The Blood Arrow, formed from pearl powder, appeared before Aelia as Luna in her arms suddenly erupted into a heart-wrenching Loud Cry.
The infant's tiny fists, wrapped in lace, pounded against the Southwest, while the swaddling cloth dampened by Magic Spring Water released a light purple mist under the moonlight.
"Light... light!" Luna's face flushed as she uttered broken syllables, her Liuli Color pupils reflecting the unseen Liuguang.
The Wedding Oath Seal at Aelia's collarbone suddenly grew hot, and the blood stench from ten years ago when Leonard had embedded the golden Thorned Rose into her skin surged up her throat without warning.
Qin Si, who was wiping a Silver Candelabra, accidentally knocked over an Enamel Color jar, causing multicolored stones to roll to Lucius's feet.
As the young man bent down, he caught sight of Luna's little hand waving—within those palm prints that should have been pink, there danced golden patterns identical to those on the Magic Castle Geomancy Map.
"Father!" Lucius burst through the study door just as Leonard was sealing the Mistress's Secret Letter with a Fire Seal.
The Jade Ring on Lord's thumb struck against the brass sealing tube, sending sparks that singed the edges of the Letterhead. "That child says something in the forbidden area is calling to her."
Leonard brushed away the Frost Flower on the Gilded Door Handle with his Dragonhide Gloves and met the gaze of the squirming bundle in Aelia's arms.
Luna abruptly stopped crying, turning her face toward him, her face adorned with Lacrima as she broke into a smile revealing only two Milk Teeth.
That smile reminded him of twenty years ago when he first met Aelia in Dragon Valley, the girl waving at him with an Ice Rose in hand.
"The Diviner from Astrology Hall said tonight the Magic Tide is surging." Aelia gently wiped Luna's forehead with an Ailya embroidered with Hemostasis Spell. The Hexagram Birthmark faintly visible in the baby's hair pricked at her eye socket painfully.
As Luna's saliva dampened the Amethyst on her Wedding Ring, a roar akin to a dragon turning over echoed throughout the castle.
The Thorned Rose chain on the forbidden area’s iron gate fell away automatically but froze into an Ice Spike just three inches from the ground.
The guards' Silver Armor glistened with Frost Flower, and a muffled voice came from the leader's helmet: "Lord’s command..."
"I hold the future Lord in my arms." Aelia stepped forward half a step, wrapped in Snow Weasel Fur, as her Ice Crystal Crown reflected Twelve Rays of light.
Luna suddenly grabbed her flowing silver hair and yanked it hard—what should have been torn apart instead grew rapidly, coiling like a venomous snake and shattering the guards' obsidian badges.
Leonard pressed down on the hilt of his sword, veins bulging in his hand, as the fragments of the broken badges floated in the air, forming an image of his mistress's iris pattern around her neck.
Lucius suddenly bent over to cough, using the sleeve of his robe to conceal a glimmering alchemical device that emitted an eerie blue glow as he stuffed it back into his dark bag.
"Mother, the bloodvine has bloomed." The boy pointed at the crimson vines that had crept through the cracks in the corridor walls, their undersides thick with Mama's curse flickering in rhythm with Luna's breath.
Qin Si trembled as he used a Liuli lantern shade to cover his shaking fingertips, only to find that his reflection in the lamp oil had sprouted sharp ears and fangs.
Luna suddenly sprang up from Aelia's arms, the swaddling strap embroidered with a sleep spell snapping apart with a sound.
As the infant's bare feet touched the humid azure bricks, each step blossomed into a lotus woven from ice crystals and flames.
Leonard's sword automatically unsheathed by three inches, but the magic core embedded in its hilt strangely clouded over with a white haze.
"It’s an Abyssal Rainbow." Lucius's voice trembled like a volcanic eruption, and the defensive formation on his magic robe began to spin autonomously.
The illusory light from the forbidden dome fell like a liquid rainbow but lost all color upon touching Luna's hair tips, ultimately condensing into a pale beam of light.
Aelia's wedding oath seal suddenly oozed blood, blooming into a thorny rose at her collarbone.
Luna staggered towards the light beam, while Shan Na's fingertip unleashed an ice chain that intertwined with Leonard's fiery rope around the infant's ankles—yet upon contact, they transformed into misty stardust.
As the illusory light fully merged into Luna’s nape, a seven-colored beam shot from the magic castle spire, piercing through the barrier of eternal night.
A thousand miles away, atop the Astrology Tower where a great mage was concocting a magic potion, he accidentally knocked over a dragon blood vial. The crystal ball reflected an image of the infant’s palm overlapping ancient god language with demonic sigils—a dual brand.
Suddenly, Leonard’s sword’s magic core exploded, scattering fragments that left poisonous bloodstains etched onto his Luna.
