Lord Shadow-Chapter 1981: Beauty

Hearing this, Azief thought for a moment and then his eyes widened for a moment before he smiled.

"Hahaha!" he laughed

And Azief nodded

Yes, he basically knows who Erika is referring to. He did not know how Erika could even meet such a being.

But the fact she could say such words means she met him. It seems Erika is more than meets the eye

"I have always overestimated Erika involvement on certain things. It seems I did not overestimate her enough"

For a being like that to come to Earth and meet her means there is something about her that is beyond the eyes

Odin.

Odin met her.

Odin would not meet a mortal haphazardly. Even in Asgard itself, not many could see him face to face and even few would even have the chance to converse with him

It is not because he did not want to talk or see, it is because in Asgard his true form is there. One wisp of his true form leaking out and it could made the people who saw him and talk to him go crazy

But Azief also assumes that if Odin came to Earth he would not really come to Earth with his true form

"The fact he met Erika....is that because he has some calculations about the Oracle or is it a reminder or a clue to me?" Azief could not help but think deeper because of his meeting with Odin

It is not like Azief to have some conflated sense of importance.

But after meeting with Wargod, Wukong and Odin, Azief understood one thing more clearly than before

His fate and destiny is being watched. He understood more things. Something he had done, something...he would do make all the great beings in the Omniverse watches over him

Some want him to fail; some want him to succeed. He is not the reason, but his fate and destiny are

Azief understood even more than others, that it did not need to be him. It is the fate and destiny that he is burdened with that made these beings pay attention to him

However, if he wanted to shake off this destiny and fate, it is really hard. After all, the reason he had this destiny and fate is based on his choice.

And some things are not that easy to shake off. Destiny and fate are the result of one own choice.

Sometimes, even if you knew you would gain some destiny and fate, you could not help but make the same choice.

That is what destiny and fate are.

Some people think that fate and destiny idea is like some kind of inevitability and such thinking is like a fatalist

But Fate and destiny are based on you.

The way Azief understands it, the one in the garden knows all the fate and destiny, and knows what you are going to do before you even do it.

The reason he knows is because he sees the entire Omniverse from a higher dimension.

He did not control the movement of all the living beings in the Omniverse, but he knows what they are going to do before they even do it and know the consequences of the most trivial action

Even an action like sneezing, or throwing a pebble onto the side of the road, He would know the consequences of such action that span to the End of time

Fate and Destiny always depend on you, but it also depends on your environment. Certain environment raised you to become brave and adventurous and as such you would make choices that are full of bravery and have a sense of adventure.

Some people who are born in an environment that raises them to become timid and fearful would make choices that are full of timidity and full of fear

From personality comes choices. From choices, come fate and destiny

"Odin and Erika, what did they talk about?" Azief ponder. But then he shakes his head

Whatever they talked about did not matter.

There are too many questions but before meeting her, there would be no answer, so thinking about it too much would not be good

Not to mention, he feels that his headache is beginning again

"It becomes even more frequent" he thought he could just nurse himself back to health just by absorbing back the energy of the world

It turns out this affliction is more persistent than he thought

Erika could not make it even more clear to him than this.

He had always disliked the Oracle penchant of playing with riddles and puzzles when giving answers to those who ask but this time, she is quite clear about all of it.

"So, he has made preparations long before he met me. Did he foresee this thing happening today or is it just some countermeasure?"

Azief thought to himself, but he did not say it out loud.

He looked at Katarina and frowned. He did not want Katarina to get mired in this cause and effect

Once you enter, it is hard to go out. He knows that Katarina would not mind.

But....he minds. And her brother would mind.

Azief never liked Boris. That guy is not a good person. But one thing he is. He is good to Katarina. As a brother, he had done the best he could

As a person however, he is not a good man at all. People are contradictory beings. That is the truth he had learned after dealing with people

"She wanted me to go?" he asks

Katarina nodded as she dragged Azief back to the villa. She did not know what Azief is thinking but she knows he is thinking about something

The creased wrinkles on his forehead, that heavy expression on his face. Even without saying anything Katarina could tell

In the past she could not. But as Azief had grown, she too had also grown. She too had learned to see people and see what they try to hide and what they really mean just by looking at their facial expression

The distance between the villa and this area is thousands of miles away.

But that kind of distance is nothing for Katarina

Each step she takes, thousands of miles is being traversed

And what follows her is the cold and the snow. The entire part of the island is covered with dark clouds.

And the cold wind is blowing.

This is the manifestation of Katarina own laws.

Icicles form, cold wind blows and rains fall down and as the rain is affected by the cold, the rain turns to snow, filling this tropical region with an unexpected winter.

This island that Arthur gave him was thousands of miles wide from each direction.

And this is just one small island among many other small islands around the island continent of Arturia.

The definition of small nowadays is really stretched to the limit. After all, this is considered small relative to the massive size of continents in the world right now.

If there is one thing that isn’t lacking on earth right now, it is habitable space.

Well, even before the Fall, the world did not run out of space.

The only reason why some places are populated or not, other than war and other natural and man-made disaster is simply because some people did not want to live in certain places.

Then there are the logistical issues. Then the terrain that is hard for people to live in like on top of mountains, or beside a forest that is full of animals.

And of course, the sheer absurd of paying for a house

But after the fall, all of these obstacles is nonexistent.

The death had made many rooms.

But that is not the only reason

After all, even seven billion or eight billion people could still not fill the world to the brim

It is a fact that everyone could live wherever they want without thinking much.

Government collapsed and there is no such thing as rent and housing restriction. As long as you can build something and protect that place, it becomes your home

Some who did not want to be dragged into war would even seclude themselves, creating a sanctuary under some river lakes, or caves

Some live inside a mountain. There is a person that carved a tunnel to the center of a mountain and buried the physical entrance and instead opted for a teleportation array that only they can access.

There are even guilds that built headquarters in the deep sea

In this new world, harsh location and terrain is not an obstacle but aesthetic choice.

There is guard all around the villa but none of them stopped Katarina

They all know who she is. And the fact that she could hold Death Monarch means Death Monarch allows it.

These guards had seen many things since they became guards

They have experienced fighting mystical beasts. They have experienced fighting Disk Formation realm experts, and they all have seen how these people, no, these beings would come to the palace to fight.

Some of them rushed like a shooting star, some come like blazing fire, some appear like a thunderbolt.

But this is the first time they see someone coming so elegantly.

The space distorted, the space breaks and Katarina come out from this distorted space.

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