Book Synopsis
Book Tags
Donation Rankings
Comment
0 Comments
You May Also Like
墨書 Inktalez
In the shadows of the spiral staircase, the humid scent of moss lingered. Luna clutched her elder brother's silver-haired hand, a fine line drawn by the ice crystal.
The Young Master turned the wheelchair, crushing the ice shards seeping from the wall. His pale fingertip brushed against the frost flower nestled in the infant's hair. "You were born three days after the geomancy seal of the North Tower weakened."
Moonlight Butterfly Dust flickered in the secret passage, illuminating eighteen varying scratches on the wheelchair armrest—marks left from last year's Lunar Eclipse Night when he suffered an ice magic backlash.
Luna pressed the blood-stained Frost Pattern Emblem against his protruding wrist bone, a high-frequency magic shockwave echoing off the stone walls. "How much longer can Brother's Star Trail Technique hold?"
Suddenly, the wheelchair emitted a harsh screech, and the Young Master's collarbone felt a sudden constriction, tightening into a needle tip.
He gazed into his sister's pupils, where ancient runes flickered. He recalled that night when he was fifteen, consumed by a rampaging Ice Dragon, wrapped in moonlight as it spilled onto the floor of the Potion Room.
"When your loud cry shattered Father's Study's barrier that night, the ice crystals on my wheelchair armrest faded for the first time." He unbuttoned the third button of his shirt, revealing a heart marred by ice cracks and a starry totem, at its center embedded with half a blood-stained Moonlight Butterfly Wing. "Third Brother always says I should use Arche Plan to shift geomancy, but he doesn't know this body has long become a living seal."
The infant suddenly reached out to poke at the crack in the totem, golden-red light flowing from her fingertip into the Star Trail.
The Young Master groaned as he grasped the wheelchair armrest, watching black mist seep from the gap in the floor tiles, shimmering in golden light. "Is this... residue from an Earth Vein Moth?"
"So Brother San's Ice Thorn isn't a curse." Luna's silver hair suddenly surged, entangling with spider webs hanging from the ceiling. The ice pearls condensing on the silk reflected hundreds of magic scrolls floating in Lucius' bedroom. "Someone used his talent as bait to lure out the true Great Mage."
A brittle sound echoed from deep within the passage as an image frame shattered. The Young Master turned his wheelchair, veins bulging in his hand.
The failure of that astrological ritual ten years ago emerged once more—how Father forcibly merged his star chart with geomancy while ice crystals pierced through blood vessels into his heart, and Mother knelt in the snow for three days with his broken body...
"Luna." He suddenly pressed down on the infant's hand as she was forming a Jie Yin. The withered starry totem emitted a faint blue light. "When Mother extracted the Ice Thorn from my heart back then, blood soaked her dowry's Moonlight Veil."
The infant's breath, scented with milk, brushed against his trembling fingertip. Suddenly, seven flame-wrapped ice crystals floated out from her swaddling cloth, assembling before them into a miniature magic castle model.
As the model rotated to face the North Tower, all its windows began to ooze thick black mist.
Brother San's cough resonated with an ice layer cracking. Luna suddenly bit her tongue, sending a blood pearl flying towards the model of Lucius's bedroom.
The blood pearl pierced through the ice crystal of Shan Na, and they clearly saw black roots drilling from the boy's heart into the geomancy.
The wheelchair rolled over the peacock stone tiles, where new ice cracks had formed. The Young Master pulled a silver chain from his collar, revealing an ice crystal vial that contained a piece of moonlight butterfly wings. "This was a birthday gift from Mother last year. She said, 'Glory will eventually become the Vine Cage.'"
An infant suddenly let out a sharp loud cry, and the sound wave shattered the ice cones hanging from the top of the secret passage.
As the last echo faded, her eyelashes, dusted with scale powder, fluttered and pointed towards the northeast. "Lady Aelia's Ice Fire Breath is trembling."
The moonlight veil in Aelia's chamber fluttered without wind as Qin Si poured the prepared evening primrose potion into an ice-cracked porcelain bowl.
The lady stroked the frost pattern emblem left by Luna, her fingertip cut by the icy edges of the badge, drawing forth a blood pearl. "Lucius coughed up blood with ice shards again today."
