Chapter 222 - VERIFYING PATH (1/2)
The world shakes and the sea was trembling, the seven oceans in turmoil and the Heavens cracking and breaking
Azief releases his fist fill with the power of the world as the space around his fist break and dark mist come out from the destroyed space, breaking the bonds of atoms near him
The Demons was destroyed by Tribulation lightning and the sea monster dissipated when Azief fist collided with the sea, creating a large deep blue hole where the waters pulsates with a speed akin of tornado.
'Like I thought!' Azief sneered as he look towards Hikigaya.
'It is merely an illusion.' Azief said his eyes squinted. Hikigaya coughed up blood and was pushed back around one kilometers away from his original position.
But his eyes shows an emotion rarely seen when anyone is fighting with the Death Monarch. Excitement and happiness.
When Azief saw it he felt strange.
Even after Azief dispels the illusion, Hikigaya didn't seems fearful. Instead he becomes even bolder.
Then he said, his face still smiling
'I met the Sage of Medicine once and seek his advice. He told me that I could not gain more strength until I either comprehend the Heaven or break the Heaven. I did not understand what he was saying. His culture and mine are different, the talks about Heaven and Dao is not something I understand. But I understand the Path. Sword Saint Miyamoto Musashi spoke of this in his Book of Five Rings. And so The Sage of Medicine explained to me. You….are the Heaven.' Hikigaya said as he pointed his finger at Azief.
'The Heaven is the strongest and is also the obstacle. As long one lives under another Heaven, one is weak. That was my definition and that was what he was trying to say me.'
Azief look at Hikigaya, but he did not attack. His eyes is trying to locate any signs of Sofia and Wang Jian.
Hikigaya continued to talk.
'I could follow your path and that is comprehending the Heaven. Or….I could try to defeat you and breaking the Heaven. Today, win or lose, I will verify my path!'
He said like declaring something to the world and thunder boomed in the distance, like it was affirming his determination
Azief on the other hand could not detect anything with his eyes or his Divine Sense. Are they trying to use them at the most critical moments? Azief thought to himself
His emotions affected the Heavens.
The Tribulation thunders on the sky become even more severe as clouds gathered and emits a heaven defying pressure upon the living beings of the world.
It was as if the Heaven was furious.
Every creature that could see this and feel the force of the sky would be filled with great trepidation.
But Hikigaya was calm.
His eyes shining with blue rings that seems to pierce through all illusion and pierce through the suffering of ten thousand lives, shines brightly like the brightest stars in the Universe, overflowing to the heavens and covered the Earth.
Transcending lives and death, his eyes pierces through past, present and the ephemeral concept of time.
That was his path of illusion.
Loki once bear witness of the Sovereign called the God of Illusion. Azief was called the God of Death and the other also reign upon one aspects of Laws.
But everyone also knows their other title which embodies the duality of their aspects.
Azief was called the God of Death but he was also called the God of Life and Death by some people and most of his worshippers called him that in their prayers.
Because where he see fit to reap souls and take lives, he also has the power to grant life and longevity to anyone who he desires.
And Loki while he is also called the God of Deceit and God of Lies among many other titles he held, he is also called the God of Truth and Lies.
Since he saw through any lies, that also means he also at the same time see the truth.
And Hikigaya?
He is called the God of Illusion but he is also called the God of Illusion and Reality. Since he saw through the illusion life and death in his comprehension is but an illusion and he made that illusion to become reality hence he become everlasting and immortal
All the other Sovereign saw their path and strive toward understanding it, perfecting it and wielding it.
And so they become eternal as the Laws that govern the Universe. As they stared at each other, separated by a distance, the world roars.
Rumbling sounds could be heard, a roaring echoes through the darkness of the corner of the world
Beyond the floating clouds afar, great dragons four times the sizes of the previous sea monsters and all manners of crawling, slithering creatures broke from the grounds and from the seabed as Hikigaya stand there his pupils rings rotating nonstop, emitting that blue light that seems to commands all creation..
Even Azief was startled to see such phenomena.
But the scene is not enough to startles him. It was the fact that none of the monsters is an illusion.
After he was baptized by fire, normal illusion did not work against him.
