As the Blood Pearl followed the infant's palm, a sudden resonance of ancient curses echoed throughout the hall.
The black mist erupting from the tip of Leonard's staff abruptly froze, and the skeletal claws emerging from the black hole dripped with purple-golden blood, landing on Aelia's scattered pearl hairpin and burning it with wisps of Qing Yan.
"Father!" Lucius suddenly clutched his left eye in agony, blood seeping between his fingers, matching the color of the drops from the Skeleton Demon.
Brother San's hair glowed with a vibrant purple light, and those patterns mistaken for curse marks were now resonating with Luna's incomplete Guardian Charm.
Leonard staggered and crashed into the gilded column; at the moment he lost his scepter, a sharp sound of chains breaking echoed from the black hole.
Aelia's amulet suddenly floated in mid-air, illuminating for the first time in twenty years. The light spell pattern reflected the tightly clenched fist of Second Brother—those magic contracts signed under deception by a dear friend were peeling away in golden light.
"The foundation of the Glorious Demon Fortress has never been darkness." Luna's baby voice carried the weight of a great mage. Her blood-stained fingertip traced through Brother San's hair tips, transforming those misunderstood "cursed talents" into a sky full of Xing Hui.
The remnants of her elder brother's staff drew scorch marks on the ground that automatically extended to form a long-lost magic array diagram.
Leonard let out an inhuman scream as the skeletal claws from the black hole pierced through his chest, pulling out a memory sphere wrapped in peach blossom cedar fragrance—irrefutable evidence of his keeping Leonard's concubine.
Aelia stumbled against the obsidian pillar; her hand that had tied a light spell at their wedding now trembled as it pointed toward the memory sphere containing Leonard's last night with the demon.
"What you think is glory is merely stolen power." Luna suddenly grasped a falling piece of colored glass; as sharp shards tore through the swaddling cloth, the demon’s claws shifted direction.
From deep within the black hole came the sound of chains that shook the entire magical realm, as if some imprisoned existence for millennia was violently striking against the barrier.
When Leonard's concubine fell from the dark chamber, everyone finally saw that her neck ornament shared its origin with the divine blood of demons.
Second Brother suddenly snatched Lucius’s bloodied hand and smeared liquid mixed with demon blood over those peeling contract fragments—the magical talent stolen by a dear friend began to return as Liuguang.
"It is you, traitor, who should be slain!" Aelia suddenly tore apart her amulet; for twenty years dimmed light spells transformed into golden arrows that pierced through the dark black crystal atop Leonard's staff.
Brother San's hair tips finally coalesced into substance. Those wasted hours of cultivation now turned into a vast star map, completing Luna’s Guardian Magic Array.
The demon in the black hole let out a wail that shattered glass. As it fully descended upon Shan Na, all objects stained with its blood floated into a vine cage.
Luna’s blood-stained swaddling cloth suddenly erupted with a silver-white halo. Those marks mistaken for milk stains now revealed the unique Divine Oracle Emblem of a reincarnated great mage.
As the giant claw of the Dark God loomed three inches above Luna's head, a pattern of Silver White, originating from Luna's Swaddling, suddenly emerged on its chest.
The foundation of the Magic Castle began to tremble, and the Fortress History Stone Carvings that had been altered by Leonard were peeling away, revealing a Relief of the First Generation Fortress Master kneeling before the Great Mage.
At the moment the Dark God knelt, a loud cry of an infant echoed from the shattered fragments of Leonard's Staff—the Marriage Contract Scroll that had been replaced twenty years ago was now reappearing in Aelia's blood-stained palm.
As the dark Black Magic god smashed its knee covered in obsidian scales against the ground, all thirteen Grandfather Clocks in the Magic Castle emitted a piercing sound simultaneously.
Its left claw hovered before Luna's forehead, forming an Ice Crystal of repentance, while its right claw struck fiercely against its own cheek, which flowed with purple Golden Blood. Amidst the grinding of metal bones, a long-forgotten sob emerged: "A traitor dares to lay hands on your descendant..."
Leonard sat slumped in the shadow of the Obsidian Pillar, his Lord's Robe adorned with Gold Thread Embroidery soaked in cold sweat, turning deep brown.
