Frost from her fingertips spread along the cracks of the teacup and reached her wrist, while the Communication Crystal projected an image of Leonard's Last Night, where the Emerald Pendant was pressed against Leonard's Concubine's collarbone.
The Soul Fragment of a maid that should have been reduced to ashes in the Monster Tide glowed with a blood mist-like red light within the Magic Gem.
"The Teleportation Circle of Western Laurel Manor," she suddenly grasped Qin Si's wrist, her Family Crest glimmering as ice crystals formed a roadmap on the surface of the Sheepskin Scroll. "Back then, Leonard said that the monsters destroyed the entire Defensive System."
The Star Sphere suspended in the Alchemical Chamber suddenly accelerated its rotation. Luna, cradled in her swaddling, sucked on a Moonstone while watching Ailya's Silver Hair move without wind.
In the Original, this gentle and virtuous lady deceived herself until the end; at this moment, the tear stains at the corners of her eyes transformed into Ice Blades, cleaving the wedding Image on the wall in half.
"Madam!" Her elder brother's Wheelchair crashed through the Bronze Door of the Alchemical Chamber, golden light from the Defensive Formation enveloping two bloodied Dragon Scales. "Emergency from the Eastern Defense Line—"
His voice abruptly cut off.
The Curse Monitoring Device embedded in the Wheelchair Armrest was now displaying a pure azure color.
This young man, paralyzed for ten years due to Magic Backlash, suddenly discovered that his fingertips could condense into a Fire Phoenix-shaped Magic Element.
Luna spat out the Moonstone, now coated in saliva, watching it roll beneath her brother's Wheelchair.
Three Days Ago, she had deliberately spilled a Calming Potion that contained Starshine Pollen capable of neutralizing dark curses—this was a Secret Recipe discovered only three hundred chapters later in the Original.
"The Competition arena." Her elder brother trembled as he caressed his revitalized Twin Legs; the Dome of the Alchemical Chamber reflected the fighting spirit pulsating in his eyes. "Next month at the Four Realms Magic League, I will show everyone the true strength of the Glorious Demon Fortress Heir."
Suddenly, a muffled sound echoed from below. Black mist seeped from a Space Rift torn by Second Brother's Leonard's Sword.
Luna squinted and saw fine cracks emerging from within the Bloodline Contract floating in the rift—that was her Magic Node that she had shaken loose with Loud Cry over seven consecutive nights.
"So that's how Blood Rose absorbs a Contractor's life force." Second Brother pressed his Sword Tip against the Jian Qiao gifted to him by his former friend. The Ruby embedded in it suddenly cracked open, revealing writhing Dark Magic Worms inside. "To nurture a Heart-Eating Gu with twenty years of friendship—what a clever scheme."
As he swung his sword to sever the Contract Chain, the family crest on the hilt suddenly glowed.
Luna quietly slipped the last half of the Moonstone into the Hidden Layer of the Diaper, knowing this was a sign that the Inheritance Sacred Artifact, which should have been destroyed in the Original, was recognizing its master.
Aelia's Ice Magic had already frozen half of the Assembly Hall, and she walked across the crystallized carpet towards the Secret Dark Door.
Suddenly, Luna let out a loud cry, and the Sound Wave shattered the illusion disguised on the wall, revealing a Dark Compartment filled with Black Magic Runes behind it.
"The Lord said this is a sanctuary for storing ancestral relics." Qin Si looked in horror at the Scarlet Liquid seeping from Ankeli. "But these... these are empty bottles of Pregnancy Spirit Potion!"
Aelia's neck was suddenly heated by the Ice Crystal Curse Seal, a Guardian Spell drawn by Leonard during their wedding.
Seizing the opportunity, Luna pressed her saliva-stained palm against the ground, using her remaining magic to automatically activate the hidden Magic Reflection—Twenty Years Ago, Leonard was pushing a maid into a Monster Horde while simultaneously planting a Pregnant Spirit Demon Seed in her womb.
"So our three sons..." Aelia's Ice Magic suddenly spiraled out of control, expanding as the Council Chamber Dome began to crystallize with blood-red Ice Spikes. "They were all conceived with this filthy..."
A deafening roar interrupted her Ailya's Roar, and the figure of Third Young Master Lucius appeared within the distorted Light Barrier.
The Dark Moon Emblem on his sleeve resonated with the howls from deep within Geomancy but trembled violently as his gaze fell upon Luna—this villain who was supposed to control everything in the Original now found himself shocked to discover that the energy of the Barrier Nexus was deviating from its intended Track.
Luna clutched the melted remnants of Moonstone in her Diaper and reached out her small hand towards Brother San.
The Error Magic Pattern on the young man's palm suddenly went out of control, spelling out a Warning on his most treasured Ancient Magic Tome's Title Page that only he could understand.
As Brother San trembled and opened The Celestial Spellcraft Essentials, Luna finally exhaustedly closed her eyes.
