Lord Shadow

‘What is the limit of the world? And what is his limit? Even if he did not want to be a threat, even if he wanted to be peaceful, how could anyone trust him when he holds all the cards?’ 

Sasha could only sigh. She knew that there is a contradiction in these thoughts.

The Great Power had no choice to keep maintaining their vigilance to Death Monarch the stronger he become. 

Even if Death Monarch wanted to live in peace, since he is strong to the point that each of his move could affect the world, he could not do it.

If he stays the same, people would surpass him. If it’s his friend, then maybe that is fine. But if it’s his enemies, then how could Death Monarch be safe?

The moment he had the title of the strongest, he had to keep moving forward that path until the end.

She sighed and then she arrives at the door. 

With one last look at the empty throne, she pushed the door and walk out from the throne room.

Creak!

The door is quite heavy. 

The door opens and outside she could see dozens of Keeper of the Palace all were waiting outside the throne room.

She got out of the room as the door behind her slowly about to close itself.

When they saw that it was Sasha was the person that come out they bow slightly. Only one person did not bow toward her and it was the Head Keeper of the Palace

Sasha did not mind. The position of Head Keeper of the Palace might not seem imposing. 

But, Sasha knows that even though Head keeper is not the official of Pandemonium, the power and influence he holds could sometimes be more powerful than the most powerful minister of the court.

Other people could not dispense with the formality. But, this person can

The Head of the Keeper of the palace was craning his neck to see the inside of the throne room.

He was able to see that the throne inside the throne room is empty as the door slowly closed back.

But, he saw the thunder and lightning., flashing bright on the glass window behind the throne and there is a bitter smile on his face

In that brief moment, he saw the messy state of the throne room and he could feel that breath of power radiating out from the throne room

He then knew that Death Monarch was there. 

‘He had gone away again’ this is his thought. He had been very familiar with Death Monarch who did not always sit on that throne. 

And after knowing the matter that happen today from some of the operative of the Shadow Guard that come to check on them, he knew Death Monarch would be very busy

Hence, he did not want to annoy Death Monarch and could only shakes his head.

In his mind, he also is thinking of assigning people to clean the room. 

They could now use the nanobots freely after this. 

Since the Research Department had released it there is no longer any reason to keep it under wraps.

The throne room is empty and the flashing of thunder could be seen and the drizzling of rain could be heard.

But, even though the throne room is empty, he did not dare to come into that throne room right now.

He needs to know what Sasha talk about with Death Monarch. One of the taboo things in the palace is doing thing that is not necessary.

And he still need to check many parts of the Palace. There is still a lot of place that he did not yet inspect.

And he is quite sure many of the structures around the Palace needs repairing.

The keeper of the palace behind him could see that he is craning his neck to look at the throne room. They remain silent and waited for his order.

They just come out from the Anywhere Room. 

Anywhere Room is a room and one of the method of escape created by Death Monarch for when the people in the Centre Palace in danger. 

It is a measure of protection for the Keepers of the Palace. This room is known to only a select few and it is hidden inside one of the tower of the Palace.

It would transport the people that went into it to a pocket dimension

Of course this pocket dimension is not able to last indefinitely and it was powered by the energy stones that powered the formation of that pocket dimension.

When the world started changing and the demons began attacking the Centre Palace, the Head Keeper rang the alarm and bring all of the staff of the Palace into the Anywhere Room.

He has the key of the formation so he opens it. 

It wasn’t until half an hour ago that he brought everyone out. 

And it takes them time to navigate the new palace. 

Sasha did not notice it yet but the Palace had also been changed. 

The people that lives near the Palace could not sense this change because the distance between the closest town and cities near the Centre Palace all had widened its distance from the Centre Palace

Outside the Centre Palace before was a street that would lead to a large market where there is thousands of organized houses and buildings.

But now, those market was thousands of kilometers away. 

The officials would surely have a headache trying to solve this matter later. Those merchants would surely want to move back to their original position in the market

Most of them open their market near the Palace because of the security and no one dares to do crime near the Centre Palace

It is like under the foot of the Monarch. 

Thankfully, there is some buildings that is still around the vicinity of the Centre Palace and did not change their position. Most of such structure is a structure that is made from some magical material.

If they wanted to determine the reason why some structure changes and why some did not, they have to research it

But, that is not the job of the Keeper of the Palace. And it is certainly not the job for the Head Keeper of the Palace. 

All he need to make sure of is the condition of the Centre Palace and make sure it did not draw the ire and anger of Death Monarch.

the Centre Palace is now like a lone island. The guards that guarded the walls are the Centre Palace guards. That what takes the time of the Head Keeper

When he went out from Anywhere Room, he had to send these people out first to keep the order and to scout the area.

Unlike other people, most of the Keeper of the palace do not possess high level and there is no high level combatant amongst them

If they go out without first ascertaining the situation, they could die easily becoming some collateral damages. 

Most of the young Keeper of the Palace are orphans. 

Rather than being at the mercy of some warlords in the world it is better to seek protection inside the Centre Palace, under the protection of the strongest person in the world.

When the weather changes and a familiar aura spread out inside the palace, the Head Keeper knew that Death Monarch had returned. 

He brought along with him a few dozen keepers of the Palace to quickly go toward the throne room. 

He wanted to get instruction or maybe there is some orders that Death Monarch wanted to give to him.

In the past, this would not take a long time. 

There is elevator and while the palace itself is big, it is still not a chore for the keepers who were at least Pillar Forming or Orb Condensing levelers.

But, when the word expands, the Palace also expands with it. 

Most of the buildings and some towers and structure that is under construction before the expansion crumbles because of the sudden shift of the ground and the pressure of the energy and the sudden changes of topography

But the Centre Palace is not some normal structure. 

There is array formation on many parts of the Palace. 

While one could not boast that each of the brick is embedded with some kind of formation like the Lotus Palace, the Centre Palace also have its own strength. 

The material that is used to made the Palace is not only sturdy, it is malleable and also very flexible.

There are some wings of the palace that needs major reconstruction after this but mostly most of the structures inside the Palace and the surrounding castles is alright 

If not for the fact that it is forbidden to teleport inside the Palace, the Head Keeper would install some kind of teleportation formation on the throne room so he could easily answer the summon of Death Monarch

Of course, this restriction did not apply to certain people that is allowed to teleport in and out of the palace.

They have their own identification method that would not alarm the entire palace. If others tried to teleport into the place and it is not one of those people who had the identification method, the alarm would ring out and everyone would capture such a person.

After jumping through some broken stairs and fallen bridge he finally arrives at the throne room. But before he could even see Death Monarch, his lord had already disappeared.

Only Sasha came out of the room. But, the Head Keeper did not lose his respect for Death Monarch He bowed toward the direction of the room 

Seeing that the Head Keeper bow toward the throne room, the other Keepers of the Palace behind him also bow toward the same direction. 

Then as the door close, the head keeper of the Palace slowly raises his head up and he look at Sasha

‘This woman again’ he thought to himself. Sasha also look at the man in front of him. Sasha recognized this man just fine.

And while she smiles looking at him, her thoughts are exactly as this man.

‘This man again’ she thought to herself. They both look at each other, smiling like an old friend that meet each other after a long time not meeting each other.

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