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As the fragrant tendrils of the Devouring Vine intertwined with the stench of blood, Aelia hurriedly clutched the hem of her skirt, racing towards the hidden chamber.
The Moonstone Bracelet shattered into three pieces on her wrist, and the emerald that had just been stained by Luna cast her shadow into a distorted serpent pattern.
"Madam!" Qin Si called out, chasing after her with the swaddled infant to the entrance of the spiral staircase. Suddenly, seven beams of light erupted from the baby's silver bell around its neck.
Those lights wove a thorn pattern beneath Aelia's feet, severing the shortcut to the hidden chamber.
Aelia turned sharply, her rose-gray pupils swirling with dark chaos. "Are you going to stop me too?" she demanded, forming an ice spike at her fingertip and pressing it against Qin Si's throat. However, as she touched the swaddling, she was met with a sudden surge of magical energy from Luna—Ailina's Burn.
The baby laughed, grasping at her cascading hair tips, and the bitter taste of agave sap intensified amidst the sandalwood fragrance in her hair.
Luna subtly redirected the flow of magic within the swaddling.
Just moments ago, when she had deceived the Magic Castle's defense system with a Guardian Charm, she had clearly seen a dark pattern flowing on a pillar that Lucius had passed—one that was different from the original. Those soul-devouring runes, which should have only appeared during the Blood Sacrifice Ritual, were now manifesting three months early.
"Third Young Master Lucius brought seeds of the Devouring Vine from the Punishment Zone." Qin Si suddenly knelt down, and a fallen moonstone illuminated the dark pattern on her sleeve.
Luna's pupils narrowed; that was unmistakably a tracking curse mark belonging to a spy from the Magic Castle.
Aelia's ice spike took on the shape of a black rose at Qin Si's neck. "Why don't you tell me how Lucius got his hands on the key to the Punishment Zone?" The shattered moonstone on her wrist suddenly floated in midair, reflecting a pool of dark red blood at the door of the hidden chamber—blood that had stained Leonard's family crest when he met with an emissary from beyond this morning.
"Because Third Young Master Lucius..." Qin Si began but abruptly tore open the swaddling tie. Luna seized this opportunity to infuse magic into her hair—Yin Zhan.
As the emerging Magic Fortress Totem at her hairpin resonated with the door to the hidden chamber, Qin Si trembled as she presented a scroll of dark silver family tree. "He bears Lord's blood!"
The genealogy unfurled under the moonlight like a shan na, and suddenly, chains from the Punishment Zone drew near.
Luna noticed fine cracks forming in Aelia's ice rose; those lines perfectly aligned with the branches of Leonard's bloodline on the genealogy.
When the name "Lucius Shadow" emerged beneath "Leonard Glory," written in Aelia's own hand, the very foundation of the castle suddenly trembled.
"Impossible!" Aelia's voice echoed as a sound of chains snapping came from the direction of the Confession Room.
In a frenzy, she tore at the Genealogy, but upon touching the surname "Shadow," she was met with a backlash that left her palm charred. "I burned that dancer myself..."
"You burned a decoy." Qin Si suddenly grabbed Aelia's skirt, and Luna caught sight of the Dark Red Curse Mark emerging on the back of her neck—this was the mark Lucius used to control his puppet in the Original, "The one truly carrying the Lord's Bloodline is your personally chosen Personal Maid."
The screeching of Devouring Vines pierced through the Colored Glazed Window.
Seizing the chaos, Luna poured her last bit of magic into the Moonstone, watching as Emerald Radiance embroidered a Guardian Totem onto Aelia's skirt.
In the Original, this confrontation should have ended with Aelia being imprisoned, but now, from the direction of the Confession Room came a Magic Fluctuation that unmistakably carried Leonard's unique Dragon Blood aura.
"Madam, look here." Qin Si suddenly pointed to a Dark Pattern in the Genealogy.
As Aelia's Lacrima fell upon the Tiny Inscriptions reading "Lucius was born on the seventh night of Frostmoon," an entire page of Parchment suddenly emerged with a Magic Image—depicting twenty years ago when she personally handed a swaddled infant to a figure in black outside the delivery room on Leonard's Last Night.
Aelia stumbled and knocked over a candelabrum, flames licking at the edges of the Genealogy where the Shadow Family Crest resided.
Suddenly, Luna caught a whiff of sulfur in the air; this scorching scent should not appear in winter, reminding her of Lucius's ominous signs before he initiated his Blood Sacrifice in the Original.
