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As the sound of shattering pierced the night, Aelia was untangling the icy tendrils from the ends of her hair.
At the moment Shu Chi got stuck on the third knot, she caught a glimpse of her husband stumbling into the chamber, his Mink Fur Cloak stained with suspicious dark red flower juice—the Snow Bloom Nectar she had brewed for their daughter during last year's Frost Moon Festival, which should have been buried beneath the third slab of bluestone in the Holy Spring on the East Side.
"Have you tampered with the Contract Scroll in the third level of the Cellar?" Leonard's gesture to dismiss the maid was laced with agitation, his Ice Armor-covered right hand reflecting an eerie Zi Mang under the candlelight.
Aelia pressed her ice-crystal-laden Yin Shu against the Dressing Table, ice cracks spreading across the Malachite surface. "Why don’t we discuss that tattoo of a spirit on your neck?" She suddenly overturned the Gilded Candelabra, hot wax splattering at her husband's feet and solidifying into seven Ice Roses—the distinctive Curse Mark of the Northern Elf Tribe during their marriage contract.
The air erupted with the bubbling sound of a Magic Potion, and Luna's loud cry pierced through the stone walls.
Aelia pushed past her husband, her Thorn Pattern robe sweeping over the ground scattered with Bing Hua.
The black mist spilling from the Nursery's door gap coiled around her ankles but hissed corrosively upon touching her silver Luna's Bell Anklet.
"Madam, be careful!" Maid Qin Si rushed in with a candlestick, its light revealing a shocking scene in the Cradle: what should have been an ordinary swaddling cloth was glowing with a Curse, Luna's Yue Wen flickering ominously as her tiny pink palm cradled a melting Covenant Ice Crystal.
Aelia staggered to steady herself against the Liujin railing, watching as bloodstains at the corner of her daughter's mouth seeped into the Black Rose window projection.
Suddenly, shards of moonlight coalesced into a Blood Arrow, aimed directly at Leonard’s waist where he kept his Dragonbone Key—a token for unlocking the Magic Fortress Core in Original—now entwined with tendrils of dark energy.
"Give me the key." Aelia's voice was colder than the winds of the Extreme North Icefield. She finally discerned the tooth mark faintly visible at her husband's mink collar—a wound that could not possibly have been inflicted by a human.
Leonard's Ice Armor instantly spread to his jaw. "Don’t touch the Core of the Barrier..."
His words were cut off by Luna's loud cry.
Suddenly, Luna slammed the Covenant Ice Crystal against the edge of the Cradle. In that instant of explosion, everyone witnessed Leonard's Last Night—his Dragonbone Key transforming into a grotesque Black Dragon named Xu Ying, sinking its venomous fangs into the Magic Circle Diagram drawn by the Magic Fortress Leyline.
"You've already sold your soul to the Shadow Dragon Clan!" Aelia exclaimed as she tore apart the Sapphire Necklace, the Guardian Stone that her husband had placed around her neck during their wedding twelve years ago shattering into powder.
The powder floated toward the remnants of the Covenant Ice Crystal's image, unexpectedly reassembling into irrefutable evidence: Leonard binding a Blood Pact with an elven woman beneath the Snow Christmas Tree.
Suddenly, the entire castle shook violently, and a roar echoed through the corridor from the Chief Guard: "A crack has appeared in the East Barrier!"
As the first wisp of black mist penetrated the Stained Glass, Aelia had already rushed into the Strategic Room, cradling Luna in her arms.
At the moment her three sons burst through the door, she was splattering bloodied Snow Bloom Nectar onto the sand table.
The nectar wound its way across the miniature model of the Magic Castle, forming a golden track that ultimately stopped at the damaged section of the East Barrier—exactly where Luna had marked with her magic.
"Mother, my Astrolabe has detected..." The Eldest Son, who had been limping due to a Magic Backlash affecting his right leg, suddenly fell silent.
The Star Compass in his hand spun wildly before finally pinning its pointer on the marked spot on the sand table, revealing celestial records of their father's dealings with the elves.