He stared at the gradually clarifying Silver White patterns on the Dark God's Chest Armor—those that perfectly matched the Divine Oracle Emblem emerging from Luna's Swaddling were indeed the Blood Pact Mark left behind when the Great Mage sealed away the Dark God a thousand years ago.
"It’s impossible!" Leonard's Concubine suddenly crawled out from beneath the rubble, her neck pendant digging painfully into her flesh.
Her meticulously maintained Ailya's White Nails clawed at her neck but tore away large pieces of her twenty-year disguise, revealing her true face covered in Dark Magic Patterns.
Lucius, bloodied at his fingertips, suddenly pointed at her waist where a Peach Blossom Sachet hung: "That belongs to Father's Study... Ankeli..."
The Marriage Contract Scroll in Aelia's hand suddenly burst forth with red light, incinerating Leonard's Concubine's waist Scent Pouch into ashes.
From the scattering ashes emerged Leonard’s Last Night—the wedding night twenty years ago when the young lord placed Lucius, swaddled as an infant, upon the altar and exchanged his cries for a dark Magic Crystal.
"You shall suffer the torment of Eternal Night." The Dark God’s claws suddenly pierced through Leonard’s shoulder blade, pulling out a string of Memory Pearls wrapped in black mist.
Each pearl that burst in mid-air displayed shocking scenes from Leonard’s Last Night—replacing Aelia’s Dowry Contract, mixing backlash potions into his Eldest Son’s Magic Potion, turning his Second Son’s best friend into a Contract Puppet...
Luna suddenly grasped a floating shard of Colored Glass; yet each word spoken in Baby Voice pierced through her heart: "The Infant Spirit Crying Wall on the ninth level underground of Magic Castle was built by you using your illegitimate children as sacrifices, wasn’t it?" Her fingertip projected the Divine Oracle Emblem onto the ceiling, illuminating behind those altered fortress history Reliefs—countless tiny baby hands were reaching through the stone walls towards Leonard.
The dark Black Magic god let out a deafening roar as all candle flames in the Magic Castle instantly turned a ghostly blue.
He tore the chains entwined around the Peach Blossom from his chest, and within each blooming flower bud curled a miniature version of Leonard. "An eternal curse nourished by the flesh and blood of traitors?" Aelia suddenly sneered, pressing the Marriage Contract Scroll against the bloodstains on Luna's Swaddling.
As the scroll touched the blood of Divine Revelation, Shan Na felt the Peach Blossom Chain of the demon god In Hand suddenly bloom with silver White Roses.
The Magic Pattern on Leonard's Concubine's neck unexpectedly spread to her face as she reached out towards Leonard, saying, "You promised to use a Substitute Puppet..." Before she could finish her sentence, she transformed into peach blossom petals, each petal reflecting her secret rendezvous with other lords during Leonard's Last Night.
"No!" Leonard suddenly lunged towards Luna but was pierced in the foot by his own Staff Fragment, just three steps away from her.
The metallic shards tainted by the demon god's blood began to assemble into the shape of the First Generation Fortress Master’s Holy Emblem, pinning him firmly to the Confessor Totem.
The foundation of the Magic Castle suddenly resonated with a Roar, and the Relief of the First Generation Fortress Master kneeling before the Great Mage began to automatically flip and reorganize.
Luna reached out and grasped the floating mark of confession, her soft voice carrying an undeniable authority: "The right to judge in the Magic Castle belongs to those who have been wronged for Twenty Years." She gently pressed the Ice Crystal mark against Aelia's Hand Back, causing the Light Spell Pattern that had been eroded by darkness to transform into flowing Jin Sha, converging into a brilliant balance within the Magic Castle Dome.
As the demon god retreated into the black hole dragging its chains, everyone heard its words that resonated through their souls: "The reincarnation of the Great Mage will rewrite all Contracts..." Leonard struggled to lift his head one last time, only to see Aelia’s In Hand Marriage Contract Scroll reassembling in Divine Revelation blood while the Emblem on Luna's Swaddling resonated with the Magic Fortress Leyline.
Suddenly, a sound of shattering crystals echoed from the West Wing of the Demon Fortress, as hidden chambers concealed by Leonard began to collapse one after another.
The Divine Oracle Emblem around Luna's neck flickered three times, resonating with some dormant wave deep within the Underground of the Magic Castle—an entity that was supposed to emerge three years later according to ancient records—the Taboo Seal was now subtly loosening in response to her Loud Cry.
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