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Aelia's Peacock Blue Hem swept over the ice-crystal steps, as the melting snow rose into a light purple mist in the morning light.
Qin Si hurriedly followed, cradling the swaddled baby. Luna's small hand slipped out from the Yun Jin Qiang Bao, her chubby fingertip catching onto Aelia's Star Moon Necklace.
"Madam, be careful!" Qin Si rushed to pry the baby's hand away, only to see the crescent-shaped silver pendant suddenly glow with a greenish light.
The Star Emblem around Luna's neck and the necklace's Resonant Tremor caused the burn marks on Aelia's nape to fade by a third of their blood-red hue.
The crystal chandelier cast mottled light and shadow across the dome, illuminating the incomplete Thorned Totem above the chamber door.
Aelia locked the door with three layers of Magic Restriction. As the silver lock inlaid with Starfall Stone clicked shut, Luna pressed her milk-stained Luna against Aelia's collarbone.
There lay an old scar that wound down to her chest, a mark left by Leonard's hand seventeen years ago.
"When the council sent over the Marriage Contract back then, it was made from parchment with the same pattern." Aelia's fingertip brushed over Luna's sparse golden hair. The baby's light gold eyelashes fluttered twice before she suddenly grasped Aelia's pinky finger.
The Memory Crystal within the Malachite Ring was triggered, projecting a yellowed image of Leonard's Last Night into the air.
In Leonard's Last Night, twenty-three-year-old Aelia was still wrapped in a novice priestess’s white robe, while Leonard knelt on one knee in Moonlight Forest, holding a Frost Rose.
Behind him, shadows of the Elder of the Council drifted among the treetops, with the Contract Parchment hidden within the rose petals glowing with azure phosphorescence.
"He said he would take me to see the Aurora Sea Dragon lay its eggs." Aelia's voice was as sharp as an Ice Shard; her wrist silver chain twisted into her palm, leaving bloodstains. "But he pierced my Spirit Core with an ice spear in Stormy Strait—just to let the council control the Magic Castle's Tidal Mine."
Suddenly, Luna emitted an urgent Yiya sound, and her Star Emblem shone brightly like a candle flame.
The memory frame suddenly twisted, revealing a scene where Leonard was in a secret conversation with the Gray Robed Man. The Elder of the Council's withered fingers pressed against the parchment, perfectly aligned with the tooth mark and the fragment of the burning contract from that morning.
Qin Si accidentally knocked over a vial, and the brown liquid seeped into the carpet, forming a serpent pattern. "So, the lady's miscarriage back then... was actually due to the Twinborn?"
Outside, the Defensive Barrier trembled violently as Third Young Master Lucius's Transmission Bell crashed against the colored glazed window, sparking flames.
Aelia lifted Luna to her eye level, and within the infant's light gray pupils flickered an unsettling sharpness not typical of a child.
"When the council took your sister with the Soul Devouring Curse, I held her cold swaddling for seven days and nights at Yue Shi Quan." Aelia's necklace suddenly snapped, and the silver pendant clattered onto Luna's swaddling. "Until a prophecy emerged from the depths of the spring—seventeen years later, the Breaker will return with Xingyue."
Luna kicked off her swaddling embroidered with ice crystal flowers, revealing pink feet marked with Yue Shi Quan's unique hexagram birthmark.
Amidst Qin Si's sharp intake of breath, the baby suddenly reached out and grasped Aelia's blood-stained pinky finger, mumbling two broken syllables: "Ma... Ma..."
The third tremor of the Defensive Barrier sent residual magic toppling over a bronze candlestick, melting wax pooling on the ground to form a council emblem.
Aelia held Luna tightly against her chest as a star emblem on the baby's neck projected a three-dimensional star map. Seventeen main stars approached the weak point of the Magic Fortress Barrier at an eerie angle.
"Three hours later..." Aelia's Morning Star Robe fluttered without wind, and celestial charts along the palace walls lit up one after another. "I will make those pests watch—" She bit her fingertip and drew blood-red runes on Luna's forehead. The baby's loud cry transformed into Qing Yue Luna. "They will witness how the true master of the stars crushes their conspiracy."