"When you insisted on driving away the Three Young Masters back then, the Old Castle Mistress warned you..." Qin Si's voice was abruptly drowned out by a Dragon Roar emanating from the Confession Room.
Luna saw Aelia's Moonstone Necklace begin to crack, those Ice Cracks perfectly mirroring the Confinement Spell that had suddenly emerged on the Outer Wall of Magic Castle.
As Leonard's Ailya's Roar crashed through the stone door of the secret chamber amidst a Magic Storm, Qin Si swiftly thrust the swaddled infant into Aelia's arms.
Taking advantage of this moment, Luna bit her finger and drew a Reversal Spell on Aelia's palm—this Forbidden Technique only appeared at the climax of the Original, but she could not afford to worry about backlash now.
"Madam, have you forgotten that Qin Si seized the Genealogy Remnant Page in the hurricane, where the Tiny Inscriptions read 'the Illegitimate Child must undergo the baptism of the Blood Moon,' and dark mist is seeping out? What you did to those poor girls back then..."
Suddenly, chains from the Punishment Zone tightened around Aelia's ankle as Luna cast a spell at the last moment.
In the instant of the Emerald Radiance explosion, she saw Lucius's long Dark Red hair fluttering behind the stone door. The boy's Fingertip was entwined with the Devouring Demon Vine Bud, blooming simultaneously with the Shadow Emblem on the Genealogy Remnant Page.
The Dark Red Curse Mark on the back of Qin Si's neck grew increasingly Eerie in the presence of Dragon Blood. She suddenly tore open her left sleeve to reveal a grotesque scar: "Do you still remember, Madam, twenty years ago when you poured Devouring Vine juice on maid Aileen's back? Those should have been stern admonitions, suddenly softened into sighs by the unexpectedly arriving frosting snow?"
"The bastard of the Shadow Family deserves only to be a Hua Fei."
Luna watched as Aelia Fingertip's ice spike suddenly melted.
Under the glow of the Emerald Radiance, the Silver Powder drifting from Qin Si's sleeve coalesced into a Memory Frame—a pale girl kneeling in the Ice Cellar, her abdomen's curvature marked by bloodstains from the constricting Devouring Vine.
In Leonard's Last Night, Aelia, clad in her Pearl Armor, held the girl's chin: "You should be grateful that you carry the last Bloodline of the Shadow Family."
"On the night Aileen gave birth, you sent three executioners." The sound of chains echoed from the Confession Room, mingling with Qin Si's voice. "But they returned without Luna." She suddenly tore open the swaddling cloth of the Hidden Layer, revealing a faded Swaddling Cloth marked with a Star Moon Birthmark, unique to those of the Magic Castle Heir.
Suddenly, Aelia's Pearl Armor shattered, and she stumbled against the wall: "That dancer was clearly burned to death..."
"It was my sister who was burned to death!" Qin Si abruptly yanked off her silver chain from her neck, and a memory crystal sealed within her pendant projected an image of Leonard holding a swaddled baby during Leonard's Last Night.
The infant's wrist was entwined with a Soul Devouring Vine, which at that moment bloomed a similarly dark purple bud in Lucius's hair.
Luna suddenly recalled a loophole regarding resource allocation in the original story about the Magic Castle.
She infused magic into the ledger at Aelia Waist, specifically targeting the account of the Lucius Darkmoon Pendant. As entries labeled "Magic Plant Care" emerged in mid-air over nearly a decade, they perfectly matched with energy fluctuations surrounding Lucius’s own Devouring Vine.
"You think that Third Young Master Lucius wasted resources in the potion room?" Pointing to a line of flickering red text in the ledger, Qin Si declared, "The magic power consumed by these seeds of the Devouring Vine is enough for your son’s legs to heal seven times." She suddenly lifted up Lucius's left sleeve, revealing his wrist densely covered with healing runes that overlapped with a certain physician's signature and emblem from the ledger.
Aelia's Pearl Necklace suddenly scattered across the floor.
She frantically searched for the Memory Crystal, but when she touched a piece of Dark Red crystal, she let out a scream—it was the Blood Marrow Stone that Leonard had personally placed around Lucius's neck on his twelfth birthday, now resonating with the House Seal in the secret chamber.
"Filthy wretch!" Aelia's Qian Jiao triggered a violent reaction from the chains in the Confession Room. The Ice Blade she swung was shredded by the Devouring Vine emerging from Lucius's hair. "Do you think these tricks will..."
