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墨書 Inktalez
Aelia's Moonlight Compass sparked against the slanted Gilded Floor Tiles as she stumbled toward the floating infant.
When she caught sight of the half Wedding Ring tightly gripped in Luna's hand, her knuckles turned white from the sudden pressure—this was the Oath Ring that Leonard had placed on her finger seventeen years ago, kneeling in a sea of Evening Primrose. The inner band, which should have been engraved with intertwining vines of their surnames, now bore only half of a Strange Woman's Family Crest.
"Siglinde Family..." Her fingertip brushed over the misty Emblem of the Ring Face, and memories of last year's Midsummer Festival surged forth.
Leonard had claimed he was inspecting the border Magic Circle, yet his cloak was speckled with a few grains of Stardust Pollen unique to the Floating Island, a Magic Plant exclusive to the Siglinde Family territory.
At that time, she had held a Silver Candelabra to adjust his collar, feeling his Adam's Apple glide gently beneath her palm. "Once Lucius completes the Abyss Trial, I’ll take you to Ice Crystal Lake to see the Aurora."
The castle foundation trembled with a second wave of Zhen Chan, and Leonard coughed up Hei Xue that spread across the Persian Carpet in strange patterns.
He futilely tore at the Contract Chain wrapped around his chest; those Golden Runes that once symbolized their sacred marriage Oath were now ravenously gnawing at the freshly scabbed Magic Engraving on his wrist—a mark left by Leonard's Concubine when she bore their illegitimate child, Midnight, sealing a Blood Pact.
"You dare use our Wedding Ring as a Contract Medium!" Aelia suddenly seized Luna's small hand, the lingering Sulfur Smell on the infant's palm scorching her pupils.
The Moonstone Necklace abruptly projected a three-dimensional image: two Ke Hen on the surface of the Oath Stone Tablet were contaminating each other at an alarming rate, Aelia's Silver Patterns already corroded into a rusty red.
Leonard let out a low growl like a cornered beast, his right hand, afflicted by Ailina's Burn, slammed against the void.
Three Twelve Rays fraud runes exploded on the wall, attempting to alter the wavelength of Contract emitted by the Wedding Ring. "It’s merely necessary for a political Marriage..." His bloodied eyelashes trembled violently, and his once captivating Emerald Eyes were clouded with Haze. "The Xita Altar needs a new guardian Bloodline..."
"So our three sons have become sacrifices?" Aelia suddenly laughed lightly, shattering her Aelia's Moonlight Compass into sharp Prisms in her palm.
Countless Memory Fragments swirled within the Prism: their Eldest Son during that night of Magic Backlash when Leonard held the diagnosis and said, "Glory requires sacrifice"; their Second Son curled up in the anti-magic prison while her husband stroked her tear-soaked temples with a cold Power Ring; and when San Zi Lucius voluntarily stepped into the Abyssal Eye, this man hadn’t even attended the farewell ceremony.
Luna suddenly emitted a Yiya Sound, pointing with her finger clutching the Wedding Ring toward Leonard's neck.
Only then did Aelia notice the Dark Purple Veins winding beneath his collarbone—the price paid for long-term use of bloodline deception spells.
In the shimmering light of the infant's fingertip, the image of the Oath Stone Tablet suddenly focused on the base of the stone tablet: countless strands as fine as hair were converging from the basement of the three sons' rooms.
"You raised an illegitimate child with your parental bloodline!" Aelia's voice, tinged with a mix of Qian Jiao and the explosive sound of the Moonlight Prism, rang out.
She finally discerned the writhing tumor at the bottom of the Oath Stone Tablet, a mass of flesh enveloping the illegitimate child's golden hair, greedily siphoning the life force of the legitimate heir through the Marriage Contract.
Leonard suddenly erupted, his shattered fingers plunging into his own chest.
The residual magic of the Abyssal Eye enveloped him in black snowflakes, disguising him as gravely injured and near death. "They willingly sacrificed for the family..." he coughed, his blood transforming into a red-eyed raven that attempted to peck at Aelia's Moonlight Prism in hand. "Just like you willingly donned this..."
The raven's screech abruptly ceased.
