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As the loud cry of the infant pierced through the bubbling sound of the boiling magic potion, Luna was drawing star trails on her Qian Si Skirt with her saliva-moistened fingertip.
Even through the swaddling blanket, she could smell the unique sweet and fishy scent of the Bioluminescent Algae Ink, which was the key item that had led to Second Brother being lured into a trap by his close friend using gold leaf messages in the original story. At this moment, it was bubbling behind the dark door split open by Mother’s Ice Crystal Dagger.
“Yi Ya!” Luna kicked her little legs like those of a small Oujie, and suddenly, a burst of seven-colored light beams erupted from her ankle's Starry Birthmark.
A light spot just happened to sweep across the third shelf, illuminating Lucius's fallen Letter Opener in exquisite detail.
Aelia's skirt hem, embroidered with Ice Thorn Flowers, suddenly froze in place.
As the Master of the Magic Castle, known as the "Eternal Winter Rose," crouched down, liquid mercury from her Wedding Ring seeped through her fingers into the Defensive Formation. “Luna Baby, what do you want to tell Mother?”
“Pfft—” The milk foam spat out by the infant perfectly wrapped around the hourglass.
As Purple Sand began to spell out Lucius's coordinates, Luna deliberately tugged at Qin Si's cascading braids with her little hands, forcing the maid to bend down and reveal a Contract Mark on her neck that would only appear later in the original story.
“Third Young Master is currently in the Southeast Tower?” Qin Si suddenly covered her collarbone where the Star Map Pendant was emerging with scales of the Elder Fire Dragon’s distinctive diamond pattern. “But Madam received a Moonlight Rose delivered by him this morning…”
Aelia's ice blue eyes suddenly constricted.
She brushed her fingertip over the blood-stained gold leaf that had popped out from her Mechanical Prosthetic. The residual Magical Fluctuation caused her Wedding Ring to suddenly transform into Liquid Metal. “Twenty years ago at the black market auction, Leonard exchanged half an Emerald Mine for that hourglass—” Mithril liquid suddenly screeched, swirling with Bioluminescent Algae Ink as it rushed into the Ventilation Duct.
As the entire castle began to flip, Luna was cradled in Qin Si's arms.
The infant squinted at the reassembling Crystal Coffin Cage, catching a whiff of Truth Serum refined from Artichoke mixing into the Magic Flow of the defense system—perfect. This way, when Lucius stepped into the Main Hall, every lie he uttered would cause the Dragon Crystal Stone on his cufflink to explode.
“Mother!” The mechanical prosthetic of her eldest brother clicked loudly as gears oozed Blood Pearls mixed with Mourning Potion.
This Eldest Son, who had lost his twin legs due to Magic Backlash, raised his staff, its tip embedded with their Family Crest aimed at Father's Study. “The remaining Monitoring Crystal in the Astrology Tower shows…”
"Your Father should be inspecting the Northern Border Defense right now." Aelia raised her hand to freeze the Contract that Second Brother was trying to hide. The signature of her dear friend was unmistakably stamped with Lucius's Private Seal. "Three Days Ago, he personally placed this Wedding Ring on my finger—" Ice crystals suddenly enveloped her trembling Fingertip. "Looking back, that embrace carried the bitterness of Artichoke."
The entire East Wall suddenly collapsed into a Teleportation Circle.
Leonard's Liujin-trimmed cloak was still stained with the Nightingale Pollen commonly used by his Mistress. As he reached out to touch his wife's shoulder, eighteen Ice Spikes shot out from Aelia's hair.
"Care to explain this?" Aelia waved her hand to reveal a blood-red gold leaf, on which the Magic Signature forced out by Truth Serum twisted into the name "Lucius."
She stepped closer to her husband on the frost-covered carpet, while behind her, their three sons simultaneously activated their Punishment Spells.
Leonard's Dragon Scale Pattern on his forehead flickered: "My dear, these forgeries..." Suddenly, a sandglass identical to the one from the Mistress's Grooming table fell from his sleeve. The Purple Sand solidified into a baby form upon touching Aelia's tears—it was Leonard's Last Night when Luna was stolen from the Magic Castle during her full moon.
"So that assassination was planned..." Brother San suddenly crushed the Talent Testing Crystal. The boy, once deemed useless, was now surrounded by Heiyan.
He kicked aside the misleading Magic Codex gifted by Father, revealing Lucius's annotation on the Title Page: "This child will never succeed."
Luna let out a Loud Cry at just the right moment.
