Chapter 224 224: The Secret?

Atlas sat on his knees before the Coffin, gazing at his body. He was slightly amazed at how weak his body looked. For him, it was like it was just yesterday when he was wearing these new clothes to serve the vampire and now those new clothes were covered in deep Blood.

He still remembered the pain he felt when he was being beaten in the Cafeteria. He still remembered just how many of his bones appeared to be broken when he was dragging his body down the stairs. He could still feel that difficulty in breathing that he felt that day and more.

"A week of peace in exchange for billions of lives... A week of the life that I want in exchange for a barren and colourless world... Is that an exchange I can afford? Shall I really be a little selfish?" he muttered, talking to himself.

"What do you think, little guy? What would you do?" he asked, gazing at his body despite knowing that it couldn't answer.

"I think I know what you would do. You would be calling me stupid to even think about it. You would've just taken Misella and left far away from the conflict, not wanting to engage in anything. But then again, that's only because you had no option. You had no strength to fight and no influence to convince anyone to fight."

"You were only concerned with living your life and just trying to survive, but aren't the circumstances different now?

Atlas clenched his fist, as he continued talking to himself. "Before, you had no strength but I do even if it's borrowed. The owner of this strength helped me when I needed it the most. Can I really leave a destroyed world behind for him? Where can I even run where I would never be found?"

"They are everywhere. Sooner or later they would get to us, and if we don't take any steps now, it'll be only us against them then."

Clenching his fist, he closed his eyes. "What should I do...?"

He placed his hand on his pocket and brought out the mysterious stone. "Shall I use this stone? Shall I make everyone a Progenitor? No! That would be stupid. It'll make the world even worse than it is now as too much strength will corrupt everyone. With so many Progenitors, even Castiel wouldn't be able to stop them."

A stupid idea crossed his mind, which he immediately dumped. That idea could increase the strength of their army but it had more risks than it had advantages.

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While Atlas was playing with the mysterious stone, Lilith located the mysterious compartment hidden in the wall.

A secret compartment came out of the wall after she pressed the trigger. Inside the compartment, she could see a black cloth pouch. She couldn't see what was inside the pouch though.

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She picked up the pouch and opened it, wondering just what kind of key it was.

As she opened the pouch and looked inside, she noticed that there was no key inside! Instead, there was a letter!

Frowning, she opened the letter and started going through it.

As she went through the letter, her eyes widened.

"What the...?" She hastily turned toward Atlas who wasn't looking at her.

After taking a glance at him, she turned back to the letter and went through it again, just to be sure.

"You!" she muttered in disbelief. "You kept this hidden from me? Argh, you could've at least told me!"

Reading the letter, she didn't know what to think. She was slightly happy at the content of the letter, but she was also angry that Castiel kept this hidden from her.

"So that's where you went when you disappear for a few days...." She folded the letter and kept that letter in her pocket.

She walked back to Atlas, placing her hand on his shoulder.

"You found the key?" Atlas asked, coming out of his daze.

"Yeah. I think we have what is needed now. Come, let's go. Also, we can think about what to do when we are in the village. Until then stop thinking about what to do. It's way more important for this war that we get to the distant Village!" Lilith informed Atlas.

Atlas still hadn't managed to come to a decision, but hearing Lilith's words, he decided to listen for now as he stood up.

He turned his back on his real body, and started leaving. However, just when he was near the stairs, he stopped and glanced back.

He walked back to the coffin and closed it, before picking up.

"What are you doing?" Lilith asked, curious.

"Taking myself with me," Atlas responded. "It does sound awkward to speak now that I said it out loud, but you know what I mean."

"Anyway, I am taking this coffin and my body with me. If I decide to go to the village, it's quite possible that it'll be our new home and the place where I'll take my last breath. So I want to bury my body there. I don't want it to lie in the open here."

Carrying the Coffin, he started climbing the stairs. Lilith followed behind Atlas. This guy really had some strange ideas, but she still liked him.

Atlas left the castle and flew down the mountain with Lilith.

He got back to the carriage with the coffin.

Vor looked at the coffin and asked him about it, only to get a vague answer from Atlas which didn't clear anything for him.

Atlas didn't tell him that it was his body in the coffin. He just kept the coffin in the back of the Carriage.

"Did you hear the words of threat as well?" Vor asked, ignoring the topic of the Carriage since Atlas didn't look like he was going to answer.

"I heard."

"So, what do you want to do? One of the ships has arrived in our area as well. Do you have a plan?" Vor asked.

Atlas shook his head. "We still need time to decide on a plan. Until then, we'll go with Lilith's plan and go to the town where we can plan our next steps…"