Aelia knelt in the center of the Ice Fire Lotus Pattern, watching Luna suck her thumb in peaceful slumber. In the ice pearls clinging to the baby's eyelashes, a golden hourglass could be faintly seen flowing backward.
Lucius touched the wall with trembling fingers, and to his astonishment, the long-dormant Defensive Formation blossomed into Moonlight Roses.
The boy concealed within his sleeve the Alchemical Compass, which spun wildly before finally pointing to the location of Luna's heart—there, the emerging totem perfectly matched the brand within the eye socket of an ancient dragon skeleton deep in the Magic Castle Cellar.
As the first rays of morning light pierced through the Colored Stained Glass Window, Aelia noticed that Luna's Luna had transformed into an Ouroboros ring.
The weight in her arms suddenly felt extraordinarily heavy, as if the millennia-old secrets of the Magic Castle were pressing down upon this tiny body.
Leonard's motion of wiping Jian Feng abruptly halted; those Blood Pearls that should have fallen to the ground defied gravity and floated toward the sleeping infant, transforming into a crown of mist before touching her skin.
Morning light filtering through the stained glass cast butterfly shadows on Luna's nose. Ailya's silver hair entwined around the baby's curled toes, while ice pearls formed at the tips of her hair flickered in sync with her breathing frequency.
Leonard wiped away Jian Feng's blood with his Dragonhide Gloves, only to find that the blood tainted with Luna's essence was corroding the mithril blade—just as Aelia's wedding vow blood had dissolved the dragon clan's Contract Scroll twenty years ago.
"Mother, the Bloodvine has faded." Lucius severed a half-twisted vine with his gilded cufflinks; from its cut end flowed not crimson Blue Blood Fern Juice but a transparent black slime entwined with Xing Xu.
The boy's drooping eyelashes concealed his deep blue Liuguang, while an Alchemical Compass hidden in the folds of his Magic Robe automatically sketched a spiral rune on parchment.
Qin Si trembled as she brought forth a Mink Velvet Swaddle, illuminated by the Liuli Lantern that revealed her still-recovering pointed ears.
When the silk swaddling touched Luna's skin, the Sleep Incantation embroidered upon it suddenly twisted into an Ouroboros pattern.
The Thorned Rose at Aelia's collarbone contracted sharply, and cracks resembling spider webs appeared on her wedding ring's amethyst, oozing a liquid of Jin Hong hue identical to that of baby Luna.
"Send her to the Emerald Cradle." Leonard's voice was wrapped in ice shards; as Leonard's sword returned to its sheath, a gust of wind sliced through the floating poisonous mist crown.
The jade ring on Lord Thumb emerged from the residual shadow of Mistress’s tattoo but shattered into powder upon touching Luna’s kicking little legs.
The drifting Emerald Powder did not settle on the ground; instead, it formed a swirling Nebula around the infant, continuously collapsing in on itself.
Aelia's Ice Crystal Crown suddenly refracted a Sevenfold Phantom, each illusion cradling Luna in different stages of her life.
As Lucius attempted to record the moment with a Memory Crystal, the Alchemical Device Core's Dragon Crystal Stone vaporized into Rainbow Mist, which slipped into the Young Mage's nostrils with his breath—an instant vision flashed across his retina, revealing the Ancient Dragon Bones roaring majestically.
The Spiral Staircase leading to the Nursery was mutating, with Beeswax-like substances seeping from the Obsidian Steps, imprinting the Ice Fire Lotus Pattern that Luna Ailya had stepped upon into a Relief.
As Qin Si chased while holding her Skirt, the Liuli Lantern illuminated her shadow cast on the wall—clearly that of a Lich holding a skeletal infant.
The Maid emitted a sobbing sound akin to a kitten's, and suddenly, remnants of Magic Potion settled in the lamp oil coalesced into Luna's smiling face.
When the Laurel Branch of the Emerald Cradle touched the nape of Luna's neck, an eerie silence enveloped the entire Magic Castle as its Geomancy Roar abruptly ceased.
Aelia's Fingertip conjured a Frost Rose to test the Cradle's barrier, but the flower stem bizarrely tied itself into a bow right before her nose.
The Flame Guardian left at the porch suddenly turned collectively; what emerged from the gaps in their armor was not a Fire Lizard but Phosphorescent Butterflies flickering with Phantom Light Resonance.
Luna's eyelashes trembled lightly in her sleep; within the Ice Pearl resting on them, the Quicksand of the Golden Hourglass suddenly came to a halt.
On the surface of her unaware Thumb that she was sucking, a Spiral Pattern emerged—one only found in Ancient Dragon Language Scrolls—its intricate lines gnawing at the Light Purple magical mist enveloping her finger, much like a hatchling pecking its way out of its shell.
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