Chapter 521

He went to stand beside Odalys, shoulder to shoulder with her.

The man understood what was happening, no matter how slow he was.

“How could you have set a trap and made me fall for it? It doesn’t make sense,” the man muttered under his breath.

Odalys stood tall and aloof before him. She crossed her arms over her chest and said, “I felt something was wrong the moment they entered the Stewart Villa.

“You must have suddenly appeared and bumped into Francis after they finished filming. Then, you cast an illusion spell on him. The illusion would work once he arrived at the Stewart Villa and met me.

“That’s why you suddenly called him. When he got the talisman, you thought your plan had succeeded.”

As Odalys said this, the man’s face became increasingly unsightly.

“Unfortunately for you,” Odalys continued, “you didn’t know that Francis carried a talisman I drew that could resist your illusion spell. I exchanged secret signals with him when he entered the Stewart Villa.

“After that, he answered your call, opened your package, got the talisman you gave him, and entered your illusion,” Odalys stated concisely.

The man’s body instantly went limp and collapsed to the ground.

He had not expected Odalys to see through his scheme and break his illusion spell.

“You want to use the power of illusion to get rid of me in this illusion, then forcibly occupy Francis’s body and use his body to come back to life?” Odalys said coldly.

The man’s face was ashen. He watched Odalys approach step by step, but unfortunately, he could not escape.

“You are already dead, and you still want to borrow a body to come back to life? Do you think you can control everything? Now, let me tell you, your time of death has arrived,” Odalys said sharply.

When the man met her beautiful eyes, his lips moved.

“The power on your talisman, which was meant to kill me, is now attached to you. I’ll let you feel how the trap you set yourself kills you,” Odalys said.

The man’s eyes were red, like a ferocious beast. He kept screaming heart-wrenchingly, but no sound came out of his mouth, as if all his seven orifices were blocked. He fell to the ground in despair.

He felt his body burning continuously, and there seemed to be a force expanding inside.

“No!” He kept roaring in his heart.

This talisman was meant to save his life and bring him back to life. However, it would borrow the luck of the person with the greatest energy to help him seize Francis’s body and forcibly occupy it. So when Odalys and Francis died, he could use this energy to break into Francis’s body forcibly.

This would bring him back to life, and he would successfully become “Francis”.

But now that the talisman was attached to him, its power would grow, and he would suffer increasingly severe consequences.
It meant he would fall into his well-designed illusion, and then let his body explode. Then his soul would die, and there would be no chance of going to another world.

As he sank into his thoughts, his body exploded with a “bang”.

The moment his body exploded, a force pressed down on him. He vaguely saw Odalys chanting a spell and striking him hard. Before he could react, his soul exploded with a bang.

Before he could speak, a gust of wind blew and he disappeared.

Odalys stood there, blown by the gust of wind. She quickly pulled Francis back half a step.

“Is he dead?” Francis’s voice was hoarse, obviously panicked.

Odalys nodded slightly. “He wasn’t human,” she said. “He didn’t have a body. This was his soul. He wanted to use yours to come back to life.” “Fortunately, I talked to you beforehand. Otherwise, once you fell for his trick, you would die. The person who woke up then would be him. Then this Francis would become him, and no longer you.”

Francis listened, his heart pounding.

He was familiar with the concept of “borrowing a body to come back to life” from reading novels.

That was to say, the body was real, but the “core” had been changed. The soul was not that person.

“Who exactly wants my body? I don’t even know him. Why is he after me?” Francis’s voice was trembling, and he was angry.
He couldn’t imagine it. If he didn’t know Odalys, even if he had escaped the fate of being dissected last time, he would die this time.

‘How unlucky I am to encounter such a thing!’ Francis sighed.

“Because your fortune is low, your soul is easily pulled out of your body. In addition, he has been dead for a long time, so his resentment is strong, and it is even easier for him to enter your body.” Odalys explained.

Francis fell silent as he listened.

Now, his palms were all sweaty.

Thinking of his ex-girlfriend and agent, he quickly turned around and found nothing behind him.

“Odalys. Where are they? I thought they were caught. How did they show up here? Did they escape?” Francis asked in confusion.

Those two were right behind him just now. “Since this is an illusion, except for you, me, and this man, everything else is fake.

Your ex- girlfriend and your agent are your inner demons. He’s using your inner demons to make you panic so he can take advantage of the opportunity to occupy your body,” Odalys said.

Francis didn’t say anything as he listened to her explanation.

Just as he was about to speak, he saw Odalys reaching for his face. Francis’s pupils constricted, and before he could react, his body was pushed into a black hole.

“No,” Francis screamed as a blinding light struck him.

He instinctively raised his hand to block his eyes. After a while, he got used to the blinding light and opened his eyes. He found Freya and the others surrounding him.

“Is it over?” Freya was terrified.

Just now, when she saw Francis suddenly fall and lose consciousness, Odalys also went into his consciousness.

“It’s not over yet. The man who wanted to use Francis’s body to return to life is dead, but the man behind all of this has not yet been punished,” Odalys said coldly.

The other party wanted to use Francis to drive a wedge between her and Francis.

But they didn’t expect that everything was under Odalys’s control, so she informed Francis in advance, and he did as Odalys said. When Francis got the talisman, she knew her plan had succeeded.

“The manipulator behind the scenes? Isn’t it the one who wants to use Francis’s body to return to life?” Stellan was also frightened.

Odalys’s beautiful eyes turned cold, and she slowly shook her head.
She said, “This person has been dead for a long time, and the soul has been locked up. This time, he took the opportunity to target Francis. In addition to Francis’s low fortune, he also wanted to use Francis to squeeze into your circle. “You are familiar with me. Once Francis’s soul is replaced, they can hide behind me. At all critical moments, Francis will destroy my plan.
“Or even, he could just kill me.” Odalys sneered. Francis also shuddered. Fortunately, Odalys had foreseen all this in advance. Otherwise, the consequences would have been disastrous.

“Then what should I do?” Francis recovered, and he asked hastily.
“Use your blood to set up a magic zone to backlash him,” Odalys said.

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Drawing a talisman, she pricked Francis’s fingertip, letting a drop of blood fall onto its surface. The talisman glowed gold. Then, with a resounding boom, a beam of golden light shot out into the night.

“Come with me to watch a good show,” Odalys said.

She waved her hand, and Percival hurriedly took the car keys and followed behind her.

Seeing this, Stellan also took out his car keys, and Freya and the others chased after them.

They drove away. The night outside was pitch black as if it were going to swallow their vehicles.

The Bennett Villa.

At night, the Bennett Villa was brightly lit. But the inside was eerily quiet. Edie sat on the sofa, looking at Oliver and Brandon with cold eyes, a hint of contempt flashing across her eyes.

It was apparent that she looked down on the two.

“Get behind me, all of you!” commanded Oliver. Henry, Caspian, Atlas, Hannah, Windsor, and the others quickly moved behind Oliver.

There was a brazier in the living room.

Oliver took out a talisman and threw it into the brazier.

With a bang, the fire in the brazier burned continuously. The flames soared into the air as if trying to ignite the ceiling.

“Mom, are you sure Mr. Carline can handle this?” Atlas asked, a hint of panic in his voice.

Oliver suddenly contacted Henry today and said he could help the Bennett family survive this disaster, so they rushed back, and Oliver was already waiting outside the door.

After Oliver arrived, Brandon also came downstairs from Hannah’s room.

After some discussion, they wanted to use illusion to trap Odalys in an illusion with Francis’s body, and then control Odalys in the illusion.

After controlling her, they wanted to use the energy from her body to force that soul into Francis’s body.