"Mother." Lucius suddenly knelt on one knee, observing the etiquette of the Magic Castle as he did so. The vines wrapped around his Fingertip were channeling Leonard's Magic Fluctuation into the Ground. "Did you ever consider that when you used the Forbidden Technique to erase Father and the Emissary's Contract from the Outer Realm, the foundation of Magic Castle needed the Shadow Bloodline to maintain balance?"
Luna suddenly sensed an unusual surge of magic from Underground.
The crisis of collapse that had been looming over Magic Castle in the Original had now advanced by Twenty Years. The Dark Patterns swirling at Lucius's feet were unmistakably part of the Shadow Family's unique Foundation Restoration Spell.
She finally understood why Leonard had indulged Lucius in accessing resources over the years—the entire Glorious Demon Fortress had long since become parasitic upon the Shadow Bloodline.
Aelia's Skirt was suddenly ensnared by a Devouring Vine that emerged from an Earth Rift. In terror, she realized that those vines were drawing magic from her Embroidered Shoes.
When Lucius pressed a blood-stained Genealogy Remnant Page against her Palm, the Shadow Emblem came to life, gnawing at her Magic Source.
"On the day you expelled the Three Brothers, Father swore a Blood Oath in the Confession Room." Lucius's voice carried with it a Geomancy Roar; his Right Eye suddenly revealed a golden Shu Tong of the Magic Castle's First Patriarch. "If you act against the honor of our Bloodline again..."
"Madam!" Qin Si suddenly lunged forward to shield herself from flying debris. The Curse Mark on her nape oozed Hei Xue under Lucius's gaze. "Before she passed away, the Old Castle Mistress inscribed the Shadow Pact onto Young Master's Wheelchair Armrest!"
Luna's Reversal Spell suddenly issued a warning.
As Aelia tore apart the Genealogy Remnant Page amidst a sulfurous scent, she saw what should have belonged to the Three Brothers—a Contract for inheritance—now slowly being covered by the Shadow Emblem. The Magic Backlash that had led to her elder brother’s death in the Original was indeed the price for maintaining the Shadow Pact.
The eerie Blue Blood Fern Juice from the Devouring Vine wound its way down the stone pillar, coalescing into a strange totem before Leonard’s Liujin boots.
Lord braced himself against the Door Frame of the Confession Room, his Veins bulging as he felt a Dark Red Neck Scarf entwined around his Neck resonate with Lucius’s vine—a Resonant Tremor—marking their Blood Oath made Twenty Years Ago with an Outlander Witch.
"Father should thank Mother." Lucius lightly tapped his fingertip, and the Devouring Vine suddenly blossomed into a cluster of Memory Flowers at Aelia's skirt. "If it weren't for her destroying your Marriage Contract with the Shadow Family using ice spikes back then..."
"Shut up!" Aelia's Pearl Armor suddenly pierced her palm, but when it touched Lucius's neck, the Blood Marrow Stone retaliated, causing blood to gush forth.
She was horrified to discover that the Blood Pearls had not fallen to the ground but were suspended, forming the Remnant of a Magic Contract—the very Marriage Contract she had tampered with before their wedding.
Luna quietly reinforced the Reversal Spell in her swaddling.
Under the glow of Emerald Radiance, she saw Leonard's waist and House Seal beginning to crack; those Ice Cracks perfectly coincided with the Magic Fluctuation from the day the Three Brothers were expelled.
As the first Obsidian Fragment fell to the ground, the entire Magic Castle suddenly resonated with Sevenfold Bell Tolls.
"You all arrived just in time."
Lucius suddenly turned to face the spiral staircase, where twelve Magic Physicians draped in Starry Moon Robes emerged from the shadows.
The Secret Silver Emblem on their chests became visible under the moonlight—it was the Family Crest of the royal physicians of the Magic Castle throughout its history.
Leonard staggered back a step; as his Gilded Robe swept across the ground, it stirred an unusual ripple of energy.
Luna keenly sensed the trace of Black Magic mixed within those ripples, which was entirely different from how he had been cursed by Leonard's Concubine in the Original.
"Third Young Master Lucius commissioned us to prepare a Diagnosis Array half a month ago." The leading physician opened a Crystal Medicine Box, and twelve Prisms floating inside suddenly refracted an image of the Confession Room Mural—the scene where the First Generation Fortress Master swore an oath was now being eroded by the Shadow Emblem.
Aelia suddenly let out a chilling laugh. "Do you think these quacks..."
