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The ice spikes in the Ice Cave Dome fell with a soft thud, exploding into sharp shards of ice at Leonard's feet.
He staggered, gripping the edge of the Ice Coffin, his fingertip sliced by a fragment of Wedding Ring, leaving a winding trail of blood. Yet, when he reached out to touch Aelia's pale face, his hand recoiled as if shocked.
"Those poisonous spores..." The fresh bite mark on the man's neck oozed dark red blood, burned into wisps of green smoke by the Gold Thread. "Back then, when you said you would handle the stains on my collar yourself, I thought..." Suddenly, Leonard's Sword emitted a sharp crack like tearing silk, and the moonstone symbolizing their engagement shattered completely at the hilt, sending splintered shards that cut into his trembling lips.
Luna lay on the Ice Coffin, gazing at their mother’s fluttering eyelashes, her bloodied palm pressed against Aelia's heart-shaped ice crystal totem of Resonance.
Eighteen Contracted Longswords hovered in a lethal formation within the dome, their blades reflecting Leonard's gradually dissipating snake scale pattern—a testament to the bloodline oath between the Glorious Demon Fortress's Lineage Head and its matron.
"Father, why not take a guess?" The infant used a scepter to lift the man's cascading silver hair, pressing the blood-stained tips against the surface of the Ice Coffin. "When the Red-Haired Witch's Heart-Eating Gu Insect burrows into your heart, why would Mother choose to freeze herself rather than lose the Magic Fortress Barrier?"
Leonard suddenly knelt before the Ice Coffin, his sword slipping from his grasp and trailing a stream of dark red droplets.
Those blood pearls formed into eighteen crimson stars in midair, perfectly aligning with each sword's mouth in the formation.
As he attempted to grasp Aelia's dangling wrist, a burst of blue light from the Ice Coffin sent him flying against the stone wall.
"Punishment!
It must be punishment!" The man's bloodied silver robe billowed like a dying butterfly in Han Qi as he staggered toward the exit of the Ice Cave. The bite mark on his collarbone was rapidly proliferating black lines. "I will hang those filthy traitors in the Thorned Corridor..."
The Dome Crystal Lamp in the Magic Castle Hall suddenly exploded.
Leonard's hoarse declaration echoed throughout the Land of Glory via a magical amplification array. Qin Si, wiping down a colored window, trembled as a rose vine entwined around Liujin's lattice burst forth with thorny crimson flowers.
As the Twelve Elders crushed the Teleportation Circle and appeared, they witnessed their frenzied Lord dragging Leonard's Concubine and their son to the Stargazing Platform.
The curse of the Red-Haired Witch came to an abrupt halt—her meticulously maintained Ailya's White Nails turned to ash the moment they touched Leonard's sleeve, and a crystal totem resembling Luna suddenly emerged from the forehead of the illegitimate child in her arms.
"Aelia, look!" Leonard exclaimed, gripping the struggling boy by the collar. The fragments of the Bloodstained Wedding Ring reflected an eerie Zi Mang in the sunlight. "As long as we cleanse the filth with the fire of repentance, our child can..."
"My Lord, you seem to be mistaken." Aelia's voice echoed from the sound array formed by the ice crystals. The Broken Diamond on her ring finger flared with Azure Blue Flame with each word. "The moment you allowed the toxic Spore to erode the barrier, the Contracted Sword severed all 'us'."
Luna was perched on Qin Si's shoulder, nibbling on a Magic Cookie, watching as Leonard's boy transformed into a Bloodvine.
As the Elders activated the Binding Array, the infant suddenly flung Moonlight Crumbs into the air.
Those fragments morphed into Ice Butterflies that darted toward the Stargazing Platform, precisely snatching away the wriggling Gu Worm from the Red-Haired Witch's ear.
"Mother said she would bake Cranberry Scones tonight." Luna poked at Qin Si's neck, where a Rose Birthmark lay, with her jam-covered finger, watching as smoke rose from the kitchen and suddenly turned Ice Blue. "Shouldn't Brother San go to the Cellar for some aged Blueberry Wine?"
In the shadows, Lucius crushed an Ice Spike in his palm.
