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The Bronze Lantern in the cellar crackled ominously, corroded by the black mist.
Luna, swaddled in her blanket, bit her Tongue and inscribed astrological secrets on the compass with Baby Blood.
Memories of the Holy Demon Battlefield from her past life overlapped with the present moment—the Soul Devouring Curse that had caused the fall of the Light Sanctuary a hundred years ago now entwined itself around Leonard's magical patterns.
"Mother... look..." She pressed her bloodied fingertip against Aelia's Pearl Necklace, and the Royal Guardian Spell suddenly projected an illusion: in the Moonlight Rose Courtyard, Leonard was caressing the pregnant belly of a Concubine Maid, his palm bearing a Hexagram Birthmark identical to that of the Magic Artifact seal.
Aelia stumbled and shattered a crystal lamp, the Gilded Candelabra rolling away in the mist.
She recognized that embroidered dress adorned with Irises—the one prepared for the Lady of the Fortress by a maid at last year's Midsummer Night's Banquet.
"The Soul Devouring Curse requires Close Kin Bloodline Sacrifice." Luna transmitted the secret words into Aelia's ear using her Divine Sense, as the baby's pupils reflected the Sealing Array moving across the ceiling. "Father intends to activate the Magic Artifact in the Third Sealing Chamber; your brother's leg, Second Brother's Mind Sea, Brother San's Lingmai... they are all sacrifices."
Suddenly, the black mist coalesced into a blade aimed at Aelia's heart but was shredded by golden light emitted from the Family Heirloom Necklace.
Leonard, filled with anger and concern, formed a hand sign. "Madam, do not heed the Evil Spirit's temptations!" Chains from his sleeve flew out, binding Luna, yet emerging from them was a Curse Mark identical to that on the maid’s abdomen.
"Was it you who blocked the Frostwolf attack for me last year during Dong Lian?" Aelia suddenly chuckled softly, blood-tinged tears glistening in her Emerald Eyes.
She tore off her necklace and threw it into the air; Royal Curse Culture transformed it into a Golden Arrow that pierced through the core of the black mist, revealing a Wedding Ring hidden within the Sealing Eye—its inner side engraved with an eternal Oath on a Secret Silver Ring, now entwined with the Concubine Maid's Blood Curse red thread.
The Steam Pipe exploded with a thunderous roar as Shan Na fell; Luna caught the plummeting Sealing Crystal with her compass.
The baby's Loud Cry resonated with Leonard's Sword Suddenly Emitting a Hum, breaking through the Curse Shackles with a flood of memories from past and present. The last thing Aelia saw was Leonard frantically reaching for that red thread.
The moonlight filtered through the shattered Liuli Dome, illuminating the half piece of wedding cake silver ornament that Aelia trembled to pick up.
Years ago, Leonard had held it and said, "My Crown will forever crown you," but now embedded within the Sugar Coating were the Amethyst Shards of the Soul Devouring Curse.
The moonlight shattered on Aelia's trembling eyelashes, and the red thread of the Blood Curse entwined around her Wedding Ring emitted a faint hiss.
She gazed at the half silver ornament in her palm, and suddenly the Amethyst Shards embedded in the Sugar Coating transformed into countless Memory Fragments—at fifteen during the Midsummer Night's Banquet, Leonard had used Ice Magic to solidify roses into a Crystal Hairpin to place in her hair; on her twentieth birthday, he knelt among the Moonlight Roses, vowing never to open the Third Sealing Chamber; after Dong Lian was attacked last year, he wrapped himself in a blood-stained cloak to brew ginger tea for her, his frostbite still unhealed.
"Mother..." Luna suddenly let out a faint Loud Cry, her delicate infant fingers clutching Aelia's blood-stained sleeve.
From the swaddling emerged Light Gold Xing Hui, gently enveloping those Memory Fragments entwined with the Soul Devouring Curse.
Aelia then realized that her Ailya's White Nails had dug deeply into her palm, blood winding along the inner side of her Wedding Ring, forming a snake-like trail.
A roar from a bursting Steam Pipe echoed from the East Tower, causing the Gilded Candelabra to tumble into the abyss amidst the tremors.
Leonard's black mist coalesced into a giant hand reaching for the Sealing Crystal but was suddenly repelled by a Blood-red Light from the Wedding Ring, an Ailina's Burn at his Fingertip.
He staggered back to the edge of the Sealing Array, his Magic Pattern and Magic Robe hem stained with Crystal Shards. "Aelia, you have no idea what the Magic Castle needs!"
Aelia's Emerald Pupils suddenly constricted.
She bent down to pick up the fallen candlestick at her feet and caught a glimpse of her distorted reflection amidst the chaos—once a girl who practiced court dances for three years due to Leonard's praise, now she held a candlestick symbolizing the authority of the Lady of the Fortress, Zhu Lei mingling with blood congealed into a grotesque totem on the Liujin carvings.