As he saw the monsters coming he realizes that the monster were not illusions but real beings with vital force and life force.
It was then Hikigaya shouted
'Illusion Reversal Art. Turning illusions into reality!'
Hikigaya by now was sure of his deduction.
Azief has form his Disk.
He had warned Hirate and Raymond and relay his suspicions before. Which is why he could not understand why the World Government insist in angering the Monarch.
Of course, how would Hikigaya knows that right now, Raymond and Hirate is imprisoned.
'You want to delay me! You are still underestimating me!' Azief said as he waved his fingers and runic characters was being written.
The most ancient characters is created, creating a resonance with the world and the stars beyond the skies of Earth.
As the thunder above Azief become even more severe, he look like an almighty ruler of Heaven and Earth.
The winds around Azief was absorbed into the character and the same could be said of the ocean sea waters, the fire, metals and all elements that exist on Earth
Around him these energies were all absorbed to create one character that is a part of a whole ancient runic character.
This is a heaven defying Act.
By now, the force of their previous clash has already broke all barrier on the entrance gate and the soldiers on top of the ramparts is preparing many types of cannon to fire at Azief.
The character is giving everyone a strong sense of threat.
Anyone that is not Seed Formation has turned pale because of the disturbance in energy causing them to feel their energy to be in chaos.
As the world is bearing the pressure of such gargantuan force, a large character appeared at the sky.
All the hearts of the people fighting seemed like they had been caught and they could not shift their gazes from the sky and that character.
It emitted a very powerful ancient energy and this stunned some people who felt that they could understand something from the character.
The character is not simple to write and it also contained profound vital force and could open new vistas of truth.
Once a person looked at it, he would endlessly think about it and one might even fall into an obsession about it.
Hikigaya only smiles bitterly looking at that giant character filling the sky with its massive size
'The Sage of Medicine was right in calling you to be the Heavens. Fighting you is like fighting the Way of Heavens.'
But Hikigaya smile right now turns into a confident smile.
'But, there lies the trap. Since I could not defeat the heaven, I will seal the Heaven!' Hikigaya thought to himself.
Hikigaya might not be able to defeat Azief. He knows this since the first time he clash as he tries his illusion against Azief.
He recognizes that Azief is a Disk Formation experts like him and might even possess even more disk than him.
But Hikigaya Disk is only one type of energy. It is the Disk of Illusion. While Azief possess many Disk he possess Disk of different energy.
While that make him multi-talented it robs him to be the ultimate masters of that energy.
Of course when they reach other levels they could perfected their Disk. But for now, Azief is jack of all trades while Hikigaya is a master in illusions.
He look at Azief and look at the state of the world and he sighed.
When the Heavens become angry, heaven and Earth would shakes and calamity would descend.
This thoughts came to his mind.
Azief on the other hand has finished writing the character. With one swish of his finger, the character has finally been finished
'Aergliso!' he said and like an Edict from heavenly abode the word echoes around the world.
Everyone heard it and everyone was shaken by it. But they do not heard the runes pronunciation but heard the meaning
'Be destroyed!'
This is one of the new runes Azief discovered he had. When he check his ring after forming the All Source Seed, he discovered all of his rings have new abilities.
When he checked the Rings of Runic Creation he saw these rune that seems to be able to destroy all realities and illusions when it used with corresponding runic energy.
While Azief did not have many runic energy before, he now possess the All Source seed so he could converts the worldly energy into runic energy.
The result is this character that covered the world.
The horde of monsters that was from an illusion turns real that could bring calamity to the world collided with the character on the sky.
The Seven Oceans roar and many people fainted on the battlefield regardless of their affiliations whether they are from the Death Monarch faction or the World Government faction.
When the dust settles, the character is gone and so is the army of monsters. Azief on the other hand, felt something was wrong.
How could he not detected Sofia and Wang Jian even after he uses his Divine Sense to the utmost?
Something very bizarre is happening right now. He didn't know what it is but his instinct is telling something very wrong is happening.
The place where the monster horde and the character collided created a large gash of empty space, the airstreams around it was extremely chaotic and dangerous.
Azief did not have to repel the airstreams since his body deflected the airstreams almost effortlessly