Lord Shadow

He looks at her, trying to see more. His eyes twinkle and there is a swirling energy of Time around him as he tries to look at the Time energies that is swirling around Erika. 

The pointer in his pupils move clockwise but nothing happened. Then it moves counter clockwise and nothing happened.

He closes his eyes for a second before opening it back. The pointer is fading but one could see sweat on his forehead.

He slowly wipes it with a handkerchief

Other people who did not have the ability to control Laws would not be able to see the scene that he is seeing

It is like normal eyes could not see the bacteria on the ground and requires specialized tools to see it. 

That is the best way to describe how Divine Comprehension levelers see the world. It was like they could turn on and off the specialized tools in their eyes.

He clicked his tongue. 

‘She hides deeply’ he thought to himself. 

He thought that now he had reached Divine Comprehension leveler he could now pierce through the weird way Seers and Oracle communicated with Time and see what they see

It is clear while they both cultivated Time Arts, it is not exactly the same. 

It is a different kind of specialization of Time. 

Unless, he could sever the path that he had walked, it would not be easy for him to make sense of the way Seer and Oracles connected with Time.

Jean sighed and then he asks

‘What did you tell him?’ Jean was direct. Erika was surprised. She had thought Jean would open with small talks first. 

But she smiles when hearing the question. Even though, the tone was accusatory, Erika like this kind of questioning more.

Jean waited for Erika answer

Like Death Monarch, he too did not have much time. 

Considering, he has the ability to control Time Law, it is very ironic that he would ever be in a situation where he did not have time

But that is the reality. Time also has a limit. It could be bend and it could be broken, cut and destroyed.

As such, until Jean had reached the realm where he could truly master the art of using Time and controlling it to the acme level, he still has to be wary of using Time Law excessively

Erika still did not open her eyes. 

She actually fears that Jean could see what she sees. For people who masters Time, they have a very symbiotic relationship with Seers and Oracles 

This relationship could be symbiotic, parasitic and even harmful to each other.

There is visions swimming in her mind right now, voices in her head, memories and vision intertwined with each other making it hard to distinguish which one is the reality and which one is only her vision.

A Seer or an Oracle always need to strengthen her mental strength. 

Erika, if she did not have the memories of her future self probably would not be able to withstand all these new visions.

The future changes with each choice. 

And that is what happens today. 

The Demon King kidnapping Katarina did not happen in the original timeline. 

Because at that time, Azief was not yet that close with Katarina and their relationship is not like it is now in this timeline.

The timeline of the Seresian attack also is brought forward. 

When the past changes, the probability of the future is also changing. 

Erika had always pays attention to one particular future timeline and that was the future timeline of the God of Death.

When she heard the news of what happened to Katarina, she sat above the tree, absorb it energy and open the Veil to see the future.

The future probability is counting right now. 

There is not yet definite future. 

As for the reason she did not opens her eyes it is because she fears if she opens her eyes, Jean could use some of his Time Law to derive some understanding from her vision. 

The eye is the window to the soul. That is not entirely bollocks in the current world. Magic exist.

And illogical things would be logical. 

That is not necessarily good.

Erika is also trying to see the future that has changed after Azief had returned from the future. From what she could see thing did not change….at least not that much

But Erika could see now that there is a mist covering her vision. 

Something is changing. The probability is still counting. The future she sees is now…. weakening. 

It is about to be replaced with an updated changes of the future matters.

Whatever it is, Erika still could not see through the fog. She needs to strengthen herself further, maybe take that step toward Divine Comprehension.

She would need time for that. 

She also has to prepare her Knight chess piece for the future. 

Void is now in her hands. She needs to wisely put him in the chessboard without Loki and Yewa Hafar noticing. 

She felt anxious and at the same time happy because of the changes of the future. 

After all, while her plans and Loki plans at times coincide, it did not necessarily mean that their way of achieving their objective is the same.

She would prod here and there, nudge where she thinks it should be nudge, and make sure that the future would be advantageous to the objective she is trying to create

Loki and Yewa Hafar fears that the story would veer off the path that they knew. 

Yewa Hafar wanted everything to remain the same or as close as it could to the original timeline. Because in the original timeline, his Master had won.

Loki on the other hand did not necessarily wanted the future to remain the same but at the same time, there are certain future events that should not change because to change one certain event could break the plans that “they” have for the Final Battle

This “they” is of course referring to Time God, Mind Monarch, Divine Archer and Loki the Trickster plans that they concocted after the Final Battle

Erika on the other hand did not suffer the same weakness that these people suffer. Her eyes could see the possibility of a future. Rarely this changes. 

Small events could change. 

But the big picture is hard to change. It is because great destiny is rarely the effect of one decision. 

It is the accumulation of choices that solidified the prophesized future. By the time you noticed, you could no longer changes it.

When one looks at the past and views the future and realizes where it all go wrong, at that time, you would realize that there is no other way to end the story than the way it is then

Effects of a compounding choice that stacked on top each other to create the perfect ending. The perfect ending did not mean a happy ending. 

A perfect ending is merely the result of all those choices in the past leading to that End. 

A perfect ending is when you look at all the thing that append and then awoken to the understanding, that there are no other way things could end other than the way it ended with all the choices that one had made in the past

One thing that Erika does know is that Azief would still be that person. 

But….in the end, what she sees now is still only one of the possibility of the future. 

After all, she did not come this far to give up just because the vision did not appear the way she wanted it to.

There is still time. 

And hope is still there. 

So, that is enough for her to keep on going. 

Even when hope is lost, as long as the hope in her heart is not extinguish, there is always a chance.

This is one battle that she could not give up no matter what. 

Even if there is no hope, she had to keep going. But, today event had made her able to see a budding of hope.

She felt fear of hope. Because she knows it very well what would happen when one hope is destroyed. 

But at the same time she yearns for it. Hope sometimes could be the reason to keep going but it also could be a torment.

She sighed as she tries to calm her heart and the voices she is hearing.

She takes a deep breath, breathing in the cold fresh air

She is still waiting for Azief to come. After all, he still has to pay the Price. Erika knew that Jean would not go away without an answer.

So, she gave him an answer.

‘I told him the truth’ she said. Jean frowned. He sighed and then follow up with

‘Couldn’t you just lie?’ Erika smiles

‘You know that is not possible for me’ Jean paused for a second and then said

‘If you told me in advance, I could help you bear the Price of lying’

‘It is not something that I should lie about. And the Price I bear, is not something you could help with and bear with’

Jean did not know what to say to that. After all, he also did not know what Seers and Oracles pay when they lie about the thing they see.

There is something about Oracles and Seers that when they divine someone future and fates, the moment they accepted the request of seeing through the Veil, an oath was formed between them and Time. 

This oath appeared unable to be broken. And there is a Price to pay when one breaks this oath.

Like there is a Will that enforce these oaths. And this Will is everywhere and no one could escape it.

Jean also knows a little bit about these kinds of Will. He after all had his own adventure. Not to mention, he had also spoken with Orvanians before when they were on Earth

The Ethernas that turns into a source of energy for all the Multiverses, Dimensions and Universes that exist in the Omniverse.

He shakes his head out of this thought and then say to Erika

‘Because of you, today the world suffers’ Erika shook her head and instead reply

‘Because of me, the world now has hope’ she said and there is a smile on her face.

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