Lord Shadow

the Creator also look at Katarina. He sighed looking at her. 

'I don't know if you will get your happy ending this time. But, since it all has started all again and there is now change…. who knows? After all, you are also my creation' he smiles

Then he retracts back His gaze and look back at Azief who is in Earth X

Azief did not realize at all that his body has been transported to the real Earth X. maybe the reason he did not notice it is because he is still transparent., 

And there is the helmet telling him that it is drained of energy

None of that is true.

The reason that he remains transparent is simply because of the manipulation of space by the Creator. 

As for the ability of the helmet to speed up or slow down scenes it is simply the Creator fast forwarding or slowing down time.

The helmet that is on his head is merely an illusion. If this is any normal illusion, Azief would have seen through it.

But the Creator illusion had always bordered on reality. Because he has the essence of creation. With one thought, even illusion could be made real. This is only one of the many myriads abilities of the Creator.

How is it hard for him to imitate the creation of the Orvanians? On Earth X, Azief saw that Arial finally arrived at his village. The village is destroyed.

Azief had seen this kind of destruction all over the villages that the Demonkind had passes through. 

In the past, Azief would balked at seeing such scenes of desolation and war. But since the Fall, he had seen so many deaths, so many destructions. 

Maybe in the beginning Azief was ruthless. But as he grows stronger and he is more attuned to the laws of the world, he began to become tired of destruction.

Of course did not mean he would soften his heart when he is face to face with his enemies. To his enemies, he did not have any mercy 

But to those who are unrelated, why should he make life harder than it is? This have a lot to do with the six lives of Azul that he had experienced.

Even though most of the memories he had about the six lives of Azul is blurry by now, there are still a few things that he remembered

In that tribulation of six lives, he had been a noble, a king, an Emperor. He had been a peasant, a farmer and an orphan.

He had experience six desires, he experience pain and suffering and he also experience bliss and joy and pleasure

When he thinks back he is quite grateful that the memory of the six live is slowly fading away. There were a few times, he thought of himself to have no desire. 

If he had feelings like that, he fears he would fall to the path of Oneness with All. But that is not his path. 

He wanted to break the shackle, to live carefree in the wide Universe. Freedom that he thinks of is not the kind of freedom where he does anything he wants.

Six lives of Azul teach him, that if you do not control your desire, your desire would control you. 

Then is that freedom? Freedom to do whatever you desire? No, one must understood oneself to understood what meaning of freedom one wanted to pursue.

If following your desire is the freedom, be careful that it is not your desire that controls you. 

Azief understood a few things about seeking the Grand Path as he continues walking forward and strengthening himself.

The Grand Path is the path beyond level 99. 

It is the rank where he could be considered a supreme being that could make waves in the Universe

It is illusory as fate and destiny. It is unseen. But one could feel it. One grand Path is the accumulation of one desire, obsession, will, determination 

But Azief knows that one Grand Path could be corrupted. He was nearly corrupted when he merges with the Heavens. 

If he forgets his original intention, then his Grand Path could be corrupted. 

He smiles bitterly as he thought of this old past of his. The memory suddenly comes to him, like an enlightenment or something

'There is many things to digest after this' he thought to himself. 

The gains that he had today is not the increase in his physical strength. It did not raise his level. Nor did it increase his EXP.

But, Azief believes what he gained today from just observing is very important.

It is the cultivation of the mind and spirit, the deepening understanding of his own Laws and of his own Grand Path. 

To him, this is more important than just breaking through the levels.

At his current level, breaking through levels is not that hard. 

But he knows how hard it is to gain a deeper understanding of your own laws, to crystallize one understanding into one own Grand Path. 

'Is this Karma?' he thought to himself.

In the past, he had helped Arial. Today, even though Arial did not do anything, seeing his lives and his experience, observing him, he got enlightenment of his own path. 

Looking at the destruction that the Demon army had wrought, Azief thought to himself

'Amara, sometimes even if you wanted to sharpen a blade, don't sharpen it too hard. If not, it could break' he thought to himself.

Azief could see that the Arial in this timeline is unlike the tough and hardened warrior Arial that he knows. 

Amara method might backfire. Azief look as Arial went back to his family home, sneaking around the village only to see only bits and pieces of his parents.

Azief close his eyes. 

'How many tragedies, how many deaths' and he sighed. The deaths of tens of thousands of people did not make Azief felt sad. 

But seeing Arial broke down, made him felt a little sad.

It is how human brains works. Human mind is unable to grasp a suffering that exceed a certain range of calculation. 

One could hear the death of a million people and felt simply it is a number because the mind could not process such numbers of death. 

But tell them that their loved ones are dying then the feeling of grief and sadness exceed the feeling of sadness of hearing a million people die.

It is the way that governments used to minimize the feeling of outrage of hearing deaths of their soldiers abroad or the suffering of other people

Azief also is like this. probably because he is in Earth X and not in his Earth right now. If he is in his Earth right now, he is not confident that he could only be sad for Arial.

Instead, he might become either heartless or overwhelmed by the feelings.

This had something to do with the fact that he could merge with the Heavenly Will

When Azief merge with the world, he could feel everything. 

And when he said everything, it means everything. 

He could feel the grass swaying in China, the wind blowing in India, the movements of waves in the shores of the islands in the Mediterranean, the heat, the cold, everything

When the world did not yet have Heavenly Will, this is all he felt. 

But as the Heavenly Will grew, Azief did not only feel this. he also felt the emotions of people. Of course, this one is subtle. 

And what he felt was the collective feeling of people and not specific feelings.

  For example, if there is a region that is suffering from some kind of calamity, Azief could feel the despair of these people reaching to the Heavens. 

Emotions have power. Because now the world has magic., And some magic uses emotions to power it. 

Azief only sighed at looking Arial break down in the face of such tragedy. 

He knows that Amara is forging Arial. And then his eyes widened.

'So, this is also one of the reasons' he thought to himself. As Arial eyes is full of tears in looking at the death of his parent, his fortune skyrocketed. 

It is not only because of his suffering that his fortune skyrocketed. 

The despair and the tragedy of humankind, the death of so many people, the fate of an entire race is slowly gathering around Arial.

'if this is one of the three Grand Sect in the Jade Empire, they would need an immortal artifact to suppress the luck' 

Azief knows that when a race is about to face extinction, the luck and fortune of an entire race would gather upon some people or one person to shoulder the luck and fortune of an entire race.

This could be considered as the last measure of resistance. 

If the one who have the fortune and luck of an entire race survive and win, then the luck and fortune would once again be distributed to the entire race and one could survive the fate of being annihilated.

'But, even now it did not break out. How long before the fortune would breakout?' he thought to himself. 

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