Luna's golden hair grew wildly into a silver cascade within the energy vortex. When she bit Aelia’s bloodied fingertip with her newborn milk tooth, a distant roar echoed from beneath the Magic Castle—the awakening of an ancient dragon vein.
The baby's blood-stained lips brushed against her mother's ear, whispering an ancient spell infused with milk fragrance—the final forbidden technique that Great Mage Lucia had perished before in time-space turbulence.
The ice crystal lattice of the window trembled, shaking loose spider web-like ice cracks, as Luna's silvery hair swept across Aelia's blood-stained Morning Star Robe.
Suddenly, the delicate fingers of the infant glimmered with a pearlescent halo, drawing concentric curse marks on Aelia's palm. The restless dragon vein deep within the Magic Castle gradually calmed.
"Mommy." Luna gently nibbled on Aelia's pinky with her newborn milk tooth, her voice wrapped in the unique resonant tremor of a Great Mage.
The fragments of memory crystals floating in the air suddenly reassembled, reflecting the scene from the original book where the Three Brothers lay in a pool of blood during Leonard's Last Night: "The council plans to launch a full-scale attack during the Aurora Festival, but the Brothers..."
Aelia's peacock blue skirt fluttered without wind, and silver chains from her wrist intertwined with the bloodstains on her palm.
As the defensive barrier outside shook for the seventh time, Third Young Master Lucius's transmission bell suddenly shattered, bronze fragments coalescing in midair into the grinning face of an Elder of the Council.
"Your brother is forcibly merging Ice and Fire Dual System Magic in the elemental furnace; now his right side is covered in backlash patterns." Aelia's fingertip brushed against Luna's blood-red runes, and instantly, the infant's pupils reflected Leonard's Last Night from the furnace monitoring crystal—where a young man in a wheelchair was using a dagger to carve away the rotting magical meridians on his leg.
Luna suddenly grasped Aelia's Star Moon Necklace, and the silver pendant traced out a prophetic track in the void.
Droplets of saliva from the infant, infused with dragon vein essence, fell to the ground, instantly sprouting into a sand table model entwined with ice crystal vines: "Elder Brother needs Scale Powder from the Moonlight Butterfly to harmonize elements; tonight at midnight, let Second Brother go to Yue Shi Quan..."
Before she could finish her sentence, a scene suddenly emerged from the sand table where Second Brother was pushed into a magic trap by his close friend.
The star pattern on Aelia Morningstar's robe dimmed abruptly; it was a sign that the high-level protective spell she had embroidered herself years ago was losing its effectiveness.
"Second Brother's close friend is a dark stake planted by the council." Luna's chubby palm slapped against the edge of the sand table, causing the ice crystal vines to suddenly grow wildly and consume the illusion of the trap. "Let Sister Qian Si deliver him Holy Thornfruit during evening prayers—when that person catches a whiff of Thorn’s scent, he will reveal his true form as Serpent Scale."
The Dome Crystal Lamp suddenly projected a blood-red beam, illuminating Brother San, who was despondently drinking in the Library of Hidden Books during Leonard's Last Night.
Scattered at the youth's feet were the council's forged Magic Pattern Compendium, the altered cultivation diagrams gnawing at his Magical Talent.
"Brother San's star sense has been distorted by the council using a Mirror Spell," Luna suddenly bit her Tongue, spraying bloodied Saliva into the air.
The Blood Pearl, enhanced by magic, transformed into seventeen Prisms, refracting the Magic Trajectory of the meteor that Brother San was meant to awaken: "Brothers need to simultaneously touch Yue Shi Quan, Furnace Core, and Celestial Map of the Library—"
The Magic Castle suddenly tilted violently, and a Roar echoed from the Underground as the Ice Layer shattered.
The Star Emblem on Luna's neck projected a three-dimensional Star Map; the Council Main Star was already approaching the weakest point of the barrier at the Northwest Corner.
Aelia's bloodied Fingertip suddenly pressed down on baby Mei Xin, and the Morning Star Robe lit up with a Guardian Array Pattern that hadn't appeared in a thousand years.
"The Starfall Stone I buried twenty years ago is due to see the light of day again." Aelia tore off her Neck necklace, and the Malachite Ring cracked open to reveal a miniature secret compartment.