Eventually, her body would die in the illusion, and the soul from around the 1920s would occupy his body and wake up. By then, they could control this body and attack the Stewart family. “In all of Crownridge, who could be more famous than Mr. Carline? I didn’t think he had any real skills, but look! He healed my injuries after he came,” Hannah said.

Just by drinking the runes potion Oliver gave her, the broken bones in her body healed.

Before, she needed others’ help, even when walking. After she broke her waist, she fixed it with a steel plate. She couldn’t sit for long. But she could move freely now. At that moment, she began to believe that Oliver was indeed capable.

Only Sophia, who was standing in the corner, remained silent.

Her vicious eyes fixed on the brazier, and she instinctively stepped back. There was evident distrust in her gaze toward Oliver. It was clear she trusted no one, especially not those from the Bennett family.

If it weren’t for the fact that she needed the help of the Bennett family, she would have left long ago.

After meeting with Hannah, Edie returned to the Bennett Villa but did not participate in any of the Bennett family’s activities.

Like Sophia, she watched coldly from the sidelines.

“That’s right. He could heal your injury with the runes potion. That’s amazing,” Atlas said admiringly.

Only Windsor stared at Oliver with narrowed, sinister eyes, as if deep in thought.

As they all harbored their thoughts, Oliver chanted words, and Brandon sat aside. When Oliver said, “Break,” the surroundings suddenly went pitch black.

A gust of cold wind swept in, and the Bennett family people were terrified.

The flames in the brazier were leaping wildly. Suddenly, there was a loud bang. Oliver stood there, holding his peachwood sword. He felt a tingling sensation in his wrist.

A powerful force struck him. The peachwood sword in his hand snapped with a crack. The upper half fell into the brazier with a crisp sound. The fire ignited the broken half of the peachwood sword. Oliver stared at his broken sword.

“No way. How could my peachwood sword be broken?” Oliver’s voice trembled slightly.

His magic zone had never failed before. But now, his peachwood sword was broken… Thinking of this, he wanted to withdraw, but it was too late. A powerful force struck him fiercely.

“Ouch.” Oliver was hit by the force and sent flying.

He was knocked away, crashing into a cabinet before falling to the ground.

“Pfft.” Oliver collapsed to the ground, spitting out a mouthful of blood.

He felt as if all his internal organs had been shattered. The intense pain spread throughout his body. He struggled to get up and walked toward the brazier.

“The vast and boundless world… Pfft.” He tried to recite the incantation, but he only managed to utter a few words before spitting out blood again.

His blood splashed into the brazier, extinguishing the flames within.

The stench of blood permeated the living room of the Bennett Villa. A gust of cold wind blew through, and the lights flickered back on, illuminating the luxurious space like a cruel joke.

“Mr. Carline, what’s going on?” Hannah exclaimed, her voice laced with urgency.

She trusted Oliver, only to witness this gruesome scene.

Even an untrained eye could tell that his magic zone had failed.

“It’s impossible. How could I fail?” Oliver murmured under his breath.

Brandon abruptly rose from his chair, his eyes wide with terror as he stared ahead and cried out, “Ancestor! Ancestor, are you alright?”

“Where’s my ancestor?” Brandon frantically rushed forward.

He grabbed Oliver by the collar and lifted him off the ground.

“Where is my ancestor? Didn’t you say you could get my ancestor into Francis’s body and take it over? What happened to my ancestor?” Brandon roared.

Fear flickered in Oliver’s eyes.

“He is dead. Your ancestor’s soul was killed in the illusion, and his soul was scattered. He is gone,” Oliver said in disbelief.
Hearing that, Brandon fell to the ground with a thud.

He looked at Oliver in disbelief, and the others were also scared.

Oliver had just summoned the soul of a man dressed in clothing from around the 1920s, who seemed to have died around that era. Upon seeing Oliver, Brandon bowed directly to him.

They had planned to have this man from around the 1920s take over Francis’s body. His soul would squeeze Francis out and successfully replace him.

When he became Francis, he would help the Bennett family.

It was also why the Bennett family cooperated with Oliver. In addition to Hannah’s injuries healing after he gave her the runes potion, they also had hope.

After all, Oliver was a master of the energy field in Crownridge and was no less capable than anyone else.

But the ritual just now failed.

“Dead? You killed my ancestor?” Brandon’s voice almost came out from between his teeth.

He lunged forward, pressed down on Oliver, and punched him hard.

Oliver was knocked to the ground by Brandon. He was younger and stronger than Brandon, and Brandon would never have been able to beat him at ordinary times, but he was backlashed when he performed the ritual just now.

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He wondered who could destroy his magic zone.

“Could it be Odalys? That’s impossible. How could a little girl like her have so much energy?” Oliver muttered to himself.

As soon as he finished speaking, he vaguely heard the sound of a car coming from outside the door.

Edie turned and walked outside. When she saw the license plate of “S-A8”, she clenched her hands into fists and stared at the license plate. This was a special vehicle for the Stewart family.

“Percival.” Edie was so angry that she almost vomited blood.

She remembered how she was humiliated by Percival in the studio today.

Not only Percival but even Odalys didn’t take her seriously.

And it was they who forced her to be homeless, unable to return to the Stewart family, and she could only shamelessly return to the Bennett Villa. But when Henry saw her, he was very disdainful.

Her situation was difficult now.

Fortunately, she and Hannah reached an agreement, and their target was Evander.

So she couldn’t possibly set her mind on Henry.

She didn’t like him before, and she still didn’t. Thinking of this, Edie turned and walked upstairs, avoiding conflict with Percival. She recalled what happened tonight, including how Oliver’s magic zone failed, and he finally backfired. She could be sure it had something to do with Odalys.

She couldn’t imagine that a 20-year-old girl could be so powerful.

“Odalys. What are you doing here? Are you here to beg for our forgiveness? You embarrassed us so much at Magic Entertainment today. Don’t think we will forgive you.” Atlas rushed forward. When he saw Odalys, he immediately put on airs. After finishing his words, meeting Odalys’s ice- cold gaze, he couldn’t help but shiver.

The confidence he had while speaking also dissipated.

“Forgive? Begging you? What do you have to make me beg for forgiveness? Your solution is to invite Oliver here to set up a magic zone and trap me in an illusion, then kill me?” Odalys asked with a sneer.

Atlas’s face turned pale.

His face was flushed red, his eyes flickering, not daring to meet her gaze.

“What nonsense are you talking about? Odalys. You don’t have persecution delusions, do you?”

Atlas stood in front of her, not wanting her to go in.

The living room was in chaos.

And tonight, Oliver indeed set up a magic zone to deal with Odalys.

He stood before Odalys, but Francis and Stellan rushed forward and pushed him aside.

“F-Francis.” Atlas panicked when he saw Francis. He had just heard Oliver’s words and was a little unsure.

But their goal was to have the soul of Brandon’s dead ancestor take over Francis’s body, which was a resurrection by using someone else’s body. But now that Francis was standing there, he felt like he had seen a ghost.
“Get lost.” Orson’s temper wasn’t as good as theirs.

Seeing Atlas being pushed away in panic, he rushed forward, raised his foot, and kicked Atlas.

He landed a kick on Atlas, sending him sprawling to the ground. Orson stepped forward and ground his foot into Atlas’s face.
“Ouch, my face,” Atlas screamed in pain, feeling his face deformed by Orson.

Orson stepped on his face and stepped over his body. He walked inside without treating Atlas as a human being at all. He could kill Atlas just because Atlas was rude to Odalys when he rushed out.

