Book Synopsis
Book Tags
Donation Rankings
Comment
0 Comments
You May Also Like
墨書 Inktalez
Luna's body, curled up in the swaddling blanket, suddenly stiffened, and the tiny Crystal Bells on the Velvet Blanket began to ring without any wind.
Those magical accessories that should have emitted a clear sound were now twisted into sharp Triangles, as if their throats had been squeezed, leaving scorched marks on the Deep Purple velvet—this was a warning of danger at the Great Mage level.
“Qin Si!” Aelia was adjusting her Pearl Hairnet in front of the Dressing Mirror when the reflection suddenly showed Luna's flushed face.
As she turned around, she knocked over the Liuli Lantern filled with Rose Essence. The pale pink liquid dripped down the Liujin Table Corner, spreading a strange Serpent Pattern on the carpet.
From outside the Twelve Rays carved archway in the Emerald Corridor came a cacophony of footsteps, and Luna's pupils shimmered with a Mithril hue.
She saw that the Defensive Magic Patterns embedded in the walls were peeling away, curling up like fish scales corroded by acid, revealing Ancient Stone Bricks behind them covered in moss—this was how the Magic Castle had looked three hundred years ago when it was first built.
“Madam, be careful!” Qin Si yanked at Aelia's Peacock Blue Hem and stepped back two paces. The Peacock Stone Tiles where they had just stood suddenly collapsed, exposing bubbling Scarlet Liquid beneath.
Amidst the acrid smell of Sulfur, dozens of bony hands clawed at the edges of the crack, trying to climb out.
Luna let out a loud cry as the swaddling blanket wrapped in golden Silver Thread rolled to the area beneath the Crystal Chandelier.
When Aelia rushed over to pick her up, the infant's pink Palm suddenly burst forth with dazzling Xing Mang, drawing a continuously rotating Hexagram Formation in the Dome above.
“Follow the Light Spot,” Luna rasped with her gum where Milk Teeth had yet to grow. Fragments of Xing Mang fell onto Aelia's trembling eyelashes, transforming into tiny golden Blood Arrows.
They passed through the melting Stained Glass Window and maneuvered around a Bronze Candlestick that had suddenly sprouted fangs, finally stopping before an Obsidian Wall adorned with a Family Crest.
Aelia’s Ailya's White Nails, stained with Balsam Juice, brushed against the edge of the emblem. “This... is Leonard's secret armory?” Before she could finish her sentence, Luna suddenly grabbed her Emerald Pendant hanging from her chest and yanked it off with brute force, throwing it against the wall.
As soon as the jadeite touched the black Obsidian, it exploded into powder, revealing a hidden door within the badge that swung open with a thunderous roar.
Twenty-seven sandalwood boxes, adorned with moonstone, piled up like a small mountain. The lid of the topmost box was blown open, and instead of gold and silver treasures, silk pouches embroidered with violets spilled out.
Qin Si used the Yin Zhan to lift a Pearl Shawl, where the collar bore the embroidered words "To My Eternal Nightingale" in Gold Thread, now seeping with Hei Xue.
"This is Northern Territory snow silkworm silk!" Aelia exclaimed as she tore apart the Peacock Blue Shawl. Her fingertip brushed over the special Dark Purple Thread that changed color with temperature. "Last year at the Harvest Festival, he said he would give it to Aurora Lord..." The noblewoman stumbled and knocked over a wooden box, causing countless Jade Earrings and her Wedding Ring to collide and produce a crisp sound. Each piece of jewelry was engraved on the inside with the same Azure Rose Totem.
Luna suddenly coughed violently, spitting out Milk Foam that crystallized into ice in midair.
The ice crystals made sounds reminiscent of Feng Ling as they collided, piecing together Leonard embracing the Black Veil Woman in an intimate moment during Leonard's Last Night.
As the woman turned around, Aelia tore apart the invaluable Jiao Xiao Skirt—its embroidered family Dark Pattern was unmistakably a design she had created for her husband twenty years ago.
"So it turns out Aurora Lord's niece..." Aelia's crimson-dyed Ailya's White Nails dug deep into the sandalwood box, wood shavings mixed with Blood Pearl rolling onto the bed curtains embroidered with interlocking swans.
Suddenly, she grabbed a Sheepskin Scroll pressed at the bottom of the box and unfurled it. It detailed the weak points of the Magic Fortress Defense Array—written in her husband's familiar handwriting.
