Chapter 933
Chapter 932:
“Grandmother!” Katrina collapsed to her knees with bone-jarring force, her face tilted upward in a desperate plea. “I know I lack natural gifts, but I have devoted everything to this position! I believe dedication can compensate for what nature denied me. Please, just have faith in me p>
Maxine’s head moved in slow negation, and a laugh escaped her lips—dry as autumn leaves, empty of warmth. “Effort cannot manufacture what was never there. Talent arrives as a gift. No amount of determination and dedication can bridge the chasm between ordinary and extraordinary p>
As someone blessed with exceptional abilities, Maxine understood that gulf better than most. Even in childhood, she had absorbed complex ideas while her peers struggled despite repeated explanations. No matter how relentlessly they practiced, they could never approach the mastery that came to her like breathing.
Rita had possessed identical gifts. Maxine’s feelings for Rita transcended typical maternal bonds—they shared the rare understanding that existed between equals, the recognition of matching brilliance.
Rita’s betrayal and disappearance had carved out something irreplaceable. Maxine hadn’t simply lost a carefully cultivated daughter. She had lost her intellectual peer, her only true equal.
In all the years since Rita’s departure, Maxine had never encountered another mind that matched her own. But today, in Elliana, she felt that familiar electric recognition—the thrill of discovering kindred intelligence.
Trapped within the Jones family compound since age five, Elliana had weathered endless cruelty and dismissal. Everyone had written her off as worthless and dumb, but that assessment had been catastrophically wrong. She was a weapon wrapped in deception.
The Soulscorch that Elliana had unleashed on Jules and Katrina originated from the Poison Volume of the Medical Codex, yet the concoction wasn’t Rita’s creation. Maxine had witnessed Rita’s version firsthand.
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Elliana had worked from identical foundations, but she had clearly pushed beyond mere replication. She had refined the formula, amplifying its potency through her own innovations.
The implications struck like lightning. Rita’s supposed “donation” of the Medical Codex to Ublento Medical University had been nothing more than elaborate misdirection, designed to throw the Griffiths family off her scent. She had secretly preserved the knowledge and passed it to Elliana like a hidden inheritance.
But Rita had vanished when Elliana was merely five years old. A child at that tender age, abandoned without guidance or mentorship, had somehow conquered the Medical Codex through sheer determination and raw intellect. What a breathtaking prodigy!
Even Rita, despite her extraordinary gifts, had required Maxine’s careful tutelage to unlock the Medical Codex’s secrets. Yet, Elliana had achieved mastery in complete isolation. This revelation meant Elliana’s intellectual prowess eclipsed even Rita’s formidable abilities.
Actually, that assessment fell short of the truth. Neither Maxine nor Rita could claim to be Elliana’s equal. Maxine understood with crystalline clarity that even in her prime, she could never have unraveled the Medical Codex’s mysteries without a master’s patient instruction.
Arthur’s and Rita’s exceptional bloodlines had merged to forge something unprecedented in Elliana. She wasn’t just gifted—she was transcendent. Maxine surmised that if such a prodigy were to carry the next generation of Griffiths heirs, it would boost the family to new heights.