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The moonlight coated Cradle with a layer of silver frost, and Luna curled up in the swaddling blanket adorned with the Star Moon Pattern. Her chubby little hands clutched the Guardian Bell, gripping tightly onto the Western Realm Totem Fragment.
The soul from another world sighed within her tender body, as the faint sounds of the Sealing Array cracking pierced through Luna, reminding her that the Magic Fortress Barrier could only hold for three more months.
"Ah—ee!" She suddenly let out a loud cry, her neck and Starry Birthmark glowing red.
Aelia rushed in, wrapped in Chen Lu's still vibrant Peacock Blue Shawl, just in time to see her daughter waving the bell at her. The Western Realm Totem Fragment suddenly floated in the air, piecing together Leonard embracing a woman adorned with an Amethyst Forehead Ornament in Leonard's Last Night.
"Luna?" Aelia stumbled as she grasped the Carved Bedpost. Memories of her husband, always carrying a strange Cedar Fragrance on his collar, the sudden change of patrolling guards, and his unexpected purchase of White Rose Manor in the Western Realm last month all transformed into ice shards piercing her heart.
She trembled as she touched the flickering Star Sand; Leonard's Last Night abruptly shifted to the Magic Castle Underground Altar—where the Amber stone was supposed to seal the Dark Magic Core, now covered in purple patterns identical to those of the Western Realm Totem.
The soft palm of the baby pressed against her cold hand back, and Aelia realized she could sense her daughter's awareness fluctuations.
The scattered images of Leonard's Last Night connected in her mind to reveal a cruel truth: her husband was refining Rose Dew with the blood of his mistress from the Western Realm, gradually replacing the Guardian Barrier of the Magic Castle. The misfortunes befalling their three sons were no mere accidents.
"Mother... believe..." Luna exerted all her strength to utter broken syllables, her chubby fingertip pointing towards the window.
At seven inches away, Zi Wu surged into a Blood Arrow, aimed directly at Leonard's private Alchemical Chamber on the castle's west side.
Aelia's pupils dilated; that was indeed a forbidden place her husband had prohibited anyone from approaching under the pretense of "treating their eldest son's backlash."
When Qin Si entered with herbs, she stumbled upon Aelia cradling their daughter on her lap. The usually gentle emerald eyes were filled with coldness. "Go fetch the Transformed Lizard Egg that Lucius contributed last month." Aelia's touch on Luna was heartbreakingly tender, yet every word dripped with poison. "And tell Third Young Master Lucius that his father’s sixteen-year-old Birthday Gift—the Crystal Lens capable of revealing concealed magic—should come into play."
As Qin Si transformed into a Wall Lamp Relief and infiltrated the Alchemical Chamber, a repulsive Scarlet Liquid churned within a glass jar shrouded by Zi Wu.
Her fingers brushed against the wall where she had embedded the Transformed Lizard Egg; countless Dark Compartments sprang open in response, revealing heaps of Contracts embroidered with Western Patterns.
In the innermost crystal box lay Leonard’s marriage Document with the Amethyst Woman, prominently stamped with a Blood Contract Seal capable of transferring inheritance rights to Magic Castle.
"Madam guessed correctly..." Qin Si gasped as she illuminated the Contract with Third Young Master Lucius's lens—within those ornate Gold Foil patterns lay Young Master's Magic Rebound Mark, signatures from Second Young Master's close friends, and even Third Young Master's recipe for forbidden drugs—all perfectly interwoven with Western Patterns.
She trembled as she pressed evidence onto parchment transformed from lizard eggs, unaware that behind her, Zi Wu was coalescing into a blade.
At the critical moment, the Imprinting Paper suddenly glowed with the light of Star Sand.
Qin Si, struck by inspiration, pressed the evidence against his chest, and in an instant, he collapsed into the Silver Thread Embroidered Shoes on Luna's Swaddling.
The pursuing Zi Wu collided with the Guardian Bell and was rebounded and consumed entirely by the Western Realm Totem Fragment.
“Has Luna had another prophetic dream?” Qin Si, still shaken, transformed back from the Embroidered Shoes into human form and presented the imprint to Aelia, who was mixing a potion to break through dimensions.
Madam lowered her gaze at her daughter, who was soundly asleep clutching a strand of her golden hair. She handed the blood-dripping Crystal Bottle to her confidant: “Mix this into the Moon God Wine to be offered to the Western Realm Envoy tomorrow—since they enjoy using Blood Pacts to deceive fate, let them taste the bitterness of retribution.”