Luna had unknowingly pressed her Wedding Ring against her Moonstone Necklace, activating some ancient restriction with the magical factors in the infant's saliva.
The projection of the Oath Stone Tablet suddenly began to reverse time. When Leonard's last night froze amidst a sea of evening primrose twenty years ago, Aelia saw Young Leonard pressing the Wedding Ring into her palm; inside the ring, the misty emblem of the Siglinde Family was already present.
The castle tilted on the brink of silence, and Luna suddenly reached out to grasp a falling raven feather.
The feather melted into golden ink in her palm, slowly seeping into the cracks of the Wedding Ring—this was precisely what was recorded in the original text, a "Truth Manifestation Agent" that only a Great Mage or Reincarnator could concoct.
Luna's pupils shimmered with light gold ripples as her chubby palm moved slowly against the Liujin brick surface.
The light trails dragged by the infant's fingertip gradually coalesced into an ancient magic circle pattern, absorbing all fragments of the exploding Moonlight Prism within it.
When the last piece of prism embedded itself into the formation, suspended shards of light suddenly crystallized into a dodecahedron, refracting the projection of the Oath Stone Tablet into a 360-degree surround image.
Aelia's silver moon robe fluttered without wind as she grasped a roll of parchment tinged with moss green from one of the crystal facets.
This was what she discovered last autumn in her husband's secret compartment in the study—a fourteen-line love poem written with Floating Island Stardust ink, ending with the Siglinde Family Two-Headed Serpent Fire Seal.
At the time, she thought it was correspondence between the Border Lords, only now realizing the ambiguous message folded within the third line: "On the seventh night when Aurora sweeps over Ice Crystal Lake, let my kiss mark cover the Star Sand mole beneath your collarbone."
"Last October, you suddenly wanted to expand the East Tower; it was actually to build a Stargazing Platform for your illegitimate child, wasn't it?" Aelia's question, laced with a Magic Shockwave, switched the crystal facets from Leonard's Last Night to Magic Castle Architectural Blueprint.
What should have been a defensive structure diagram prominently displayed the unique anti-gravity runes of Floating Island, with Window Lattice patterns identical to those of the Siglinde Family Emblem.
Suddenly, Leonard's tattered cloak erupted with black mist, attempting to engulf the floating evidence.
Those Magic Letters tainted by Leonard's Concubine Xiang Fen, upon contact with the black mist, suddenly emerged with dense Mama's Counter-curse Rune—exactly what he had created during his pursuit of Aelia: the "Moonlight Love Letter Encryption Technique."
The shattered Emerald Eyes flickered with Shan Na's panic as he covered his heart's new tear from the Contract wound: "It's just necessary for a strategic marriage..."
"Does a strategic marriage require clandestine meetings on the seventh of every month at Floating Island?" Aelia suddenly tore open the Pearl Button on her left shoulder, revealing the dim Moonlight Contract Mark beneath her collarbone.
This Magic Brand, once symbolizing Eternal Love, was now entwined by twelve Blood-Red Chains. "On the night of last year's harvest festival, you said you were going to quell the Northern Territory riots; in reality, you went to celebrate your Illegitimate Child's Luna's First Birthday Celebration—did you think I wouldn't catch the lingering scent of holy milk on your cloak?"
Luna suddenly let out a short Yiya Sound, her saliva-drenched little hands patting against the floating crystal facets.
The baby’s palm print triggered a Magic Ripple that switched the Oath Stone Tablet’s Projection to real-time Leonard's Last Night: in the West Tower Underground Altar, three Bronze Candlesticks engraved with their sons' names were melting, Zhu Lei converging into a Blood River flowing toward Floating Island.
And at the center of the altar meant to honor their family guardian stood a cradle embedded with the Sigurd Family Crest.
The moonlight from Castle Dome suddenly turned pale as Aelia staggered to support the baby Cradle.
She finally saw those protective charms she had hung above her sons' beds—the Silver Moon Pendant engraved with Leonard's Signature—now twisting in the Projection into a medium that drained life force.
The Pain Relief Crystal embedded in her Eldest Son’s Wheelchair, the Anti-Magic Collar regularly changed in her Second Son’s cell, and Lucius’s Abyssal Amulet gifted by Father before his departure—all glimmered with soul-consuming Youguang within the blood-red veins of the Oath Stone Tablet.
