Lord Shadow

Jean smiles and then shakes his head. 

Sighing he went outside of his Room of Clocks. 

The matter of the First Sovereign is always a matter of importance of the world, But Jean himself has a certain problem that also filled his mind

He sighed and he wanted to ease his mind and heart again

Taking a step, he appears inside his palace. Taking another step, he appeared in front of a door. He knocks the door and the door opened up. 

‘You’re back’ a woman voice sounded looking at Jena and Jena smiles. It is Paulette. She looks like the past few hundred years did not leave any trace on her face.

She had no wrinkles on her face and she no longer sports a shoulder length hair. instead her hair is long reaching below of her shoulders.

She wears purple robe lined with red and she appears like a frail woman. 

To the world, the most beautiful woman in the world is the Ice Queen Katarina. 

But to him, Paulette has always been the most beautiful for him. Paulette had long not interfered in the matters of the world.

Thinking about it, Jean felt both happy and sorry for her. 

He was happy because if she did not roam around the world, she would be safe. As long as she is in the sphere of influence of Jean, she would not have harm befall on her.

He felt sorry because her freedom is a bit constrained. Jean wanted to win the Divine battle and become Sovereign precisely because of that.

The moment he become Sovereign, the Heaven will belong to him and as such there is no place in the world that Paulette could not go. 

And he would be powerful enough to shelter Paulette wherever she goes in the galaxy

Jean in his years protecting the Republic had a lot of enemies.

This enemy knows that they could not do nothing to him so they always targeted his loved ones. 

He is unlike the First Sovereign Azief. 

Even though everyone knows that the only thing that could make the First Sovereign felt some pain is the Divine Archer and the Ice Queen, these two woman are not some frail women that needs protecting.

Not to mention Azief himself is a Sovereign. 

If they tried to harm the Divine Archer, even before they could come close to Divine Archer, they probably would be strike by a lightning bolt and die on the spot

As for Katarina the Ice Queen, even if the First Sovereign not put protective measures on her who would dare clash with her?

Katarina herself is a candidate of the Divine Throne and a Half Sovereign. 

There are not many people in the world that could even fight her unless they are the same people around the same level of power around hers.

He looks at Paulette and felt a little sorrier than he is happy. 

He promises her that he would win the Divine Throne Battle this time and after that they both could roam the world together.

Jean come near her. 

Then he holds her hand. She was startled for a second before just shaking her hand and smiling at jean.

Holding her hand, he felt his heart and mind calming down. Looking at her smile, he felt happy

‘What’s the matter?’

‘Nothing. Only thinking about the matter of past’ Paulette smiles and she then said

‘Just stay here tonight, then. Don’t worry too much about the Divine Throne battle’ Jean look at Paulette and he remembers that vision again. 

He remembers he saw nothing when he tried to look at Paulette future. 

The more he could not see what lies in store for Paulette the more he became restless. 

Because of that there is this feeling of unease spreading in his heart the closer he is to the Divine Throne battle

He nodded.

‘I guess I should rest a bit’ Paulette smiles and then she kisses Jean cheeks and said

‘Promise me that you would not overexert yourself’ Jean smiles and nodded. Jean spends his day with Paulette that day, taking a break of deepening his Laws of Time for a moment.

At the same time, on the top of a snowy capped mountain peak, a pair of eyes opened up when that first fluctuation of energy of the will of Heaven erupted. 

There is a woman deep in the snow filled top of the snowy mountain.

She was buried in deep snow but when she felt that aura she got up. 

The snow that cover her all scattered away. They did not melt but instead flew to the air like someone had waves away birds of feathers.

The snow floated away but still exist. They flew up into the air and stay there like there is some force forcing them to not fall. 

The snowy storms that always cover the mountain peak halted like it was Time that forces it to stop

The wind that were always harsh and unforgiving around the mountain suddenly become gentle and breezy.

Even the people that lived below the foot of the mountain was shocked as they saw the phenomenon on the mountain top

This woman got up, standing straight and look toward the direction where she felt that fluctuation of energy of the Heaven and Earth.

She looks for a moment, squinted her eyes and then she shakes her head

‘It is not him’ The moment she said this, the snow falls again, and the wind once again blows harshly and unforgiving.

The most beautiful woman in the world wearing a white robe making her appears like some immortal fairy of the heavens, look toward that place, felt that energy and said it is not him.

And there is only one person that is called by the world as the most beautiful woman in the world. And that is Katarina the Ice Queen 

Jean said it was him. Katarina said it wasn’t him.

And funnily enough, they were both right. Someone waited for the past. Someone waited for the present.

So to Jean, it is him. To Katarina, it is not him.

Katarina sighed and then she buried herself back in the snow and waited for the days to pass again until the next Divine Throne Battle.

Somewhere on the top of a Flower Mountain someone sipping a tea inside a humble hut also look toward that direction. 

She only looks for a second before she resumes back her action. On her back, there strapped a holy bow.

It is not only the beings on earths that was alerted by the sudden use of Heaven Will power

Someone sitting on top of the moon highest mountain peak got up and look at Earth. He saw the pillars of lights and felt the energy and he frowned.

Then he shakes his head and decided not to interfere. 

‘Is it you?’ he asks to no one in particular. He was suddenly moved as he wanted to lift his finger and wanted to point it toward Earth

The moment he did that the moon on the Earth slowly being covered by a red cloud that slowly covers the sky. 

The places where it is night have the moonlight shining upon that part of the world.

The moon shines brightly. But tonight the moon seems to appears like an eye.

And that eye is about to open. On the moon, that person was about to raise his finger higher but then he stopped himself

‘Another scheme?’ this time he also asks no one in particular. But his word echoes on space. Like a space buzzing noise.

He waited but no one answer back.

He put down his finger and then he scattered himself again turning into dust. Since the moon has been inhabited a few hundred years ago, it is like a watered down version of Earth.

The wind blows and that person disappeared, once again secluding himself in the dark side of the moon

In a thunder land in the middle of some island on Venus, a person that seems acclimated with the thunder storm around the island also look toward that area on Earth

His gaze seems to be able to penetrate the distance between planets and see that place on Earth where the fluctuation happened like he was there in person, looking at the area.

He looks for a moment, sighed and then shaking his head, he stopped caring about it and continue his training

This is the future that is currently being produced. Whether this future events would come to pass, who knows? 

To Azief and Will this is merely a projection to the future. 

But to those who are living in this future, this future is as real as the past time that Azief and Will come from

But while many are perplexed, guessing and not interfering, somewhere in the vast Omniverse, in a dimension unseen to the eyes, a person sitting on top of a black throne, surrounded by heavenly powers and emanating a dark presence, is smiling

This person is not on Earth right now, but in another star systems and in another dimension but his eyes has always been trained on Earth since a long time ago.

He had known that today, Azief and Will would appear there in that cave. 

He had expected Azief to save Loki and he had watch everything from the beginning to end without anyone noticing.

This person that knows Azief action like the back of his hand is none other than Azief of the future. 

Who better to know oneself other than oneself?

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