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The Crystal Chandelier swayed in the Corridor Dome, casting delicate light spots as Aelia's silver skirt brushed against the thirty-seventh stone step. Luna, curled up in her arms, suddenly reached out and grabbed the pearl necklace that hung down.
The milk fragrance seeping through the baby's fingers wrapped around a glow, illuminating the peeling Bing Wen lacquer on the Bronze Gate Ring of the Crypt.
"Mother, be careful!" Lucius exclaimed, waving his cloak to sweep away the approaching shadow bats. The blue flame ignited at his fingertip reflected on the wall, revealing intersecting scratch marks. "These Bone-Eating Bats only recognize the scent of the Crypt's original owner."
Qin Si raised the lantern above the doorpost engraved with the Magic Castle Emblem, and the dim halo revealed a scene of chaos below.
Shattered crystal prisms and yellowed parchment were mixed together, while the ground that should have been etched with the Guardian Array was covered in charred footprints.
Aelia bent down to pick up half of an Ice Crystal Ring; the inscription "Gifted by Leonard to his beloved wife" cracked in her palm like an ice shard.
"Madam, look!" Qin Si pointed with his silver chain gloves toward the base of the wall. Twelve Ice Spirit Guardian Badges had been melted into a twisted star by black magic. "Only those holding the Lord's seal can bypass the triple Bloodline Restriction."
Luna suddenly thrashed violently in her swaddling, her milk-stained fist pounding against Aelia's collarbone.
With the baby's loud cry, spider webs hanging from the dome trembled and unexpectedly formed a residual shadow of last night's study contract copy in midair—next to Leonard's flamboyant signature was stamped with purple flame wax from Outer Chamber Manor.
"So he sought the Ice Spirit Guardian's order five years ago for this." Aelia's neck and magic core erupted with dazzling silver light, swirling the debris into a floating star map. "Order the Twelve Ice Riders to seal off all dark channels; even tracks flowing with geomancy must be..."
Before she could finish her sentence, Luna suddenly spat out something resembling a Luna.
The crystalline sphere fell onto Lucius's boot tip and exploded, splattering liquid that etched a glowing path on the ground.
The baby pointed toward a relief wall at the end of the path, where an originally intact Frost Dragon relief now had a missing scale at its tail.
Lucius knelt to perform the Guardian Rite; as his cloak swept by, blue mist seeped from the gaps in the floor tiles. "Please forgive my oversight," he said. The mist coalesced into an ice crystal ornament above his forehead, revealing a translucent spirit emerging from where the missing scale had been—none other than Theodore Leonard's previous guardian spirit from twenty years ago.
Aelia suddenly pressed down on her twitching right eye.
On the night she gave birth to Lucius, she had seen that Spirit in Crypt, holding a blood-stained Ice Spirit spear.
Suddenly, Luna burst into laughter, the baby's Milk Tooth biting a strand of her Hair, causing her to lower her gaze in pain.
"Mother!" Lucius exclaimed, and Aelia noticed her shadow eerily detaching from the light source.
The dark figure moved like a living thing to the corner of the wall, piecing together the scattered Magic Scrolls into a Frost Spell—exactly the Magic Fortress Leyline distribution map that Leonard had erased from the Contract last night.
Qin Si suddenly tore apart the Pearl Necklace, and the bouncing beads struck the wall, creating a shower of sparks.
With Shan Na's light, everyone saw the Ice Spike hanging upside down in the Dome, where hundreds of Leonard's Xu Ying were simultaneously destroying classified documents.
The most horrifying sight was from the East Side secret chamber—inside the Crystal Coffin that should have contained the First Generation Fortress Lord's Journal, there curled a figure resembling Aelia, an Ice Sculpture.
Luna suddenly let out a long sound akin to a Curse chant, and the Yin Hui surrounding the baby burst forth like swords, piercing through Xu Ying.
Aelia's Magic Core trembled violently; she finally saw that those altered Ice Spirit Guardian Emblems concealed runes of Coordinate from Outer Chamber Manor.
As her gaze swept across a crack in the West Wall, Luna's Golden Hair suddenly grew wildly into Silver Threads, straight diving into the crack to pull out a bloodied Ice Spirit Guardian command token.