A Sheepskin Scroll exuding the aura of Tidal Mine unfurled in the void. When Luna saw the blood fingerprint of an Elder of the Council on the edge of the scroll, her Light Gray Pupils dilated sharply—that was precisely the key evidence missing from the original book's final battle.
Qin Si stumbled through the door, holding an ice crystal tray; within it, an Aurora Festival Invitation sent by the council was spontaneously igniting.
Aelia stuffed the secret compartment into Luna's Swaddling Hidden Layer, her bloodied lips pressing against the baby's ear: "The truth I hid when I opened up the Spirit Core back then..."
A screech pierced through the Outer Wall of the Magic Castle as ice spikes shot through the air, and seventeen Main Stars collided with purple cracks on the surface of the barrier.
Luna's silver hair suddenly wrapped around Aelia's wrist, and with her newborn teeth, the baby bit into her mother's palm, leaving the Star Moon Seal—a top-secret oral seal of inheritance among the Great Mages.
Aelia Morningstar's robe's dark bag suddenly stirred, and half of a Council Emblem stained with Dragon Blood floated out on its own.
When this token, torn from Leonard's Concubine seventeen years ago, resonated with the hidden box, Luna saw a flash of determination in her mother's eyes, akin to jade and stone burning together—an unprecedented Hidden Killing Move unique to Aelia that was never recorded in the original text.
Aelia's fingertip lingered momentarily at the hidden layer of Luna's swaddling, and the unique briny scent of the Tidal Mine suddenly filled the room.
She pressed three Ice Crystal Seal Starfall Stones against the baby's palm. The sharply defined crystals transformed into liquid upon touching the Star Emblem, seeping into the whirlpool of golden hair.
"The invitation to the Aurora Festival hides a Tracking Spell." Aelia wrapped her daughter in her blood-stained Morning Star Robe, where peacock blue cloth bore emerging golden magic patterns. "The council has buried a Soul Nail in the Magic Fortress Leyline over seventeen years; tonight's position is Zi Shi Yue Shi..."
Luna suddenly giggled, her chubby little hand grasping at her mother's cascading silver hair.
In the baby's light gray pupils appeared a crescent halo, and the magically reinforced swaddling suddenly shot out Xing Mang, forming a three-dimensional diagram of the Magic Castle in mid-air—seventeen flickering red nodes were converging at the northwest barrier.
"Look, Mama." Luna bit through her milk tooth, and a drop of blood landed precisely in the central control room of the three-dimensional diagram.
When the blood drop resonated with Aelia's palm's Starfall Stone, the Underground Dragon Vein let out a deafening roar, causing all of the castle's Ice Crystal Windows to illuminate with Defensive Runes.
Aelia's trembling fingertip brushed over the baby's head; those silvery cascades of hair suddenly curled back into golden locks.
She pressed her lips against Luna's Mei Xin marked with blood-red runes and tasted the sulfur smell of awakening Dragon Vein: "Years ago, your sister's swaddling was stuffed with Bone-Eating Insect Eggs."
The light spot cast by the crystal lamp suddenly twisted into the shape of a clock, indicating that there were six hours and thirteen minutes left until the Aurora Festival.
Luna suddenly turned over and grabbed Aelia's Malachite Ring, reciting an ancient lullaby not recorded in the original book in a baby voice: "The Moonstone hangs upside down, the Dragon Vein hides its mysteries at seven inches..."
Just as Qin Si entered with a Magic Potion, he caught sight of the baby pressing her drool-covered face against her mother's neck.
The old scars that wound down to her chest, illuminated by Xing Mang, surprisingly sprouted tiny Ice Crystal Buds.
"Luna wants to help her brothers make Starlight Candy!" The little infant suddenly waved her Starfall Crystal, tears still glistening on her light gold eyelashes.
Her chubby feet kicked off the swaddling cloth, and in the light and shadow cast by her Hexagram Birthmark, the Fate Line of the Three Brothers, which should have been shattered, was being rewoven by a Silver Thread.
Aelia let out a choked sob, burying her face in her daughter's swaddling that carried the scent of milk.
The tenderness that had been frozen for seventeen years under the pressure of the council now fell like fine snow upon Luna's hair: "If only your sister were alive..."
"Luna has double the love now," the baby suddenly conjured a Frost Rose with magic, its petals reflecting the three brothers' figures in the Luna dew.
