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Through the Colored Glazed Window, the eerie totem sliced across Aelia's pale face.
Milky pearls rolled across the Gilded Floor Tiles towards the crowd, each reflecting the bare shoulders of different women—Leonard's lovers were mocking her with pity through the Contract Totem in the mirror.
"This isn't real..." Aelia stumbled and crushed two pearls underfoot, her Crystal Shoe getting stuck in the Groove of the Contract Array.
She suddenly turned and grasped the Wheelchair Armrest. "You told me this Wheelchair is a Sacred Artifact that wards off Magic Backlash!" Beneath the tea-stained Wool Blanket, the Eldest Son's knee bore a Dark Red Serpent Seal that resonated with the totem drawn by the Tea Soup.
The Wheelchair Armrest suddenly erupted with a Purple Black Electric Arc, and a broken sob escaped from the Eldest Son's throat.
Luna raised her hand and unleashed a Light Chain to sever the energy source, allowing everyone to see clearly that embedded within the Wheelchair Armrest was indeed the Snake Pattern Crystal gifted by Leonard's Mistress.
"Father said this was forged from Abyssal Demon Iron Ore." Third Young Master Lucius tugged at his collar embroidered with an Inverse Pentagram, Dark Red Luna seeping black mist. "So it was because you pushed me into the forbidden Blood Pool that I failed my awakening ten years ago?"
Luna suddenly let out a loud cry reminiscent of Qing Yue, as a new image was projected onto the wall by the swaddled Silver Light: a woman in a black robe pressing an infant onto the Blood Altar, while Leonard pierced Third Young Master Lucius's nape with his Serpent Head Staff.
The Third Young Master Lucius, who had claimed to be attacked by dark creatures back then, trembled as he touched the scar on his neck.
The Second Young Master suddenly clutched his chest and knelt on the ground, shards of the Contract Totem cutting into his palm.
A Blood Pearl floated in mid-air, reconfiguring itself with the Family Crest on Lucius's Waist pendant—this was the Soul Contract Diagram between Leonard and eighteen Mistresses, each Snake Eye corresponding to a key for a resource vault within the Magic Castle.
"So my dear friend knew about the transportation routes of Magic Crystals..." The Second Young Master suddenly erupted in anger, smashing his pendant against the Obsidian Pillar. The Emerald Fragment revealed an image from Three Months Ago—the night Leonard was attacked—where Leonard's Mistress, disguised as a caravan leader, dripped Contract Snake Venom into his wine.
Aelia's Pearl Necklace suddenly shattered completely, thirty-seven beads forming a circular Mirror Array in mid-air.
When the eighteenth mirror reflected that her foster daughter she had personally raised was also one of the Mistresses, icy crystal-like horns suddenly sprouted from her head—an omen of collapse for the Snow Elf Royal Family.
"Mother!" Luna suddenly called out gently in her Mind Sea, her small hand pressed against her chest glowing with a Hexagram.
The cracks on Aelia's royal horns were forcibly halted, yet two drops of Bing Lei fell onto Luna's Mei Xin, transforming into Ice Crystal Ornaments.
The West Pillar suddenly collapsed, and amidst the swirling dust, Leonard and the woman in the black robe formed a Blood Pact with Xu Ying in the nursery.
The Eldest Son, who had claimed to be bitten by a dark creature years ago, now looked at the emerging Snake Fangs mark on his severed limb and suddenly vomited a mixture of scales and Hei Xue.
"So it was my magic going out of control when I awakened at ten..." The Eldest Son abruptly tore off the restraints from his wheelchair. As his severed limb touched the ground, a snake tail sprouted from it. "Father, did you personally alter my awakening potion?"
Luna's pupil suddenly spun, and all illusions coalesced into a tangible Contract suspended in mid-air.
When everyone saw the words in the Contract stating, "Each Mistress bound can draw ten years of lifespan from their offspring," Lucius suddenly lifted the hem of his formal attire—twenty Serpent-Shaped Scars on his calf corresponded to the birth years of Leonard's twenty Illegitimate Children.
At that moment, the Castle Barrier shattered completely, and Night-Blooming Jasmine mixed with a Bloody Smell flooded into the hall.
Luna suddenly gazed at the swaying Zi Yue and Lily of the Valley outside on the terrace, where black mist seeped from the flower's core, reminiscent of her brother's Magic Backlash years ago.
She grabbed Aelia's Pearl Shawl and yanked it hard; thirty-seven beads transformed into a Star Map pointing towards the East Tower.
