"That''s it. If you''re not interested, that means this thing isn''t that dangerous. I wasted my time for no reason."


    Seeing As take no action, Lucius also pulled out his sword from the ground, freeing him from the burden.


    Not long after, As dropped to the ground, nkly staring ahead. He was waiting for the response from Castiel, but for Zhang, it was as if As had given up. It gave him even more confidence. If even As had given up, that meant he knew it was a futile effort.


    He startedughing even louder, excited to see the end result of his spell, which was the most powerful spell anyone ever used, just because of the sheer energy source behind it.


    It was fine until As was standing nkly but watching him drop to his knees even surprised Lucius; he couldn''t understand what happened to this guy. Why was he acting so strange suddenly?


    "Whatever!" He didn''t care about what As was doing. Instead, he braced for the impact of the spell that was supposed toe soon.


    He stared at Zhang outside, finding hisughter really irritating. "I will wipe the grin off your face soon."


    "For that, you''ll have toe to me. After I''m done with you, you won''t even have your legs to be able to walk, little pup." Zhangughed at the threats, which were like the ramblings of the crazy at the moment.


    As waited for an answer for quite some time. It was as if Castiel had gonepletely silent as soon as he asked what option he had.


    He repeated his question again and again. Fortunately, he did receive an answer ultimately.


    "You don''t need to do anything! Now everything that''s to be done will be done by me!" Castiel''s answer came.


    Following the answer, As started feeling somewhat strange. It was as if a mysterious force was filling up his body. His head started getting dizzy. He started feeling so sleepy that it was hard to even keep his eyes open. No matter how much he tried, the sleep was overwhelming. No matter what he did, he couldn''t stay awake.


    His eyes closed, and he finally fell asleep while sitting on his knees. His bodypletely embraced the sleep. Even though he slept peacefully in the middle of a warzone, his heartbeat was racing.


    A strange aura surrounded As. Winds started circling around him as if a whirlwind was taking shape around him.


    "Hmm?" The aura... It was so peculiar that it even attracted the attention of Lucius. Finally he felt the same old aura of Castiel.


    Even before, As had the aura of Castiel, but there was something inherently different about that aura before, for some reason. That aura appeared lifeless before. Lucius didn''t know why that was the case. However, finally, the same old aura was back, filled with power and might.


    Even Zhang felt that powerful aura that was so majestic that he never felt before.


    As'' eyes opened abruptly, but there was something different about them from before. The eyes were a darker shade of green now, unlike the lighter shade from before. The body was finally back in the control of Castiel after centuries.


    He was finally back on earth. Castiel looked at his hand, letting out an amused smile. "Never imagined my own body would feel like a stranger."<novelnext></novelnext>


    He stretched his arms before standing up. Even though his aura was running wild after he returned, that was still very tough since Castiel didn''t want to alert someone. Unfortunately, even he knew that it was unlikely. Now that he was back, he had just reduced the time for everyone.


    Standing up, he nced at Lucius, who was looking back at him.


    "Now, you look like your old self," Lucius pointed out. "What had happened to you before?"


    "Nothing for you to worry about." Castiel smiled. Even though he never had a good rtionship with Lucius, it was still good to see an old familiar face again. Moreover, Lucius seemed to have put the bad blood behind them when he helped As. That was also seen by him.


    He nced at all the unstable energy in the surrounding. "A descendant destroying what his ancestors worked so hard to build. How disappointing. If Filip were here today, his face would be worth seeing."


    "Then again, it''s quite good timing. This is exactly what I needed. "


    Castiel raised his right hand to the sky. The mark on the back of his hand started shining brightly. A simr formation appeared above his hand.


    "Finally, you calling it. It looks like you''re back to normal," Lucius muttered as he held the hilt of his sword as well.


    A beautiful yet majestic Sword shot up from Castiel''s formation, flying high in the sky before falling back down. Castiel didn''t let the sword touch the ground, holding it by the hilt before the tip of the sword could even touch the ground.


    Castiel held the sword with both hands. Under his breath, he muttered something which was barely audible before stabbing his sword inside the ground.


    Lucius also did the same. Now that there were two of them, he felt that they could do it. He didn''t need to take the burden all alone.


    The sword kept absorbing the energy from the energy reserved. The energy that Lucius absorbed went to strengthen his soul. Unfortunately, since his soul was already so strong, whatever bit he absorbed didn''t have much effect on his soul on the grand scale of things.


    Unlike Lucius, Castiel was using the energy absorbed from his Sword for something else. He didn''t let the energy from the Spirit Reserves go to his own spirit. Instead, he directed that energy to the spirit of As.


    The biggest problem with As was that his spirit wasn''t strong enough. The Spirit energy was mostly useless for the Progenitors but for the spirit of a human, it was miraculous. It increased the soul strength of As.


    He didn''t send all the spirit energy to As'' soul either. Some of it was sent to the Mark of Protection on As'' soul, which was almost gone. The spirit energy started healing the mark, albeit somewhat slowly.


    With two Progenitors absorbing the energy from the Spirit Reserves, the reserves started losing arge amount of their energy. The loss was so much that even the supply to the spell was affected. Fortunately, Castiel didn''t need to absorb the soul energy to stop the formation.


    With his knowledge, he could destroy the spell, making it unable to take effect even if it received all the energy that it needed.


    In the distance, Zhang''s face went pale, watching what was being done to his spell.