Heiress Unmasked: Shaking the World With Geomancy novel Chapter 2397

To open or not to open—that was Gus' decision to make.

What would happen if he opened the door? Did Emma come for revenge?

Gus stared hard at the wooden door in front of him, the steady, rhythmic knocking echoing through the room.

Behind him, he could hear Jack, now awake, muffled by the rag in his mouth, growling and glaring viciously at Maureen.

For a moment, something inside Gus gave way.

He clenched his jaw, pushed himself up from the floor, and staggered on his broken leg as he limped slowly toward the door.

Standing there in the darkness was Emma. Her skin was pale, and her body was mottled with bruises and shades of blue.

He had never seen her corpse, but from the look of her now, he could imagine it had not been a peaceful death.

As their eyes met, Gus suddenly understood what she had come for.

Back then, when it was discovered that he had acted on Emma's encouragement, she had been punished for it—one of her legs was broken by Jack himself.

Later, it was also Jack who, while drinking with Bobby, urged him to take further action against her. Needless to say, there was blood on Jack's hand as well.

Gus said nothing. He simply stepped aside, limping out of her path. She entered the house, her legs twisted grotesquely beneath her, dragging her broken form forward.

One step at a time, she headed straight toward the bound Jack, whose face was now frozen in pure terror.

Nobody died in the village that night, but nearly half the villagers were left paralyzed from the waist down, with their bodies covered in festering sores.

All of those men and women affected had been directly involved in human trafficking. The villagers knew the cause of the phenomenon, but nobody dared say anything.

Gus ignored the whispers and murmurs of the villagers. Instead, he used the abandoned phone, which had inexplicably powered on, to call the police.

After contacting the families of the missing, the officers arrived with a team and entered the village.

Gus expected resistance from the villagers, but to his surprise, the villagers all shut their doors and stayed inside when the police arrived.

Mordecai looked at him, his voice deep and steady. "You used to tell me never to interfere with mortal affairs."

Every person had their own destiny, and even a mystic master, when meddled too much in the fate of others, would face severe backlash, let alone someone from the underworld.

Zidane met his eyes, brow slightly raised, and naturally said, "That's you. I told you—I am now a man of the mortal realm."

A man of the mortal world, handling mortal matters. Nothing wrong with that.

Besides, Gus was a customer of MysticApp.

Mordecai stared at him in silence for a moment before speaking again. "You don't have to be one. Vlad's core malice has already been suppressed in the Cavern, and your punishment has ended long ago.

"If you wish it, the throne of Morvahn can be yours again."

It had always been Zidane's position, to begin with. So, wouldn't it be nice for Mordecai to return it to its rightful owner?