As the flower stem automatically wrapped around Aelia's wrist, a dull thud echoed from the direction of the Library of Hidden Books as an ancient tome fell to the ground.
The Monitoring Crystal in Qin Si's hand suddenly grew hot, reflecting Lucius III striding through the Emerald Corridor.
The emblem of Leonard's Sword at his waist shone exceptionally bright, causing ripples in the barriers as he passed.
"Big Brother's wheelchair is stuck on the spiral staircase!" Luna suddenly exclaimed, pointing at the Monitoring Crystal in the Southeast Corner.
Big Brother, whose anti-rebound patterns from Leonard's Last Night had spread to his neck, was using Ice Magic to freeze the out-of-control Magic Furnace. However, beneath his wheelchair, a dangerous forest of ice spikes had formed.
Aelia Morningstar's robe bore the Guardian Array Pattern that suddenly lit up, but Luna grabbed her wrist.
Three glowing orbs split from the Star Emblem on the infant's neck, flying towards the Furnace Room, Yue Shi Quan, and the West Tower.
"Second Brother's Holy Thornfruit needs to be taken with Chen Lu," Luna said as she expelled a Magic Bubble. Inside it was the Emerging Second Brother's close friend's neck, revealing Leonard's Last Night. "Brother San's Falling Star Trajectory is hidden beneath our mother's Bride Price Chest from twenty years ago..."
The Defensive Barrier suddenly emitted a sound like shattering glass as Lucius's voice, carrying Han Qi's tone, penetrated through three layers of restrictions: "Mother and sister, please hurry to the central hall!" The Frost Flower on young Leonard's Sword cast a chilling light and shadow through the Door Gap. "Big Brother's ice spikes have pierced the Defensive Nexus, and Second Brother's close friend is setting up an altar at Yue Shi Quan."
Aelia stuffed the last half roll of the Tidal Ore Vein Blueprint into Luna's swaddling. The infant suddenly grabbed her blood-stained pinky and bit down.
Those Tooth Marks imbued with Dragon Vein energy automatically formed a Micro-Transportation Array, perfectly concealing the energy fluctuations of the Starfall Stone.
"Luna promises to make the brothers smile." The little infant magically opened a room full of Ice Crystal Flowers, among which three particularly large buds revealed glimpses of her brothers' repaired Fate Trajectory.
As Aelia carried her towards the Secret Dark Door, the Aurora outside had already taken on an ominous blood-red hue.
Sparks from Third Young Master Lucius's Leonard's Sword clashed against the barrier and splattered onto Luna's swaddling. The infant suddenly struggled to peek towards the hall.
As Aelia hurried through the Emerald Corridor adorned with Ancestral Portraits, Luna caught a glimpse of a half-visible dark green hem at the Turn Corner—that was the old Mage Robe hem that Brother San wore most often.
As Yi Ya reached out, a sudden sound of crystal shattering echoed from the direction of the Library of Hidden Books.
A swaying figure leaned against the wall as it approached, the delicate clatter of the Silver Wine Pot hitting the ground startled the Ice Crystal Sparrow resting on the armor.
The Ice Crystal Sparrow fluttered past the Emerald Corridor Dome, and Luna twisted in Aelia's arms, turning to face Brother San, who was leaning against the Gilded Column in a dejected manner.
The Young Mage had wine stains on the hem of his robe and clutched a half-destroyed copy of the Magic Pattern Compendium that had been altered by the council. An ink-green Handkerchief peeking out from his collar was embroidered with faded Xing Mang.
"Brother San, hold me!" Luna stretched out her arm like an Oujie, her palm glowing with a pearlescent Xing Mang.
Brother San's chaotic gray eyes suddenly cleared a bit, but he staggered and used the ancient book to block the baby's small hand. "Mother, quickly take my sister to the secret chamber. I have a Mirror Spell from the council on me..."
Before he could finish his sentence, Luna let out a loud Lactation Burp.
The fragments of Starfall Stone hidden in the swaddling blanket suddenly heated up, and the cover of the ancient book in Brother San's hand began to reveal the council's Dark Pattern.
In the baby's light gray pupils, moonlight flickered as she kicked her tiny feet toward the Book Spine, her Hexagram Birthmark perfectly stamped in the center of the Council Emblem.