"Three days from now is the blood moon." Aelia used the baby's Saliva to draw a swirling Star Trail on her Palm. "Inform all hall masters; I need to restart..."
Lucius suddenly clutched his chest and staggered backward.
The guardian spirit Xu Ying behind the boy began to shed its ice crystals, while at the end of the glowing path that Luna had previously carved out, a thunderous sound resonated with his brother's wand.
Qin Si released her Hair Bun and flung out her Xuan Tie Hairpin, pinning down the dissipating Spirit Residual Shadow. "Madam, the direction of Lingmai Resonance is..."
Aelia's Fingertip brushed over Luna's wrinkled clothing. In the Infant Swaddling Dark Bag, she felt a hot fragment—it was indeed a piece of the Ice Spirit Guardian command token that had gone missing during the Hundred Day Feast.
As she pressed the bloodied token into the crack, a crisp sound of shattering echoed from deep within the Crypt, reminiscent of breaking ice.
"Mother!" Lucius suddenly exclaimed, pointing at Aelia's skirt.
The Wisteria flowers of the Silver Thread Embroidered Shoes began to disassemble and reassemble on the ground, forming a Blood Arrow that pointed southeast.
Luna, at some point, had clenched Qin Si's Pearl Earrings and was rhythmically pounding the ground with her saliva-soaked fist, creating a drumbeat reminiscent of the Ice Spirit Guardian's march.
Aelia lifted the infant to eye level with the wall crack, watching as the Silver Moon Pattern unique to Great Mages emerged in Luna's pupils. "So it turns out that when the Ice Spirit Guardian lost control back then, it was because..."
Her murmurs were abruptly interrupted by the sudden clattering of Zhen Chan's Peacock Stone Tiles.
Beneath their feet, swirling Magic Runes began to emerge. The Ancient Script, which should have been indigo, now glowed with an eerie golden-red light at its edges.
Aelia gently traced her fingertip along the flowing runes, causing ripples to form in the indigo patterns that radiated a Jin Hong Halo.
A faint Electric Current surged through her fingers and into her arm. Suddenly, her Magic Core at her neck erupted with three ice crystals that circled her wrist. "This unusual Magic Radiance resembles..."
"Mother, be careful!" Lucius suddenly tugged at her sleeve and stepped back.
The Ice Crystal Ornament on the boy's forehead refracted strange shadows. The guardian spirit Xu Ying, who had been standing quietly, suddenly raised its spear, pointing it directly at the Jin Hong Light Spot that was gradually coalescing at the center of the runes.
Luna kicked against the swaddling in Qin Si's arms, and her milk-stained palm slapped against the edge of the runes with a loud "smack."
The Silver Moon Pattern in the infant's pupils spun rapidly. The shattered Leonard's Last Night streaked across everyone's heads like a meteor—once upon a time, a Great Mage stood in a similar Crypt, pressing a bloodied fingertip against a certain rune's indentation.
"These are Transmutation Forms of Ancient Elvish Language." Qin Si used her hairpin to pry open a piece of moss, revealing curling vines woven into the middle section of the runes. "Last year when I cataloged the Crypt's collection, I saw similar variations in 'Northern Magic Rune Examination.'"
Lucius removed his cloak and spread it on the ground; the frost-covered mirror reflected the full view of the runes. "The Energy Flow seems forcibly grafted onto this Magic Vine." His fingertip traced along the Jin Hong patterns as ice crystals formed contrasting diagrams in the mirror. "What should have been a unidirectional Purification Array has now turned into..."
Before the words were out, Luna suddenly spat out a string of light.
One bubble happened to land at the turning point of the runes, and the burst of milky liquid briefly pushed back the Golden Red Radiance.
The infant clutched Qin Si's collar to prop himself up, his chubby fingers drawing intermittent Silver Threads in the air—this was the Secret Technique known as Track from his past life memories for repairing runes.
"Miss, be careful!" Qin Si hurriedly caught Luna, who almost toppled over, but saw the Infant Hair moving on its own, and where the Hair Tips brushed by with Silver Light, patches of Red Glow crystals revealed themselves at the moss-covered base of the wall.
