Chaos Devourer System

 

Chapter 664: Better Than A Threat…

“Hmmmm,” the priest hmmed slightly, the sound carried by the gentle breeze around the place.

“I could feel like I regained part of that thing that I lost when Fluffy bonded with me. Our bond wasn’t really anything that special.

He just came to me, snuggled against my finger, and when I tried to send him out, he simply lit up brightly, and I was told that I had bonded with a void cat.

I didn’t really find it special,” Zeras mused, his eyes flashing back to the day when he had met Fluffy.

The time when his heart was freshly hollow, due to having lost Vornek.

“I tried everything I could to block that hollowness deep inside.

I smiled to hide it, trying to be a playboy, I smoked to get away the thoughts, I fought hard like a maniac, I went all out, exhausting myself in battles, I shed blood, became merciless. I even accepted a love, hoping perhaps it would clear things away slightly,” Zeras mused, remembering his days in the Prodigies War event and his fleeting time with Princess Scyhleria.

“But none of it really worked. I still felt blank. The love I thought I found, I never went back to it, nor even ever hoped for the love to come back to me,” Zeras mused.

While he had truly been involved a little with Princess Scyhleria, after the Prodigies War event, the feeling of love had slowly cleared away.

He never once went to her when they arrived in the sect, nor did he even sight her at all throughout his duration.

Not like he was even stable enough to do that, nor did he have the time.

But ignoring the lack of time, Zeras just couldn’t grasp that love that was shown to him. He never thought of it, it was never within his heart at all. Almost like he was simply numb to the love.

“It was almost like a half-death, but I really had love for a single person, and that was Fluffy.

He really did block that hollowness from my heart, and for every second he stood on my shoulder, I felt more than alive. I could see there was still hope, and he became everything to me.

Perhaps selfish of me, to replace all my burden and loss with him. Still, it was irrefutable that Fluffy impacted me more than anything could have, and I could say, he is slowly healing back that hollowness.”

“Looks like a good thing for you,” the priest said as Zeras nodded, before his eyes flashed with worry.

“But that also came with its own very fear. The fear of losing Fluffy!”

“Hmmmm.”

“He was the one who was slowly mending that hollowness within me. The only one who gave me the reason to keep fighting.

But, but what if…I lost Fluffy too? I would be fully dead inside.

And what will happen when I become fully dead inside? When the darkness of the hollowness finally catches up to me?

I am afraid of what that could result in—the fear of losing distinction between right or wrong, and fully losing all trust that I had.

Would anyone be able to stop me then? They’ll have died, won’t they?” Zeras said to the priest whose eyes were flashing with a myriad of emotions.

“If you have any plan in your mind, that differs from what you truly said, about Fluffy. I believe you now know the consequences of it.

If in one way or the other I lose Fluffy, you can imagine the pain and suffering, can’t you? The rage of having lost everything, and the reasoning of whatsoever disappearing from my head.

Believe it or not, I am afraid of such a state of myself more than anyone is…” Zeras whispered silently as he slowly rose up from his sitting position, and without saying more, he slowly rose up to the sky and became a shooting light beam quickly disappearing into the distance.

The priest’s eyes never once wavered as he watched until Zeras disappeared far into the distance.

And for the next three days, he remained in the same singular position, simply looking at the fading mirage of the young man, his heart as quiet as the dark sea.

“People say the most scary people are those who are hollow within, feeling not a single thing at all. The perfect killing machines. But none really could lay claim to the word hollow.

No matter what technique they practiced, none would truly be able to reach the Hollow State of cultivation, because it’s more than just what the meaning of the word is.

Hollowness, it couldn’t even be almost described at all…” the priest mused to himself, a comprehension of something greater and sublime dawning on him.

“But now, I could feel the faint stench of true hollowness. I see a being with a true capability for the true Hollow State…

What would be released onto the world if he really did become hollow? I swear by everything I hold dear in the world. I will protect him, and make sure the awakening comes to a success, even at the cost of my own life.

I promise…” the priest said. And from thereon, he gave his clan a message of a half-year of slumber, before disappearing into the temple and sitting before its gate, silently guarding and waiting.

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“That would probably be better than simply threatening him…” Zeras mused to himself as he rapidly soared through the sky. He didn’t trust the Void Blood cat, but he also couldn’t wait to protect Fluffy himself for six months.

He was the one who had no choice in this matter.

Normally, he would have threatened them fiercely with something, but that approach wouldn’t work.

The priest was an undying rank and had lived for thousands of years. What type of threat hadn’t he heard before? He would only take his threat as the ramblings of a scared kid.

So he had decided to truly come up clean to him.

A process he believed would move his heart more than a simple threat.

And unknown to him, it more than worked out for him…