Lord Shadow

Chapter 1817: Factor of Emotions

He shakes his head and chuckles a bit. He blows a wind from his mouth. A soothing life force comes out from his mouth and shrouded Sofia.

The wounds on her ribs closes up. Azief then takes another step and is out of the tunnel. He raises his hand

HONG!

Suddenly a powerful suction force originated from him and all monsters in the radius of one hundred kilometres was dead.

In an instant.

Almost in an instant.

Azief absorb every monsters energy in the radius of one hundred kilometres.

The execution is swift and fast and did not even seem to affect the world

But if someone could analyse this, they would be shocked.

Because all of the monsters whether they are deep in the ground, running on land, flying in the sky, or hiding inside a lake all of their bodies are shrivelled like their entire essence was sucked out

Azief simply suck all of their existence and absorb them into his body. This has something to do with what he is about to do later.

But it is also because he wanted to protect Sofia.

He sighed and he look at the sky and shakes his head with a bitter smile on his face. Then he laughed ”twenty years and my heart says it doesnʼt want to forget” And he could only laugh at this. Love seems to be easy to be forgotten before the Fall

After the Fall, falling in love is like being cursed. He could not forget her. Yet, he could not embrace her either.

So, the only thing he could is this.

Cowardly, timidly.

The matters of the heart is the most troublesome things in the world. Once you fall, there is no going back.

He look again toward that cave and his eyes twitched. ”Enough” he thought to himself and the twitching stopped. He knows what the eye wanted to show him

He didnʼt want to see it. He saw a glimpse once. A glimpse of the future. He saw a wedding. He saw Sofia. And he saw Raymond. He saw an explosion. Blood.

And he saw many more things. But the more he walk the earth, the more he sees thing, the blurry it became

Seeing it, might have changed it. Or seeing it might have locked it. Azief did not know. And he did not know how to solve the knot in his heart

Maybe, forever, he would have to ask himself this question and always tries to answer this question

An eternal question that begged to be answered

Sighing, he took another step

And disappear away. ”One last stop” he mutters to himself.

He is coming out because of the threat of the world. He is coming out because he miss someone. He is coming out because someone need his help

But just one last stop

Before he goes there.

Right now, he is in front of an ice palace.

No one notices him. Not the guards, not the flying android and the flying creatures that is on the spires of the Ice palace.

Azief simply walk into the Ice Palace.

He walks the steps and then he reached garden.

And then he reveals himself.

His Divine Sense sweeps the area and the woman who was appreciating the lily flowers look behind her.

And then she saw him

And the cold exterior of her expression blooms with smile.

Twenty years has not changed anything. That smile. That happiness. Nothing changed. Like she is forever in that time.

And Azief could not help but smile

She runs toward him and jump to him. Azief hugged her and hold her tight. She kisses him on the cheek.

Azief smile. And he kisses her on her lips. And she smiles again

Her eyes like the shining stars, her kiss is like paradise. It is like he is in a hill looking at the star falling from the sky

Like experiencing that feeling of the first time he sees a meteor shower.

They have their own harmony, even after twenty years, that harmony with a kiss, reignited, and like twenty years ago, they sparkle again

Like a shining star. ”Katarina. Iʼm back” ”Unn” she answers back and Azief could not help but simply laugh ...

Azief is now on her bed.

By now the battle in Pandemonium probably has started. In Untainted Land, Loki is probably fighting the forces of the Untainted Land.

Sofia probably have already woken up. And Erika probably has cleaned up all of the damage by now.

As for Azief, he is on Katarina bed, half naked. He got up and goes to the bath. He let the water washes over him

But in his mind the sound of the clock ticking could not be erased. ”A little bit more” he thought to himself.

He washes quite fast and then he returns back to the room. Katarina has already woken up. ”Youʼre going?” Azief nodded ”Will it be dangerous?”

Azief nodded ”What about Pandemonium?” Azief paused for a second and then he smiles ”They will be fine” ”People will die”

Azief nodded ”I will give them a chance” Katarina is silent for a moment and then sighed. She seems to understand something ”Only this once?” ”Only this once” ”Can you not go?” There is another pause. Azief look at her and he could not help but shakes his head ”Heʼs my brother. A bond forged in hardship. He would sacrifice his life for me. And I would sacrifice my life for him”

Hearing this Katarina did not know how to persuade Azief. She already heard what Azief as planning.

Twenty years of waiting.

Twenty years of preparations.

If outsiders heard such thing, they might think that Azief has been preparing for the matters of Pandemonium.

He might even be preparing against an alien invasion considering that he knows the existence of an alien roaming around Earth that does not have good intention towards Earth

But these people does not understand Death Monarch

Sometimes, it is the insignificant thing that draws him out.

The world is important to him. But is it as important as his brother?

This is Death Monarch.

Is he a great hero who fought for the world?

He is quite selfish.

He is not the hero you thought he is.

He never is.

It is people that attributed him these titles and labels.

So that they could restrain him.

Most of the time he had to take action because people provoke him, and mess with him.

He might have been more caring toward the world but that streak of selfishness is still there

Because Azief learns a long time from history that those that become heroes always end up dead or have an ignoble death.

Because people donʼt want a hero.

Because a hero is always better than them.

The people wanted to corrupt the hero.

Because they see in the hero, the person they could never be.

Brave, selfless and incorruptible.

The more they shine, the more it shed light on these people who are in the shadows. The more they feel small

High in the air and these people will want to drag down such a person to the ground.

They could not be something that perfect so they have to destroy it.

Azief from the beginning did not have the hero template. He has demons in his head and demons in his heart

The difference is that he did not act upon the whispers of these demons.

Azief sighed. ”I would want more time to spent with you. But he is waiting. And this is the right moment.

Everyone there is gone. And I could use it” ”youʼre sure about this?”

Azief nodded.

Katarina has waited for this moment for twenty years. She never knew how long she had to wait.

But she did not mind the wait. She has been with him when he was in that Untainted Land.

It is quite amazing. Twenty years has passed and the passion in her heart did not dissipate instead it becomes even more powerful

Like an obsession.

Azief once discuss these matters with her.

He hypothesized that since magic, many of the magic is driven by emotions, when the All

Source give them all this energy and all of these abilities, it did not only make them stronger but it also makes them have certain flaws.

And how do you make a flaw to a being that become stronger every time?

Emotions. The one thing that destroys gods and mortals alike are emotions. Hence, there is people who sometime go crazy when their energy goes haywire. Or when their magic reaches a certain point of breakthrough.

Love is stronger.

Hatred is stronger.

Because they could now live to be a ten thousand years old beings, these strengthening of emotions is not only a flaw but might be the saving grace of an eternal existence

Or maybe it is a curse.

Azief himself does not know.

What he does understand is that, the stronger you become, the harder it is to control your emotion and this is why certain gods and powerful beings sometimes makes an irrational decision when they already have all kinds of abilities in their disposal.

They should know that they have the advantage yet they are lured by emotional response.

Maybe it is not because they did not know.

But maybe because they could not control it.

That emotion that is bubbling and controlling them >>