Under the shifting moonlight, Shan Na, Luna suddenly twitched in her dream.
Her hazy vision penetrated through layers of stone walls, witnessing her elder brother’s room where the Amber sealing away retaliatory magic had shattered completely. The boy, who should have been bedridden, was sleepwalking toward the wardrobe that concealed the Western Curse Object.
The Guardian Bell emitted a piercing sound as Luna desperately waved her small hand. A wisp of Star Sand floated on the night breeze toward her brother's residence... The moonlight brushed over Luna's trembling eyelashes as a small hand formed from Star Sand emerged from baby Mei Xin.
She divided her Awareness into three strands and sent them through the stone walls along with the Yin Hui that fell from the Guardian Bell.
The boy curled up in his Wheelchair suddenly awoke with a start; Zi Wu seeped from the wardrobe Gap and coiled around his mangled limb.
The Curse Puppet's forehead, embedded with Amethyst, suddenly shone brightly. Orlando desperately clutched his Backlash Mark on his chest—there emerged a Western Emblem identical to that in Father’s Alchemical Chamber.
“Laughter…” A tender giggle pierced through the gloom as Star Sand coalesced into a palm-sized Luna Xu Ying.
Her tiny hand pressed against his Hand Back where veins bulged; the Western Emblem suddenly curled like a spider web scorched by fire.
Orlando realized that a warm energy flowed along his Meridian while Zi Wu at the end of his severed limb emitted a screech.
The wardrobe exploded open, and Luna’s Spirit grasped the flying Curse Puppet.
Baby Ben Ti next door suddenly cried out in pain—overusing magic caused her Luna to seep Golden Red Blood Pearls.
The wand flew into his hand, successfully condensing fire elements for the first time in seventeen years. "So my magic hasn’t been devoured... it’s just been blocked by these filthy things!"
The signature of his dear friend on the parchment suddenly twisted into a venomous snake, constricting Alger's throat with the Contract Chain.
Despair filled his eyes as he watched his improved Guardian Array being eroded by the Western Boundary Magic Pattern. The crystal ball reflected the scene of his friend toasting with the Amethyst Woman during Leonard's Last Night.
"Yi Ya!" Xing Sha Luna shattered the crystal ball, and Chubby pointed a finger at the corner of the Contract.
Suddenly, Alger saw the hidden Amethyst Rune within his friend's signature, identical to the decorative patterns on the Dispel Scroll he had received last week.
Little Spirit opened its mouth and bit down on the chain, causing the Western Boundary Magic Pattern on the Contract paper to retreat in fear.
As the real Luna began to burn with fever from magical exhaustion, Alger finally cut through the misguided "magic-depleted physique" that had plagued him for ten years.
Blood painted the Breaking the Curse Array in brilliant red light, causing all Western Realm-style Magic Accessories in the study to explode simultaneously.
The drunken youth kicked over an empty wine bottle, and a Crystal Board inscribed with "Talent Assessment: Elemental Affinity Zero" rolled to Xing Sha Luna's feet.
Little Spirit stomped its feet in frustration while Xing Hui glanced at the back of the Crystal Board—there, stuck a Forbidden Drug Coating produced by White Rose Manor.
"Ugh..." Luna Ben Ti in the attic began to convulse, her golden blood staining the swaddling cloth.
Raymond was suddenly splashed in the face by Star Sand, and ten years ago during Leonard's Last Night when Father tested his talent, it replayed vividly under Strong Light—Leonard was wiping down the Crystal Board while Ailya was clearly smeared with misleading potions refined from Zi Wu.
The small hand formed from Star Sand tugged at his ear and led him to the Training Ground, where Raymond trembled as he touched the testing Crystal Column.
Surging water elements shot up into the sky, painting the emblem of Aelia Family in waves across the night sky.
He turned to embrace his sister's Spirit but only grasped a fading handful of Star Sand.
As dawn light washed over the Window Lattice, Luna's Loud Cry had grown faint.
The three brothers rushed towards the nursery, where Mother was applying Evening Primrose Oil to Luna, who was bleeding.
Orlando's wheelchair rolled over the gap in the floor tiles, oblivious to the grains of Curse Dust seeping into the cracks; Alger's sleeve brushed against a fallen fragment of a contract, staining the windowsill and the wildly growing Western Wisteria; Raymond's pocket held remnants of forbidden substances that scattered onto the steps, glowing eerily under the moonlight with a phosphorescent sheen.
