Chapter 1937: A Tear Through Time and Space
Chapter 1937: A Tear Through Time and Space
Tyranny ends, empires falls, evil men disappeared all under the relentless power of time.
Death….completes life. And soul completes Death.
Mistakes cost death and because the stakes is high, one learns quickly. Humans learns what not to do, what not to eat, what makes them live longer, what makes them die faster and they avoid it.
Sometimes, they ignore it and found a new breakthrough. This is the soul. Trapped between life and death, sometimes seeking death, would found a breath of life in that death
Desperate measures sometimes opens up the path toward life. The soul that guided the bravery in one heart, is the completion of all this intangible concept of life and death
But Etherna didn’t have all of these.
They didn’t have death. Time for them did not exist. They exist during the time does not exist. Before Time itself
There is no danger to their life. They would not die if they eat poisons, they would not die if they fall of a cliff.
They are an immortal beings that is perfect from the moment they were created and that is their flaw.
The day they first get angry, the day they first get happy and sad, love and hatred, fear and bravery
All of this only came to them when time exists.
When life finally has an end, and death is an inevitability, only then these feeling finally blooms among the people of Etherna
But even then, they were not as expressive and as loving.
These feelings come late for them but to those who experience it, they cherished it more than their life.
Only then there could be heroes in this civilizations. Most heroes are romantic and this is mostly true.
Wargod experience more and he had lived longer than any Etherna and sees and experience things that those Etherna in the past would never experience.
But the more he experience and understand, the more he become sad and desolate.
Because now he understand truly the feeling of love, of hate, of joy and sadness.
Understanding this feelings means also to understand the depths of despair of feelings
The feelings of loss, of sadness, of grief
There is no one to connect to vent these feelings
No one who could understand his songs, no one who could understand his yearnings, his desires and his history.
And then Azief came.
Azief is not the last of his kind.
Nor did he suffers as much as Wargod.
But he inherits the legacy of Etherna. And to Wargod eyes, because Azief inherit Etherna legacy, he is one of his people.
Because one day, Azief too would inherit the Songs, the histories, the memories and Wargod would once again heard the voice of his people and once again could connect to the past.
The path Azief is walking on is none other than the path that the Etherna had once walked. In the past, to walk this path of perfection is easy
Because there is no punishment.
Because there is no taboo.
And because Etherna is perfection itself.
To ascend to the next level is as simple as eating and breathing.
Now, it is not so much. The energy of heaven and earth, the energy of the entire Omniverse is not the same as the energy during those primordial times
But with each step he takes, he is coming closer to the End.
And now, he even got the full legacy of the Etherna.
His achievement in this timeline probably would surpass his other timeline. Azief got some clues from Loki, from The Great Oracle, from the Creator, from the future he had seen
Connecting them all together, he could guess some things. Of course, these are only things that he guessed. He is not sure whether it is the truth or not.
He believes he had already surpassed his other timeline achievement.
But could he escape the End?
Until the last curtain call, the odds are still stacked against him. But, until the End, no one knows who would really be laughing?
Who wins and who loses….who really knows?
They look at each other and for a moment they did not say anything to each other. Their gaze itself semes to hold many feelings.
For Azief, he held mainly a feeling of gratitude mixed with pity and uncertainty of the future. For Wargod, he sees his hope.
“Will we meet again?” Azief ask
Wargod smiles a bit.
“I hope so. At least I hope we meet before the End”
“It seems you are not as free as you appear to be” Azief said and hearing this Wargod only chuckles
“Where did you see me being free? Exiled on a broken star, sailing the Universe, all of it to search for a glimmer of hope. Today, I found it. And I have never been happier”
Azief understood Wargod words and he nodded
“I want to survive” Azief said and Wargod nodded
“Do that. I really hope you could do that”
They look at each other and smile.
And for that moment, that one second, there is like this understanding between them that requires no words.
Wargod then touch Azief arms and Azief feel a kind of power entering his body and before he could refine this energy, his body is now suddenly is swirling with electric arc.
It is a lot like the electricity arcs that usually accompanies Will when he is about to run
“Speed Source?”
Wargod nodded
“Don’t refine it. It is Samara Speed Source. If you try to refine it, it would be harmful to you. There is her path in it and you could be backlashed by it” Azief nodded.
“Since you still have some aura of that Monkey and that One Eyed Trickster, there might be some variations of time but it would the time difference would not be that long. You could return to Earth just by manipulating the Speed Source”
Wargod gesture him to go to the altar and Azief walk to the altar. He look at the altar and it seems to be a circle
This circle has five orbs. One in each cardinal direction and one in the middle. The circle is filled with formations and runes.
The orb itself seems to emanated a powerful calculation of time and space laws.
Freezing the laws of time and space?
This is what Azief deduce in his mind when he saw it. He could not be sure but he believe his deduction is right
Then he stands on the altar.
His body is now filled with electricity arcs.
It is like a snake swirling around him from top to bottom.
But this arcs of electricity that is gathering and swirling and slithering around him did not hurt him.
Instead, he could feel around him how the laws of time and space is weakening.
And if he wanted to , time seems to slow.
It is not so much that time has slowed down but his perception become faster and everything seems slow to compensate
And the more this electricity arcs gathered around him, the weaker the laws of time and space are
“I think you know how to activate the Speed Source right?” Wargod ask. And Azief nodded
“The altar then?”
“teleported you to the Time Space Continuum Tunnel. From there, you could run”
Azief nodded
Wargod then went to the side of the chamber and Azief finally noticed that there is some kind of device there.
And this device…it is carved on the walls. It looks a lot like a keyboard and there is symbols on these keyboard.
Wargod taps a few of these keyboard and surprisingly these keyboard does move.
Azief thought for a moment it would not move considering that it looks like they keyboard is made of stone.
But when Wargod taps it, it seems as smooth as jelly
Then a whirring sound could be heard.
Azief look down and could see the altar that he is standing on is lighting up with colours
“I hope you would find the answer you wanted”
Wargod said and he nodded toward Azief.
Azief nodded back and with a smile he closes his eyes.
SHRITT!
He could hear the tearing of space and time and he feels his body lightened considerably
And then he is gone
Inside that chamber, there is only Wargod. He looks at the empty space and he smiles
“The path ahead is hard but at least he is no longer alone” he is smiling but then suddenly he stopped smiling
His eyes narrows. And Wargod quickly speeds up his running toward the top. Below here, he could not use teleportation.
But he could still use his speed. After all, he had just disable most of his protection and sealing formation leading to this altar
It did not take much time for him to appear in the palace again. And from there, all of his ability is restored and then he teleported himself out of the palace.
And then the moment he went out, he frowned. All around Interium, there is traces of destruction
But he could not see what causes such destruction
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