Lord Shadow

Chapter 1273 - The Reader And The Gardener

The reason why even a person in the same level as him could not beat him is simply because he is someone who walked the Perfection Path.

The reason he always reminds himself that he is a Perfection Path is always the same, to urge himself to work hard

And he always tries to think of ways of finding energy.

He knows as he grows stronger, the harder it is for him to go forward. It is almost a miracle that he could keep breaking through

The last time, he even went to a black hole to try to breakthrough. It is a fortunate event that there is a hidden blessing of injuring himself.

He tried to break tough but he failed

But, he could not always hope in fortunate event saving him.

he believes that if could spend only a few seconds on the Garden, he could have enough energy, a pure powerful energy that would enable him to quickly break through to Essence Creation.

But as his physical body got closer to the garden, the Reader makes a move.

He writes a word in the air and then as Azief body is about to come closer to the garden, that word slammed on him.

This time Azief could no longer withstand this force. Azief Divine Sense on the garden cracked and a second later his Divine Sense was cut by something sharp.

The moment it was cut Azief Divine Sense returns back to him

Then Azief could feel that there is an attraction force and he was sucked into a void and he disappears from that dimension.

The dimension once again become silent and peaceful. The Cosmic destruction that has affected the large area of space near the garden suddenly appears back and reformed itself back to their original form.

A breath of creation trails from the harden, blowing life to the void space, tear up space and as these breaths pass these destruction, space recovered, and destruction is nullified.

All of this happens in almost an instant that if you blink your eye, you would miss it. It is once again silent and everything returned back to the way it was like nothing had changed.

The garden once again moves and the previous peace returns

Sitting on the edge of that garden is the Reader, looking at the space that has recovered. He frowned and then he looks at the distance, at that house

For a moment, he only looks at that place, like he was transfixed. The Gardener also look at that house.

Both of them did not say anything. They donʼt know what to say or even understand what their Lord is trying to achieve.

he sees the Gardenʼ the Reader said sighing. He doesnʼt know what would change because of this. he doesnʼt know what plan His Lord has for Azief.

Is it still the same story? Or is there another ending? But, if there is another ending, then how could His Lord fulfill His promise to the Destroyer?

Then the Reader sighed again. It takes him a few second to think of millions of possibilities. He had some thought and opinion.

But this thought and opinions, he does not dare voice it to His Lord. But, His Lord probably knows what he is thinking or feeling, so there is no need to say anything.

He then looks toward the Gardener and then once again he repeated the same word

ʼHe sees the Gardenʼ This he is obviously referring to Azief. The Gardener also sighed but he nodded

The Reader looks at him, and stars at him and Loki of Asgard knows that the Reader is waiting for his response

So, he responded

ʼHe did not see the whole gardenʼ he said

But the Reader simply answer to this word with

ʼHe sees the Garden. This did not happen before. None of this has happened beforeʼ the Reader waves his hand and a book flew from the hill and landed on his hand.

He looks at the book and he was shocked to find the words in the books are scrambled.

He frowned but he did not say anything.

ʼKarma is formed. And it is strong. The second time, I personally acted.ʼ he said.

The Gardener then said apologetically

ʼAs long as you donʼt go out, Karma would not be formedʼ But the Reader shook his head.

ʼCircumstances change. I could feel it the moment I sent that second strike. I could see myself entangled in thisʼ He look at the Gardener with an expression that seems to be saying that this is his fault.

The Gardener could only pick up back the garden tool that he had dropped before and then continue his work

The Reader felt annoyed

But Loki does leave the Reader with a word.

ʼIf you want to complain, go to the Creator. He is the one that brought that mortal hereʼ

The Reader then said

ʼEvery debt has a debtor. I carry the burden of your supposed Karma. I can now curse you now that there is an entanglement of fate between us.ʼ He is silent for a second before saying

You owe meʼ

Loki sighed and then said

ʼI owe youʼ

ʼGood, as long as you know it” then the Reader takes a step forward and like a shooting star, his figure turns into starlight and reach toward the back of his hill.

However, this time he is not as leisurely or as carefree as before. He looks at his own body and he could see strings. This string is not tight, not pressuring but he could feel the tugging of fate and destiny from this string.

His Karma is entangled with that mortal

How could he have the mood to read book and drinks tea when this is the biggest crisis he has in eons.

He could only sigh and then went to his library. This library is also on the back of the hill

He wanted to find a solution to this so he waves his hand and thousands of golden formations appears above his hill

The formation was activated and the hill seems to disappear from any Divine Sense or any observation method.

The Reader decided to go into seclusion to try to minimize or even weaken this Karma he had with that child of destiny

Loki look at this with indifference as he also had to think what has changed. But, for now, he focused on his gardening

the Creator on the other hand had also disappeared the moment Azief was pulled into that void.

The dimension is quiet again

As for Azief, the moment he was pulled out from that dimension, he seems to be traveling through all kinds of worlds and realities.

Like before, Azief could not distinguish how much time had passed before suddenly he appears back in the room inside the research lab of the Orvanians.

He felt the space around him seems to contract and before he could respond to it, he appears inside the room where he first wears that helmet

For a moment, he himself was shocked but he quickly regains his mind. He looks around him and he is sure he is back in the Seresian world

At the same time that he appeared inside the room Qarliya was alerted.

ʼhe is backʼ Qarliya quickly appeared inside that room. Azief saw her appear but he was not shocked in the least

Azief then saw the helmet appears from the void and he narrows his eyes.

ʼThe space is naturalʼ he thought to himself.

At the same time, Qarliya look at Azief, Her eyes are scanning for any abnormalities. She never had such a situation in her years of experience.

She scans him but there is nothing wrong with him. There is no substance that could endanger the lab and there is trace of anything that could trace where he had gone.

The higher ups did not explain much to her, only telling her that Azief would be back. Back then she already made some guess of her own.

It seems that this mortal is someone that even the higher up is paying attention to but they do not want to appear like they are the ones behind the scene.

That is as far as she guessed

She then sighed.

ʼAt least you are backʼ she said under her breath. Then she asks Azief

Where did you go? You suddenly disappear from the room. The entire lab was panicking and I struggle to report this to Katarina for fear that she would be panickedʼ

Azief knows that Qarliya did not know the full story:

She thought she was helping him when in fact her actions had been under the calculation of the Five Seats of Orvan.

Azief had never met the Five Seats of Orvan but they seem to scheme against him. That alone is shocking to him.

But he knows now how big of a deal he would become in the future. He knows that if he vents his anger toward Qarliya it would not be fair for her.

He looks around him and then shakes his head.

Qarliya who is looking at Azief right now is puzzled.