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The residual magic of Geomancy and Zhen Chan had not yet dissipated when the Pearl Necklace in Qin Si's arms suddenly became scorching hot.
The maid looked down to see Luna's amethyst-like pupils shimmering with a moon-white halo, as fine magic stardust seeped from the swaddling, condensing into hundreds of floating ancient runes in the humid air.
"Madam!" Qin Si stumbled through the Sanctuary's grand doors, colliding with Aelia's Crystal Sword, which cast a distorted reflection against the barrier wall.
The protective spell that should have radiated silver light was now leaking an asphalt-like substance, corroding the purification totem that Third Young Master Lucius had inscribed half a month ago into a charred hollow.
Aelia's fingertip brushed over the crack in the sword body, and she suddenly recalled last month's stormy night when Leonard had mentioned needing to repair the defensive formation in the sanctum. He had used this very sword to sever the throats of three shadow demons.
The dark purple veins lingering in the crystal resonated with the extinguished beams of light from the Western Realm, leaving a cross-shaped burn on her palm.
The bloody smell from the underground altar had already permeated into the banquet hall.
The eighteen box bearers moved mechanically, their newly grown tendrils smeared the black slime secreted by the obsidian box onto the pillars and reliefs.
Leonard's mistress leaned against a Roman column entwined with poison vines, sketching the final curse at the edge of the magical array with her fragrant-dyed hair. The gray-green flames of that hair burning bore an uncanny resemblance to the color in the dying pupil of the barrier master who had collapsed three days ago.
"Father said he would prepare a hundred-day gift for Sister." Brother San kicked open the golden oak door sealed by black slime, feeling his wrist's elemental resonance stone burning hot.
He saw his elder brother's shattered wheelchair wedged in a crack of the spiral staircase, frost accumulating on its metal bracket slowly devoured by some crimson mycelium.
Second Brother's defensive barrier exploded overhead with an emerald-colored halo, shielding him from a falling castle spire gargoyle. "Those servants' eyes..." The young man skilled in illusion magic suddenly froze in place. The gift from his best friend—the Ailya's Birthday Rune, that mithril pocket watch which always pointed north—now displayed seventeen rubies reflecting the butler's bloodshot eyes simultaneously.
Lightning struck down from the black clouds of the dome, suddenly swirling above Luna's head.
The infant emitted a whisper reminiscent of an ancient spell, and the suspended ancient runes instantly wove into a light web, blocking the sulfur-scented lightning three meters away from the nursery.
The dark bag at Qin Si's sleeve burst open, and the splattered antidote came into contact with a certain pink spore in the air, etching the pattern of Aelia's lost wedding ring from three months ago onto the stained glass.
"My dear, this is made from the key catalyst of your eldest son's spinal fluid." The mistress's red lips brushed against Leonard's blood-soaked palm, the inverse cross totem already spreading up her calf.
In the center of the altar, an infant swaddling suddenly expanded into a grotesque sphere of flesh, only to collapse like a snowman exposed to sunlight upon contact with Luna's magic stardust.
Aelia's crystal sword suddenly emitted a sound reminiscent of Qing Yue's longyin.
As she followed the sword tip's guidance to break open the dark door of the banquet hall, she saw twenty-seven wisps of black smoke coalesce above her husband's head into the visage of her aunt, who had died in childbirth.
The cores of the barrier that she had personally replaced rose from the earth rift, each crystal ball embedded with a family crest containing a severed fingertip of the guards.
"Using Sanctuary's protective magic rune to power the dark altar?" Her elder brother twisted the sapphire on the wheelchair armrest, residual magic projecting a three-dimensional magic circle diagram onto the altar's surface.
Those energy nodes that should have protected the magic castle were now reverse channeling curse power through the purification totem designed by Third Young Master Lucius.
Luna's loud cry suddenly transformed into a grand aria.
Fragments of silver anklets flew in from all directions, piecing together Aelia Family's long-lost holy emblem from three hundred years ago at the center of Leonard's nearly completed inverse pentagram.
The mistress's night rose tattoo on her neck began to seep blood as she realized in horror that those servants who should have been controlled were now kneeling towards the nursery.
"So every time you said you were patrolling the borders..." Aelia lightly flicked her sword tip, causing three cores of the barrier to explode simultaneously.
Amidst the splintering shards emerged last year's Dong Lian, revealing Leonard's inverse cross pendant faintly visible beneath Leonard's cloak. "You were all feeding these monsters with my dowry."
