Lord Shadow

Chapter 1758: Taking the Soul

Azief voice echoes inside the room and then at that moment, suddenly lightning flashes by and the entire room was illuminated

In that moment, Carol finally sees a shadow. Long and tall. And she immediately turns back and the moment she did that, she screams

In any other places, such scream would demand attention.

But here, in this neighbourhood, the sound of screaming is like the sound of the wind passing by, like the sound of a car honking on the alley

It is normal.

It is bleak. It is sad. And then there is the rain. The thunder. The lightning. No one would hear her scream ”Argh!” she falls down to the floor and her entire feet feel like lead as she did not even have the courage to get back up.

Instead, she distances herself, crawling back until her back hit the wall. ”Who....are you!” she is afraid and trembling. Beside her there is a small drawer. She quickly pull the drawer and brought out a gun.

She did not hesitate to shoot

Most people would. Azief eyes narrows at this. ”the instinct to kill. Amazing. She only took one life and she is already gunning for more” he thought

BANG!BANG!

Two shot was released and Carol expected to see the intruder to get hit and fall down in front of her but a more shocking thing appears. She saw that the bullet is floating in the air.

It is floating just a few inches in front of this strange man

Azief look at the bullet and as he gestures with his finger the bullet slowly flew toward him.

He opens his palm and the two bullet still hot out from the gun slowly floated own onto his palm ”Guns, huh? It has been a long time since someone try to attack me with this kind of weapon” Azief mutters to himself.

There is even a smile on his face. Like he is remembering some fond memories. But to Carol, the smile on this stranger face looks horrifying to her.

Emotions could distort memories. And in Carol case, she is utterly terrified right now. Even now, she still did not recognize Azief.

In time of fear like this, not many people could calm down and remember details like this.

Seeing such mystical occurrence, something that she could not explain, Carol is even more hysterical.

She shot and empty the entire gun out. The sound of the gun is muffled by the heavy rain outside the apartment

But all the bullet suffer the same fate. It stops just a few inches from this strange man and gently it would fall onto this strange man palm ”What are you!” Carol could not help but ask this question.

Her face is full of horror. ”I wanted a happy ending for everyone. You could have chosen differently. All the chances, all the choices, all the events, none of them.....” And Azief shook his head. He did not finish his sentence.

Then he continues on ”You could choose well. This world is cruel. And in a way it is fair. Everyone could suffer. Good people. Bad people. The good people suffers. And sometimes the bad people suffers too” ”Sometimes, the good people prospers. And sometimes the evil people suffer. But what I notice, as long as the good people fight, the evil people would lose. Because they are many more that gravitate toward light.” ”But the good people rarely fight. And so, they become the slave of evil people. The tyranny of evil men is making good people fighting other good people.”

While Azief is talking Carol runs toward the kitchen.

Azief did not seem to care.

She found a knife and tries to stab him.

Azief admire her persistence.

The knife stopped just a few inches in front of him. No matter how much force she exerts, the knife could not budge forward.

She throws the knife to the ground. The horror on her face grows. ”this world does not punish evil. In a way, the operation of this world is very simple” Azief keep talking. It is more like he wanted her to understand.

Why he is here. And what is he going to do to her. She was exasperated even as Azief keep talking. ”The father of that girl because of your choice tonight, if not for me, he would find no peace until he died. You, however get to live a long life, full of debauchery, a life of irresponsibilityʼs. Of utter disregard of anyone else around you. Only sometimes, you would find the memory of killing that little girl. But every time you remember, you would always rationalized it”

The woman already understood that this strange man came to him because of what she had done.

She opens the window and escape through the fire escape.

Azief keep speaking more and more about this world.

And even though the distance between them are now far, Carol could still hear the words. It is like he is standing beside her ears, speaking to her directly.

The more it is like this the more Carol, quickened her steps to run away from this apartment.

Even as the rain keep falling, even as she is soaked, she keep climbing down the emergency ladder. And then she jumps down to the ground.

The moment her feet touches the ground, she felt that the space around her distorted and suddenly the scenery in front of her changes.

Before, she was outside the apartment, and she was just one step away from the back-alley road of this apartment.

Suddenly, she is back.

Back at her apartment. And standing in front of her, is that man. ”I have not yet determined what kind of punishment is befitting the crime. So, I would take your soul first and when I have think about it, I would give you the punishment” It was a notification

Whether she approves or not, it did not matter. Carol understood it. And it is only at this time, when she accepted her fate, she remembers this man.

This strange man that she saw looking at her as she leave that child on the cold hard ground to die.

Azief waves his hand, and a shining orb flew out from her.

This white orb is stained with some kind of darkness that stick to this white orb like some kind of slime.

The soul is changeable.

The shape of the soul becomes an orb because that is what Azief think it is.

And as he pulls her soul out of her body, the soul match his perception and become an orb the mystery of the soul is profound and even Azief could easily bring out the soul of a person out from their existence, he still does not understand it fully.

Carol body falls down almost instantly to the ground

Azief then waves his hand and the body turns into a streak of light that enters his sleeve.

His method become even more terrifying after he reached Essence Creation realm.

No one would not be afraid if they know that Death Monarch could reap your soul with just a wave of his hand

It is just that there is not many enemy he could use his method on nowadays.

After all, if he fight against Oreki, Hikigaya or Raymond, it is like bullying them. It would be like an adult beating a one-year-old kid.

There is no suspense in this battle.

Because everyone could tell who is going to win.

Not to mention, that Azief position in Earth is quite special

If he wanted to use all of his method in its entirety, he at least need to spar someone with the same level or realm as he is.

And it is not like Essence Creation realm leveler is all over the Universe.

When you compare the estimated population of the Universe, relatively, it seems like there is millions of Essence Creation levelers.

It might seems a lot. Millions of Essence Creation realm leveler.

But relatively, when you think about the distances of these planets and galactic system, when you think of the vastness of the Universe and when you think of all the living being in the

Universe, millions seems like a small number.

When the Universe itself reached quintillions of spaces.

Though, now is not the time to think about these kind of things

Azief shook his sleeve and he smiles

The soul and the body is now under his hands.

He look outside. The thunder is roaring, the rain keeps falling, the living being fo the world is living. ”What a peculiar world” Azief thought to himself.

He smiles and click his finger

Time stopped in an instant.

The scene outside of the apartment freezes like it is paused.

The entire particles of the word, seems to be in static.

But that alone should not erase consciousness.

There is a force that made this possible

And this force is magic. It is unreasonable. It is weird. It is strange. It is horrifying. Azief look at the outside world.

There is a thunderstorm that is forming in the sky. The people could not see it but how could he not see it?

But that thunderstorm is now a silent, motionless. >>