"Last year at the Midsummer Night's Banquet, you said you would personally make me Cherry Cake." She suddenly raised the silver ornament towards the moonlight; under the influence of Magic Power, the Amethyst Shards in the Sugar Coating began to spin. "Yet you stayed in the kitchen until midnight, your sleeves stained with Moonlight Rose pollen—while our garden never blooms with Moonlight Roses."
The black mist surrounding Leonard suddenly froze in mid-air, and the Twelve Rays Binding Magic Lock emitted a sound akin to a trapped beast's sobbing.
Seizing the opportunity, Luna pressed the blood-stained compass against Aelia's nape, and the Astrology Chart drawn with Baby Blood instantly activated the dormant Royal Curse Seal.
Aelia felt the Family Crest at her collarbone suddenly heat up, and the memories altered by the Soul Devouring Curse became clear like receding tides—details of the Magic Artifact Compendium from the Third Sealing Chamber, the magic fluctuations on the day her three sons encountered misfortune, and the fetus that should have been in the maid's womb during last year's Dong Lian...
"The tragedy of the Holy Light Temple seven hundred years ago will not be repeated tonight." Luna wove a secret message with her Divine Sense into a Gold Thread, wrapping it around Aelia's trembling wrist.
In the infant's clear pupils emerged the Starry Array of a Great Mage. "The focal point of the Soul Devouring Curse's sacrificial array requires a traitor to plant its causality with their own hands."
Aelia suddenly released her Wedding Ring.
The Secret Silver Ring fell from Shan Na, and the Blood Curse's red thread wrapped around it automatically flew toward Leonard's Hexagram Birthmark.
In the hurricane unleashed by the second explosion of the Steam Pipe, she caught sight of a Concubine Maid’s skirt corner embroidered with Iris, appearing hazily at the focal point—clearly, it was last year’s Ailya's Birthday Rune gift she had given to her maid.
"So you had already fed your true heart to the Magic Artifact." Aelia tore apart her Pearl Necklace, and the Royal Family Spell blossomed into a Thorned Throne beneath her feet.
As the last three pearls rolled into the fissure of the Sealing Array, a heart-wrenching cry echoed from the East Tower—Lucius, the Third Young Master, was calling out in despair as his Xingyue Die crashed against the Sealing Crystal in droves.
Leonard's black mist suddenly screeched, and the Twelve Rays Binding Magic Lock redirected itself to strike its master.
Seizing this moment, Luna shoved the Sealing Crystal into Aelia's palm, and the blood-stained swaddling of the infant erupted into a brilliant Star Trail.
As the Ancient Bell Sound from the Third Sealing Chamber pierced through the black mist, Aelia saw that the Blood Curse's red thread on her Wedding Ring was transforming into chains, tightly binding Leonard to the Concubine Maid at the focal point.
The moonlight was suddenly swallowed by a crimson haze, and the entire Magic Castle resonated with a doomsday-like roar from the Steam Pipes.
Aelia held Luna tightly as they leaped toward the shattered Liuli Dome, behind them came Leonard's desperate howl, "Do you think the Royal Family Spell can withstand the Third Seal?"
As the moonlight turned completely red...
In the howling wind, Luna whispered her final secret into Aelia's ear.
The bloodied fingertip of an infant traced over her collarbone where the Family Crest lay. In that moment, as Xing Hui intertwined with Blood Light, Aelia suddenly understood the ancient Dragon Language hidden within Third Young Master Lucius's cries—those were the beginnings of the God-Slaying Curse left by the last High Priest before the Holy Light Temple fell seven hundred years ago.
The Blood Moonlight coalesced into a vortex atop the Magic Castle Spire, and the thunderous crack of the Steam Pipes caused the Star Moon Banner at the tower's peak to fall.
Aelia hovered at the edge of the broken Dome, cradling Luna, and saw Leonard's palm entwined with red threads from the Blood Curse, seeping black mist. The Binding Magic Lock that should have pierced his enemies was now deeply embedded in his own shoulder blade.
"Mother... cough..." Luna suddenly erupted into a violent fit of coughing, her frail neck displaying eerie purple veins.
Aelia hurriedly unwrapped the swaddling cloth, discovering that the Starshine Seal was being eroded by Amethyst Shards on Sugar Frosted Silver Jewelry—an echo of the Soul Devouring Curse that had consumed Light Sanctuary seven hundred years ago, now spreading to Luna through the Blood Pact of her Wedding Ring.
Leonard's maniacal laughter mingled with the Steam Roar shaking the Dome: "The Royal Family Spell and Soul Devouring Curse are mutually exclusive; this Little Monster won't survive until dawn!" He tugged at the red threads wrapped around his Hexagram Birthmark, dragging a Concubine Maid from the fissure in the formation.
The maid's skirt embroidered with Irises suddenly ignited, revealing a pregnant belly covered in Magic Patterns—clearly a Living Vessel recorded in the Third Sealing Chamber's Magic Artifact Codex.
