Lord Shadow

Chapter 2139: Cause and Effect Blooms

he knows if he wanted to extract some memories from his Mind palace that is a very hard task.

Sometimes, it would take time.

Sometimes, there is a risk of memories overlapping with each other and affecting each other

This is the corruption of magic.

Magic knowledge is not like mortal knowledge.

If you read a book and manage to memorize it, and if you are someone who had a great memory then you could always remember it later.

Even when you are old, while some of them are something you have already forgotten, you would still remember some of it.

It is even more if its something that is drilled into your body like some kind of muscle memory

But magical methods are different.

The moment you learned it, especially the high level magic, the longer you hold such magical method in your mind, there is even a chance that the magic could corrupt your mind or overlapped your memory unconsciously.

No pain, no hardship, unlike his experience in the past.

This aura did not have any change.

The energy that enters him, the knowledge that is now gathering inside his mind could not sway him

There is something else that he remembered as he is walking these steps.

He remembers how these steps used to want to cut out his Defiant Heart

At that time, the steps wanted to cut it out and fill him with Immortal energy.

The Immortal Azief is referring to is a race of the Universe that is long lived and used Immortal Spells and Immortal Energy.

They are the ancestors of the Celestials just like the Ancient Asura is the ancestors to the Asura race.

But at that time he did not sever the Defiant Will in his heart. At that time he did not want and it is a gift from Azul

He believe someone who reached Azul level, and the gift he is giving is worth it. At that time, he was stubborn.

And stubbornness has its price.

The same as bending down and making the spine bent also has its own price

And the price for stubbornness at that time....the price was pain. At that each step he had taken doubles the pain.

Another step, triple his pain. Like a Fibonacci sequence of pain each time he takes a step

But just like how his near death experience tempered his will, each of that pain, each time he overcome that step and did not falter, stubbornly forging his path forward, his Defiant Will become even more powerful

The Defiant Heart and this Defiant Will is a bit like some kind of buff when it is activated.

That is the best way Azief could put it. Like a buff. But this buff has a prerequisite for it to be activated

Only when it is faced with something that wanted to make him obey, only then, this Defiant Will arises.

Azul cultivated his Defiant Heart when he burns the Immortal Palaces and Immortal Abodes, raining down the skies with gods and deities.

Each time, the world wanted him to obey, he would only obey if he wanted to. If he did not want to and the world forces him to obey, then he would fight

He obeyed once and he lost the love of his life. But it is because of that loss, that such Defiant heart and Defiant Will is born

But now...now this Immortal Will did not even dare contend. It is like a breezy wind in the middle of spring.

There is no clash with the Immortal world.

Even though that will is inherently different from the Immortal Will that is present in this steps, they did not even dare to come out

There is no pain at all.

There is no need to summon his Willform.

Though, if the same thing had happened, Azief would wave his hand and the energy that he could command is enough to suppress the Immortal Will that dares to contend

But now, there is nothing for him to fight with. At that time, he felt the pain is too hard to bear and he forces himself to walk forward and forces that force to submit to his will

At that time, there were many things he had to do. All the pain, all the energy he had to use, all of it to force the immortal will to submit

But now, before he could even do anything the Immortal Will submit to him

The Immortal Will had submitted to him even before he took that last step

"That last time....were you playing coy with me?" Azief mutters to himself as he chuckled

As Azief walk upwards, stepping on these steps, his realm did not rise.

His energy emanated out but instead of becoming more flamboyant, it becomes even more ethereal

It is very different than before.

At that time, when he reached this point of the step, his Willform exploded with energy.

Golden aura exploding in all direction, the light coming out of him illuminate and fills this dark abandoned universe with light

Of course now this so called abandoned universe is no longer so abandoned. He had arrived on this stairway only a decade ago.

At that time, the light he had emanated, changes the nature of the particles and the energy that is present in this dark abandoned universe

Time moves differently here than earth.

To him it was only a decade ago.

But to this area of the world, maybe trillions of years had passed, and maybe billions of years.

Because time works differently on and off the supremacy stairway.

Time and space is one of the most mysterious discipline of magic or physics after the soul

The soul remains the number one most mysterious discipline of magic.

Physics however had grappled with the concept of a soul.

Since one could not see it and could not measure it, it is relegated to the talk of theology and philosophical talk instead of physic studies

As for time....now time is something that baffles mortals and magicians alike.

Right now, he could see that some of the world that he could see from this stairway, already had some kind of life. Some of it is very nascent almost inconsequential.

All it needed is some catalyst, some kind of push for it to evolve.

Some of them are in the formation of a world.

With the atmosphere beginning to come into view. Some of them have life already but none that have thinking being yet.

Azief saw all of this and he is reminded that a decade ago, when he had passed the Immortal Steps, he could feel the source of life is beginning to form

Now, he had seen it with his own eyes.

The feeling that he is feeling now is hard to describe.

It is like seeing things come full circle. All the things he had done in the past, in the end, he is here again.

He could not help but find it absurd, amazing, amusing.

All kinds of feeling seems to mix with each other and he could not find a word to describe.

How could you describe a feeling of happiness, of sadness, of bitterness’s of amazement, of awe, and of wonder and more, all of it packed in this moment, packed in this feeling he did not have word to describe

He did not know how to describe it and for a moment, he just stands there

And as he stands there, his energy instead of going amuck, instead of the light coming out of him intensify like some kind of sun that is about to explode, the aura around him clams down. The mini tornado of energy that shrouded him also fizzles out.

The light dims.

There is no longer a golden streak in his eyes, and there is no blue aura that covers his body

Instead, now, standing there in that Immortal Steps, a step for Immortal, Azief....looks like a mortal.

Like a mortal stepping on an immortal.

The overturning of an order.

Yet, he is not mortal. He is not also an immortal.

Right now Azief is now using his Divine Sense to look at the universes far away from the stairway.

But it is the same universe.

The same abandoned universe.

And he felt the Source of Life. He felt that ten years ago. But now, that Source of Life is not only thrumming, it is beating loudly.

Life is here. For now, the life here is dark. But who knows what will happen in the future?

Immortal energy is already filling this Universe.

"I once thought that the Immortal energy filling this Universe is like an empty bowl being poured with water"

At that time Azief made a hypothesis. That each time the Supremacy Stairway is opened, is also the time when this dark universe would start again.

And if the Supremacy Stairway is open when the universe is already there living and breathing, then it would be a time of prosperity

Now, he could see this universe developing. It would take more time. But it would develop. And life would appear.

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