Chapter 733: The veil (1/2)

The moment he said that Azief could feel something binding him.

This is not like some kind of pressure but an invisible string that seems to bind him with the Will of the world and the interconnectedness of everything around the world.

This is the dark price he thought to himself.

'Would you like me to tell you what will happen? Or would you like me to show you?

Azief was shocked

'You could do that?

'I could not do it before. Six years had passed and I have a few things under my sleeve. Just because I did not make waves like you, did not mean I slack off. Hehehe' she laughs a bit

Then she added

'And it would be easier for you. This time you would not rack your brain trying to find if my words have some kind of implied meaning. Since you pay a higher price than normal people, I too have to up my service. I have to balance things out after all. If not, I would get a backlash'

Will who did not speak since the beginning suddenly said, his eyes glaring at Erika and ask her a question

'Since when the Oracle become so generous?'

Erika laugh and then said

'Since now' she answers while looking straight at Will. Will only snorted and did not say anything else.

She then looks back at Azief and then said

'So, how would you like to know about your future. Do you want me to give you a prophecy? Or would you like to see it for yourself?'

'If I choose to see it, how do I guide the vision?'

Erika laughed again.

'Since you came here, you probably already have something you wanted to see. In this world, you are the few people that was not interested at all with my power to see the future'

She laughs bitterly at this, like she was remembering some memories of the past. She then shakes her head, like trying to shake off the thoughts and then continue

'You did not fear death; hence it is not your death you fear. Then it must be other kinds of things that pointe you toward me. I felt the Time Turbulence a few days ago. And I have the vision you coming to see me. Since that is the case, when you are in the Time Turbulence, you must have experience something magical. And this magical experience was not pleasant, if I have to guess. You must have seen something' Smiling, she looks at Azief. Azief did not nod or shows any sign but Erika never needed such confirmation in the first place.

This is a story that she already knows. Round and round it goes and the same story once again repeated today.

'And you wanted to know for sure. After all, not every vision of the future could be trusted. And whatever you see in there, it is something you don't want to believe. That is the cause and effect of why we are meeting today. And despite all of your efforts in the past to not see me, in the end, here you are, in front of me, asking the very same thing you thought you never ask from me'

Azief did not say anything just letting her talk. Because he did not know how to refute. Each words that she said is correct

Erika smirks and then chuckles a bit like she found something funny about all of this.

In the end, probably only Loki would understand her thought. These wanderers that is cut off from time probably laugh and cry for different things.

But they are also the only one that probably understand each other loneliness and feeling the best. Like there were the only two people in the world.

It felt boring. And it felt exciting.

Because they know how it begins and how it ends, they both have this kind of feeling of being bored, and being excited.

Bored because of the same story, of the same words and action and excited when the words, the action and the story changed.

She laughs because she thinks she is slowly becoming that old friend of Loki. She did not have the experience but all the memories of her future self. All the vision she seen, it came from her future self.

But she never felt like she was the same with Loki. But today, while Azief would take his first step to become the Sovereign he was meant to be, she too took the step which would transform her.

That is why she laugh. And that is why her laugh could never be understood.

Will could not understand it. In this whole wide Universe, probably only Loki would understand her feeling at this time

To stand at the turning point of the Universe history, that kind of knowledge bring all kinds of emotions

Calming herself down, she then said toward Azief

'It is actually quite simple. You are Divine Comprehension leveler. You at least have the power to manipulate Laws. Since that is the case, seeing the future with my help would not be that hard. You just have to focus on that focal point of time you remember. Then I would show you what lies beyond the Veil. Just don't be surprised at what you will see along the way. Time…have a way of confusing perspectives'

Azief nodded and then he asks

'What should I do?

'Take my hand' Erika said as she held out her hand. Azief did not hesitate as he took her hand.

'Now, since you don't want to waste time, let us just go.'

Then Erika eyes turns cloudy and her entire eyeballs turns white. If one looks closer at her eyes, it was like clouds covers up her eyes.

She looks like she was possessed. Oracle has always bene the instrument of fate and destiny. And as such when they look at the future, they look like they got possessed.

At the same time, she holds Azief and and her eyes turning white, a weird source of power seems to envelop him

Azief could feel that the spirals of energy that slowly enveloping him is full with the trace essence of the purest law of Time he had ever had the chance to come in contact with

For a moment, he felt connected with Time, that abstract concept of the Universe. He could feel that there is a Time stream in the Universe flowing endlessly.

And he also notices something else. He could communicate with this energy and the moment he tries to; an image rises up in his mind. It was the image of an Etherna.