The entire castle let out a painful roar as blood began to flow from the eye sockets of portraits depicting past Lords in the corridor.
Luna watched as Aelia's diamond lily Hairpin suddenly exploded; shards flew through the air, forming an inverted Thorned Crown. At its center was embedded a Magic Reflection of Leonard and his Illegitimate Daughter during Luna's First Birthday Celebration.
As Aelia reached out to touch the reflection, her Wrist adorned with a Serpent-Shaped Gold Bracelet symbolizing matriarchal authority snapped in response.
Ninety-eight Magic Gems rolled across the ground, each one sealing a hoarse curse—each aimed at her three sons with malicious Poison Curse words.
"Mother!" The eldest brother, wrapped in bandages, burst through the door of the secret chamber, his Astrolabe in hand spewing forth Star Sand in a frenzy.
The silver Sandy Gravel, which should have foretold Destiny, now coalesced into arrows pointing toward Aelia's heart.
Luna suddenly recalled the tragic ending of her brother's demise in Original, letting out a heart-wrenching cry.
Aelia tore off the Snow Ferret Cloak from her shoulder and wrapped it around the Eldest Son. The Protective Magic Pattern embedded in the cloak's lining collided with the Cursed Arrow, sending sparks flying and illuminating every corner of the chamber.
In the shadows of the Southeast Corner, half of a Silk Satin embroidered with Infant Swaddling began to seep a faint yellow Milk Stain—its pattern identical to the swaddling Luna had been wrapped in when she was found.
Moonstone Shards crackled beneath Aelia's feet as she bent down to pick up a sharp piece of Prism.
When the mirror reflected her cracked visage, this Master of the Magic Castle, who had basked in glory for Twenty Years, gently removed the Pearl Crown that symbolized her marriage Oath.
Aelia's fingertips brushed over the delicate Ice Cracks on the Pearl Crown. The South Sea Pearls that once shimmered with moonlight were now crumbling in her palm.
As the last pearl fell into the Scarlet Liquid, a sudden roar echoed through the chamber as gears began to turn, causing eighteen magical lamps embedded in the walls to explode one after another.
"Mother, be careful!" The Second Brother's Silver Scale Gloves caught shards of the flying lampshade. The Contract Magic Pattern on his hand suddenly glowed with a bluish-purple hue.
The Dragon Scale Armor from the Extreme North Icefield trembled, forming a distorted Serpent Pattern—exactly like the protective Seal his dear friend had gifted him last year during Dong Lian.
Suddenly, fine snow began to swirl around Luna's swaddling, and ice crystals infused with Milk Fragrance enveloped the Cursed Arrow that was about to strike Aelia.
The infant's pupil transformed into a swirling nebula, and the surface of the frozen silver arrow shaft gradually revealed Leonard holding the Black Veil Woman's wrist, injecting a spell into the wedding ring during Leonard's Last Night.
"So that's why he kissed my ring every time..." Aelia tore off her left wedding ring and smashed it against the obsidian wall, the pigeon blood ruby shattering into two halves upon impact.
Hidden deep within the gem, a contract scroll floated down, its yellowed parchment stained with ink as her wedding vows, embroidered by her own hand years ago, began to seep ink, the tiny inscriptions twisting into the curse of the "Eternal Prison Cage."
Suddenly, her brother's wheelchair emitted a piercing screech, and star sand gushed from the astrolabe, coalescing into a vortex in the air.
When his finger, smeared with healing ointment, touched the star sand stream, those silver particles symbolizing misfortune suddenly flowed back into the instrument. "Time-Space Magic?" Purple light seeped from the festering wound beneath his bandages. "Sister is rewriting the Star Trail!"
Brother San suddenly knelt before a pile of jewelry, and the elemental crystal necklace around his neck snapped in response.
The seven-colored gemstone rolled among the jade earrings embroidered with an azure rose totem, automatically arranging itself into a cultivation array he had abandoned for ten years. "These gems... Father said they would interfere with my talent..." He grabbed a sapphire and pressed it against his heart; the deliberately misled magic circuit suddenly connected, and fingertips exploded with Bing Ling, instantly freezing five skeletal claws.
Lucius suddenly lifted the blood-soaked silk pouch with the sword tip; the unique frostwolf emblem of the Northern Territory shimmered under the light of moonstone. "Last month Father mentioned a rebellion in the Frostwolf Tribe," he tore off a tassel from his sleeve, revealing a lining embroidered with the same emblem. "It turns out it was just a pretext for meeting with a lover."
