Heiress Unmasked: Shaking the World With Geomancy novel Chapter 2107

Shannon asked Solvanna if the "phoenix", Leif, had ever asked anything of her while he was protecting her, or if he'd ever let her see his true form.

It wasn't until this final question that Solvanna finally said something Shannon had been hoping to hear.

"Yes. O' Trueflame said his true form isn't complete, so he could only remain in flame form by my side. I was tasked with nurturing his true form."

Shannon's eyes sharpened as she asked, "Where's this true form?"

Without the slightest resistance, Solvanna led them to a rockery behind her courtyard. "There's a hidden chamber here. O' Trueflame's true form is inside."

As she spoke, she stepped forward to open the door.

Handing her off to the guards, Benjamin accompanied Shannon down into the hidden chamber.

Though called a chamber, it was no more than ten feet wide. The walls were lined with spells designed to suppress a phoenix's presence.

A low altar stood at the center. On it, there was a bed made of Onyx Gemgrove branches, and a fiery red phoenix egg lay on it.

"...An egg?"

Shannon started to wonder if she was seeing things.

"It's a phoenix egg," Benjamin said.

After a pause, he added, "From its presence, it's Velquin's phoenix egg."

Shannon was utterly baffled. Back when she'd first awakened in Serelith's body, she'd realized this wasn't three thousand years ago. Instead, it was far earlier in the Celestrium Concord, a time unrecorded in history.

Even so, she hadn't expected that after all these thousands of years, Velquin, whom they'd been searching for, hadn't been born yet.