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The loud cry of the infant pierced through the stone walls of the Magic Castle, as Shan Na and Luna's light gold pupils reflected twenty-eight burning runes on the Judgment Scale in a strange track.
As the Grand Sorcerer of the Magic Realm, forced into swaddling, she bit her fingertip, swallowing the last remnants of memory from the Contract Ashes—memories of Leonard binding a Blood Pact with Leonard's Concubine in the dark forest, now churning in her stomach like a painful light spot.
"Madam! The holographic projection in the West Wing Secret Room is fading!" Qin Si's panicked shout caused Aelia to stumble back a step. The usually graceful Lady of the Fortress clutched her neck, feeling the heat radiating from the Wedding Ring Key.
The thunderous chains controlled by Third Young Master Lucius emitted a piercing hum, pinning the struggling illusion of the Illegitimate Child deeper into the totem.
Suddenly, Luna stretched out her tiny hand, precisely slapping the third Magic Crystal Pendant below Aelia's collarbone.
This was Aelia and Leonard's Token of Love from the Original, now dampened by the baby's stardust-laden saliva, projecting a scene from their wedding night ten years ago—Young Lord kissing his wife's fingertip, revealing an emerging dark purple Contract Seal at the base of her ring finger, identical to the Betrayal Rune that had just been peeled away from the ashes.
"It’s impossible..." Aelia staggered against the Confessor Totem, her image in a phoenix crown overlapping with her current disheveled state.
Memories began to flip like a pried open Juling Magic Cube: Leonard's excuses for disappearing on Full Moon Nights, the Black Rose garden that wilted suddenly at Third Young Master Lucius's birth, and last year's Magic Backlash when his sleeve retained traces of Violet Fragrance—the very toxin extracted from Leonard's Concubine's favorite Phantom Flower.
Seizing the opportunity, Luna tugged at Aelia's cascading silver hair, using her unique high-frequency sound waves to vibrate the Transmitting Crystal on Aelia's earlobe.
With a clang, a crystal ball hidden in West Tower Ankeli rolled to the ground, revealing the true form of the Oath Tree at the edge of the dark forest—its trunk, which should have been entwined with couples' talismans, was now coiled by three barbed dark red vines, each connected to different illusions of infants cradled by various women.
"Three illegitimate children?" Lucius's Thunder Chain suddenly went out of control and struck toward the Confessor Totem. The veins bulged on his palm, eerily reminiscent of his brother’s signs before that fateful Magic Backlash.
Second Brother suddenly covered his agonizing right eye; blood pearls oozing between his fingers formed a prototype of a Poison Curse Array in mid-air—the very trap that would rob him of his sight three years later in the holographic image.
Desperate, Luna kicked off her swaddling embroidered with Guardian Runes. The spiral pattern sealing her nape resonated with the Oath Tree projection.
The moonstone atop First Generation Fortress Master's scepter suddenly blazed brightly, illuminating Leonard’s body as he tried to blend into the shadows.
The twenty-eight burning Contract Runes soared from either end of the scale, assembling before Aelia into a complete map of betrayal.
"Under our wedding bed lie three Curse Crystals." Aelia's bloodstained fingertip brushed against the Thorn Emblem on baby Mei Xin, suddenly tearing the necklace from her neck.
As the Wedding Ring Key fell into the Judgment Scale, a deafening sound of gears grinding echoed from the secret chamber that had yet to collapse in the West Wing. A coordinate marked "Library" on the Geographical Map of the Eastern Region glowed like daylight—this was the forbidden place where the method to break the curse was recorded in the Original.
Amid Leonard's screams, Luna was delighted to see Aelia's faded lips regaining their rosy hue.
This mother, blinded by love for twenty years, now lifted the baby to gaze level with the First Generation Fortress Master and Residual Shadow.
The Oath Tree's projection grew wildly behind them, and the Spiral Pattern emerging from its roots suddenly began to reverse its rotation.
"In the name of Thorn and Lady of the Fortress," Aelia's voice shook off a century's worth of dust from the Dome, "open the sealed Moonlight Passage."
Seizing the opportunity, Luna pressed her stardust-covered little hand onto the center of the Judgment Scale. The instincts of a Great Mage allowed her to detect a slight abnormal fluctuation—when Leonard's Contract Ashes were burned, an energy reminiscent of her brother's Magic Backlash escaped towards the Oath Tree's Root System.
The baby abruptly stopped crying, its glass-like eyes fixating on a flickering rune within the Geographical Map of the Eastern Region. The pattern matched perfectly with the worn Ke Hen on her brother's wheelchair armrest.
Unbeknownst to Aelia, the baby quietly smeared the last remnants of Contract Ashes into the Tooth Mark groove of the Wedding Ring Key.
As the Moonlight Passage opened beneath the Confessor Totem, a breeze carrying a hint of Violet Fragrance quietly seeped into a locked hole in a web-filled attic of the West Tower—where all of her brother's Magic Research Manuscripts lay dormant before he turned sixteen.
With the Moonlight Passage now open, Shan Na, Luna suddenly grasped Aelia's Pearl Earrings.
