Lord Shadow

The tenth steps host his Soul Law Body.

Even through the storms, he could still walk all over it without being hurt or feeling any adverse effect.

Around the storms, Azief could see souls scattered all over, flying, weeping, screaming, wailing dazed and many other souls that didn’t even have a fixed shape and looking like some kind of translucent energy that is hard to determine or identify.

Souls flying around inside the storm and outside the storm.

Some of them looks like the shade of their formers self, some appears in incorporeal forms, other appears in shapes with different sizes.

Most of them appears like will o wisp or floating fires.

Some appears more like their former self. Not all of them have human like features Some is without a doubt the souls of aliens of the ancient past civilization.

But they are also some souls that Azief thinks looks a bit different and felt a bit different than the rest of the other souls that hovers around inside the storms of energies

Some souls felt ancient. And they don’t seem native to this Supreme Dimension.

Azief took another steps on the tenth steps and he appeared in front of the Soul Law Body.

He did not look around anymore.

There is a reason why he did not look around at this realm. It is because it was so distorted and fill with souls that nothing could be seen clearly.

The souls here had unresolved feeling and emotions, some have powerful wills and determination that even after their death, probably eons ago, all of that emotions and memories still keep lingering, like a curse that is always present inside this Sealed Realm.

If not for the appearance of his Soul Law Body these souls will not have the power to manifest itself and made their presence known.

It created this negative feeling that assaulted him the moment he steps into it.

Yet, because of his other Laws it did not give much effect.

If not Azief might have succumbed into some kind of memories and feelings that is not of his own and getting possessed by some souls that have powerful determination.

He touched the Soul Law Body and the gigantic Law body surges into him and then memories enter his mind

Not only the comprehension of the Soul Law enters his mind, but there are also some other memories also enter his mind.

It was then that he could verify his thoughts.

The souls that gathered on the ten steps, many of them belong to the remnants of the past of the ancient race that used to reside inside the Supreme Dimension in the past

They did not completely pass on and their strong emotions and memories lingers in this dead sealed Universe and Dimension.

In the memories, he saw many faces. The memories flashes by inside his mind, like some kind of lightning strike that only leaves its afterimages

he could see civilization thriving and falling, rising up and falling, rising up and falling, each time more glorious and more tragic than the previous one.

A cycle of creation and destruction seems to cycle every few thousand years and it almost appears that it never would stop.

But in the memories that come later, this cycle of rebuilding and destruction finally stopped.

Peace dawned in one of the planets and civilization that emerge out of the darkness of war and suffering rises up.

They made great technological advances, and travels the stars.

They build up civilization, spreading peace and knowledge throughout the Universe and the civilization of this star system had finally reached a great level of civilization

They prosper and they thrived.

But then comes a disaster from outside their star system. Azief could understand and could feel the emotions of these souls and he felt the dread and hopelessness that was transferred to him through the mystical abilities of the Soul Law Body

He at first wanted to speed up through the memories but for some reason he could not.

No, he did not want to. He was curious, of how this Supreme Dimension was created and who created it.

And how the alien civilization that has prospered and created such a powerful civilization here was destroyed. He was curious of all of this.

He never had expected that his Soul Law Body could see through the memories of the past through the souls that his Law Body had incited.

And then there is an image that shock Azief to the core.

It was probably the most intense reaction he felt.

No, not only his feeling. But the feeling of all those souls that see the same thing he is seeing now.

For other memories, it flashes by, like it was fast forwarded.

The only reason Azief could make sense of it is because of the feeling and emotions that he felt. But for this one particular memory, it happened slowly.

And it was unanimous from all the souls. At least the most recent souls that had left their mark in this Universe.

They are the last inhabitant of this Supreme Dimension and the last souls that saw what happened that lead to the annihilation and destruction of their star system and their Universe.

They are probably also the one that saw the sealing of their own Universe and was trapped into a dimension that was cut off from the Omniverse

And from their memories, Azief would finally know the origin of the Supremacy Stairway and who had created it.

From the very first moment he walks this Thirteen Step and now even when he was at the tenth step, Azief felt like he was being controlled.

There is no logic or rhyme that should pointed him to that premonition but he felt it all the same.

But he just felt it and he is inclined to believe in that feeling. This kind of feeling had saved him a lot. He had the feeling that something wasn’t right.

And that feeling only grows when he was in the Sealed World.

Thirteen Steps of Supremacy Stairway. Thirteen steps. He reminded himself at that time. He had a lot of time in the Sealed World to think about a lot of things.

Why that number? Why thirteen? If there is a chance for everyone to reach perfection, then that means it should have limited itself to the name Thirteen Steps right?

He thought about it. Azul called it Thirteen Steps and from some of the information he got from Will, his teacher also called it the Thirteen Steps of the Supremacy Stairway.

But if that is the case, why is this obsession with Thirteen? Why not called it Perfection Steps which is more apt or something that does not limit its number?

Azief had always strived for freedom and what that freedom means is still open to interpretation.

He is the strongest person on Earth. He did not want to be the strongest person in Earth, truth be told.

It just the result that followed by walking down his own path

It is just that by being the strongest, he is also the freest person on Earth. No one could make him do something he didn’t want to do unless he wanted to do it.

And even when he was weak in the beginning, he did not mind dying. He had betted his life and he was free. There was nothing to regret.

But the moment he steps into the Thirteen Steps he felt something is grabbing him by the ankle.

And he did not like it one bit

He did not feel it when he walks the Thirty-Three Steps. He only felt it when he walks the Thirteen Steps.

He had never believed luck has no price. Everything has a Price. There is a price for magic and there is of course a price for Luck.

The one thing he was uneasy of, was that he does not know the price of this bundle of luck.

He was determined to know the full story of this matter. He takes a deep breath as he looks deeper into that memories.

He wades deeper inside that memory that seems to be shared by a myriad network of souls, sharing the same experience.

At first, the memory seems to blurs and it distorts itself but as he focused, the memory become even clear.

Azief did not know this but as he wades deep inside that memories, his real body on the Tenth Steps absorbs the souls completely, merging it with him.

Like the souls is entrusting him with their memories. There is a saying in the Omniverse. What is not forgotten, could not be dead.

This memory is a proof.

Proof that whatever happened that leads the civilization all over these star system in the Supreme Dimension to perish engraved itself into the hearts and minds of everyone that saw what happened.

That even after death, their memories of that calamity, stay fresh in their minds and engrave itself into their souls.

The more souls see and experiences an event, the clearer the memory becomes. It is a collective memories of the past, united by the same motivation and will.

Of all the memories that flashes by inside his mind, this memory is probably the clearest and detailed out of them all.

And then Azief saw it and he almost bring himself out of the memory

While he is looking up memories in his mind, his real body is floating on top of the tenth step, his eyebrows creased and his eyes closed.

His forehead veins are about to pop up.

There is an eye. A pair of eyes that look toward the Supreme Dimension. And that eye is thrice as large as a sun.

As the memory refocused, Azief could finally see the full figures of the owner of that pair of eyes. And it was glorious sight

Glorious and terrifying all at the same time.