Chapter 424
widened in shock as he gasped, momentarily holding his breath.
Omon’s beautiful eyes wi
once appeared pure and refined. After her face turned a sickly yellow, it seemed to distort before his He stared in disbelief at the woman who had eyes–her high aristocratic nose collapsed, her small mouth stretched into a grotesque gaping maw. Her eyebrows had faded to mere stubs.
Her face appeared flattened, her once delicate eyes bulging grotesquely, resembling those of a dead fish. Her once thick hair thinned and receded, leaving her with a receding hairline, a stark “bald spot on top like a middle–aged man’s halding scalp.
Her slender, graceful fingers had turned thick and stubby, while her breasts shrank from a C–cup to an A–cup, and her height, which had once been a modest 52“, now seemed to shrink to barely 50“,
What had once been a vibrant, captivating woman was now a deformed, unrecognizable figure.
There was even a faint odor in the air, one that didn’t belong to her at all. Gone was the soft fragrance she usually exuded.
“I is this really Sophia?” Orson’s voice trembled in disbelief
His lips moved, but no words could come. He couldn’t find a single phrase to encapsulate what he was feeling.
Onion was shocked
“You should take a look at her abdomen,” Odalys said, raising a hand to point.
Orson, a trained doctor, wasn’t unfamiliar with examining bodies. He knew what to do without feeling out of place
Quickly, he separated Henry and Sophia’s bodies, lifting her top to reveal her abdomen. His eyes narrowed as he noticed a slight looseness in the
“This doesn’t look like the typical bloating you’d get from overeating. A woman’s stomach doesn’t usually get this way unless she’s given birth–look at these stretch marks,” he muttered, his voice low, trying to keep it quiet.
He couldn’t contain his shock. His words hung in the air, but they didn’t feel like they were enough to explain what was happening
“This body of hers… it’s a vessel. A carefully crafted vessel The Bennett family’s luck has always been poor, which is why it’s been tainted with such negative energy,” Odalys explained, her voice measured, as though she were unraveling a complex mystery.
t you see on the surface is an illusion. Once she
“Sophia may appear to elevate the Rennert family’s luck, but everything about her is a lie. What ↑ reached a certain peak, everything about her started to reverse itself
“When she was adopted into the Bennett family, my own aura was
ira was still present, masking her true nature. But over the years, Sophia could have prolonged the facade. Instead, her ambition and malice became too much, and now she’s spiraled into self–destruction, Odalys continued, her words slow and deliberate, as if she were piecing together a puzzle.
Orson stepped back, instinctively distancing himself from Sophia. Even if he had never been superstitious, seeing her like this made him uneasy. He was afraid that if he stayed too close, her cursed energy would infect him, and his luck would take a turn for the worse.
“But if she’s like this, why did we see her as a beautiful woman before? Orson asked, his confusion deepening
How could someone go from being so hideous to so flawless!
No surgery could achieve this kind of transformation–her height had been stretched, her sickly yellow skin h her balding scalp had become a flowing mane of hair.
skin had turned pale and smooth, and even
It was a miracle of impossible proportions, and Orson felt as though everything he’d seen had been nothing but an illusion.
“Her astrological signs are heavily laden with negative energy–energy that’s unique, so she was chosen. But this was also her own desired outcome,” Odalys explained, “Once selected, she underwent bone reshaping, skin scraping–her body was essentially swapped out for a new one. She’s been soaking in a special candle and talisman for years, which has baptized her body, allowing her to take on the appearance we know. She’s had constant assistance from someone behind the scenes, empowering her, keeping her beautiful.”
That’s why she always looked perfect. Before she was hospitalized, it was like she became an entirely different person. The elderly man who had
been working on her energy manipulation.. he died after I thwarted his rituals. That’s when I decided to expose that villa, so the people behind her wouldn’t be able to continue using that cursed energy field to empower her.
Omon’s face went pale.
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“So… the people who died in that villa were all connected to Sophia? They were paving the way for her?” His breath caught in his throat.
Over a dozen people had died–each death brutal and horrifying. The entire city had been shaken to its core by the revelations.
“Yes, you could say that. The murders stirred up resentment, which gathered more negative energy in that villa. That’s how they were able to use it to boost Sophia’s fortune”
“When she attacked Finnian, it was because I interrupted a ritual. The person behind her was killed by a backlash, and Sophia’s body slowly began. to deteriorate. Desperate, she targeted Finnian..
“But Finnian didn’t know that she was after
fter his fortune. By stealing it, she clouded his mind, leading him down a dangerous path.
“And that was when Finnan’s true nature was exposed, and the Lark family kicked him out.”
Orson stood still, his mind racing. There were so many layers to this situation–so many hidden truths. He no longer felt any sympathy for Sophia
He glanced at the woman on the operating table, then over to Henry lying nearby. He couldn’t help but feel a strange detachment.
“So what do we do now? What should I do?” Orson asked cautiously, his voice low and respectful.
Percival had told him before to follow Odalys’s instructions, to put her first above all else. The Stewart family, the Lark Group–they were all at her disposal
Right now, he was her assistant, and he would do whatever was necessary–no matter what it took
“I want to see how much energy is mixed in with her aura–how many people’s fates are intertwined with hers,” Odalys said, her gaze fixed on Sophia with a quiet intensity.
She reached out, her hand gently pressing against Sophia’s forehead. Orson saw her fingers tremble slightly, and he noticed the subtle frown on her face.
“Odalys? What’s going on?” Orson’s voice cracked with urgency.
Odalys didn’t answer immediately. She stood there, her gaze locked on Sophia, lost in thought.
Orson
n held his breath, anxiously waiting for her to speak.
Finally, she spoke, her voice barely above a whisper. “I see… a tangled web of fates. There are numerous intersecting lines of fortune–some of them even point to the Bennett family. Her familial ties… they’re closer than I thought. But I don’t understand. I never saw any direct bloodline connection between her and them”
Orson blinked, his confusion deepening. “What does it mean that her family line is crossing with the Bennett family? Didn’t we always think there was no blood relation?”
Odalys muttered under her breath, her brow furrowed. “It’s not a direct lineage, but it’s there. It’s like an ancestral link–distant, perhaps a collateral branch. But Henry… Henry isn’t related to her at all.
Her eyes narrowed as she reached for Henry’s wrist, placing it over Sophia’s body. The energy between them swirled together, intertwining. The more she looked, the deeper her frown grew.
“Now it makes sense. No wonder Sophia was so desperate to get Henry’s heart’s blood. Their energy is complementary. If she uses his blood, especially with a Love Spell, she could reverse her situation entirely
