Chapter 208 - EVEN IF IT SEEMS LIKE THE END II (1/2)
50 KILOMETERS AWAY FROM THE FOREST OF TWIRLING PATH
Azief look at the skies as he saw the thirty foot high invisible sealing dome he created to avoid creating an unnatural phenomenon in the world.
'Too late' he sighed
When Azief cultivates he would undoubtedly induce change in his surrounding area. Before he was just about to cultivate when thunder sounded, rains falls, and storm formed.
He forgotten that this is no longer the Ice Mountain that act as a seal that weaken his cultivating effect on the outside world.
Today he is cultivating his Worldly Energy. Instead of saying he is cultivating his Worldly Energy, it is more accurate to say he is storing energy in his Disk after his evening session of replenishing Katarina life-force.
In this world, probably he is the only one capable of squandering his life-force like that. With his life-force he could bring back a barren planet into life.
But Katarina injury, especially the injury to her soul, a concept which Azief did not entirely understand was severe.
It takes him for almost two and a half year to stabilize her condition which is a testament of how taxing the stunt she did to save him.
That stunt she did wins his eternal gratitude. Never before in his life someone sacrifices this much for him that he is perplexed.
And scared.
Of how much love she has for him…so much so, that he even question whether he is worthy of such love?
In a couple of weeks, Katarina would be probably healed completely. At least this revelation fills Azief heart with ease, knowing that she would not suffer anymore.
Only that she has to cultivate back her Energy Disperse Stage because she has now regressed back to Orb Condensing Stage.
In that period of time of two years and a half inside the Ice Mountain, Azief has made a decision.
He would be her protector and would even be her strength.
And…..it's not entirely a bad thing for her to regress back to Orb Condensing. She now can walk the Perfection Path.
The path Azief walk started in his Condensing Stage where he perfected his Orb. That when he truly become the cream of the crop.
But Azief also knows, Perfection Path, there is no one the same.
Even though if she walk the same path he did, the result will be different. But it is still Perfection.
She could now, Perfected her Orb. But whether that will truly happen as he wanted…that is remain to be seen.
After all life doesn't necessarily gives you what you want. What you hope and what will happen sometimes could be different.
And Azief is not new to disappointment. By now, he is even immune to it. Expect that things would go wrong but even if things go wrong, overcome it.
Break your limit!
The limit is there….to be broken. That is his creed when he was surviving with Will in many worlds.
He was not a perfect man. No, he was far from it. He is flawed. And he is weak. And Azief did not deny that part of him.
He breaks. He falls, and he strays.
But every time he breaks, he patch himself back up. When he falls, he dust off the dirt and get back up, every time without ever losing sight of what is really important.
When he lost his way, he trace back his path and walk again on the right path.
After all, it takes a long time for him to reach this point. Of course, he failed and break. He denied not of his weak self….and did not use his weak self as some source of motivation.
He embraces his weak side.
Acknowledging that he was once weak. Acknowledging that he might break once again. He might fall again.
That he might once again, stray.
By acknowledging one own weakness, only then one can walk forward carrying all the scars and baggage without feeling heavy.
'It is a long journey' he thought to himself as he sit cross legged on top of the large clearing of the forest.
It might not look like long since it was just almost five years since the Fall but if he added those years he lived in Otherworld and Multiverse it would be almost ten years or more.
There is even a world where Will and he was stranded in where time doesn't flow normally. Sometimes it go backwards, sometimes it goes forward.
Shaking his head he perceives the world, his eye opened and wisdom filled his mind.
The eye see matter, but what Azief sees is more than that. His eyes glows like the brilliance of the stars, like it encompasses the Universe as he saw the true form of matter.
And what is the true form of matter?
Energy!
And he saw it as energy bubbling inside him, coursing through every fibers of his being
He saw the energy that constantly flows like water, fluid and changes form.
It is hard to think like that and even harder to see it like that but before this Azief always used to think that everything in the Universe is tangible but the more he evolved the more his understanding of the Universe grew.
Inhaling his breath what he inhale is not oxygen but energy as the world supplied him energy and his Worldly Disk that is the Sun in his Inner World shines upon the his Dark World.
Life bloom inside his inner world.