Aelia's Pearl Necklace emitted a mournful cry as three pearls that had fallen into the Sealing Array flew back from the abyss, their surfaces coated in thick Hei Xue.
Luna bit down on one of them with her bloodied Milk Tooth, and her loud cry shattered the Stained Glass of the East Tower.
Through the swirling Liuli Fragments, Aelia saw her eldest son’s Wheelchair with the Defensive Magic Pattern flashing wildly—this was the Birthday Gift she had personally drawn last year.
"It turns out that the Dark Night Rose Pattern on the Wheelchair Armrest is the receiver for the Sealing Array." Aelia’s Emerald Pupils reflected the Gap in the Wheelchair Armrest, from which flowed Leonard’s magical Bone Marrow.
Memories suddenly pierced her temples like a sharp blade—after Dong Lian was attacked last year, it was Leonard who personally pushed the Wheelchair into her eldest son’s bedroom.
Luna’s swaddling cloth suddenly burst forth with blinding golden light, and the baby’s blood vaporized in the Steam to form a Star Map.
The Family Crest on Aelia’s Collarbone began to burn, as the Royal Family Spell flowed through her bloodline to her limbs and bones.
As she held the Gilded Candelabra to stab at the Concubine Maid’s Pregnant Belly, Zhu Lei suddenly froze into ice crystals, reflecting that night when twenty-year-old Leonard knelt among the Moonlight Rose bushes during Leonard's Last Night.
"You said opening the Third Sealing Chamber would incur divine wrath." Aelia’s voice wrapped around an Ice Shard, as the tip of the candelabra pressed against the core of the maid’s abdominal Magic Pattern. "Yet you secretly used my son's severed limb as a key." Suddenly, she flipped her wrist, and a hidden Wedding Ring Box sprang open from the candelabra’s carvings, revealing the moonstone that Leonard had used to propose years ago—inside was not an eternal Oath, but a miniature version of a Soul Devouring Spell Array.
The black mist surrounding Leonard suddenly convulsed violently, and the roots of the Twelve Rays Binding Magic Lock snapped apart.
The maid’s abdominal Magic Pattern emitted a sound like shattering glass, and from the direction of the Third Sealing Chamber, there came a resonant sound of an ancient bell.
Seizing the opportunity, Luna pressed a blood-stained pearl against Aelia’s eyelid; the baby’s Starshine Seal merged with the royal family’s Bloodline, weaving a gigantic Astrological Compass above the Magic Castle.
"Mother, look... cough..." Luna spat out half a Milk Tooth, its bloodied tip pointing towards the West Corridor.
Following Luna's guidance, Aelia looked over and saw her second son’s most cherished Magic Tome spontaneously igniting—the pages turning to ash revealed an emerging text: it was clearly a modified version of the Sacrificial Incantation, altered by none other than Leonard.
Those annotations once thought to be written by close friends now revealed her husband’s unique magical patterns under Luna's light.
The second explosion's shockwave lifted the dome of the hall, and Leonard seized the opportunity to lunge for the floating Sealing Crystal.
However, Aelia suddenly released her hold on Luna, allowing the infant to plummet into the abyss.
In Leonard's astonished gaze, Luna's swaddling unexpectedly unfurled into the Wings of the Xingyue Die—three hundred of these butterflies gently caught the baby, landing gracefully on Third Young Master Lucius's shoulder. The Magic Potion Bottle in the boy's sleeve shimmered with a blue light that dispelled curses.
"You always say that the Xingyue Die are useless Magic Pets." Aelia snapped off the last pearl, watching it roll into the Magic Potion stain at Lucius's feet. "Yet you don't realize they can devour altered memories." As the pearl dissolved into a golden liquid within the Magic Potion, Lucius's butterflies suddenly surged toward Leonard, each butterfly wing reflecting a moment when he had altered the Sacrificial Array.
The Blood Moonlight was suddenly torn apart by Xing Hui's Tear, and spiderweb-like cracks spread across the surface of the Sealing Crystal.
With her last ounce of strength, Luna bit her fingertip and drew a simple Astrological Array on Lucius's Hand Back.
As the baby's blood seeped into the Old Scar that nurtured the Magic Potion, Third Young Master Lucius began to chant in Qing Yue's Dragon Language—an ancient Bloodline awakening that even he was unaware of.
Leonard's black mist dissipated into ashes amidst the Dragon Language, and the Magic Pattern Container in Concubine Maid's abdomen began to collapse.
Aelia crushed the moonstone from the Wedding Ring Box into powder, watching as the Soul Devouring Spell Array from a Hundred Years Ago disintegrated in the Phosphor Dust of the Xingyue Die.
When the first pure beam of moonlight pierced through the steam fog, she heard sounds from the East Tower—the sound of a wheelchair rolling over Liuli Fragments. Her disabled eldest son was now staggering along, propped against the wall. In the cracked Dark Night Rose Pattern of his Wheelchair Armrest, Leonard's buried magical Bone Marrow had nearly evaporated.
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