Lord Shadow

Sitting on a stool only a few feet away from that bed is Antonius

He looks toward Erika when Erika enter the hut and there is a smile on his face. She smiles back and then she looks at that person on the bed. 

‘He is still unconscious’ she thought to himself.

There is a thought that came into her mind when looking at Antonius and particularly that unconscious person on the bed

‘Death Monarch really couldn’t sense him’ she thought to herself. 

Because of this person Death Monarch did not realize Antonius is near him. That is very amazing in itself.

Even Laws had no effect on this person.

Truly, she picked her chess piece right, she thought to herself

of course, if Azief come face to face he could see Antonius and this unconscious person. Knowing Azief, he probably would kill this unconscious person

But if Erika was not confident why would she let them be here? It is because she was confident that Azief would not be able to sense this person, that she made this bet

And now that the bet had paid off, she now has a plan of how best to use this person. 

It seems this kind of anomaly would always have its place in the Omniverse. Fate and Destiny would always try to fight back.

An antithesis. Everything has its counter. That is how the balance is created

If Azief was face to face, he could easily see this person. 

But if he uses his Divine Sense, he would not be able to sense this person and the area around this person

This is just the way it is. This person is shielded from the Heavens. Regardless of what methods, as long as that method is magical in nature, it would not be able to see or sense this person

Normal surveillance technology on the other hand, would work like a charm against this person

She shakes her head. If not for the fact that Death Monarch exist, this person might even be the protagonist of an era despite some of this person flaws.

Of course, this person would never be able to convince people. Because this person is a crazy person.

But even crazy person has some use. And she intends to use him 

This person had to many enemies right now. And Erika surely would not let such opportunity to pass her by

Sending a coal before winter came is of course better than sending it after. She held out her hand, and he accepted.

Crazy…. but not stupid. Of course, after Loki was framed by Hirate, the number one wanted men is now Loki

But even so, Loki situation is different from this person situation.

Unlike Loki, this person did not have the backing of Death Monarch and the help of future knowledge.

And even Loki is seeking this person. But as long as this person is on her side, Loki could forget trying to snatch this chess piece of hers

She sighed.

Antonius look at Erika and then he said

‘I truly never thought that he could really hide me from the eyes of Death Monarch. Even the Heavens could not see him. What a peculiar ability. He is the most normal yet because he is normal, he become the most abnormal thing in this world.’ this he, refers to the unconscious person on the bed

Erika smiles and reply as she said

‘I told you not to underestimate his heaven given ability. Even when he is at this state, he could help us. If not for his desire to fight against Death Monarch, I would not be forced to give him that concoction.’

Mad man. 

That is the assessment of Erika when meeting this person. Unlike other people, Erika did not know why this person was so obsessed with Death Monarch

The reason is simple. 

She could not predict his future. Whatever that made him, him, had made him unseen even in the eyes of destiny and fate.

Even she could not see his future and as such, there is a lot of things about him that Erika did not know.

Smiling, she thought to herself. They would have a long time to get to know each other. This person is a bit rebellious. But, Erika is very good at taming rebellious people.

She only wonders if her trick would work against this person

She come closer to the bed as Antonius got up for his seat. He is a bit relaxed now that Death Monarch had leave this island. 

There was nothing wrong to be discovered by Death Monarch. 

But, if he was discovered with the person in the bed, one would wonder what Death Monarch would think, and what Death Monarch would do

He went to the table on the corner of the hut and took a sip of the tea on one of the cup on the table. 

Unlike that one other tea which is filled with the concoction to made that person fall asleep, his tea is very sweet.

Now that Erika is here, he only need to prepare for the next move. It is clear in Antonius heart that Erika had a plan

And this plan is vast and very complicated. But, this is not his problem and this is not his objective.

He just wanted to protect Erika. 

And so, he would follow her. Even if the road she is walking to is toward Hell, as long as he could be beside her and protect her, he would not mind walking toward hell together

He laughed at himself.  Antonius knew that Erika would not stay here any longer.

Her wait is over. 

So, it is time for them to come out to the world again. Once again, they will have to enter the vortex of chaos which is the outside world.

He sighed. Erika on the other hand is coming closer to the bed.

Erika look at the other side of the bed. On the other side of the bed is a stave with unique carving. 

The stave itself emanates some kind of power. 

Erika had research this staff before and she come to the conclusion, that the inventor of this staff is very genius. 

Even Erika could not understand how the inventor of this staff manage to channel this person power.

Maybe, if its Order of Thinkers, they would be able to reverse engineered this staff and see what it is made off.

But Erika is quite sure that this staff is created by some elements of the universe that enables it to be wield by this person 

With this weapons, as long as someone is in the range of this person ability, they would be hard pressed to win against this person.

The person lying on the bed is none other than Void, the figurehead of the Crime Alliance. Void is known to have the ability to neutralize all abilities near him

He possessed normal human body. 

