Heiress Unmasked: Shaking the World With Geomancy novel Chapter 2205

That was when a familiar voice cut through the void. "I want to know the same thing."

Everyone turned their heads at the sound.

A rift opened in the void nearby, and two familiar figures stepped forward, bathed in radiant light.

"Shannon!" Thalia and Adam called out at the same time.

Since Shannon and Benjamin were stepping through the spatial rift, it was clear that they'd rushed here as soon as they sensed the incident at the Wynthorpe Manor.

Shannon quickly swept her gaze over her parents. Once she confirmed they were safe, she turned to Reuben and continued, "Uncle Reuben, tell me too."

This was the first time she'd acknowledged Reuben as her uncle, and no one would have expected it to happen under such circumstances.

If he refused to answer now, would that mean rejecting this bond between them?

Reuben was briefly silent before choosing to speak. After all, Vlad's goal had everything to do with her.

"I'm sure Sire knows best what Vlad truly wants," he said, turning to look at Benjamin.

Six thousand years ago, Lucan had destroyed his divine soul to drag Vlad down with him. At that moment, all the malice Vlad had condensed had indeed been completely shattered.

But over the millennia, those fragmented malice shards had slowly reaccumulated and reformed Vlad as the incarnation of human malice.

As the Dragon Vein, Benjamin had confronted Vlad once.

Sensing Shannon and Thalia's gazes, Benjamin did not hide the truth. He'd indeed clashed with Vlad once. Velquin's divine soul had tried to purify the malice, only to be consumed by it.

From that moment, Benjamin understood the terrifying truth behind Vlad's goal.

Shannon frowned at the thought, but she hadn't forgotten her original question. "According to what you're saying, that I'm his target, why is he fixated on the Wynthorpe clan?"

Reuben looked at her and answered after a long silence, "Because Vlad's malice is useless against you."

He looked between her and Benjamin and continued, "Not just you, but as the Dragon Vein born from the sacrifice of the Ten-Tailed Elythune's divine soul, you are the only two beings Vlad's malice cannot putrify.

"Unless you willingly accept it yourselves, Vlad will have to find another way.

"You probably don't know… The Wythorpe clan nearly faced extinction millennia ago. To protect the Wynthorpe bloodline, the former Ruler of Foxes drew a strand of spiritual energy from the chroyan branch and formed the Soul Tree.

"From that moment on, every Wynthorpe's divine soul was tethered to the Soul Tree.

"Vlad can't directly control the Ten-Tailed Elythune with malice, but if he controls the Wynthrope clan and takes their souls through the Soul Tree, he can use that special divine soul connection to reach you."