Heiress Unmasked: Shaking the World With Geomancy novel Chapter 2226

The tide seemed to turn suddenly.

Although Shannon possessed a trace of the phoenix's and Hydrath's divine souls, it was far from enough to defeat the countless malice before her.

Not to mention, the black demonic souls, manifested from malice, consisted of the three Doomscourges, which she and Elowen had confronted.

Shannon's heart sank slightly. Even though the demonic souls born of malice possessed less than a tenth of their original power, their overwhelming numbers still created a suffocating sense of oppression.

That feeling couldn't be more tangible, even though they were currently within her domain.

Across the sea of thousands of black demonic souls, Vlad looked toward Shannon with a trace of pity flickering in his eyes.

He simply said, "I thought the fates of Lucan and Velquin would've been lesson enough—so long as humans exist, so will I."

Nobody could demolish him, himself included.

Shannon gazed at him, her face carrying the same determination as Lucan and Elowen from the past.

"How'd I know if I didn't try?" She continued, "What happened to Lucan wasn't a lesson, and neither had they failed. Well, at least he forced you into hiding for over a millennium.

"As for Velquin… If I'm not mistaken, his power of phoenix had been suppressing your strength, despite you having absorbed his divine soul. Isn't that true?"

Otherwise, there was no way Vlad could've remained dormant for thousands of years or needed to create an organization like Ghost Mist to stir up chaos and achieve his goals through indirect means.

More importantly, he had deliberately separated a trace of Velquin's divine soul to create a clone, Trevaris.

It took Shannon a while to figure this out.

Consuming the phoenix's divine soul had originally been a boon for him. The immense strength of the phoenix's soul had made it harder for others to detect him.

In fact, he could even turn the power of phoenix to his advantage.

However, in time, he discovered that the phoenix's divine soul was always able to use what remained to rise again, reborn within him through its power, no matter how much he consumed of its soul.

Over the years, the phoenix's divine soul kept resisting him from within, challenging his will and suppressing his power. What he found even harder to accept was that its consciousness had begun to influence his own.

Therefore, he forcefully severed a trace of the phoenix's soul and created Trevaris, the clone, in an attempt to expel the phoenix's consciousness from his body.

Clearly, it didn't work. Instead, it only served to expose the truth.