Heiress Unmasked: Shaking the World With Geomancy novel Chapter 127

"What was that? I-Is it still around?"

Florence gazed lovingly at her grandson. There was a kind look in her eyes as she said, "With Shannon taking care of things, of course, it's already been dealt with. If not, I wouldn't be lining up to get into the realm of eternal life."

Seeing that Bradley had believed the truth at this point in the conversation, Shannon spoke up.

"Back then, you were tainted by not just any ghoul, but a malevolent deity. These deities usually reside in statues or small idols being worshiped. Usually, they wouldn't directly harm a person's life. They would ask for offerings instead."

However, unlike the offerings benevolent deities asked for, the malevolent deities had harsher requirements for their offerings.

At first, they might ask for dead carcasses from small animals like chickens and ducks.

But then, they would gradually ask for live offerings from worshipers so that they could consume the blood and flesh of the living.

When they had grown even stronger, they would ask for bigger live animals like pigs and goats.

As the desires of the worshipers grew, the malevolent deities would ask for more until they started killing humans.

Unfortunately, Bradley got himself involved with a malevolent deity who had already been offered several human lives.

"Back then, I guessed that the malevolent deity you bumped into had consumed too many human lives, so its worshiper didn't dare to keep up the offering. Thus, the worshiper had no choice but to abandon it.

"After consuming human lives, malevolent deities become extremely hostile. This particular one was also furious because it was abandoned by its worshiper…"

As Shannon spoke, she looked knowingly at Bradley.

"And you just so happened to bump into it at that moment. You might even have shed some of your blood back then…"

When Bradley heard that, his face turned pale. He seemed to have recalled something as he said in a shaky voice, "Before that… I went hiking with my classmates, and I did indeed trip over a stone statue… I even scraped my palm…"

At the thought of him possibly tripping over the statue of a malevolent deity back then, Bradley still felt lingering fear even though he knew that the incident was resolved.

Shannon nodded.

"That malevolent deity had already turned hostile, so it assumed that you were its offering. Hence, it marked you. Back then, I had to observe you for some time before it showed up, too. Your grandma didn't want to startle you, so she told me to keep it a secret from you."