Lord Shadow

Chapter 2087: A Ruler Of The Mortal World And A God Beyond The Source

If he is angry, he would not ask you for any explanation at all.

His explanation is the rule and law.

If he is angry, especially to his subordinate, there would be not so many words.

Death Monarch is not a conventional ruler where he had to listen to the opinion of his minister or his people

He appointed this people as minister but he would not stop them if they wanted to resign. No one had ever seen him try to retain any of the minister.

It would be the minister begging to have a job

And the people?

The people that came here....Death Monarch never told them to come.

The first batch of migrants that come to this continent after Death Monarch cleanse of it of monsters and beast....were the ones that promoted the continent and ask people to come.

So, when Death Monarch made decision.

He never would have to consult anyone.

Death Monarch when he is angry, all he needs to do, is summon the clouds and throw a red thunderbolt.

Sasha had seen it before.

At that time, Death Monarch was in the garden.

Sasha reported to him, there is an official using his authority to bullied the people of his city.

He had robbed men of their wives, and he had robbed business of their wares, manipulate the travel pass to the dungeons and charge exorbitant amount for the dungeon pass

Death Monarch simply ask her

"What do you think this person highest crime is?"

At that time, Sasha answered "He bullied the people"

She knew Death Monarch cares about the people. He might not love them all that much....but he does care about them

In a way, Death Monarch said....it made him feel human. And it made him remember those things he had forget

Certain thing he learned by doing and certain things he learned by imitating others.

Azief then look at her and smile.

He said "The highest crime is deceiving me. Perverting my edicts and violating my decree" he paused for a second and chuckles

"That is his greatest crime" Then Death Monarch take a scissor from the gardening basket and cut off a rotten stalk of a flower.

"it is done" he said. At that time Sasha didn’t understand.

Azief dismiss her.

And that was the most perplexing meeting she had ever been on. But a day later, she understood.

She got a report that the same official that she had reported is dead....struck by a red thunderbolt from the sky

Many people saw it. He was strolling around the streets when the red thunderbolt struck him. And in front of the eyes of so many people he turns to ashes. And with one gust of a wind, his ashes scattered all over

That when she knew. That’s when she understand. She did not need to check the details to know when that person died.

It was when Death Monarch snipe the stalk of that flower. In the moment when they were speaking, Death Monarch kills a person that easily

He was angry. But not once in that interaction that Death Monarch, Azief, shows that he is angry. Instead, he was smiling

It was since then that Sasha had always fearful of that smile. When Death Monarch did not show any expression, when he is expressionless, that is his calmest state. But when he is smiling...that is when her hearts beats fast

Because someone is about to die.

That is also the first time when Sasha understood, that while in other world powers, even the highest ruler had to consult their ministers’ senators, close friends, shareholders, colleagues....in Pandemonium...it was different

He is Pandemonium. His decision whether it was right or wrong is unchallenged.

The civil official after knowing that Death Monarch kills that person, even though that person is governor, none of them dare say anything.

They just reported that the governor died and he would be replaced and Death Monarch simply said one word "Noted" And his death is quickly forgotten

Today, after hearing that the barrier is being broken, her heart pounded like it was about to leap out of her heart. She went to the tower, to confirm something. The clouds did not come, the red thunderbolt did not fall.

Is he not angry? Or is the time of judgement did not yet come?

Or is he still pondering on what to do? Sasha look at the sky and she waited for a few second.

And then the sky roars.

And her eyes narrows.

There is lightning bolts flashing....no, criss crossing inside that large patch of clouds.

It is red.

But there is not only red lightning bolts.

There is purple.

There is black, there is white, there is golden

And then Sasha realizes something

"this is not his clouds. This is....the tribulation clouds!"

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Beyond the Source Barrier

In A Newly Formed Universe

A man with a horn get up from his slumber. He sighed.

"Are you going to help him right now?" a woman voice halted him for a moment. That man stopped

"I promised that I would help him three times. This is a promise I made to myself. It is a cause and effect that is worth it"

This man is none other than Azul.