His amber pupils reflected Leonard forcefully pressing the Family Crest Seal onto his illegitimate child Mei Xin's forehead. The splattered seal ink twisted across the snow like blood, gradually outlining the final rune before the Magic Contract failed.
Lucius's fingertip shards of Ice Spike fell softly onto the snow, mixing with the winding blood-red seal ink into a mottled stain.
He stared at Leonard pressing the Family Crest Seal against the child's forehead—the silver emblem edged with turquoise that once belonged to Mother now oozed an eerie dark green Blue Blood Fern Juice.
"I refuse."
The voice of the boy wrapped in Frost Snow startled the child in the Red-Haired Witch's arms, causing him to burp.
Lucius descended the ice-crystal steps of the Stargazing Platform, a swirling blue light in his amber eyes reminiscent of the Ice Coffin. "You haven't forgotten, have you?" He raised his left hand, revealing the Crescent Scar at the base of his pinky, which suddenly emerged in an intricate Ice Crystal Pattern. "Three years ago, on the night I awakened my Ice Affinity, you personally branded me with this Family Crest's Sealing Spell."
Leonard's cuff, threaded with gold, suddenly ignited, scorching the still-damp seal on the illegitimate child's forehead.
The onlooking Elders gasped—finally realizing that what writhed beneath the boy's Luna was none other than the Heart-Eating Gu Insect's tentacles, raised by the Red-Haired Witch.
"Third Young Master, watch your words!" The Third Elder's Serpent Staff slammed into the ground but froze upon touching Lucius's shadow. "My Lord, it was to suppress your rampage..."
"To prevent me from crashing your secret meeting with the Apothecary in the Library of Hidden Books, wasn't it?" Lucius suddenly tore open his collar, revealing a grotesque burn scar on his collarbone that mirrored Leonard's bite mark on his neck.
Ice crystals spread from beneath his feet, freezing the hems of the Twelve Elders' robes in the residual Scorch Mark of the Teleportation Circle.
Qin Si's neck bore a Rose Birthmark that suddenly bloomed, thorny vines wrapping around a Magic Carpet as it soared through the air.
A maid scooped up Luna and leaped onto the Flying Carpet, casually stuffing a steaming Scone into Lucius's trembling palm. "Some people probably can't even remember where the Blueberry Wine Cellar is—after all, last time they snuck a drink from the vintage, a Frost Elf yanked half their eyebrow off."
Amidst the crowd's erupting chuckles, Leonard's punitive chains suddenly shifted direction.
As the chain's venomous fangs neared Lucius's throat by mere inches, eighteen Contracted Longswords whistled through the air from the direction of the Ice Coffin, pinning the serpent to the damaged Celestial Chart on the Stargazing Platform.
"Father can certainly regenerate." Luna pressed her finger, smeared with blueberry jam, against the edge of the Flying Carpet’s Defensive Formation. Instantly, the entire Flying Carpet was enveloped in Aelia's Ice Crystal Barrier. "After all, it wasn't just any new Red-Haired maid who prepared your Agave Detox Soup last month."
Leonard staggered back a step as tiny Ice Blue Vines burst forth from his palm where a fragment of his Wedding Ring had cut him.
These vines wrapped around his wrist with frenzied intensity, shredding apart the Si Pa that Aelia had personally tied for him years ago—the very Si Pa that contained a recipe written in moonlight ink for dispelling toxic Spores.
"Do you want to know why Leonard's Concubine hasn't given birth to a second child in ten years?" Aelia's voice echoed through the Ice Cellar, shattering the Magic Potion Bottle hanging from Leonard's Waist. "Why not ask your lover about the Snow Mountain Mandala that was added to my An Tai Yao back then? Whose blood was mixed in as the catalyst?"
The Red-Haired Witch suddenly let out a shrill laugh, reminiscent of a dying Night Owl, as her charred fingers pointed at Leonard's Heart. "Hasn't the esteemed Lord noticed? Every time after your entanglements, the Curse Mark of your heir emerges at the nape of your neck..." She was abruptly choked by a Gu Worm that burst forth from her Ear, as Ice Butterflies transformed into Broken Diamonds, piercing into her uterus along her Blood Vessel.
Lucius tore off a Tassel from the edge of the Flying Carpet, and as it fell to the ground, it expanded into a Frostwolf.