"Father's study..." Before Third Young Master Lucius could finish his sentence, Luna had already pulled Aelia by her Skirt, moving toward the direction indicated by the Star Map.
The infant's Palm glowed with Silver Light as it swept across the carpet, revealing countless Bloodstains shaped like Infant Handprints. These blood marks followed the gaps between the floor tiles, all pointing towards a secret chamber that housed the Magic Castle's Genealogy.
Just as Lucius was about to intervene, a Contract Fragment suddenly sliced across his nape.
As his blood dripped onto the Genealogy Remnant Page, yellowed Parchment emerged with more erased names—each year a name disappeared corresponded precisely with a genius's fall within the Magic Castle.
"Mother, be careful!" Luna suddenly encased Aelia in a golden Light Barrier.
Everyone followed her gaze to see Cercis Petals drifting down from the East Tower window, transforming into blood-colored butterflies heading towards... Lucius staggered as he leaned against an Obsidian Pillar, his Fingertip touching the warm liquid seeping from his nape.
The remnants of the Contract Fragment flickered in his pupil; those names that had vanished from the Genealogy burned into his retina like a curse. "These... are all mine..." His hoarse whisper was shattered by the night wind, and an Iron Rust Taste surged in his throat—each full moon night when an illegitimate child was born, Father would take away half a bowl of Heart's Blood from him.
Suddenly, Luna's swaddling burst forth with Yin Mang, pulling Aelia's Pearl Shawl like a meteor streaking through the corridor.
Third Young Master Lucius was in pursuit, but his ankles were ensnared by the blood handprints scattered across the ground.
Those infant-shaped Dark Red marks suddenly opened their densely packed Mama Jin Tong. The Eyes of the long-deceased spirits of the Magic Castle rippled under the moonlight.
"Mother!" Aelia's Crystal Shoe got stuck in the Floor Tile Gap. As she stumbled, she caught a glimpse of the twisted faces on the Pillar Relief—those maidens she had once taught etiquette were now wearing mocking smiles reminiscent of their Mistresses.
The clasp of her Pearl Shawl suddenly broke, and thirty-seven luminous white beads rolled into the shadows, gathering in an Arrow Shape in the corner.
The spiral Stone Steps of the East Tower exuded a damp, mossy scent. Luna suddenly wrapped a silver chain around Aelia's Wrist. "Wah—" The loud cry of the infant transformed into a tangible sound wave, causing two Patrolling Guards around the corner to crash against the stone wall.
As the Magic Pattern on their armor began to glow, it was instantly frozen into ice crystals by the Jin Mang shooting from Luna's eyes.
"This is Father's Royal Guard's Dragon Scale Armor..." Aelia's trembling Fingertip brushed against the Griffin Emblem on the Knight's chest, and the ice crystals suddenly exploded into Xing Xu.
Years ago, when Leonard had dispatched this elite team to guard the Northern Territory, he had used his Fingertip stained with Dragon Blood to mark her Mei Xin with a Guardian Spell—now, remnants of the Curse Mark resonated with the cold light from the fragments of Knight armor.
The Click sound of a Hidden Door Mechanism turning echoed from above, and Luna suddenly tugged at Aelia's Skirt.
The Lady of the Fortress followed the chubby little hand of the infant, as moonlight streamed through the stained-glass skylight, casting Serpent Pattern Light Spots on the wall.
Those winding light traces suddenly began to move, piecing together the pattern of Purple Wisteria Vines that had coiled around Leonard's Sword when she first met him twenty years ago.
"Mother, look here!" Luna gently called out in Aelia's Mind Sea.
The infant's Palm oozed Silver White liquid, seeping along the stone wall Gap into the eye socket of the Serpent Relief.
When the eighteenth drop filled the Snake Eye, an intricate network of Bloodline patterns suddenly emerged on the entire wall—each branch corresponded to the lifeline of a Magic Castle Heir.
Aelia suddenly clutched her Heart as ice crystal horns once again sprouted from her hair.
She finally understood why she always dreamed of gallows entwined with Wisteria after each childbirth; it turned out Leonard had quietly pierced each infant's ankle with Snake Fangs during her deliveries.
The serpent-patterned furnace, claimed to purify the birthing chamber, now seemed eerily reminiscent of the scar on the back of Third Young Master Lucius's neck.
"Ugh..." A faint sobbing sound pierced through the stone walls as Luna suddenly pulled Aelia towards the right Obsidian Pillar.
Three beams of crimson light grazed their hair tips, scorching deep, unfathomable Abyssal Serpent Parasite Holes into the stone wall.
