Lord Shadow

And a day just goes like this and before dawn, Azief now has his entire body intact again.

Azief slowly stand up. And the water around him ripples slightly. Azief eyes narrows and there is lightning flashing in his eyes.

“I nearly died. This is the closest I have been to death since I become an Essence Creation realm”

Azief sighed. This is the reason why he never felt himself strong and why throughout his journey, he seems to remain humble.

To the eyes of Earth, he was the strongest man in the world and even his contemporaries all think highly of him and marvel at his power.

Yet, Azief himself did not seem arrogant.

Azief believe that if he did not know all of those great figures, he himself probably would be in delusion and become arrogant

Azief knows himself. He is not some great saint or some great hero. But most people are like him.

No one started like that.

Azief is also like that.

But his experience molded him.

His mistake teaches him.

He is like a blind man, always grasping for light

And with each mistake, the only thing he could do was to change.

Change for the better.

That is the only thing he could do to wipe away the regret of the past.

But saying thing have always been easier than doing it.

There are some things about him that had changed and there are also some things about him that did not change

He is not a great saint but he also has become gentler and his method is also smarter.

He is not a great hero but one death has made him recognize his responsibility

Years after his death, Budiman death, his death to wake him up, still resonate deeply in his heart

Most people have forgotten him but it is ironic it was Azief that remembered him most deeply

Azief take a few second to familiarize himself with his newly rejuvenated body. He did not try to fly or use super speed. Instead, he walks slowly to the shore.

The sun is just about to dawn when Azief finally reached the shore. The sound of the waves welcomes him and the sand feels smooth under his feet

He did not have the energy to conjure up a suit.

So, he is naked right now.

As he walk toward the shore, he looks around him.

All he could see was a vast sea far to the horizon and he is in an idyllic shore.

This shore is a bit secluded as there are hills and cliff that hides this shore.

“Where am I?” Azief could not guess where he is at right now.

But he saw a small cavern near the cliff and walk there.

And as he walks, the water around his body evaporated and a black robe covers his body and a hood that slightly cover his face.

A cloaked robe. Black and crimson.

He is not hungry. He is just tired

“That attack even touch my soul”

Azief did not know the location of the soul but he is quite sure that aura strike hits his soul.

Because physically, right now, there is no injuries in his body

But there is this fatigue that he could not expel.

He would be rejuvenated but then he feels this fatigue again.

Like some kind of the illness of the mind.

The body is fine, but you feel there is something wrong with you.

That is what he is feeling now

Fatigue that comes even after his own body has become intact.

“That hand” he mutters. For a moment, he just stand there is that cavern.

Of course, standing in not the only thing he is doing.

He is right

Azief is not surprised he did not see anyone around here.

Nor did he see any settlements.

If this was in the past, no matter how dangerous it is to live near the sea, there would always be settlements.

But the world now is so vast.

That there is always a chance that one could find a continent hidden from the world and there is no one living there.

Azief however wanted to find people here. It is better if this place is one of the territories of the allies.

For now, he just need to take a breath and make sure he is strong enough.

“my power is coming back. But not as fast as I hoped” the energy of the world is a lot and he is not worried of the world lacking of energy

After all, he knew the origin of this energy.

If this was any other world, Azief act of rejuvenating himself with the energy of heaven and earth would probably drain the entire world of its magical energy

But this is Earth. And on Earth, there is the All Source. And inexhaustible source of energy.

And it is for this reason Azief did not hesitate to just suck the energy of heaven and earth.

Once again, he had to praise himself for picking Earth as his destination instead of any other worlds

If he went to other worlds and drain this much energy, Azief is quite sure that the cause and effect he had to bear is so huge that he need to do an act that could offset the cause and effect of that world

Earth however, is different.

Because the Earth has All Source

The All Source itself is an object that defies cause and effect

Azief closes his eyes again as he seems to assess his own body and his own power.

He waves his hand and the sea water nearby split into two. Not too big to draw attention. Just a small split of the water.

He waves his hand again and the wind around him turns into a sharp gale.

Azief did not release this gale. Instead, he simply let it fizzle out.

“This kind of energy is enough to get out” he thought to himself.

But he is quite sure that he would get fatigue again.

“what an annoying effect” he thought to himself.

The current problem he is facing is something new from him.

He is used to pain.

He has learn to ignore it. Sometimes, he could revel in it

But he is also used to that pain disappearing.

One of the reasons why he could remain calm even under the tribulation of thunder fire and searing winds is because no matter how many times the pain strikes him, he is quite that he would recover.

This is the first time however; the pain lasted and linger.

He takes a deep breath breathing in and out the energy

Then after an hour, he could sense the power in his body has reached quite some level

“This is enough to protect myself” right now, the energy he could muster is enough to protect himself against Disk Formation realm leveler

“With this level, it is enough for self-protection” This is his own judgment

However, even now, he still did not dare uses his Divine Sense. Until he understand what is happening to him, he would not make himself known.

“There is too many enemies”

that hand did not seem intent to kill him.

But all he sees is a hand.

He could not be sure of the thought of the being that send that hand to attack him.

And he still did not understand. Was that hand really wanted to attack him? Or is there any other purpose?

After his experience with many powerful beings, sometimes, you could not just watch the surface. Sometimes, these beings unintentional action create different outcome.

But one thing is clear after his conversation with Wargod.

Many people wanted to manipulate him.

Some are more forthright with it and opens everything up to him like Wargod, Odin and the Divine Monkey.

These three seems to walk the same direction as him and they cooperate with each other

There is many thoughts in his mind.

And then he also remembers the leaf.

That leaf is no longer in his sleeve.

After all, his sleeve had also been destroyed by that energy

But he did not lost that leaf

“The leaf that Odin gave me” then he ponders for a moment, chuckles and shakes his head

“No, the leaf from one of the branches of the Tree of Creation”

In that moment of life and death, when he was about to get dissipated by that powerful aura, that leaf attached itself to him, enter his Inner World and stabilize his Essence

That was the first thing it did.

Like a glue, it kept his Essence tight.

And it supplies him with an almost inexhaustible life force.

“if not, it might take me months before I even woke up” he shakes his head

“Maybe, years” Only after being hit by that energy Azief once again was reminded that in this world, he is still not qualified to sit at the table of the powerful

If this was an era of peace in the Omniverse, then with Azief strength, he could surely run amuck.

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