Lord Shadow

Chapter 1689: Another Path

Those who lives in seclusion does not feel that he is in the world of cause and effect.

But one day, if this person who secluded himself goes out and meet people, and when they were about to die, all of his experience in the world would flash through his mind.

This is cause and effect. This is bonds. This is connection.

And as you die, you remember. People you hated. People you like. People you love. People you are sorry for.

In this moment, Azief saw everything that he have experienced in his life.

Azief actually has a very simple plan today.

He would meet Katarina.

Why?

Because when he was undergoing the tribulation, he saw her. He saw her. He saw Sofia. He saw Loki. He saw Sina. He saw all of these people.

And what does these people mean to him?

These people means something to him.

There was many times in his journey that he was hurt.

That he was injured.

But nothing wring his heart more than when he is being subjected to emotional pain.

Azief has never been good at expressing his emotion. This is something that everyone in his circle knows.

Sina knows this.

Loki knows this.

Sofia and Katarina also knows this.

And he knows this.

But just because he knows it doesnʼt mean he could fix it. Many people said knowing the problem, acknowledging the problem is the first step to solving the problem

But it is not always the case.

Azief knows why he is not good at it.

Because he experience rejection.

People. Family. Society. The World. All of it feel like it had rejected him. Feeling like he never belonged. Always searching for a home.

For people. For family. For friends. But when he grows up, he gives up in finding it. And so, the darkness grew in his heart.

And after a few more years, he grows accustomed to it. Light and darkness, always in his heart, always fighting.

A world that rejected him. And him, that has given up in being accepted. But he keep trying.

Trying to find a new family. New friends. But that is easier said than done. And the more he hope, the more he tries, the sadder his life become.

It like he is stuck in this cycle.

He wanted to love but he doesnʼt know how. Because he has never ben loved deeply. He want to show affection.

But he doesnʼt know how.

Because no one shows him affection. He tries to learn, tries to see and imitate what other people do.

But the more he does it, the more awkward it become.

A person who has never been given the chance. And so, he blames the people, blame the family, blame the world

And the one he blames the most is not his family, not the world, not society, not the people, but himself.

He hated...himself.

For most of his life, he try to live in this world and all this world has done to him is screwed him

Did nothing good never happens to him? It did. Of course, it did. His life is not entirely miserable.

Is there no ray of sunshine, no chance of happiness at all?

There is.

But how many people could say that they saw a ray of sunshine, knew it at that time and grasp it?

There is many chances in life. But who can say they know it at that time.

The chance goes away because you did not know that it is a chance

Only when time passes when you could look back, then and only then you realize that ”there it is my chance of happiness”

But you were too young, too stupid, too everything, to know that ”that” was your chance of happiness.

Whether it be studying more, loving a person, being loved by a person, family, job, these chances of happiness appear every once in a while.

But there is always something. Something that blinded you.

And Azief is like that.

In his many years of life before the Fall, there is that small trace of happiness every here and then

However, the thing about mortal is that, they focus more on their pain then their pleasure.

A moment of pain could erase a year of happy memories. Because happiness make times flies by, enchant you but bad times make you focus on yourself

Time feel slower and the pain feel more vivid

Because it is normal for mortal. A brief existence in a rock spinning in the vastness of the dark universe

Azief sits there on the beach, his mind is filled with all kinds of thoughts.

The sand around him floats around him like it is attracted by some kind of force.

The sea water did not come close to him.

The clouds above his head opens up

Azief eyes look inf front of him. Anyone else would see only the vast sea that lies ahead. But what Azief sees is his connection., threads.

Destiny. Fate. Time. Life. Death. Cause. Effect. Karma. Bonds

He sees the clearly and various cause and effect he has left in the world. ”Coming out of the world, into the world, is stepping into cause and effect. I am not a being that is free of causation. Hence, I need to know cause and effect. I need to know it and decide how to deal with it”

This scenery that he saw right now is different from his other power.

This is not something that he ended his ability to use.

It is just something he could see., If he did not want to see it, he could just think of it, and he would no longer see it

It is because he is in Essence Creation he could see it. Because essence of law is something he now could control.

And the essence of laws is rules.

And the rules that he uses is the rules of the world

And this rule is now something he could see in detail. Now, there is threads of cause and effect all over his body.

If you see it, you would not feel good at all.

It is not always a thread. It depends on your own understanding of cause and effect. It could be a line. A dot.

It is shapeless. And you gave it shape. Seeing it, and understanding it gives its shape. And this is why it shapes depended on your understanding of it

Right now, Azief is seeing this thread intertwining with each other. From the way Azief understand it, this means is that the thread is also connected with each other because they too have cause and effect and this cause and effect is also related to him

It became like a complex network.

And this thread leads to all directions in the world.

At the end of these threads, there are all the people he knows and has experienced and the people he has interacted with.

And with this view of everything, Azief began to think. How to solve it. This cause and effect is like a shackle. The threads is like chain.

Should he respect this cause and effect and repay all the consequences? The causes that he have sown, should it not be respected?

Clearing the debt?

Thinking about this, he sighed. ”This is one way” he thought to himself. ʼIf I do not want to accumulate so much cause and effect, then he must remain pure. In my path, I should walk purely for the sake of what I want. Do not get involved in cause and effect. Then I could refine my spirit and soul, enter easily to reach the peak of strength” ”It means not stepping into the mortal dust, to not care about the changing season, not caring about the life and death of mortal. Repay all that is owe and seclude myself from the world”

Azief thought to himself.

This is the first path he thought of.

Respect cause and effect, repay all the consequences and hide from the world

Then Azief thought again.

And his ideas bring him toa different method.

A crueller and more crazy method. But Azief is quite sure than in the universe this kind of method probably has also been done before.

A crazy path.

This kind of path is not about respecting cause and effect. One could even think that this is the dark way.

For those who practice this method, evil is probably the labelled that they would get

Demon, devil, the path of darkness.

And what is this method?

The cause and effect exist.

Karma exist. And since it exist, it would tangle and become more tangled as more and more causes and effect meet and intersect

One must respect cause and effect but being entangled in cause and effect is not a good thing And how do you solve this in a simple, convenient and most efficient way?

The moment Azief thought like that the question turns into an answer in his mind. There is a way. A way that is simple, convenient and efficient

It is the simplest way. And it is because it is the simplest way, it could be regarded as an evil way.

Cutting. Killing. That is the method. If anyone is involved in my cause and effect, then I will cut everything from the source.

To put it simply, it is a method of killing, of annihilating.

Killing a person, killing a family, killing a village, killing a state, country and the world.

Lift the butcher knife and cut of all cause and effect. >>