Aelia's Pearl Earrings suddenly floated up, tracing a rotating Hexagram in the air—exactly the technique she had taught Lucius for dispelling spells years ago.
"The entrance is at the intersection of Xing Mang," Luna said, wrapping a silver chain around Aelia's waist. The ice crystal on the infant's forehead suddenly refracted a Sevenfold Phantom.
As the third phantom overlapped with the Pearl Earrings, a Dark Red Liquid began to seep from the Stone Brick Gap.
The viscous plasma automatically formed into the shape of an infant's palm, rhythmically slapping against the Ground in accordance with some ancient cadence.
A Metallic Scraping Sound echoed from the end of the corridor as the Eldest Son maneuvered his serpentine tail closer.
His broken Wheelchair dragged Winding Bloodstains behind him, and each fallen Serpent Scale left an Inverse Pentagram imprinted on the Ground. "Mother need not dirty her hands," he said, pressing down on Aelia's trembling shoulder. The serpent tail suddenly coiled around the Knight's Broken Sword and hurled it towards the gathering blood palms. "Let those devoured souls open the door themselves."
The Broken Sword pierced through the center of the blood palm, and in that instant, the entire corridor flipped into a vertical East Corridor.
Luna swiftly threw out a Light Chain to wrap around Aelia's waist, and the Star-Moon Pattern on the infant’s swaddling suddenly came alive and began to swirl.
Countless Infant Spirits surged from the cracks in the stone; their translucent bodies intertwined to form a flesh-and-blood staircase, each step emerging with the birth time of sacrificed offspring.
"Beware of Contract Backlash!" Third Young Master Lucius's voice echoed from above in the East Corridor.
The Genealogy Remnant Page in his hand spontaneously ignited, and Ashes coalesced into Leonard's Xu Ying in midair.
Just as that illusion was about to speak, it was incinerated by Luna's spitting Yin Yan into Qing Yan.
Seizing the opportunity, the infant tugged at Aelia and leaped up the last three steps, while an Ice Crystal Ornament shot towards the Serpent Relief at the top of the East Corridor.
As the stone door opened with a roar, Aelia suddenly staggered and leaned against the door frame.
Her Pearl Shawl had inexplicably transformed into a chain, with thirty-seven beads corresponding to the Snake Fangs mechanism on the stone door.
When the last pearl was embedded in the groove, a wave of blood stench mixed with the familiar fragrance of Lily of the Valley hit her—a scent that reminded her of Luna, when Leonard would place an "Anshen Flower" by her bedside every day.
Luna's silver chain suddenly tightened, pulling Aelia three inches away from the stone door.
In the infant's pupil, Jin Wen reflected the Dark Red Curse that roamed within the door’s interior. The flowing runes resonated with the scales on her elder brother's serpent tail.
As the final chain of the mechanism snapped with a brittle sound, the Serpent Relief on the stone door suddenly opened countless compound eyes, their cold gazes ensnaring everyone's ankles like a spider web.
Aelia's Hexagram Amulet shattered with a sound, while Luna had already pulled her down into the swirling Entrance filled with Zi Wu. Behind them, the lintel carved with twenty Serpent Heads slowly descended, and blood pearls seeping through the cracks in the stone spelled out the First Lord of the Magic Fortress's saying: "Bloodline Is The Cage."
The Stone Steps beneath their feet crumbled into blood-colored powder as Aelia staggered to protect Luna in her arms.
The Yin Mang emanating from the infant's swaddling floated like Xing Xu, illuminating the dense Mama claw marks on either side of the steps—those deep imprints in the stone walls still clung to pale pink flesh, each groove bearing traces of milk teeth gnawing.
"Mother, be careful!" The Eldest Son's serpent tail suddenly coiled around Aelia's waist.
His severed limb dripped Hei Xue onto the steps, merging with Dark Red Moss to form a writhing curse.
Third Young Master Lucius ignited a torch using a Burning Genealogy Remnant Page. In the flickering light, everyone noticed that each step was engraved with Serpent Marks from different years.
"This is Luna's lunar calendar of birth..." Aelia's fingertip brushed over the freshest Ke Hen, and suddenly, her Pearl Earrings burst forth with Leng Guang.
Years ago, Leonard had held the swaddled infant and declared that the bloody delivery room was ominous, insisting she move to the West Tower for recovery.
In retrospect, those lingering Zi Wu in the Nursery were clearly akin to the black smoke seeping from the step gaps.
