Heiress Unmasked: Shaking the World With Geomancy novel Chapter 2004

In the venue, the display on the Mystic monitor suddenly split into over 20 separate feeds. Each showed a split-screen image from the individual surveillance talismans of the contestants.

Meanwhile, the contestants in the domain quickly grew alert when faced with the abrupt disappearance of the others and the vast emptiness around them.

"What's going on? Did they separate everyone?"

"Is this the so-called mind domain? Feels kinda impressive!"

The audience buzzed with curiosity and confusion while some instinctively glanced around and tried to spot Louise.

After all, opening a domain large enough to contain so many people was no small feat. Surely Louise must be present.

The mystical tournament was held once every three years, and demon clans usually sent contestants without interfering with the rest of the process.

Since they'd gone so far as to lend out a personal domain this year, how could people not be curious about the legendary Ruler of Foxes?

After all, lending a domain wasn't just about offering space. It meant assuming responsibility for all rules within the domain and carrying the inner world of every contestant inside.

As everyone stared at the now-crowded display filled with 27 split-screens, one of the officials couldn't help but voice concern. "There are a lot more contestants in the second duel than expected. Can Lady Ruler of Foxes handle it?"

According to the original rules of the second duel, the domain would create individual mental trials for each contestant.

This meant Louise had to open the same number of subdomains simultaneously within her mind domain.

At first, they'd anticipated over half the contestants to be eliminated in the first round. At most, eighteen mental domains would be needed.

Thanks to Shannon's unexpected performance, far more people made it to the second duel than predicted. They worried something might go wrong on Louise's end.

Within the mist, Shannon slowly walked toward Xavia.

At first, everyone assumed it meant Shannon had somehow broken into Xavia's domain, but more contestants began having human figures appear before them.

Some of the figures were familiar, while others were strange. That wouldn't have stirred much commotion, but among the 27 contestants, five had Shannon appear before them. Two of those Shannons wore different outfits.

Seeing several Shannons appear before the split-screens, the audience instinctively began searching for Shannon herself.

They soon found her split-screen, but hers was completely empty. No one had appeared in her domain like it had for everyone else.

At that moment, the usually quiet Phineas, who hadn't said much during the first duel, finally explained, "The figure that appears in front of each contestant in the mind domain is the person they care about or want to surpass the most in a particular stage of their life.

"It represents a mountain-like hurdle in their heart."