The Second Son suddenly smashed a nearby Potion Bottle, and the Violet Solution spread across the parchment map, creating a grotesque pattern. "No wonder my Magic Potion Formula was leaked three years ago!" The memory of being deceived by a close friend that led to a Magic Surge caused his eyes to glimmer with crimson. "At that time, Father insisted I lock the formula in the third level of the Cellar..."
"So that's why my Elemental Resonance has always been disrupted..." The usually carefree Third Son crushed a Crystal Cup in his grip, blood dripping from his fingers onto the edge of the sand table.
Those Blood Pearls suddenly levitated, outlining the Shadow Dragon Clan's unique Corrosive Rune—identical to the interference patterns he experienced during his training setbacks.
Luna suddenly reached out and grabbed her elder brother's Star Compass.
The blood of an infant seeped into the Bronze Patterns, and above the Magic Castle Model, a Three-Dimensional Projection abruptly emerged: outside the East Barrier, the Shadow Dragon Clan was tearing at the Protective Shield while all of Castle Lord's Standards that should have defended it were leaning toward the enemy's ranks.
"To repair the barrier, we need to inject all four elements simultaneously." Aelia tore down the curtains and tied her daughter to her chest, the blood-stained hem of her robe sweeping across the strategic map. "The eldest will redraw the formation eye with Starlight Power, the second will concoct the neutralizing potion, and Old Three will handle Elemental Resonance—I'll go fetch the formation key."
"But Mother..." Third Son looked at his palm, still seeping blood. "My Earth Elemental Affinity..."
Luna suddenly let out a Yiya Sound, her small bloodied hand pressing against his wound.
Third Son stared in shock as his blood crystallized into a yellowish substance, and the floor began to rise like a Guardian Stone—this was his Family Secret Technique that he had neglected for years.
"Sister is activating our Original Magic Power!" The eldest's Star Compass suddenly erupted with Blue Light, causing the ground it touched to shimmer with Xing Hui.
He trembled as he pulled out the long-forgotten Astrology Staff; the Staff Tip, a Moonstone, resonated with Luna's Yue Wen on her forehead.
The entire castle tilted suddenly, and a loud crash echoed from outside the Strategic Room as walls crumbled.
Aelia pushed her three sons into the Teleportation Circle, but when she turned around, her skirt was caught by Luna.
The infant's pupils glimmered Silver White, and the Yue Wen on her forehead projected a final Warning—the altar where the formation key was located was now shrouded in toxic mist from the Shadow Dragon Clan.
"Take Sister to the safe house!" Aelia tried to untie the bindings but found that they were wrapped in chains formed from moonlight.
Luna clutched Ice Crystal Shards that she had somehow found, which clearly reflected a panoramic view of the altar: all of the Lord and Royal Guard who should have been at the Guardian Array were wearing scale headdresses from the Shadow Dragon Clan.
As a sharp Long Xiao shattered the last piece of Colored Window, Qin Si burst through the Side Door of the Strategic Room.
The usually composed Maid had her Hair Bun disheveled, and her sleeves were stained with suspicious purple goo. "Madam!"
Her voice was suddenly swallowed by the deafening sound of the shattered barrier. The Communication Crystal in her arms rolled to Luna's feet, its surface flashing with the image of an elven woman caressing her pregnant belly, a memory of Leonard's Last Night.
Qin Si stumbled, gripping the cracked door frame, her fingertips digging deeply into the edges of the Communication Crystal. "The purple-scaled grass in the Stable's feed trough... hides the shed skin of the Shadow Dragon Clan!" Her sleeve, smeared with purple goo, brushed across the crystal's surface, and the image of the elven woman's rounded abdomen twisted into a bizarre totem. "It’s Shuang Sheng’s parasitic Contract!"
The woman was carrying... a hybrid of Dragon Blood!
Aelia's Silver Chain Anklet suddenly burst forth with a cold light, freezing the encroaching black mist into Ice Shards.
She grabbed the blood-stained strategic map and pressed it against the edge of the sand table. The Snow Bloom Nectar and Luna's blood overlapped perfectly to form the Northern Star Map. "No wonder the Shadow Dragons can penetrate the barrier; they use unborn hybrids as living Coordinates!"