The Second Young Master suddenly covered his right eye and knelt on the ground as Contract Sheen Pattern danced between his fingers. "There's a taste of Soul Devouring Grass in this blood!" He traced a Dispel Rune in midair with his bloodstained fingertip, and as if responding to him, eighteen interwoven Blood Channels emerged from the ground. "These ravines lead towards... an Inverse Pentagram Sacrificial Array's drainage channel!"
Luna suddenly let out an urgent loud cry, and the silver chain darted out like a serpent, pulling Aelia away from the seventh step.
Before anyone could react, the stone steps abruptly flipped over, revealing a copper net covered in barbs—hanging from it was a half piece of an infant swaddling embroidered with the Magic Castle Crest, its faded bloodstains glimmering with an eerie indigo under the silver light.
“It’s Northern Ice Silkworm Silk...” Third Young Master Lucius suddenly tore open his collar, revealing a similar fabric fragment beneath his collarbone that resonated with the copper net. “My nursemaid who went missing during the Hundred Day Feast...” Before he could finish his sentence, the entire staircase suddenly sank down, and countless infant spirits seeped out from the walls, their translucent bodies intertwining into chains.
The Eldest Son suddenly coiled his serpentine tail around the nearest stone pillar. “Follow the Blood Channel!” His tattered sleeve fluttered in the gust, exposing the Contract Mark on the inner side of his forearm—the Serpent Mark was resonating with the Blood Channel at that moment, each winding groove glowing with a dark red glimmer.
Aelia’s crystal shoe suddenly sank into a viscous pool of blood, but Luna swiftly threw out a light chain to bind the pillar.
The ice crystal on the infant's forehead refracted a seven-colored halo, illuminating everything within ten meters with startling clarity—eight bronze pillars engraved with serpent heads stood in the center of the circular hall, each pillar entwined with blood-soaked thorned chains.
“Don’t touch those chains!” The Second Young Master suddenly grabbed Third Young Master Lucius, who was about to step forward to investigate.
His palm’s Contract Fragment suddenly floated up, piecing together a fragmented celestial chart in midair. “Each chain’s end connects to...”
A chilling wail of children pierced through the silence like a blade.
Luna’s silver chain suddenly straightened towards the southeast corner. Following the halo's direction, everyone turned to see Aelia shivering as she tightly covered her lips.
Twelve children under ten were hanging upside down from the bronze pillars, their serpent marks on their ankles connected to blood channels in the ground.
The smallest girl had a faded bow tied around her wrist—that was a birthday gift Third Young Master Lucius had given to his maid’s daughter last year.
“Annie...” Third Young Master Lucius suddenly rushed towards the copper pillar in a frenzy, and his collar pin adorned with an inverse pentagram exploded.
The flying metal shards cut through his Luna, and as the blood pearl fell to the ground, the entire hall suddenly emerged with a contract array covering its dome.
The rune chains pieced together from the remains of infant spirits slowly tightened in response to the faint sobbing of the children.
Luna suddenly leaped out from Aelia’s arms, her body bursting forth with Yin Yan like a meteor crashing towards the center of the array.
As her swaddling cloth brushed against the densest part of the Curse, everyone heard the sharp sound of Fabric Tear—hidden beneath the Peacock Stone Tiles, a Dark Compartment suddenly sprang open, revealing eighteen Bronze Urns shaped like Serpent Heads.
Each urn's surface was embossed with the agonized face of a Pregnant Woman, and black mist spilling from the urns transformed into Infant Spirits that gnawed at the formation.
"It's the Zi Mu Shi Hun Weng!" The Second Young Master suddenly vomited a scaly Hei Xue, his Contract Backlash reaching its peak at that moment. "Those missing mothers..." His trembling fingertip pointed to the third urn, where the image of a woman was unmistakably that of Lucius's Birth Mother, who had died in childbirth.
Aelia's Pearl Necklace suddenly reconfigured itself, thirty-seven beads embedding into the gaps of the formation like Xing Zi.
As the last pearl settled into place, the chains around the children's ankles shattered with a resounding crack.
Third Young Master Lucius caught the falling Annie just in time but noticed that her back was Emerging with a Snake Scale Pattern identical to his brother's.
"They've been planted with a shared curse..." The Eldest Son's serpentine tail suddenly thrashed against the Ground, remnants of his severed limbs oozing Hei Xue marked with Magic Patterns. "Father has been nurturing these with our Bloodline..."
Luna suddenly emitted a warning Screech, silver chains enveloping everyone like a Spider Web above their heads.
At that moment, the Dome's Contract Array completely collapsed, and shattered pieces of Curse fell like black Snowflakes.
