Lord Shadow

In the glimpses he sees, there is a reason for anything that happens. And he had understood the reason why he is the downfall for Sofia.

The eventual fate of his, where he would become the destroyer of the Universe. How could Sofia not die when faced with him at that time?

What possible chance would she have fighting against him? 

This is the conclusion that Azief had reached. 

This conclusion is not something the other Azief in that other timeline had reached.

This is the difference. Because the Azief of that other timeline did not see as much and lack knowledge that the current Azief had.

Azief of the current timeline is the leader of the largest and most powerful organization in the world, as such, one could only imagine their reach in intelligence and information gathering

Azief of this timeline had also seen more as he saw Azul, walk the Thirteen Steps of Supremacy and the many other adventures that he had

The small changes that deviated from the norm, had all come to crystalized in this moment. And the crystallization of that change is the change of the way Azief seen this matter.

And that will make all the difference.

And after seeing the vision there is this desire for him to leave her. 

Because he had seen in the visions, what she would have to endure, what she would have to sacrifice, if he is stubbornly wanting her to be beside him.

A question rose in his heart. If she is to suffer, would it be better for him to leave her and let her suffer alone?

Or should they suffer together? 

What choice that he has to make to protect her from pain? Both would hurt her. But which of this choice would inflict the least pain for her.

Azief do not like making choices for someone else. Yet, when he saw what Sofia would have to endure, this is one of the few rare cases where the choice lays on his hand.

If he told her what she would have to endure, knowing Sofia who always thought that she owed him something, she would choose to stay with him, regardless of anything

But that is not good for her. Azief knowns Sofia. He knows she would prefer to be together and suffer together. 

But that is not something that Azief wanted for her. He had always wanted to give the person he loves a good life.

Even before the Fall. One might mistake him to be anti-marriage because of how he always grumbled about it before the Fall

It was not that he was so against marriage so much so that he was against of harming other people. 

He did not want to love because he did not believe it was worthy of it. He was born in an ordinary family, in an ordinary village, working in an ordinary city.

He always lives his life, lacking things. He is not materialistic but he does want to not worry about money. 

Those who have never lacked money, have never starved in their life do not know the desperation of those who have.

Azief is a prideful person. Most of his teenage years, he manages to keep this pride. But as he grows older and as he knows the reality of life, he had to put down his pride.

He had to lower down his head and borrow money from his friend and it was at that time, he knew how money was very important. 

He used to think that money could not buy happiness.

But, money could at least buy food. And food would make any people who is starving, happy. So, money does buy happiness

And because he knows how the lack of money leads to a life full of missed opportunities, he wanted to make a lot of it before he marries anyone

Why?

Because if he really found someone he loves, he would never want that woman to suffer even a bit. He wanted her to never feel lacking.

Any necessity would never be a problem. It is not that he didn’t want his wife to provide anything to the family., He wanted her to be able to rely on him when there is a problem.

That if there is a problem, they could work together and solve it together. He wanted more than just someone to marry.

He wanted a partner…for a lifetime. A partner that he loves, that would support him as he would love her and support her.

And then the Fall happens. 

And here he is. 

Dealing with a problem that would not affect some ordinary village on the middle of nowhere. Instead the problem Azief is dealing nowadays is about worlds and universes.

Parallel universes, alien’s invasion, demonic attack. All of this and more

And as the vision shows him, the destruction of the universe. 

He couldn’t even catch a break. 

Sometimes when he looks back at his past, it felt like his life before, Azief the worker of an internet café felt more like an imagination he conjured up

It felt like all of those past memories is nothing more like a dream. He sighed.

In that split second, that is the things he had seen and it break his heart. But that is not the only things he had seen

He had also seen certain events in the future. 

This eye is the eye of the Oracle. What she had seen before, Azief could also see and vice versa

But because he is not yet grasp the power of the Oracle, all he could see was glimpses.

He sees a grand marriage, a great war and omens of death. The images flash by and even though it was only glimpses, his intuition his instinct told him all of this

In the image of the grand marriage, he heard the bell tolling. 

And he felt like his heart is being split into two. Why was he so sad when he saw the glimpse of the marriage? What could rend his heart apart in pain like that

In the image of a great war, he felt sorrow and anger. He heard the sound of thunder and felt the coldness of winter before a fiery rage fills his heart and mind

What kind of thing that happen in this image that would incite such feeling of anger inside him? 

And the last image he saw the omen of death. He saw a black butterfly flying and was struck down. He saw a snake shedding it skin, saw a broken arrow and a shattered mace.

For some reason, he felt the feeling of desolation and loneliness when this particular glimpse flashed inside his mind

Azief did not know it but these three glimpses are the most watched vision by Erika.

It is the Wedding of Earthshaker and Divine Archer. The War of the Sovereigns. And the Battle of the End.

Not all of it is clear but there is this feeling of foreboding and all kinds of information enter his mind

At the same time, he also understood the risk and dangers when one mess with time. 

This time, the information that is given to each Oracle is also given to him and he knows how important it is to not mess with the Time Continuum

Maybe, this is one of the other reason why Erika gave him this eye. To warn him of messing with time.

After all, with Azief power and Will ability, they could once again breach to the unknown future. But even without this warning, Azief would never do it again. He fears what he would see would become worse.

He fears that if he tried to see the future again, this time, the future would be locked. The more he does that, the higher the possibility of it becoming like that. 

Thinking of this, how would he dare to suggest it again. 

The Time Tunnel would also be more unstable since Will would have the trace of time travelling through the future.

Those Time Reapers would surely be notified once Will enter the Time tunnel and heading to the future.

All of the flashing of images and the glimpses of the future streaming inside his mind happens in just a few second.

He then opens his eyes. 

Now, like the person he had seen in his journey to the future he now had two different eye with each one different than the other

‘It looks good on you’ Erika said. Azief only snorted. Smiling, Erika then brought out a purple patch and close it over her empty eye socket. 

‘You were prepared’ Azief said and Erika only smiles before saying

‘I am the Oracle after all.’

She smiles as the pain of removing her eyes had leave her body and her eyes is now stable. The eye had been stabilized because it had merged with new owner.

She is looking at him, him looking at her. But in that left eye of his she could see herself. This is a very weird feeling and even she herself felt weird about it.

She had seen this before in the memory of her other self. But seeing it and experiencing it is two different things

She chuckles inwardly, thinking she just have to take it at the horns. Since she had started stepping into this path, there is no going back

She smiles weirdly, and it resembles very much to a certain Trickster.

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