Lord Shadow

Katarina is floating on the air, sitting on top of a floating snowflake, as she is seemingly charging her energy

Katarina was startled for a second before regaining back her calm in almost an instant.

‘Time Avatar?’ she asks.

Jean and Katarina always see each other in the Senate hall so while they could not call themselves close friend they are colleagues in the Senate Hall.

So, they are quite familiar with each other.

‘High Chancellor’ Jean simply said

Katarina reply

‘The Senate is not in session’ then she said

‘Thank you’ Jean only smiles as he stood in front of Katarina, and creating matrixes of time to cover the area.

In this area, there is no other leveler other than Jean and Katarina. But Jean still use one of his Time Avatar to protect her.

Because Azief had made him promise that he would take good care of Katarina while he fought with the Demon King.

And there is also the fact that she is the High Chancellor of the Republic. Even without the Demon King she has many enemies and people that want her dead.

And she is right now in a vulnerable position. Jean could see with a glance that she had used a lot of her power.

If anyone attack her right now, she would be easily defeated. Jean could guess that she must have overused her powers to help Azief.

He only sighed but Katarina ignored him

‘You don’t regret?’ Jean avatar asked

Katarina simply reply

‘I did it…because I don’t want to regret’

Jean smiles, nodded and then began erecting Time Shield around the hill.

His Time Avatar also appears in front of Sofia. 

Sofia was on the ground sitting cross legged, trying to get up. The moment Jean Time Avatar arrived Sofia could feel the burden on her body was released and she could get up.

She saw Jean and she saw the tens of thousands of matrix formation on the sky covering the area 

It relieves the burden not only form her but form the other members of the Island of Peace that was transported here.

They were transported toward the Antarctica continent but because of the expansion of the world, they are far away from the protected city of the Order of Thinkers

Jean bows a bit toward Sofia and said

‘Divine Archer’ Then he bows a bit toward Raymond

‘Earthshaker’

‘Time Monarch’ Raymond reply nodding his head and quickly said

‘Thank you for the assistance’

Jean nodded and then looking at Sofia he said

‘Your boyfriend is making me work hard’ Sofia did not say anything. She only has a complicated expression on her face and then she asks

‘He’s okay?’

‘As okay as he can be’ Jean said. She then asks

‘Should I use my arrow?’

Jean look at her and he sighed.

‘It is too late.’

Sofia frowned

‘He wins?’

Jean answer

‘He won’

Hearing this, the worried expression on her face is wiped away and then she nodded

‘Then, that’s good enough. What should I do?’ she asks Jean

Jean simply said

‘Stay here’ Sofia frowned and then ask

‘I could not help?’

‘No’ the exchange between them is very fast and very simple. 

But Sofia understood and she did not push it. 

She stays down. 

And then she closes her eyes. She could see in that brief moment when she stood up, a bubble of energy forming in the distance. Like a sun that is about to explode.

She knows she could not do anything. Instead, her action might even distract Azief at this point of time.

Jean would not lie to her. As long as he is safe, that is enough. Sofia could not see that the battle had already ended. The world is just seeing the second strike

She only sit, close her eyes and accumulate her energy so that she could heal her injury. Jean smiles but also felt complicated.

The Divine Archer and the Ice Queen. Jean don’t know whether Death Monarch is lucky or unlucky

Then Jean looks back at Raymond and then sighed. Raymond knows that Jean was not satisfied with him but he braced his heart

‘Raymond…you slack off too much’

That is the first word that comes out from his mouth. The surrounding soldiers around the area look at Jean with unkind expression.

But they do not dare do anything else other than glaring at him.

Since Jean is now helping them.

Jean continued his word 

‘It does not matter that you were overtaken by Hikigaya. But…. did you forget what happen during the Weronian Occupation? We both saw what happen…we saw what happen if we are weak. I hope that today you would remember the feeling you are feeling right now. If you were able to breakthrough today, then more lives could be saved, more damage could be minimized’

Jean could not help but lecture Raymond.

Jean and Raymond might stand at different organization and even a rival one at that. 

But…. people forget that before Jean joined the Republic he is also once a member of the World Government. And he knows Raymond. 

And during the Weronian War, he and Raymond even fought side by side, organizing a resistance against the Weronian Occupation.

It is very sad that today, when a crisis hit the world and Raymond could not do anything. 

If Raymond had not slack off and also become a Divine Comprehension leveler, then they could minimize the damage even more. 