“Next time, if you dare to yell at Odalys arrogantly, I will cut you open.” Orson turned his head and threatened him.
Atlas was stunned. Hearing the words “cut open”, the picture of Sophia tearing open his chest kept appearing in his mind, and he couldn’t help shivering.

Odalys walked in and stood in the living room.

The expressions of the Bennett family people shifted subtly upon seeing her.

“Odalys. What are you doing back here?” Hannah was the first to react, her voice sharp.

Standing before Odalys, she put on airs. Her demeanor was haughty as she sneered. “I severed ties with you long ago. Why did you come back?

“This is a Bennett family matter. I advise you to stay out of it. Now, take your people and get out
of the Bennett family’s house immediately,”
Hannah declared arrogantly.

After her tirade, she noticed Odalys hadn’t moved an inch.

Hannah’s expression darkened. Used to being shown respect, she felt a surge of resentment at being ignored by Odalys.

“Are you deaf? I told you to get out of the Bennett family’s house. Didn’t you hear me? So, she saw blood oozing from the corner of his mouth, and he seemed to have aged a lot. Oliver’s heart skipped a beat when he met Odalys’s gaze. He started to say something but suddenly felt his face itch, making him freeze. Subconsciously, he reached out and touched his face, and his finger was suddenly bitten.

“Ouch.” Oliver suddenly screamed. The tip of his index finger had been bitten off.

Oliver painfully got to his feet, blood oozing from his mouth and staining his hands. “Impossible,” he muttered. “I used the Bennett family’s negative energy to suppress him. How could this be?

“How could he still come out?” Oliver panicked. The teeth marks on his face were sealed with great difficulty by him, using the Bennett family’s negative energy.

Therefore, after suppressing the teeth marks on his face, he aimed to harness the Bennett family’s negative energy to transform this location into his ideal energy field, especially since the police had already sealed the ashram in the courtyard. He urgently needed an ashram of his own now, and the Bennett family’s house was just right.

For this reason, he gave the runes potion to heal Hannah’s injuries, intending to show the Bennett family his capabilities. It was only after seeing Hannah’s wounds heal that the Bennett family truly began to believe in his powers.

He and Brandon discussed it tacitly, and finally called Francis.

Everything was arranged reasonably.

Taking advantage of this illusion, he wanted to use Francis to trap Odalys, and finally trap her to death. Then, they could take her energy as their own.

Unexpectedly, in the last step, he was backlashed.

“Do you know what happened to the last person who was backlashed? He was about seventy or eighty years old, and his achievement was higher than yours, but he died in front of me when he was backlashed.” Odalys squatted down slowly and said to Oliver.

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Oliver’s eyes widened, and the teeth marks on his cheeks kept opening and closing, trying to bite Odalys.

“Bang.” Odalys slapped him with her backhand, and the teeth marks immediately closed, never daring to open toward her again.

But the teeth marks were imprinted on Oliver’s face, and the slap stunned him.

“You, you, what did you just say?” Oliver stood up angrily.

Odalys looked at him with a smile and said nothing more.

Oliver’s ears were ringing from her beating. He got up and spat out a mouthful of blood on the ground. His body was in great pain, especially his index finger, which had just been bitten off by the teeth marks on his face.

Each finger was connected to the heart. The pain was indescribable.

“Odalys, did you just say that you killed the master who performed the ritual in the villa?” Oliver shouted at her.

But Odalys ignored him. Seeing that, Oliver became more and more frantic.

“Shut up.” Freya stuffed a big piece of bread from nowhere into Oliver’s mouth, forcibly shutting him up.

Orson leaned back with a cigarette in his mouth. He turned his head to look at Percival and saw him nod slightly.

“OK.” Orson made an OK gesture and walked out. When he came outside the Bennett Villa, he climbed up to the second floor without saying a word and broke in effortlessly.

Caspian stood there, watching Orson leave.

He quietly followed him out, only to see Orson gone in the blink of an eye.

“He just came out. Where did he go?” Caspian looked puzzled.

He looked around and finally fixed his eyes upstairs.

Caspian looked thoughtfully at the second floor and was about to get closer when a hand reached out from behind him, wrapped around his neck, and dragged him aside.

“Who is it?” Caspian groaned in pain.

The other party was strong, his arm powerful, as if he wanted to break Caspian’s neck.

With a bang, Caspian was thrown against the wall. His body hit the wall, and he grunted in pain from his shoulder.

He was surprised by Stellan’s strength, having expected gentleness from his tall, gentle appearance.

“Stellan, what are you doing?” Caspian asked angrily.

Instead of saying anything, Stellan only took a cigarette from his pocket and handed it over. Caspian took it and put it into his mouth. Then, Stellan took out a lighter and lit it for him.

“Your family has been quite lively lately. The Bennett family has been messed up and gone bankrupt, and your family still won’t let it go?” Stellan said jokingly, frowning.

Looking at the people in the living room, he felt a headache coming on.

‘Chaotic. It’s too messed up. My family surely is better. With fewer people, we have fewer troubles. There’s almost nothing for me to worry about,’ Stellan thought.

“Are you here to mock me?” Caspian asked grumpily.

He couldn’t help but glance upstairs, vaguely sensing that Stellan was covering for Orson. He knew the group’s grand arrival tonight must have had an ulterior motive.

Stellan, noticing Caspian’s upward glance, merely gave a faint look.

He said, “Then why don’t you tell me what you have for me to mock? Henry married your mother’s best friend. Sophia seduced your father. Your mother and father divorced but live under the same roof. Which one of these isn’t more shocking than you?”
Caspian fell silent.

Stellan’s words cut him to the core.

The thought of these complicated relationships made Caspian feel like something was stuck in his chest, suffocating him.

“Do you know why Henry is with Edie?” Stellan tucked the cigarette into his pocket without smoking it and stared intently at Caspian.

Caspian smoked a cigarette, blowing smoke rings into the air.

His fingertips trembled, and he subconsciously glanced at Stellan.

“The Simpson family rose to power by exploiting wealth and resources that Edie had taken from the Stewart family. The Stewart family retaliated this afternoon, causing the Simpson family’s assets to be frozen.

“The Simpson family is in trouble now, and even Edie is struggling. Henry’s backer collapsed.” Stellan lowered his voice as if sharing a secret.

Caspian frowned and asked, “The Simpson family has fallen?”

He couldn’t believe it, so he quickly took out his phone and saw that the news was full of stories about the Simpson family.
That afternoon, the Simpson family was “raided”; their assets were frozen and transferred, and all their projects were suspended and taken over by the Stewart family.

Caspian’s fingertips scrolled quickly down the screen. As he read the news, a hint of joy flashed in his eyes.

“Although the Bennett family seems to have gone bankrupt, as long as their foundation remains, they still have a chance to make a comeback. Henry is too ambitious and wants to rely on women. Older women have their plans, so he’s probably just trying to get his hands on something he can’t have.” Stellan continued to brainwash him.

“Why are you telling me this?” Caspian asked warily.

“He and Stellan were not well-acquainted, having never even met.

Stellan was from the entertainment industry. He had met Atlas and Sophia, but he had never met Caspian.

Stellan replied, “You’ve been setting Henry up, hoping he’d take the fall, and you’ve been desperate to escape the Bennett Villa. Let me be honest with you. I heard Odalys mention that the Bennett family is shrouded in negative energy. It’s haunted.
“How long can those people survive being haunted by ghosts?

“And Brandon. Why did he suddenly appear at the Bennett Villa, entangled with your mother? Today, Oliver suddenly appeared at the Bennett family’s house and even healed your mother’s pain.

“After tonight, the biggest beneficiary of all the Bennett family people will be Hannah.” Stellan patted his shoulder.
Sure enough, Caspian’s expression changed slightly.