With a crack, purple-black slime seeped out from under the book cover.
Brother San jerked away from the book as if electrocuted, watching as those forged Magic Pattern Maps turned to ashes within the Xing Mang.
Seizing the opportunity, Luna grabbed his drooping silver hair and wiped her saliva, which carried the scent of Dragon Vein, on his wrist where the seal was placed. "Brother's star book has been eaten by bugs; Luna will help you clean it!"
Aelia was about to speak when a sudden screech echoed from the end of the corridor, the sound of a wheelchair rolling over an icy surface.
Her elder brother, Pale, emerged from the shadows. The patterns of backlash had crept up his left cheek, yet he still turned the bearings of his wheelchair with a palm made of ice crystals. "Mother, the defensive formation of the Furnace Core..."
"Elder brother's ice spear formation needs to rotate clockwise three times!" Luna suddenly shouted, pointing at the area beneath the wheelchair, her silver hair fluttering as if caught in a breeze.
Pale stared in shock as the defensive formation he had set up began to reorganize on its own. The uncontrolled ice spears transformed into glistening vines, wrapping around the Furnace Core like a diamond cocoon.
Aelia's neck felt a sudden jolt as her Star Moon Necklace reacted to a magical fluctuation coming from the direction of Yue Shi Quan.
Luna struggled to peek toward the southeast but was stopped by Brother San, who used his wand to restore clarity.
The infant pouted like she had two ice crystal fruits stuffed in her cheeks and suddenly blew bubbles filled with Xing Mang toward Brother San's sleeve.
"Luna!" Aelia gently patted her daughter's back, and the baby buried her face into the peacock blue cloth, looking pitiful.
Brother San's wand suddenly burst forth with an Ice Lotus Flower. From within those bubbles emerged Second Brother, confronting his friend in Leonard's Last Night amidst the cedar fragrance of Holy Thornfruit—indeed, his friend's nape revealed emerging gray scales.
Just as everyone focused intently on this scene, a roar from a Frost Dragon echoed through the castle's main entrance.
Leonard's voice, carrying the chill of the far north, pierced through the barrier. "Aelia, bring the children to the hall." His dark cloak was adorned with the Frost Flower emblem of the Elder Senate, and at his waist, Leonard's Sword bore an unfamiliar violet totem engraved on its hilt.
Luna suddenly clutched her mother's garment tightly as the Star Emblem shifted to dark red when Leonard approached.
Aelia took a half step back, and the Guardian Array Pattern on her Morning Star Robe automatically activated, weaving a barrier of Xing Mang in front of her. "For seventeen years, every time you speak in that tone, it’s under pressure from the council to cede territory of the Magic Castle."
Leonard frowned slightly, the Xuan Tie Gloves he wore rubbing against the hilt of his sword with a grating sound.
Behind him, the Eye Sockets of twelve Ice Sculpture Guardians glowed with a ghostly blue fire, illuminating the newly added Council Emblem on the dome of the hall. "On the Guest List for the Aurora Festival, there are three Elders' legitimate lineage heirs."
"So you intend to use the blood of children as sacrifices?" Aelia's fingertip brushed over Luna's head, and suddenly, the Star Emblem on the infant's neck projected a three-dimensional Star Map.
The distance from the Council Main Star to the weakest point of the barrier at the Northwest Corner was only two fingers wide, and that position was clearly marked as Leonard's exit route.
Brother San's wand suddenly emitted a warning hum, and Second Brother's urgent Transmission Bell shattered at the corner of the Emerald Corridor.
Seizing the opportunity, Luna spat out a Magic Bubble towards the northwest. The tears glistening in her eyes were surprisingly bright. "Daddy's cloak smells like Xiang Fen from Laurel Alley; there’s a beautiful aunt who raises violets there..."
Suddenly, Ice Blades erupted around Leonard, slicing through the Column Relief. Aelia's Morning Star Robe instantly unfurled its Protective Barrier.
The Starfall Stone hidden in Luna's swaddling suddenly grew hot, melting the Ice Blade that was aimed at Brother San into warm water.
Taking advantage of this moment, the infant grasped her father's dangling Silver Buckle chain and called out in a baby voice, "Daddy’s guest brought a Bone-Eating Insect Egg!"