"Mother might want to take a look at this." Lucius raised his hand and waved; the Devouring Vine wrapped around and pushed a Memory Crystal forward for everyone to see.
As the crystal projected an image of Leonard vomiting Hei Xue on Full Moon Night—Leonard's Last Night—the Defensive Barrier of the hall's dome let out a mournful wail.
Leonard's hand, poised to summon the wand, froze in mid-air.
The Dragon Blood Stone embedded in Liujin's cuff was fading, a subtle change that was caught by a physician's Crystal Magnifier. "My Lord, could you explain why the Guardian Sigil three inches from the Heart appears to be in a state of disintegration?"
A gasp rippled through the crowd.
Luna noticed several of the Eldest Daughter's servants clutching their aprons tightly—each adorned with a Family Crest that was now resonating with the Prism in the Diagnosis Array.
"It's merely a result of my training..."
"Do you remember the Frost Moon Festival twelve years ago?" Lucius suddenly unraveled the bandage on his left hand, revealing a scar deep enough to see bone, oozing dark green liquid. "At that time, you said this was the mark of honor from hunting the Shadow Demon Wolf."
The physicians' Crystal Instruments emitted a screech.
In the twelve-sided Prism that formed the Diagnosis Array, the scar was analyzed into a complex Curse Pattern—perfectly matching the Bloodline Rebound Curse recorded in the First Generation Fortress Lord's Journal.
Cold sweat trickled down Leonard's forehead as the Shifting Technique he attempted to summon was devoured by a shadow totem that suddenly emerged from the hall floor.
As one physician raised the First Patriarch's medical records, a loud crash echoed from the direction of the Confession Room, signaling broken chains.
"Please, my Lord, remove Leonard's Cloak."
The Chief Physician abruptly struck the Crystal Medicine Box, and Secret Silver Tweezers shot out from within, aiming directly at Leonard's nape.
Among the onlookers, three attendants holding an Xunxiang furnace suddenly knelt and trembled—their Liujin collars revealing Curse Marks identical to Lucius's wrist injury.
Seizing the opportunity, Luna channeled her magic into Aelia's Pearl Necklace.
As the Seventh Pearl shattered, the splintered powder formed secret account charts in mid-air—those marked "magical herbs" reflected enormous expenditures that mirrored Leonard's dissipating magical energy.
"No!" Aelia suddenly lunged toward the Diagnosis Array, but as she reached for the Prism, the Devouring Vine ensnared her ankle.
Her Hair Bun fell apart, scattering Moonstone into the array, which reflected the outline of a two-headed Demon Wolf in Leonard's shadow—this was the form of the Shadow Family's Guardian Beast.
Vines in Lucius's hair suddenly bloomed with crimson flowers. "Father, do you know why for nearly a decade the Magic Castle has burned three tons of Devouring Vine during the Winter Festival?"
A section of the Dome's Stained Glass shattered explosively.
Through the swirling Liuli Fragments, Luna saw the Outer Wall of the Magic Castle covered in Dark Purple Vines—those Buds that should have only bloomed under a blood moon were now opening in sequence with the operation of the Diagnosis Array.
Twelve physicians raised their wands simultaneously, and the mist rising from the Diagnosis Array suddenly coalesced into an Ice Crystal Screen.
As the screen displayed Leonard's oath scene from twenty years ago, a cloaked figure fell from a memory Gap—clutched in their hand was a Cursed Artifact, clearly engraved with the Family Crest of the Current Fortress Lord.
Leonard stumbled and crashed into a Bronze Candlestick; his Gilded Robe swept over Holy Water, etching Scorch Marks into the stone floor.
He pointed a trembling Fingertip at Lucius. "Unfilial Son, you..."
The Ice Crystal Screen in the Diagnosis Array suddenly shattered, countless fragments reflecting the horrified faces of everyone in the Magic Castle.
Before the last shard hit the ground, Luna saw an Alchemical Potion Bottle slip from a physician's sleeve—the label reading "Curse Manifestation Agent" resonated with an Ancient Demon Script within her Reversal Spell.
As the twelfth bell tolled and dissipated in a sulfurous scent, a Dark Red Curse Mark suddenly emerged on Leonard's nape.
The Chief Physician's Crystal Magnifier revealed the Magic Script of the Curse Core—those Tiny Inscriptions that should have appeared during the blood moon curse were now devouring the Lord's Guardian Spell before everyone's eyes.