The boy sat astride the giant wolf, looking down at Leonard. "Mother's last words before she was frozen were for me to check the sixth bottle of Blueberry Wine on the third row of the Cellar every day—there are still 119 unopened bottles left."
This number made the Elder's white beard tremble violently.
The number 119 corresponded to the days Aelia had guarded the barrier alone while pregnant.
Qin Si suddenly spat a rose seed towards Leonard. The seed exploded mid-air into thorny fireworks. "Third Young Master, you better hurry; if Frostwolf steps on something dirty, it will get toe inflammation!" The Flying Carpet soared with Shan Na, and a piece of scone crumb ejected from Luna in her arms, precisely shattering the hidden Magic Potion pouch on the illegitimate child's Waist.
Leonard stood frozen in the melting Ice Crystal Formation, watching as the Red-Haired Witch was bound into a cocoon by the Elders with anti-magic chains.
His blood-stained silver hair visibly faded to gray, and he realized that the Wedding Ring Fragment had embedded itself into his knuckles, staining the disintegrating Snake Scale Pattern with an ominous Purple-Black hue.
As the last Elder activated the Teleportation Circle to leave, Lord suddenly raised his hand and conjured an Ice Blade, slicing off the rotting Family Crest Mark from the boy's forehead along with skin and flesh.
The boy's scream startled a Deathbird resting in the Magic Castle Spire. Its dark Wings swept past the kitchen chimney, tearing apart the Ice Blue smoke into what resembled flames of confession.
"Prepare the torture chamber." Leonard wiped away blood and flesh debris splattered on his lips, his bloodied Boot Sole crushing the Family Crest Seal smeared with brain matter. "Take down the seventh Pillar of Thorned Corridor and forge iron chains strong enough to bind a dragon."
Behind him, the Teleportation Circle gradually closed, and the severed tongue of the Red-Haired Witch began to twitch violently, scorching a dark Curse into the surface of the anti-magic chains.
Those Curse twisted together to form a long-buried royal secret, concerning the disappearance of a princess Twenty Years Ago and its hidden connection to the Forbidden Grounds of the Demon Fortress, deep within the Ice Coffin.
At this moment, deep in the Cellar, the frost on the surface of the 119th bottle of Blueberry Wine was quietly melting, and the fruit pulp floating in the Wine Liquid gradually coalesced into the outline of Aelia’s Lucius.
Blood seeped from the Family Crest on the cork of the Wine Bottle, dripping onto the Sheepskin Scroll that Lucius had hidden behind the Wine Rack three years ago—on it was written in Invisible Ink the true Bloodline inheritance Curse.
Ice Frost Thorn grew wildly along the Bronze Portico of the Glorious Demon Fortress, and the clanking sound of Leonard dragging chains startled a Deathbird resting in the tower's Castle Spire.
The Curse of the Red-Haired Witch, entwined with a stench of blood, surged through the Emerald Corridor, while the illegitimate child’s Wrist produced a Blood Pearl, which fell to the ground and unexpectedly bloomed into an eerie Black Mandrake.
“Lord, the melting point of the seventh Pillar’s Mithril…” Before the words of the Chief Guard could finish, he was thrown down onto the icy steps by a whirlwind of fury.
The bloodstained Silver Boots of Leonard crushed over the cloak of the Chief Guard, named Ailya, while black slime, resembling asphalt, suddenly oozed from the eye sockets of portraits depicting past Lords, corroding their gemmed medals of honor into a mottled mess.
The smoke rising from the kitchen chimney twisted into a skull shape, and Luna, who had sneaked out on her Magic Broomstick, brightened her eyes.
The chubby baby’s palm slapped against the moonstone embedded in the broomstick handle, causing its bristles to explode into colorful fireworks as she joyfully rushed towards the watchtower along the castle's exterior, singing “Yi Ya”.
“Punishment!
Punishment!” Luna intentionally mimicked Leonard’s roar with an amplification spell, her baby voice shattering the carefully nurtured Frost Rose cultivated by a nearby florist.
She hopped down from the front end of her broomstick and scattered her hidden stash of Magic Cookie, which crumbled into colorful flyers upon hitting the bustling ground of Emerald Avenue. These fragments transformed into vibrant pamphlets that vividly reenacted scenes from a farcical play at the Stargazing Platform.