"The Third Young Master's ark model has been swallowed halfway by black mist." Qin Si suddenly lowered her voice, placing the bowl on a sandalwood table shrouded in ice mist. "The Night Watcher from the North Tower said that after midnight, one can hear the sobbing sounds of geomancy."
Luna's swaddled form silently appeared on the windowsill, moonlight butterfly dust swirling around her to form a rotating light band.
Aelia hurriedly wrapped the baby’s frozen purple feet in the moonlight veil but discovered that the child's palm was drawing a twisted star chart in blood.
"Lucius's talent is not mistaken." The lady suddenly choked up as ice and fire dual elemental magic uncontrollably burned through the tablecloth. "The mistake lies with those who treat him as a container..." Her moonstone earrings suddenly shattered, and half of a black root emerged from an emerald fragment.
The infant’s finger, smeared with Yao Zhi, jabbed fiercely at the emerald fragment. As golden light flashed, everyone heard a scream emanating from deep within the geomancy.
The spilled potion from Qin Si created eerie patterns on the cashmere carpet—clearly a cross-section of the magic fortress underground passage.
As the last sliver of moonlight was swallowed by Wu Yun, Luna suddenly grasped Aelia's pearl necklace and shook it vigorously.
The lady's neck suddenly bore dark purple marks from the Ice Crystal Chain, remnants of the Dark Sacrificial Ritual she had forcefully interrupted ten years ago.
"Geomancy is consuming the living," the infant suddenly spat out milk foam laced with Ice Shards, the black mist within twisting into a skeletal shape.
She slapped the Frost Pattern Emblem onto Qin Si's hand back, and the moonstone on the maid's wrist suddenly reflected the black veins crawling up the North Tower's outer wall.
Aelia's Ice and Fire Spell had yet to take shape when Luna had already pulled Qin Si's hem and rolled into the Grooming Table's Dark Compartment.
As the Dark Compartment closed, everyone heard Lucius's suppressed cough echoing from the floor tile gap, mingling with the unique cracking sound of the Ice Layer, reminiscent of breaking bones.
The Ice-Cracked Porcelain Bowl on the Sandalwood Table emitted a delicate chime, while Qin Si hurriedly pressed down on the Evening Primrose Potion that was about to roll off.
Luna suddenly grabbed Aelia's pearl necklace, and the golden runes swirling in the infant's pupils illuminated every detail of the chamber's walls.
The Dressing Mirror reflected Lucius curled up on the bed, his cough expelling Ice Shards that corroded the Velvet Bedding into Abyssal Serpent Parasite Holes resembling honeycombs.
"Geomancy is gnawing at the soul of a living person." Luna traced a twisted Star Trail on Qin Si's hand back with her finger coated in Yao Zhi, causing the moonstone on the maid's wrist to burst forth with blinding light.
Blood Pearls oozing from Aelia's earlobe dripped onto the Frost Pattern Emblem, miraculously crystallizing into wings of a Half Crystal Butterfly.
When Wu Yun completely obscured the moonlight, the infant suddenly let out a high-frequency loud cry.
Seven silver threads shot out from the swaddling blanket in Qin Si's arms, precisely piercing into shadows in every corner of the chamber.
As black mist billowed, everyone heard scratching sounds beneath the Peacock Stone Tiles, as if Ailya's white nails were clawing at the rock layer.
"Lead the way." Luna’s silver hair suddenly entwined around Qin Si’s wrist, and the infant’s unique Magic Fluctuation shattered the Jade Jewelry Box on the Grooming Table.
Aelia was about to rise when she realized her Ice and Fire Dual Elemental Magic was ensnared within her meridian by some viscous darkness.
Qin Si trembled as she pushed open the hidden door behind the fireplace, and Moonlight Butterfly Dust trailed a luminous blue glow from the hem of her skirt.
The stone walls of the secret passage oozed a sweet, metallic scent, and Luna's swaddling cloth floated in mid-air, three feet above the ground.
As they turned the third corner, the maid's Xiu Xie was suddenly ensnared by Black Roots that burst forth from the ground.
"Don't move." Luna bit her fingertip, releasing a Blood Pearl. The Pure Magic contained within the Baby Blood burned the Roots to ashes.