“Brandon and Oliver know each other. It’s obvious. Moreover, they took good care of Hannah and healed her injuries. Even after tonight, she is in the best condition.

“You should think about why she gave up on Odalys back then. Who instructed her to do this? The beneficiary at that time was Sophia. She abandoned Odalys to make way for Sophia.

“So, back then, and tonight, the beneficiaries are these two women,” Stellan continued.

The more he said this, the darker Caspian’s expression became.

He completely forgot that he came out to keep an eye on Orson. His thoughts were now completely caught up in the ideas that Stellan had given him.

Stellan continued, “Oliver and Brandon are here for your mother. You should think about why she’s so close to them. Were they the ones who made her leave Odalys back then? Or was it someone else?

“If Hannah hadn’t given up on Odalys, or your family hadn’t taken Sophia in, the Bennett family would probably be at their peak now, an existence that even the Simpson family wouldn’t dare to provoke.

“It’s a pity that someone wanted to destroy the Bennett family before, and even gave Sophia a Love Spell to use against other men. You need to think carefully about whether you’ve been hit. “How could someone like her, who has never been exposed to a Love Spell, possess such a thing? Did she draw it herself? I’m afraid not. The only possibility is that someone else gave it to her.”

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“Who gave her the Love Spell? And who made the Bennet family abandon Odalys? Maybe there was a conspiracy from the very beginning aimed at the Bennett family. The Bennett family may be in trouble if you don’t find this person,” Stellan said, patting Caspian on the shoulder.

He turned to leave, and Caspian looked at him with complicated eyes.

“Why are you telling me this? What’s your purpose?” Caspian hurriedly took two steps forward and asked.

Stellan lowered his head and chuckled, his handsome face full of smiles.

He said, “I’ve never met you, but you seem the most reliable of all the Bennett family people. I don’t want to see the Bennett family destroyed. What do you think?

“Besides, I’m just giving you a heads-up about some things I know. What you do with that information is none of my business.” After finishing his sentence, Stellan stepped into the living room.

The night felt especially cold for Caspian as he stood outside alone.

The thought of Stellan mentioning the Bennett family’s negative energy confirmed his suspicions. He had also suspected that the Bennett family was shrouded in negative energy, which was also why he was so eager to move out.

“Who made the Bennett family abandon Odalys? And who wanted Sophia to usurp Odalys’s position and take her place?” Caspian was completely absorbed in the line of thinking Stellan had presented.

A hint of ruthlessness flashed through his eyes, but it was quickly concealed.

Caspian was good at hiding his true thoughts. He appeared not to be competing with Henry, but the truth was, he never missed an opportunity to trip Henry up.

Thinking of this, a thought suddenly occurred to Caspian.

He turned and ran outside, looking up at the floor-to-ceiling window on the second floor, only to find nothing there.

“Was I just overthinking it?” Caspian wondered to himself.

With a heavy heart, he lifted his foot and stepped into the living room.

Stellan walked in from outside, and Selah hurried over to him and asked, “How is it? Was your brainwashing successful?”

Stellan made an OK gesture.

“It’s done. I just asked two questions. I asked who made the Bennett family abandon Odalys and who wanted Sophia to replace her. I saw ambition in Caspian’s eyes. This man is not content with his current position,” Stellan concluded.

But Selah was restless.

“Orson has been up there for so long and hasn’t come down yet. I hope nothing happened.” Selah glanced toward the stairs but didn’t see Orson come down.

Stellan didn’t say anything and was as worried as Selah.

“Meanwhile, Hannah looked furious as she strode forward and raised her hand to hit Odalys. “Ouch.” Before her hand could swing down, her wrist was tightly pinched. The other party’s strength was so strong that it seemed like her wrist was about to be crushed. Hannah looked up.

Hannah met Percival’s cold gaze and struggled, but he only tightened his grip.

“Mrs. Bennett, feeling restless?” Percival’s voice was cold as ice.

Hannah couldn’t help but shiver. As she struggled, Percival didn’t loosen his grip, but tightened it instead, making her wrist ache with pain. Hannah’s cold sweat seeped out.

“Percival, let go of me,” Hannah gritted her teeth.

The wrinkles etched deeper into her worn and haggard face as she grimaced in struggle, making her appear almost terrifying.

Especially her eyes, which seemed somewhat sunken with dark circles. Moreover, since she wasn’t wearing makeup, she looked almost sixty years old.

Her current behavior was a stark contrast to her previously elegant demeanor.

“Do you know the price you should pay for laying your hands on Odalys? If you dare to lay a hand on her, I will break your arm tonight.

“Mrs. Bennett, you wouldn’t want to lose a hand, would you? If you insist, I don’t mind personally chopping it off for you.” Percival’s voice was terrifyingly cold.

Hannah was truly frightened.

She feared looking at Percival and couldn’t imagine he would protect Odalys like this.

“Odalys is my daughter.” Hannah wanted to say something else.

“Ouch.” As soon as she finished speaking, Percival increased his grip. His eyes were full of ruthlessness, as if he were looking at a dying person. “But Odalys is my wife.

“She’s a member of the Stewart family. When was it your place to lay a finger on her? You should know your place,” Percival said fiercely.

Hannah was completely frightened by him. Before she could speak, Percival flung her hand away.

He quickly took out a handkerchief and wiped his fingertips, as if he had just touched something dirty.

As for Hannah, she watched her wrist turn blue and purple. It was as if her wrist would become necrotic due to lack of blood circulation the next second if he didn’t let go. There was a scar on it, clearly visible.

She didn’t dare to wonder if what Percival had just said was a threat or a joke.

She could only say, “Since she married you, the Stewart family can protect her as much as they want. Why did you break into the Bennett family in the middle of the night and make a scene? And to top it off, she stole my necklace before she married.

“The Stewart family won’t ignore this, right? I wore that necklace for over six months, but she snatched it away. The Stewart family must give me an explanation.” Hannah’s purpose was clear. She wanted this necklace.

This was the condition Oliver had offered. He cured her, and she would take Sophia’s necklace in exchange.

“You think wearing it for six months makes it yours? I’ve lived at the Bennett Villa for six months, so shouldn’t it be mine? If the necklace is yours, then this place belongs to me. Hannah, why don’t you move out?” Odalys sneered sarcastically.

‘I’ve seen shameless people but never seen anything this shameless,’ Odalys thought. ‘The Bennett family people are so shameless.’
“You,” Hannah seethed, her chest heaving with anger.

Her eyes were fixed on Odalys’s neck. Staring at the necklace Odalys was wearing, greed flashed across Hannah’s eyes.
‘The necklace Oliver wants must be extraordinary,’ Hannah thought.

Everything had been going smoothly for her since she put it on, but after Odalys took it back, she started having bad luck.

This made her believe that the necklace must be something good.

Knowing how powerful the necklace was, she would never have let Odalys take it. But now that it was on Odalys’s neck, getting it back was a pipe dream.

“Odalys.” At that moment, Brandon rushed over.

He stood hunched over in front of Odalys, looking much older than before, but his cloudy eyes stared fixedly at her as if wanting to devour her.

“Did you kill my ancestor?” Brandon said through gritted teeth.

Odalys listened, a mocking smile spreading across her lips. ‘This man wanted to use Francis’s body to bring his ancestor back. His scheme is too obvious.’

“Your ancestor? I don’t even know you. Do you think I would know your ancestor? Besides, you’re old enough to be my grandfather.

I’m only 20. Where would I have met your ancestor?” Odalys retorted with a laugh.

Brandon was rendered speechless.

He was completely at a loss for words.