A tearing sound from cursed fabric echoed from the southeast corner of the secret chamber as half of an infant swaddling cloth flew towards Luna.
When the milk-stained silk satin touched her neck, the entire foundation of the magic castle trembled violently.
Aelia staggered to support herself against a sandalwood chest and saw an Ankeli roll out a crystal bottle from its bottom—inside was unmistakably an infant's umbilical cord floating in liquid, with Luna's birth date written in blood on the label.
"He even..." Aelia's emerald earrings suddenly exploded, sending shards flying that projected dozens of magic circle diagrams onto the wall.
Each focal point was embedded with amulets she had given her sons, now spewing black mist outward.
Luna suddenly let out a sharp Loud Cry, and the black mist coalesced into the shape of her small hand, gripping her throat tightly.
Qin Si abruptly tore open the Peacock Blue Hem, revealing the Ancient Magic Rune embroidered on the Lining.
As she pressed the blood-stained Fabric against Luna Mei Xin, the entire Obsidian Wall suddenly emerged with a Bloodline diagram.
The yellow Jin Wen road representing Leonard was wildly eroding the Silver Blue branch belonging to Aelia, with three branches belonging to her son already turning into a decayed gray-green.
"Use the Wedding Ring!" The elder brother threw the cracked Pigeon Blood Ruby into the air, and the Amethyst on the Wheelchair Armrest erupted into a whirlwind.
Aelia understood and broke the Necklace, inserting the key embedded with the Family Crest into the Ground Cracks.
When the key turned for the third time, all the sandalwood boxes suddenly stood upright as a wall, their surfaces made of moonstone forming a complete Magic Castle Three-Dimensional Map.
Luna's Pupil suddenly turned pure gold as she waved her small hand covered in Star Sand, striking the map.
The locations marked with Azure Rose Totem exploded one after another, and from each blasted Hole surged forth Magic Letters embroidered with the word "Nightingale."
Second Brother caught the falling Letterhead with Dragon Scale Gloves, and the Fire Seal on it was identical to that of the Rebellion Urgent Report he had received.
"Last year's request for help from Aurora City..." His Contract Magic Pattern suddenly burned, "Those supplies never reached the front lines!" The Silver Scale Gloves shredded the Letterhead in anger, but the falling fragments automatically reassembled into a Magic Contract—Leonard had exchanged promises of inheritance rights for his Illegitimate Daughter in return for defense plans of three border cities.
Suddenly, a loud crash echoed from outside the secret chamber as a Crystal Chandelier fell to the ground, and images of past Lords collectively wailed in the corridor.
Aelia grabbed Luna's small foot and pressed it onto the Bloodline diagram, causing the Star-Shaped Birthmark on the infant's sole to glow brightly.
The yellow path belonging to Leonard began to retreat, and the gray-green decayed branches gradually transformed back into Silver Blue.
"Madam!"
"West Corridor..." Qin Si suddenly pointed at the melting Stained Glass on the wall, where scenes depicting the Harvest Festival from Leonard's Last Night were being redrawn.
In the painting, the woman in Leonard's arms changed from Aelia to a woman in black veils, and at their feet knelt three children, each bearing a Star-Shaped Birthmark resembling Luna's.
Brother San abruptly pressed Sapphire onto the map at the location of Aurora City, instantly freezing the entire wall with Frost Magic that had been abandoned for ten years.
As the Ice Layer covered the Bloodline chart of Shan Na, everyone’s hearts simultaneously surged with a silver Blue Light—except for Leonard's Golden Light Spots, which flickered wildly at the location of the armory on the map.
Luna suddenly reached out her hands toward the Southeast Corner, and a piece of Umbilical Cord submerged in a Crystal Bottle burst forth.
As the Umbilical Cord wrapped around her wrist, the dome of the secret chamber projected a vast Star Map, with Gemini belonging to the Lord and Lady of the Fortress rapidly separating.
Aelia's bloodied fingertip traced across the Star Trail, pressing her handprint onto her own star: "In the name of glory, sever this cursed bond."
The entire castle echoed with the roar of breaking chains, and all items embroidered with the Azure Rose Totem spontaneously ignited.
Leonard's yellow path was forcibly stripped from the Bloodline chart, twisting under the starlight into a howling Eagle Head monster.
The moment the monster lunged at Luna, Amethyst on Brother's wheelchair suddenly exploded, and the swirling vortex of time and space drew the monster into the closing rift of the Star Trail.