The Old Blacksmith, while nailing horseshoes onto the Unicorn, accidentally struck his own Deerskin Boots, which were adorned with numerous patches.
On the second floor of the tavern, a Bard opened the window and was met with a face full of Gold Dust from the flying magical flyers.
The Black Market Merchant's Pupil shrank back in surprise, hurriedly stuffing a sign that read "Cursed Heirloom Antidote" into his Space Ring.
"Three silver coins for a bet on the Lady of the Fortress appearing tonight!"
"I wager that the Red-Haired Witch can summon the Blood Moon!"
"Get the latest Snake Scale Neck Guard—buy two, get one free!"
Amidst the rising clamor, Luna soared past the Alchemist Guild and Castle Spire on her broom, casually snatching down a magical Magic Banner that hung from the Wind Vane.
The Celebration Banner, emblazoned with Leonard's Portrait, was crumpled into a ball by her and accurately thrown at a Magic Fireworks merchant who was counting his goods—exploding into a shower of Gold Dust that revealed Lucius before Aelia, frozen in time, causing the Prophecy Koi in the Fountain Pool to leap out of the water collectively.
"Mom, look! Ice Butterflies!" exclaimed a little girl with horned braids, pointing at the sky above the Bakery.
The Moonlight Crumbs that Luna had flung away last night transformed into translucent Ice Crystal Butterflies, weaving through the drying sheets and projecting images of Leonard and Lucius entangled with the Red-Haired Witch onto the Colored Window of City Hall.
A merchant caravan preparing to leave the city hurriedly turned their Earth Dragon Carriage around, causing the Exorcism Bell hanging from Che Yuan to ring loudly.
A group of Apprentice Mages sneaked out of their classroom and crowded around the Teleportation Circle, using Transfiguration to disguise their textbooks as high-priced hand-copied editions of "Magic Castle Secret History."
Even the Water Fairy in the Moat surfaced, her hair dyed a rose red like Qin Si's, styled into the latest trendy braids.
"Make way! Make way!" Luna rode her broomstick, weaving through two Diviners who were locked in a fierce argument. Their crystal balls simultaneously reflected the collapse of the seventh Pillar in the Thorned Corridor, marking Leonard's Last Night.
Suddenly, the jar of blueberry jam hidden in the infant's pocket exploded, sending a purplish-red liquid into the air, forming a giant Blood Arrow pointing towards the Withered Bone Wasteland, where Leonard was preparing to execute his sentence.
In the center of the market, the Magic Fountain began to flow backward, and all twelve Elder statues turned their Eyes toward the castle.
On the fishmonger’s counter, struggling silver salmon flipped their scales upward, piecing together the Taboo Rune on Aelia's Ice Coffin.
A woman about to buy a birthday cake for her daughter suddenly found her cream frosting automatically reshaping into the form of a Heart-Eating Gu Insect.
Seizing the opportunity, Luna crushed the last half of a Scone into powder and charged into the Bells Ringer's lounge atop her broomstick.
The elderly Bells Ringer snored thunderously, while a magical Pocket Watch Chain was being tied by the infant to the bell hammer.
As the hour and minute hands overlapped at dusk on Shan Na, the long-silent Death Knell rang out with an icy crystal whirlwind that echoed through the skies.
"Damn it!" Leonard, who was adjusting the Binding Array, suddenly looked up; a Wedding Ring Fragment burned a Scorch Mark into his Palm.
Peering through the castle's Crystal Prism, he saw countless Magic Lanterns spreading like a plague across the horizon at the edge of Withered Bone Wasteland.
Within those warm yellow Light Spots, he could faintly see Luna's folded Cursed Paper Crane dancing gracefully.
The laughter of a baby girl, akin to that of Yin Ling, suddenly erupted from the conch shell: "Father, everyone has prepared a fireworks show for you!" Leonard crushed the shell fragments, slicing his fingertip, and as the Blood Pearl fell to the ground, it transformed into a frost-covered flyer, with the words "50% off on the best viewing seats" scrawled in jam.
As twilight completely swallowed the last glimmer of daylight, the iron chains of the moat's drawbridge suddenly burst forth with Azure Blue Flame.