Though right now, he is not in the form of the almighty Asura.

Nor did he take any of his other divine form.

Right now, he is just a man with a horn on his forehead.

He didn’t even seem to emit any kind of energy

But he is a being that is the closets to the One.

Beyond Grand Supremacy realm

"Precisely. You said that you would aid him three times." The woman is none other than Meihul and she is worried.

She is nurturing life in this new universe.

Sometimes, she would nurture it.

Sometimes she would rest for a while.

Of course, since nothing is created yet, whether she is fast or slow did not matter.

Time did not really move.

Because time itself is not yet created

Unless Azul wanted to create it. For now, time is still not there so she could slowly do her nurturing job. If she doesn’t want to nurture life, then Azul would not force her.

It is not like he couldn’t do it. They are jus letting it happen naturally. If they wanted to, they would.

Does Azul even have a plan? Even Meihul doesn’t know. But with Azul current cultivation, he could easily tweak if anything went wrong

As for Meihul, nurturing new life....she just find it healing

One of the thing she is always stuck on whether to give this new life humanoid form or Asura form

Nurturing life and creating life is not the only thing that she is doing

Other than spending time in the garden that Azul created for her, one of her other things she is doing is paying attention to that child. The child that had saved her and reunite her with her beloved.

The Child of the End

She has grown attached to that child

Well, one could not blame her.

That mortal did save her and she certainly want good things happen to him. The feeling she had for that child is like a mother looking at her own son

But from what she had known, this mortal is destined to suffer many things

Physically and mentally.

Physically, this mortal could bear it.

Destined to bear the destiny of the End, it is a given that he would be able to bear it physically.

But mentally?

The thing that exhaust the mind and souls?

That is the true tragedy of this child

Azul look at Meihul.

Meihul is also looking at earth. She could also see the Omniverse of the One gathering to strike that child down

But she wanted him to stop trying to aid that child. Not that she wanted Azul not help that child

Just not now

Azul sighed and then ask.

"What do you mean?" he probably knows but he also knows he should ask.

Meihul frowned and shakes her head

"You know what I mean. Since you promised him three times, should you really help him at this juncture? Shouldn’t it be used when the Destroyer come to Earth?"

Azul nodded

"That is what I intended. If the story did not change, then what I intended would be a reality. But the story change and certain things had also changed. And so....I must change my decision and my timing of using this favour for him"

"You think he would not survive this?"

Azul shakes his head

"how could it be so easy?"

He chuckles

"Etherna is perfect"

"Perfect is taboo. And what they did was taboo. What they accomplished was glorious, but the way they did it....shedding bloodshed"

"Killing, destroying, and even though there were some wise Etherna among them, kind, they were many more that is not. A society that was rotten. Even if there is a few that is wise...it was like a cancer"

"The One had given them many chances. Chance after chance. Forgiveness after forgiveness"

"The thing about his forgiveness is that the more he forgives, the more fearful you should be"

"If He forgives and you treated that forgiveness as a license to do more evil things, showing no signs of remorse and repentance, then a small calamity would become a big one"

"And by the time they squandered all chances, and all the forgiveness the One could give, they finally realized that the calamity that befall them is no undeserved"

Azul shakes his head and sighed

"There is many stories in the world since the creation of times. If it was before, I would not know these old stories"

He shakes his head

"I could not even trace such stories because of how far removed their existence is to my civilizations. But everything changes when I ascended"

"The stories of the past are all like a Chapter in a book that I could read every time I open it. There is nothing hidden from me"

"And each time I read about this part of the story I could not help but sigh in pity of what had happened to them. But to say what happen to them is not fair....that would be unfair to everything that the Etherna has done"

"hence, I rarely like to talk about their history"

Azul sighed

That part of history is really something that is full of sadness. Borgan sacrifice, Wargod sadness and the tragic king of Etherna

There is no romance in that war. Only despair. Only sadness. Only cruelty

Hence, it is not something that Azul like to revisit.

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