Lord Shadow

When one is living inside the history themselves, they did not know how big of an impact their decision, their choice would be for the future. 

Azief then shakes his head, throwing the thought about the cube from his mind. Instead he once again thinks about tomorrow

Tomorrow would be the sixth day. That is the limit that Jean could hold that portal time fluctuation before it returns back to its original flow. 

There are all kinds of feelings when he thought about tomorrow. Since he had no certainty whether he could win, there is this feeling that he is walking to his death

In the past he mighty gets scared.

But after countless of time he brushed with death, he felt numb to it.

It is not that he had become fearless of death. It is just that he is accustomed to it. It is not that he did not appreciate his life, it is only that, he knew he could not live with himself if he did not try to save Katarina

Azief had always regarded the safety of his life as the most important. But there were a few times he would ignore his own survival. 

It is when someone he cares for in in danger. 

As he grows stronger, he also grows lonelier. There are few people that could accompany him and even chase after him

When eh reach this level, he grows to appreciate such companionship even more. And Katarina?

He owes her too much to ignore her plight. All of the problem on this Earth could be resolved easily if only Death Monarch refuses to go to the Seresian world

If he delayed it for a few years, then Azief could probably raise his strength and fight the Demon King and win.

To some people, Death Monarch going to the Seresian world, a place where the Demon King has all the advantages while Death Monarch himself did note experience any leap of power is a stupid and a suicide mission

To them, if Death Monarch wanted to just preserve his reputation he just has to say that he would avenge Katarina.

To some people, the reason why Death Monarch is so anxious to save Katarina and even make such agreement with Jean is because he did not want to be labeled as a coward or heartless

Everyone knew how many things Katarina had done for him. Everyone also knows how powerful the Demon King is

But he insisted on going to the Seresian world, without giving himself time. How could then the people of the world had confidence that Death Monarch could go into the Seresian world and be victorious?

The best thing that could happen is that Katarina is still alive and was not harmed.

But this is the best scenario. 

The worst scenario that could happen was that Katarina is already dead and the only thing that is waiting Death Monarch on the other side is a death trap. 

However, if Death Monarch say he would avenge Katarina, instead of trying to save her, he could stay on Earth, hone his power and only then he would go to the Seresian world and avenge Katarina.

Even though it is quite heartless, everyone could understand the reason. And Death Monarch is still able to retain his reputation and power. 

'See, I still avenge her' 

To some people this is something that could be done. 

And many of the faction of the world that wanted Death Monarch to stay even hope Death Monarch would do such a thing

But some people are not Azief. Azief did not decide to save Katarina because of his reputation. It is also not because he had owed her too much

It is because, no matter how he denies her, there is always a part of his heart that is reserved for her.

From the moment he saw her, there is this feeling that he could not shake off. He would not say that four letter word, but that is the feeling he felt for her. The same feeling, he had for Sofia.

How could he then let such a person dies? 

Even letting her there for one day is already torturous enough for him. Because of his calmness, people all think that Death Monarch is being rational right now.

Only he himself know how stormy his emotion is. How worried he was that in this past five days that Katarina is already dead.

The hope that she is still alive is the reason why he keeps going those past four days in space, trying to breakthrough even though it could have broken his Perfection Ptah.

For someone who is as obsessed as Azief on moving to a higher level, the fact that he had even thought of abandoning the Perfection Path and try to breakthrough regardless whether or not his Perfection Path could be retained shows how important Katarina is in his heart.

Fortunately, there is the Etherna legacy and his Perfection Path was not broken. 

Tomorrow is the day. 

if he finds out that Katarina is already dead, then he would do his best to return, hone his strength and then when he comes back to the Seresian world, he would bury that world with her. 

If she is still alive, then he would do all that he could regardless of everything to bring her back. That is why he is also thinking of preparation for tomorrow.

He thought of bringing some of the experimental weapon that the Research Department had made. 

There is no knowing what he would encounter the moment he enters that portal. 

There might be an army stationed there ready to capture him. 