"To remove the parasite requires Snow Christmas Tree juice mixed with Yue Wen's blood." Her elder brother's Astrology Staff suddenly pointed at Luna's forehead, where ice crystals formed on the baby's eyelashes, resonating with Yue Wen. "But the Snow Christmas Tree has been... gone for ten years..."
Luna suddenly grasped Brother San's blood-soaked palm, her small hand pressing against the marked location of the Holy Spring on the strategic map.
The blood surprisingly corroded a Secret Passage Map onto the Parchment, leading to last year's Holy Spring stone slab where Aelia had buried nectar—there, a Mini Snow Christmas Tree was magically ripening.
The entire castle tilted at a forty-five-degree angle as Lucius crashed through an overturned bookshelf and rolled into the Teleportation Circle.
Young Master’s Silver Armor was splattered with Dragon Blood, and both his Waist Leonard's Sword's Sapphire and Luna’s Pupil glowed simultaneously. "The East Tower has collapsed!"
"Father... The Castle Lord's Standard is planted in the thickest part of the poisonous mist!"
Aelia suddenly tore off her Silver Chain Anklet and slapped the silver piece engraved with their Family Crest onto the sand table. "Lucius, take Luna’s blood to the Holy Spring for tree juice." She ripped down a blood-stained curtain to wrap around the baby, as Luna’s forehead projection from Yue Wen suddenly displayed a holographic image of a secret passage. "Watch out for Devouring Demon Moss at the third corner..."
"Use my blood to draw a barrier symbol!" Third Son suddenly sliced his palm open, his blood floating into an Earth Elemental Rune. "Back when I neglected my training... I studied underground fungi..."
Luna suddenly emitted an urgent sound, her bloodied little hand grasping the hilt of Lucius's sword, Sapphire.
The infant's blood seeped into the cracks of the gem, revealing the hidden form of the Guardian Stone within the secret passage—exactly the one Lucius had accidentally wounded during his childhood sword practice.
"So that was why Father punished me to repair the statue... he had long been laying plans!" Lucius's pupils dilated sharply as a familiar magic fluctuation surged from the sword hilt.
He flipped the blade and sliced his palm, merging his blood with the Earth Element of the Third Son to form an amber-colored barrier. "Give me a moment!"
Suddenly, Second Brother hurled three bottles of magic potion at Zhen Chan's dome, and from within Zi Wu emerged real-time images of the Shadow Dragon Clan tearing at the barrier. "The Neutralizer requires four elemental catalysts; wait for Lucius to retrieve..."
Luna's loud cry transformed into Qing Yue's chant, as a rotating Yue Wen magic circle emerged around the infant.
Shattered stained glass floated above everyone’s heads, piecing together the Northern Star Map—exactly as marked by Brother’s Astrology Staff moments ago.
"Sister is forcibly resonating with geomancy!" Brother’s Xing Hui surged dramatically on his injured leg, and the Astrology Staff’s Moonstone erupted with unprecedented strong light. "Quick! Put the shards of Covenant Ice Crystal into the magic circle!"
Aelia tossed the blood-stained ice crystal toward the Rotating Star Map, and twelve shards perfectly filled in the missing gears of Yue Wen.
The entire Magic Castle suddenly resonated with an ancient Zhong Ming. A dragon claw that had pierced through the Barrier Rift on the East Side was abruptly impaled by the ice crystal, while the roar of the Shadow Dragon Clan mingled with Leonard's Ailya's Roar, reverberating through the night sky.
In the moment before Lucius vanished in the Teleportation Circle, he saw Luna curled up in her blood-stained swaddling. The infant's silver-white pupils reflected a larger shadow behind the Star Map—one that was far beyond what this current crisis should project.
Unbeknownst to Aelia, who was exerting all her strength to maintain the magic circle, her daughter was using her last bit of energy to carve Yue Wen into her collarbone, a faint silver mark flickering beneath her skin like a dying candle flame.
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