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He couldn’t say that Oliver set up a magic zone, picked the least fortunate Francis, tried to lure him into it, and especially drew a powerful talisman to kill Odalys in an illusion.

His lips moved, but no words came out.

It was like suffering in silence with no way to express it.

“I thought you were kind back in the village, but I didn’t expect you to be involved with the Bennett family now. It seems I underestimated you. After all, your family was the talk of Crownridge back then, the favorites of the elite. Every wealthy family wanted you to tailor their clothes,” Odalys said.

Brandon looked at her warily.

“So, last time, when you barged into the Bennett Villa in the middle of the night and asked your son to die at their doorstep, were you trying to find an opportunity to extort money from them? Otherwise, why are you now a guest of honor in the Bennett family?” Odalys asked, feigning ignorance.

The more she spoke like this, the more frustrated Brandon became.

“I’m so sorry. May he rest in peace!” Odalys quickly covered her mouth, pretending to have misspoken.

She carefully observed Brandon’s expression as she spoke.

She noticed that when she mentioned his son’s death, his heart remained unmoved, without a trace of emotion.

Odalys’s heart sank. She saw Brandon’s kinship line turn from a dotted line to a solid one, and it was particularly clear, meaning his family was in the Bennett family.

But his only son was dead, and the kinship line was not broken.

She had previously guessed that he did not die childless, nor could he have set up such a big game and risked his son’s life, so the only explanation was that he had a child in the Bennett family.

‘Then who is his child?’ Odalys wondered.

Unfortunately, even though she could sense the family connection, something might have obscured it, preventing her from seeing where it led or to whom he was bound.

But she could be sure Brandon’s child was in the Bennett Villa.

“Odalys. What are you doing? You haven’t been home since you got married, and you quarrel with Mom immediately after you come home. Mom has been missing you all this time.

“How could she be thinking about your necklace? She’s just speaking out of anger.

“Odalys. You wouldn’t look down on us just because you married into a wealthy family and our family went bankrupt, would you? “Sophia said, hiding in the corner.

She had been observing everyone’s every move.

Seeing Odalys and Hannah quarreling, a hint of delight flashed in her eyes.

But she couldn’t hide forever. Oliver had been reminding the Bennett family that he wanted the necklace around Odalys’s neck, so she assumed it must be powerful.

For this reason, she deliberately ran forward.

Standing before Hannah, she looked at Odalys with red eyes, biting her lip and staring at Odalys’s neck.

She saw Odalys’s fair and delicate skin. With the simple necklace adorning her swan-like neck, Odalys was breathtakingly beautiful.
A look of apprehension flashed across Sophia’s eyes.

Her hands clenched tightly around her clothes, her eyes almost overflowing with anger.

“Give me the necklace and I’ll return it to Mom for you. We are family. There’s no need to make things awkward in front of the Stewart family. You’re making a fool of yourself,” Sophia said with a hypocritical tone.

Odalys looked at her delicate and pretentious appearance and chuckled.

Sophia’s eyes instantly turned red; she looked at Odalys with grievance, and finally, her eyes fell on Percival. Staring at his handsome face, the possessiveness in her eyes was almost overflowing.

“Per-“Sophia felt so wronged that she wanted to speak up.

But Percival glanced at her and said, “Don’t talk to me.”

Sophia was stunned.

She couldn’t believe Percival was so ungentlemanly.

Then she saw him reach out and put his arm around Odalys’s waist, pulling her into his arms. He lowered his head, his lips pressed against her ear, and Sophia could faintly see him seemingly kissing Odalys’s ear.

She didn’t know what he was saying to Odalys in a low voice.

Odalys looked up, and her face lit up. Percival nodded to her.

“I’m exhausted. Let’s go,” Odalys said, turning to leave.

Sophia was dumbfounded. She didn’t expect Odalys to leave like that.

Anxious, she rushed forward, trying to grab Odalys’s arm, but before she could touch Odalys, Odalys stepped aside, and Sophia couldn’t stop herself.

“No.” Her body missed and she fell forward.

She had wanted to rush forward, pull Odalys, and use the momentum to knock Odalys down. As she pushed Odalys down, she would smoothly pull off the necklace. Unfortunately, her plan failed.

Odalys, as if seeing through her thoughts, directly dodged her move.

“Stay away from me,” Odalys said, glancing at her coldly.

Sophia fell to the ground, grimacing in pain.

Selah, however, suddenly squatted down. Looking at Sophia sprawled on the ground, she said softly, “Aren’t you pregnant? What if you lose the baby?

“I heard that if an unborn child is miscarried due to a fall, the child will hold a grudge and come back for you in the middle of the night to take your life.” Selah’s voice was loud as if she deliberately wanted everyone to hear.

As soon as she said that, Sophia’s expression drastically changed.

She turned her head to look at the living room and found Oliver and Windsor staring at her intently.

Sophia was so mad that she wanted to curse. But she saw Selah get up and leave. She reached out to grab Selah’s foot, but Freya rushed forward, raised her foot, and kicked her hand away.

“Your hands are so restless,” Freya laughed and playfully scolded.

She kicked Sophia’s hand away before standing there looking down at Sophia’s embarrassment, and added, “Your hands are just like you.”

“Oh.” Sophia was so angry when she was scolded for being cheap.

She was so angry that she was gritting her teeth. She wanted to pounce on Freya and tear her apart.

She and Freya were at odds when she was in the entertainment industry. Previously, she had even snatched resources from Freya. Now, being scolded by Freya and letting Freya see her so down and out, she wanted to die.

“Shut up, aren’t you embarrassed enough?” Hannah snapped.

She looked at Sophia, her mind constantly flashing back to the passionate scene of her and Windsor in the study.

The maternal love she had for Sophia had long vanished, and she even wanted to kill her.

“Dad.” Sophia got up from the ground, but as she turned around, Windsor pulled her over, causing her to fall into his arms. His broad palm reached over and touched her flat belly.

At that moment, the force suppressing Oliver seemed to disappear, and he got up.

His gaze landed greedily on Sophia’s belly.

“Are you pregnant?” Oliver asked.

Sophia felt a shiver run down her spine and instinctively took half a step back.

Meeting Oliver’s intense gaze, Sophia held her breath.

“I don’t see any signs of pregnancy. Let me see your hand,” Oliver said.

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Sophia didn’t extend her hand but kept retreating. She looked at Oliver warily, as if he would hurt her. She didn’t dare to trust men who could draw talismans easily.

She had been tricked by a fake magician before and slept with him, which completely ruined her reputation.

“Strange, why can’t I see you are pregnant? Could it be that the baby is hidden? If that’s the case…” Oliver sank into deep thought.

He was in desperate need of an unborn, miscarried child.

The fetus in the belly of the former producer’s wife was something he was determined to get. Unexpectedly, the producer discovered a clue and directly burned the painting, causing his plan to fail.

Now, hearing about Sophia’s pregnancy, his eyes lit up.

The Bennett Villa was full of negative energy, and Sophia had been residing there. If the child got aborted there, it would absorb this negative energy, becoming even more resentful than other aborted fetuses.

He needed a powerful boost.

“Let’s put aside her pregnancy for now. Tell me, why did your magic zone fail? I’m afraid my ancestor is dead.” At this, Brandon regained his senses.

Previously, when Odalys and the others were present, his thoughts were disrupted.

Now that they had left, he regained his composure. He felt that something was strange about what happened tonight.

“The magic zone failed. Francis appeared here alive, and his body had never been possessed by anyone else. It means your ancestor couldn’t occupy Francis’s body within the stipulated time. “Given your ancestor’s demise and Francis’s current fortune, he should have easily taken over Francis’s body. How could it have gone wrong?” Oliver asked, distressed.