Qin Si staggered against the slick wall, only to find her palm stuck to a half-rotted Moonlight Butterfly Wing—the very piece missing from Young Master’s Starry Totem.
At the end of the passage, an eerie green light suddenly illuminated the area, revealing hundreds of floating Magic Scrolls that began to unfurl on their own.
Luna's silver hair expanded into a net, capturing all the scrolls attempting to flee.
When Qin Si raised the Moonstone for illumination, she was startled to see Curse Runes drawn in blood writhing and burrowing into Geomancy on the surface of the scrolls.
"It’s the Soul Sacrifice Conversion Array." Luna's swaddling cloth suddenly descended to the center of the scrolls, and her baby pink feet pressed down on the twisting runes.
Qin Si gasped in horror as she noticed her shadow splitting; one half had already crawled up the stone wall, transforming into a monstrous creature with bared fangs.
The baby suddenly rolled into the maid's arms, its tiny hand dusted with Scale Powder striking Qin Si’s Mei Xin.
Pure golden light surged from the maid's Seven Orifices, forcing the writhing shadow back to its original form.
At that moment, Luna's wrist Frost Pattern Emblem spun and sliced through all the scrolls, while black mist billowed from Shan Na, accompanied by a beast's dying wail echoing from underground.
As the last wisp of black mist dissipated, ice crystal rain suddenly fell from above in the passageway.
Luna opened her mouth to catch a few snowflakes, her pupils reflecting the tangled Black Veins deep within the foundation of the Magic Castle.
The blood vessel-like pollutants pulsed slowly in sync with the Third Young Master's cough, transforming Ice Magic into a viscous darkness.
"Back." The infant suddenly grabbed Qin Si's collar, seven silver threads pulling them backward into the chamber.
Aelia remained frozen in her Sandalwood Chair, shrouded in Ice Mist, while Lady Fingertip's Ice Crystal Chain had spread across her entire upper body.
Luna hurled the swaddled bundle, now covered in black mist, into the lady's arms, causing the ice crystals surrounding Aelia to shatter instantly.
As moonlight filtered through the Shimmering Veil once more, the maid noticed that dark purple marks on the lady's neck were oozing tiny Ice Shards, which fell to the ground and transformed into twisted Black Centipedes.
Before the morning fog had lifted, Luna's loud cry startled a Moonlight Butterfly resting on the Window Lattice.
Carrying the swaddled bundle through the Emerald Corridor, Qin Si overheard two Sweeping Maids whispering behind a stone pillar.
"I dreamed again last night of vines crawling out of the Cellar with Ice Crystal Teeth..."
"My Guard Dog coughed Ice Shards at the moon for half the night..."
The Carved Door to Aelia's chamber stood ajar, with the lady using Ice Fire Magic to roast a Secret Letter.
As the Letterhead curled in the flames, Luna suddenly reached for the Ashes—charred Paper reformed in her Palm, revealing a Warning written with invisible ink: Dispose of the Container before Lunar Eclipse Night.
"Lady!" The Chief Guard stumbled in abruptly, ice crystals dropping from gaps in his armor. "The Night Watcher from the North Tower... his eyes have turned into two Ice Caverns!"
Luna's silver hair suddenly wrapped around the Chief Guard's gauntlet, and the infant's magic surged through the armor's patterns into the man's Meridian.
With a clang, half-melting Black Roots fell from the Heart Shield.
Aelia's Ice Spike Technique was a moment too late; those Roots had already seeped into the Peacock Stone Tiles as a stench-filled blood.
"Third Young Master The Ice Shard I coughed up this morning..." Qin Si trembled as he handed over the Si Pa, within which a frozen blood clot encased a fragment of the Starry Totem. "It... it will move..."
Luna suddenly reached out and shattered the Ice Shard. The blood of the infant dripped onto the Xing Mang fragment, unexpectedly transforming into Young Master's Xu Ying from when he was fifteen.
The boy's broken body was nailed to an ice crystal cross, while dark mist from deep within the Geomancy crept along his Blood Vessel and into his heart.
"Enough." Aelia suddenly crushed the Ice Cracks teacup, sharp porcelain shards cutting deep into her Palm, exposing bone. "Ten years ago, they took my Eldest Son, and now they want to use my Young Child as a sacrifice..."
