Chapter 164 - BEFORE THE STORM (1/2)

Azief went out of the grey room, his black cape swishing on his back, dark aura billowing out of him, making him look like he is shrouded by a cloud of darkness.

He was unhappy at the state of this world and at the same time he was also became even curios of this world

And this emotion manifested itself by the exertions of dark energy around him.

Something is bugging him. He could feel the answer is close….but always out of his grasp which makes him frustrated.

The guards that was guarding the outside the grey room was about to greet their Supreme General but seeing the black aura swirling over the Supreme General feet and his entire being like a walking dark clouds coupled with the way he carried himself like he was unhappy, the guard gulp and then just nodded respectfully which pass unnoticed by Azief.

The moment he passed the guard release a relieved breathe like he just escape death.

One does not understand the fearsomeness of their supreme general until they are close to him.

There is something that compels people to fear him. And that compulsion is what terrifying, the fact no one knows why they are compelled to.

Azief on the other hand his hand is furiously thinking

'A lot of things to think about' he muttered as he remembered the things he reads and the videos he seen.

This world is not like what it seems.

'It's dawn.' He suddenly mumbled.

In the complex, a new batch of guards take over the shift relieving those who were guarding the Pentagon on last night shift.

Last night alone, the Evolver caught many operatives that try to sneak inside the structure no doubt trying to gain more information.

But the Evolvers have all neutralized all the threat.

With increased personnel came a variety of Evolver with useful abilities like sonar surveillance and earth sensing, tracking and many more.

By now, Azief did not have to always manage them like he used to a week ago.

And since they were used to hard labor the Evolver were like warriors especially after you give them something to believe in.

On the other side of the complex, Harrison is organizing the army and barking orders, taking note of provision and supplies, while on the other side hundreds of tanks and trucks are ready for mission near the border to help any escapees from other states,

Normal Evolvers helps with the reconstruction and buildings. Some are cooking with the supplies taken by the Army.

Since Azief did not yet name his army, the Evolvers have started calling it the Rebellion Army.

The reconstruction is also being done extremely fast.

One of the Evolvers that the Army freed a few days ago has the ability to control metal so; the reconstruction on the partially damaged Pentagon is swiftly being done with even more durable material.

Metal building sprouted like mushroom nearby the Pentagon meant for the officers of the Rebellion Army.

Azief did not have to see it to know what all this people are doing. He only needed to scan the area with his divine sense to grasp the movement of everyone around the complex.

He walked to the lift and the guards all nodded respectfully when he passed them.

His eyes are still clear even after all that reading.

Well, his body was not like the past where he had felt fatigued easily.

Unless he is fighting powerful adversary, normal things that should have made him tired would be nothing more than just be a light exercise.

Slowly as he evolved more, he noticed that slowly he turned inhuman. Not the cruel kind but feeling something not entirely human.

He doesn't really know how to describe it.

The basic necessity like eat and sleep could be foregone if he wanted to. He doesn't need to eat but he can eat.

He doesn't need to sleep but he can sleep. The thing that used to be necessary is now more of an option or choice.

Sometimes, to feel like he is human, Azief once try to sleep.

It is weird that even while he is sleeping his mind was perfectly aware of the surroundings.

The reason why he eats is no longer because he felt hungry but because he craved some flavor in his mouth.

It is a matter of want and not need.

He sighed pushing this thought onto the back of his mind. And then his mind sharpened again as he review back what he reads on the classified files.

He reads a lot of documents about Will but also about a lot of Evolvers. His decision to occupied Pentagon was the right decision.

There is a lot of information he got from occupying this place, important information and even classified information that the public is not privy of.

Of course some information was deleted when he storms the place but most of the information was safe which is good for him.

He enters the lift as he pushes the button to the floor where he is staying which is at the third floor.

There are a lot of things he needs to do now that some of his question has been answered. If he is not wrong he could guess what the collars that restrict evolvers are made of.

If his speculation is true, then this must have to do with that Celestial War five thousand years ago among the great Seven Intergalactic Power.

In Azief journey of the Multiverse they once heard about the story of the battle where all the great universe top dog battle for something.

No one knows what for but the battle was probably the most horrifying wars the Universe have ever waged against each other.

So terrifying the war was that the Elder of The Universe had to interfere. That day, Gods, Devils, Demons, Immortals their bodies filled the stars and strewn across the Heavens

Their blood filled the river of the universe and reality trembles as the fabric of time itself is almost torn apart by their battles.

