Chapter 117 - FAMILY (1/2)

The dusk seems beautiful in this new world changed by the White explosion.

The breeze of the wind, the sound of the grass and leaves manage to create a picturesque scene like a painting of an Immortal enjoying life.

Azief was sitting on the wooden chair looking perplexed. His eyes are calm or as calm as he can be.

No use panicking now. It is a miscalculation on his part.

He was in front of the barrier with his leg crossed, a hundred men behind him all wearing battle armour ready to go into battle if he orders them.

Sitting on his left was Loki who is closing his eyes like he was contemplating something. On his right was Wang Jian standing beside him like an unmovable mountain.

A hundred meter in front of them is a fortress made by wood, and even now even as Azief stares at them from afar, they are still building.

But Azief could not do anything other than watch them built the fortress. And the people there also couldn't do anything other than watch Azief looking at them murderously.

Ten thousand people congregated around the fortress wary of Lord Shadow, bearing the pressure of death, waiting for Arrayist Master Lee Sangmin to come out of seclusion.

Then one of them was looking murderously at Azief. Azief was annoyed. His heart is already in fire after these few days.

'What you are looking at!' Azief said but his voice reverberated around the area making the air in front of him slightly waver and resonate all across the area.

Loki who was thinking of something was startled, while Wang Jian maintain his composure. The hundred men behind Azief was the one receiving the brunt as they had to cover their ears.

The wooden seat was cracked by the pressure of Azief voice. IF not for Azief essence encompassing the wooden chair, it would have exploded.

The man quickly lowers his gaze with fear but Azief was already angry. So, he made a grasping motion and the pebbles around him gravitate towards his fingers.

He was still sitting on the wooden chair, looking like a sovereign looking at his subject.

And then he flick one of the pebbles with his fingers and like a bullet the pebbles shot through the translucent barrier and hit the man.

'ARGH!' The man yelled as he collapsed.

The builders of that fortress congregate around the injured man looking both angry at Azief and shocked at the injury of the man.

Loki who was on Azief left just shakes his head as he look at Azief back.

The man arm was pierced by pebble making a hole in his arm. A healer quickly come to the man and began healing the injury.

Azief looking at the man injury snorted

'Tch!'

In the end the barrier diffuses his essence.

If the barrier did not diffuse the essence he embedded in the pebble, the man arms would have exploded into bits of flesh.

The horn was sounded as a man wearing a tiger armour quickly went to the site and look with dread at Azief.

Then he looks towards Loki and Loki shakes his head.

'Sorry, Anuta' Loki mouthed towards the man. The man then look at Wang Jian but Wang Jian was at the ready and his face was stoic.

If his liege asks him to march, he will march. If he ask to stop he will stop. Wang Jian owes a life debt towards Loki and has sworn fealty towards Azief.

Wang Jian is a peculiar character, hard to find in the world. He is loyal and honorable to the end.

That kind of virtues is oddly different then the virtues of the people around Azief.

'What!' Azief shouted as he looks towards Anuta

Anuta is a black man and he look at Azief with a sign of resignation. Then he began saying

'The Forest Alliance has been accommodating towards my Lord. We already negotiated the safety of your troops, Lord Shadow. And in show of good faith, we the Forest Alliance have even allowed the White Tiger, Wang Jian and even the Trickster to scour the Forest Region to their heart contents without interruption. I hope Lord Shadow could give the Lords of the Forest some respect.'

But Azief was not afraid a bit and he didn't intend to give some respect. It has already been three days, but there is no news about Sina yet.

His patience is wearing thin.

'Tell your men to lower their gaze. I don't like the way they look at me. It annoys me.' He said arrogantly and domineeringly.

Anuta also feel angry as he felt that he was being underestimated.

He was one of the Generals in the Forest Region and has quite the following with 5000 soldiers under his command.

His men are watching him yet Lord Shadow still wanted to humiliate him.

'This is not appropriate. I hope Lord Shadow can give me some form of apology' Anuta still try to gain some respect.

'You're not satisfied?' Azief asked.

'Then come on out from the barrier and fight me face to face.' Hearing this, the man gulped.

Inside his mind he wanted to curse the man who is stupid enough to provoke this Seed Forming expert.

After all, even he is just a Low Realm Energy Disperse Stage User. How could he fight a Seed Forming High Realm user?

He would be flattened to the ground in a matter of second. How would he dare to venture outside the barrier?

Then the man said

'It is fine then. In a way, my subordinates have his faults. I hope next time Lord Shadow could show some leniency. So we, the Forest Alliance will also be lenient with your troops. After all the Forest is dark and full of monsters. Deep and dark with twisting paths.'

'Is that a threat?' Azief ask his voice was full of murderous tone. Anuta did not say anything but walk away with a slight bow towards Azief.

'Tch' Azief snorted.

It has been three days since this stalemate began.

The first day began with him trying to use all means possible to break the barrier. He even summons the Sabers and use the Eternal Rings to no avail.

For the Sabers, it was not like the power is not enough, but more to the fact that the translucent barrier absorb its attack, like a thirsty man getting water in the desert.

When he uses the Rings Azief discovers that it distort the barrier but is incapable of breaking it.

Azief hypothesized that if he could master the Ten Eternal Rings he would be able to destroy the barrier which spoke the volume of the power of this barrier.

