Heiress Unmasked: Shaking the World With Geomancy novel Chapter 1197

Instead, Shannon's eyes allowed her to see the color of the souls, the same way she could see Benjamin's golden light.

She could see the souls crammed tightly inside the Blood Fiend's body and even hear their anguished wails echoing in her ears. She knew the Blood Fiend was attempting to absorb their souls.

Therefore, she had to act quickly. Otherwise, it would be too late to rescue them once their souls had been siphoned away.

Shannon quickly filtered through all the plausible solutions to retrieve the living souls from the Blood Fiend without harming them. Suddenly, as if enlightened, she pulled out a tortoise from her mystic chest.

"Make it stop spinning, please!"

The system's voice rang in her head. Indeed, it was Tortoise the System, which came all the way with her from Seastone.

Initially, Shannon took it with her because she was worried it would cause trouble while she was away. To her pleasant surprise, she had an epiphany.

"I remember you transported living souls from the alternate world. Can you do the same for the souls inside the Blood Fiend?"

The system laughed in exasperation. "Do you remember what kind of state I'm in right now? I'm weak and powerless; I can barely escape from this shell. What makes you think I can transport souls?"

Indeed, what could a feeble tortoise do? Was she trying to give it a hard time or what? How delusional of her to think it would help her when she wouldn't even give the Mini Stone Turtle to it!

After some consideration, Shannon pulled out her emerald pendant with the black smoke sealed within. "If you agree to help, I'll let you draw as much of its energy as you want."

The black smoke inside the emerald pendant was likely a fragment of Alaric's power. Coincidentally, the smoke shared the same origin as the one surrounding the Blood Fiend.

With such a connection, perhaps the system could intervene.

At first, the system had no interest in helping her. In fact, it almost hoped to see her struggle under Alaric's influence.

However, when it sensed the energy emanating from the emerald pendant she pulled out, it couldn't help but feel a surge of excitement.

Shannon had left restricting runes on its carapace, and without her permission, it could never absorb outside energy on its own. Now that she had offered it energy, it couldn't resist refusing her at all.

The Blood Fiend let out a howl, attempting to resist, but was tightly bound by Shannon's mystic chain.

Seizing the opportunity, the system yanked on the black strands, and a soul was quickly torn out from within the Blood Fiend's body!

"Ah, one! And two! And three!"

…

The system excitedly counted the number of survivors. Its voice attracted Shannon's attention, and she subsequently saw living souls continuously being yanked out from the Blood Fiend's body.

Although the living souls seemed weak, they were perfectly intact.

She was ready to praise the system when it excitedly announced, "Mine—they're all mine! Once I absorb all these souls, I will never be trapped inside the tortoise again!"

"Uh, did it forget I can listen to its thoughts?" she wondered.