At least that is what the stories say. There are always stories. Worlds are made of stories.

The truth…..Azief don't know. But there is a common point.

Most of the multiverse he visited all have something happens in that period of time. This is even easier to trace if the timeline of the Otherworld run parallel to Earth prime.

Five thousand years ago, in Earth Prime the stories of Old Gods were widespread.

Of course there are stories of Gods before but it wasn't until five thousand years ago, that their faiths taken quite the substance like the story of Zeus and his Olympians or Odin about his Asgardian and their Ragnarok.

'Ting'

The sound brings him back away from his thoughts. The lift door opens and he walked out and walked to his room.

Entering his room he spreads his divine sense to check any threats. Satisfied, he sits down in his bed, with his leg crossed.

Then he opens his status window.

It has been a long time since he opened his status window.

NAME LORD SHADOW GENDER MALE

LEVEL 69 CLASS SHADOW DUKE

RACE NEO ETERNA FAME CONVERTED INTO EXP POINTS AUTOMATICALLY.

SEEDS

4

SEEDS CONCEPT

[DEATH] [LIFE] [REBIRTH] [TIME]

BODY REFINEMENT LEVEL

UNDYING BODY

ATTRIBUTES

[DEATH] [DARKNESS] [TIME] [VOID] [LIFE] [FEAR] [CHAOS] [WAR] [PESTILENCE]

[LIGHT] [DEVOUR] [FATE] [ORDER]

SKILL

EXPERT PRECISION

GREAT SOUL PERCEPTION

PURE DIVINE SENSE

DEMON BEAST EYE OF NIGHT

GRAND TELEKINESIS

EXPERT WATER ELEMENT MANIPULATION

LARGE GRAND HEALING

SLASHING WIND VORTEX

DEATH ENERGY FIST

AURANITE FLESH

WYRM NERVE

SKY SLASHING SLASH

CLOUDS DISPERSING FIST

EARTHQUAKE STOMP

RED DRAGON TRAMPLING THE HEAVENS

CLASS SKILLS

SHADOW ETERNAL

ABILITIES

INTERGALACTIC FLIGHT

SABER GODLY EXPERT

HYPER STRENGTH

HYPER SPEED

EYES OF FIRE

PENETRATING VISION

MICROSCOPIC VISION

ICE BREATH

WIND BREATH

DEATH BREATH

RACE SKILLS

[LEVEL REPRESSION UNLOCKED]

[RACE SUPERIORITY UNLOCKED]

[PILLAR REPRESSION UNLOCKED]

[BLOCKING SENSES UNLOCKED]

[ELEMENT RESISTANCE UNLOCKED]

[SKILL FUSION UNLOCKED]

EQUIPPED ITEMS

BAG OF HOLDING

BAG OF LARGE HOLDING

ACCESSORIES

RING OF CREATION SONGS

RING OF FORBIDDEN WORDS

RING OF GREAT SUMMONING

RING OF ALL ELEMENTS

RING OF GRAND FORMATION

RING OF ULTIMATE SEALING

RING OF ETERNAL DARKNESS

RING OF PERFECT SYMBOLS

RING OF ANCIENTS

RING OF RUNIC CREATION

BRACELET OF PERFECT REFINEMENT

WEAPONS

HIDDEN REAPER BLADE

REAPER SWORD

SPEAR OF FIERY HELL

HALBERD OF SEVEN HELLS OF ICE

NINE HEAVEN LIGHTNING TRIBULATION BOW

Looking at his status window he realized his fame windows are back on.

No wonder he could form his seed this time.

In Azief calculation even though he killed hundreds of thousand people and absorb their energy with his celestial meridian they are not enough to form even one seed.

Because they are weakling.

Killing them was like killing an ant.

He at least need to kill millions before he could even one seed.

This is the difference of disparity of strength. If an Orb Condensing user killed as much as he did they could at least form a few orb but when you reach his level, the quantity is not as important as the quality.

Azief looked at his level and smiles.

If he wanted to at any time he could step forward and breakthrough to Disk Formation. Disk Formation is at level 70.

But because he wanted to create Perfect foundation for Disk Formation, all of his EXP is now used to form seed instead of leveling up.

This is why he maxes out his level first before focusing on forming his seed.