"You think I don't know?" She suddenly grabbed Luna's ankle, the infant's sole resonating with the Prophecy Magic Pattern and the Moonlight Contract. "Every time you kiss the Children goodnight, the Wedding Ring is stealing their Original Magic Power!
Lucius willingly stepped into the Abyssal Eye because you deceived him into believing it was the Heir's trial!"
Leonard's fractured finger suddenly pierced the altar's Projection, attempting to disrupt Leonard's Last Night: "They flow with my blood, so they should bear the family's..." Before he could finish, the Milk Foam that Luna expelled exploded in mid-air, and the Purifying Power bursting from the Milk Fragrance washed away the blood-colored Projection, revealing every detail.
Only then did everyone see that those ends of the Bloodline connecting to their sons were entwined around a Golden-Haired Child on the Floating Island who was learning to walk.
Aelia's wail shattered the Stained Glass on either side of the corridor, and Leonard's Last Night of twenty years flowed like a lantern in the moonlight: on their wedding night, Leonard had sworn an oath using her Fingertip blood with the Wedding Ring; the misty Emblem inside the ring had briefly appeared; when their Eldest Son was born, her husband insisted on using Ancestral Silverware for delivery; on the night of their Second Son's Magic Surge, he suddenly brought back a magic-suppressing stone... All warm illusions turned into sharp ice spikes, piercing her heart a thousand times over.
"You think I willingly became an ignorant mistress?" She suddenly tore off her Moonstone Necklace, letting its sharp edges cut into her Palm.
The blood-soaked gem projected hundreds of Memory Fragments—repairing damaged border barriers alone in the dead of night, reinforcing the South Wing Granary's Defensive Formation against Wind and Snow for the Subjects, kneeling before her ancestors to exchange ten years for her sons' safety.
In every Leonard's Last Night, her Wedding Ring glimmered with an eerie red light in the darkness.
Leonard's broken body suddenly surged forth, his Scepter stained with Hei Xue striking heavily against the ground.
From the Gap in the castle Ground poured out buried truths from Twenty Years Ago: when young Aelia signed the marriage contract, she had included the Moonlight Guardian Spell from Family Secret Tradition as part of her Dowry.
At this moment, fragments of that Spell twisted in mid-air into chain-like shapes, vaguely pointing towards a sealed Taboo Contract.
"You think you are innocent?" His bloodied lips twisted into a grotesque smile as his Emerald Eyes regained clarity, as if some spell that had imprisoned him for years was finally undone...
The Gilded Floor Tiles cracked under magical turbulence, revealing Spider Web patterns as Leonard's Scepter erupted with a deep Purple Arc.
Those floating fragments of the marriage contract were linked by Electric Current, piecing together Aelia Family's Inheritance—the Moonlight Codex Remnant Page—sealed within the Wedding Ring as a Guardian Spell twenty years ago.
"Look at this!" His bloodied Fingertip traced over the suspended Parchment, and the altered Ancient Script oozed Indigo venom. "Thirteenth Supplemental Clause—'Yue Hui shares Bloodline with the Abyss'!" The Scepter struck heavily against the ground as Aelia’s left shoulder Contract Mark suddenly emerged with intricate Serpent Patterns, identical to the mark on the Golden-Haired Child’s forehead in Cradle on Floating Island.
Aelia staggered as she supported the baby in the Cradle, the Silver Thread of Aelia's Moonlight Robe snapping under the intense Zhen Chan.
Last winter, while repairing the West Side city wall, she had indeed used her Wedding Ring as a medium to channel the Guardian Spell. However, she never expected that those Blood Pearls infused with Moonlight Magic would transform through the Contract into nourishment for her illegitimate child.
"Mother..." Luna suddenly uttered blurred Broken Syllables, her small hand stained with Milk Stain patting against the crystal facets.
The suspended dodecahedron suddenly reflected real-time images of Aelia's three sons—her Eldest Son's Wheelchair Armrest embedded with a Pain Relief Crystal was oozing Scarlet Liquid, while the Anti-Magic Collar around her Second Son's neck was Emerging from the Sigurd Family Crest. Meanwhile, Lucius in the abyss had his In Hand Amulet suddenly crack open, releasing the unique Stardust and Pollen of the Floating Island.
