Lord Shadow

Then Azief ask a weird question

‘Did he take an oath to protect the World Government after reaching Disk Formation?’ Jean was weirded out by the question but then he finally understands what Azief was saying

‘Not to my knowledge. Most of the time he is in his cave’

Azief snorted

‘See? He had been planning this for a long time. Though, I could not blame him. Hirate had noble aspiration but not everybody would agree with his way. A World Government. A government that governs the world. He wanted the world to be orderly. But to do that, he needs to centralize all power. And not everybody is going to just roll down’

Then he smiles and added

‘And I’m here. How could he then rule the world?’ Jean on the other hand still thinking about that question Death Monarch had just asked him

Hikigaya did not say the oath.

The reason why Azief ask that question is because Jean knew that when one reaches Disk Formation, one could sense a bit of the intangible force that exist in this world

Promises are one of these intangible forces. 

No one knew why. Maybe, if he became stronger in the future, he would know why promises is included in the laws of reality itself.

Oaths are even more powerful version of a promise. 

The fact that Hikigaya had never taken such oath after reaching Disk Formation already shows that he had reluctance and hesitation toward the World Government.

Of course, this intangible force is hard to sense and the weaker the promise, the lesser the effect

and without the presence of a witness, the effect of breaking this promise might not be as terrible as one would thought

But, Hikigaya is a cautious man. 

Jean knows this old friend of his and he might not have wanted to be burdened by oaths or promises when he would try to breakthrough

Jean could only shake his head

the only thing he could do after this is to persuade Hikigaya not to go too far. Azief intention is the same as Jean intention

The world had suffered so much this week. Even though on most part of the world is recovering right now, humanity once again suffers a great calamity.

The numbers of the population of humans had just increased a few years ago. 

Most of the Disk Formation levelers had died not to mention countless of Seed Forming and Energy Disperse Stage leveler that also had died

Then there is the Pillar Forming stage leveler who if unlucky would have died during the crossfires between the Otherworlders and Earthlings. 

If not for the fact that Death Monarch is adamant in going to the Seresian world, Jean would like to persuade him to stay and brokered an agreement between the great powers like the way he did before where he prohibited war for a year.

The authority of Pandemonium as the strongest world power is still there. No one would want to cross Death Monarch and those below him.

What Pandemonium lacks in quantity, they make up with quality. 

Then Death Monarch sighed

‘And who knows if I would even return. I just fear that the chaos would spread’

Jean then said

‘I’ll make sure that they won’t be that crazy’

Azief then said

‘Look closely at the League of Freedom and Order of Thinkers’ Then he said

‘I know you and I we are not of the same faction. But I think what you want right now is the same with what I want. We both want the world to be steady for now. Order of Thinkers is conducting human experiment. I do not have enough time to deal with them. 

Jean sighed. This is hard argument to win. Most of the great powers engaged in human experiment. But most of these are voluntary.

Thus, the problem with the Order of Thinkers. 

If the human experiment program is voluntary, why hide it? 

No one had ever known that the Order of Thinkers even have cybernetic programs before the Multiversal Convergence.

There is also the fact that they have built a massive energy weapons that could have blasted an entire mountain range if they wanted to.

And there is also the League of Freedom who had developed weapons in the Moon. 

Death Monarch is not one that cares that much about the development of technology of weaponry of the other great powers.

But when that weapon had the power to destroy the very Earth that he is living in, that is when he began paying attention

Of course the size of Earth right now and the dense energy all over the Earth right now would render those weapon probably unable to even destroy a mountain let alone the world

But things still had to be clarified. 

Azief then said

‘I know I can’t order you around. So, think of it as a request. Not to mention this request would not harm the interest of the Republic.’

Jena nodded and said

‘Don’t worry. I am also keen to know what they were hiding. The League of Freedom in particular is very mysterious and I still don’t know why the leader of the league of Freedom have such hatred toward the people of the World Government’

Azief eyebrows raised for a while and he ask

‘Can’t you use precognition or something along that line to see the past of that leader’

Jean answer with one word

‘Warp’

Azief nodded like he understands what Jean was saying. Then they stopped talking. 

For a moment there is silence between them. Azief is known to not speak to much. A quiet and private man.

But today he spoke quite a lot. But in the end, the things he spoke off is business things. It is not a conversation between friends. 

And Jean only spoke in boisterous manner with people he is close with. 

And while Azief and Jean has been connected and fought against each other, and fought alongside each other, it is not quite accurate to say that they are friends

Jean knows that Azief would not say anything unnecessary to him so he simply said

‘I’m going back to the Republic for a while. I left my avatar here to guard the portal but the power in my Avatar would not be enough if there is something wrong with the portals. 

Azief nodded.

‘I’ll be here for a while. I’ll take care of it’ Jean smiles

‘Go.’ 

Jean nodded and then taking a step forward it was like he is walking toward another world as there is white thin vertical line in front of him that appears all of a sudden. 

Unlike a portal it is just a line floating a few inches from the ground, the height is only three feet. 

But as Jean walk toward that white line, he disappears a second later.

Azief only watch this sight and then he sighed. His eyes look toward another direction of the island and he sighed again. 

He was about to teleport himself to the front of the tent but suddenly he halted.

‘I forgot one thing’ he said. 

Then he looks toward the sky and a second later he is in space. It was like his body accelerated so fast that even light warps and bends around him

And almost a second later, he is in the starry skies again