Even the soil beneath Azief feet begins to thrum with life. If any seed is planted here on that soil it will grow and could be harvested in mere seconds.
Azief look at the physical reality but all he could see was atom like structure, numerous vortexes of spinning and vibrating energy that is similar to a storm in front of his eyes
Depending on the speed of the storm, one might perceive the energy as solid, liquid or gaseous substance.
'Invisible energy' Azief muttered before he look up and saw the moon and stars. He inhaled and exhale creating a rhythm that is congruous with the energy of the world, synchronized with the vibration of matter around him.
'There is no matter' Azief said and he smiles.
Then he inhales energy and he exhales as the harmful death aura he taken from Katarina was expelled.
The very same soil that has been blessed by Azief life energy immediately rotted as this exhaling of breath spread around it.
If not for Azief creating this sealing dome anything around his five kilometers radius would have died without knowing why.
Unless someone is on the same level as him, powerful than him, or possess powerful items they would surely have died, turning into ashes and dust
'Everything…..is energy. There is no matter' he said it again, his eyes look intently at the Heavens.
The words echoes in his mind like he was hammering this understanding into his mind.
Before, his senses could not perceive such things as the vibration of matter because it was so lowered to be perceptible to the senses.
But now that his senses was way beyond normal human, even more sensitive than many alien life out in the stars, he could perceive what others could not perceive
The sun in Azief Inner World slowly shines brighter and brighter. It was only when Azief felt that he was full he stopped absorbing
He gains another understanding as he finish his absorbing.
'Energy is not infinite.' For some reason, Azief could see something and felt something when he understand this matter.
But…he thought this matter should be addressed later.
Azief kept staring at the skies as his body slowly becoming invisible. Instead of calling it being invisible Azief true state was that he was merging with the Universe.
'There is no matter.' This word he uttered is not mere words. It is borne from his understanding and the thing he senses.
This kind of merging is different from phasing through things like Will does or becoming invisible.
His Universal Disk that take forms as the stars and moon in his Inner World also began to transform as he is merging with the Universe.
This is the first time Azief tries to merge with the Universe. Even though he refines his Disk into Perfection he never truly used it in the Ice Mountain fearing the Ice Mountain would collapse and harm Katarina.
The usually listless stars become brighter and brighter and the moon shines sundering the day apart turning day into night.
The world spins as the sun was clouded by a dark mist that covers the Sun.
Even though everything in the universe appears to look different, it all comes from the same energy
It just vibrates at a different speed so it exists on a different frequency, which either makes it tangible or intangible.
Energy that vibrates slowly would be on the lower end of the spectrum and is dense and tangible
Energy that vibrates very quickly is on the higher end of the spectrum and is light and intangible.
Human form has slower wavelengths, in the whole scheme of the universe, so Azief knows that humans are on a lower frequency,
This is why humans perceive themselves as physical, tangible beings, although, humans are actually a mass of energy.
Azief did not know it but he is slowly uncovering the Universe and the secrets of souls. In the timeline where Loki came from Azief was most proficient in the manipulation of souls and its entity.
It is why he was feared in all the Realms and Universes.
'Frozen Light' Azief muttered again
The waves he saw floating near him, the moment he saw it he muttered this word and his Inner World undergoes another transformation.
Azief knows the formation of his Disk is different from other people but he actually underestimating how different his Disk Formation with everybody else.
True, in the conventional way one has to create Nine Disk to reach Divine Comprehension but like Azief was not the only one that has unconventional method, other also have their own way of reaching Divine Comprehension
Jean cultivate Dual Disk which is the Disk of Space and Time. Will cultivates only one Disk which is the Disk of Speed which enable him to commune with the Speed Source.
There is also another misunderstanding that Azief has committed.
He believes that everyone would form the Worldly Disk and Universal Disk. That is the farthest from the truth.
World encompasses everything in the world. The Universes encompasses the stars beneath the Heavens.
Such formation of Disk and accumulation of energy….who could bear it if not him?
For example.
Raymond. He create the Disk of Earth. Why? Because that is the energy he senses and felt more affinity with it.
The same could be said for Oreki who cultivates the Disk of Thunder.
Azief thought everyone in Disk Formation could fly. But that is also wrong. Only one that touches on the energy that governs gravity could fly.