As he spoke, his chest churned, and he almost vomited blood again.

Although he survived after his magic zone failed, his injuries were too severe to set any more magic zones or draw any talismans recently. He was lucky to have survived the injuries. He was still afraid when he thought back.

‘Is Odalys really that powerful? Or did she secretly ask an expert for advice?’ Oliver wondered.

“Dead? So I killed my ancestor? No way. His soul has been lingering for so many years. How could he die so easily? There must be a way to remedy this,” Brandon murmured.

He had originally intended to use the Bennett family’s negative energy to help his ancestor.

“Oliver, what did you promise me? You said you would find a new body for my ancestor.” Brandon roared in collapse.
The ancestor he had raised for so long was gone just like that.

All his efforts were wasted.

Oliver felt a surge of blood in his chest, and he turned his head away in discomfort.

“Pooh!” Oliver cried out, spitting blood. He felt as if his very core were tearing apart.

He didn’t expect the backlash this time to be so severe.

He thought of Odalys saying that the person who performed the spell in the villa died from backlash.

“Who the hell is Odalys?” Oliver murmured in a low voice, his eyes rolled back, and he fainted. Windsor stood there, holding Sophia in his arms, feeling her struggling constantly. He increased his strength and restrained her in his arms, pressing his hand against her abdomen with a hint of threat.

“Go back to your room and rest up,” Windsor said.

Sophia felt that there was something scary about Windsor, but she couldn’t put her finger on it.

She didn’t dare to say anything more and turned to walk upstairs. As she went upstairs, she turned to see Windsor calling Henry over to carry Oliver back to the guest room.

Brandon stood there dumbfounded, and Hannah looked thoughtful.

“What happened?” Seeing that everyone had left, Hannah hurried forward and asked.

Brandon’s face was grim as he stood there. Watching the negative energy in the Bennett Villa grow heavier after nightfall, he felt like his body couldn’t take it. He used to love places with negative energy because he had that ancestor protecting him.

But now, negative energy was suffocating him.

“Find a way to get the necklace from her neck. This necklace has a supportive function. Odalys probably relies on it for her strength,” Brandon said.

Hannah watched him turn up and stumble the stairs. She chased after him and asked, “What’s your relationship with Oliver? Have you been after the Bennett family for a long time?” Unfortunately, Brandon didn’t answer her.

Hannah stood there for a while before turning around and realizing Edie was behind her. She hadn’t noticed her approach.

“The Bennett family is completely useless. Odalys’s move tonight was nothing more than a warning to them. If they dare to do it again, I’m afraid someone will die.

“Odalys must have shown mercy to spare Oliver’s life tonight. How could she be so powerful at such a young age? Didn’t they say she was a jinx?” Edie said, puzzled.

Now she was completely clueless, unable to tell what was real and what wasn’t.

She said, “We can’t let Odalys have her way. Percival protected her like that tonight. Even if we lured Evander out and successfully conceived his child, we wouldn’t be a match for Percival.”

Hannah was worried.

The Bennett family was overwhelmed. They had many people, but they were all useless.

“Don’t forget that Percival is poisoned. His death is only a matter of time. Does the Stewart family think that rushing a wedding will drive away the poison in him?” Edie said with a cold laugh.

Hannah looked back at her.

“When will we make our move?” Hannah asked.

She couldn’t wait any longer.

Percival’s threatening eyes earlier had sent chills down her spine.

In addition, she saw how Windsor protected Sophia, and Oliver was injured while setting his magic zone. Brandon’s ancestor died tonight. The magic zone that originally sounded so impressive had failed.

She felt increasingly insecure and needed to carve out her path. Otherwise, she would be at the mercy of others.

“Keep an eye on him these next few days, and when the opportunity arises, take him down when he’s alone. You’d better find out where Sophia keeps her Love Spell. We need it to manipulate that old thing.” Edie instructed.

After saying this, she lifted her foot and walked upstairs.

Seeing this, Hannah followed her upstairs. However, they didn’t see Atlas, injured earlier, leaning against the back of the sofa.
He supported himself on the edge of the sofa and stood up in pain. The pain in his body became more intense, but he stared at the back of Edie and Hannah.

“Didn’t Mom break off her friendship with her? When did they reconcile? Who is the man they are talking about? Who do they want to plot against? Percival is dying? Could it be that their target is the Stewart family?” Atlas grunted in pain.

He felt he should not have been the first to bear the brunt and get himself injured tonight.

Atlas slumped on the ground and looked at the messy living room. He felt a little trance and felt that the Bennett family was over, and everyone had their thoughts.

“Atlas.” Sophia’s voice suddenly sounded above his head.

Atlas was startled by her voice.

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Atlas spun around, his scalp tingling as he met her beaming gaze. Instinctively, he shifted back, eyeing her with wariness.
“Atlas, why are you looking at me like that?” Sophia gazed at him with feigned sadness, then crouched down and shuffled toward him, forcing her presence upon him.

She said, “Dad told me to rest up for the baby. Do you think he’s trying to put me under house arrest? Atlas, you’re the best to me in the Bennett family. Don’t ignore me, okay?

“Atlas! It’s not my fault Mom and Dad are getting a divorce. He forced me into this.

“I’m just a girl. What could I do? Atlas, can you help me?” Sophia pleaded, leaning toward him and grabbing his arm.

Atlas recoiled as if burned, shaking her hand off.

Ignoring the pain shooting through his body, he scrambled to his feet and bolted upstairs.

“Atlas. Atlas.” Sophia chased after him. Atlas was so scared that he couldn’t help speeding up, rushing into the room like flying, and slamming the door with a “bang”.

Sophia, on the other hand, stood still.

She bit her lip, staring at the door of Atlas’s bedroom with a grim expression.

“Did he find something? He was knocked out by me last night, so he couldn’t find out that I opened his chest. Why is he so afraid of me? Did he find out, or was he under too much pressure recently?” Sophia muttered to herself.

She was testing Atlas just now.

She couldn’t let anyone else know her secret. After returning to the Bennett Villa, she had been hiding her strength, worried they might use her if they found out.

To protect herself, she must endure.

“And what Odalys said about the man who set a magic zone in the villa, that man is dead.” Sophia seemed to have caught something. Her eyes widened in sudden realization.

It was as if something had occurred to her. The man in the villa had died while setting a magic zone.

Her luck had suddenly plummeted, and she had been unable to recover. It was only by relying on the Love Spell to seize Finnian’s luck that she had managed to maintain her current state. “Could it be that Odalys meant that old guy was helping me when she said he was setting a magic zone? That villa…” Sophia panicked. She quickly grabbed her phone to reread the news about the events at the villa.

A haunted house!

More than a dozen bodies had been dug up in the villa. The murderer had not been found, but these people had disappeared one after another. She looked at the dates when these people were reported missing.

She compared them one by one and made a startling discovery.

The dates of these people’s disappearances and deaths coincided with her good fortune.

For example, the days when she got high scores on exams or when things went particularly well for her were all the times when these people died. She couldn’t believe her eyes as she continued to read.

The last death occurred around the time Odalys returned.

There was no one after that.

In other words, no one died after Odalys returned. Later on, Sophia had always had bad luck.

“Is it possible the one who had been backfired was performing a ritual for me? Did they absorb others’ fortune and try to give it to me? No wonder my fortune hasn’t been improving.

“Is it because no one is doing this for me anymore? No, I should find someone to extract fortune for me again.” Sophia panicked.

She never connected the villa incident with herself.