Those prism-shaped crystals were embedded in the rock face like Xing Zi, their flickering Blue Light swirling with misty colors.
Lucius used an Ice Blade to carve out a small piece of crystal; shards swirled into a rotating hexagram in his palm. "At least three types of Elemental Crystals are fused here." He brought the crystal close to the guardian spirit's spear, and suddenly blood-red Ice Cracks emerged along the shaft. "The energy purity rivals that of a Mage's charging Crystal, but the fluctuation frequency..."
"Everyone retreat behind the stone pillar!" Aelia suddenly waved her sleeve to erect an ice wall.
Luna, cradled in her arms, had unknowingly grasped a Crystal Fragment. The infant laughed and pressed the fragment against the ice wall, which instantly became covered with a spider web-like pattern of Jin Wen.
Black mist seeped through the gaps in the floor tiles, coalescing into dozens of ice scorpions about the size of a finger under everyone's watchful eyes.
Qin Si quickly undid her Hair Bun, and the Xuan Tie Hairpin traced Barrier Runes in the air. "The arrangement of these crystals..." She suddenly fell silent, gazing toward the Southeast Corner where an exceptionally bright crystal was refracting light into arrow shapes, pointing directly at the end of the fluorescent path Luna had previously eroded.
Luna suddenly coughed violently and expelled a glowing orb wrapped in silver threads.
The orb rolled over the ground full of ice scorpions, and wherever it passed, Crystal Remains automatically coalesced into a Micro Array.
Aelia pressed her temples as memories from the birthing room surged back—Twenty Years Ago when those midwife witches used Leonard's talismans edged with this very Mistlight Crystal.
"Madam, look at the Dome!" Qin Si suddenly raised her lantern.
In the dim yellow Halo, what had originally been a chaotic distribution of crystals reflected off the ice wall and projected geometric patterns resembling a Star Map onto the Ground.
A certain incomplete Triangle area was gradually being filled in as Luna crawled, leaving a silver trail marked by the drool of an infant.
Lucius's guardian spirit suddenly knelt on one knee, the long spear striking the Ground and producing a Bing Hua sound. "Mother, Lingmai is reorganizing." The youth's Xu Ying began to shed Ice Crystal Fragments, which automatically flew towards the gaps in the Star Map projected by the crystal. "The positions of these crystals might..."
Aelia suddenly lifted Luna high, and the baby's tiny feet kicked a protruding crystal just right.
The entire rock wall responded by Emerging with flowing light veins, as misty streams of color coalesced into vague human shapes. In their hands, they held the cover of a Grimoire, with a pattern resembling Luna's Luna faintly visible.
"Be quiet." Aelia suddenly covered Luna's ears while pressing her forehead against Infant Hair.
From within the Hair, Yin Hui seeped out, tracing intermittent Ancient Magic Script on the Ground. Qin Si recognized that two of the characters were indeed Taboo language from the Crypt's library doorframe.
Luna suddenly fell silent, her glass-like Eyes reflecting the entire cluster of crystals.
Deep within her contracting Pupil, those seemingly chaotic Crystals shifted positions in sync with the frequency of Geomancy Zhen Chan, as some ancient rhythm transmitted through the swaddling to her beating heart—like a battle song's tempo when commanding Elemental Sprites with a staff in her past life.
Luna's Pupil abruptly shrank to Needle Tip size.
The crystals that flickered in rhythm projected interwoven light trails onto her retina—thirty-seven Mistlight Crystals embedded at specific intervals within the Rock Layer perfectly formed the Star Resonance Array recorded in Chapter Three of the Ancient Elf War Song.
An urgent Yiya Sound spilled from the infant's throat, and her Chubby Palm patted Aelia's Collarbone, trying to point towards a misaligned Amethyst three inches off in the Southeast Corner.
Suddenly, a delicate sound like ringing silk echoed from deep within the Crypt.
As that sound penetrated the crystal barrier, Luna's Golden Hair unexpectedly wrapped around Qin Si's Wrist, leaving fine silver threads etched into the maid’s skin in a Yue Lun pattern.