Or Balfor Q'un might be there to kill him and take the rings from him. Azief had the thought of removing the ring from his finger.

But he had his reason for keeping the ring.  He is trying to prepare for anything. And the ring could be a bargain.

While he could not say that he is an expert in using the ring he still have a few tricks when it comes to the ring

He sighed a bit. 

There is a feeling of nervousness as he thinks of the battle with the Demon King. This time he would not have the help of the Heavenly Will and he would not have the whole world helping him

He would not have any allies there and he would also not have the Orvanians helping him from above.

Thinking about it again, it truly felt like he is going on a suicide mission. Then he shook his head, removing such thought from his mind and focused at the task in hand

'She is a bit late' he thought to himself. He is still waiting for Sasha. 

Of course, he could have just teleported to Sasha position but he thinks it is unnecessary and he did not want to use his Divine Sense to check what she is doing. 

While his Divine Sense is powerful it still consumes energy.

It is kind of absurd if he simply uses his Divine Sense to spy on people all the time. He looks at the four doors around his office. 

His office has four doors that lead to four different places. 

And like most of the things inside this office, the door is of course not a normal door. The doors are all black and there are runes carved onto it. 

There is also lines in each rune that connect it to another rune like some kind of electrical circuit. When it is open, the runes would light up and its function would be activated.

The East Door would open to the Garden of Pandemonium. 

Azief Garden had been destroyed during the expansion and the Keepers of the Palace had been hard at work for these couple of days to restore it back and to add more color to it.

If he opens the East Door, and step out of that door he would not get out of the office instead he would be teleported to Garden of Pandemonium.

The West Door would lead to his private library and study. 

Inside the library, there is thousands of information stored in a book. Of course, these books are also not like normal books before the Fall

Instead one just had to open the pages and the information of the entire book would stream into one's mind. 

As for his private study, sometimes when he wanted to relax or catch a break that is where he would go. It is where he would do his official work.

Of course there is no such thing before. But since breaking up with Sofia, he thought that he need to busy himself with some work.

It is quite funny. 

If people knew that the reason why Death Monarch suddenly began to exercise his power in Pandemonium is because of his breakup, they would probably be dumbfounded.

Some people in the court had always wanted Death Monarch to take charge. 

And some people like the status quo. 

But they probably could not have expected that the reason Death Monarch began to pay attention to Pandemonium matter is simply because he wanted to occupied his mind with other things other than thinking about his breakup.

Because of the sudden request, the private library and the private study is still in partial construction. 

Knowing it is the request of Death Monarch, the architect and the designer of this private library and private study put more effort on this than any other construction in Pandemonium.

One must know that to erect a three story building would only take two hours. 

But a private library and private study, even after one day, it is only a partial reconstruction with the Research Department also involved.

There is also a dining room that is being constructed alongside the private library and study

The west door then would lead to the private library, the private study and the dining room.

Then the northwest door would open onto the main corridor of the West Wing. Yes, the designer had imitated the White House Oval Office to a high degree of precision.

Azief himself is impressed. It is quite hilarious when he thinks about it.

If anything, it would be the World Government that would design their office like the White House. 

The reason is because Raymond once became the King of the United States for a while before he joins the World Government. 

Even though it is just an empty gesture, recreating back the White House and siting on it could create the illusion that the World Government has legitimacy over the United States considering that Raymond once conquer most of the major cities of the United States

Even though United States seems like a democracy, to Azief it was always like a plutocracy.

Their people and their government are controlled by corporations. And they don't even know it. 

There is only an illusion of freedom there. Once that freedom touched the bottom line of the rich and powerful, then that freedom ends there

At least Raymond was not a hypocrite. Azief laugh at his own thoughts. He looks at the northeast door.

The northeast door opens to the office of his secretary. 

But he had no secretary. 

He never asks for one. 

But during Loki regency Loki had a few secretaries to help him organize his schedule. 

Right now those secretaries are resuming back their duties in the government. But Azief could always call them back and serve under him.