The onlookers holding telescopes held their breath as they watched eighteen Ice Crystal Giant Swords slowly rise above the Withered Bone Wasteland—this was the Projection of the Contracted Sword, faintly visible among the clouds.
Frost Thorn spread across the Withered Bone Wasteland, sprouting sharp Ice Spikes. Leonard's Silver Boots crunched over frozen pools of blood, and the sound of dragging chains startled a circling Deathbird.
The Red-Haired Witch was hung upside down on the seventh Pillar forged from Xing Jia. As the Secret Silver Chain seared into her charred skin, waves of Qing Yan rose.
"Does Father want to carve out a second piece?" The illegitimate son suddenly tilted his neck back, and Azure Blood oozed from the rotting wound on his forehead.
When those Blood Pearls fell onto the Ice Surface, they crystallized into totems resembling Aelia's Heart. "You swore a Blood Oath in the Moonlight Sanctuary—any offspring bearing the mark of the Glorious Demon Fortress shall be protected by our ancestors' frost."
Leonard's Palm's punishment Ice Blade abruptly halted.
The Red-Haired Witch on Xing Jia suddenly let out a wind-like shriek; her charred Toes hooked onto the chain as she swayed: "Good son, quickly show Lord your nape..."
"Enough!" The Third Elder's Serpent Staff struck heavily against the ground, and the moonstone embedded in its Staff Tip erupted with a silence spell.
The Red-Haired Witch's tongue instantly froze into a lump of ice, yet she continued to glare at Lucius in the crowd with her bloodshot eyes.
A sharp pain suddenly pierced through the Rose Birthmark on young Neck—it was precisely three years ago when he stumbled upon secrets in the Library of Hidden Books and bore Leonard's Wedding Ring Ailina's Burn mark.
The Binding Array formed by the Twelve Elders suddenly trembled; the Grand Elder's white beard was sliced off halfway by rebounding ice crystals.
The fragments of the shattered chains floated in the air, piecing together the patterns of the Magic Contract before it failed, revealing the Celestial Chart.
Luna's Magic Broomstick suddenly lost control and dove downwards. The jar of blueberry jam hidden in the infant's pocket exploded, splattering its contents in the center of the Execution Ground, outlining the shape of Aelia's Ice Coffin.
"Lord, think twice!" The Elder Five's Emerald Earrings suddenly burst, scattering shards that transformed into Glowing Butterflies, darting towards Xing Jia. "If the Mother Body of the Heart-Eating Gu Insect dies, all its hosts will..." Before the words could finish, the Red-Haired Witch's charred body cracked open, and hundreds of Ice Blue Gu Worms erupted from within, charging straight at the front row of onlookers, particularly targeting the Apothecary.
In the chaos of Qian Jiao erupting from the crowd, Luna flicked the last half of a Scone into the air.
The crumbs morphed into an Ice Butterfly Swarm that precisely intercepted the Gu Worms. Each Ice Butterfly's Wings emerged from the Broken Diamond pattern on Aelia's ring finger.
The illegitimate child suddenly tore open his clothing; a Crescent Scar resembling Lucius’s was frantically absorbing energy from the Ice Butterflies.
"The Twinborn Pact left by Mother was not meant for you to squander like this." Lucius’s palm suddenly exploded with an old Blueberry Wine Bottle, and 119 Ice Crystal Wine Stoppers floated into a Sealing Array.
The boy leaped onto the execution platform atop a Frostwolf. In the violent Wind and Snow stirred by its claws, a Starry Birthmark gradually appeared on the illegitimate child's nape, identical to that of the Heir from the Magic Castle.
Leonard's Wedding Ring Fragment suddenly embedded itself into his palm bone, causing excruciating pain that made him stagger into Xing Jia.
The Red-Haired Witch's frozen body collapsed with a thud, her charred fingers pointing towards the Castle Spire—where an image of the First Generation Fortress Master hanging there spontaneously ignited. From within the flames emerged Aelia’s Ice Coffin adorned with a Taboo Rune.
"Father, do you recognize this?" The illegitimate child bit his fingertip, smearing Azure Blood across his rotting forehead.