Mostly any energy one cultivates would overlapped with the energy that governs gravity so mostly Disk Formation levelers could fly.
Azief even when he viewed himself was still underestimating how powerful he is now after he purify his body
His drop of blood is as heavy as a mountain.
His body could break anything in this Earth if he really wills it. That is how heaven defying his physique really is.
Even Loki did not expect this outcome when Azief summons the Purifying Fire.
To encompass the world, and embrace the starry skies, only his body could form those two disk and bear the energy.
Disk of Fire governs fire and was formed by absorbing the energy of fire. Disk of Thunder governs the thunder and was formed by absorbing the energy of thunder.
Disk of Time governs time. But then what would be the Disk of Worldly Energy govern? Everything beneath the sky is his to govern.
If he wills it, the wind will howl and bring tempestuous disaster, thunders will strikes down his enemies, fires will emerge from the bottom of the earth, the sea would boil and the world would quake and tremble
If not for the World Orb the world would have long been destroyed by the battle and the might of his physical body
Then what does the Universal Disk govern when used to the penultimate?
He could set the sun early, bring day from night, changing the seasons and govern the rising and receding tides of the sea.
If he could do all this why doesn't he just govern the world, one might ask?
Because of one strands. Azief felt that strand tied around his waist, and see that one strand of bluish translucent thread
One strands of World Orb energy on his body binding on his body, on his power that defies the Laws of this Universe.
Before the Purifying Fire, he was assisted by the World Orb.
No…to be more accurate the World orb assisted every humans on Earth, there is little to none restriction.
Instead it restrict otherworldly threats that came to Earth.
But after he summons the Purifying Fire and bathed in it, he realizes his power and destructives ability was being restrained by that one strand of thread from the World Orb.
To restrain his power from destroying Earth.
And Azief did not put much thought in it as he welcomed the restriction. Because it's not like he wanted to destroy the world.
But Azief knows if he got out from Earth, the destruction he could cause would be thousand fold then the destruction he would wrought on Earth
As he merge with the Universe he comprehended once again, that he has no actual physical structure.
He is a mass of energy. And his body is a mass of energy of gigantic and titanic proportion.
Yet, it was easier for him to merge with the Universe.
The moment he merges, Azief felt that he was intrinsically connected to everything and everyone as his energy interacts, connects, absorbs, interlocks and communicates with the other energy here on Earth as well as the incoming energies from the outer universe.
For that pone miraculous moment, he was one with everything on Earth, he felt their emotions, felt the darkness in the world and saw everything and hear everything, unobstructed by the barriers and warding.
But for only one moment. Then the accumulation of all of this was too intense for his mind and soul to bear.
So, he come out. And a smile on his face. His energy was restored to the Peak. He look back at the sky and notices that merely moments have passed.
Then getting up he waves his hand and the dome he created dissipated, leaving him alone in the forest.
He was about to walk to the village when he saw the Messaging Stone left a few feet from where his dome used to be.
Not far away a Messenger Bird made of Speed Source energy dissipated after confirming the stone is in Azief hand.
Azief smirked looking at the ingenious way Will uses his Speed Source.
He took the stone and break it as the message directly enter his mind. Azief frowned
'So, he is hiding. Just like I expected. This only makes me more suspicious of him' he muttered before taking a deep breath, his mind is hard ta work.
He look down at the fragment of the broken stone and he could not help but feel grateful towards Will.
The message was from Will. After their last talk, Will was relieved seeing him healthy and powerful than ever.
He offer his help but Azief himself knows, right now in the world, nobody could easily catch up to him right now.
He did not even fear Divine Comprehension leveler right now and he has already form his Disk.
He fears nothing under the sky and can act as he pleases. He used to always be so rushed to get powerful but now he truly becomes a true powerhouse, he stay still.
Because right now, he no longer need to personally moves. And he deign to move unless there is something for it
Even though he heard about all the other heroes that emerging after the Weronian War no one could be considered a threat to him…except one.
Hmm he harrumphed as a person come into his mind. That person is a man. His cultivation is lower than Azief.
But…..Azief is still wary of that man. And he don't know how to face that man. The mind and the heart is in conflict between killing him and sparing him.
Killing that man would shake his own Grand Path that stems from his heart.