This is the thought that occurs in Jean thought the moment he saw Raymond.

But even though he is lecturing Raymond he did not forget to strengthen the shield of time that he had erected all over the area.

On another part of the world, Jean appears before Lee Sangmin and Warp. This time, Jean had able to locate these two with his Time Laws.

Warp did not seem to be shocked when he saw Jean suddenly appearing in front of him. Instead, it almost seems like he was anticipating Jean appearing.

Warp pupils right now is very bizarre. His pupil is spiraling inside his eyes. And wherever he gazes, causes the space around it to disintegrate and restricted itself.

if one looks closely at his eyes, one would be sucked into that spiral. The spiral stopped the moment Jean look back at that eye. And Jean had a wide smile looking at it.

Warp frowned a bit. But he did not say anything toward Jean. Jean had never liked Warp. He did not like what Warp stand for and who he is protecting.

But this is not time for personal feeling to get in the way

Lee Sangmin did not notice this as he looks toward Jean and bow a bit

‘Time Monarch’ Lee Sangmin said as he is coughing blood. Around him, red blood is pooling on the ground.

His hair is grey, his hand is trembling and his skin is full of wrinkles. It appears like he had aged considerably. Jean quickly related this to the price of creating the Mirror Dimension.

Jean look at the blood pooling on the ground and his eyebrows is raised.

‘Red’ Jean simply said

‘Divinity’ Lee Sangmin answer. Jean took only one second to understand what Lee Sangmin means by divinity.

‘To create such a miraculous dimension…it takes divinity?’ 

And judging from the condition of Lee Sangmin right now, it did not only take an essence of divinity but also his longevity, his life force and his energy

Normal Disk Formation leveler would cough up golden blood. Not red.

‘A world’ Warp reply, bringing Jena out of his thoughts.

‘With a set of its own rules…’Warp added.

Jean added another sentence

‘Would require a steep price.’ Sangmin nodded as he coughed again and more blood coming out from his mouth.

Jean look at Warp expecting him to also suffer some kind of side effect but then he remembers the spirals.

It is not against me; he is teleporting the properties of the effect to another place. Understanding dawned on Jean mind.

Warp could even do that. 

Quite ingenious. 

It is not that Warp did not suffer any price after creating such dimension. It is that he could handle it better than Lee Sangmin

‘I could not maintain it for long now’ Sangmin simply said to Jean

Jean nodded.

‘Your contribution would not be forgotten. You have helped a lot of people. I estimated millions would have died if not for your decision. You deserve some kind of compensation. This would drain this avatar a bit but I think it is worth it’ he said

Then Jean take a step forward and he appears right in front of Warp and Lee Sangmin. 

Lee Sangmin was shocked for a second before he managed to pretend that he was not startled at all. Jean only smiles.

‘I could see you now’ Jean said as he looks deep at Warp eyes. In the past, Warp had always been able to escape Time. 

But now? Now, Jean could see everything.

His Time could not be deceived. 

This is the difference between lifeforms. The moment Jean become a Divine Comprehension leveler, he had ascended the ladder of advanced beings.

Warp only look and stare at him but he did not say anything. 

‘Look at him’ Jean smiles and then put his hand on Lee Sangmin body. 

His Divinity returns back to him. 

His Time was reversed. The grey hair, the pale face, the wrinkles on his skin, all of it is going away and then Lee Sangmin could feel that there is a Law entering the Mirror Dimension.

A Law of Time and Space. Jean was analyzing the composition of the Mirror Dimension. 

The Mirror Dimension is separated from the real dimension by a thin film of fabric of reality. 

One could think of it as an invisible curtain. 

Only those who knows that the curtain is there could open the curtain. 

At the same time Jean helps reverse the harmful effect of creating the Mirror Dimension, he is also taking the chance to get some benefits.

It is clear Lee Sangmin ideas of creating a separate dimension would help in the long run if there is ever such event happening again. 

It took Jean only a few second to understand it all and then he releases his hand from Lee Sangmin shoulder.

Then he turns his face from them and stand in front of them as the initial wave of the blast is about to come to the area.

‘Do not worry’ Jean simply said as thousands of matrix formation appears in the sky and absorbed all the large debris and the large tsunamis that is about to just hit them

Jean is now using his time Avatar to protect all the people that is in his sight. And those that is in his sight is tens of thousands people.

Most of them is Seed Forming leveler and there is a few hundred Disk Formation leveler most of which had never reveal themselves to the world