Lord Shadow

Chapter 1816: The Heart Did Not Forget

Azief is now at a different place.

He did not know that someone climbed Andes Plain to meet his sworn brother. He did not know what it means for him to not be there.

He did not know that Loki was on top of Mount Parnassus. He also did not know the plan that Loki and Erika is concocting there

But even if he knows, he probably would not desire to meet with that Loki. Because the question he ask would only burden that Loki.

He is now in a forest. And not far away from him is a monster. And not far away from this monster is a woman.

This woman has a bow on her hand and an arrow made of light on the bow. Aimed at this monster. But this woman is panting hard. There is golden blood flowing down from her side. She is about to fall unconscious. ”This monsters is out of her league. She should not hunted it at the first place”

And he sighed

This is cause and effect. He predicted this the moment that he called Raymond. In the vision, Raymond saves her at this moment.

Does this mean Azief wanted to take the highlight from Raymond? No, that was not his intention at all.

It is just that, he put people on the right place so that he could use the least minimal effort to fix some things.

Because he called Raymond, Sofia fell into this predicament.

Raymond has been protecting Sofia when she takes on dangerous monsters.

In a way, it is because of him that she fell into this predicament that should easily been solved

He looks at her from his vantage point and could not help but mutter ”She has improved”

Azief could see that Sofia has more tricks under her sleeve.

He could even tell that even if she is unconscious, there is a teleportation medal hidden under her sleeve.

So, even if she loses, she would not die.

Is she reckless?

Yes.

But Azief understood why.

Sofia wanted to breakthrough to Divine Comprehension. All of the energy and the laws that she has cultivated has reached a good enough level

She is probably wanting to consolidate it.

Because she herself felt something missing.

Azief knows this not because of his vision.

Because he could deduce it from Sofia action.

She is pushing herself to the limit so that she could break her own limiter.

The weakness of Sofia has always been about her battle records.

Because of her reputation and because of her connections, not many people would find trouble with her.

She herself has the Houyi Bow and if she is desperate enough, she could use one of the Ten arrows.

Each arrow has a primordial energy in it, when it is pulled it absorbs the essence of heaven and earth and when it released, the entire heaven and earth seems to be pulled into the bow and release to the target

Sofia most fatal power has always been about her bow.

Hence, the title the Divine Archer.

He look as Sofia is breathing more and more heavily.

She brought out a few more shot toward the monster.

The monster itself is a thirty feet serpent with a crystal horn on top of its head, it scaly skin is like some kind of magical metal able to deflect all kinds of physical attack.

The arrow made of the elements, from fire, wind, water, the element that exist on heaven and earth semes unable to pierce the scale.

It only succeeded in making it mad.

Then the serpent hissed and the hissing sound of this serpent seems to have some kind of magic making Sofia coughed up blood. ”A sonic attack” Azief did not have to think of this too much. It is clear why she coughed up blood. The hissing has some kind of sound magic.

It disturbs the energy

Azief is just looking at this without doing anything ”any moment now” he thought to himself.

Sofia saw that she could not break through the defense of that scale, look behind him and saw a huge mountain.

She kicks her toes forward but her body glides backward and as her body hurtles toward the mountainous rock, at the last moment before her body would slam onto that mountain she turns around and punch the stones.

BAM!

Pulsing energy erupted from the middle of her fist and like an arrow it created a straight tunnel.

As for the reason why, the mountain above did not collapse, the energy that Sofia uses in her punch created some kind of field that prevents the hollow mountain to collapse on itself.

Azief look at this. And he nodded ”her control over her own energy has reached quite a satisfactory level” Azief noted this. When one become stronger, a punch should not blast everything around them. If they do that, not only the energy is dispersed, it is a waste of energy

The only reason for doing such a thing is to intimidate other enemies, and create that aura of invincibility.

Azief could always defeat his opponent without much fanfare if the people he fought for are lower level than him. He did not have to punch and split the sky.

But doing it could create a mental image that oppresses not only the enemy but the ally of that enemy.

Sofia is used to concentrate her power into her bow and arrow.

When she pulls the string of her arrow, it is easy for her to concentrate. but when she uses other methods of attacking like her fist or her kicks, she has difficulties in focusing that energy onto only one point

This time she succeeded.

While Azief was thinking of this, Sofia already enter that tunnel and the moment she enters she raise her hand and the front and back of her is now blocked by an earth wall.

The earth walls then reinforced making it as hard as diamond.

And then Sofia takes a deep breath and close her eyes.

The serpent wanted to enter that tunnel but the moment Sofia enter that tunnel she close the hole that she created.

Sofia on the other hand has already lost consciousness. Azief looks at this and nodded ”The time is now” it is only now when Sofia has lose all of her consciousness, that Azief appears.

Before he did not stand far away from the battle.

Even if he stands there none of these beings could sense his existence if he does not want them to.

But he wanted Sofia to try to push her limit. If he help her, and if she knew it was him that helped her, Azief donʼt think that Sofia would be happy with that

Azief could only sigh inwardly when thinking about this.

Azief appears in front of the serpent.

BOOOM!

The serpent exploded.

He look at the serpent and the serpent turns to ashes. It only took him a second to kill this serpent.

And then Azief simply absorb the energy of this serpent

This energy would be called EXP for those people that still have their status window.

Azief still has his status window.

But if he look at his status window all he could see is blank.

And his status window is already cracked. And that was even before he learns the Etherna knowledge.

He wonders what would happen when his power reach to a point where the system could no longer calculate his power.

Azief believe at that time, the system would break.

Then he would be free from the system constraint.

Azief also knows what the system is.

It is a guide, a helper but when you reach a certain level, it is no longer a helper.

Instead, it would be a constraint. But even these constraint are there to help you. It is like a wall you need to overcome.

The wall is there so you could climb over it. And that is what the system is. As long as you breaks it, you would reach a new world beyond that wall. Beyond that limit.

Because the system limits you. It limits you so that you would not harm yourself. Then the ultimate goal is to surpass that limit and go beyond that.

Azief takes the energy of that serpent. He did not feel that much. It is only natural. His energy reserve could power even a galaxy.

The serpent is only slightly stronger than a normal Disk Formation leveler and could fight against Divine Comprehension leveler.

But Azief himself is nearly on the peak of Essence Formation.

Add the abilities of Etherna and other kinds of ancient knowledge that he possess, killing the serpent is effortless.

Azief then took a step and he enter that tunnel that Sofia created.

Even though Sofia put all of those restriction and even block the hole, Azief could simply phase through the physical obstacles and disable and assemble back the protection formation

He look at Sofia. She is unconscious, golden blood ripping.

And he sighed

He look at Sofia. Twenty years has gone and passed. But this heart still beats this hard when looking at her.

Was she the most beautiful woman in the world? No. But she is to him. And after twenty years, all of the reason, all of the hate, all of the anger seems to fade away.

Yet, when he is here, looking at him, it was like he was back there again. Where she rejected him.

But the difference between then and now, is that now...he understood. He only wished that she also understood him as he had understood her.

And he could not help but chuckles a bit

What a funny story! What a sad story, he thought to himself. ...