After all, the ring was used by a Demon King who manages to topple the Heavens and shatters Hell.

In the first day, he camp out of the barrier and was attacked by a hundred men from the Forest Region who travel outside the barrier.

All of them were Pillar Forming so Azief only uses a swish of his hand to pressure them to kneel and surrender.

By the first dawn of the second day, his army led by Wang Jian arrived with Sofia and Loki arriving after.

A hundred people manage to arrive because of Loki Teleportation Stone. Loki uses almost all of the Teleportation Stones in the Warehouse.

Considering that not everyone can rides Pegasus and fly like Azief, to reach the border of the Forest Region would take months and to those who is only Pillar Forming, that would take years.

After all the distance is no joke.

Azief who has mastery over flying of course could traverse through regions as fast as lightning but what about the others?

So, not all the forces of Eden is here.

So, when Wang Jian marches from the villages, Loki and Sofia catch up to them and use the Teleportation Stones to transport them to the border.

Teleportation Stones are scarce in material so Wang Jian could only bring a hundred of his troop.

The forest people as Azief termed the people of the Forest Region was made prisoner as Wang Jian quickly made a makeshift prison guarded by his troops.

Sofia also tries her best using every arsenal she had. Wang Jian even uses his Ruyi Jingu Bang and tries to shatter the barrier to no avail.

Loki on the other hand just observe the barrier and keep muttering 'Incomprehensible' and 'Impossible'.

He also mutters 'This is too early' though Azief don't know what he means.

It was also at the second day that the forest people no longer dares travels outside the barrier as they began station their troops on the edge border of the barrier while waiting for Lee Sangmin to offer explanation.

Arrayist Lee Sangmin was informed in his Array Tree in the middle of the Forest Region but seems to be stalling for time as he did not immediately come and just began to march to the edge on the third day.

But Azief did not give up his provocation to destroy the barrier even though the Commander of the Borderlands came and send envoys for negotiations and hopes Azief will wait for Lee Sangmin to come.

The second day, Azief flies all around the Forest Region searching for any passage into the Forest Region.

Azief discover that trying to enter from the top is as pointless as trying to enter from the front.

At the height of 7 story buildings the barrier will take effect as Azief realized he could not dive down and collide with the translucent barrier again.

It was also at the second day that Azief orders Wang Jian to lead fifty men to dismantle the fortress.

Wang Jian with his elite fifty men rampaged and destroyed the fortress and capture about a hundred men and wounded a hundred more.

But by evening, Wang Jian had to retreat because the reinforcement from the Anuta troops come.

Anuta is an Angolian warlord.

He works in the mines when he was child, her mother and father killed by the armed groups around there.

He got out.

And then he immigrated to America.

The way which he did this was not legal, but at the time, anything is better than being a child soldier.

He grows up and managed to become successful.

He then returns back to Angola, protesting the armed groups and begins a campaign of protection for the villages around the mines from the armed group violence.

Anuta was a good man in a world ruled by bad people.

It is no wonder when the whole world gone mad after the Fall, people flock to him, looking at him like a leader.

When the world falls apart, not everyone wanted to descend to madness with the world.

And Anuta was the prime example of this.

When the White Explosion happens his followers fortunately ended up in the same region as he is and he managed to unite back his organization and it became even stronger.

In the forest region Anuta organization has a vocal voice in determining the policy of the Forest Region.

Of course at the top of the forest region hierarchy stood the man that ensures the safety of the Forest Region.

Arrayist Master Lee Sangmin.

Anuta brought three thousand troops to push back Wang Jian army back to the barrier.

But the moment Wang Jian and his troop moves out from the barrier Anuta troops did not cross to capture Wang Jian troops.

That is because outside the barrier, even though three thousand troops sounds a lot, compared to one Seed Forming user, they were like an ethereal clouds, dissipated in one blow of the wind.

By the third day, Azief has formed his conclusion about the barrier.

First, no one above Energy Disperse Stage High Realm can enter.

Second, the barrier is shrouded with ancient laws.

Azief could sense it a bit.

Third, while Azief could throws stones and projectiles to the barrier without the projectiles rebounded back, Azief discovers that any energy attack or abilities he has that he employs will be absorbed by the barrier maybe because he is a Seed Forming and his attack possess the power of a Seed Forming entity.

Third, Azief is sure that this barrier is not Lee Sangmin abilities alone.

To maintain such defense even under the Ten Eternal Rings, Lee Sangmin must have uses external help.

Something more powerful than an artifact though Azief don't know what that is.

Fourth, Azief also hypothesize that even if he met Lee Sangmin today, even Lee Sangmin will not be able to give him permission to enter.

The Forest Region is like a closed off world, with its own Laws and Principles.

The purpose of the region and Azief bitterly smiles as he thought of this most probable explanation, was to train newbies.

Why does Azief reach such conclusion?

It is the perfect place for newbies to grow. Azief could even believe it if this was the construct of the World Orb.

Azief believe that any moment that a person reaches Seed Forming inside the forest region; they will be teleported out by the Laws and Principles inside the Barrier.

Not to mention, that Seed Forming was the dividing line between extraordinary and common.

Energy Disperse Stage while powerful, it focused on body refinement.

When a person steps to Seed Forming and Form their seeds, then that is the same as sowing seeds to understand Laws and Principles.

The Seed Bloom when Divine Comprehensions is reached.