Lord Shadow

While Loki is preparing inside the space rip in Island of Peace, Azief had landed on one of the twelve pillars that was erected in the Antarctica continent

One step he takes is like the step of a descending god of death. That step created a death aura that seems to shoot forward yet the force sweeps in all direction.

Dozens of demonic creatures that was suspended in the air around him exploded into mass of gore. 

He smirks and he took another step and like the sound of a hammer slamming down on a glass, a few dozens more of demonic creature exploded into mass of gore and rains of blood. 

But their explosion shockwave seems to be contained and even their rain of blood did not fall into the ground as they floated there up in the air.

Azief then took his third and last step and every demonic creature up there around the pillars he is standing on exploded.

No one notices the happening on top of that pillar since everyone is busy fighting an invasion up above and down below.

Azief felt the difference of temperature around him the moment he appeared around that pillar

He could feel the coldness of space. But it is not only the coldness of space that Azief sense. It is also the Universal Laws of the Universe. 

Azief smirks a bit.

‘These pillars is like a conduit. Like a lightning rod. But instead of attracting lightning, this pillars attracts the power of the Universal energy and also make use of the power of the All Source. A truly ingenious design’ he thought to himself

This pillar that Azief is on is already dim. The holy light surrounding it is on the verge of fading out

Azief come closer to the person. Azief could see from the torn robe that half of the body of this person is machinery.

That person looks in apprehension, looking at the black clothed man. The reason is simply because he recognizes who this person is.

‘Death Monarch’

This is the Heavens of the world, Death Monarch, the ruler of Pandemonium and the strongest person in the world

Unless one lives in a cave since the beginning of the Fall, everyone knows Death Monarch face. Like always Azief is handsome and dashing. 

But none of that ever decrease one fear when facing face to face with such a legend. 

It did not help that Azief always appeared like some kind of God of Death, bring death and destruction to all the places he steps on

Azief smiles and he said

‘Ah, you know me. And who are you?’ Then pausing for a second, he looks around and his smile grew wider 

‘It seems the Order of Thinkers is hiding a lot from me’ he simply said and the person felt even more uncomfortable. 

Death Monarch might appear smiling, but his words seem like there is a threat behind them

The person then said.

‘I am Sergey. And I work under the Grand Researcher’ Azief only nodded. He then flicks his finger. Shooting out of his finger is a light orb that flew toward Sergey. 

Sergey was already almost dead so he could not even try to dodge the light orb. 

The light orb shots toward his chest and enter his chest. 

The moment it enters Sergey body, colors rushed back into his pale face and he could feel a powerful life energy surging inside his body, bringing him out from his precarious condition.

The wounds on his body seems to be revitalized by some powerful life force that it healed itself in a swift speed that one could see the healing happening in real time

Sergey could now breathe easily. Before he could say anything Azief interjected and then said

‘Right now, we are all fighting the same enemy so I will not be too hard on you. But after all of this, tell your Grand Researcher to expect a visit from me. I hope she did not cross the line’

Sergey only frowned. 

Azief then stomp his foot and stimulated the All Source power in his body and the pillar that is dim right now suddenly bursted with powerful energy, holy light seems to shine all over the pillar.

The energy that Azief had injected is slowly revitalizing back the power of the formation by making use of this pillar.

Azief then look at Sergey and said

‘What are you doing looking at me? Go and guard the formation’ Sergey was startled and then nodded.

Of course the other people in the other pillars had also noticed that one of the pillars was about to crumble but each pillar is being attacked and they could not easily go help the other pillars when they themselves are being overwhelmed. 

But to their shock, suddenly the pillar that is about to crumble suddenly is brimming with life again.

All kind of power seems to exploded out of that almost crumbling pillar.

Inside a dimly lit room the Grand Researcher in her throne move the directional joystick on her throne handle to try to see what is happening on one of the pillars even as she is positioning the guided weapons all over the Antarctica continent to fight off the invasion.

She moves her vision but then when her gaze is about to reach that pillar, the connection between her and the pillar was cut and she quickly close her eyes.

She clenches her fist as she restrains the urge to scream in pain. 

From her closed eyes, blood is dripping. 

‘Who’s that?’ She thought to herself. 

