Chapter 173 173: Headache

"That woman? She isn't dead. She left my body before her soul could be destroyed," Atlan answered. "If I'm not wrong, she should be back in her body now."

"Her body... That means..." Atlas turned to the center of the city, realizing that Yovana's body was missing. Even if she was back in her body, she wasn't here.

As he was busy, Yovana already had one of her dead take her real body away while everyone was distracted in battle, just as a form of failsafe.

By now, she was already out of the town.

Yovana felt somewhat weak even as she returned to her body. Her soul was quite damaged from what had just happened.

"That man!" She glared at the city, unable to believe how close she was to success. However, because of Atlas, she had failed. Not only did she fail, but even Atlan was back now. Two Progenitors were together, and she had lost the pendant. Things didn't look good for her.

She turned her back on the city and started leaving. All her preparation, all her hard work, everything went down the drain right before her eyes, and she could do nothing about it but run away. From an invincible position, she had fallen so low.

The undead that was fighting Lilith and Lancaster also dropped to the ground, lifeless. It was as if they had returned to their natural state.

Atlas cast a flight spell on himself and flew high in the sky, getting a clear view of the entire city. There were bodies littered everywhere, but he couldn't see Yovana anywhere. She had left the city...

"Lilith's spell stopped her teleportation inside the city. But if she is outside, it would be really hard to catch her."

The city was surrounded by forest from two sides. And the forests only extended further. If Yovana left through one of those routes, finding her from the sky was impossible.

He came down to the ground, landing before Lilith.

"Can you locate her?"

Lilith shook her head as her eyes lowered. "I don't think it's possible. My tracker is with you. Without it, I can't track her. And if she's out of the city, she could've teleported away by now."

"So we'll just let her escape like that?" Lancaster also returned to his real form.

"You working with a Wolf again?" Atlan also joined the group, especially talking to Atlas. "Is that your replacement for that Vor?"

"Who was that woman?" Instead of answering, Atlas asked Atlan.

According to Lilith, Atlan appeared to know that woman. He could give them more ideas about her real identity.

"That woman? She is a headache," Atlan answered. His frustration was clear on his face.

"It seems you know her quite well in that case..."

"Yeah. She has been troubling me for a long time. After you all went to sleep, I was the only one who hadn't gone to slumber, disappearing forever. It seems that's what attracted that woman in the first place. She is a crazy person that I underestimated a lot."

"Throughout the years, she tried to capture me or place traps in my path. You can say that she did everything that she could, but whenever I got close to catching her, she escaped. I don't know where she came from, but it seems she also has a Vampire's eternal lifespan since she didn't age even a single day since I first saw her."

"Initially, even I didn't know why she wanted to capture me. I took her too lightly, thinking she was one of those pesky Witches like Lilith," Atlan smiled. "No offense to you, Lilith."

Lilith rolled her eyes, scoffing.

"Anyway, the back and forth continued for years. She couldn't capture me, and I couldn't get my hands on her to kill her."

"Then, one day, she placed another trap for me in a village. She controlled every villager, just like she controlled the dead here. She probably wanted to get me tired before trying her main attempt, but I killed the entire village."

"She didn't make an appearance that day, and I left, feeling pity at that woman for not giving up."

"Let me guess what happened next," Atlan could feel he knew the story from that point on.

"Your destruction of the village angered the Werewolves and the witches. This time, it wasn't Yovana who came for you, but those two groups, and you were captured," he added. "Am I right?"

"That's right," Atlan affirmed. "Those annoying pests used all the tricks they could, even falling to the levels of scheming that I hadn't expected from the Werewolves. I was captured, and that's where I stayed until recently when Lilith came to free me."

"So that's why Yovana wanted to free you. She wanted you for herself, but if you were in the captivity of the Kingdom of Wolves, she couldn't get to you. That's why she wanted someone who could free you. And that's where she found us and made a lie to get us to help her." Yovana frowned, slightly amazed at the lengths that woman went to catch Atlan.

"She did all this, only to fail in the end. I'm sure she must be cursing us," Lancaster scratched the back of his head, feeling slightly pleased that they had succeeded in spoiling her plan. She did call him weak. Now she knew what the weak could do!

"As I said, it's almost impossible to find her if she doesn't want to be found." Atlan further clarified. "I failed for years. And even this time... That woman is only a cockroach who just refuses to die!"

"Anyway, thank you for saving me. Honestly, you were the last person I expected to save me."

Atlan was a proud Progenitor, but even he didn't forget favors. No matter how many conflicts were between him and Castiel, he came to save him, which made him feel somewhat grateful, even if he knew that it was for a reason.

"Now that we got that aside, tell me why you saved me? What do you want from me?" he asked straightforwardly.

"At first, I thought you wanted me out because it was that time..." He glanced at the sky, feeling the wind on his skin. "However, it's still not the time. I can feel it. Everything is still like it was. Then what reason do you have to save me? Why did you return now, and why save me?"

'That time...?' Atlas didn't understand what time he was talking about, but he couldn't ask and highlight his ignorance. Maybe the Progenitors had decided to meet in the future for something? It was none of his concern for now.

He only had one thing in mind...