Lord Shadow

That single eye was terrifying.

It was peering from some Void of nothingness and it was looking at him inside the Time Tunnel. 

The eye was so large that even the supposed limitless expanse of Time and Space seems unable to accommodate one eyeball.

It just looks at him. And he looks at that eye. That eye was like an abyss. And the more he looks at it, the more he felt like he was being sucked into that abyss.

Then another eye appears. However, the color of that eye is different from that pair of eye. It was blue in color of was it green? 

Azief could not see it clearly. 

Slowly, something akin of a face shape is about to materialize inside the Time Tunnel

And then inside the Time Tunnel, he heard the roar once again. Like it came from an ancient past, the roars echo endlessly inside the Time Tunnel.

The shape of the face slowly dissipated and the eye also covered up by Time turbulence as it disappears.

The roars quietened down and the eye disappears.

There is a lot of things that he did not understand. And he did not like it at all. The not knowing part.

For some inexplicable reason, Azief felt that eye seem so familiar to him. When he was drifting he thought of that eye even when he was being guided by the Divine Law.

It was only then that he finally realizes why that eye seems so familiar to him. 

It looks just like his eyes. It was eerily similar that it sends shivers down his spine. 

If that eye was his….and the moment he thinks like that, a can of worms was opened up in his mind.

It was then that he realizes that the place that he is drifting is inside the Time Tunnel. To some it is a river 

A river of Time that flows and flows endlessly as long as the many realities and Universes have the Law of Time.

But the Time Tunnel is a backdoor. It is a place where one manipulate Time and Space so the river is flowing in erratic manner. 

As such, future, present and past are all disjointed

Then he thinks about the roar and the eye. If that eye was him in the future trying to see him at this point of Time, then was his future self was trying to help him?

If his future-self wanted to help him, then there was no better opportunity to help him when he is inside a place where Time doesn’t make sense and the rules of Time is distorted.

But Azief could not fathom how he could become so powerful in the future that even one of his eye nearly ruptured the Time Tunnel

And if that was really him, why would the other eye have a different color? That is also a question he wanted answered

Then there is the part about the roar. Was it the same roar he heard when he jumps off from the Supremacy Stairway? 

He is confident that the roar was the same.

Was that roar were meant to stop his future self from helping his past self or was it to stop his future-self doing something to him?

But if that is the truth, why would his future-self wanted to harm him? It would be more logical that the roars wanted to sabotage him. 

The weird thing is Azief let that roars actually saved him. He felt like his future-self did not necessarily want to help him when he thinks about it again

For a moment there, when the shape was about to materialize Azief felt a deadly sensation is about to descend onto him. It was like the moment that figure materializes inside the Time Tunnel, he would be dead.

It is weird and something he did not understand. 

Why would his future-self would want to kill him when killing him would create a paradox? After all, if he did not exist, how could his future-self exist?

But what is weirder is why did the roar protected him? Is it simply because he had the legacy of Etherna?

Or is it something else? Because when he heard that roar, he felt it. Contained in that roar is hatred.

It was personal. The reason why that sound roars is because it was something personal. He sighed again.

The wind blowing against his skin and as it ruffles his hair, he felt like he could not stop the memories inside his mind that is about to disappear.

Remember the feeling’ he thought to himself.

In the end, no matter how fast he is, this memory could not stay that long. That is what he thought to himself

‘You seem to be frowning too hard. Your expressionless face is already enough to scare people. Now, that you are frowning, people would probably piss their pants’ A voice made Azief break away from his musing. Azief did not turn to look toward that person voice. 

Instead, he keeps looking forward at the city in the distance, looking at the people running around on the streets and saw some people going to the Temple to pray.

Azief find it funny. That Temple is dedicated to him, like he is some kind of pagan god. To the people of Pandemonium, they would probably felt distant with him.

‘Hei. Are you listening?’ 

The voice is a bit shrill and it have that playful tone to it. Azief shakes his head. Even when he wants to muse a bit, this person could never let him rest easy.

There are not that many people that dares to speak in such manner with him. There is only one that would dare speak that way with him.

Loki the Tricksters.

‘I have a lot to think about’ he said

Loki take a step forward as he beside him, looking at the same scene he is seeing.

‘Pandemonium is very beautiful’ Loki said. Azief nodded

‘It is. I guess you didn’t mess it up’ Azief said, like he is a teacher grading the work of his student. 

Of course, Loki knows that for Azief Pandemonium is probably not that important in his heart.

But who knows? Now, that the past is changed, the future might also change.

And the change of the future could only start if Death Monarch felt differently on things. Morgana is wrong, Loki thought as he looks at Azief.