Lord Shadow

Chapter 1748: Crystal Palace

In just a matter of a few second, it fills the entire empty section of the ground and the wall of the ground with crystal like structure

And there is a difference as it propagates more and more inside the sinkhole and affecting the island

These crystals are in different kind of colors.

Some are red.

Some are silver.

Some are gold.

Some are black.

White, blue, orange. All kinds of colors and it sometimes have mixed colors

It is beautiful and mystical and it make people feel wonderment just by seeing it ”Could it be...” Azief thought to himself and then without delaying, he flies out from the open ground and fly up toward the sky.

In just a matter of second he is back on the sky and then he look at the island and nodded to himself ”That waves of energy.... could it be like the World Engine World Adaptation Waves?”

Azief had deduced a few things from seeing the crystal in action.

This crystal has weird energies.

Like an energy that is ancient and out of date with the current reality of the Universe.

He has his own thought about what kind of energy that is.

What is clear, is that it could not grow the way it did without a familiar environment.

So, the waves of energy that sweeps the island was to make the island more familiar.

A conducive environment for the crystal.

And now that the conducive environment has been created...it could grow and it could expand. And then it fills the entire island.

In just a few second since Azief left the crater, the entire island is filled with crystal rushing all over to claim its new land. Crystal forest, crystal caves and towers.

Azief simply avoids when the crystal jutted out from the ground and rush toward the air.

This process takes an hour and, in that hour, Azief simply fly around the island looking at the growth of the crystal.

And then, after almost two hours, Azief finally landed back on the ground.

But there is no longer any grass.

Or sand.

Instead, all one could see is only crystals.

A crystal island. And an energy that is familiar yet foreign could be felt in every nook and cranny of the island.

The wind blows and Azief dark robe sways gently. By now, Azief has already shed his disguise.

This island is already protected by all kinds of formation and he no longer needs to worry about being discovered.

He is now wearing his black robe. There is no longer any hood.

Only a tight-fitting robe with a floating cape behind him

The cape is not because of style.

While it adds to the style making him look like a version of a Dark Superman, there is a reason for the cape.

His attire is like the Assassin Creed games character, black, tight fitting but also quite different in that the attire has runes carved on it.

It looks like leather but if an attack reach it, one could feel like it hits the hardest leather in the world. because it is not leather but it is not iron either.

Elastic yet when force is applied to it, it hardest to a degree of hardness that could withstand the explosion of a supernova.

It is a kind of forging materials that the Order of Thinkers had discovered. Azief had one made for him

Katarina when he goes out of the Untainted Land, she would also relay his order to Sasha.

Around two years ago, or in the real world, two months ago, when Katarina goes out, she told him about the discovery of this forging material.

The only problem was that no one could forge it.

Azief also donʼt know how to forge it.

Even Hikigaya with his Divine Comprehension ability could not bend this metal to what he wanted.

Azief also doesnʼt know.

One piece of it is brought to him and he still doesnʼt know how to forge this thing.

But while he doesnʼt know, he had a feeling that Sasha would know. So, he placed an order and after that, he got an armor called the F01

Which basically means the Forge One. Because it is the first armor produced from this metal.

As for the cape, Azief was tinkering around in creating sentient object.

One of his inspirations is from Dr Strange comic of a sentient cape.

Well, he failed in creating a sentient cape. But he did manage to create a kind of cape that would protect its owner.

It is not sentient but more like a preprogrammed computer. Only simple commands.

The boots and the bracers all have powerful properties.

Azief rarely relies on items and equipment or even artifacts.

But everything has an exception

Right now, his realms is in Disk Formation.

He just got out of the Untainted Land and it would take some time before he reached back

Divine Comprehension realm

As for his Essence Creation realm, because he uses an extreme method to cultivate his energy, the limit that his body could hold is Divine Comprehension realm

Now, that is a problem. Divine Comprehension realm is strong. In the world there is only four people with the Divine Comprehension realm

There is Raymond. Oreki. Hikigaya. And him.

Yes, all three of them would have no reason to attack him. And for now, the whole world doesnʼt know that he only has the realm of Divine Comprehension realm

They all still think that he is in Essence Creation realm. Even if they know, they would not attack him because the Three Great Powers would fight for him

There is a status quo in the world and there are many that wanted to protect and maintain this status quo.

In the past, the person that wanted him to die the most is Hirate.

But now, if there is really a plan to kill, Hirate would probably the first one to organize a protection squad around him

Why?

Because the creation of the Seven Great Powers actually united the original Great Powers which is the Republic, the World Government and Pandemonium into one united force.

So, there is actually not many that would try to kill him.

But not many doesnʼt mean there is no one that would not try.

Killing him would throw the entire world out of order.

New order would rise of course. But in the rise of that new order, how many lives would be sacrificed and how many people would have to die?

How many more chaos and how long would it take?

The world could not stand another chaotic period.

A global chaotic period is different than a localized continental chaotic period. If he dies because someone killed him, there would be a global chaotic period

One might ask, why would anyone wanted to kill him, when killing him would set the world on fire?

Because not all people is sane.

And not all people think about the greater good.

Nor they would think about some noble ideas

Some people just wanted to see the world burns

And Azief is reminded about a person. And this person is now roaming the world.

This person probably what he wanted is chaos of the highest degree. Some people.... just wanted the world to burn

And that is why Azief had to protect himself.

And if that means wearing some outfit, and wearing some armor and equipment, so be it.

He needs all the help he could get.

He is thinking a lot as he walks around the island, admiring this new environment ”Full of crystal. Beautiful but felt like an iron city. Suffocating and desolate” he thought to himself

The wind is gentle.

It is probably because of the way the crystal positioned itself.

Even though there is no grass and there is no sand, the entire crystal structure itself is full of life.

Or to be more accurate, full of life essence

However, seeing this place, it is more like a palace of crystal.

And in front of him, there is a thirty feet height door. Azief was about to push the door when suddenly the door opens.

Azief smirks and then he enters. Just by entering it he could feel the desolation of this place. It is big, it is vast but it is also empty. ”My Palace of Crystal” this pale of crystal is unlike any crystal palace in the world.

As he walks inside this palace, he touch the wall of the palace and he could feel energy thrumming inside it.

And that energy is rising. ”Did something happen when I met Borgan before? Did she somehow manage to put some of her energy into the crystal?” he thought to himself.

Azief could see that even though he had entered the palace, there is many more palaces and castle inside the door. It is enormous and because of how it is positioned, the plays on distance and space, it really look like a vast place that is boundless ”It is either the positioning or....” Azief suddenly make a slashing motion with his hand and then he could feel it.

The space distorts around him but the distortion is different. If Azief has to describe it, it is like a sticky space.

It sticks around his body.

And it never feel like that when he is outside of the palace. >>