Lord Shadow

All the people in the world knew that Death Monarch have two women.

The first one is Sofia.

The other is Katarina.

If Death Monarch is just another warrior in the world, this drama of love triangle would only become fodder for conversation in tavern, become a joke or a harmless talk about some drama in the world

But Death Monarch is not just another warrior. And the two women he is entangled with are not ordinary woman.

Sofia while she is not the strongest woman in the world is also favored by Raymond.

She herself has many connections.

She possesses the Houyi Bow.

The power of that bow has been demonstrated and when she gets serious, if she did not mind burning her life essence, she could summon an arrow that could shoot down the Sun.

And that bow will only get stronger as she grows stronger.

Of course, compared to the might that is Pandemonium and Death Monarch, her bow could be wrested back from her as easy as taking a candy from a baby

But that would never happen precisely because of the relationship between Death Monarch and Sofia.

And then there is Katarina. Now, her position and strength alone are something worthy of respect, awe and fear.

She is allegedly the strongest woman in the world, undeniably the most beautiful woman in the world, the High Chancellor of the Republic of Earth, one of the world powers, the younger sister of Boris, the former Right Chancellor of the Republic.

Whether it is her strength or her position, she stripped Sofia by hundreds of miles.

It is precisely because of this two women position and strength that a simple drama of love triangle between them could create major conflict.

There are plots and intrigues of the world attached to this matter.

To Death Monarch and Katarina for example, the two might be just innocently falling in love but to the rest of the world and to the rest of the major power, this is not simply a matter of love, of likes and dislikes

This is the matter of two world power joined together at the hips. Death Monarch is the sole ruler of Pandemonium. Katarina is the nominal ruler of the Republic.

Of course, as the High Chancellor her influence could be extended if she wanted to and she had the power to veto laws as long as it is reasonable.

Her power is not all expansive like Death Monarch, but she had many powers vested on him by the Constitution of the Republic.

If these two people united with each other, it also means the Republic and Pandemonium is united.

The world is stable and there is no massive war precisely because out of the Seven World Powers, there is the Three Great Powers.

The original Great Powers that had risen after the Fall. The World Government, the Republic and Pandemonium.

These three supported each other but they are also rival to each other.

Most of the time the Republic and the World Government united with each other. Of course, this is only when it faces Pandemonium.

The reason is because Pandemonium is the greater threat

However, since Pandemonium itself held back in many things and merely acted as arbiter, there is some kind of stability that has been formed.

And out of this stability, there is also a quite understanding and balance.

These three great powers remain separate but they’re the pillars of the Seven World Powers to remain peaceful. Even if the other four world powers wanted to do something, if these three world powers did not agree, they could not proceed.

But what if…. what if Pandemonium and the Republic to leaders are now united?

It also means the interest of Pandemonium and the Republic might also be aligned.

If that is the case, is there any need for any other world powers in the world to make a decision?

And this is why, the love triangle of these three people has always been a matter of debate. Because their love triangle could even change the fate of the world.

Everyone knows of the relationship between these three. But not many knew that Katarina….is not just merely a lover.

She is also in a way like a disciple to Death Monarch.

There are some methods that Azief had thought to Katarina and Katarina adapt it to her methods.

Katarina also have her own method.

She hides in the snowflakes.

Sometimes she hides in the wind.

Sometimes in the cold.

She has many ways of hiding herself. In Moscow, even though some called it by the new name, she still called it by the old name. Moscow.

That is her turf.

When she fights in her home ground, there would be snow falling from the sky. And she is everywhere.

Every snow is one of her sword energies.

Each snow could suddenly float up from the ground and turns into a million of sword slash.

She also has a way of freezing time and space making the area in a way frozen in perception. This already touched the intangible aspect of rules and laws of the Universe.

Yes, she had many methods of concealing herself. And not in such a casual way the way Azief is doing.

It was not perfect. It did not reach the point…. of deceiving every sense like the way Azief had shown her.

This is truly deceiving the sense.

Even if Azief is in front of her, if he did not want anyone to see him, then no one could see him.

She wanted to know so she could guard against this kind of method

“It is too early for you”

For a moment Azief paused

Then he added

“If you are worried that someone could use this method against you, the pendant I have you a long time ago could at least help you sense if someone is using that kind of technique”

“And this technique is not exactly perfect. If you move in such a way that you break your own bubble of laws and rules of the Universe and have too obvious of killing intent, as long as you yourself is trained in a few laws and rules of the world, your premonition would tell you something before anyone could harm you”

hearing this Katarina could only scoff.

Is it really true? No one knows but Azief himself. This is just him not wanting to teach her.

Azief only chuckles at this.

Katarina knew that it would be a waste of time to ask this question again so she changes the question

“Where are we going right now?”

“To my garden” It did not take long for them to reach the gardens.

Even though they walk in brisk pace, they arrive at the garden in no time. After all beings like them, when they say they walk, they didn’t exactly walk with the pace like mortals.

The palace itself is large and vast. If they walk with the speed of a mortal, who knows how long it would take to reach the garden which is on the other side of the palace.

This garden is near his office.

Azief had his own Oval office. Some people said it is because he wanted to show legitimacy.

Azief himself never clarified why he created an Oval Office and even called it Oval office.

Though, Katarina believe that it is not because he wanted legitimacy or crave legitimacy.

Probably he does it simply to annoy Raymond and Hirate.

Raymond derives his legitimacy from the United States and it is said that he once wanted to create Oval office.

Azief heard it and he simply laughed and believe that out of anyone Raymond should not say such words and created the Oval office on his own.

It is said that while there is an Oval office for Raymond in the World Government since Azief had created his own Oval office, they suppressed the news that there is such an Oval office in the World Government headquarters.

Though this story is also could not entirely be believed. It might be that Sasha was the one that heard it and decided to create the Oval office.

Or maybe it is just a coincidence.

No one really knows the truth unless they ask the people involved. But it is not easy to ask the people involved about the truth

As Katarina was thinking all of this, they arrived in front of the door that separated this annex of the building and the Garden of Pandemonium on the other side.

Even though Katarina did not yet enter the Garden, from the outside she could already smell the scent of the flowers

“Wait here” Azief said to Katarina and he went alone inside the garden.

It took him about five minutes before he came out from the Garden

“It’s done” he said

Katarina did not ask anything. She nodded. She believes there must be something that Azief had to do.

There are some things she could ask and there are some things she knows she should not ask.

Whatever that Azief had done, it must have something to do with some secrets.

“Now, before we see the war, there is one last stop we need to go”

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