She had always been well-behaved these years, and no one knew what was different about her. “No wonder when I contacted that person before, I found out that the person who met me was a fake magician and tricked me into taking off my clothes and bathing. It seems that after that man died, his cell phone fell into someone else’s hands.

“No wonder no one has contacted me again. What should I do? Could it be that no one can take his place?” Sophia panicked.
She felt a sense of powerlessness lingering over her. She wanted to do something but couldn’t.

Apart from the Love Spell, she had no other useful cards.

And there were not many Love Spells left.

She couldn’t use them casually anymore, so she couldn’t use Love Spells to do more things. ‘If that man is dead, he must have a successor. If I could find his successor, perhaps they would know something about the Love Spells.’ Thinking of it, Sophia walked heavily upstairs.

She didn’t expect that there was still a person standing outside the door. Caspian had been outside and didn’t come in. He was shocked by what Stellan said and was even thinking about its credibility.

He didn’t expect to see such a wonderful scene.

“It seems that everyone has their own story.

Sophia, who are you? No wonder you want to replace Odalys. It seems that you are not simple either,” Caspian said coldly.
Thinking of how he had protected her before, and feeling that she was weak, he wanted to slap himself.

Now, he felt the entire Bennett family, even his parents, couldn’t be trusted.

‘What should I do? Should I ask Atlas to be my ally? He is being targeted by Sophia now. What if she gets to me too?’ At the thought of this, Caspian immediately gave up.

Percival drove his Cayenne away from the Bennett Villa on the road, followed by Stellan’s car.

At the corner, Percival slowed down. A figure came running, opened the door, and jumped in. “I’m so exhausted.” Orson gasped.
He had just climbed to the second floor of the Bennett Villa to search for something, his heart pounding. Only after receiving the message from Percival to retreat did he jump down from the second floor.

Unexpectedly, Caspian was outside, and he almost ran into him.

Startled, Orson turned his head and jumped over the wall.

Unexpectedly, he stepped on a stray dog and was chased for nearly three thousand feet. Forced into a corner, he knocked the dog unconscious with a punch before escaping. Fortunately, Percival slowed down, allowing him to catch up.

Otherwise, he would have to walk back tonight. “Any discoveries?” Odalys asked.

She handed him a bottle of water. Orson took it and said, “Thank you.”

He unscrewed the cap, took a few gulps, and said slowly, “Of course, I have some discoveries. I followed your instructions and checked the room you mentioned.

“Well, I saw ashes in Sophia’s room. I brought some back for you,” Orson said.

He opened his pocket. Inside was a piece of paper casually wrapped around something. He unwrapped it, revealing some burnt paper.
Odalys took the ashes from him. She rubbed them gently with her fingers, lifted them to her nose, and sniffed lightly. Then she ran her fingertip across the ashes.

Orson watched her in astonishment, only to see that the ashes were restored to their original state.

“Holy crap,” Orson couldn’t help but curse.

He didn’t expect her to have the ability to restore ashes to their original form. The handwriting on it was visible.

“Although it was torn and burned, it’s not difficult to see that they are astrological signs, Atlas’s astrological signs,” Odalys said.

Orson moved closer but only saw the year and the month. Given the ages of the Bennet family’s men, he knew it could only be Atlas.

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He rubbed his fists and approached her with a flattering smile. His beautiful eyes sparkled as he grinned like a fool. “Odalys,” he asked, “is there a problem with burning a piece of paper with astrological signs on it?”

“No,” Odalys replied.

Orson had hoped to hear something juicy.

He was a little disappointed to hear her say there was no problem.

He wondered if Sophia had lost her mind, burning paper with astrological signs on it in her room for no reason.
“This is a Love Spell,” Odalys suddenly said.

Orson’s disappointment instantly vanished. He gasped in shock, his eyes widening in excitement.

“This is a Love Spell? What kind of Love Spell was she trying to make?” Orson’s voice almost cracked under the strain.
He didn’t expect to get this after he climbed through a window.

He regretted it. ‘I should have poured all the ashes out and gotten them back, instead of taking only a little.’
Orson was filled with regret now.

“It seems the Love Spell works specifically when the other person’s astrological signs are on it. She probably wants to be loved by the Bennett family again. However, judging from today’s situation, these men of the Bennett family don’t care about her,” Odalys said, quickly putting away the ashes in her hand.
“Then this Love Spell is useless? We did all that work for nothing?” Orson found it hard to accept. They kept hinting at Oliver, making him believe the Love Spell could save him.

They even had Edie look for the Love Spell, saying it could make her menstruation, which had not stopped, disappear.
The Bennett family seemed messy enough now, and if the Love Spell were useless, everything would have been in vain. All the guesses were wrong. It would be a waste of effort.

“It’s also possible that this Love Spell is fake,” Odalys suddenly said.

Orson listened to her, and his previously dejected expression immediately brightened. “Sophia wanted to buy another Love Spell before, so she was tricked by the fake magician, which led to her losing her virginity. This means that the real Love Spell maker is hiding.

“Even Sophia doesn’t know who the other person is anymore. That person realized things weren’t going in his favor and decided not to get involved. Therefore, I’m unsure if Sophia possesses the real Love Spell.

“But the one she burnt now is fake, so after she used it, she couldn’t manipulate Atlas.

“So many things happened today, but she stood in the corner observing and did not join in. Edie did the same. Both of them should be watching everyone from God’s perspective.” Odalys continued to explain.

Orson rubbed his bewitching face with his hand, his tall body casually sprawled out.

“Is there anything unusual in Windsor’s study?” Odalys asked suddenly.

Orson quickly took out his mobile phone and handed it to her.

“I’m afraid I can’t see clearly, so I took videos of Sophia’s room and Windsor’s study. I took pictures of all the corners. I’ll send them to you,” Orson said.

He hurriedly opened WhatsApp and sent the video to Odalys.

Odalys looked down at the study, her fingertips rubbing the phone screen, lost in thought.

“Odalys. How is it? Did you find anything?” Orson asked anxiously and quickly.

Odalys stopped the video, handed it to him, and said, “Opposite his desk, there’s something wrong with the decorations on the offering table. Generally, businessmen put up a picture or statue of a god.

“He lit two sticks of incense, and there’s something wrong with the placement. He’s not offering to a god,” Odalys said.
Percival sat in the driver’s seat, quietly driving while listening to her and Orson. Hearing her say this, he subconsciously asked, “Could it be deism?”

“It can’t be. His offering table feels like it’s for the dead,” Odalys said.

Orson was so scared that goosebumps crawled up his skin, and he rubbed his arms.

“Damn. Please check it for me, Odalys. Is there a ghost following me back?” Orson, who was about 6 feet tall, quickly shrank toward Odalys. He looked around, frightened.

Odalys looked at what he was doing and found it amusing.

“Odalys. What are you laughing at? Come and help me. I don’t want to be caught by a ghost,” Orson said, subconsciously reaching out to hug her shoulder.

As soon as he raised his hand, he met Percival’s eyes, looking at him from the rearview mirror.

Orson’s hand froze in midair and immediately shrank back.
“Aha, there’s nothing!” Odalys laughed.

Looking at Orson’s embarrassment, the corners of her mouth twitched, and she forcibly restrained herself from laughing.

The young man from the medical family, who used to look cold and aloof, was now like a cheerful big boy, and people who didn’t know him would think he was funny.

“That’s good. It scared me to death. I can die on the battlefield or for proper business, but I must never die at the hands of a ghost. Otherwise, how can I make a name in the future?” Orson said, puffing out his chest.

Odalys ignored him and continued to watch the video.

Her eyes fell on Sophia’s room. She vaguely saw that there seemed to be a secret compartment on the side of the wall. One corner of the brick was raised. It must be that Sophia didn’t close it properly after opening it.

