Heiress Unmasked: Shaking the World With Geomancy novel Chapter 1039

A pinky ring, made with the copper fitting which consisted of the system's energy, wrapped around Shannon's finger, allowing her to hear its voice. Although it was as robotic as always, the system displayed an added hint of emotion this time.

"A tortoise may have a long lifespan, but it will die if you keep torturing it."

Shannon ignored it. It had been a while since she realized the system had its own emotions and thoughts, despite its speech style mimicking an artificial intelligence speaker.

That was also why she allowed Marshmallow to do whatever it wanted with it. Once the system exposed its emotions, it was more likely to reveal other things.

Having been ignored, the system controlled the tortoise and climbed toward her. It wanted her to stop Marshmallow from torturing its new body.

Although it was temporarily trapped within the tortoise, with no emotional connection to it, it seemed to have begun merging its five senses with the tortoise's, possibly due to Shannon's sealing tactics.

Most of the time, it felt like the tortoise itself. What an awful feeling. This period had been the most torturous time in its life.

After climbing for a while, huffing and puffing, it finally arrived at Shannon's feet. However, within seconds, Marshmallow assumed it wanted to disturb her and quickly snatched the rope, threw it over the tortoise, and clutched it.

The system choked with anger, not giving up yet and continuing to climb toward Shannon. The same thing happened, and it was grabbed and taken far away before reaching her. By then, Marshmallow had found the fun in this.

The third time Marshmallow took the tortoise to a faraway spot, it realized the tortoise wasn't moving. It scratched its hard shell and pushed it, as if saying, "Come on. Climb again."

If the system could glare at Marshmallow, the latter would've been scared off by its intense gaze.

"Stop scratching me! Hey, Shannon. Control your fox!"

Since the tortoise hid itself instinctively, the system could only pretend to see nothing. Unaware of the system's crumbling sanity, Marshmallow grabbed the tortoise and hopped onto Shannon's desk in a few swift leaps.

Then, with a hint of disdain, Marshmallow spat the tortoise onto the table. Shannon was surprised by the sight. Both the perpetrator and victim were in utter contempt for their circumstances.

After a momentary silence, she said, "You know what? Just grab it by the rope next time."

She stroked Marshmallow's head, allowed it to run off, and finally turned to the system. "Since you're a creation of the Divine Power, you should know plenty of stuff, right?"

Like, why Benjamin's golden light was so special. She hadn't forgotten that the system was after him, her people.