The last trace of energy from the Moonstone seeped into Geomancy, temporarily suppressing the howls of Abyssal Species—and the hint she left for Brother San was now faintly visible on the Yellowed Pages' blank space.
Brother San's fingertip brushed against the gradually clarifying Iris on The Celestial Spellcraft Essentials' Title Page; those Ancient Elvish Language characters formed by Error and Magic Pattern Reconstruction burned like embers in his pupil: "The Stellar Trajectory has never deviated; it is you who kneels and gazes up at the starry sky."
The starlight of the Dome suddenly became blinding, and he stumbled, collapsing among the scattered ancient texts.
The residual magic of Luna rippled across the Parchment, revealing the slanted annotations he had inscribed in each Grimoire's Title Page over the years—those "Error insights" that had been ridiculed by the entire magical community now perfectly aligned with the ancient Star Map of the Star Sphere Projection.
"So it was the Taboo talent detected by the Astrology Platform back then..." He trembled as he tore away the bandages from his Left Arm, where the Sealing Magic Pattern lay, and the Xing Hui beneath his skin suddenly broke free from its constraints.
The Star Pulse meridians, deemed "dangerously mutated" a decade ago, were now greedily absorbing the residual energy of the moonstone.
Luna's swaddling suddenly glowed with a Red Glow, and she unconsciously waved her tiny hand, scattering the last bits of Starshine Pollen into the air.
Brother San's Pupil abruptly contracted—those Golden Dust particles landing on his annotated "Error Magic Pattern" transformed into a Manuscript of the First Generation Star Mage, casting a Residual Shadow.
"Father said these are worthless..." He gripped the floating fragments of illusion tightly, his knuckles turning white.
In his memory, Leonard had thrown his Celestial Chart into the fireplace during Leonard's Last Night, overlapping with the swirling Star Trail in this moment; those twinkling lights among the Ashes were not an illusion after all.
A loud explosion from the direction of the Assembly Hall suddenly shattered the Ice Layer.
Brother San pressed an ancient text against his wildly beating Heart, as Xing Hui coalesced beneath his feet into a long-lost Astrology Array.
As the first rays of dawn pierced through the skylight of the Alchemical Chamber, a fire ignited in the young man's bloodshot eyes that had never been seen before: "Before the Waxing Crescent Moon rises, I will make Xing Hui illuminate the Magic Fortress Tower once more."
When Leonard kicked open the Golden Oak Door, covered in Ice Spikes, Aelia was using an Ice Blade to sever her Neck's Guardian Spell.
The empty bottles of crimson Pregnancy Spirit Potion piled up at her feet like a small mountain, each base engraved with the Emblem of Western Laurel Manor.
"Let me explain!" Lord's Fingertip black fire melted half of the ice wall in an instant but extinguished abruptly upon touching his wife's silver hair.
He was shocked to discover that the ice crystals surrounding Aelia were mixed with the red glow of the Blood Curse backlash. "Those Demon Seeds have long been purified..."
"Purified with the flesh and blood of twenty-three maidens?" Aelia scoffed, her Ice Mirror revealing the terrified faces of Leonard's Concubines.
Luna quietly wiped her saliva on the shackles-shaped decorative chain, and the hidden anti-magic runes suddenly lit up. The Contract Scroll in Leonard's sleeve ignited spontaneously.
Qin Si suddenly emerged from the shadows, slamming the soot-covered Gold Leaf Ledger onto the stone table. "Lord, the five hundred tons of Moonstone you procured last year actually flowed to the Underground Altar of Laurel Manor." Her wrist's Family Crest resonated with Aelia's ice crystals, projecting a complete view of a Magic Circle filled with Infant Spirit Resentment.
Leonard's Dragon Scale Armor emitted a piercing sound of friction.
He raised his hand to summon the Abyss Guardian but found countless Starshine Vines emerging from the gaps in the Assembly Hall's floor tiles—Brother San's Astrology Array had silently covered the entire castle's core.
"Do you think these tricks can shake the foundation of Magic Castle?" Lord suddenly tore through a Space Rift, images of the Eastern Defense Line emerging from the swirling black mist. "As long as I am still the Glorious Lord, the safety of the entire magical realm depends on..."
His threat was abruptly cut off.
His elder brother emerged from the mist, seated in a Suspended Wheelchair, with a Fire Phoenix-shaped Magic Element unfurling its splendid tail feathers behind him.
The Monitoring Crystal of the Defensive Formation showed that the abyssal rift in the Eastern Realm had been temporarily sealed by a new type of barrier—one that utilized his discarded Nine Hundred Sixty-Four Version plan designed during his ten years of paralysis.
"Father, it seems you have forgotten," his elder brother said, stroking the Family Crest on the Wheelchair Armrest that had just lit up again. "The Heir of Glorious Demon Fortress has never been limited to just one."
As Lucius stood atop the bell tower, the Magic Castle in the morning mist appeared to be split into two worlds.