The blood seeped into Shan Na’s wound as the Contracted Longsword suspended above the Execution Ground let out a mournful cry. The Moonstone at its hilt resonated with Luna’s Scepter.
The Grand Elder's pupil suddenly constricted.
His Dragonbone Staff flew uncontrollably towards the illegitimate child, the Staff Tip embedded with the First Patriarch's finger bone radiating an eerie red light.
The ground of the Withered Bone Wasteland suddenly cracked open with icy fissures, and eighteen frost-covered Ancestors' coffins emerged from the earth. The Family Crest on the Coffin Lid perfectly matched the decaying mark on the illegitimate child's forehead.
Luna suddenly let out a laugh like that of a Yin Ling, her jam-covered fingers pointing at the sound array's focal point. "Brother San, look! The 119th bottle of Blueberry Wine in the Cellar is glowing!" Lucius's neck, marked by a Rose Birthmark, suddenly felt burning hot, and the wine cork in the Sealing Array transformed into an ice spike, pinning the illegitimate child to the altar formed by the Ancestors' coffins.
Azure Blood spilled from the corner of his mouth and suddenly ignited, emerging from the Dark Purple Flame was a scroll related to the royal disappearance case from twenty years ago—Residual Shadow.
His bloodied fingertip gently tapped against the edge of the coffin, each knock causing the Frost Roses in the direction of the castle to collectively turn towards the Withered Bone Wasteland.
When the final knock fell, the First Patriarch's finger bone abruptly broke free from the staff and landed steadily on the decaying forehead of the illegitimate child.
From within the icy fissures, Han Wu suddenly coalesced into Aelia's Xu Ying. The Broken Diamond on her ring finger emitted a Blue Light that resonated with the Crescent Scar on the illegitimate child's heart.
All magical creatures on the Execution Ground simultaneously let out mournful cries. Amidst the wails of the Contracted Longsword, the coffin of the First Generation Fortress Master slowly opened—when Aelia's Skirt Hem brushed past the Stone Steps in the courtyard, I was being held by Qin Si beneath the Magic Rose Arbor.
The retina of a three-year-old reflected a sky full of Liu Ying-like Magic Particles. Those invisible Energy Veins intertwined above the castle, violently vibrating due to someone's arrival.
"Madam, Lord is waiting for you in the study." The Thorn Emblem on the Captain of the Guard's armor glowed red, a sign of magical agitation.
My small hand suddenly grasped Qin Si's Moonstone Pendant at his chest, emerald-colored magic seeping through my fingertip into the Underground.
The Invisibility Array drawn with saliva three days ago glimmered faintly between cobblestones—good, this improved version of the Thorn Guardian Array was sufficient to withstand three Mage-level attacks.
As Aelia leaned down to kiss my forehead, I caught a whiff of sandalwood mixed with a bitter Agave juice scent from her hair.
She was drinking a Calming Potion, and the realization sent a chill through my heart.
In the original story, after this meeting, she would be trapped in the Confession Room by Leonard for a full seven days using a Binding Spell.
“Luna, be good.” Her rose-gray eyes were misty, yet as she turned, Shan Na transformed into ice crystals.
As the Gilded Hem swept across the porch, twenty-seven Defensive Magic Patterns lit up in the shadows. I had tricked the maid into coming with a Loud Cry in the middle of the night and drawn the Guardian Charm on the Wall Tile with Milk Stain.
A Magic Shockwave suddenly erupted from the castle's West Side, and I squinted my eyes.
Through the baby's Chaos Vision, I caught a glimpse of Lucius with his Dark Red hair flashing past at the end of the Emerald Corridor.
This illegitimate son who poisoned the Three Brothers in the original work should currently be preparing for a Blood Sacrifice Ritual in the Cellar.
“Why is Third Young Master Lucius heading to the Punishment Zone?” Qin Si suddenly tightened her grip on me and took a step back.
Faint sounds of dragging chains could be heard from outside the courtyard, and the Devouring Vines on the eighteen Punishment Pillars stirred without wind, their dark purple Buds blooming all at once.
I bit my Tongue and spat Xue Mo onto the Moonstone.
As the Emerald Radiance surged, a roar from Lord Leonard echoed from the tower: “Bring that wretched woman up here!”
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