The Fake Heiress Turns Out to Be a True Tycoon!-Chapter 325: Person Protected by the Divine?

"Auntie, can I have some soup tonight?"

Azura Loomis seemed to ask casually.

Odessa instantly replied without thinking, "Of course, you can! I had the maid prepare your favorite soup in advance, I’ll serve it to you later!"

"Thank you, Auntie. You’re so good to me!"

Azura smiled sweetly, while the sound of the system echoed in her mind.

[System: Odessa accepts the host’s request, agreeing to lend 3000 Fortune.]

Right when the system’s voice fell, Odessa walked towards the kitchen and just as the maid came out with the soup, they bumped into each other.

Two exclamations rang out.

"Ah!"

"Ah! It’s hot!"

The maid was unscathed, but Odessa’s chest was scalded wet.

The maid’s face changed drastically, not bothering to clean up, she hurriedly pulled Odessa upstairs to change clothes.

Just as Odessa stepped out, she slipped on the soup and fell down.

The kitchen entrance was in chaos, another maid came forward, and the two of them barely managed to lift her up from the ground and quickly sent her back to her room.

Azura stood not far away watching the maids help a flustered Odessa upstairs, showing a timely sign of concern on her face, but not seeming to intend to help.

Because she was currently appreciating her "achievement."

To strategize and extract Fortune from the target, the condition is to make a request while extracting; regardless of the request, as long as the other party agrees, it is considered consent to lend.

This is the method by which Azura Loomis extracts Fortune through the system.

There is also a downside; if the request is refused by the other party, the system will automatically deduct a point of Goodwill Value.

Just like when she made a request to Adam Jennings and was rejected.

Azura Loomis went upstairs, and only after completely moving away from sight, slowly withdrew the concern from her face, her lips slowly curving into a smile.

...

What Azura Loomis didn’t know was that at the moment she changed her expression to a light smile, Sophie Harper was floating in front of her, eyes wide open staring directly at her.

After a moment, startled, she hastily floated back to Scarlett Jennings’ room, passed through the Barrier, and opened the Spirit Affairs specific phone Scarlett had prepared for her.

On the other side, Scarlett Jennings was attempting a three-person Array formation drill with Stella Gibson and Ashton Todd.

This was also an assignment given by the Array teacher.

Her phone in her pocket vibrated; she paused the group experiment, opened the phone, and saw several voice messages from Sophie Harper on the Spiritual Affairs APP.

[Scarlett, there’s really something wrong with Azura Loomis!]

[She changes faces! One moment all concerned! Next second a cold sneer, it’s terrifying!]

[Even I, a ghost, find it eerie!]

[This girl is just like those ladies in the aristocratic manors I used to see, double-faced!]

Scarlett Jennings saw several messages piling up rapidly, yet failed to discern any key points.

She knew about Azura’s double-faced nature, so it wasn’t necessary to specially mention it.

She was more curious about what had actually happened.

Finding messaging too troublesome, Scarlett directly connected the call, interrupting Sophie Harper’s chatter, and asked her to summarize the event.

Sophie Harper then related today’s incident when Azura Loomis returned home and spoke a few words to Odessa, causing misfortune to begin.

In the end, she added,

"It was really sudden, like a dark cloud descending overhead, I was watching right beside her. It was very abrupt."

From Scarlett hearing Sophie stress the suddenness, it was clear that Odessa’s Fortune must have sharply decreased, showing enough misfortune for it to be easily noticeable.

"Did Azura Loomis have any special actions or say anything odd at that time?"

Previously, Scarlett suspected that Chase Jennings’ loss of Fortune might be connected to Azura Loomis, potentially using a doll as a medium.

However, according to Sophie’s account, Azura Loomis might not even need a doll as a medium to borrow someone’s Fortune.

So, how did she borrow it?

Why is she borrowing so much fortune so frequently? What is it for?

Scarlett Jennings was somewhat curious.

Last time she suspected something fishy about Azura Loomis’s doll, she secretly placed a Truth Talisman on her.

Yet, that talisman sank like a stone into the sea, unresponsive.

Just like what happened with Hestia Knight.

However, the situation seemed somewhat different from that time.

With Hestia Knight, one could still feel an obvious resistance.

Yet, the Truth Talisman on Azura Loomis seemed to lose its Spiritual Power, unresponsive even when she increased the talisman’s pull.

When a Spirit Talisman loses its efficacy, there are generally only two possibilities.

First, she possesses a Magic Treasure that dispels Mystical Techniques.

Second, she is a person protected by the Divine.

Scarlett Jennings hoped it was not the second possibility.

It sounds troublesome.

Whether from the conclusion derived from Ianthe Lawson’s doll experiment last time or her intuition this time, Scarlett Jennings had a bad feeling.

...

She had been silent all this while, and Sophie Harper, who had been waiting on the other end, couldn’t help but speak up,

"Scarlett, are you coming back to deal with this?"

Scarlett Jennings thought for a moment and replied directly, "Not coming back."

If it were her father, brothers, or grandfather who were affected, she would definitely ask for leave to return.

But now that it’s Odessa who’s affected, Scarlett Jennings isn’t so anxious.

She could observe further.

Upon hearing her decision not to return, Sophie Harper still couldn’t help but let out an "ah," a hint of disappointment in her voice,

"Aren’t you worried that your aunt might be in danger?"

Scarlett Jennings only asked, "Has she shown signs of death?"

Sophie Harper tilted her head slightly, "Not really, it’s more like a streak of bad luck."

"As long as she can’t die, it’s fine."

Just a bit of bad luck.

Besides, having previously seen what happened with Chase Jennings, Odessa should be able to notice something amiss and would probably look for reasons and solutions herself.

Scarlett Jennings wasn’t going to rush to help Odessa.

She was busy trying to become a sponge.

Yes, a sponge that absorbs knowledge.

Only upon formally studying Mystical Techniques at the Taoism Academy did Scarlett Jennings realize that many things her master taught her were skewed towards practical combat.

Some even more basic things her master wasn’t very solid on herself.

In some places, they were even somewhat different from what was taught in the academy.

Scarlett Jennings didn’t think there was anything wrong with what her master taught her, nor did she reject these orthodox teachings of Mystical Sect, but occasionally she felt a little odd.

Thinking about the old man who attempted to swap her Fate Chart and his talk of orthodox and Sect of Evil, Scarlett Jennings would feel instinctively irritable.

Initially, she decided to come to the Taoism Academy to find her master.

However, after asking around these days, it seemed there was no trace of her master in the academy, at least not in Newlife Court.

Scarlett Jennings sometimes even doubted whether she was going in the wrong direction.

Setting aside these complex thoughts, Scarlett Jennings was about to head back to continue practicing multi-person arrays with Stella Gibson and Ashton Todd.

However, as she was just stepping out, it seemed as though she heard a voice from the ancient void, a deep and aged chant, dimly as if someone was whispering,

"Human..."

Scarlett Jennings felt a chill through her body, her footsteps suddenly halted in place.