Aelia's Neck Magic Core responded by erupting Ice Spikes, freezing the flowing runes beneath everyone's feet into Frost Flowers.
"Miss is trembling!" Qin Si hurriedly tightened the swaddling, discovering fine silver curses emerging from Luna's nape.
The moving characters resonated with the light veins of the rock wall, forming a micro star map around the infant.
When the third bell rang and broke through the crack in the Peacock Stone Tiles, Luna suddenly tilted her head and let out a long cry—clearly a baby's loud cry, yet entwined with the unique elemental essence of a Great Mage.
Memory fragments pierced through time and space like sharp blades.
Luna saw her past self draped in a Starry Moon Robe, her fingertip embedding the seventh crystal into the third column of the current East Wall.
In the depths of the crypt, the chant of elemental sprites echoed, while the Frost Dragon relief remained untouched by time. The Dragon Tail Reverse Scale pressed down on the Shou Zha of the First Generation Fortress Master...
"Yee... Ah!" Luna's milk tooth bit into her lower lip, and a drop of blood pearl fell onto Aelia's hand back, blooming into ice flowers.
The Lady of the Fortress suddenly staggered and leaned against a stone pillar, as memories of childbirth overlapped with the star map before her—twenty years ago, during her difficult labor, the midwife witches arranged Leonard's Mistlight Crystals in a similar formation.
Lucius's guardian spirit suddenly raised a broken spear.
Ice crystal fragments gathered at the spear tip to form a blood arrow, pointing directly at Luna's golden hair entwined with an amethyst: "Mother, there's something wrong with the flow of magic energy in these crystals." The boy cut his fingertip with an ice blade, and as the blood pearl fell to the ground, it was inexplicably drawn towards a dark corner in the northwest, "as if it had been tampered with..."
Luna suddenly broke free from her swaddling and lunged towards the ground.
Aelia's gasp caught in her throat as she saw that when the infant rolled down, it brought forth a yin hue that perfectly completed the missing string of the star map.
When Luna's golden hair touched that misaligned amethyst, the entire rock wall suddenly emerged with flowing light vines—each vine's end pointed towards an inconspicuous gray spot on the crypt dome.
"It's a transmitting magic rune." Qin Si suddenly tore off her pearl earrings and launched them forward.
The luminous white beads collided with the gray spot's shan na, causing fine golden cracks to explode above everyone's heads. Ashes falling from ice cracks automatically formed half a parchment—exactly matching Leonard's handwriting from that land deed copy in his study room secret compartment.
Aelia's Silver Thread Embroidered Shoes suddenly stood upright like needles.
The Wisteria Pattern broke free from the Fabric, hovering in the air and weaving into a miniature Dome above Luna's head.
A bloodied fist of an infant suddenly struck a Silver Thread, precisely severing an Energy Node, causing the Binding Spell that was about to take shape to instantly dissipate into ice crystals.
"Madam!" Qin Si suddenly pointed at the fading Ashes Iris.
A certain nearly extinguished root word retained the Crimson Flower Pattern, exactly matching the Fire Seal that Aelia had seen on the Contract Copy yesterday.
The maid's Silver Chain Gloves suddenly sparked, sensing the warning of a shared magic.
Luna's Loud Cry abruptly shifted in tone.
She grabbed Aelia's cascading Hair and yanked it back forcefully, compelling her to look down into her Pupil—deep within the Silver Moon Pattern, the Great Mage from a past life was stuffing a Grimoire into the Dark Compartment beneath the Dragon Tail Reverse Scale.
As the perspective shifted to the Grimoire Title Page, a similar Crimson Flower Pattern to that of Ashes Iris could be faintly seen.
The Crypt suddenly shook violently.
Lucius's guardian spirit, Xu Ying, drew a barrier with a spear, and the ice wall reflected the scene of the outer corridor—Twelve Ice Riders were pursuing a figure in black robes, whose sleeves were embroidered with an Iris Pattern identical to that of the curtains in Outer Chamber Manor.
The young man suddenly groaned and knelt down, as an Ice Crystal Ornament reflected a hand adorned with a Redbud Ring pressing on the model of the Magic Fortress Leyline...
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