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Luna was hanging upside down on the side of the saddle, her view distorted. Twelve Skeleton Warhorses, their Eye Sockets glowing with a green Phosphorescence, were relentlessly pursuing a Four-angled Beast clad in Scale Armor.
The infant's swaddling cloth had partially opened during the jostling, revealing a Backlash Talisman embroidered with Wisteria flowers.
"Second-in-command, that monster has been chasing us for thirty miles!" The curved blade of the One-Eyed Mountain Bandit was pitted and corroded by the acidic spray from the beast.
Scarface's neck Veins bulged as he suddenly grabbed Luna's swaddling and lifted it into the air. "Damn it, this brat has been crying all the way. Could she be a decoy?"
Aelia's silver chain collar dug into her skin, leaving red marks as she tightened her grip on the sleeve hiding the Star Pattern Stone.
She noticed that whenever Luna emitted a vague Yiya Sound, the direction of the pursuing beasts subtly shifted—like some kind of dispelling spell woven in Baby Language.
Just as this thought crossed her mind, Luna suddenly spat out a "Luna" towards the Southwest, causing the pursuing monsters to crash into an emerging silver vine barrier in midair.
"Stop... have they stopped?" The hunchbacked mountain bandit carrying Brother San slumped to the ground.
Aelia stared at Luna's chin smeared with Milk Stain; she clearly saw the residual Curse glimmering at the corners of the infant's lips.
That was unmistakably a finishing move from the long-lost Dragon Language Magic, yet this baby hadn't even grown her Milk Teeth.
Scarface suddenly used his curved blade to poke at Luna's swaddling. "This little thing is quite peculiar; we should send her..." Before he could finish, countless strands of Silk suddenly descended from the stone walls on either side of the mountain path.
The Spider Web, wrapped in Golden Marigold Pollen, trembled and revealed dozens of faces smeared with black mud—members of the Voodoo Tribe guarding the mountainside.
"Scarface, according to the rules, we should get thirty percent of the goods." The leading lackey displayed his Dog Tooth inlaid with Magic Crystal, pointing his bone staff at Lucius, who was bound like a cocoon. "Especially for such a tender noble brat."
Luna kicked her legs inside the swaddling.
Her fingers, hidden beneath the diaper, quietly traced a semicircle, and the Star Pattern Stone on Aelia's collar suddenly burst forth with a purple light.
The mountain bandits, who were about to draw their blades, stumbled simultaneously—the mud caked on their boot soles had inexplicably frozen into ice.
Scarface seized the opportunity to fling out a poisoned dart, only to see Luna's milk stain accurately cover the eye socket of a member of the Voodoo Tribe, causing him to scream as he rolled down the cliff.
"Damn it, we can't stay in this village!" Scarface shouted as he pulled Luna into the horse-drawn carriage, and everyone sprinted toward the thick fog at the mountain's peak.
When Aelia looked back, she vaguely saw a piece of gold leaf drifting out from Luna's swaddling, sliding toward the bushes where the magical beasts lay in wait.
That was clearly the Tracking Talisman recorded in the Forbidden Book of the Magic Castle Library, but the horse-drawn carriage had already turned seven sharp corners, leaving behind a trail of blood.
As the moonlight took on a sulfurous hue, a roar echoed from the mountaintop as the iron suspension bridge descended.
Luna's pupil reflected the outline in the mist—the gate made of Dragon Skulls was seeping black blood, and the talisman lanterns hanging from the arrow towers of the wall bore Leonard's family crest.
The roar of the iron bridge landing made Aelia's eardrums ache painfully.
She gazed at the flowing black blood from the Dragon Skull on the village wall, her throat filled with a metallic taste—the cuts on those skulls still glistened with frost, remnants of Leonard's proud ice-slicing technique.
"Scarface has brought back some good stuff," came a hoarse laugh from atop the arrow tower as fur-clad bandits tossed down ropes.
When the rope ensnared Lucius's neck, Luna suddenly let out a heart-wrenching cry, her delicate baby fingers accurately poking Scarface's waist where his Sealing Stone was located.
The village gate burst open with a thunderous crash.
The Big Boss stepped out, treading on the sticky black blood that covered the ground, his magic crystal-studded deerskin boots crushing a fragment of white bone.
Aelia noticed that his left eye was covered by an Obsidian Lens, the edges faintly revealing the Frostwolf Totem of the Leonard Family—an emblem of honor once bestowed upon vassal families by the Magic Castle.
"This little brat..." Big Boss lifted Luna's chin with the hilt of his dagger, and suddenly, starry golden light burst forth from her baby pink gums.
Scarface was about to remind him, but Luna unexpectedly vomited a mouthful of milk onto his hands, the liquid etching streaks of Qing Yan into his Deerskin Gloves.
Aelia's silver chain necklace suddenly grew hot.
Feigning a stumble, she collided with Brother San, and from her sleeve, the Star Pattern Stone rolled to the ground. Shan Na caught a glimpse of Luna's fingers, hidden within the folds of her swaddling, dipping into saliva to draw symbols—exactly the starting gesture from the stolen seventh page of the Xuan Bing Zhou Jie found in the Library of Hidden Books.
"Except for this infant, lock everyone else in the water dungeon," Big Boss suddenly barked, pointing his dagger embedded with Magic Crystal at Luna. "Scarface, you teach these noble Elders how to use a Snow Ferret fur brush to clean out the magical maggots in the Toilet."