The infant's bloodied fingers pressed against the lady's wound, causing Aelia's Ice Fire Magic to surge uncontrollably toward Luna.
As golden light erupted from their point of contact, the walls of the chamber suddenly revealed dense clusters of Mama's Black Curse—those Sacrificial Sigils that should have vanished ten years ago were now moving like living creatures through the gaps in the Floor Tile Gap.
Luna's Pupil transformed into pure Lustrous Gold, and the infant's Loud Cry shattered the Crystal Chandelier.
When the last crystal hit the ground, everyone heard the brittle sound of chains breaking deep within the Geomancy.
A drop of Blood Pearl from Aelia Palm fell onto Luna's Mei Xin, and suddenly, three overlapping layers of a Starry Array emerged on the infant's forehead.
The gilded reflection in her Golden Eyes revealed a vision of the lady’s neck bound by an Ice Crystal Chain, showing a glimpse of Xu Ying. Those broken ten years ago by the Confinement Spell were now taking root in the gaps of the floor tiles, crawling along the Blood Vessel toward the heart.
"Mother!” Lucius’s hoarse cry pierced through three layers of floorboards. The Ice Shard coughed up by the boy crystallized into an inverted thorn within the Palace Dome.
Luna suddenly flipped and leaped onto the remnants of the Crystal Chandelier, her bloodied toes tracing burning runes on its mirrored surface, reflecting a swirling black vortex beneath the wheelchair of the Young Master.
The moonstone on Qin Si Wrist suddenly exploded into powder, and from the flying shards emerged the face of the First Lord of the Magic Fortress.
Aelia’s ice spear pierced through the illusion of Shan Na, while Luna’s bitten tongue bled into thirty-seven characters of ancient elven script that coalesced in mid-air, each character precisely embedding itself into the gaps of curses dancing along the walls.
"It is a Bloodline Curse." The infant's lullaby voice resonated with a chilling echo that made the Emerald Window Frame tremble. She suddenly grabbed hold of Aelia’s blood-stained sleeve, smearing her palm's blood onto her swaddled Frost Pattern Emblem.
The moonlight frozen on the surface of the badge suddenly came to life, weaving its way along the Peacock Stone Tiles and Ice Cracks towards the North Tower's Geomancy.
The ice crystals lingering within the Chief Guard's armor emitted a buzzing sound, as seven strands of Gold Thread shot from Luna's pupil, entwining around the black mist seeping from the gaps in the man's armor.
As the black mist coalesced into a skeletal shape, the infant suddenly opened her mouth and swallowed the foulness. The dark purple blood that dripped from her lips painted a star chart on the ground, reminiscent of the early construction of the Magic Castle.
"Luna!" Aelia's Ice and Fire wings unfurled behind her, only to find the baby gnawing at her wrist adorned with a bloodied Milk Tooth, biting into the Moonstone Bracelet.
The crushed Gem Dust floated into a ring, revealing new Ice Cracks forming on the inner side of the Young Master's Wheelchair Armrest—those cracks perfectly matched the patterns of Geopathic Pollution.
The infant pressed her blood-stained palm against an Ice Shard that Lucius had coughed up last night, and within the frozen blood clump emerged half a face covered in scales.
The Emerald Pestle that Qin Si had accidentally knocked over rolled to the corner, and suddenly, the Moonlight Butterfly carved on its pestle took flight. Hidden within its shadow, Black Roots voraciously devoured the morning mist outside.
"In three days, a Lunar Eclipse." Luna's silver hair suddenly entwined with Aelia's Pearl Earrings, as the infant's Magic Shockwave stripped away seventeen layers of Disguise Spell from the walls of the chamber.
Beneath the peeling wall plaster lay a Purification Array meticulously drawn by the First Generation Fortress Master, now transformed into a reverse Sacrificial Array. The missing totem fragments were resting within the seal beneath the Young Master's Wheelchair.
As the Noon Bell shattered the sixth window pane, Luna traced a twisted Star Trail with her finger stained by Yao Zhi on Qian Si's skirt.
In that fleeting moment when the maid turned to fetch medicine, runes swirling in the infant's pupil had already imprinted an entire Node of pollution from the Magic Castle. Those flickering golden lights flowed along Geomancy towards a hidden chamber containing a Moonlight Butterfly Specimen.
Comment 0 Comment Count