The remnants of Contract Ashes on the baby's fingertip traced a Spiral Pattern on the surface of one pearl, resonating with her brother's long-worn Ke Hen on his wheelchair armrest.
Aelia followed the baby's gaze towards a Stone Brick Gap split by a Thunder Chain behind the Confessor Totem, where she could faintly see a corner of faded parchment.
"That’s Young Master’s Manuscript!" Qin Si suddenly covered her mouth.
Ten years after her brother’s Magic Backlash, all research materials had been sealed in the West Tower Attic, yet they now bizarrely appeared amidst the ruins of Judgment Hall.
Luna noticed that every yellowed page was dusted with the same violet powder found on Leonard's cuffs.
Her elder brother's wheelchair made a grating sound as it rolled over the gravel.
The twenty-eight-year-old mage picked up the manuscript, and his knuckles, marked by ice cracks, suddenly trembled—on the back of the star chart he had drawn at sixteen, a dark purple contract seal began to emerge.
The thorn pattern entwined at the center of the curse mark was unmistakably derived from the betrayal rune on Leonard's ring finger.
"Use... use this," Luna suddenly exclaimed, releasing a bubble soaked in Xing Hui.
The contract ashes, wrapped in the baby's saliva, fell onto the manuscript and curse mark, corroding the previously entangled thorn pattern and creating a gap.
Her elder brother noticed that the spiral armrest of his wheelchair began to heat up; those joints twisted and deformed by magic backlash surprisingly stretched three inches under the halo of moonlight passage.
Aelia lifted the baby to eye level with the manuscript.
Seizing the opportunity, Luna pressed her small hand, which carried the fragrance of milk, onto the center of the star chart. The baby's unique pure magic flowed along the faded ink.
When the third curse crystal popped out from the confessor totem's base, everyone was astonished to see reflected on its surface her brother's silhouette at sixteen—young mage holding a freshly completed forbidden spell model, while behind him stood Leonard, performing Jie Yin.
"So Father was there during my magic surge..." Her brother's pale lips suddenly flushed with color, and the armrest of his wheelchair shattered in response.
The backlash curses that had imprisoned him for ten years peeled away like a receding tide from his fingertips, coalescing into twenty-eight burning runes within the moonlight passage.
Luna suddenly burst into giggles as the baby's milk tooth accurately bit down on a rune drifting toward Aelia—one that still carried traces of an illegitimate child's golden hair.
Three days later, the astrolabe in Glory Arena's dome unexpectedly shifted seven degrees.
Amidst the gasps from the audience, her brother stepped onto the arena draped in a silver-gray robe embroidered with the thorn family crest.
His once-atrophied left arm was now entwined with liquid moonlight, and with a gentle tap from Zhang Jian, he awakened a stone guardian that had slumbered for a century.
"Starfall Strangulation!" With his clear command, the cursed right hand of Ling Kong traced out the complete Hexagram Formation.
Before the opponent's Flame Lizard could even Roar, it was crushed into Crystal Fragments by the suddenly reversed gravitational field.
In the stands, Leonard crushed the armrest of his chair—what those Stone Guardians were executing was the unique magic deemed a "Dangerous Forbidden Technique" in his elder brother's manuscript from when he was sixteen.
As his brother raised the Champion's Scepter for the third time, the long-abandoned Training Ground in the East Wing of the Magic Castle lit up once more with an Illumination Spell.
Second Brother stood in the center of the Mirror Hall, covered in Spider Webs, his Fingertip brushing over the poisoned eyes inflicted by his dear friend.
Suddenly emerging from the mirror was Leonard's Last Night, where Luna gnawed on the Contract Rune; the infant's unaware movements with his jade pendant perfectly mirrored the gestures needed to break the Poison Curse Array.
"Little girl..." The blood-stained bandage on Second Brother spontaneously ignited, and from the Ashes emerged the Devouring Eye Bug Egg that his friend had buried in his staff three years ago.
With Blood Tears staining his hands, he drew an Inverse Spell on the mirror. As he completed the third stroke, a sudden sound of shattering glass echoed from a hidden chamber in the West Tower—where a "talisman" given to him by his deceitful friend was sealed away.
Meanwhile, Brother San stood motionless beneath the Oath Tree Projection.
In his hand, a crystal ball testing his talent reflected Luna scattering Contract Ashes onto his brother's manuscript during Leonard's Last Night.
The infant's random slaps coincidentally broke Leonard's Talent Misleading Spell that had been cast at his birth.
The crystal ball suddenly burst forth with seven-colored light; those foundational Spells he had neglected for ten years now flowed into an exquisite magic array he had never seen before.
As night fell, Aelia carried Luna through the corridor.
Moonlight streamed through the Colored Window, casting a Star Map onto the Infant Swaddling. Unbeknownst to Lady of the Fortress, Luna was secretly using her saliva-dampened silver hair to sketch a complex Contract Pattern on the windowsill.
When Patrolling Guards passed through the West Wing Corridor, their Detection Crystal on Leonard's Sword suddenly reflected a strange Light Spot—its pattern bore a deadly resemblance to a curse inscribed at the top of a certain sheepskin scroll secretly collected by Leonard.