Luna suddenly clutched Big Boss's fur coat, her grape-like eyes misting over with Water Mist.
To others, it seemed like a mere infant's tantrum, but Aelia saw that the chubby palm was pressed against Big Boss's heart, and the blue light swirling between her palm lines was clearly tentacles probing for magical energy.
"I... I..." Luna mumbled incoherently, her little face turning crimson.
Just as Scarface was about to scold her, the baby suddenly tore open her swaddling embroidered with Wisteria flowers—the Diaper bore unmistakable charred marks spelling out "toilet," evidently baked with Fire Magic.
Amidst the laughter of the mountain bandits, Aelia suddenly covered her mouth and nose. "It must be from feeding her Magic Goat Milk on the way..." Before she could finish speaking, Big Boss abruptly tossed Luna to Scarface. "Take her to the East Latrine; let this brat experience real stench."
As they passed through a Training Ground littered with Monster Bones, Luna curled up in Scarface's arm and let out a Lactation Burp.
Aelia stumbled as she was pulled by iron chains but kept her gaze fixed on the flickering golden light in the baby's hair—that was an Anshen Talisman she had seen in the Nursery of the Magic Castle, now bizarrely spinning counterclockwise.
The latrine was a square pit carved from solid black Obsidian, with putrid swamp gas coalescing into Purple Mist above it.
Luna had just been placed on the bluestone slab when she suddenly pointed towards the arrow tower and called out.
At the moment Scarface turned to look, Aelia saw the baby pull a fire starter from her diaper—a common item previously used to light a pipe in the horse-drawn carriage, now wrapped in a thin, ice-like membrane.
"Bird..." Luna suddenly uttered clearly.
Following her chubby finger, Aelia spotted three snowy owls carrying marigolds as they swept across the sulfur-colored moon.
While the mountain bandits busily swung their curved knives to bring down the flying birds, the baby unexpectedly shoved the fire starter into Aelia's palm, its scorching heat nearly making her drop it.
Aelia's star pattern stone necklace suddenly buzzed.
She recalled the seemingly random milk stains on Luna's swaddling, which under the moonlight perfectly matched the obsidian paths surrounding the toilet—those winding grooves were clearly a natural magic array that accumulated magical power, while the marsh gas slowly seeped into the ice crystal shell of the fire starter.
"Sister..." Luna suddenly pressed her forehead against Aelia's bloodied hand, her warm breath brushing over Aelia's wrist, which was raw from iron chains.
As Scarface cursed and turned around, Aelia noticed that the fire starter in her palm was now coated with a layer of glistening black slime—much like the milk stain Luna had previously used to corrode her deerskin gloves, but now exuding a fragrant aroma reminiscent of tequila.
The bell for shift change rang from the arrow tower, startling a flock of blood crows from the trees.
The sulfur wind swept past the arrow tower's shan na, and Aelia suddenly understood the rhythm of Luna's fluttering eyelashes—it corresponded perfectly to the beats for detonating magic crystals in "Xuan Bing Zhou Jie."
She hurled the fire starter towards the densest part of the marsh gas. The baby’s diaper, stained with milk, suddenly lifted and struck precisely against Scarface's sealing stone at the back of his neck.
In that instant, as the ice crystal membrane shattered, marsh gas collided with fragments of the star pattern stone, producing a blinding white light.
Scarface's roar caught in his throat as the entire black obsidian toilet suddenly collapsed inward as if devoured by a giant beast.
Luna curled up and rolled into Aelia's embrace, a half piece of gold leaf floating out from the swaddling of Milk Fragrance, sticking to Aelia's bloodied collarbone.
"Boom!"
A three-hundred-pound slab of blue stone, wrapped in purple flames, soared into the sky, while shattered Unicorn Skeleton arrows rained down like scalding magic worms.
Scarface rolled in the sea of fire, clutching his charred right arm. The Sealing Stone chain at his waist had embedded itself into his flesh during the explosion.
Aelia shielded Luna as they plunged into the foul-smelling mire. She saw the Anshen Talisman spinning counterclockwise in the baby's hair suddenly burst apart, and Gold Dust sprinkled into the churning filth, coalescing into an Arrow Shape.
"Lord... Emblem..." Aelia's silver chain necklace tightened suddenly. She followed the direction of the Gold Dust and Blood Arrow—beneath the base of the Toilet revealed half of a Frostwolf Totem's Broken Sword.
That was indeed Leonard's Sword, broken three years ago at the Winter Hunt Festival. At this moment, a strip of fabric from Leonard's Concubine's Iris Sachet was still wrapped around the hilt.
Luna suddenly reached for Aelia's blood-stained garment, her tiny palm sticky with gold leaf, which gradually revealed Tiny Inscriptions within the Bloodstain.
As the last burning wooden plank fell into the cesspool, Aelia finally discerned that it was written in Dragon Blood: "Cellar" in Ancient Language. The decaying floral scent wafting through the Sulfur mist was eerily reminiscent of the aroma from Leonard's Study Room Secret Compartment.
The explosion's Residual Magic collapsed the East Side village wall, and moonlight streamed through the Abyssal Serpent Parasite Holes of a dragon skull, casting a twisted Frostwolf Totem amidst the chaos.
Luna giggled while biting Aelia's silver chain. The baby's kicking feet splashed in filth, tracing a winding Bloodline across the blue stone slab—at the end of that Track, a Half-Broken Sword pointed toward the lurking Demon Beast Forest beyond the village gate.
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