With that thought in mind, she glanced back toward the Bennett Villa.

It was now night, and everywhere was pitch black. The streetlights couldn’t illuminate the way to the Bennett Villa, which was bound to be lively tonight.

“Odalys. Did you find something? Should we go back?” Orson asked hurriedly, looking at her expression.

Odalys shook her head and stuffed her phone into her canvas bag.

“No need to go back. I think I know what’s happening. Our purpose is mainly to destroy the magic zone they created and let the backlash seriously injure Oliver so he won’t have the energy to cause trouble.

“Now that Brandon and Oliver are staying at the Bennett Villa, they are all gathered together. They will continue to cause trouble,” Odalys said. Percival drove the car and looked back from the rearview mirror.

“You are flushing them out, deliberately provoking them and making them panic. But you spared Oliver’s life and didn’t kill him. Do you want to see if he has any follow-up actions and whether he can bring out the manipulator behind the scenes?” Percival guessed her thoughts and asked.

Odalys was a little surprised.

She didn’t say anything, but Percival guessed it. “Yes, we need to find out who started all this twenty years ago. Someone encouraged them to abandon me and bring Sophia back to replace me. I want to know if this has anything to do with your father’s car accident.

“But I feel there must be a connection between the two,” Odalys said.

Eliminating them now would be a temporary fix, and they could make a comeback.

So, just like the word Percival’s father left in her room, “wait.”

But “waiting” didn’t mean doing nothing. It meant doing something to make them panic and reveal more. That was the goal.

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“Francis’s body isn’t possessed, is it?” Orson suddenly asked.

Odalys shook her head with a smile.

She said, “They can’t possess it. I put a talisman on Francis. Even if something happened to him, ghosts couldn’t enter his body. I did this tonight because I wanted to see who was in such a hurry to get a body.

“Brandon seems to be a psychic, so he works for this so-called ancestor, who died around the 1920s. He must have something unfinished and was eager to use someone else’s body to return. “They calculated that Francis had the weakest fortune among the people around us, so they chose to attack him. If Francis hadn’t mentioned this to me today, he might have been in danger tonight.”
Orson listened to her words, his lips pursed. He lightly tapped his smooth forehead with his slender fingertips, combing his messy hair a few times, and said, “It seems that having low fortune is not good.”

“Those who achieve great things are at the peak of their fortune. People with low fortune will have frequent accidents, such as falls, car accidents, being framed, or encountering setbacks.” Odalys explained.

Therefore, fortune was crucial in life.

“Are luck and fortune the same thing?” Orson suddenly asked.
Odalys was silent for a while.

“Fortune is far greater than luck. Fortune is a law governed by the chaos of heaven and earth, but luck is personal and different.” Odalys explained. Orson listened silently. He didn’t quite understand.

But listening to her talk about these things, he felt she was amazing.

“I see.” Orson nodded slightly.

Percival drove the car but did not return to the Stewart Villa. Instead, he parked the car in a dark place.

“Here already?” Odalys looked at the car parked on the side of the road and glanced around, realizing they hadn’t returned to the Stewart Villa.

Percival walked around and opened the car door for her.

“You’ve expended a lot of energy. Let’s have some supper before we go back,” Percival said.

Hearing that, Odalys realized that she was indeed a little hungry.

She had dinner at the Stewart Villa before their departure but was surprised to find it was already one in the morning when she checked the time. Despite the late hour, she felt nothing.

It was as if it had only been a short while, but six hours had passed.

“Okay.” Odalys jumped out of the car.

Stellan followed behind Percival’s car, parked his car on the side of the road, got out of the car, and looked at the supper stall in front of him. He found that the place was empty, with no customers.

The LED lights twinkling throughout the night market stalls created a lively atmosphere.

“Mr. Stewart. Mrs. Stewart. Please come in.” Seeing the car parked outside, the owner rushed over.

His eyes landed precisely on Percival, and he respectfully greeted Odalys.

“Is the late-night snack ready?” Percival asked. With a welcoming smile, the owner nodded respectfully and said, “Yes. Everything is ready as you requested. Please, have a seat.”

“Alright,” Percival replied.

Odalys was a little surprised. She didn’t expect him to have arranged everything in advance. “It’s to save you some time. We can go back to rest after eating so you can have enough sleep,” Percival explained.

Seeing her busy all day long, he felt sorry for her.

Percival led her to a seat in the courtyard. Stellan and the others also came in, and the group sat down at the large table in the courtyard with no one around.

The waiter immediately brought the supper over.

It was a romantic food stall, but the roast meat served tasted excellent. These were all common midnight snacks, very down-to-earth.

“Mr. Stewart, do you also eat such down-to-earth food? I thought rich people were all very particular about being high-end,” Selah said softly at this time.

Orson let out a chuckle.

He took a beer, opened it, and poured it into glasses for Stellan and Francis.

“This is called currying favor. These grilled chicken wings, vegetables, fish, lobster, and beef are all things Odalys likes to eat. As long as Odalys likes it, everything is high-end. Understand?

“He always puts his wife first in everything. Otherwise, he doesn’t usually appear in these places.” Orson talked more after drinking.

Francis raised his glass to him and said jokingly,” It seems that Mr. Stewart loves Odalys deeply.”

“That’s right. He is very devoted to his relationships. No woman other than Odalys can catch his eye. Mr. Stewart, don’t hold back your feelings. Don’t restrain yourself too much. Otherwise, Odalys won’t understand.” Freya immediately agreed.

Percival held the fork, his slender fingertips slightly tightened.

He subconsciously turned to look at Odalys, only to see her smiling at him. Before he could speak, she picked up a piece of fish for him and said, “Thank you for accommodating me.”

Percival’s words stuck in his throat. He didn’t know how to respond.

Now, he truly put her first in everything and always accommodated her. As long as Odalys was happy, nothing else mattered.
“It’s good that you like it.” Percival finally squeezed out a few words after a long while.

Stellan took a sip of his beer and turned his attention to Francis. “Francis, how are you feeling? Is there anything unusual with your body?” he asked.

“No, I’m fine.” Francis quickly moved his arm. What happened tonight was truly terrifying.
“Odalys, what would have happened if Francis had stuck the talisman that person gave him on you?” Selah asked as she ate the hot dog.

“When casting a spell, having a talisman stuck on you would lead you to a state of limbo, with energy constantly draining away. It’s like having your lifeline pinched,” Odalys replied as she nibbled on a roasted chicken wing.

“In mild cases, the person’s energy would be transferred away, eventually leaving them incapacitated. In severe cases, it could be fatal,” Odalys said nonchalantly.

Although she said this indifferently, everyone was shocked.

No one could believe that if Francis had any intentions, Odalys would be dead.

“Odalys. Do you trust me that much? Aren’t you afraid that if I had any murderous intentions toward you, you would be in danger?” Francis was also shocked. He knew it was serious but didn’t expect it to be this serious.

What they said amused Odalys.

“I’m not that easy to kill, and I’m an excellent judge of character. Besides, you wouldn’t kill me,” Odalys said with a smile.
Francis might seem cold and aloof, but he was genuinely kindhearted and trustworthy.

That was why he was taken advantage of by his agent and ex-girlfriend and almost lost his life. If he had been a wicked person with ill intentions, Odalys would never have associated with him.

When she made friends with others, she considered whether the person was kind.

“By the way, why did I see my ex-girlfriend and my agent in the illusion? You said they were my inner demons, but how did that person summon my inner demons?” Francis was a little curious.

He was startled when he saw his ex-girlfriend and agent appear.

Deep down, he was afraid of these two women.

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