Aelia gathered the children within a magical barrier as a shattered crystal ornament from an emissary's horse-drawn carriage suddenly swept past outside the window.
In her arms, Luna struggled and pointed towards the eastern horizon, where a purple halo, not of this world, quietly spread at the edge of the rising sun.
Chen Lu's tears had crystallized into light purple streaks on the rose window, while Luna curled up in Mother's swaddling cloth, embroidered with a Calming Spell.
The golden blood seeping from Luna had formed tiny shards of shattered crystal that fell softly with her urgent breaths.
The three brothers sat around the wicker cradle, unaware that those crystal grains, as they hit the ground, were quietly consuming the Curse Dust hidden in the gaps of stone bricks.
"Sister's Guardian Bell is broken." Orlando turned his wheelchair closer to the windowsill, where newly sprouted magical tentacles at the ends of his severed limbs curled around fragments of the bell.
Once whole, the Western Realm Totem now bore only half a griffin's claw print. The blood crystal at its broken edge suddenly reflected an illusion—Father Leonard was placing an Amethyst forehead ornament on a strange boy's head, and that child bore a starry birthmark identical to Luna's.
Alger's feather pen suddenly smeared ink across his decryption journal: "How about Second Brother makes you a new bell?" He covered his trembling wrist; remnants of parchment shattered during last night's contract dissolution were now burning hot in his sleeve pocket.
Those fragments stained with Western Wisteria and Blue Blood Fern Juice unknowingly traced new magic patterns along the edges of his improved Guardian Array paper.
A crisp sound of shattering crystal echoed from the attic as Raymond burst in holding fragments from testing a Crystal Column. His sea-blue curls still glimmered with phosphorescent residue from forbidden substances. "Mother! The Crystal Column shows Sister's Magic Circuit..." His voice cut off abruptly as Luna's neck revealed emerging golden veins; complex magic patterns meant for an adult mage now flowed beneath her fragile infant skin.
Aelia applied Evening Primrose Oil to her daughter's feverish forehead and detected an unexpected fragrance of Western Bay Laurel mixed into the ointment.
Her emerald-colored pupils constricted slightly as she recalled how elegantly a maid had picked up crystals when the emissary’s horse-drawn carriage shattered that morning—much like the pose of her husband's lover depicted in the contract document.
"Madam, Third Young Master Lucius' lens shows..." Qin Si rushed in holding a misty crystal ball but froze mid-sentence.
The crowd followed her gaze upward and discovered that the Star Moon Pattern Wedding Canopy above the Cradle was seeping with Zi Wu, forming a shape that Luna, the infant, could never have made: the Blood Pact remained unbroken.
Suddenly, Luna grasped her elder brother's magical Tentacles, and Orlando's severed limb transmitted a sensation of Zhuo Tong.
The onlookers were horrified to see those newly sprouted Tentacles mutating, Amethyst scales growing wildly along the Silver Blue Magic Veins—characteristics of the Western Realm's venomous lizard nourished by the Curse Dust from the Wheelchair Gap.
"So it was here," Aelia suddenly chuckled lightly, her golden hair moving as if stirred by an unseen wind.
She ignited a Pale Flame at her Fingertip, but instead of directing it toward the mutated Tentacles, she abruptly turned and pressed down on Qin Si's hand just as he was about to touch the alarm bell.
The Amethyst Bracelet on the Maid's Wrist shattered in response, revealing an engraving of the Western Venomous Serpent on its inner side.
Raymond's wave barrier instantly enveloped the Nursery, and as Alger's improved formation lit up on the Ground, Orlando had already ensnared the transforming Qin Si with his mutated Tentacles.
In the chaos, Luna bit her finger, smearing the bloodied Star Sand onto the eyelids of the Three Brothers—through the golden Blood Mist, they saw that every carved window and door was embedded with purple Contract Symbols identical to those in Father’s Alchemical Chamber.
When the true Alarm Bell echoed throughout the Magic Castle, Luna was being hidden away by Mother in a Dark Compartment.
The infant's moist eyes pressed against a peephole, witnessing outside the twelve-layered barrier, the Blood Moon Wheel of the Western Realm biting into the Castle Spire.
She released her tightly clenched fist; in her Palm lay a miniature wand crafted from Star Sand and Blood Crystal, glowing defiantly with a Red Glow in the darkness.
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