The foundation of the castle echoed with a sound like cracking glaciers as Lucius's warning device in the tower finally activated at the moment he turned seven.
When eight hundred Magic Pigeons broke through the Blood Mist, Aelia finally saw beneath the flickering red eyes of the "servants," the scales of the Shadow Demon that had been raised in her husband's study for many years.
Lucius's trembling fingers traced the emerging Ice Cracks on the tower wall, where the warning Magic Pattern he had designed was reconfiguring his Purification Totem Tear.
The boy suddenly covered his Right Eye—left with a Magic Mark from when his Father had taught him to draw Defensive Formation ten years ago, now burned with a sulfurous scent identical to that of the altar's black smoke.
"Second Young Master, be careful!" Qin Si rolled over the shattered Marble Floor while holding Luna tightly.
Stardust leaking from the Infant Swaddling Gap fell onto Second Brother's Mithril Pocket Watch, and the reflection of seventeen Rubies in the dial suddenly changed direction, rearranging the butler's bloodshot eyes into a map of the underground tunnels of the Magic Castle.
Eldest Brother's broken Wheelchair screeched amidst the Black Magic Shockwave.
He turned the second emerald on the armrest, and the binding chains implanted in his Spine to suppress Magic Backlash snapped in response.
Pale fingertips dipped into the frost seeping from the Wheelchair Armrest, tracing out a Magic Pattern Magic Formula that had been interrupted three years ago: "Energy reversal requires derivatives of the Third Step..."
Aelia's Crystal Sword suddenly slipped from her hand, accurately piercing through the center of the Celestial Chart in the Banquet Hall Dome.
The dark purple substance seeping from the Sword Body Ice Cracks met with Stardust, projecting onto the Stained Glass a scene from that day of Third Young Master Lucius's Hundred Day Feast—when baby Lucius had knocked over Blood Wine while crying, now overlapping with the altar's blood to form an eerie cross in Light and Shadow.
"So it was planned from that time," Lady of the Fortress said as she tore apart her Pearl Necklace, letting the rolling pearls bounce in the pool of blood to form a Binding Array.
She stepped on Leonard's right hand, discovering that the inner side of the wedding ring on her husband's ring finger had been engraved with a Serpent Rune, derived from the same source as the Inverse Cross Totem, at some unknown time.
Brother San's Resonance Stone suddenly erupted with a blinding Strong Light.
The young man tore open his shirt, corroded by Black Slime, revealing a faint Crescent Moon Birthmark just below his Collarbone—an imprint deemed the source of Magic Turbulence since birth, now drawing in Luna's scattered Ancient Runes to form a flowing armor.
As he swung his fist toward the Roman Column, the Inverse Cross on the Mistress's calf unexpectedly crawled up toward his ankle along the Ice Cracks.
"Do you think using the Eldest Son's spinal cord to concoct potions can suppress backlash?" The elder brother's damaged Twin Legs suddenly glowed with an Ice Blue luminescence. The Magic Circuit, damaged twenty years ago while saving his Younger Brother from a fall, restructured within Stardust. "The book on Blood Source Replacement Technique that was missing from your Study Room Secret Compartment was replaced by me with an Astrolabe using Frost Puppet."
Luna abruptly ceased her Loud Cry, as the Moon White Halo swirling in her Amethyst Pupils intertwined into a circular Star Map within the Dome.
The floating Ancient Runes suddenly changed direction, spelling out a fragment of the Aelia Family's Holy Emblem at the center of Leonard's forming Inverse Pentagram.
A long wail echoed from Castle Leyline as seventeen Crystal Chandeliers fell simultaneously. The crowd saw the Lord's back Emerging with a web-like Blood Vein identical to that of the butler's eye.
When the last wisp of black smoke dissipated in Lucius's repaired Purification Totem, the frost condensed by Aelia's Sword Tip had already frozen most of Leonard's body.
The Lady of the Fortress bent down to pick up a shard of Silver Anklet, discovering that the inner side bore the inscription "Fate Reforging Day" in Ancient Elvish Language, which perfectly matched the faint Golden Patterns emerging on Luna's neck.
Blood Moonlight streamed through broken Stained Glass, casting butterfly-shaped Light Spots on the infant's waving little hands.
Qin Si suddenly noticed that in the Qiang Bao Liu Su held by the young lady, there was a strand of silver hair entwined—belonging to the Barrier Master who had died three days ago. The end of that hair, which should have been consumed by darkness, now shimmered with a Red Glow of a Prophecy Crystal Fragment she had seen in her lady’s Makeup Box’s Dark Compartment.
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