Even though she asks that questions she could guess who that person is. There is only person in the world that could make her suffer like this just by trying to see the figure of this person.

‘Death Monarch is here’ She wipes the blood that is dripping from her eyeballs and her regeneration ability kicked in. 

Even though she did not become blind, the feeling of your eyes being boiled is not something that is pleasant.

It is like seeing the sun in front of your eyes. That was what happens to her when she tries to see the visage of that person on top of that pillar

She sighed. 

‘I wish he did not come here’ she muttered to herself

She had no choice other than to bring out some trump cards to resist the invasion. She knows that Death Monarch has always been wary of them.

Their secretive nature and the fact that they speak is codes and puzzles did not exactly inspire trust. 

Death Monarch especially did not trust them

She fears that Death Monarch already found something is wrong about the many things in Antarctica.

She sighed and then she shakes the thought out of her head.

The fact that Death Monarch is here means he is providing backup. And at least she had to be grateful for that

Even though, she is fighting here in the Antarctica, with the artifact Eye of Heaven she was keep abreast of the current situation all over the world. 

Even now, one of the screens in her mind is showing the scenery at the South American continent that is being guarded by a titanic form of Death Monarch, holding cosmic power over everything.

In the Southern American continent, she could see that there is no longer any space rips. 

What this prove was that Death Monarch had the ability to calm down the space rips and bring Earth prime out of the Multiversal Convergence.

Hirate is not the only one that have some knowledge about this event and know that this event is that rare Multiversal Convergence that would happen when the barrier of reality weakened to a point that barriers of world disintegrated

After all, the Order of thinker also had the opportunity to meet with the Orvanians. 

Though they had to deal with the Trickster to negotiate the meeting, it is clear that the Grand Researcher and the members of Order of Thinker knew that they are in a Multiversal Convergence event.

Unless everyone on Earth possess power akin of Gods that could easily neutralizes the effect of Multiversal Convergence, they do not want their world merging with others, blurring the lines of barriers between worlds, to have the memories of multiple worlds in one mind.

Though it is clear from Death Monarch behavior, it seems that he is scoping the world. he seems to be waiting for something. 

Death Monarch behavior right now is actually cautious. 

One might not believe it since everything that Death Monarch is doing appears to be very high profile. But she trusted her instinct. 

Death Monarch right now is being very cautious.

Like the Cerebral Enhancement Device of the World Government, the Grand Researcher throne ability of seeing the world through the Eye of Heaven also have its unique feature. 

She sighed and then send a telepathic message to all the other cyborgs in the other eleven pillars.

‘Death Monarch is here!’

The eleven cyborgs all over the other pillars then could understood the happening at that pillar and instead of trying to pry they keep defending their pillars

They know if they could endure a bit longer then Death Monarch will save them.

Azief would probably laugh right now if he could hear their thoughts 

He is viewed as a savior right now when the truth was that all of this trouble originated from him. 

But their thinking was not wrong. If they could endure for a while, Azief really intended to save them.

After all, this is his fault and he did not like other wiping his butt for him. 

One could argue that Azief mistake had strengthen the world. 

After this the world would enter another era of self-strengthening with many more Disk Formation would be able to be born.

But…. how could Azief uses that argument. 

One of the thing he hated the most was when people uses the fact that everything turns for the better and that somehow justify their mistake.

The fact is because of his mistake people died. Innocent people that have nothing to do with whatever this is, died. 

And how could those families of people that have their loved one died because of this event would ever accept such explanations. 

Even if the whole world improves, what that has got to do with a son mourning the death of his father and a parent mourning the loss of their child?

Azief had always cares about the people beside him. 

If he is in the position of these normal people, he would not care even if the whole world transformed ten thousand time stronger. 

What is important is that the people he loved had died 

And it precisely because of that feeling, he is bitter. And he is using his efforts to save the world right now.

He had to save as many people and at the same time make sure that humanity is not wiped out by these powerful force.

This is not the story of a hero saving the people. This is the story of a person trying to redeem himself.

And he is trying to redeem it by resolving these issues. 

Azief look at the sky and look at the ground below and he close his eyes for a moment before opening it again. 

Energy gathers around him as he nodded to himself.

‘It is time to gamble’

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