But, what made him able to survive the world amidst monsters and gods flying in the sky, was the fact whoever is in front of him would be stripped out of their abilities

Even monsters were not excluded from this. 

But it did not mean he was invincible. 

After all, even though people would revert to their original powerful before the Fall when facing him, a boxer is still a boxer and a strong man is still a strong man. 

If he did not have a plan and did not have preparations beforehand, he would still lose.

And unlike any other people, Void did not have the system to help him easily learn skill in the blink of an eye.

As such, he immersed himself in learning all kinds of martial arts and strengthening his body so that when his ability is active, he could defeat the people inside his domain

He even had mechanical suit to help him and this mechanical suit was disguised as grey robe. 

This is how he survive most natural calamity. 

Without the metal suit, even his Void power would not be able to save him from natural disaster like tsunamis and earthquakes.

But there is some natural disaster that would be hard for leveler to survive is easily survived by him. 

For example, tsunamis and earthquakes, while it is a powerful and terrifying disaster, for levelers, they could easily survive it. Some of them could even meet head on with the tsunamis.

They might be pushed by the powerful waves but they would not die.

But, as for Void, as long as there is a tsunami, he would quickly go away as long as he gets the warning.

And if he decided to stay then he would have to activate the suit defensive abilities. 

Levelers scoff at this kind of natural disaster but it is a matter of life and death for Void. But, there is some natural disaster in which the leveler is afraid of and that is tribulation thunder

Sometimes people broke through to the next level and thunder would come down to purify their body. As the Heavenly Will grows stronger, it began to have some order to it.

This kind of thunder could exhaust the life force of the leveler and it is very painful. If you have weak life force, then you might even be turned to cinder or ashes when confronted with such destructive force

This thunder that is feared by leveler, is nothing in front of Void.

In front of him, this thunder would just dissipate into nothingness. Because it is magical.

‘Still, he had to rely on the suit to survive. Extreme brought extremes’ Erika thought to herself as she looks intently at Void.

Since it was not built by magic or energy of the world, the suit was not neutralized by his ability

Void would not come to Erika if he was not desperate enough. 

He was at the end of his rope…and because of that he grabs her hand

This is a hard person to control. 

A chess piece that would have a very unpredictable move. To some people, a chess piece that has its own will is not a good chess piece.

But to Erika, this is a chess piece most proficient in inciting chaos. And that is what she wanted. More chaos to the planned order

She smiles when she thinks of this. 

However, there is a question? If Void neutralized all of people abilities and halted Laws and changes the Concept, how could Erika got the information on him and offer such a timely help towards him, that he had no other recourse than to accept?

While Erika could not divine Void fate, he could divine the fates of people connected to Void.

Void is still not powerful enough to shroud people with his ability. If he does ever get to such point, even Erika would not know how to deal with him

At that time however, Void would have other things that he would be worried about

Erika was the one that saved him

Void had outlived his usefulness in the Crime Alliance and most of the crime leaders sometimes could not stand Void crazy behavior. 

Unlike those criminals, it was never a benefit or a loss matter for Void. His behavior has always been erratic and he had no friends in the Crime Alliance

Benefit and loss is very important to those crime families. They do crime to get benefit. If even that they could not have, why would they go into crime in the first place?

Void disrupt that order. And he had to pay a price.

And there is the fact that the crime families wanted to wrest back control from Void. To the outside world, Void is still the leader of the Crime Alliance

But to those who in the know, the seat of the leader of the Crime Alliance is empty now. For no, they are still united and did not make any waves. The reason is because Death Monarch is still here

But later, the empty seat of the leader of the Crime Alliance would surely create another bloodbath among the crime families inside the Crime Alliance

The relationship between Void and the Crime Alliance was a mutually beneficial alliance. Once it is no longer beneficial, monsters would do what monsters do.

No one in the Crime Alliance could understand Void behavior. But while he could be called crazy, he is not stupid. 

The crime leaders had thought that Death Monarch would not return and some of them wanted to kill him

Without his ever-changing suit, he would be overwhelmed 

Even though Void himself had trained himself with all kinds of martial arts, he still would not be able to fight against hundreds of people alone.

Even though, all of those people abilities were stripped, it is still not enough for them to be weak enough for Void to defeat all of them

And they also know Void other arsenals and they too had prepared before they attacked Void

Void power of neutralizing every single power around him might make his attacker turns into ordinary humans but it is not that ordinary humans could not fight.

Erika had foreseen this by divining the fates of people close to the Crime Alliance leaders and send Antonius to save him. 

As for her plans…. she still has a lot of time and she did not have to be hasty. 

But, she had a head start now. 

Void is not simply valuable just because he has the power to neutralize all Concept and Laws. It is also because he is the one that got “that” thing from the Temple in Hampi state.

It is the thing that Loki and Yewa Hafar was searching for. Loki had many plans and many of them are done concurrently. One of them is of course the thing that Void had gotten

Void clearly do not understand the power and ability of the thing he took. But, he probably had an inkling.

Of how valuable that thing really is

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