Lord Shadow

Chapter 1668: One Brief Moment, One Glance

The time and space around Azief right now is heavily distorted. If there is any creatures here, they would feel it, withdraw from this area and fled.

Azief could even feel that the prison that contains him also breaks. There is nothing more to restrain him. He could move now.

Azief in this brief moment, look behind him

In only one glance he could see the situation of the world. His Divine Sense is now stronger than ever and even though he is near Mars, his eyes could see Earth.

His eyes rested on many people. Only for a brief second. Only for a moment. But he is relieved. He looks at Sina, Wang Jian, Freya, Athena, the people of his court, then he looks at the Oracle.

He tries to seek Loki but surprisingly enough, even with his current level, he still could not pinpoint where the trickster was.

And then he look at Katarina.

Katarina is trying to increase her realm in Disk Formation realm.

And then...then he looks at Sofia.

He had been trying not to look at her since he returns to Earth with Katarina.

But, right now, feeling that if he failed after this, he might not have the confidence to seek her again, he looks down on Earth, his gaze rested for a moment on Sofia.

He looks at her and he feel sad.

Because she is looking at the sky, her eyes bleeding.

And Azief could guess why.

Most people look down when that gigantic face appears. Even if they wanted to see the sky, unless they are powerful enough, they would bend under the circumstances.

But Sofia insisted o look at the sky.

Why?

Azief sighed because he thinks he is the reason why. And so, he feel sad. Feels guilty. But at the same time, he is feeling angry.

She cares for him. Clearly, it shows.

Then why?

Why reject him?

Why...do that?

A happy ending so close. A happy ending that is in the grasp ”Happy or not...do I really know it?” he thought to himself

He search for words to describe what he is feeling. But trying to find the words, he could not find it.

But unable to find it, the words turns to sigh.

Words are too distant.....and if time is reversed, if time did not separate them too, then even if words is not enough, then he would only hold her close.

But now, there is nothing to hold. So, only a sigh rises from him.

One moment. One brief glance. A thousand thoughts

For a moment, Azief feels like his concentration would once again be disturbed so, he look elsewhere, quickly averting his gaze from Sofia.

She always going to be his......distraction. And in this moment, Azief realizes something he had known deep down in his heart.

She is always going to be his exception. She would always have a place in his heart. These memories, this realization pains him

But even though it is painful, even though it is something he would rather do not have, he have it. And he thought to himself, since he have it, even if it is a painful one, it is better than not having anything at all

One moment, one brief glance, a realization dawned.

He averts his gaze and these thoughts quietened in his mind. His gaze now rested on a different person.

He sees Oreki. ”Comparing with the Heavens?” he chuckles a bit in his heart. ”Breaking out using his own way. Oreki would be something in the future” he thought to himself.

Then he looks at the skies of the Earth and only saw three people. ”Hikigaya and Jean. I am not surprised that they were here. But Raymond?” It did not take him a millisecond to notice the aura that Raymond is exuding and he smiles a bit ”I didnʼt expect that he would breakthrough so quickly” but Azief also notices something is missing from Raymond ”The trident?”

Azief was focusing on his tribulation so he did not notice when Poseidon take back his trident.

But even though Azief donʼt know why Raynodn no longer have his trident, he could make a few educated guesses about it.

He concludes that the trident must have been taken back.

He always feel weird that Poseidon leaves his signature weapon on Earth.

And Azief always speculated that one day, Poseidon would take back that trident.

That is one of the reasons why he gave that trident to Raymond and why it is not something he wanted.

Cause and effect with an Olympian is not something that he wanted. He already has too many causes and effect with these beings of immense power. Powerful beings means the cause and effect would also be dangerous.

And Azief could see threads and strings around Raymond. A cause and effect of destiny and fate.

And he could guess who these Karma, these cause and effect would link to ”he uses the trident to breakthrough. It is not surprising” Azief thought to himself.

Azief wanted Raymond to break through. He notices it long ago that the trident is not destined for him.

It is not suitable for him.

That is what he felt when he holds that trident.

Even though he won that trident from Kaiju, Azief never felt like that weapon belong to him or suitable for him.

There is this feeling of rejection from the trident.

And Azief himself feels the rejection to this weapon from his heart.

That is why he did not mind giving it to Raymond. Because he could sense there is a lot of that force inside the trident

It is not exactly the Terra Force, but the force feels similar. Azief saw all of this in that one brief moment.

Then he sighed ”The world could not withstand this”

The power of the deathly intent of this tribulation clouds might now be restrained in only this small part of an area of space but Azief knows something that the others did not

The power of the heaven is now concentrated. And when it unleashed its terror, Azief is quite sure that even a bit of energy unleashed could destroy Mars.

Earth would be protected at least. But the other planets...the other planets might get caught in the crossfire.

Azief could feel that the Will of the Universe is about to hit him with everything itʼs got. Even the restriction around him has now been absorbed back by the clouds.

Because Azief knows this thunder.

He knows the punishment that is about to fall on his head.

Because when he decided to use the method of the Etherna to broke through to Essence

Creation, some of the information about the tribulations also appears in his mind.

Of course, during the time of the Etherna, this tribulation is different.

But whoever crafted this method, it also shows the evolution of the tribulation that would fall to anyone attempting to breakthrough using this method in the future

Azief suspected that Borgan put this knowledge so that he would learn from it.

Since Borgan calculated that he would be able to reach this point, she must have also calculated the kind of tribulation that would fall into him, if he follows through

He could see a black thunder forming inside the clouds. This black thunder is even more dangerous than the red thunderbolts or the purple thunderbolts.

This black thunderbolt is known as the Unholy Thunder of Nothingness

Full of chaotic elements, it is a thunder that when it annihilated something, it would be erased from reality.

Of course, normal things would just get destroyed normally.

But when this black thunder descended, and if succeeded in killing the being it was sent down to destroy, that being would have its existence erased from the time space continuum. It would destroy even cause and effect.

In other words, if Azief could not withstand the black thunder, he would be destroyed and nobody would remember him because he would be instantly removed from all cause and effect.

However, for some reason, Azief is confident he could survive this.

There is a reason for this.

Cause and effect could be a burden. But it could also be protection. Around him, there is these strings, threads.

Each string, each thread, a connection, a cause and effect, Karma.

The Karma has been sown. But the seeds did not yet bloom.

He owes Karma. If he is erased, then who would solve this Karma?

Someone would take action.

Azief after knowing the future....has many thoughts.

First he despair.

Then he feel sad.

Then he felt angry.

Mad.

He felt all kinds of emotion. He goes through it quickly, process it quickly and when it is all processed, he finally reached one conclusion

The things that is supposed to happen is depressing, but he could not just wait for that destiny to materialise.

He was determined to change it.

And use that future as advantages.

Cause and effect could also be leverage. He knows from what he sees in the future, that even now, there might be beings that would scheme and plots against him

He is no longer so naïve, nor so thoughtless like he was in the past.

He knows actions have consequences.

Even more so when it is him that is making the action.

Because his action affect so many people he knows even more that his action have great consequences. >>