Lord Shadow

Rafah saw them but he did not act conspicuously.

After all, the more unnatural he is the more he would be noticed. He just left them a marker. Loki would notice but not those three and he had seen what they are doing even when he is far away.

Wearing her snarling Demon mask she met with the Knights Order. She did not choose anyone else or any other organization instead she met with the Knight order. There is something there

One met the Alchemy Association leader, another met pirate and another met Knights Order.

Loki is planning something big.

Maybe.

Maybe this is not Loki plans at all, and this is the Three Demoness plan

It is not unusual for these three to do After all, Loki plan is not always direct.

Sometimes, he just sows his seed for future reaping, and he did not need to use chess pieces he just acquired.

The simplest plot would be to storm the palace. With these three forces, there is a lot of things that could be done.

But this is too direct and Loki would not do such a thing that would put him in the spotlight.

Loki himself probably would not want to see Azief right now. Seeing him would mean answering him.

And answering him, probably would spill some beans of the things he wanted to do.

And Azief now knowing more than he should have could even probably deduce Loki intention. And Loki would not let himself get that read easily

He did not expect to see people from the World Government.

Even though he had got some news that there would be delegations from the World Government, some people that arrive here are not part of the delegation but clearly, they are of the World Government.

He saw one of the World Government legion leaders, Jesse, a general of the World Government and the Earthshaker most trusted person.

A Quorum council member.

There has been a shakeup in the current structure of the Quorum council member after Japan and a few others secede itself from the World Government

but Jesse still holds that position even after the shakeup. This is not Hirate doing. If its not Hirate doing, then it is Raymond doing.

“That guy is about to breakthrough to another realm of Divine Comprehension making him infinitely close to breaking through to Essence Creation. Poseidon is really making a bet.”

Rafah thought but he had a headache thinking about this new variable that suddenly enters the chessboard

These Olympians know to keep tehri head down the last time but this time their stance seems to be ambiguous.

He did not have people in Olympus because he never thought Olympian is going to do anything. Odin is expected.

He did not do anything lats time but that was not because he didn’t want to

Odin sees chance.

He did not see any chance last time, so he did not move. It is not that he is passive. It is the chance of victory was so low.

Now, that there is a chance that things could be changed, Odin entering the game is something unfortunate but not truly unexpected for Rafah.

It was Olympians that shocked him. To some beings, Olympians might be Old Gods, but to Rafah, they are very new.

He had seen gods older than the entire Olympians so to him Olympians are not that old unlike Odin who has inherited the old legacy of Asgard from his father who inherited it from his father and his father before him

“Olympians making plans, Poseidon sending his trident, I find it hard to not think Hades is also behind this” out of the many gods in Olympus, the only few that Rafah is wary on are Zeus, Hades and Hera.

Zues and Hades are the two strongest Elder Gods in Olympus.

As for Hera, it is not her power and strength that made her a threat, it is the fact that her ability to make trouble that makes her…. troublesome

That and she also could meddle with fate and destiny.

Not any people know this part of her power.

She is the Goddess of Marriage.

Marriage connects people. Whether by ritual or by spoken words. It is of oaths, of vows and in a magical world, vows and oaths are not to be underestimated. It is more binding than any mortal contract.

It seeps deep into the soul, it is a magic that is about cause and effect, touches upon fate and destiny.

This is why the three are dangerous. Poseidon is powerful and unpredictable, but he has reason.

Contrary to some popular depiction of him, he is not so temperamental that he is crazy. There is a method to his anger and wrath, and he is one of the cunning ones.

Zeus is the one that is unpredictable.

But this has a lot to do with the domain he governed

The Sky, the heavens. After taking on all of the mortal doings in the mortal world, it is already remarkable enough he is not driven crazy.

Instead, being temperamental and lustful is the least destructive thing one could do when burdened with such a powerful responsibility.

Out of the Three Elder Gods, Poseidon is the most cunning. Hades is the most mysterious. And Zeus….regardless of how one mocked him, is one of the strongest if not the strongest.

When he is truly serious, that Lord of Olympus could really do some damage. After all, Olympus did not gain their reputation by being weak.

Hades must have remembered.

Could it be him making Poseidon interfere?

Rafah thought to himself.

He might not have any spies in Olympus. But he knows there are only a few people in Olympus that would not be affected that badly by the timeline reset

Zeus chose to forget it. But Hades…. might not. And if he did not, then he could persuade Poseidon to interfere

“This is a dangerous trend. These beings are betting on them.

This is not exactly a development that Rafah wanted to see. In that other timeline, these beings did not even make any bet.

There are some that make a bet, but everyone knows it is a longshot.

But now, there is Odin, there is Olympus, Wargod and probably others are thinking of betting on the opposite side of his lord.

What does this tell him? It means, they see a sliver of victory. Only then would they make such a bet.

The fact there is even such a bet shows things have gotten out of hand.

“I am alone without any backer” Rafah said to himself. He has some chess pieces, but he did not have any chess pieces in Arturia. It is not that he did not try to cultivate such person it is just that Arturia is small and its importance pales in comparison compared to the world powers.

And there are a limited number of people he could manipulate.

“Maybe if I could leverage the power of the world powers and uses them, then I could achieve something?” Rafah thought to himself.

Assassination attempt? That would not create chaos if Azief decided to cover it up.

There is a plan. He did not want to use this plan. Because this plan could kill Azief if done correctly.

But he could not let Azief have such a smooth sailing experience.

The Etherna legacy…sooner or later, Azief would learn many methods of the Etherna. And when that time comes, even Rafah had to hide under such methods.

He would not be as free as he is now.

“I just need to know what happens in that tunnel” he knows the River Master intervenes, but what happened to Azief?

That is what he didn’t know.

The matter of the river master is like the matter of his Lord. Unless they wanted him to know, he wouldn’t know.

Even more so for the River Master whose origin is a mystery.

Whether He is of Creation or an entity born from the Rules and Laws of the Omniverse, or whether He is a being of mortal descent

No one knows. And even the Creator and the Destroyer did not know much. Though that is to be expected. Even though they were the Right and Left Hand of The One, and is given the power of Creation and Destruction, they are not given everything. They are part of the One, but in a way, they are also independent.

The only way they could be independent is because the One allowed it

The Creator in the beginning did not have emotions. He did not have love, or hatred, knows anger or joy.

The Destroyer is also the same. They are a blank slate and would remain like that.

But a spark is given and the Creator incarnate Himself into different beings and different identity and each identity he taken then enriches himself.

A Creator who could understand the feeling of the beings he created and so when they inevitably met Him at the end of their moral journey, it would be like seeing an old friend that they could be comfortable with

Love, joy, happiness, all the things that are good and bright, he embodied and as long as He is there, the world would never lose light.

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