Lord Shadow

In the past, he is one of the general of the World Government. But nowadays he is more known as the other leader of the Shadow Guards.

He had abandoned his samurai armor and don the dark leather armor of the Shadow Guards. Most of the members of the Shadow Guards usually wears leather armor.

But this did not mean that their leather armor could not withstand attack like a metal armor could.

In a world of magic, the category of armor does not play as much as importance as its material. A high level leather skinned from a powerful beast could even exceed the defense of a metal made armor

Not to mention there is still tattooist that could draw totems on one body, or Inscriptionist that could inscribe Words of Power and many other supplementing class that could raise the level of the armor.

Shinji look left and right. His hand is at the handle of his sword

He would be ready to slash the moment he senses any danger coming to him. 

‘Something…. happened here’ he said under his breath. He could sense the massive surge of energy that is still present in the entire island.

‘Loki?’ he asks himself. 

He got the order from Sasha to take note of any weird sudden surges of energy. 

A few hours ago, when he just got back to the Centre Palace, someone reported that there are a few surges of energy that had happened that fits the bill.

But it is far away from Pandemonium. But at the same time, it is also the closest island to Pandemonium.

Though considering the size of the island now, it is quite hard to think that this island is probably once just a patch of small lands that would probably be corroded by the sea someday and end up back to the bottom of the ocean.

This island is now the size of Europe. 

That is a big ass island. 

Even though Shinji himself is a Disk Formation leveler, he took a few hours to travel from the Centre Palace to the edges of Pandemonium border.

Before, one hour is enough for him to circle the world a few hundred times. 

This just shows how large Earth had expanded and how the energy changes after the Multiversal Convergence. 

At first, Shinji thought it is only because of the sudden change of the size of the Earth that made it seems like they were slow.

But then Shinji had another thought. 

Probably that is not the only factor that Disk Formation leveler seems slow. 

It must be remembered that a Disk Formation leveler could travel the stars and fly through asteroids belts and planets. 

With a Disk Formation cultivation, one could roam the Universe.

Thinking of how large the universe is, unless you could travel in the speed of light, you would be probably be dead before you could find any planets that have civilizations.

It is then not logical for Disk Formation leveler to not be able to circle the world as fast as before just because the world expanded.

Could the world have expanded so big that it surpasses the mega clusters of worlds? 

That is not possible. Since that is the case, Shinji believes that the energy of the world restricts and pressure the Disk Formation leveler.

It is like the gravity is once again pushing them down. 

But that is not quite accurate either since if that is the case, babies that was born that did not have any energies in their bodies would probably be crushed by such pressuring gravity

It is like a Law. Coded into reality that forces everything that is under that law to comply 

This pressure is subtle and could not easily be felt. Shinji shakes his head.

Regardless of the reason, Shinji had arrived here far too late. 

He tries to envelop the island with his divine sense but the disturbance on the energy is so powerful, that his divine sense went haywire.

He gives up on that course of action very quickly and then began exploring the island. He slowly flies to the air and look down. 

Even though he could not use his Divine Sense, he could still use his eyes too look at the island from above.

It is an empty island with lots of forest and hills. There is also a lot of rivers that is connected to the sea. It looks like a pristine land that is untouched by any touch of humanity, like a lost world

And then he could see a place so thick with energies that he is quite sure that is not formed naturally

‘I think that place is worth investigating’ he thought to himself

He flies toward that area and landed. 

The moment he set down his feet on that area, he could feel the energy on the ground. The ripples that occurs the moment his feet landed on the ground seems to affect waves of waves of residual energy that was left behind

It is without a doubt a site where it was closest to the source of the surge of energy. Of course, this is just simply his deduction and not something that he could verify completely.

But he didn’t think that his thoughts are wrong

‘This is probably the area where Loki activated his teleportation channel. Considering he had helpers, probably one of the Three Demoness.’ He talks to himself.

Sasha had condensed the report but he could read between the lines. If there is a teleportation channel the moment the sealing dome was neutralized, that means there must be someone that is helping Loki.

Loki has many secret forces. 

But the most public of his secret forces is the Three Demoness. Shinji as the Vice leader of the Shadow Guards also was privy to the knowledge of the Witness Protection program of Sasha which shelters The Broker.

So, he knew that it could not be Riana. She would not let something happens to her lover. Then there is only Trisha and Greisha left.

Greisha is quite talented in battle. But she is too young and Loki rarely uses her. As such, Shinji conclude that it is Trisha.

Still knowing who did it, did not benefit the Shadow Guards at all. He only sighed.

He is about to leave and report this matter when something caught his eyes. 

‘What is that?’ he asks himself as he walk forward. He saw something. Not far away from him, there is a large boulder.

But around that large boulder, even though he could not see something out of the ordinary with his eyes, he could sense that the area round the boulder seems to be distorted

And it is not distorted in the usual way where everything seems to be cracking space, but instead, it was like the boulder and the area around the boulder in a constant flux of existing and not existing.

Time and Space around it seems normal in first glance but as Shinji observe sit more, he notices that there is time dilation around the boulder.

It is so minuscule time dilation that it is hard to sense it if not for him taking his time to observe the area

He has to check it out.

Pushing the thick bush in front of him, he finally saw some crevice in the middle of that large stony boulder.

It is easy to miss. Shinji walk even closer to that crevice and then his eyebrows raised. 

‘This is an entrance to a cave’ he thought to himself as he slid inside the crevice and went inside. The moment he went inside, his mouth is open and his eyes widened.

All around him is runes, magic circles and all kinds of symbols that he did not even recognize. There is hundreds of them on the walls, on top of the ceiling and under his feet

A lot of them are worn down but there are still some that is still in good condition.

‘Whoa’ he said. And there is a smile on his face. 

Then he brought something resembling a warlike talkie out from his bag of holding and then he adjusts something on the right side of that device before finding the right frequency.

Then he said to the device

‘Call the Research Department. Send them to my location’ 

Then he waited for an answer as his eyes tries to see where does this formation ends. 

As far as his eyes could see, the entire interior of the cave seems to be filled with magic circles, runic characters, symbols, hieroglyphs and other methods of writing like cuneiform and there is even dots and dashes that must denotes something.

Shinji is not some formation master but he is sure that the scene that he saw now would be like a pirate found a cave full of gold for formation masters.

Then a voice come out from the device.

‘The Research Department is now researching the size and determining the old location of cities and villages in Pandemonium and also measuring the energy level all over Pandemonium right now. As such manpower is quite limited, Vice Leader. How many you want us to send?’

The receiver is reminding him, if the matter is not that important then it is enough to send only a few.

A few means only two or three people.

Shinji is silent for a while and he looks again at the cave and then he said back to the voice

‘Send them all’

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