Heiress Unmasked: Shaking the World With Geomancy novel Chapter 2101

Even Shannon hadn't expected things to unfold so swiftly.

…She'd laid down layers of contingencies over the past few days but hadn't managed to employ any of them.

Now, the fire entity had been swallowed whole just like that?

Most importantly, the fire entity that had swooped out moments ago did not resemble a phoenix, no matter how she looked at it. Yet if it were not a phoenix, why had she sensed a familiar trace of the power of phoenix in it?

Though suspicions stirred within her heart, Shannon calmly raised her hand and signaled for Trevaris to withdraw.

The fire entity had been captured, and they could wring answers from it later. What required her attention now was the growing disarray on the scene.

As she gestured, the phoenix, formed from Trevaris, soared skyward and vanished into the clouds with the fire entity in its talons.

Guests planning to flee in panic within the Ignis residence had not seen what truly happened. All they witnessed was the fire phoenix's sudden lunge toward Solvanna and its disappearance thereafter.

As for the fire entity that had burst from within Solvanna, it'd been eclipsed by the brilliance of the phoenix and went unnoticed by all.

That was except for Solvanna, who'd seen it with her own eyes that O' Trueflame was devoured in a single instant by another phoenix.

She stood frozen in disbelief and refused to accept what'd happened. Trueflame, which had always protected her, had been so easily defeated.

When she snapped out of her thoughts, hatred twisted her expression as she glared venomously at "Serelith".

"It was you! You used strange arts to kill my phoenix! She's an impostor, so do not believe her lies! I'm the Chosen One with the phoenix's protection!

"She murdered my phoenix with strange arts so she could steal my place! I was chosen by the phoenix!"

As the crowd parted, a tall figure dressed in a long cloak of deep black wool entered slowly. With his arrival came a deep, commanding voice.

"The matter of who bears the name of the Chosen One is for me to decide."

The moment his identity was made clear, every guest dropped to their knees. Even Maeric, Elysia, and Solvanna knelt at once.

Only Shannon remained standing in the hall. Others might have recognized the identity of the incomer, but she first saw the familiar and dazzling golden light.

The golden band around her wrist shimmered faintly as if sensing the approach and yearned to return to his side.

Shannon raised her hand as her fingers brushed her wrist where the golden band was. As she looked up to meet the gaze of the man walking toward her, her lips curved in a faint smile.

"Benjamin, you're here."