Lord Shadow

Meanwhile, in the Milky Way galaxy, in front of that black hole Azief body is now emitting pulses of energy that distorts reality itself.

Rifts of space cracks and being sundered.

Azief is now closing his eyes but his eyebrows are creased like he is thinking about some complicated problem

That is how it looks from the outside. That is because inside his inner deeper consciousness, Azief is now so close to the gate that his entire ethereal body in that space seems to be affected by it

And it is not affected negatively. 

Instead, it was beneficial to him. 

Azief himself felt that his body felt even more solid, like he is not in his consciousness at all, but in a separate Thought Consciousness domain.

Azief would not be surprised if that is really the case.

‘The legacy of these primordial beings….is really something that I should not underestimate’ he thought to himself.

Azief is now only inches away from the gate. He did not know that so many existence is looking and wondering what his choice would be

There is someone who used to want him to enter the gate and yet now was uncertain. Then there is someone who have faith in him.

There is someone who worries about him. If Azief know there is so many being of supreme power that is concerned on his choice, he might even feel touched

Now that he is closer to the gate, he could now see it more clearly. 

He looks at the gate and the design of the gate is very exquisite. He wanted to etch it into his memories.

Azief had a premonition that this occurrence seems rare. It is quite a useful ability. Premonition that is.

As you grew powerful and closer to the source of your power, you would began be able to sense danger ahead of time

But danger is not the only thing that your premonition would sense. It would also sense fortune.

And as for the gate, his premonition is quite vague about this. It felt like it contains dangers but it also feels like it contains fortune.

Azief was not flustered because of this. He had felt this kind of premonition many times. This is the feeling of opportunity. 

From what he had experienced, some of great opportunity lies in great danger

It is like those Xianxia stories he had read before. 

At least, it is kind of useful sometimes. He just need to be sure that he won’t become some bloodthirsty hypocrite tyrant like some of the protagonist of Xianxia he had read before

That certain Chu flashes inside his mind. What a character of contradiction and hypocrisy. 

Azief laugh despite of himself. He did not think as he was now face to face with this ancient gate, his mind would wander to some obscure memories before the Fall

He laughs because of how absurd it is. His mind always wanders when he is nervous. Though in the past, his stomach would also feel pain.

He had gastric in the past. He is glad for that to be over. Being an almost godlike being does have its perk

‘I did it again’ he thought to himself. When his mind began to wander, it began to think about unrelated things. Azief took a deep breath and then calm himself down

At the same time, he was thinking of these useless thoughts, golden light seems to emanate from the gate and blue aura covers its borders.

The clouds that is on the either side of the trail that he had walked turns blue and it almost appear like an ocean of thick blue liquid.

All kinds of aura seem to waft upwards from the clouds. There are all kinds of creatures that seems to be swimming among the thick blue clouds.

Some of them are creatures that Azief recognize. There are dragons of all kinds. He saw dragons who have legs and he saw tailed dragons.

And these dragons itself all possess different kinds of abilities. Some of them have arcs of electricity swirling around its titanic body.

Some have water spewing out from the gaps of their scales. Other emits fire from each swish of their movement. 

The elements of the world seem to be in the grasp of these dragons. 

There is even a dragon who could travel space so easily like space is merely the construct of illusion.

Then there are phoenixes. There is even beast that seems a lot alike a Qilin which look awfully similar like a giraffe on some parts and another part that look like a dragon

There is tigers and lions. There were millions of beast and while some of them is easily recognized by him, there were some who Azief could not recognize at all. 

This did not appear the last time he saw this gate. Every scene and every images around him is mystical

In front of him is a titanic gate. Beneath his feet is a narrow trail. If he looks back, he would see a straight path that extend infinitely.

He wonders if he ran back when he would reach the end? What is his beginning? He smiles thinking of this question.

On the left and right side of the trail, there is clouds. It almost appears like the trails is suspended upon the Heavens.

But the clouds are not white or colorless. Instead it had become blue and thick, like it is viscous blue water.

And inside these blue water, every once in a while, beast and monster would jump out to show their appearance like whales or dolphins jumping around in the sea

Azief look at the gate and know all of these beast is probably primordial beast and they were recreated by the gate.

Because while Azief could see them, and feel their pressure, it almost looks like a projection of some sort.

And he could see that the gate is spewing blue gaseous substances from each part of its structure.

It is probably what causes the white clouds to turn into blue. Azief avert his gaze from the blue clouds and look back at the gate

‘These symbols…what does it mean?’ he thought to himself.

There is a lot of symbol that was etched deeply onto the gate. Each symbol gave an oppressing aura and possess power of the Laws.

Azief kept looking at the symbol hoping somehow he would be able to glean some understanding about it.

And then something shocked him as his eyes become wide. The last time he looks at this gate all he could see was the symbols.

But this time, he sees more than just the symbol. This time he could read the symbols. It was almost like as he wished to read the symbols, knowledge suddenly poured into his mind

Azief did not realize that he is now surrounded by blue light that come from above shining down upon him. 

The moment he thought that he wanted to understand the words, the blue light descended and then understanding dawned upon him

‘It is names’

That is what Azief mutters as he looks at the symbols. The symbols are not only words but names

He looks at one of the symbols and the moment he read it, an image appears in his mind.

The word he read was Asargan.

The image that appeared was that of Asargan running with all kinds of lightning behind him, being chased by some kind of force. The lightning follows him, like he was guiding them and running with it

He ran so fast that the world was pulled towards him. Even the fabric of reality around him is being worn down

Time could not capture him and because of that he seems to be running away even from Time. Space is not an obstacle 

Each step he takes create ripples in the Universe affecting reality. It is a vision that implanted strongly in his mind. 

Then he stops thinking of that name and the image disappears. Azief read the name beside Asargan and another image appears in his mind.

The name he reads is Lorevor. The moment he reads it; he was once again transported into an image-like movie

And he saw an Etherna, in the vast space of the cosmos, standing straight and tall

It is a female Etherna clad in lightning of all sizes and color. Some of Her thunder fell onto a start system and it blasted planets and stars into ashes.

The lightning itself snakes and chain each other and not before long the entire start system is shrouded in lightning calamity

‘This is incredible’ Azief thought to himself. 

Something stirred inside him as he saw all of that thunder, feeling like there is some kind of understanding toward the power of the elements entering his heart and mind.

‘Lorevor’ Azief once again muttered.

This is the Etherna of Thunder and Lightning from the House of Evor

The information streams in his mind the moment he spoke that name. And something clicked in his mind about the beings of Etherna 

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