Each fragment that touched the Ground transformed into distorted Infant Spirits; their translucent bodies converged on the Ground to form a Blood River, surging toward the Bronze Door deep within the hall.
Aelia staggered and leaned against a copper pillar as new cracks appeared in her ice crystal horns.
Years ago, Leonard had said that a Magic Castle Heir needed regular Bloodline Purification. Now, the crimson liquid poured into her Children’s mouths emitted the same foul stench as the Blood River flowing before her.
"Mother, look there!" The Second Young Master suddenly pointed toward the end of the Blood River.
In the Relief sculptures flanking the Bronze Door, a statue of a Saint Maiden cradling an infant suddenly turned its Eye—beneath her stone Skirt, dozens of Umbilical Cord-like Tentacles were directing the Blood River into the Door Gap.
Luna's swaddling cloth erupted with blinding Yin Mang as the infant ensnared Aelia's Wrist with a Light Chain and forced their way through.
As they broke through the mist of the Blood River and approached the Bronze Door, the Purple Wisteria Vines coiling around it suddenly came to life and began to writhe.
The barbed vines revealed their true form in the silver light—each tendril embedded with tiny milk teeth, the petal textures floating with unclosed infant eyelids.
"Don't touch!" The Eldest Son suddenly whipped out his serpent tail, coiling it around Third Young Master Lucius's arm.
His tattered sleeve was sliced open by the vines, exposing a newly formed inverse pentagram brand on the inner side of his forearm—perfectly matching a pattern of an eyelid on the bronze door.
Aelia's pearl earrings suddenly fell to the ground, reflecting a strange smiling face in the blood.
As Luna's light chain shattered that reflection, the entire bronze door suddenly emerged with bloodline network-like patterns.
A serpent pattern symbol, bearing the agony of her childbirth, was slowly rotating at the lock of the door.
The crystal chandelier in the banquet hall began to shake violently, with twelve facets simultaneously refracting an eerie purple light.
Luna let out a loud cry in Aelia's arms, the sound waves of the infant piercing through the air and condensing into countless tiny ice crystals on the marble column.
"Is this... elemental resonance?" Brother San's silver fork clattered to the ground.
Leonard was about to scold when ripples suddenly appeared on the west wall.
A hand adorned with a serpent ring brushed against the waist of the gold-haired witch, and from Leonard's last night floated his hoarse voice: "Once we deal with those little brats, the mithril subordinate mine in Magic Castle will belong to you, Blackthorn Society..."
"Father?" The eldest brother in the wheelchair suddenly straightened up, and Luna, who had always been pale, flushed with a sickly hue.
The armrest of his wheelchair cracked with spider web-like patterns, and the magic seal hidden for twenty years began to loosen.
Aelia's red blue sapphire necklace shattered in response, each piece of shattered crystal reflecting her trembling pupil.
That was the oath stone forged from Leonard's heart's blood on their wedding night, now glimmering amidst the rolling drops of blood like pearls on the ground.
"Madam, be careful!" Qin Si suddenly lunged forward.
A shadowy arrow grazed Luna's swaddled form and embedded itself into the mural, causing the struck Angel Statues to ooze a pitch-black Black Slime.
Seizing the opportunity, Luna grasped Aelia's Pearl Earrings and projected the remnants of her Great Mage Soul Power into Aelia's mind, revealing the Cellar Coordinates.
Echoes of a child's sobbing resonated from the depths of the dungeon, overlapping with the gasps from the banquet hall.
Suddenly, Second Brother pressed his hands against his temples; the amulet he had gifted to his dear friend was burning hot. The sapphire adorned with the Family Crest now glimmered around the witch's neck during Leonard's Last Night.
"I see now..." Second Brother tugged at the collar embroidered with Defensive Magic Patterns, revealing an emerging dark purple Contract Mark at the spot where he had been stabbed by his friend. "Leonard's Soul Mark from the Blackthorn Society..."
As Luna's small hand touched the iron door of the Cellar, a serpent relief coiled upon it suddenly opened its red eyes.
Aelia swung her skirt to shatter the magical creatures but stumbled against the wall as she entered the secret chamber—three hundred Crystal Coffins floated within a blood-red magic circle, each child impaled by a short sword bearing the Family Crest of the Glorious Demon Fortress.
In the center, a coffin floated with a strand of golden hair. Lucius stumbled back, knocking over a candlestick. "That is my sister who died at eight..." In that moment when flames surged, everyone saw the still-wet Blood Text on the Coffin Lid: Sacrifice for the God of the Dark Moon's 167th Container.
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