Leonard seized the opportunity to insert his Scepter into the Ground Cracks, his blood-soaked Emerald Pupils glowing with an Eerie Purple Light. "You are the one who tied their Destiny to the Wedding Ring with your own hands! Every time you cast the Guardian Spell for them..." His throat suddenly surged with scaly crystalline Hei Xue, while at the tip of his Scepter bloomed Xu Ying from the Moonlight Codex. "You are merely fulfilling your obligations under the Contract!"
Ailya's Silver Hair suddenly danced wildly without wind, fragments of the Moonlight Prism coalescing around her into seven hundred and twenty ice crystals.
The memory of Leonard's Last Night during last year's Harvest Festival flashed back within those ice crystals—she knelt by her Eldest Son's bed, using her Wedding Ring as a medium to cast a Pain Relief Spell, unaware that those silver Light Spots were flowing toward the Floating Island through the Oath Stone Tablet.
Amidst the crisp sounds of colliding ice crystals, she heard her gentle whispers from that time: "Sleep now; Mother is watching over you."
"Shut up!" she screamed as she swung her shattered Moonstone Necklace, an Ice Crystal Storm swirling with Liujin brick debris forming a tornado.
Leonard hurriedly unfolded a shield made of deceptive runes but found that those ice crystals could actually reflect Spell backlash—the Protective barrier he had tricked Aelia into casting on their Second Son three years ago was now transforming into Barbed Ice Spikes aimed at his Mei Xin.
Luna suddenly flipped over and grasped the edge of the Cradle, biting her Milk Tooth into her Tongue.
Blood Pearls mixed with Innate Magic Power dripped into the Liujin crevice, triggering an Automatic Activation of the hidden Ancient Purification Array beneath the Peacock Stone Tiles.
Faint Golden Patterns spread along the Earth Rift, causing the venom released by Leonard's Staff to evaporate into a distorted mist of truth.
From within that mist emerged last year's secret Leonard's Last Night during Midsummer Festival: Aelia’s Moonstone Necklace had suddenly snapped at the banquet. As Leonard bent down to pick it up, a brief Resonance occurred between the foggy Emblem inside the Wedding Ring and the necklace clasp.
Aelia, who was setting up a barrier at Ice Crystal Lake, had no idea that in that moment, the Illegitimate Child was stealing half of the Moonlight Magic she had reserved for the Festival through the Bloodline link.
"Using my magic... to nurture your illegitimate child?" Aelia's Ailya's White Nails dug deeply into her palm as the Moonlight Contract Mark suddenly erupted into twelve blood chains.
The moonlight over Castle Dome dimmed abruptly, and a more horrifying scene emerged from the Oath Stone Tablet's Projection—amulets she had crafted for her sons every year on Ailya's Birthday Rune were now swirling above the Floating Island's Cradle, infusing stolen vitality into the Golden-Haired Child.
Leonard's tattered cloak suddenly transformed into a swirling abyss, directing seventy percent of the attack toward the collapsing West Tower. "Look at Lucius!" His hoarse voice mixed with the roar of crumbling architecture. "If it weren't for your insistence on having him participate in the Abyss Trial, I could have..."
The crystal facets suddenly flashed with Lucius in the Magic Eye during Leonard's Last Night—the amulet on the boy's chest was frantically absorbing the abyss's Poison Fog, while connected to it, the Sigrid Mark on the illegitimate child's forehead shone blindingly from within the Floating Island's Cradle.
Aelia finally understood that the so-called Heir Trial was merely using her biological son as a filter to purify the power of the abyss.
"Beast!" She crushed a shard of Aelia's Moonlight Compass into a sharp Xing Mang and thrust it toward her husband's heart, fueled by twenty years of misplaced affection.
Leonard hurriedly blocked with his Scepter, but the Moonlight Codex's Remnant Page embedded at its tip suddenly ignited—this was a curse Aelia had imposed at the cost of ten years; it would trigger backlash if he used its power to harm Close Kin.
