Lord Shadow

Chapter 2086: The Heart Of A Subject

She and Death Monarch shares a trust that is quite hard to explain.

Her relationship with Death Monarch is unlike the relationship of Death Monarch with woman like Sofia and Katarina and Sina.

It is a trust between colleague. Even though they are superior and subordinate they felt more like a trusted colleague.

She is also the dark blade of Death Monarch.

One of the things that she never wanted to do is to kill the people of Pandemonium. She is the dark blade.

But she is the dark blade that should have protected the people of Pandemonium

Not a blade to kill the people of Pandemonium

But people now have died.

Not one or two people.

Hundred.

Thousands.

And that number is increasing.

There is those who died protecting the capital and there is those who died a thousand miles way from the capital.

Even now, all over Pandemonium, there is fighting between faction and forces between those who supported her and those who supported Wang Jian

Would Death Monarch spare her again?

She was once enemies with Death Monarch.

It was Sina that suggested her. And Azief use her

Sasha shakes her he ad and then she laughs.

She then smiles bitterly

"Did Sina knows something?"

She is quite sure that the only person in the world that could break the barriers that she had put on the edges of the continent is none other than Azief himself.

Not only because he is the one who knows the weak point of the barrier, it is also because he is the only one who could use his Divine Sense alone to break it

She sighed

The only thing she is worried now is that Death Monarch would hold her accountable. But weirdly enough she did not fell fear anymore

She felt like a burden is taken off from her. And she could not help but smile

Her smile is bitter but her joy is real

"in any case....these people would not have to suffer anymore"

Maybe because she is tired, maybe because she truly felt what it was like to have command for the first time, to be repos bible for all of these lives....that her thoughts had become different

It is funny.

In the past she would never have cared about these people.

She herself is accustomed to rely on her own strength.

Maybe because before the Fall, she was powerless.

And after the Fall she has power....she got drunk with it

She is a very selfish person.

But she is not entirely irredeemable.

The thing is people with power combined with selfishness could do a lot of damage

And in the past, she would not care about these people.

The common people.

The citizens.

Because she was never in a position to care.

And she truly did not have the capacity to care or the heart to care

But just like people changed after being tempered by the years, she too was transformed by the years

She learns about the people and in turn cares about them.

She had seen suffering up close and personal and learn how to empathize. In a world filled with gods, demons and terrifying nightmares monsters, she learns to be human

And the burden of all of these lives on her hand....that burden sometimes suffocates her and made her unable to sleep at night

That is how burdensome it was for her

After all, Sasha was never a power hungry woman. Her enemies like to portray it like that. But all of that power....she take because she wanted to protect her people

She thought with power, there is more things she could do and there is more thing she could protect. That there would be no chains on her.

However, it is only now that she realizes. The more power she takes, the more chains binds her.

The chains are different...but it is still chains.

Until you realize that even with all the power, you had to make decision you don’t want to make. One might say just let go

But when you reach that point, you know even if you want to let go, you could not. Even if you wanted to, you couldn’t. Because people would not allow you to let it go.

Power is restrictive for people who have a heart

The burden of leadership is nothing for a psychopath. They did not care about the people below them

Sasha cares about the people.

However, she cares too much.

Maybe it is because she wanted to atone. Maybe because she felt guilty of what she had done in the past

So, she overcompensates.

It is just the way she shows her care is different from how some people shows their care

But sometime she wonders.

Did she......is she....also corrupted with power?

She sighed.

She leaves the area and arrive at one of the towers.

Right now, the civil officials that get the news would probably seek out all kinds of people to know whether it was true.

Whether Death Monarch has returned.

Sasha on the other hand is not interested in the war anymore

It is not quite accurate to say that she is not interested in the war.

it is more accurate to say that all of this is pointless.

She looks at the sky because she wanted to see if the heavens are angry.

And she wanted to see if there is a red thunderbolt ready to strike

Wang Jian did not know Death Monarch as she did.

Wang Jian is a loyal general....though one must wonder whether he is really loyal.

It did not matter to Sasha.

She knows Wang Jian situation.

He is respected and honoured because of loyalty.

Once he no longer maintain that persona, the whole world would abandon it.

And even after attacking the capital, if there is one thing that Sasha knew is true about Wang Jian is that je is truly loyal.

Wang Jian is loyal but he did not understand Death Monarch like she did.

She looks at the city and the bombardment had stopped

It had stopped for quite a while now.

Wang Jian probably also already got the news.

It is not a secret to Sasha that Wang Jian also has his men looking at the barrier.

Sasha tacitly allowed it.

It is one thing for them to fight each other.

They would not let their fight allow foreign interference

If that were to happen, when Death Monarch returns, both of them would not survive his wrath.

Sasha knows Azief in a different way.

And she knows he would be angry.

Not because someone infiltrate the area, it would be because he would lose face and reputation

One might think face and reputation is nothing.

Yes, for common person, between face and practical benefit, practical benefit is more important.

But when you reach Death Monarch level of influence, face and reputation is a benefit.

It is a soft power that allows you to do certain things others could not.

Regardless of whether Death Monarch punish the evildoers afterwards, it would not matter.

And if such things happen, the easiest one that he could blame would be her and Wang Jian

So, she allowed Wang Jian to station his men there to respond to any changes in the edges of the continent if some foreign power tries to break in

They just never thought that Death Monarch would be the one breaking down the barrier.

And she is watching the sky for that reason.

Wang Jian knows many things but he also didn’t know many things. About those Essence Creation realm beings and about Death Monarch himself

Essence Creation realm level....truth be told.

Sasha herself did not know the extent of the power and ability that such a being could command.

But she knows how much power a Divine Comprehension realm being could command.

And form what she had gathered, the difference of power between Divine Comprehension realm and someone who reached Divine Comprehension realm is like heaven and earth

This gap is not easy to bridge.

Only certain beings with certain method could bridge this gap while being a realm lower.

And even then, this difference is not only in the purity and strength of the body.

Once someone reaches this realm....it is more about laws and rules and their fight reaches the conceptual level.

That is the reason Sasha is here now.

She is at the open tower.

She then walk to the window.

She waves her hand and the window opens.

And she looks at the sky above

The sky above her right now is filled with dark clouds.

And she squints her eyes. Her eyes zoomed toward the sky but the moment she tries to see what is on those clouds, her eyes feel a sting

"Ah!" and she quickly averted her gaze and she smiles bitterly.

"There is no red thunderbolt. And this cloud....is not his cloud. It is ominous and it does have that sense of calamity baked into it....but it is not his cloud"

Sasha went to the tower for only one reason.

She wanted to see if Death Monarch is angry at her or Wang Jian.

Wang Jian probably thought that Death Monarch would seek them first and ask for explanations.

But Sasha knows her lord temperament and behaviour better than most people

Like most enigmatic rulers, his expression does not give you any indication of what he would do

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