Lord Shadow

Chapter 1686: Realization

Chapter 1686: Realization

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But even though there is many people in the market everyone is standing still. Even the air, the droplets of water, the animals, the wind, all of it is in stand still.

It is not that they were frozen by some kind of force, instead, it is Azief using the power of time.

Time stopped and he is the only one that could move right now. The whole world is like this. All of their time stopped.

In a distance, far away from Vietnam, in the other side of the world, there is someone who is meditating on the top of a snowy mountain.

This person is covered with a matrix of runes that is swirling around him.

Suddenly these matrixes stop and at the exact moment, the matrixes stop, this person opens his eyes and look toward the distance.

"Death Monarch!" This person that exclaimed Death Monarch is none other than Jean.

Jean look toward the distance, trying to found the source of this time disturbance, but he could not find nothing

It was like there is something shielding him

"Death Monarch becomes even more unfathomable" Jean mutters to himself. But then he exhaled a sigh of relief.

"At least, he is still on Earth. I guess I could inform the Republic later" he mutters to himself. On another side of the world, meditating on a cave, someone opens his eyes.

The eyes of this person is very weird.

There is all kinds of symbols in his pupils and around him is all kinds of colourful mist.

And from this colourful mist, all kinds of things spawned. This person surrounded by this colourful mist is none other than Hikigaya.

He could also feel there is a change in the laws of time. And when he look beside him, looking at Oreki, he frowns.

He could see Oreki standing still. There is time laws that is suspended in place.

"is it Jean?" Hikigaya tries to move but even moving one of his fingers is extremely hard.

"My understanding of time is not that proficient. I could escape a bit but I could not move easily in this kind of time suspension" he thought to himself.

Unlike Jean, he could not identify who is the one using the Time Law.

But there is only three candidates in his mind. Jean, Death Monarch or the Heavenly Will.

Hikigaya could only wait for this moment to pass.

At the same time, he was thinking that maybe he should also master some of the intricacies of Time Laws.

If not, one day, when he is to battle with such a person who master the Time Laws, the outcome of such battle would be catastrophic for him

Right now, even though he could still be awake under this time suspension, he could barely move. If the one stopping this Time is his enemy and this person wanted to kill him, right now, he would be like a sitting duck.

Azief right now did not care that much whether Hikigaya or Jean knows that he is the one stopping time

From the beginning, he already knows that some people would be able to remain aware during his Time Stopping.

It is not like in the past where he could easily froze the entire world

There is also other people that have some proficiency in time laws.

The only few that could escape from this time domain of his is probably Jean and a few other that is in a mystical and forbidden places or people who have strength that surpasses him.

Azief walk leisurely in the market picking spices and then he took another step and appears in Africa.

He goes to a bee nest and cutting the bee nest he extracted the bee and put it into a glass container that he took in Vietnam

Then he took another step and he appears back in the island.

Time had already move in normal way. Azief look at the fish on the long stick and sile

"My ability to control Tiem has increased in proficiency" he thought to himself

But to use such magic I still have to use a lot of my power and energy" Azief could feel that most of his energy is drained.

Because to really control time, you could not only control time on a certain region. You have to control time to reach a level where everything truly stopped

And to do that, you also have to connect with the heaven and earth and everything beyond it.

If Jean could break though to Essence Creation, Azief is quite sure that he would become even more powerful in his use of the rules and laws of time.

However, Azief did not want to think about such thing right now.

Instead, he uses all the spices that he took in Vietnam to add to his fishes. Some he make a

soup.

And using a few onions, salts, onion leaves, and a few anchovies, he made soup

He also bought a few pots and cooked a fried fish.

Azief might have taken all of this without the permission of the owner, but he did pay them by leaving a few energies stones

Azief look at the dishes that he have cook and he smiles

"It seems my cooking skill is not yet rusty" he thought to himself. For some reason I felt like he had returned to the days before the Fall

Azief, if asked, whether he would want to return to the days before the Fall, would surely said

no

Because in the world before the Fall, he was a nobody. he has no one and he has no desire to

live

But in this new world, he is someone.

He has someone.

And he has the desire to live. Because only when he is confronted with death, he feels the

preciousness of life.

But just because he did not want to return to the world before the Fall, does not mean that every once in a while he would not miss it

He eats and for a moment, he relishes this moment. Eating and drinking, like mortal, appreciating the mortal dust and the six emotions

Then he lied down on the shore, hearing the sound of the sea feeling the sand on his body, and then in the afternoon, the rain falls.

The weather around here is hard to predict. Azief opens his eyes. He is now half naked. He wears shorts. His body wears nothing.

He sit up, his eye look toward one direction of the island. His eyes could see further than anyone in the world and as he squint his eyes, he could see that a thousand kilometres away, there is someone breaking through to Disk Formation realm.

Azief only smiles at this.

"So, that is why it is raining"

Azief look again at the sky and he frowns a bit.

Even though Azief breakthrough, Raymond and Oreki breakthrough drains the energy of the world, it also increase the quality of energy in this world.

Azief when he breathes in, breathes the energy of this world and when he breathes out, that

energy is refined and merges with the world.

There is give and take here. Azief did not care that much about the person breaking through in

the distance.

Instead, he just look at the light rain that continued to fall.

"It has been a long time since I enjoyed the rain" he thought to himself.

Right now, he is at peace.

The future, the present is still there.

There is still work to be done, task that needed to be completed, a long road ahead, a perilous

path that is waiting for him to tread.

There is all of these problems but there is this kind of calmness that he now have. This kind of

calmness that he did not possess before.

This conciseness knowing that he is strong.

A kind of confidence.

No, a kind of Will.

A kind of invincible will, the belief that he could sweep every problem away

And this will inside his heart..... burns brightly.

And so, he could stand here, watched the passage of time passing by, appreciating everting around him. The waves of the ocean, the scent of the sea, the sand beneath his skin,

everything and anything

Time flashes quickly for him. Or he could enjoy it in a different way, making things appear to

be slow.

A moment of eternity trapped in a second.

A second becomes an eternity.

He is not using some kind of time laws to affect time but simply changes the perception of his

mind.

So, that his mind work incredibly fast and everything look slow.

The droplet of water falling from the sky, the sand that is falling from his skin, the movement

of the wind, of ants, of crabs of fishes, of thunder and lightning

Everything become slow.

And everything could be appreciated by him in this state.

It felt like years had passes by but only a few second had passed in reality.

He could feel something. Something he had felt before, but always loses its grasp in the last

minute. Now, he felt it again

And he smiles.

He realizes something. It was more like he sense it. The Grand Path that he seeks could be find

only when he is calm.

Perfection means stillness.

And so, he sat still.

And then he smiles.

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