The East Wing Tower shimmered with Brother San's newly laid Starry Barrier, while the West Training Ground echoed with Second Brother's sword slicing through the air. Meanwhile, explosions of Ice Fire Light from the main fortress continuously dyed the sky a bizarre shade of purple-red.
The Dark Moon Emblem on his sleeve suddenly buzzed, and from deep within Geomancy came the frenzied howls of Abyssal Species.
The young man bent down to pick up remnants of Moonstone at his feet and discovered they were mixed with Starshine Pollen and Ice Crystal Fragments—energies that should have repelled each other were now merging into a strange new substance atop Luna's Diaper fragments.
A sudden muffled sound echoed through the Castle Cellar, causing Lucius to freeze mid-motion, his hand poised above the shattered Communication Crystal.
The three Demon Hounds he had raised were anxiously digging at the perimeter of the barrier, while the Abyssal Rift, which should have been suppressed, began to creep along the growth track of the Starshine Vines. Lucius's fingertips toyed with the Moonstone Shards, and his dark red pupils reflected the intertwining Xing Hui and ice crystals on the Diaper.
The Abyssal Rift's Zhen Chan suddenly became rhythmic—those previously chaotic cracks now grew in alignment with the direction of the Starshine Vines laid out by Brother San, tracing an ancient Sealing Array pattern at the castle's foundation.
"So you even accounted for the Abyssal Species' uprising..." he clenched the shards tightly, their sharp edges piercing his palm.
As blood dripped from his hand, a sobbing alarm from the Demon Hounds echoed from the direction of the cellar.
When the young man teleported to the third level of the Cellar, he found the humid stone walls covered in newly sprouted Starshine Vines.
The Abyssal Rift that should have been contained here was wrapped in a cocoon-like root system of vines, and Luna's swaddling cloth had somehow rolled to rest near the Sealing Eye, its silk satin damp with saliva emitting a faint Purifying Light.
"Are you even planning this from infancy?" Lucius knelt on one knee, his palm adorned with intricate Magic Patterns hovering just inches above Luna's forehead.
The Dark Moon Emblem resonated with the Xing Hui swirling around the infant, and suddenly memories flashed through his mind—twenty years ago, Leonard had been patrolling the castle with a Newborn in his arms during Leonard's Last Night. Those gestures of affection he had once viewed as paternal love now revealed traces of a Curse etched into his memory.
Luna suddenly grasped his bloodied fingertip, her toothless gums pressing against the shattered Moonstone.
Energy mixed with Starshine Pollen surged upward through his blood; Lucius's left eye's dark red Magic Pattern began to melt away like snow, revealing his original Emerald Eyes—the distinctive hue of the Aelia Family.
The Sealing Array in the Cellar Dome suddenly blazed with light, and the Zhen Chan of the Abyssal Rift transformed into a soothing pulse.
Lucius stared blankly at his palm where the Dark Moon Emblem had faded; those controlling Magic Patterns implanted by Leonard were now peeling away piece by piece as they absorbed the Purifying Light.
"Here is your analysis of the Pregnancy Spirit Potion ingredients." Qin Si's voice suddenly came from around the corner.
Lucius instinctively shielded Luna beneath his dark cloak but saw Maid holding a blood-stained Experiment Record. The newly formed Ice Crystal Curse Seal on her neck bore an uncanny resemblance to that of Aelia.
In the cradle, Luna suddenly let out a sound, her small hands stained with blood patting against the stone slab.
Lucius followed her gaze and discovered deep within the cracks wrapped in Starshine Vines, a faint emergence of a Vine Cage engraved with the emblem of Laurel Manor—hundreds of Infant Spirit remains were sleeping behind a transparent barrier.
"The lady is collecting evidence..." Before Qin Si could finish his sentence, Luna unexpectedly blew out a stream of colorful bubbles.
One of the bubbles gently floated down onto Lucius's faded Dark Moon Emblem, condensing the lingering dark energy into the shape of an Ice Crystal Key—perfectly fitting with Aelia's broken Guardian Spell around her neck.
Suddenly, urgent footsteps echoed from the cellar entrance.
Lucius quickly concealed the Ice Crystal Key in his sleeve, watching as Luna used her saliva to draw a crooked Laurel Blossom pattern on the bluestone slab.
When Aelia burst in with a fierce Han Qi, the infant was grasping a fragment of the faded Dark Moon Emblem, babbling as she tried to stuff it into her mouth.
"Third Young Master Lucius?" Aelia's Ice Blade hovered at Lucius's throat but halted abruptly upon catching sight of the faded Magic Pattern.
The Starshine Vines entwined throughout the cellar suddenly bloomed with buds, refracting the projection of the Infant Spirit Prison onto the ice wall.
At just the right moment, Luna let out a lactation burp, and the residue from the bubbles spread across the stone slab's Laurel Blossom pattern, creating a faint emerald hue.
Aelia's neck felt suddenly hot from the Ice Crystal Curse Seal; at that moment, the remnants of Guardian Magic Patterns she had severed resonated subtly with the patterns smeared by the infant.
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