Heiress Unmasked: Shaking the World With Geomancy novel Chapter 1225

The dinner party would commence half an hour later.

As Hector had anticipated, everyone showed up with Baxter's help with the invitations. They ranged from deans, students from various teams participating in the tournament, mentors, to judges.

Plus, Baxter invited representatives from renowned mystical families in Jamborough.

Apart from Warren and the Nolan family, who collaborated with Olivia for the beauty nourishing pill endorsement, the Darkwoot family also sent their representative—Edward.

Shannon was reminded of the hatred in Alaric's words toward the Darkwoot family back in Harrisfield Village. After some thought, she called Myla over to dig up some gossip.

Myla lit up at the mention. "Oh, I do know!"

She explained, "The Alaric Darkwood you killed was part of the Darkwoots. He was rumored to be quite talented, but he got obsessed with practicing dark arts.

"When they found out, he refused to repent. And just like Maya, his spiritual power was sealed, and he was expelled from the family."

Mike and the others had wandered over at some point. They widened their eyes in disbelief. "You mentioned that once the spiritual energy is sealed, there's no way to undo it, right? How was he still causing trouble?"

Myla shrugged innocently. "How would I know? I overheard… I mean, that's just what I heard."

Shannon had a good idea. "He probably didn't unseal his spiritual energy."

She'd fought Alaric plenty of times. Rather than using spiritual energy, it was more accurate to say he'd controlled everything with the black smoke.

She didn't understand the nature of the black smoke, but it didn't matter. Some of it had been absorbed by the system into the tortoise. She could study it later.

As they talked, Shannon brought up Alaric's last name—Darkwood. The latter had tacitly acknowledged coming up with the last name himself.