Chapter 687: Taking a step forward (1) (1/2)

In the Centre palace, inside the throne room Azief still is looking at his ring. He is still soaking all the knowledge that is given to him

The light around him grows brighter. And some people who were selling wares on the streets near the Palace all had to avert their gaze from looking toward the Palace

It is like staring at the sun

This time his mind was given an information about the Ring of Runic Creation

Other than the other rings, this is the ring that he takes advantage the most. Unlike the other ring that he possesses, he rarely uses the runes.

That is not because he doesn't know how to use them but it is because he usually tattoos the runes on his skin.

He had Eolh tattooed somewhere under his skin. Eolh is the Rune of Protection. Each rune has always had a different meaning depending on their position.

If it's in vertical position it could means something else if it is in converse or reverse position.

He also had the Aesir rune. It is the rune of knowledge, wisdom, and communication. it is also the rune of prophecy and revelation.

It is because of this rune he sometimes has premonition of things that would come to pass.

The rune gives him dreams, feelings of predestination and a hunch and intuition about how things would unfold.

Death monarch did not have to sleep. This fact is known to all. All people that have reached Azief level did not have to sleep.

But then why Odin would go into slumber? Why would the Jade Emperor asleep when Azief would one day attack the Jade Empire?

Why would those Dark Creatures close their eyes and remains unmoving? Why sleep? That is the question.

Azief used to sleep even after he reached Disk Formation. But the reason he was sleeping was probably not the same reason like the reason of those Supreme Being to sleep

He felt this mundane human act of sleeping kept him tethered to the world. It is the same when he eats and drinks when he doesn't need to

It kept him from being too distant from humans.

But it wasn't until he reached Divine Comprehension that he understands why those mighty beings would go to sleep.

Now, he understands why Odin goes into slumber every few centuries and why some powerful Beings sleep for even eons at a time.

The rune was with him for years. And while the other effect was useful, but it was nothing extraordinary.

When one senses are trained to the apex, one could even predict some kind of future for oneself.

But when he was in the Time Tunnel, he fell asleep.

No, to be more accurate it is not that he fell asleep. He wanted to sleep. In a world where Time is confusing and chaotic, to know the passage of Time is like trying to see the face of God.

It is madness.

And as he floats endlessly and probably for eternity of a time, without nothing to do, he fears that he would go insane because of all the thoughts that troubled him.

The image of the eye looking at him, the vision of a tragic future, it kept him anxious, confused and that feeling consumes him.

In a place where there is all the time in the Omniverse, the only way he could stave off this feeling, to keep this feeling from consuming him completely is to sleep.

And when he sleeps, he dreams. He rarely dreams. But, now he dreams. And when he dreams, he sees glimpses.

He sees glimpses of his own future and sometimes the past that even he himself didn't remember.