The Starry Birthmark on the baby's ankle projected a holographic image: Aelia, who should have died in the Original, lay in a Crystal Coffin while Leonard placed the Bloodstained Wedding Ring on his Mistress's hand.
As Leonard's Last Night reached the moment when the eldest brother detonated the Mechanical Prosthetic to protect his Brothers, all of the Magic Castle's defensive Crossbows turned toward Lord.
"Initiate Bloodline Judgment." Aelia injected the Projection of the Starry Birthmark into the Magic Circle Core.
As the Liquid Mercury formed from the Wedding Ring wrapped around Leonard's ankle, Qin Si suddenly tugged at Luna's swaddling—revealing a Contract Mark on the maid’s sleeve that perfectly overlapped with the Dragon Claw imprint in Lucius's Coordinate image.
A third knock echoed from deep within the castle. Luna tightened her grip on the Star Map Pendant as an unrecorded truth from the Original flickered in her baby Pupil—a Remnant Page.
The defense system’s Crossbows began to automatically load Artichoke Poison Spikes, while a Lullaby hummed by the Mistress flowed through the Door Gap... Qin Si’s Fingertip sank deep into the Ice Silk of the swaddling.
She gazed at Leonard's neck, marred by the blackened lines of corrosion from Liquid Mercury, a bitter taste rising in her throat reminiscent of Artichoke. Years ago, when she was on the brink of death in the slums, it was Aelia who used Ice Thorn Flower to freeze her festering wounds. The Mithril flowing from the Wedding Ring had once seemed to her the purest light in the world.
"You shouldn't mask the Mistress's scent with healing Curse," the maid suddenly spoke, breaking the silence as she tugged at the Pearl Necklace that surfaced with the Contract Mark around Leonard's neck.
The fallen pearls clattered against the Ice Surface, each reflecting the memory of ten years ago when Leonard taught her to concoct Calming Elixir during Leonard's Last Night, his cuffs stained with Aelia's favorite Cedar Fragrance.
Luna flickered violently.
The baby's silk shoes knocked over a crystal chandelier, and the refracted beams of light transformed the scattered Pearl String into a Star Map—the very dungeon route that Lucius had secretly drawn last night.
Aelia's cuffs embroidered with Ice Thorn Flower trembled slightly as three Ice Spikes suddenly pierced Leonard's right hand, which had been attempting to Jie Yin.
"Father..." Lucius's voice was like a zither string scraped by sandpaper.
He bent down to pick up the Mistress's hourglass, his palm and Dragon Scales sizzling from contact with Purple Sand.
This son, most resembling his Father, had secretly collected every Eternal Night Meteorite brought back during his father's inspections. Now, those treasured metal fragments were seeping Hei Xue from his pockets.
Leonard's Long Horn pierced his temple: "Alya, for the sake of our three children—" He struggled to reach for Aelia, whose Wedding Ring had transformed into chains, but was suddenly impaled by a surging Ice Thorn Flower through his palm.
Blood splattered onto the gears of the Mechanical Prosthetic, and a crimson Halo glowed at the tip of his elder brother’s staff, a mark of blood kin judgment.
"The first Curse you taught me was Ice Crystal Guardian." Aelia raised her hand to freeze the Lacrima rolling from her husband's eye socket. His Ice Blue Eyes gradually took on the Jin Wen of Judgment Array. "Yet you never said where an Ice Spike should pierce when a guardian becomes an aggressor."
The entire Magic Castle suddenly echoed with the roar of interlocking gears.
Luna watched as the Nightingale Pollen frozen within the Crystal Chandelier suddenly activated. The Lullaby hummed by the Mistress transformed upon contact with the Defensive Formation into the rhythm of an Auctioneer hammering down bids from Twenty Years Ago in the black market.
The baby deliberately pounded its drool-covered fist against the Star Map Pendant at Qin Si's collarbone. The fire Dragon Scales sealed within the Jade Pendant suddenly projected a Residual Shadow of Leonard shaking hands with the Auctioneer in agreement.
"Turns out the Emerald Vein had already been mortgaged!" Second Brother suddenly crushed the crystal ball gifted by his close friend, and the young man, trapped in the mirror space for three years, was engulfed in Vengeful Flame.
He kicked away the "Friendship Amulet" given by Father, revealing the Eternal Binding Curse written in Dragon Blood by Lucius on its underside.
