Heiress Unmasked: Shaking the World With Geomancy novel Chapter 2131

"If you have seen it, why did you refrain from destroying the array?"

After all, with Elowen's power, destroying an array tainted with malice was an easy task. In fact, she could've done it while she rescued Grace.

Under no circumstances would leaving such an array untouched in the palace be beneficial.

Elowen glanced at Lucan. "Why must I do that? I am not the Dragon Guardian of Celestria, after all."

As she spoke, she seemed to get worked up again. Her tail lashed out once more, smacking a few hairs clean off Lucan's head before she huffed and vanished on the spot.

Her temper, surprisingly, was something else.

Benjamin couldn't help glancing at Shannon. If he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, he never would've believed she was this kind of fox in her past life.

Shannon fell silent. What did Elowen's antics have to do with her? She was perfectly well-tempered, alright?

Lucan, unfazed as ever, plucked the shed fox hairs off his head and tucked them away with practiced ease.

Then, cradling the phoenix egg, on which Trevaris still sprawled lazily, he handed it off to Benjamin before raising a hand, ready to destroy the array and the malice still festering inside it.

Watching his movements, Shannon was struck by a sudden thought and stopped him. "Perhaps… we can leave it as it is for now."

She continued, "If we want to find out who laid this array inside the palace, wiping it out would be synonymous with burning the evidence. It'd be better to damage it just enough to make it look broken, but still leave traces."

Benjamin, ever in tune with her thinking, caught on instantly.

The attack on Grace had already disrupted the array, and if word got out, the one behind it would almost certainly come back to inspect it. When they did, they would be ready.

Lucan wasn't slow; he understood Shannon's meaning almost immediately. What he didn't understand was…