Luna suddenly let out a sharp Loud Cry, and tears from the infant merged into a golden stream within the Ground Purification Array.
The stream reflected hidden layers of the Oath Stone Tablet’s Base—there lay sealed half of Aelia's Original Magic Power lost during childbirth, now transforming through the Marriage Contract into nourishment for Leonard's Concubine.
As the stream touched Hei Xue at Leonard’s feet, more altered Contract Terms began to emerge...
Moonlight was suddenly swallowed by rolling Wu Yun, and the Oath Stone Tablet’s Projection began to shake violently.
Aelia’s shattered necklace floated in mid-air, each moonstone reflecting different positions of Sigrid Marks on her sons—those patterns she once thought were battle Scars were now slowly crawling toward her Children’s hearts under the influence of Contract Power.
Leonard suddenly burst into maniacal laughter; ashes from the Burning Remnant Page atop his Scepter cast a distorted Projection in his Pupil. "When you tore out Chapter Thirteen of the Moonlight Codex back then, you should have anticipated the backlash of the Contract!" His mangled left hand plunged into his own chest, pulling out a Contract Core glowing with Pearl Luster—wrapped in Aelia’s lace veil from their wedding night and engraved with the Sigurd Family Crest.
Luna’s Purification Array suddenly emitted a piercing shriek as golden streams rolled back to envelop Aelia’s trembling ankles.
The ancient runes flowing within the infant's eyes projected the wedding scene from twenty years ago onto the cracking gilded floor tiles: as Aelia donned her wedding ring and received the Moonlight Codex, the missing thirteenth chapter lay quietly on the altar of the Siglinde Family, resonating eerily with the wedding ring in her hand.
"Do you think a marriage partner is chosen at random?" Leonard's Crystal Heart suddenly emitted a burst of purple-black blood vessels, ensnaring the images of his three sons along the Earth Rift. "Since your grandfather's time, the women of the Moonlight Family have been the best Contract Vessels..." His bloodied fingertip traced across Lucius's chest amulet, and an abyssal poison fog erupted around the boy. "The seventh day of each month is not a secret meeting; it’s to replace the curse suppressing your Bloodline Rebound!"
Ailya's silver hair suddenly turned inky black, and a Blood Pearl, shimmering with starlight, seeped from the Contract Mark on her left shoulder.
The magical power sealed within the Oath Stone Tablet's hidden layer was now flowing back into her through her shattered wedding ring.
The moonlight cascading from the castle dome materialized into chains, pinning Leonard before the emerging Truth Mirror—reflected within was the groom from twenty years ago, his right eye unmistakably a Puppet Crystal of the Siglinde Family's inheritance.
"Mother... blood... reversal..." Luna suddenly spat out a mixture of Jin Sha and Xue Mo, as remnants of the infant's umbilical cord glowed brilliantly within the Purification Array.
Aelia abruptly recalled the strange events of that night: it was Leonard who had personally cauterized the umbilical cord with his wedding ring instead of allowing the midwife to cut it.
The Judgment Array beneath the gilded floor tiles suddenly reversed, madly pouring stolen magic from the Oath Stone Tablet into her nearly exhausted Yue Hui Bloodline.
Leonard's Puppet Crystal right eye exploded, revealing a writhing Sigurd Family Crest emblem within. "Too late!" His shattered vocal cords emitted an inhuman screech. "Once the Bloodline Marks of the three sacrifices are complete..." Before he could finish, Luna pressed the bloodstained wedding ring against her heart. Amidst the infant's loud cries, a tremor echoed through the castle underground—a sound reminiscent of an ancient dragon awakening after millennia. It was none other than the mount of a Great Mage suppressed beneath Magic Castle, responding to its reincarnated master’s Bloodline call.
From within the ruins of the West Tower, a massive claw covered in dragon scales emerged. The Oath Stone Tablet revealed truths hidden for millennia amidst a dragon’s roar—the original title of Moonlight Codex's thirteenth chapter was written in Gu Long Language as "Bloodline Cage."
Aelia’s shattered wedding ring melted into liquid moonlight amidst dragon breath, while Leonard’s Crystal Heart began to reveal the terrified faces of their three sons undergoing a long transformation...
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