Chapter 479
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After having coffee in the hospital, Odalys and Percival were left to wait.
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Dangelo, who was ill with cancer, had to stay in the hospital, but he had taken a leave of absence to visit the Tillery Villa with Sienna.
Meanwhile, Celeste and Blossom had prepared a rich dinner, and they were just about to sit down when they realized Clarence and Evander had not yet arrived.
“Why haven’t they come? I’ll go check,” Orson said, biting into an apple as he walked out the door.
Percival frowned as he tried calling Evander, but the phone went straight to voicemail.
“Odalys, I’ll go check on them,” Percival said as he stood up.
But before he could leave, Odalys grabbed his arm. Her small hand gripped him tightly, and the force made him pause, confused by her sudden action.
“Don’t go,” Odalys said, her voice tinged with unease.
She held onto his arm even tighter, and Percival could sense her growing anxiety.
He turned back to face her, placing his hand over hers gently and tapping it before speaking. “Is it Grandpa? Did something happen to him?”
Odalys rubbed her forehead tiredly.
She sat down in silence for a moment, exchanging looks with Percival.
“I told him not to go. There’s going to be trouble, I warned him to avoid other people, but he still went,” Odalys spoke, her voice full of exhaustion.
At that moment, Orson returned from outside.
Hearing Odalys’s words, he froze, almost choking on his apple.
“Odalys, I can’t reach Grandpa either. You don’t think something happened to him too, do you?” Orson asked nervously.
After all, both of the Evanders were elderly. If they had been caught or something happened to them, the outcome could be grave.
The younger generation could still fight, but the older men, though veterans of battle in their youth, were no longer physically capable.
“Yes,” Odalys replied softly.
She stood up slowly, and the room fell silent as everyone shared in her unease.
Celeste, seeing the situation, realized that the dinner they had prepared would likely go uneaten that evening.
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She walked over and took Odalys’s hand, offering a calm, reassuring smile. “Go ahead and handle what you need to. We can gather later, after you’ve taken care of things.”
“Odalys, is it dangerous? Is there anything we can do to help?” Sienna asked urgently, stepping forward.
Odalys didn’t answer. She didn’t know how to respond.
With a hurried step, she moved toward the door, but her footsteps were heavy with worry.
The others instinctively followed, but they found themselves frozen in place as Odalys’s figure continued to move further away.
“Odalys!” Percival’s voice rang out, calling her name, but she didn’t look back.
Orson, unable to believe his eyes, rushed forward, but no matter how hard he tried, he couldn’t get past the door.
“What’s going on? Is this the Devil’s Triangle Odalys mentioned? Why can’t we follow her?” Orson asked, panic rising in his chest.
He was eager to help, but it seemed they were stuck here.
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*Looks like a soul–binding spell. She’s trapped us here to prevent anything from happening to us while she’s gone. We’re stuck, but no one can get in either,” Percival explained calmly.
He had studied magic to some extent, especially with the Stewart family’s long history, and was familiar with such phenomena.
“So, we just wait? What if something happens to Odalys? We can’t just do nothing!” Sienna cried out in frustration.
She felt a burning sense of helplessness as she watched Odalys walk away, her every step a reminder of how powerless they were.
“Wait,” Percival said firmly, his voice carrying authority.
His words left no room for argument, and the group fell silent, their gazes locked on the path Odalys had taken, watching the mist swirl and slowly consume her figure.
“Wait! Someone’s a virgin here, right? Don’t they say that a virgin’s urine is powerful? Could it help Odalys if there are any demons or monsters around?” Blossom suddenly spoke up.
The 16–year–old girl, her mind filled with possibilities, had been delving into books on magic since Odalys had awakened her.
The thought of virgin urine being helpful had come from the novels she’d read.
“Virgin urine?” The others were momentarily stunned.
Hearing those familiar yet strange words, they turned their eyes toward Percival and Orson, both of whom were known not to have romantic relationships.
Although no one knew if they had ever been with a woman, Dangelo and Harvey were married with children, leaving only Orson and Percival as potential candidates.
“Orson coughed awkwardly.
He straightened his chest, about to speak, but before he could, Percival strode forward, his deep voice ringing out. “You stay here.”
With that, Percival walked boldly into the mist.
The others stood frozen, staring in disbelief as they couldn’t move past the living room.
“What’s going on? Why can he go and we can’t?” Orson asked, clearly frustrated. It felt helplessness was palpable.
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Outside, the world was engulfed in darkness. The entire city seemed swallowed by shadow, with only the dim glow of streetlights visible. No one else was on the streets, and no vehicles were in sight.
Odalys narrowed her eyes, standing still, surveying the eerie stillness around her.
She soon spotted a Cayenne speeding down the road.
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Suddenly, a loud “bang” sounded as a large truck swerved into the path of the Cayenne, crashing into it.
The impact sent a figure flying out of the car, blood spilling onto the pavement, staining it red. The man lay motionless, seemingly lifeless.
A faint sound followed, like something dropping onto the ground.
Gasoline leaked from the two wrecked vehicles, and the fallen lighter ignited the fuel, instantly turning the road into a raging fire.
The explosion was deafening, and both the Cayenne and the truck erupted in flames
The man, still alive but badly injured, tried to crawl out of the bloodstained road, but something invisible held him down.
As he struggled, his eyes widened in fear, and a gust of wind picked up, as if some unseen force pushed him back toward the flames.
The explosion rocked the area again, and the man’s body was consumed by the fire, along with the wreckage of the cars, leaving nothing behind.
Odalys stood still, staring in disbelief. After the firestorm faded, the stillness returned, and she whispered in shock, “Father?”
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If she wasn’t mistaken, the figure she had seen in the car before the explosion had been Percival’s father.
When she heard that Evander had gone missing earlier, a sense of unease had settled in her chest.
When Percival moved to leave earlier, she had grabbed him to prevent him from walking into the trap. It was only when the mist began to swirl outside that she decided to act.
The soul–binding spell. It was a terrifying illusion, a fusion of real and unreal worlds, where people were trapped in a distorted version of their
memories.
