Heiress Unmasked: Shaking the World With Geomancy novel Chapter 2105

Leif had slowly grown the wings on his back after absorbing the power of phoenix.

As a phoenix's companion, Tricephalons were prone to being influenced by the phoenix's presence. They could also absorb and harness that power for their own.

Though he'd broken away and become human, Leif hadn't severed ties with the phoenix. Instead, he killed his other two heads and took the phoenix away for himself.

He'd captured it while it was weak and gradually drained its power of phoenix, just to achieve his ultimate goal of replacing the phoenix.

As he'd originally been its companion, the phoenix clan hadn't noticed anything amiss.

To replace a phoenix, it wasn't enough to possess its power as he also needed its faith. Solvanna was the follower he'd selected.

As long as Solvanna became the Chosen One and ascended to the queen's throne, and everyone believed that the entity within her was Trueflame, he would absorb all their faith and the entirety of the power of phoenix.

At that point, he'd become a true phoenix and succeed in his replacement.

His plan had nearly succeeded. If it hadn't been for Serelith summoning another phoenix…

Well, it was just the divine soul of a phoenix and not the true form. Even so, compared to his stolen power, the presence of a true phoenix left him powerless.

What frightened him more was that this phoenix divine soul's presence was almost identical to the phoenix he'd once been a companion to.

He couldn't understand how, just as he couldn't understand why Serelith could summon the divine soul of a phoenix and command it as her own.

As Leif rambled on, there was a clear grudge in his gaze as he looked toward Shannon.

Trevaris caught the look and stomped harder on his head without hesitation. "You're not allowed to look at her like that!"

Leif flushed with shame and anger, but Shannon and Benjamin had pieced together the truth from his account.