From deep within the Cellar came a dull thud as an Oak Barrel toppled over. The Night Watch Maid saw Third Young Master Lucius's Thunder Chain tracing scorch marks along the wall.
No one noticed the Black Cat Pupil curled up in the shadows—this was Leonard disguised as a Familiar using Transfiguration.
The bell on the beast's Neck flashed violet Youguang, projecting Luna's Luna's Doodle of Leonard's Last Night onto the Astrolabe of a hidden manor in the dark forest.
As the Horn Sound of the Frost Fortress envoy pierced through the Colored Window, Aelia was embedding the last piece of the Wedding Ring Fragment into the Groove of the Judgment Scale.
Luna curled up in the newly changed Iris Pattern swaddling from Qin Si, her glass-like Pupil reflecting the flowing Ice Crystal Rune on the envoy's Magic Robe—a mark demanding that the Magic Castle re-sign the covenant from the twelve northern city-states.
"Madam, the deviation of the Astrolabe at the Coliseum has triggered an Elemental Tide Anomaly." Lucius, gripping a Thunder Chain, had his wrist wrapped in freshly soaked bandages. He deliberately stood in the shadow of the Confessor Totem, his gaze sweeping over the Contract Scroll held by the envoy. "This morning, while testing his talents at the Oath Tree, Brother San shattered seven pieces of Elemental Resonance stone."
Aelia's fingertip paused on Luna's neck, tracing the Spiral Pattern.
The baby suddenly let out a sound like a soft cry, her small hand, stained with milk, patting a Crystal Paperweight, just in time to refract the Ice Crystal Rune onto Leonard's vacant throne.
The cluster of light danced among the dark patterns of the Golden Handrail, finally settling at the third crack of the thorn emblem symbolizing the head of the household's authority.
"Tell the lord of the Frost Fortress that the new covenant must wait until after the calibration of the Star Trail following the Laurel Festival." Aelia lifted Luna to meet the envoy's gaze, and as if unaware, the baby kicked off a fallen Guardian Charm, perfectly covering a crucial part of the Contract Scroll.
As the envoy bowed and withdrew, Qin Si noticed a violet dark pattern on his cloak's lining—identical to the lingering scent of cedar from Leonard’s cuffs.
Suddenly, Luna coughed violently, expelling a bubble wrapped in Contract Ashes.
The baby's saliva crystallized upon hitting the ground, reflecting a secret letter box beneath a loose piece of peacock stone tiles in the west wing corridor.
The residual magic from Brother San's talent test shattered a moonstone lamp in the corner, and at that moment, shards began to form patterns resembling poison curses on an illegitimate child's swaddling.
"Madam!" The chief guard suddenly burst through the Liujin Gate. "The second young master's Mirror Hall*..."
As Aelia rushed up the spiral staircase with her skirt lifted, Luna took advantage of this moment to wipe her saliva on Qin Si's communication-enhancing moonstone earrings.
The baby's milk tooth bit into a maid's fingertip, and blood pearls oozed into midair, forming tracks like poisonous insects taking flight—the very path that had allowed three years ago’s devouring eye bug egg to infiltrate the magic castle.
As the second Blood Pearl fell to the ground, the shattered Liuli Dome of the Mirror Hall suddenly descended with Light Rain. Second Brother stood at the center of countless mirrors, his blood-stained bandages peeling away like shed snake skin.
"Father is at the Oath Tree in the Dark Forest," Second Brother said, his newly formed Pupil glowing with the color of Ashes from a burned Contract. "He hides three unhatched Poison Curse cocoons."
Luna suddenly let out a sharp Loud Cry, her Sound Wave shattering a decorative mirror at the end of the corridor.
The Gold Frame fell to the ground, and everyone saw Leonard's Black Cat darting out from the shadows. The violet Youguang of its neck bell carried the Contract Pattern of baby Luna's Doodle, flowing along the drainage channel toward the West Tower Cellar.
As the Frost Fortress envoy's Secret Letter spontaneously ignited in the Moonlight Passage, Luna was dozing, clutching Ailya's Silver Hair.
The baby curled into a fetal position, and the Spiral Pattern on the back of her neck resonated subtly with the Root System of the Oath Tree Projection.
No one noticed her small hand hidden in the swaddling layer, using Saliva to bind Contract Ashes into a primitive form of an ancient rune—the pattern resembling the worn Ke Hen at the base of the First Generation Fortress Master's Residual Shadow Scepter, perfectly aligning to form a complete Star Chart.
While Aelia drifted into a deep sleep amidst Laurel Scent, Luna opened her eyes wide awake.
The baby's Milk Tooth gently nibbled at the edge of a Crystal Paperweight, leaving faint Tooth Marks on the surface of the Ice Crystal Rune.
As the moonlight shifted three inches over Shan Na, those Tooth Marks suddenly connected with the strange zigzagging cracks leaking water from the West Tower Cellar—precisely marking the Celestial Coordinates of the "Forgotten Confession Room" Entrance recorded in the Original.
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