Lord Shadow

Chapter 1008: Freedom

But as Azief is attempting to breakthrough, new information streams in his mind. And it was like he is on the starting line of a long road.

As he is standing on this road, he could see orbs floating round him.

And he walks toward this orb. The road is misty fog and instead of walking, it felt more like he is floating. All of this is happening inside his consciousness.

He touches one of the orb and an information streams inside his mind.

Immortal Soul’ he said to himself. That orb represented a path. To condense his Law Avatar to an Immortal Soul.

Immortal energy then would be his primary energy and all of his attack would be imbued with Immortal energy and Immortal magic.

It is one of the path he could choose.

‘This is the path of many beings in the Jade Empire’ he thought. He did not choose it, instead he floated again toward a distant orb.

Touching it, he knows what path the orb holds for him

It is the path of Divine Soul.

As he touches it he could see the possibility of this Divine Soul and the abilities he could wield if he condenses his law Avatar to Divine Soul.

It was tempting.

Other that that, it would also make him able to create a Divine Body later, which is almost an Absolute Condition of a physical body

there are also all kinds of Divine Abilities that he could wield if he chooses this path

But, there is this feeling of incongruity.

‘Restricted’ he said to himself.

It is not that the path is restricted to him. It is something that Azief immediately understood. Picking this path would be good.

Divine powers itself could be expanded upon as he could have a slew of divine abilities like transcendent physiology, and could get his power sources from all kinds of source of Divine powers like of that Extraterrestrial divine source, Dragon Divinity Source, Dark Divinity Source and many others.

Even divine beings have classifications and range of power.

The moment Azief touched that all this information stream inside his mind like his head is some kind of computer and someone is uploading all of the information he needed

But it would restrict him. Divine power would still be under the Laws of Omniverse. If any beings in the Universe know what Azief is thinking right now, they must be shocked. This thought of trying to go out from the Laws of Omniverse is practically rebelling.

Like those Ethernas in the past. Azief path….and his creed, has always been freedom. It is not that cheap freedom people spoke about

The freedom he wanted is not that kind of unorderly freedom. It is the freedom from the most powerful and elusive force in the Omniverse. Freedom from fate and destiny.

People think that they are free.

That they have free will.

They do but not in the way Azief wanted.

Azief had confirmed this when he had reached Divine Comprehension.

He saw the string and the interconnected ness of people, of how there were more possibilities that he could ever calculate.

It might be easy for him to calculate the variables of one person affecting one other person destiny but when there is millions of people, there is all kinds of permutation of coincidences which would create all kinds of variables and destiny

Like some kind of stone that is thrown into a calm lake, the ripples change the waves of frequency causing everything to changed.

A person who meets another person who then meet another person, each time, destiny steer the way making calculating destiny…. hard.

One person. Two person. That might be easy. But ten, twenty, thirty, forty, people the variables increased and the difficulty rises.

One might ask, if free will exist, then isn’t he free right now? True, but……your free will could still be calculated.

When someone spoke about inevitability it is because while you have free will, you could still be predicted. And as such the force of destiny and fate have power over you that you did not even realize.

And if that is so, Azief don’t believe he is free. It isn’t until he escapes from this calculation, that Azief truly felt that he is free.

Of course, Azief could stop now. But since he had found his path, if he did not follow it until the end…. then he would be cut off.

There would be no chance for him to reach the highest peak of the Omniverse. One path is determined by one heart.

He could not choose it any other way. His heart chose this path. And if he decided to give up, that’s it.

He would stay there and stagnate. But moving forward…is hard. There is always a choice even when everyone said to you that you have no choice.

And Azief choose to move forward. Regardless of what obstacles that he might find in the future. Azief sighed as he pushed away the orb that symbolizes the path of Divine Soul. He floats again and he touch another orb.

A negative feeling fills him

‘the Devil Soul. A devilish path’ he thought to himself. This must be born of his Defiant Heart. The killing intent of Ancient Asura seems to emanated from that orb.

The orb itself is dye in red, like some kind of blood colored orb

‘Defiant Heart. Abhor Heavens rules, slaughter Celestials, sunder the Heavens’ he did not forget what Azul said to him about his Defiant Heart

He might have forgotten many of his experience in the Six Reincarnation of Azul life but he remembers the important ones.

And right now, as he is in the process of condensing his Avatar into Soul, that experience of the past comes again to aid him.

It come close to his ideal of freedom from destiny and fate, to escape from the calculation of that force, but still….it is too murderous.

That is not the path that is consistent with his heart. His path is freedom but at the same time, his heart also wished to be carefree.

Freedom could be achieved in many ways. But the one that fits your heart is the most ideal one. So, he pushed away that red orb. Another orb beside that red orb is the Celestial Soul.

But it is also not the path he wanted. It is the path that Azul hated. To be under the Heavenly Rules and Will is the path of the Celestial.

It is not something that Azief even entertained.

He then stopped.

And he looks around.

And he saw more than before. Like suddenly the world expanded in front of his eyes.

Rushing clouds and powerful emanation of power that stirs the wind pass through him.

He saw thousands upon thousands of paths and roads.

The fog become thinner and as it become thinner, the m ore he could see, the road beneath his feet is stars.

But he knows this is just the manifestation of his consciousness. This is not real stars. Each time he floats, it was like something lighted up under his feet, like he is lighting up the stars

Each stars lined up…. like some kind of road.

There were tens of thousands of roads…which one is the right one? The moment he asked that question in his heart, he already have the answer

Each answer is right.

There is no right and wrong answer about this matter.

Azief understood it at that moment. All of the concepts, all of the Laws that he had learn and obtained now is showing their effects.

All of them lead to here….to show the possibility that he could reach from all the Law that he had comprehended.

But even if none of this is the wrong answer……it is also not the right one for him

He closes his eyes like he is asking something. He did not look up the sky and ask for some divine guidance.

Instead, he asks his heart

In the real world, however, the black hole is diminishing rapidly

One could not have expected that an external force could affect such a gigantic black hole to be diminished so greatly in the span of few minutes.

Around Azief there is a storm of energy matter that is swirling around him and causing every laws of physics around him to be distorted and changes the properties of matter itself.

Space and Time was upside down and the very laws that hold up the fabric of reality seems to be disturbed.

Rifts of space was tear apart around him created a void-like space that seems to contain nothing but also be able to contain anything.

No laws of science known to man could explain what is happening around Azief right now

And Azief body is glowing golden with bluish exterior, like he is some kind of sun that is emanating heat and giving off energy.

From a few hundred light years away, it was like he is the Sun. But unlike the Sun, he did not emit yellow color. Instead it is a blue sun.

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