The Crystal Chandelier in the hall dimmed three degrees suddenly, and the Violet Emblem on Leonard's sword cast eerie light and shadow.
Aelia’s fingers turned white as she gripped her Star Moon Necklace. She noticed that her husband’s dark collar was stained with half a piece of Emerald Green Silk Scarf that did not belong to the Magic Castle—its texture matched exactly that of Brother San’s handkerchief that had just fallen.
Luna suddenly fell silent, her light gray pupils reflecting the unfamiliar emblem slowly emerging above Father Jian Qiao.
The star emblem on the infant's neck resonated with the barrier of the Northwest Corner. From an angle unseen by others, a small purple gap suddenly appeared at the edge of Leonard's shadow, releasing a faint scent of violet powder.
Aelia's fingertip traced the magic water crystal hanging from the dome of the council chamber, ice blue light dancing between her pale knuckles.
As the thirty-seventh crystal began to turn gray, she heard Luna emit an urgent sound from her swaddling.
"Did you notice too?" She brought the baby to the amethyst table inlaid with a celestial chart. "The barrier energy is decaying at a rate of 2.3% per day." Luna's chubby little hand pressed against the lion constellation on the Northwest Corner star pattern, causing a dark compartment beneath the table to spring open, revealing a scroll of parchment.
Suddenly, footsteps echoed through the blood-red emerald corridor. Aelia waved her sleeve to disperse the lingering astrological symbols in the air.
As Qin Si entered with evening primrose tea, Luna was busy drawing crooked symbols on the parchment with a feather pen, the ink transforming into flowing golden incantations upon touching the paper.
"Madam, Third Young Master Lucius is at the stargazing platform..." The maid's words were cut short as the entire castle shook violently.
Luna's pupils glimmered with an ominous light as she gazed through twelve colored windows at the black mist rising on the horizon—an omen of the magic castle's collapse in the original timeline, arriving a full three months earlier than she had calculated.
The blood crystal chandelier cast down crimson light spots amidst the tremors, and Aelia's family crest necklace around her neck suddenly grew hot.
When Leonard burst into the hall, enveloped in wind and snow, Luna caught a whiff of the lingering nightingale grass fragrance on his cloak—the scent favored by Leonard's concubine.
"Father." Lucius's voice echoed from the spiral staircase, his observation mirror still glistening with frost flowers in hand. "The blood moon has appeared early."
The hall fell into a dead silence.
Luna felt the arms holding her tremble, and Aelia's neck glistened with beads of sweat that soaked the pearl collar.
What was supposed to be a confrontation at the banquet was now forced to unfold prematurely by the Black Magic Tide.
Leonard threw off his cloak embroidered with the Poison Scorpion Emblem to a servant, while Mo Ya, shaken, caused the crystal chandelier to jingle. "Since when can women and infants meddle in matters of the barrier?" He ground his boot heel over the Peacock Stone Tiles where Luna had drawn the Guardian Array, and the Gold Dust beneath his Xuan Tie Boot Sole hissed as it burned.
Luna bit down on Aelia's clothing with her toothless gums, desperately rubbing against it.
When the Lady of the Fortress finally looked down, the hexagram emerging on the infant's forehead perfectly reflected on the surface of the crystal ball—this was the mark of a reincarnated Great Mage, now uncontrollably manifesting in this crisis.
"Father, look." Lucius suddenly raised the Observation Mirror, revealing a blood moon with black substance seeping from its edges. "According to the Star Path Divination Technique, this phenomenon only occurred a thousand years ago..."
Before he could finish his sentence, a distant Ancient Bell rang throughout the castle.
Amidst Luna's loud cries, the remnants of the Guardian Array crushed by Leonard suddenly floated and reassembled in mid-air, projecting a massive Prophetic Illusion onto the Dome: in a place where stars had fallen, an awakened Star Child would wield dominion over elemental powers.
At that moment, Second Brother's Astrological Compass burst forth with strong light, and Brother San's Illusion Crystal ball automatically ascended.
Luna saw her chubby little hands glowing, while the Family Crest on her eldest brother's wheelchair armrest suddenly ignited—at this moment, despite their previous conflicts in Original, the three brothers experienced an extraordinary resonance due to Magical Fluctuation.
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