Leonard's right arm, undergoing Long Transformation, suddenly exploded with scales. He howled in agony, "You ungrateful Unfilial Sons! Without me, where would the Glorious Demon Fortress be!" As the Blood Mist erupted, Aelia Luna emerged, clutching the Contract he had secretly transferred assets to. The Parchment bore the kiss mark of the Mistress, still tinged with the scent of an Abortion Pill.
"Mother..." Lucius suddenly fell to his knees, and a Letter Opener slipped from his sleeve, embedding itself into the Defensive Blueprint he had drawn last night.
The young man clawed at his neck, where the Emerging Dragon Scales were. Those once-proud hereditary traits now felt like a traitorous Brand. "Is there something hidden in the secret chamber of the Southeast Tower... that belongs to me..."
Suddenly, Aelia's Ice Crystal Dagger was poised at his throat.
She looked at her son, whose features overlapped with those of her husband. The Fingertip of her Wedding Ring Chain wailed, "Your Father mixed Dragon Blood into your cake at your Luna's First Birthday Celebration." The dagger abruptly turned and cut into her own Wrist, and the Ice Blue Blood, mingled with the Gu Worm planted by the Mistress, splattered onto the Judgment Array.
The entire West Wall transformed into a Perspective Mirror.
Luna saw reflected in the mirror that beneath the magical castle lay a second inverted fortress. The Mistress, caressing her swollen belly, leaned against the throne while playing with the Castle Lord's Signet Ring.
A baby let out a deafening Loud Cry, and its ankle, marked by Xing Mang, shattered the Perspective Mirror.
"In the name of the Eternal Winter Rose,." Suddenly, Ailya's Silver Hair surged into chains, each piercing through Leonard's Magic Node.
She tore off her chest's Ice Thorn Family Crest and pressed it against her husband's heart. The Wedding Ring, transformed into liquid mercury, began to consume his surrounding Dragon Scales. "From this day forth, all passages of the Glorious Demon Fortress are sealed by the Ice Crystal Seal."
Lucius suddenly covered his agonizing right eye.
When he opened his eyes again, within his Ice Blue Iris, a similar Judgment Rune spun as that of his mother.
The young man trembled as he raised the Letter Opener to stab at his Dragon Scale Birthmark, but just as the blade touched his skin, his elder brother's Mechanical Prosthetic clamped down firmly on him.
"Your sins must be repaid while you live." The Blood Pearl seeping from the Eldest Son's gears suddenly froze, crashing to the ground and transforming into a Magic Eye for surveillance.
He pointed his staff at the collapsing crystal ceiling. "Did you hear that? That woman has come with her Private Army."
Luna suddenly grabbed Qin Si's falling Hair and yanked it hard.
As the maid looked down, the Contract Mark resonated with the shards of the Perspective Mirror, reflecting the confidentiality agreement she had been forced to sign ten years ago—Leonard had paved the way for the Mistress long before that.
"Madam, please allow me..." Qin Si suddenly tore open her collar, revealing the Ice Thorn Mark that spread from her Collarbone to her Heart.
She gently placed Luna into the Cradle transformed from the Crystal Coffin Cage and turned to shoot an Ice Crystal Arrow towards the Ventilation Duct. "The Dragon Blood Barrier of the Southeast Tower can be breached with this!"
Aelia froze the Eldest Son's hand as he tried to intervene.
She gazed at the Ice Mist exploding around the maid, revealing the Emerging Nightingale Flower Specimen—that was the first magical plant they had nurtured together in their youth, and now the scent of Mistress's perfume seeped from the Centaurea Specimen.
Suddenly, a mechanical sound of a Crossbow being calibrated echoed throughout the Magic Castle.
Luna squinted at the Blood Star Map gradually forming on the ceiling, as an infant's Saliva quietly dissolved the seams of its swaddling.
When the Mistress's Lullaby pierced through the Triple Barrier, all of the defense Crossbow's scopes simultaneously reflected Lucius's anguished face.
Leonard's pleas for mercy abruptly ceased.
Half of his Long Transformation body began to turn to sand, and in terror, he realized that the grains were flowing toward the Vengeance Fire ignited by his Second Son. "Alya!"
"At least leave..."
"You have taught the Children that Frost Magic abhors indecision." Aelia raised her hand, sealing her husband within the Crystal Coffin, as Ice Thorn Flowers quickly crawled across the Coffin Lid.
As she turned, the ice crystals at the tips of her hair suddenly shattered, revealing the white strands hidden beneath. "Send the order down; we will hold a Bloodline hearing at sunrise tomorrow."
