Lord Shadow

As there are all kinds of heroes, there is also all kinds of criminal. 

There are criminals who have their own codes and they are also criminals which is the run of the mill psychopathic cruel criminals.

But one thing that unite them all is their sins. 

Loki lack that. 

Hence, the Multiversal Convergence, the cause of probably tens of thousands of people dead, that is quite a sin. 

A bloody reputation is created. If fame makes a hero, then infamy created a villain.

The sins provided him an in to the inner circle of the Crime Alliance.

It is lucky that the Multiversal Convergence was happening at the same time as the world began to expand. 

The expansion of the world causes the population to not be concentrated at one place and there is the fact that Death Monarch had quickly repels the Otherworlders invaders with his magical means.

If not the casualty would be even higher. Loki wanted to infiltrate the Crime Alliance for some reason. 

That is what he concluded from the information that he currently has.

Smiling, he said toward Loki

‘You might pretend to be like us, like those monsters, but no, you are not. Other people might not see it but I know you are hero material. There is kindness in your lies. And in your anger, there is justice. Tricks that is harmless.’

Pausing, he then said

‘You are not one of us. You are too bright. Just like a true hero. Sacrificing himself in the background while the whole world mocks you’

Loki scoffed.

‘Don’t curse me with the title hero. I don’t dare to be burdened by such title’ 

Nathan only laughed. 

Even though Riana had already stand up from her chair and seem ready to fight, Nathan is still on his chair and his hand is still grasping Riana hand

He did not tremble or cower in fear. 

At this last moment of his life, he seems to have been able to muster his courage. He wanted to protect Riana, and protect his most precious treasure.

And because of that, he had courage he never knew he had. 

And so, he accepted it. 

Nathan continues by saying toward Riana who now seem eager to fight.

‘If he kills me and then said that he has the Book of Secrets, not only my death would convince the Crime Alliance, it would also serve as an offering toward the Crime Alliance. I think when I die, you would tell the upper echelon that I was working with the enemy right?’

Loki nodded.

‘Haish. I hate to be right.’

‘But that would be hard to prove’ Riana said. 

Nathan shakes his head and said

‘I have been helping the Shadow Guards and the Department of Secrecy in many matters involving the intelligence of the other world powers’

‘I did not give them all of my information because then I would have no leverage. But if he wanted to prove to the Crime Alliance that I betrayed them, it would not be hard. I even help some of the development of the technology department of the Three Army by using the stolen technology from the other world powers’

‘There is too many traces after all. It is not hard to uncover it if you know where to look. The reason why nobody ever found my involvement with many forces of the world is simply because they were looking at the wrong place. But once you know where to look….it would be very easy. Usually I would never let people know since the beginning. That is the most safest way. To pluck it from the roots. But, I no longer have the same resources I have in the past’

Smiling bitterly, he looks at Loki and shakes his head

‘You really think of everything didn’t you?’ Loki only smiles. There was a silence between them for a few seconds.

Riana heartbeat seems to quicken. It felt like a battle is about to commence. Nathan grips her hand tighter.

Then the silence is broken as he said

‘But you would not make it public. Because that world hurt Sasha. Everyone knows that Death Monarch hated me. I did not do the terrible things that the other crime lords had done. But it is true that I have facilitate them’ 

‘No one could know how Death Monarch would respond if he knew that his blade, the leader of his Shadow Guard is actually cooperating with one of his enemies’

‘You were worried that if you tell the public about this, then Death Monarch would punish Sasha. See, you are not that heartless like those crime families. ‘

Loki nodded, acknowledging it. Nathan continued by saying

‘If the upper echelon knew that I was not actually hiding but instead was helping the Shadow guards pinning them down, they would feel that you have proven yourself’ 

‘And the most compelling reasons is probably because if I am not here, if I am no longer alive, no one else would have the control to the Book of Secrets. And no one else could create another book of Secrets’

‘The criminal underworld then has to accept you even if they hated you. Because you are the only one who could control the Book. And so does the secrets contain in it. Who knows how long you have been planning to take over my position. I commend your commitment’

Loki nodded and then sigh

‘That’s the thing about the Book of Secrets. You have created something very dangerous. Secrets that you know are very dangerous. And secrets that are in that Book could shake this world to its core. Don’t worry. Like you I would not tell how I get their secrets’

Nathan smiles as he slowly stands up from his seat

Loki could see that Nathan was determined now. he had a resigned expression. Loki almost wanted to laugh

But he endures it and then he said

‘I am sorry that it had to be this way’ 

BOOOM!

The moment he said that a burst of green energy exploded out from him. 

‘I am coming’ he said like he is announcing his arrival.

The mist around the house and inside the house suddenly thickens. A powerful fluctuation of energy exploded from the thick green mist that covers the entire area of the forest. 

The green thick circular rings around the forest suddenly exploded into fine mist that then surged toward the house.

The sky above the house were parted apart. 

The birds and monsters around the radius of fifty kilometers all felt that powerful fluctuations of energy and quickly made themselves scarce.

Like a beacon such a surge of power could not be hidden from people close to that area. If this was in the past such surge of energy would fill half of Pandemonium.

On the sky, tens of thousands kilometers away from them, is Sasha. She was floating in the air, the clouds around her flowing slowly.

She was closing her eyes. 

Her ears are open trying to hear anything that is out of the norm. All kinds of noises enter her ears but none of that of the target she wanted to hear.

Her Divine Sense is also trying to detect those in the ground but the thick energy of the world had made her unable to detect anything clearly 

The reason why she stopped is because one of the operatives that is still in the Department of Secrecy had managed to made a 3D model of the terrains of Pandemonium before the expansion of the world and enlarge that 3D models and triangulate the longitude and latitude of the safe house.

It is supposed to be around this area. But there is always a margin of error. But then a powerful energy pulses around the area

All she could felt was the weak ripple of that energy but she opened her eyes. 

She focuses and she could see tens of thousands of kilometers away from her position, the sight of clouds parting

The fluctuation of energy is also very powerful that it could reach her, tens of thousands of kilometers away

But that is not the only thing. The aura that comes from the energy is an aura she is very familiar with

Her face tightened and her eyes widened as she realizes why the aura felt so familiar.

‘Loki!’ she thought to herself. 

‘Shit’ she curses. 

She thought she would be the first to arrive in the safe house. It is clear that Loki had arrived there first

‘That location’ Sasha thought to herself.

Margin of error was to be expected. That was the operative told her. But she did not think that the margin of error would be tens of thousands of kilometers away from the supposed location

‘I hope he is still alive’ she thought to herself

She no longer hesitates as she kicks the air and fly with her fasts speed toward that forest, hoping that she was not too late.

A sonic boom echoes in the air

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