The Devouring Vines in the hall’s Dome suddenly turned toward the Diagnosis Array, and the venom coalescing at their tips refracted rainbow colors under the moonlight.
Luna felt her Lucius Darkmoon Pendant in her arms begin to heat up, and the Gold Foil numbers were wildly jumping in sync with the speed at which the Curse Mark manifested.
The sound of Leonard's Scepter hitting the ground awakened the frozen time.
Under the focus of countless gazes, a physician holding the First Generation Family Head's Notebook suddenly saw its pages turn by themselves. The yellowed pages stopped at a section written in blood—"When the Guardian becomes a Curse Container..." The scorch mark etched by Holy Water suddenly twisted into the shadow of a Family Totem, as Luna's Reversal Spell branded a Gold Thread onto the Curse Mark at Leonard's nape.
As the Emerald Radiance pierced through the Diagnosis Array, twelve Prisms suddenly reflected three layers of Xu Ying—the decaying Young Master with Twin Legs, the second young master trapped in a mirrored maze, and the Third Young Master entwined by Devouring Vines—all appearing simultaneously in the fissure of the Confession Room.
"Father always says that the honor of our Bloodline must not be tarnished." Lucius's Fingertip vine suddenly pierced into the Ground, causing the Magic Castle Tiles to roll back, revealing a Dark Gold pipeline buried for centuries.
Within the rushing Scarlet Liquid of the pipeline floated personal tokens belonging to the Three Young Masters. "But these systems that draw on my brother's vitality are connected to your chamber, aren't they?"
Aelia's Pearl Earrings suddenly exploded into powder.
She stumbled toward Xu Ying's Eldest Son but grasped a blood-stained bandage as she passed through the illusion—a Healing Rune on the inner side of the bandage shared its origin with Leonard's pajamas' Dark Pattern.
"Luna!" Aelia suddenly pressed a swaddled infant against the Curse Totem. From the Silver Bell around the baby's neck erupted Xing Mang, revealing a Marriage Contract between the First Patriarch and an Outlander Witch.
When the Dark Pattern in the corner of the Contract overlapped with Lucius's wrist injury, chains from the Punishment Zone suddenly recoiled and ensnared Leonard.
The Chief Physician's Crystal Medicine Box burst open with a thunderous sound, and twelve bottles of Curse Manifestation Agent floated in a circular formation.
As the potion was poured over the Dark Gold pipeline, the Scarlet Liquid began to boil and reveal its true form—it was Heart's Blood mixed with the magic of the Three Young Masters, flowing through the pipeline toward the Master's Chamber's Eternal Life Array.
"So this is what Father drinks daily as Holy Water..." Lucius gently caressed a newly sprouted Bud of Devouring Vine. Where crimson sap dripped, the Ground emerged with Leonard's Last Night from his painful drinking session in the secret chamber.
The Crystal Cup along with residual Xue Mo resonated with Magical Fluctuation and Resonant Tremor within the liquid of the pipeline.
Luna's Reversal Spell suddenly emitted Longyin.
Aelia's Skirt Guardian Totem soared into the air, transforming into a golden Lock that gripped Leonard's throat.
As Lord was forced to tilt his head back, exposing the nape of his neck, the physicians' Prism array focused on a segment of erased memory—
In the corridor of Stormy Night, young Leonard plunged a dagger into the back of the Shadow Family's Young Child, blood splattering onto the Heir Clause of the Marriage Contract.
The Moonstone Bracelet fell into the blood pool beside Shan Na, as Blood Tears flowed from the Eye Socket of the Founding Family Head Statue.
"Bloodline Sacrifice..." Qin Si suddenly tore open his collar, revealing a Dark Red Luna beneath, identical to the Young Child in the memory. "So you initiated this cycle of evil Reincarnation thirty years ago."
The foundation of the Magic Castle suddenly tilted violently, and bones peeled away from the walls of the Confession Room.
Luna caught sight of those Unicorn Skeletons shackled by Xingyue at their Wrists and finally understood the tragic Destiny of the Three Young Masters in the Original—they were merely part of a new round of Blood Sacrifice Containers.
As Lucius pressed the Devouring Demon Vine Bud into Leonard's Heart, Lord's scream echoed alongside the wailing of the Magic Castle's defense system.
Amidst the falling Stained Glass of the Dome, twenty years ago, Aelia was stuffing a Forbidden Technique Scroll into a swaddling cloth, while that infant's nape bore a Dark Red Luna, now flickering in and out of visibility within Lucius's hair.
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