Lord Shadow

Chapter 687: Taking a step forward (1)

In the Centre palace, inside the throne room Azief still is looking at his ring. He is still soaking all the knowledge that is given to him

The light around him grows brighter. And some people who were selling wares on the streets near the Palace all had to avert their gaze from looking toward the Palace

It is like staring at the sun

This time his mind was given an information about the Ring of Runic Creation

Other than the other rings, this is the ring that he takes advantage the most. Unlike the other ring that he possesses, he rarely uses the runes.

That is not because he doesn’t know how to use them but it is because he usually tattoos the runes on his skin.

He had Eolh tattooed somewhere under his skin. Eolh is the Rune of Protection. Each rune has always had a different meaning depending on their position.

If it’s in vertical position it could means something else if it is in converse or reverse position.

He also had the Aesir rune. It is the rune of knowledge, wisdom, and communication. it is also the rune of prophecy and revelation.

It is because of this rune he sometimes has premonition of things that would come to pass.

The rune gives him dreams, feelings of predestination and a hunch and intuition about how things would unfold.

Death monarch did not have to sleep. This fact is known to all. All people that have reached Azief level did not have to sleep.

But then why Odin would go into slumber? Why would the Jade Emperor asleep when Azief would one day attack the Jade Empire?

Why would those Dark Creatures close their eyes and remains unmoving? Why sleep? That is the question.

Azief used to sleep even after he reached Disk Formation. But the reason he was sleeping was probably not the same reason like the reason of those Supreme Being to sleep

He felt this mundane human act of sleeping kept him tethered to the world. It is the same when he eats and drinks when he doesn’t need to

It kept him from being too distant from humans.

But it wasn’t until he reached Divine Comprehension that he understands why those mighty beings would go to sleep.

Now, he understands why Odin goes into slumber every few centuries and why some powerful Beings sleep for even eons at a time.

The rune was with him for years. And while the other effect was useful, but it was nothing extraordinary.

When one senses are trained to the apex, one could even predict some kind of future for oneself.

But when he was in the Time Tunnel, he fell asleep.

No, to be more accurate it is not that he fell asleep. He wanted to sleep. In a world where Time is confusing and chaotic, to know the passage of Time is like trying to see the face of God.

It is madness.

And as he floats endlessly and probably for eternity of a time, without nothing to do, he fears that he would go insane because of all the thoughts that troubled him.

The image of the eye looking at him, the vision of a tragic future, it kept him anxious, confused and that feeling consumes him.

In a place where there is all the time in the Omniverse, the only way he could stave off this feeling, to keep this feeling from consuming him completely is to sleep.

And when he sleeps, he dreams. He rarely dreams. But, now he dreams. And when he dreams, he sees glimpses.

He sees glimpses of his own future and sometimes the past that even he himself didn’t remember.

And thus he knows why powerful Supreme Beings go to slumber. Some of them wanted to see their future and some of them probably wanted to know themselves

Because only by truly knowing what you are, what you wanted can you know what path are you meant to be walking

He knows then that there is a change in him.

He never saw the glimpses of future before.

He felt premonition but never a direct glimpse of a future

Whether the controls of Laws that he had held had touched upon the boundary of Time and Space, touching that invisible dividing line that could cut through Fate and Destiny or that the rune he had embedded in his skin had changed.

And when he touched the ring he was certain that while the Laws that he had comprehended helps him in seeing those dreams, it is more so the effect of the runes that precipitated that change.

And he sleeps a lot during his time in the Time Tunnel. And now that he had returned, he believes that he would sleep a little bit more later.

The rune also helps him in understanding thing faster than anyone else. It enables him to see through some of the abstruse truth of comprehending the powers of the Universe.

This rune had always help him. If Azief had to describe it in a game terms, it is like as long as this rune is under his skin, he had a passive buff of wisdom and intelligence.

Then there is Beorc rune which is the rune of rebirth and fertility.

His body had always been in perfect condition that this rune might not seem to be that useful.

There is the fact that his body is reaching perfection making his body probably one of the hardest thing to injure or break but there is also the fact that this rune had always help him in healing and recovery when he is injured.

And he believes there is other application of this rune only if he is wise enough to uncover it

Which is why he felt so surprised when his body almost melted in that Thirteen Steps.

Thinking about it again, he sometimes shudders in fear to think what would happen if he fails at that last step.

There is also Daerg, the rune of new dawn.

He had tattooed this under his skin but he doesn’t know what effect it have on him. Unlike other runes, this rune is simplistic in description but lend itself to no details

But he believes like the description of the rune ability, the ability that this rune could perform is probably conceptual.

Something that is a force that is intangible. Unlike other rune that shows its effect easily, this rune might probably require some understanding.

Then there is Uhur, the rune of Will.

In the past Azief had no benefit from this particular rune. Its effect could hardly be felt at that time.

But after he had won against the Heavens of the world, he found out that the rune of Uhur not only help enforce the person will, it also helps healed it.

Willpower is something that could not be seem. The more he uses it, the more he felt that Willpower is connected to the soul.

It is determination, the memory of one own experience compressed into an emotion that is unwavered by any other external influence.

That is a Will. The Will that resides deep in one heart. And this heart is the soul.

In the past when one said Willpower, it refers to one determination. However, even if one said to be determined, there is no measurements of that quantity of Willpower.

It is not something that could be measured in the first place