Lord Shadow

1650  Strength

Earth did not have good relations with aliens. The few times that they encountered alien civilizations, these alien civilizations always desire to kill them

From Sithulran to the Weronian, these are visitors from other planets, other dimensions and even other galaxies and none of them are very peaceful And Azief did not know that right now, there is an alien on Earth that is seeking the location of the All Source, the last son of Yrinia Fir Her Waz

If Fir Her Waz knows that Azief could sense the All Source, he might go to meet Azief and ask for his help

But Azief ignores this feeling of resonance. Even if he tries to get to the bottom of thing, he could not do it right now n/o/vel/b//in dot c//om

He focused, the blue aura coming from his body become denser and then it seems to merge with the other two Essence avatars that is standing on Azief left and right side. And Azief could feel his body began to become more powerful. But it is not like the feeling of power he felt before. But there is a change in quality, if he has to describe it. Azief knows this is the final step.

He waves his right hand and the Essence Avatar of Harmony turns into a white light and enters Azief body.

And Azief energy soars toward the skies. This time the sky give way. The Heavenly Will of Earth doesn't seems want to contend with Azief power right now

Azief opens up his left hand and the Essence Avatar of Chaos turns into a black light and flew toward Azief, entering his body and once again, his energy soars piercing even higher.

The energy this time however is concentrated on only one place.

The forest. The area where he is secluding himself. It did not affect the world like before. Maybe, because of his control of energy that has suddenly improved, Azief could now affect the scale of his energy

The energy does not leak to where he doesn't want to

Instead, he is taking all of this energy to strengthen himself with each second that is passing by.

When Azief merge with both of his two Essence, he seems to be bombarded with all kinds of information

"So, that is how it is" he mutters to himself. In that few moments since he merges with his Essence Avatar, he saw all the things that his Essence Avatar had seen

He sees the changes of the ten Seas and he saw the things and monsters and beast hidden underneath the Ten Seas

It might be the existence of these things and beast and monster that give the Ten Seas such a unique property. Or it might that these things borrows the Ten Seas and took the energy of that sea for themselves. There is many possibilities for such thing.

But the hidden things under the Ten Seas is not the only thing that Azief now knows. He also knows that Hikigaya, Raymond, Oreki are all floating in the sky, high above the clouds, waiting for something. And Azief knows what they are waiting for. A tribulation thunder. He smiles for a moment. When he thinks, everything seems to slow down. It is not that time had changed. It is his perception become so fast that everything become so slow in comparison. When he is in this state, he could think about a hundred things and a second barely passes by

He could guess why Oreki is waiting for the thunder. Right now, merging with his two Essence avatar, he could see all over the world. Unlike before, nothing is hidden from his eyes now

He could see Katarina in Moscow, Hikigaya and Oreki in Japan, Sofia, Sina, Sasha, Wang Jian and all of the people he wanted to see just by gazing at the world and letting his Divine Sense spreads out all over Earth

His grasp over the Heavenly Will also become stronger. But his eyes is focused on a few people. He looks at Oreki and he could see the fortune around his body.

His fortune seems to be suppressed. And it only needed a catalyst to break out. "To breakthrough to Divine Comprehension, Oreki needed that one last push. My tribulation thunder is really the perfect catalyst for him" Azief didn't know how Oreki got the crazy idea of using his tribulation thunder as the catalyst for his breakthrough, but Azief could tell from the fortune on his body, that this method really works. As for Raymond, Azief could also understand. He needed pressure. Raymond uses Terraforce. Earth beaten; earth gets stronger.

"But, these two people are too daring" As for Hikigaya, he is probably there to make sure that he could protect Oreki and at the same time protecting the world He probably also notices the Cosmic clouds earlier. Hikigaya might not be what one might call a philanthropist. But he is also not some kind of a devil king either

He did not mind to kill people, but he did not kill people needlessly. And after the Weronian Occupation, most people have the sense of humanity

Before the Fall, people are separated by many things. It did not mean that the fall of the natural orders means all of this feeling also disappear. But some things did change for the better. The boundary of race blurs especially even more so when you look at each other like humans.

The attack of the aliens awaken a sense of collective togetherness. We are humans. And the others are the "others"

Still a tribalism mentality, only expanded in scale. Humans are on Earth. And those beyond it are aliens. And as humans found out the hard way, aliens are not this peaceful creatures or enlightened creature that want to grace you with advanced technologic

Humans like to paint aliens as this transcendent being that surpasses normal human emotion like some kind of sagely being.

There is truth to that. Aliens does possess tocology beyond Earth. But to say they surpassed humans in the emotional side of things…..

They are not. They are moved by interest and when their needs are not met they could be as brutal as human beings. Human beings are barbaric. But there are also very much barbaric aliens out there. Devouring planets, sucking souls out trillions of living beings…..out there, up there, in the vast expanse of the Universe, there is dark forest.

And everything is a prey. Everything is a predator. And everyone is a hunter. That is a place of great competition. And if you are noticed by did not have any means of protecting yourself…..you are screwed. This is why Earth; this is why him and the others are trying to get strong. The Multiversal Convergence is a beacon signal

It signals to the other civilization that there is a rising force in the galaxy. Some beings might not notice this beacon signal. But for those who notices it, they will be watching.

And just like a wolf that is patiently waiting for their prey to show weakness, those gaze up in the darkness of the sky is also waiting patiently

Show weakness and you would be torn apart. And that is why Hikigaya is there. To make sure Earth would not be weakened. "Hikigaya could sense something. Even though he is not close to Essence Creation realm, the fact he could sense the danger of that cosmic clouds shows that his Divine Sense is very strong" Azief thought to himself. Azief then sighed and he gaze for a second at the sky above him. Azief expected tribulation thunder. He experiences this before. When something taboo wanting to transcend, the will of the universe did not allow it.

Break it with strength and let the Will acknowledge you as its equal or surpassing it, and only then could you stand proud in the world

When Azief merge with his Essence Avatar he also saw that while the Heavenly Will tries to send tribulation thunder, it did not really work.

"I was shocked to discover that I have grown to such a level. If I pass this tribulation, I truly would not have any rival on Earth and even in the starry sky beyond Earth, there is not many beings that could constrain me" he thought to himself. Azief himself knows that he is close to reaching the peak of power in the Omniverse. Even in the Omniverse, there is only around a few millions Essence Creation realm beings

Millions might seem much. But when you calculated it in the vastness of the Omniverse, millions are not really much compared to the scale of the Omniverse. Instead, it could be said a drop of water in the sea. That is how low it is. And it is not like Essence Formation levels would meet each other. The distance between each stars systems is terrifyingly far. Only beings with abilities could easily traverse through these places with their ability to manipulate space and time to the extreme.

"I am strong" Azief could truly say this now. Even one of the auras from his Essence avatar is enough to break up the tribulation thunder Azief also had wondered how powerful his Essence Avatar He expected there would be increase in his strength. He just did not expect how much it had increased.