Lord Shadow

Chapter 1889: One With Everything

Even Etherna, the strongest being in the entire Omniverse did not abandon their body.

And maybe it is precisely because they have a body that they could still appear even when they have been eradicated.

Borgan turns into a planet, create merit and she survived in another way

Even though Belthana the planet she turned into did not have her will, in a way, she make a mark of herself in the vast Omniverse

Essence Creation is the intersection between Divine and Extraordinary. Essence Creation is already one of the last step to reach Divinity.

Azief could not feel the passing of times as he is focusing his thoughts in absorbing all of the insight that he got.

But a lot of times had passed in the temple and the Stored Time is being used without reserve.

It is not only the understanding of the knowledge that he got that needs to put into context, it is also all of the magical methods that these two avatars of him had created.

There is all kinds of methods of Destruction deduced by the Avatar of Harmony and all kinds of methods of creation deduced by the Avatar of Chaos.

All of these also needs to be recontextualized and deduced.

If he do this on earth, it would take almost a hundred years alone just to make sure all of this knowledge is enough for him to digest

No,, he thought to himself.

It might even take him thousands of years. Of course, if he really did this seclusion on Earth, he would seclude himself in a time accelerating formation.

But if he did that, his lifespan would also be consumed

He would not be so much at ease like now where he could use his time without worrying about the time passing outside the temple and not have to worry about his lifespan being consumed

The matter of lifespan being consumed did not seem such a worrisome idea in the early stages.

But when one reaches Azief level, he knows that when the lifespan being consumed, it did not only take into factor of time passing but also failed attempt.

Each failed attempt could set back thousands and even tens of thousands of years of lifespan

Just because you secluded yourself for a thousand years does not mean that the lifespan that you consumed is only a thousand years.

It might be more.

Azief also did not understand this until he himself was in this position

Only after that he understand what it means to consume lifespan when trying to breakthrough or trying to comprehend new laws and rules of the Omniverse, the Universe and the Heaven and Earth

Because each attempt would use your energy. Energy when reached a certain limit would consume lifespan.

That is why some beings would die and reached their lifespan even before their supposed deadline of lifespan.

Because to breakthrough, one needs to comprehend laws and rules of the Universe.

And to understand it uses energy.

And the harder the laws, the more profound and powerful the rules, the more energy it would take and the more lifespan it could consume in the process of understanding these laws and rules.

Azief is digesting it bit by bit and the more he digest these knowledge, the more he dissipated.

At first he felt the pain of the soul. But now, he no longer feel any pain. Instead, if he has to describe this feeling of being dissipated, it felt like he is uniting.....like he is merging with the world!

Like he had become one of the rules of the Omniverse and a part of heaven and Earth and everything

First his clothes dissipated.

Like it was burned by some kind of invisible fire.

Then his pants.

Then he is naked.

And then slowly his body also seems to burned away and he is turning into ash

Like he is flickering light that is about to go out

And then when he finally understand everything, Azief faded completely, his entire being seems to have dissipated.

Like an ash from burned paper, a wind gust come and the ashes flew into the air, being scattered and disappeared

...

Azief is now in the form of energy and his body seems to have no limit.

He could be anywhere at any time, at any place, at any time. But he was trapped inside this temple and could not get out of it.

But this did not stop him from feeling intoxicated feeling all the laws and rules that dances everywhere in Heaven and Earth, beyond Heaven and Earth, beyond Interium, beyond this dark star system, beyond this galaxy and even beyond this dimension.

This feeling of knowing everything and anything intoxicated him so much that he nearly falls into temptation and nearly being assimilated into the rules and laws of the Universe

But the moment he nearly wanted to merge with the rules and laws of the Omniverse, his Defiant heart, this heart that abhors heaven rules, this heart that is adamant, stubborn and full of pride beats.

He has no body.

But the Defiant heart beats like a drum that awakened the dreamer.

The Defiant Heart is not really a physical heart.

It is an attribute that is etched into Azief soul. It is the reward he got for helping Azul. He never knew much about this ability of this Defiant Heart

After all, it is not tangible like the other abilities that he had let go when he abolish all of the abilities that he got to revive Meihul

But today, today, this reward that Azul gave him play its part in a way that Azief could never have expected.

The moment he is nearly being pushed into the embrace of the intoxicating feeling of being everywhere, anywhere , all at once, this feeling of being one with everything, that Defiant Heart beats so loudly that if this was a real sound I would echoes all over the Universe

A drum, a beat that keeps beating and bring back Azief to his senses. He began remembering why he is doing all of this.

What he left behind, and what he wanted to return to.

Faces flashes by and at first these faces are nothing but a blur, but slowly ,as the drumming of the heart beat echoes even more loudly, the faces become even clearer, the faint faces become vivid, the memories that is forgotten begin resurfacing again. But the more he remembers about his life, the more detached he is from that feeling of being one with everything

And it is not something for him to be sad about.

After all, the only reason that he wanted to be strong is to now protect those who he cares about.

Once he remember back his original intention, all of the temptation could no longer moved him.

BOOM!

BOOOM!

BOOOOM!

The Defiant heart beast even louder and the dreamer is finally awakened. He has no body right now. He has no physical form. He did not even have a brain.

Nor does he have a translucent shape or form.

The boundaries of every dimension seems to be nothing for Azief right now.

Even though the Defiant heart wanted to awaken him, how could it be easy to be awoken from such a sweet and tempting dream?

Most people who dares walk the path of perfection and reach this step, usually fails in this step

Because the temptation is too great.

The feeling of wanting to be open with everything, to open the Veil of Truth and see the Answer to Everything there is and what has been, what will be and whatever will happen, to be Omniscient, and Omnipotent.

But in doing so, they would merge with the Omniverse laws and rules.

It is a trap. But it is a sweet trap

However, in such a dream, how could the dreamer see the risk, and see the trade-off? All they see is what they wanted to see.

Right now, Azief.. he is no longer just flesh and bone.

He is the wind, and he could himself racing across endless plains, in endless worlds, in endless dimension and universes.

He stirs the grass, stirs the seas and bring about storms, bring about gentle breezes. He is the dust in the ground, weightless, shifting with the breath of the world.

Scattered yet whole.

Countless and eternal.

Each grain of dust, is a memory, each speck a fragment of something that was and something that will be.

He is the water that falls from the sky.

He is the water that comes from beneath.

When he came from the sky, he would come down and vanished into the earth, flowing into rivers that carve deep wound into mountains

When he come out from the ground, he would return to the sky.

A water that gives life, nourishes life.

When he is there, there is life.

When he is not there, rarely life forms.

He is the storm and he is the stillness that follows. He is the gras that sways because of the wind.

He bends but he does not break.

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