Lord Shadow

Chapter 1722: Two Old Friends Meeting

Whoosh!

There is storms all over the world.

There is tornadoes forming, tsunamis rising and falling, volcanoes spewing its ash before exploding, mountains crumbling and reemerging

There is shaking all over the world, and the earth is sinking in many places. In the oceans there is blue holes forming and, on the ground, cities and large vast number of lands collapsed into nothingness.

The world itself is now covered with a protective dome that disallowed earth from collapsing entirely.

The world is shrouded in purple aura on one side, a golden aura on another, a red cloud on the other.

All kinds of colors like an aurora parade could be seen all over the world.

And there is someone who is sitting cross legged on top of a square stone boulder watching all of this playing out with a smile.

It is a woman wearing a grey robe. She is beautiful in appearance but the aura around her make her appear hard to approach.

And she has one distinguishing feature that made her recognizable and even famous all over the world and that she only has one eye.

Her right eye. As for her left eye, her left eye pocket is empty

As for her right eye, it is cloudy milky like there is something that covered her cornea

But she could see just fine. And it is not like that cloudy milk colors always could be seen in her eyes. It is only in certain moment where her eyes turns white like this

But it usually unnerves some people.

Not only that, she believe she could see much more than the rest of the world. This woman is Erika the One-Eyed Oracle.

She is looking at the sky.

And in the sky, she sees a raven.

A lone raven.

She smiles as the raven come closer and closer to that cliff edge and then as it about to land on the ground, it morphs into a young handsome man wearing a black three-piece suit, a fedora hat on top of his shoulder length hair and a high-quality leather shoe looking elegant and charismatic.

An elegant young man appears all of a sudden. Erika was not surprised at all seeing this young man. Instead, it was almost like she was expecting him ”Loki, it has been quite some time”

He smiles as he walk closer to her and stand beside her

Just like Erika he is looking at the sky.

For a moment there is only silence between them. The sound of the world cracking, breaking, the sound of explosion in the distance, of whooshing winds and of destruction and reconstruction is the only noise that they could hear. ”Beautiful, isnʼt it?” Loki mutters suddenly, his face is still looking forward. Erika also did not look toward Loki instead she ask back ”Is it?” ”It is sad” Loki said as he closes his eyes and smiles a bit. Then opening his eyes, he laughs a bit.

A joke only he could understand. But as Erika look at the world right now, she could also understand Loki moods.

She sighed ”Things that is sad and beautiful is always the most haunting” Erika mutters.

Loki nodded.

For a moment, these two people did not say anything.

They just watch the sky changes, the rifts in space, the time and space that is slowly distorting all over the world and through it all these two people just....do nothing.

They did not speak.

They just observe

Loki is standing there beside the boulder, looking far away and sitting on that boulder is Erika the One-Eyed Erika.

These two people are both famous people.

They are also very influential in the world with the ability and power to change the world situation.

Loki is known to have many talents and his life experience is very colorful and exciting.

He is like a brother to Death Monarch, and one of the famous people that have disrupted many dark plans of the World Government.

He once become the regent of Pandemonium and created a working order for the world powers by fostering diplomacy between the world powers.

It is because of him that the World Government and the Republic is now one of the staunchest allies of Pandemonium because Loki tied the interest of these forces onto Pandemonium.

And now, he is one of the people on the Red Table of the Crime Alliance.

Once on the side of order, now on the side of chaos.

To the people of the world, he abandoned the light and seek the dark side.

But for those in power, Loki action could not be viewed as an action of good and evil.

It is a measure of survival.

After Loki takes the blame for the Multiversal Convergence, the official stance of the World Powers is to capture Loki and kill him.

Of course, official stance and the reality of the situation always leave something to be desired.

The people of the world powers still deals with Loki.

However, this kind of transaction between the world powers and Loki is of course hidden from their own people and they could deal with secretly.

Loki right now could be considered a notorious figure in the world, an infamous Trickster. What about Erika? Theos is the woman who could alleviate the worries of rulers and monarch

But she is also the same person that could manipulate the world, putting these monarchs, kings and ruler under her spell, like they are marionette tied by an invisible string, moving according to her direction and desire.

And now she had returned to the stage of the world and just like before, she still retains her influence.

Who does not want to know their own future?

Who does not want to know the rise and fall of their own life?

And to those who wanted to know, their choice is none other than to ask the Oracle

The words of the Oracle is never wrong, her eyes penetrates all falsehoods, look through past and present to reach the future

These two people are very different from each other and right now they are standing in different camp.

Good and evil. Heroes and villains

But somehow, the image of them beside each other looking at the cracking sky far in the distance, seeing the aurora-like aura that spreads all over the skyscape of the world, they look like a beautiful picture of contrast.

Then Loki was the one that broke this beautiful picture ”Did you see anything?”

And hearing this question Eriak who was engrossed in looking at the far away distance horizon smiles. Then she chuckles. And then she laughs ”New things. New possibilities” Loki hearing this answer smiles bitterly. Erika look beside her and look at Loki and she chuckles ”It seems that these things are not in your plan”

Loki shook his head ”It was. Just ahead of schedule”

And Erika nodded.

They both understand what the other means.

There are only a handful of people in this world that knows what they are talking about and their feelings right now

Loki as he looks at this formation of a new world, of a ten continent, and ten seas he could not help but feel like he is living in an entirely different life.

Changing history also give them an iffy feeling.

To the people of the world, there is nothing jarring about these changes.

But for those who have seen and experience about what happens in their timeline, this sense of dissonance between their former reality and current reality felt very jarring and surreal.

In a way it is like you go to a world where instead of Romeo and Juliet, it is Romeo and

Rosalind.

And in that story, they lived happily ever after instead of dying together. T he reason why Romeo and Juliet is remembered so much is because of their sad ending.

That is the kind of feeling that these two are feeling right now.

Because of their actions, their guiding hands, some people did not meet people that they are destined to meet and some people meet people they should not have met. Because of their interference the relationship between certain people also changed.

Old friends in their timelines are now enemies, and old enemies in their timelines are now friends.

This kind of surreal feeling could not be understood by anyone other than another person who came from another time. Loki and Eriak does not like each other that much.

This has something to do with the way they approach problems and how they solve it. But ironically, these two people seek each other.

Because they are the only few people that could reminisce on certain things that had happened.

And even though the current Erika is not the Erika in Loki future, they are very similar.

And the current Erika also knows that the future Erika is also hers.

The only difference between her and her future self is none other than the fact that she is still young, lacking in experience and is not yet molded by the time ahead.

And even though she is unlike the Erika in the future, some of her trait is actually very similar.

Because in the end, that Erika in the future is also her. ”Are you worried now?” Erika ask question again.

Loki smiles and spoke ”Since everything is messed up, then a new future might be formed. And that is not a bad thing” saying this Loki did not say anything more as he look at the world around him changing. He could feel the movement of the ground, the changing of time and space and eh closes his eyes

Erika also no longer interested in seeing the skies and closes his eyes.

But as she closes her eyes, she said ”Odin have come”

Loki hearing this narrowed his eyes and then he chuckles ”He wanted to bet”

Then there is silence between them again.

These two people both waiting for the changes in the world ....