom door.

Karun, standing behind the door, was startled when he heard the footsteps stop outside.

He had come out late due to various delays and was now trapped in the bedroom by Tafman, who seemed to have sensed that there might be someone in the master bedroom.

Karun turned to look at the window of the master bedroom. Should he jump out?

But there should be Tafman's guards outside, and the forces on Dark Moon Island should have returned to their posts by now.

Outside the door, Tafman reached out, grabbed the doorknob, and opened the door. He saw the person standing behind the door.

Tafman's face froze, showing a look of shock:

"You... How could you..."

Standing in front of him was his ancestor, whose eyes were glowing with the pure light of the Dark Moon, the symbol of supreme nobility, the Eye of the Dark Moon!

Karun looked at Tafman, a smile playing at the corner of his mouth, and said leisurely:

"I heard, you're looking for me?"