Heiress Unmasked: Shaking the World With Geomancy novel Chapter 2350

Shannon listened to the countless voices echoing around her. She looked up at the Rift Vortex, and her hands stilled.

Her mudras were deactivated, and the blazing array beam flickered and vanished entirely.

Hers had been the brightest and largest of the tens of thousands of beams piercing the sky. So, when it disappeared without warning, everyone noticed immediately.

No one realized she had stopped of her own accord; they simply assumed she must've run out of strength.

Hector had been coordinating with the Mystic Regulatory Commission when he noticed the change. The moment her light faded, his head jerked upward instinctively.

Perhaps it was the bond between siblings, but a heaviness sank into his chest without warning.

"Shannon?" His voice was quiet, laced with worry. A soft call, not expecting to be heard, was spoken into the chaos.

But she did—she heard him. Amid the million voices, she heard his voice.

Shannon's gaze shifted downward, piercing through the National Grand Array and the layers of swirling storms, and rested on Hector.

She looked at him, then quietly asked, "Do you think Mom ever regretted staying as a guardian in the alternate world for 18 long years?"

When Lucan sacrificed his soul for the people of Celestria, did he ever regret it? And Velquin…

After finally breaking free from thousands of years of bondage, he still chose to suppress Vlad's core malice with his own being. Did he ever regret that?

Shannon thought to herself, "Probably not."

In the past, she didn't understand why they refused to give themselves another choice. Now, immersed in it all, she roughly understood.

It wasn't that they had run out of options, but that every other choice than the one they had made went against their morals.

Whether the alternate or original world ultimately survived… Well, once the gun went off, nobody won.

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