Levels are in correspondence with the reservoir of energy. The higher the level, the higher the energy.

But the Seeds determine the density of that energy. The same thing could be applied on other stages like Pillar Forming and Orb Condensing.

Now, he wanted to form his fifth seed.

He already had Death, Life, Rebirth and Time.

Now is the time to form the seed which he is more proficient with.

Darkness.

When he formed this seed, Azief is sure that his rings would also resonate with him and teaches him many more skills.

The Eternal Rings was his most powerful artifact he ever encountered

He closes his eyes as he activated the energy inside his body. Dark energy gathers around him, twirling like a tornado.

But with Azief own restraint he contained the power inside his own room. If he did not contain it, this whole entire structure would be swallowed by the energy.

The energy was so dense that even people without energy could see the energy swirling around him using their naked eye.

The dark energy gathers, swirls and rotates around him as it is slowly being absorbed by Azief body, seeping inside his every pore, filling Azief mind with images of a dark universe, where only darkness exist.

The absence of light…that is which darkness is.

Before there is light there was the darkness. It is still and it is impassive. But when light came, the darkness is not destroyed.

It stays there always in the background yet always eternal.

Darkness is eternal. Eternal that word resonates inside Azief mind and soul.

'Eternal' he muttered unconsciously

It is the one thing that is the truth. It is Azief truth, that darkness is eternal and by believing it, it gives that concept a power.

'But darkness is also a concept.'

The moment Azief mind thought of this, he saw carnage, death, killing, evil acts committed and it is all associated with darkness for darkness is eerie and such all evil acts are connected with darkness.

But darkness is pure. Not this atrocity he saw.

People attributed darkness to evil because they fear the unknown and the darkness represent the unknown and as such it must be evil.

That is what darkness is. Unbending and eternal. It is pure. And just like that Azief felt like an explosion happens inside his mind as a seed was formed.

The seed was purplish dark and aura of darkness swirls round it, more like orbiting it. Azief consciousness grew and his divine sense could even sense thing pass Washington.

If he wills it he could see what people are doing in Virginia and the surrounding border even without going there.

This is the effect of creating a Seed.

It expands the user mind and senses. The seed is constantly being nourished by darkness essence that is orbiting it, as elemental energy of darkness slowly solidified itself in every part of Azief body.

Azief did not feel anything change on his strength but he now knows that when he reach Law Comprehension, he could use this seed to pave the way to understand the Law of Darkness

And he knows that now he could infuse at least a small essence of darkness in each of his strike.

He said he could infuse only a little but even that little have the power of the invisible force of the universe.

Using that kind of power in this earth would be overkill.

He now has five seed.

'One more seed' he muttered a he opens his eyes.

'One more seed to create the Branch of Creation.'

When he creates the sixth seed he will use the leaves and the other three seed to create the Branches of Creation which will boost Azief already monstrous regenerative healing factor.

Right now, his body could already withstand nuclear bomb.

Even though Azief knew that this Earth 39 has Plasma and Ion nuclear the best that can do is made him dizzy for a few minutes.

But if he created the Branches of Creation, after even being hit by these nuclear weapons he assume that he would not even felt anything.

But then he sighed.

He already killed hundred thousand and even converts his fame point and only one seed could be formed.

How many more people he has to kill and absorb to create another seed.

Of course he did not feel guilty killing all this scums from the face of the earth but he admitted the fact that this would be a tiresome task.

Now he need to create the sixth seeds, means he had to have six fold the experience point.

'To summon the Purifying Fire….hmm..it is hard.' But then he smirked.

But if it was easy, then everyone would have tried it.

He thought of the time he have and now he grew worried.

'I was not worried at first because I knew I could count on Will even though he broke our promise. But now, if my conjecture is right, I fear that things might not go as I planned.'

Azief sighed.

This is what he doesn't like.

Uncertainties.

Most of the time in front of his people he always seem sure of himself but he was snot like that usually.

Which is why he was so glad that he is not responsible for Eden anymore.

He didn't like being constricted like that.

He knew he would make enemies and he dents want anyone else to get caught up in his problems.

With his personality that is slight prideful and stubborn, sooner or later he would make enemies and Eden was his baggage.

Now that baggage is removed he could do things more freely, just the way he wanted.

As he was thinking of this he could feel his rings vibrate on his hand and Azief smiles

'Finally, I can reap the benefits.' He said