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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.
Now it was beginning to have a glimpse of its own life, and it seems it would now be floating on its own wave.
“Then go for it. When you come back in six months, you’ll find me as close as ever. And whatever wave you will be embarking on, I will always be on it with you, hmm?” Zeras said as Fluffy suddenly jumped on his face, releasing a purring sound that more than showed his gratefulness.
“Go now, the faster the better. We have everything but time, you know…” Zeras mused to him as Fluffy reluctantly separated before instantly diving into the green pool.
All its fur immediately lit up, and it sank into an unconscious state, touching down on the bottom of the pool.
More than 72 hours passed as Zeras watched the phase of Fluffy’s change, his fur slowly receding away from its body until it formed a mini-cocoon that covered his figure, blocking even Zeras’ gaze.
Still, he could sense the power of rapid evolution undergoing within the walls of the cocoon, and the transformation didn’t seem to be ending anytime soon. It was no doubt it would really take six months.
After three days of sitting quietly with his thoughts, he rose up finally, giving one last gaze at the cocoon before moving away from the temple, followed by the priest who had also stood with him for the past three days in silence.
They both moved out, the priest shutting the temple door before they stepped into the revolving black hole, soon arriving outside, back in the bamboo forest.
“Your thoughts are greatly unsettled. Come, let the gentle breeze blow it all away, and the tea calm your thoughts once more…” the old man said as they sat within the garden, sipping the green tea that really worked wonders.
Only now was Zeras able to feel how cool the breeze was, and he couldn’t help but be surprised about how truly peaceful everything could be.
He had strayed too far on this path, so much he was beginning to be blind to all the natural things in the world: the bamboos in the forest, the garden before them, the rustling air, the grassy plain.
Everything had so much beauty to it, and he couldn’t even see them at all, like something was concealing his gaze over it as he grew up more and more, like a person sinking deeper and deeper into quicksand.
“Are you worried about the security of your companion with us? I have to agree it is really quite difficult to trust your loyal companion with a group of aboriginals you have barely met within days,” the priest said, his old eyes staring at Zeras who remained quiet, just quietly sipping away.
“You know,” Zeras suddenly said, before halting.
“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…”