Azief also look at the interior design of the room. Right now the room is decorated plainly. The Keeper of the Palace had asked for his input on how to decorate the office,

In other words, he is to decorate his office to his personal taste.

Azief himself did not think that there is so many things to do just regarding his office

He had to choose new furniture, new drapery, and even the oval shaped carpet to cover most of the floor

There is also artwork that he had to choose.

However, each of this places are not connected by a room. Even when you open the door it is not like you would walk to those destinations.

Instead, each door is teleportation conduit. 

The Centre Palace is one of the places in the world that has the most complicated teleportation channel probably in the whole world.

Some places in the palace are a forbidden place to teleports. As to places that one was allowed to teleport to, it follows a certain rule.

Like some kind of transmission that could be cut off. 

Azief himself did not understand most of it. 

He understood teleportation and he himself could teleport himself as this has something to do with his ability to control space and time around him to a certain degree

However, the way teleportation is employed in governmental offices and workplaces is something that is more methodical and more systematic.

If what he does is magic, then what these people do with teleportation could be considered like a scientific method of magic. 

It is orderly. 

If Azief wanted to understand it, he had to learn it from the bottom up. But even he does not have time to learn this kind of method. 

And it was unnecessary. 

The Palace might allow teleportation in-house but it clearly did not allow people to transport themselves into this Palace.

There are more formations and spells to forbid teleportation into the Palace then before. 

Thousands upon thousands of layers of spell and array formation that overlapped each other to form a powerful anti-teleportation effect

Of course, in any formation there is a key.

  And as the ruler Azief had the master key enabling him to teleport in and out of the Palace without triggering the array formations and spell.

He had check the formation and to is surprised he found out that even he, a Divine Comprehension leveler would take some time before he could break such array formation.

Because the array formation is connected with the protection formation of the palace, triggering one would trigger the other. 

The fact that if one stacks enough formation and stack it in the right way to complement the other formation strength, it could even repel a powerful leveler shock him

He believes that the other world power would not mind spending a lot of resource to stack tens of thousands or even millions of protection formation as long as it could deter powerful leveler from directly teleporting to their base.

And because of that Azief issue another order to the related department to add more formation until even he could not break it.

While the Research Department could not really create a formation that is truly invulnerable to his attack, they have created an array formation that is so powerful that even a Divine Comprehension leveler has to spend a lot of time and energy to break such formation

Quantity over quality. 

It really works. Azief knew his power. Right now, if the whole world wanted to kill him, they probably would be able to do that.

But the only way that they could do that is if they pool all the power and resources of almost every world power and throw at him everything they got.

The end result is his death and probably the almost extinction of humankind. That is the conclusion that not only he reached but also the other world power.

Of course, this did not include jean and Hikigaya in the equation. 

If they sided with the world the damage could be minimized but that is still the kind of damage that no one wanted to bear.

And there is always the possibility that he could still escape. After all, not everybody knows the trump card of Death Monarch.

Hirate regardless of his feeling toward Pandemonium continued dominance in the world politics would not let the world be driven to the point of breaking

In theory, quantity could always beat quality.

  It is just that as Azief had reached Divine Comprehension level, the quantity of people that is required to kill him had risen considerably. 

When he was in Disk Formation, there were only a few Disk Formation level in the world. 

Still, at that time, if the world really wage war against him, Azief chance of winning the entire world is around 30 percent

It is why Azief divided the world into seven. Each of them have their own interest and Azief could use that to divide them. 

But now, he no longer needs to do that. He did not even have to worry that the world would unite against him as long as he does not do anything too crazy.

Loki in the past six years had tied a lot of interest of the world powers to Pandemonium. 

At this, Azief saw that Loki had some expectation of Pandemonium and might even have some plans regarding it.

Or it might be that Loki is just fond of him and wanted to help him. he chuckles a bit thinking of him.

It is precisely because he knew that the world would not want a war with him that he boldly declared that he would protect Loki. 

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