Lord Shadow

Chapter 1804: The Answer He Wanted

In that simulation Loki did not use all of his power.

But in that simulation Azief also did not show all of his card.

Instead, he is very calm and the attack is very simple.

Too effortless even. Raise his hand and summons ten thousand lightning bolts. One slash to end the world. These are the two only real attack he did.

He did not even shows his true prowess or break out all of his moves. And they are not here to fight

Loki simply wanted to warn Azief.

That if Azief wanted to drag him back to Pandemonium or divulge some things, it would not be easy to make him talk

That use of illusion to bring him into that simulator is probably also a test.

If Loki could not break through that illusion, Azief would ropeable uses illusion to know what he is hiding.

Some question Loki knows Azief would not ask.

The question about the future, Azief probably would not ask in details.

But there is many things that he is doing right now that has nothing to do with the future.

And that is what he wanted to hide him.

However, he could break the illusion so Azief did not try that again with him ”Why do you want to meet me?” ”I need answers”

Then Azief look at another direction.

The mist covers everything between them and Azief waves his hand and the mist parted way like Moses splitting the Red Sea and Loki could guess which direction that Azief is looking right now

He did not need to say many things but Loki got the gist of what he is trying to say ”he needs answers and I need him”

This Azief is more difficult than the Azief he knows before. Twenty years had changes him. And twenty years had also changed Azief.

He seems even more mysterious than before and he seems even more unfathomable than before

Loki thinks for a moment and he suddenly feel that he had seen this before.

It did not take him long to understand what he is feeling

He felt that there is something very familiar with the way Azief operates this time.

It is not like Azief at all.

Yes, there is still a part of the old method of Death Monarch in his demeanour but this unfathomable side of him reminded him of someone else

Someone that also treasures their words and speaks like she already knows what you are going to talk about.

The person that Azief reminded him of is none other than Erika.

Loki eyes narrowed ”You see the future, didnʼt you?”

And Loki smiles.

He wonders why Azief coming out from the seclusion is so coincidental. Nothing is just coincidence.

Even the most apparent coincidence could not happen without some kind of divine will guiding a miracle into be thought of as coincidence.

Azief did not find it necessary to hide it from Loki. He nodded. ”You see all of this?” Azief nodded again ”then you basically knows what I am about to ask you to do?” Azief nodded again.

Loki chuckles ”But I donʼt know what you are going to ask me. Though, I could guess” ”Then, guess” Azief finally said something after just nodding. ”The future?”

Azief nodded. ”Then you must also expected the answer I am about to give you” ”Yes” ”No” Loki answers.

Hearing this Azief smiles ”It means you donʼt want that future to come to pass” Azief said but his words sounds like a question.

Loki understood what Azief meant

The thing about the future is that once it is revealed, it has many complications.

Sometime, the very act of revealing a future to someone from the past, has the effect of creating that future.

A self-fulfilled prophecy.

A man often meets his destiny on the very road he took to avoid it.

This example is numerous. Loki knows it and Azief also knows it.

Even more so when they could see fate and destiny with their eyes.

The red string of destiny, the golden thread of fate.

Whenever anyone tries to avert a prophecy, for good or ill, the end result of their actions is to bring the prophecy about.

The harder they struggle to prevent it, the more inescapable their destiny becomes. Fate and destiny does love their irony

Loki did not say it not because he didnʼt want to say it.

Because he fears saying it, locked that future.

Before he did not say it like this.

Because at that time, Azief did not understand.

He would not understand at that time if Loki say it like this.

Because he didnʼt know yet what it means to see the future and what it means to know about your future.

It is different if you just jokingly said ”I know your future” Because there is no magic involved.

But Azief has seen the past and future and even future that has not happened and probably will not happen now.

What he says has magic.

Because it is based on truth.

The same way Loki words would touch certain barriers of magic if he said what happens in the future.

Because the traces of time, of fate and destiny is on him

So, if he said it, the laws of the world, the laws of the Universe, and the laws of the Omniverse would all respond.

And now, he could answer like this.

And Azief get the answer he wanted.

From the very beginning, he already knows that he could not force Loki to say what will happen in the future.

Even if he could force Loki to say it, he would not want to hear it.

Erika shows him what is the future.

And he learns from Borgan what is fate and destiny. And when he learns from the Blue Crystal, learning the knowledge of the Etherna he understood one thing.

Knowing too much about the future is not entirely good.

Azief believe that Borgan has also seen the destruction of her race. She did not want to believe it. But if she did not believe it, why create the ring?

Why have so many countermeasures? Her Will still looms and linger in the new universe that was born after the destruction of the Etherna.

Etherna is a taboo existence because he did not exist in this Universe.

It is wiped out from existence. The physical thing about them were destroyed but their will become the bedrock of all the magical things in the Omniverse

They die and become a nutrient for the Omniverse

The future is like that

You can look at it, once or twice.

That is fine.

But the more you look at it, the more it will become distorted.

Whether it is because of your desire to change it, or reach that future, each action, whether to obstruct or pursue that fate, each action distorts it.

Azief got what he wanted. And it is time he gave Loki what he wanted.

Azief opens his palm. And the moment he opens his palm, a droning sound fills the world.

In just a second, the wind gathers, the clouds above in the sky descend down and the sea water flew towards him.

It gathers above his palm, floating and swirling.

A branch from a tree, a pair of leaves. A blade of gras, a pinch of dark soil, a shell of a crab, all of it seems to flew toward Azief.

It is like some kind of a weird recipe.

Then Azief blows a breath toward the swirling ingredients and then it floats down toward

Azief palm.

As it is coming down, it morphs into a shape of a key.

Ethereal and translucent but as it falls downs onto Azief palm it turns solid.

Loki eyes narrowed ”The key to the Untainted Land?”

Azief nodded ”Back door key” Azief look toward the direction of the Untainted Land. ”I expected this thing would happen. After hundreds of years, they might even think of ridiculous thoughts”

Azief is clearly referring to the people inside the Untainted Land.

The advantages that he given them and the disadvantage that he had given them was both the same thing Time. That is what is different. The people there die. Because most that comes inside that Untainted Land are all people who could no longer make any breakthrough. Generations changes and their wills and desire would also change

Now, they think that they are powerful enough that they could challenge the orthodoxy of the world.

This is clearly the case of a frog looking at the world from the bottom of the well, not knowing how the vast the world really is

Azief expected this. Because humans are a forgetful species. If not, how could they keep making the same mistake, again and again. ”they want to attack Earth and replace it” Loki said

Azief only snorted at this ”from the very beginning, they are doing a meaningless task. They could not win”

Loki nodded. ”Because there is limits to the powers they could reach. Even if they absorbs the power of Heaven and Earth of the real world and break through to Divine Comprehension inside the Untainted Land, that would break the fabric of reality of that world and in the end, the Untainted Land dimensional wall would crack and break. And then, all of it is....useless”

Azief did not want to think too much about Untainted Land.

To him, it is not that big of a problem

But he wonders why Loki think of it as important.

But even if he ask, he doubts Loki would give him a straight answer.

Since he knows it is pointless to ask, he would do what he should do and Loki would do what he wanted to do. After all, he already got the answer he wanted to hear from Loki. >>