Chapter 663: No Choice...

Chapter 663: No Choice...

Chapter 663: No Choice...

“I won’t be leaving Fluffy here with you. That’s my final decision,” Zeras said out loud, his voice giving no inch for reconsideration.

In the next instant, he didn’t bother to look at the priest before he immediately headed for the exit, already planning to begin the mission right now.

But he couldn’t help but halt in his step when he noticed he couldn’t hear the sound of Fluffy’s footsteps.

“Hmmm,” Zeras turned his gaze backward, only to see Fluffy’s back. The tiny thing was still staring at the green pool.

“Don’t tell me it really wants to go for this?” Zeras thought to himself as he walked towards Fluffy.

He could see the cat’s eyes were dead straight at the pool. It was the first time he had seen the cat stare so fixedly at something, with such resolute gaze and conviction.

“I can’t believe it.”

“You have decided to undergo the awakening, don’t you?” Zeras said as he sat down before the pool, his eyes also staring fixedly at it.

“Meow!” Fluffy gave him a sound of a yes, as Zeras stared fixedly, his gaze seemingly lost, before an incredibly wide smile bloomed on his face.

“Now that I remember it, it’s the first time you have really asked me for something...” Zeras mused, chuckling a little.

And it was just as his words suggested; it was really the first time Fluffy had wanted something from him, this resolute.

The little guy had always just flowed with the tide of his decisions, never once being against it at all. It had always flowed along with the tide of his own life.

But it seems the time was now right.

“Hmm-hmm.”

“Normally in such a situation, I would have threatened you fiercely, along the lines of ‘If anything happens to him, I would reduce your entire clan to cinders,’ and such...” Zeras said with blank eyes as the priest simply smiled to that.

“But now, it just feels empty to even say. Like I...” Zeras said once more before stopping, his hands dropping the tea on the table.

“Like you what?” the priest followed on, also placing the cup down.

“I am dying...” Zeras suddenly whispered as the priest’s brows creased.

“I can smell the stench of undying on you, and it’s very new. You’re more than far from death,” the priest said. And truly, he could determine that the young man had just broken through to the Undying rank recently.

“Not the dying as you know of it. It’s another death,” Zeras mused as the priest’s eyes flashed.

“Perhaps a death of something deeper within...”

“Exactly. I have once been betrayed before, abandoned by the very people I trusted the most.

Perhaps, I can’t call it betrayal, because I never really knew how deep their love for me was at all,” Zeras mused silently.

“But I have come to learn, real love might perhaps be silent. And there was one whose love almost meant the entire world to me.

Still, I lost him, his life seeping away within my own grasp, and that day, something died in me.

Something I really couldn’t explain. But it was clear I had lost something...”