63: Chapter 63: You'll have no chance to escape now!

Ever since he left, she had never smiled again.

The fleeting moments of joy from the past had been exchanged for a long-lasting loneliness.

Recalling them now, those days floated in the air like bubbles.

Though they seemed beautiful, they shattered at the slightest touch.

The her of today truly resembled those enshrined in the temples.

The things she used to hold in utter contempt.

Statues.

The person who brought her human emotions also took them away.

She was just like those statues.

Appearing solemn and majestic.

But.

They were all merely formed from the most despicable resentment within human nature.

Nothing more than clay figures barely existing in the mortal world.

The Witch loosened the whip at her waist, abandoning this self-deceptive practice.

Her gaze, just as it had countless times over countless years.

Turned toward the center of the room, to that massive crystal ball.

Inside the crystal ball, there were faintly visible countless witch hats with human mouths.

The young Witch still remembered what her liar of a Hero had told her.

He would return.

As long as she was willing to search.

For all these years, she had remained steadfast in her belief in those words.

She had personally crafted one witch hat after another capable of detecting ability awakening and distributed them to every branch of the Huayu Association.

Then, she monitored them day and night.

Even this Huayu Association was created solely for the convenience of searching for him.

Countless Awakened ones had awakened because of it and become warriors.

But the Witch had never once sensed that familiar aura.

Such days had passed for hundreds of years.

Somewhat disappointed, she swiped away one witch hat after another.

Suddenly.

"Hmm~?"

The Witch let out an alluring, soft gasp.

Her originally languid, voluptuous body instantly sat upright.

Her fingers suddenly tightened around the armrests of her chair.

Her exquisite phoenix eyes stared fixedly at a certain point of light in the crystal ball representing the Eastern Great Xia region.

That point of light, amidst countless mundane energy feedbacks, erupted with a brief, sharp radiance.

This was the aura of an Awakened at S-rank or above.

A prodigy, no doubt, but logically, a mere S-rank prodigy shouldn't be enough to catch the attention of a Transcendent Heroic Spirit ranked among the top few in the world like her.

But.

Though separated by endless time and space, and the feedback was extremely blurry.

The Witch still captured that familiar scent from that fleeting aura.

What a level of cultivation she possessed.

Moreover, during the countless years of the past.

She had rehearsed over and over again.

Precisely because she was afraid of missing the single moment he reappeared in her life.

"It can't be wrong."

"Ugh... ah..."

The white-haired Witch let out another suppressed gasp, filled with both pain and extreme pleasure, her body trembling slightly.

She suddenly clutched her chest, an abnormal flush rising on her pale cheeks.

Immediately after, she began to tug at the clothes over her chest, exposing half of her large, snowy breasts.

"It's Master, the aura of that lying Hero."

"It can't be wrong... even if there's only a trace."

"Though it's very faint and weak, that heart-trembling sense of control—I wouldn't mistake it even if it turned to ash!"

Her eyes instantly took on a hint of morbid madness and obsession.

"Liar... Master is such a big liar!"

"Saying you'd be back in a moment, but making me wait for so long... so long!"

"Finally... I've finally found you."

Her gaze gradually became blurred and frantic.

An abnormal flush colored her cheeks.

She couldn't help but stick out her small tongue and lick her luscious red lips.

"Master... is it you?"

"Are you finally... finally willing to come back?"

"Hehe... Hahaha..."

The Witch chuckled lowly, her laughter carrying a hair-raising, morbid attachment.

"This time... this time I definitely won't let you run away again."

"I'm going to lock you up... keep you in a place only I know."

"I'll punish you every day... until your eyes only see me."

"Lilith!"

She suddenly stood up from her seat, calling out the name of her most capable female subordinate.

A dark shadow appeared silently in the corner of the room like a ghost, kneeling on one knee.

"President, what are your orders?"

The shadow asked respectfully.

"He has appeared."

The Witch said calmly, but Lilith's body jolted.

"You mean... the Master has returned?"

Her body couldn't help but tremble, and large teardrops rolled down her pretty face.

"That's wonderful... He's back. I, his maid, can serve him personally again."

Sitting on her chair, the Witch stood up abruptly, her long white hair moving without any wind.

"Investigate. Give me a thorough investigation."

"Every single newly awakened ability user in the Great Xia branch of the Huayu Association."

"Give me all their information. Not a single one is to be missed."

The white-haired Witch's voice carried a hint of near-manic excitement.

"I want to know their names, ages, appearances, and the details of their abilities."

"Prepare yourselves. I will personally attend this Heroic Spirit Contract Ceremony in Jinguan City."

"I will personally 'check' them... one by one!"

"Yes, Lady Witch."

The shadow Lilith responded respectfully, but after a moment's hesitation, she added.

"However, Lady Witch, energy fluctuations on the plateau west of Jinguan City have been unusually frequent lately, and our detectors have sent back some bad signals."

"It seems an ancient ruin full of monsters hostile to humans is about to appear."

"When that happens, I'm afraid a great calamity will descend upon Western Great Xia."

The white-haired Witch waved her hand impatiently, her crimson eyes filled only with the feverish desire to find her 'Master.'

"Monsters? How could those insignificant things become an obstacle to me finding him?"

"Leave those things to the idiot Transcendent Heroic Spirits of Great Xia to handle, unless they actually hurt my crush~"

"I've waited for thousands of years. All I want now is to find him."

"Immediately! Right now!"

The corners of her mouth curled into a bizarre and morbid arc, and she stuck out her small tongue to lick her red lips.

"Master... once I find you this time, I'll definitely make sure you can never run away again~"

Inside the room, the Witch's suppressed and excited chuckle echoed, making one's skin crawl.

Lilith took a deep look at the white-haired Witch and said nothing.

She turned with a response and departed.

Once she was out the door and a distance away from the white-haired Witch.

Her crimson lips revealed a few fangs unique to the blood kin.

"Hehe... Master, I'm coming to find you."

"How could I let that big-breasted, brainless idiot Witch find you again?"

"That fool already lost you once."

"This time, let me, your personal maid, Lilith Dracula, serve you one-on-one~"

"Don't worry, I will come to find you personally. I won't reveal a single bit of information about you to that idiot."

Meanwhile, in the secret chamber.

The Witch, who had her eyes tightly shut, suddenly snapped them open.

"Hehe... Lilith, I knew you wouldn't be honest."

"To think you'd actually dream of competing with me for my man?"