Luna's Starry Birthmark dimmed suddenly.
The infant gazed at the disappearing vent where Qin Si had vanished, quietly clutching the Starry Fabric torn from the maid's skirt in the Cradle.
As the last trace of Secret Silver Flow seeped into the Earth Rift, the starlight of the Magic Castle Dome began to rotate counterclockwise, while the Mistress's footsteps could be clearly heard, the sound of her skirt brushing against the golden bricks echoing in the air.
Beneath the ice-crystal-formed Council Chamber Dome, the suspended Xing Huo chandelier illuminated every face with shifting shadows that left no one concealed.
Petals of Ice Thorn Flower that remained in Aelia's hair tips drifted down, freezing upon contact with Leonard's Hei Sha made from Dragon Scales.
"Mother changed the main fortress's Defensive Formation to Frost Flower form?" Brother San mused as he stroked his newly emerged Black Flame Totem. As his fingertip grazed the ice crystals on the wall, a Scorch Mark unexpectedly seeped from their Family Motto, which had previously deemed him talentless.
He caught sight of Second Brother burning Father's Friendship Amulet with Vengeance Fire, as molten Jin Shui traced out the contours of a Dungeon Passage on the Ice Surface.
A crisp sound echoed from around the corner of the corridor as Liuli Lanterns clashed together.
Several maids carrying Mourning Potion moved along the wall. As their skirts embroidered with Nightingale Flowers swept across the Ice Surface, Dark Patterns unexpectedly oozed with Rosemary, a scent often used by the Mistress.
The Chief Guard suddenly adjusted his Liujin Shoulder Armor; hidden within was a Meteorite Dagger that resonated in harmony with his elder brother's Mechanical Prosthetic.
"I heard that the Astrolabe in the West Tower has begun to reverse." The Florist leaned closer to the fireplace, holding a frozen Moonlight Rose. The petals reflected Ye Lu's lingering shadow during Lucius's self-harm.
In a hurry, he shook off Seven-colored Dewdrop, only to see Luna’s Silk Shoes accidentally knock over a Crystal Paperweight. The rolling Prism refracted Residual Shadow into the core of the Defensive Formation.
Aelia caressed the newly sprouted Barbed on the Ice Coffin, the reformed chains of the Wedding Ring coalescing into a Thorned Crown around her Wrist.
When the Eldest Son presented the Secret Letter stained with Dragonblood Sand, the Ice Thorn Flower suddenly crushed the Mistress's lip print on the Letterhead. "Tomorrow's Hearing..." she paused for a moment, and the entire Crystal Wall suddenly reflected the wedding scene from Twenty Years Ago, where Leonard, on Leonard's Last Night, was scratching at the Ice Coffin with his finger adorned by the Leonard Wedding Ring, leaving behind Blood-red Runes.
Luna's Luna flickered in the swaddling blanket.
The Milk Foam expelled by the baby stuck to a falling ice crystal, refracting a Rainbow Light that illuminated Brother San's nape—there, an Emerging Original Black Dragon Totem, previously undocumented, resonated with his burning misleading Magic Codex.
As the Milk Foam burst open with a "pop," Ice Crystal Shards fell precisely into Second Brother's Vengeance Fire, and in the rising smoke, one could vaguely see the Dragon Claw Brand on his imprisoned dear friend's neck.
"Milady, the Ventilation Duct in the Southeast Tower..." A Knight covered in frost stumbled and knelt down. The Nightingale Flower Specimen caught in a gap of his armor suddenly activated; as its roots pierced his Fingertip, everyone heard the Longyin emanating from Qin Si's shattered Star Map Pendant.
Luna suddenly clenched the Starry Fabric torn from Qian Si's Skirt.
The baby's Pupil reflected a star in the Dome that had begun to shift; it was the ominous star recorded in the Original as "Eternal Winter Rose's Withering Night."
She pretended to accidentally knock over a Magic Potion Bottle, allowing a light Lavender Liquid to flow across the Ice Surface towards Brother San's Boot Sole—where ancient runes lay hidden that could awaken his true talents.
As the last shard of ice sealed Leonard's confession, the entire Magic Castle's Defensive Formation emitted a sound reminiscent of Mistress's laughter—Leonard's Sword Suddenly Emitted a Hum.
The Thorned Crown formed from Aelia's Wedding Ring oozed blood, while Luna's ankle bore a Starry Birthmark from which a gap in the shape of a Waxing Crescent Moon quietly emerged.
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