When the last glimmer of golden light vanished, diamond fragments from Aelia's hair suddenly ascended, forming a Thorned Crown shape above everyone's heads.
In the center, slowly emerging, was the family crest she had designed herself for her wedding twenty years ago—a guardian lily entwined with the Star Trail.
Suddenly, a fierce wind carrying the scent of cedar swept through the secret chamber, heralding the arrival of Lord's Teleportation Magic.
Luna's swaddling cloth fluttered without wind, and golden threads soaked in sulfur liquid wove themselves into a net, protecting everyone within a magic barrier that exuded the fragrance of milk.
Aelia picked up a fragment of the wedding ring from the ground, allowing its sharp edge to cut into her palm.
As a drop of blood pearl fell onto the newly formed thorned crown, the stars belonging to her in the Celestial Star Map suddenly shone brightly, while Leonard's star trailed a sinister black mist as it crashed toward the most vulnerable southeast corner of the Magic Fortress Defense Array.
The coldness in the secret chamber suddenly crystallized into tangible ice, and a whirlwind infused with the scent of cedar and ice lotus broke through the dome.
Leonard's Liujin cloak was still stained with frost flowers from the Extreme North Land, and remnants of rose lipstick on his knuckles glimmered with an evil phosphorescence under the light of the Star Trail.
"I can explain..." His silver spurs scraped across the scattered moonstone shards, sparking at Aelia's feet.
As his gaze swept over half of an infant swaddling cloth, his Adam's apple rolled unnaturally. "These are all strategic materials related to Aurora City's marriage..."
The thorned crown in Aelia's hair suddenly sprouted Bing Ling, and twenty years of guardian magic stored within her emerald pendant transformed into a cold light that pierced through her husband's lies.
The ice pearl fragments of the pearl crown floated in a ring, each pearl reflecting a piece of evidence—a bellyband embroidered with nightingales, earrings engraved with black roses, and a wedding ring soaked in Hei Xue.
"Does marriage require preparing an infant's umbilical cord?" Brother San suddenly hurled a crystal bottle into the air, frost magic freezing the glass into a prism.
Inside the bottle, under multiple refractions, appeared star-shaped patterns identical to Luna's. "Last year at the Harvest Festival, you said you would go to subdue the Frostwolf Tribe..."
Leonard's defense caught in his throat as his Griffin Brooch suddenly unfurled its claws.
The Defensive Magic Pattern hidden within the walls of the secret chamber abruptly reversed, causing the barrier that once protected Aelia to contract, shredding the scattered Magic Letters into fragments.
Luna's swaddling suddenly overflowed with Milk Fragrance, and the destroyed scraps of paper began to reassemble above everyone's heads, forming a complete Projection of the Magic Contract.
"Father, be careful!" Lucius shouted as Leonard's Sword turned toward his own throat, the Frostwolf Emblem on the hilt glowing red.
The handwriting belonging to the Illegitimate Daughter within the Contract Projection was eroding his Awareness until Luna expelled a bubble wrapped in Star Sand that shattered the Projection. Each grain of Star Sand transformed into a miniature version of Aurora City's defensive map.
Aelia advanced step by step on Moonstone Shards, blood seeping from her Thorned Crown pressed against her forehead. "Last year you said you would reinforce the Southeast Corner's Defensive Formation..." She swung a fragment of her Bloodstained Wedding Ring, causing the Southeast Corner of the secret chamber to suddenly collapse, revealing three hundred frozen Corpses buried underground—all of them Silver-armored Guards who had gone missing over the past five years, each with a Poison Arrow embedded in their Hearts, adorned with an Embroidered Rose Totem.
Leonard's Teleportation Ring suddenly exploded, sending shards of gemstones slicing through his Pale Luna.
He staggered and leaned against a sandalwood chest, as the Communication Crystal hidden inside the lid activated automatically.
The Black Veil Woman's lullaby for the baby echoed through the secret chamber, its melody identical to Aelia's lullaby for her Eldest Son Anmian years ago.
"Mother, look here!" Second Brother exclaimed as his Dragon Scale Gloves ignited in flames. He endured the searing pain and tore open the Hidden Layer at the bottom of the chest.
Ankeli's row of Magic Scrying Orbs lit up simultaneously; in each Leonard's Last Night, Leonard had set up Curse Arrays in different locations—the Mist Valley where his elder brother was in danger, the Frozen Lake where Second Brother was deceived, Brother San's abandoned Cultivation Room, and even Cedar Forest where Luna had been abandoned.
