Lord Shadow

Chapter 1713: Distributing the Lot of the World III

Azief could not help but sighed when he saw Oreki stand up in defense of Hikigaya. ”He is not governed by emotion but interest” but then he shakes his head.

Azief knows Oreki. He might not know Oreki as well as Hikigaya but from the reports he had on him, Azief had made some profile on him

Oreki is usually an apathetic, cynical and calm person. This is the report that his spies managed to get from some of Oreki friends.

In his youth, he has passive demeanor, and usually seems to conserve his energy, never exerts effort on anything unless absolutely necessary; thus, coming off as sluggard.

Also, because of his attitude, Oreki doesnʼt talk much, and he rarely gets mad, though he does appear to get irritated often.

He doesnʼt express his emotions much. On the other hand, he is surprisingly smart and clever, having brilliant deduction skills

In his high school life, it seems he is quite highly regarded by his friend. It is because of this clam personality that he managed to lead his fellow school members to safety, using the school as a fort to level up and then quickly organize a fighting force before slowly becoming a warlord.

But, Azief looking at Oreki right now, it is like looking at a different person. Rash, impatient, and far away from being calm.

Azief think for a second and he believe he knows why this is happening to Oreki. ”The person affect the law; the law affect the person” Azief believe that Oreki choosing lightning element that also include fire in it affected him as much as he affected it.

Azief himself felt this.

When you are delving deep into the laws that is associated with certain emotions, it affected you and changed you.

From what he saw right now, Oreki had just broken through to Divine Comprehension realm, and as such his control over the lightning in his body is still quite unstable.

But this is actually a good thing. It means that Oreki does not only master the physical side of the laws but also the intangible parts of it, the concepts and even the association with the laws.

Lightning is a physical force.

It is fire.

It is heat.

But it is also associated with impetuousness.

It is also associated with wrath, anger. This association is born in the psyche of humans, of living beings.

It is faith.

And faith has power.

A power that could create miracles.

And if Oreki could harness this kind of faith, this psyche that turns into belief, he could move further than someone that only understood the tangible, that only master the physical

It is like those who master the element of fire. Fire could burn houses, cities, nations, mountains and rivers

This is the physical aspect. But those who master the intangible properties of fire could ignite anger in the enemies heart, could ignite emotional response

Azief himself is slowly delving into that kind of mastery. And it would take him a long time to master this ”Rash, impetuous. It is a pity. Given enough time, Oreki would not be so rash” but now, things had already happened.

It still could be salvaged when Hikigaya stand up but the moment when Oreki stand up, Raymond could no longer just sit back down.

It would appear like he is pressured by the two twin Sages of Japan.

This has to do with power projection, prestige and face of the world powers

World Government even though they could be considered one of the OG of the world power, they are in quite a bind these days

Japan who seceded from the World Government might have less influence than the World Government but they have two Divine Comprehension realm leveler.

If Raymond back down right now, it would seem like the World Government is afraid of those two Divine Comprehension realm.

Raymond could be defeated but he must not back down.

Not only Oreki action causes Raymond unable to sit back down, it also causes Hikigaya not able to sit back down.

What would the world say when they found out that even though there is two Divine Comprehension leveler in Japan, and when the two of them stand up, two of them could not force Raymond to sit down?

What would the world think? Wouldnʼt they think that Hikigaya and Oreki is afraid of World Government influence and that is why they sit back down?

Then, how could Hikigaya convince the other world powers and other factions and forces in the world to side with him?

So, that is the reason why a simple argument now suddenly turns into such a complicated matter.

Jean could see it and understand it. And seeing that the room was not entirely destroyed, that shows that from the beginning Hikigaya and Raymond never intend to take it to a fight

But Oreki sudden inclusion into the mix, throws all of the consideration into the bin.

Now, even if they wanted to deescalate and sit down, they could not do it easily.

Hence, there is silence.

Oreki on the other hand is not an idiot. He also notice what has happened.

He is awkwardly standing there but he also did not know what he should do right now.

Azief is looking at this with a smile.

But he also understand them.

Azief did not understand it before and when he was commoner and did not sit on such ahigh seat, he also did not understand the posturing of nations.

Why did they do such posture?

But only when he sist in that seat he finally understand. Sometimes, the optics is deceiving.

And sometimes the optics must be maintained.

Victory could be divided into subjective and objective. There is objective victory and subjective victory.

Hence, when one look at media, one attack to another nation would be covered differently by the people that is being attacked and the people that is attacking.

This does not mean that there is no right and wrong. There is. But once the war started, the first casualty of war is always the truth

And those that suffers is the innocent people. Occupying force uses distorted logics, and the voice of the people is silenced.

Only the justification of the powerful oppressing innocent people could be heard. For the media serve the powerful just like the law serve them.

Order is nothing more than the powerful imposing order. Those who thinks laws are equal has never seen the terrifying aspect of the law

Keep the poor, the peasant in order. The more numerous the law, the more the rich and powerful could use it

But then he shook this thought from his head as he could feel someone is looking at him. Azief look toward Jean and he almost chuckled

Jean look at him and he tilted his head with a serious expression and Azief knows what he needs to do as he nodded

Azief sigh and he make sure that his sign echoes in the room

And then he taps one of his fingers on the table.

A wisp of energy is released when he taps his finger.

This energy spreads almost in an instant.

In one moment, Raymond energy that was bursting out was suppressed, Hikigaya clouds of illusion that has just begins to spread out all over the floor and the slithering electricity arc that Oreki had produces, all of it was blown away by this small wisp of energy

It is like a gust of wind blowing all smoke.

Just like that. Simple, effortless, domineering

Then Azief raise his hand and put his hand down and suddenly all three of them feel a powerful force like a world pushing them down as they were forced to sit back down on their seat.

All three of them look at Death Monarch with a complicated expression. Yes, they feel grateful that Death Monarch break that awkward situation

But at the same time, they could not believe that they, a Divine Comprehension realm leveler could so easily be controlled by Death Monarch

It felt like they were children facing a giant. Like a father chastising his children

The force is oppressive but not so overbearing that they would feel pain.

It is probably also a warning by Death Monarch.

A kind of reminder of what a deterrence he is to the world

Azief nodded and then said ”Letʼs not talk about those other.... disturbing things in this room. Let settle this first. Then after all of this is settled, maybe when you all have space from each other, the conclusion you reached today would change” ”What do you think about that Earthshaker?” Azief ask as he look at Raymond and then he looks at Hikigaya and Oreki ”Illusionist Archmage? Thunder King? Give me some face?” The three nodded. Azief has already the chance to step down, they would of course take it. ”Of course,ʼ Hikigaya answers

Raymond nodded.

Azief however is thinking about a different thing the moment they sit down. He looks again at that holographic image of the world and he could not help but keep shaking his head.

He was surprised that out of all the ten seas the League of Freedom would choose the Sea of

Light.

After all, he heard rumors from the grapevine that that the League of Freedom was considering the Whirling Sea and even the Sea of Monsters >>