Luna suddenly let out a Giggling sound as her Milk Tooth bit through her Fingertip.
A drop of Blood Pearl landed on Aelia's Thorned Crown, automatically activating the Dome's Guardian Star Chart.
The black Anstar star belonging to Leonard was pulled towards the Ground by the Star Trail. At the moment it touched the mechanism of the secret chamber, the entire Obsidian Wall suddenly flipped, revealing an even more astonishing secret—seven hundred twenty Crystal Bottles labeled with Ailya's Birthday Rune, each soaked in the tissue of infants.
"It turns out Luna wasn't the first..." Qin Si trembled as he pointed to a bottle marked "Harvest Festival Eve," inside which floated an eyeball identical to Iris and Aelia.
A foul wind suddenly swept through the secret chamber, causing the liquid in all the Crystal Bottles to boil, projecting a blood-red Genealogy on the wall—Leonard's Bloodline branches were adorned with the souls of sacrificed infants.
Aelia's Pearl Earring suddenly transformed into Liquid Metal, flowing down her neck and enveloping her body, solidifying into Silver Armor and a Battle Robe.
She swung a spear formed from Star Sand towards the Ground, causing the castle's Defensive Formation to emit a Resonance.
As the spear tip pierced through the Dome of the secret chamber, everyone saw that the Protective barrier enveloping the Magic Castle was being eroded by black mist—the patterns in that mist were identical to those on Leonard's Message Charm hidden in his sleeve.
Luna suddenly grabbed a floating Curse Letter and stuffed it into her mouth; her still-developing Milk Tooth surprisingly crushed and swallowed the Black Magic Runes.
At that moment, as a Purifying Light enveloped the infant, an earth-shattering explosion echoed from outside the Magic Castle.
Amidst the dust from the East Tower's collapse, a figure draped in a Black Cloak could be faintly seen drawing a giant magic array—beneath their feet flowed Magic Paint, which was clearly Leonard's Blood Crystal Powder hidden in the secret chamber.
Seizing the opportunity, Leonard crushed the Transmission Stone in his cuff but was pierced through his right shoulder by Aelia's Star Sand Spear as space twisted around him.
The bloodied Teleportation Magic left half of his body trapped in emptiness; a chilling cry from the Black Veil Woman echoed from the crack: "You said tonight you would make the Magic Castle change..."
"Change what?" Aelia tugged at her husband's cloak remnants that had not fully vanished; suddenly, her Fingertip Wedding Ring Fragment grew hot.
The Luna spat out by Luna perfectly enveloped that fragment of cloak. In the instant the bubble burst, everyone caught a whiff of Aurora City's unique Ice Lotus Fragrance—exactly matching that of the filth from the secret chamber.
As the last glimmer of the teleportation light faded, Qin Si suddenly pointed at Luna's swaddling cloth and exclaimed.
On the Magic Net woven from Silver Thread, a piece of black gauze had somehow stuck to it.
The baby, unaware, clenched the Fabric to gnaw on, while pure Magical Energy was peeling away the layers of the Invisibility Charm—each layer that was stripped revealed a segment of Magic Reflection depicting Leonard and Leonard's Concubine in secret conversation projected into the air.
Aelia picked up a moonstone stained with Sulfur liquid and engraved a new Family Crest onto the Star Sand Spear.
She turned to her three sons, Midnight. Suddenly, all the Infant Spirit Crystal Bottles in the chamber collectively turned towards Luna. The Bottles gradually became transparent in response to the baby's Yiya Sound—seven hundred and twenty souls that had been Sacrificed knelt in reverence to Luna, who could purify Black Magic, through the crystal.
"Before dawn," Aelia's Silver Armor and Battle Robe absorbed the energy from the moonstone, "I need to know every memory of each Zhuan Shi in the castle." Her Wedding Ring Fragment suddenly flew towards Luna, and at the moment it touched the baby's forehead, the Defensive Formation of the Magic Castle emitted Qingyue Mingxiang—a weak point in the Southeast Corner automatically repaired by one-tenth, precisely corresponding to all Fate Trajectories altered since Luna's arrival.
Luna gazed at the flickering strange runes amidst the ruins of the East Tower. From an angle unseen by others, she discreetly moistened a section of the swaddling cloth with her saliva.
That Gold Thread, after absorbing her blood, began weaving a miniature map of Aurora City—the very distribution of forces during the coup led by the Black Veil Woman in the Original.
Comment 0 Comment Count