Chapter 1063: Breaking a wall (1/2)

Arial rarely shows his face as his face is usually hidden under the shadows of his hood

However, this time, like a metamorphosis, he shows his face. Of course, he could always add the design to his new attire.

With a snap of his finger, a hood could appear on the back if he wanted to. But Azief like it better like this and he understood something as he looks at his attire.

He smiles and he tilted his head to the right like he found something very funny about it all.

This relates heavily to his own psyche, the design of the attire that is.

Since the beginning of the journey since the Fall, Azief had experienced many things and while there are bad memories along the way, there is also good things that he had experienced

These good thing teaches him and affect him, influence him and ultimately changes him.

He is not the same person that started the journey.

But just because he is no longer the same person, did not mean that what he has now become is something bad

He is better. And while there is still some hypocrisy in him, he at least trying to be honest to himself

Whether that be his feeling or his desires.

And like the clothes symbolizes is intent and soul, there is no hood. The hood had always covers his face.

Other than the few times where he opens his hood, most of the time, the hood shadows the upper part of his face.

In the beginning, it is so that people would find it hard to know his intention. There were uncertainties in his power in the begging and when he spoke to people or his enemies, he fears that uncertainty, that anxiousness would show.

He develops an expressionless face so that no people could guess what he is thinking.

Azief in the beginning rely heavily on his luck, his bravery and a risk-it-all attitude.

Because the risk pays off. He is not this scheming and brilliant strategist.

Of course the current him is quite adept at all of this.

But when the Fall first began, he is as uncertain and as scared as others.

The only difference is...he is very good hiding his feelings and his emotions.

He fears that people would see his weakness if they look at his eyes.

But as he grows stronger, the hood serves as a symbol for him

Like some hooded god, covering his intention, looking sharply in the darkness.

His official always afraid to look him in the eyes. It is not because all of them did something wrong.

It is simply because of his reputation.

And even if there is a hood that cover a lot of his face, it is very easy to know if he is angry.

In the off chance he is angry, his eye glows beneath the hood, increasing the fear people felt for him

It is like some kind of predator eyes, looking at them like they were food for breakfast. As such, Azief don't think much would change even if he is no longer wearing hood.

Fear is an effective method. But, it is not always effective. It is a mistake to think that people would all cow before fear.

Azief had seen many people that when fear is used against them, it backfires. Some people just are not afraid of death

Some even might long for death

Those who said fear is the only method, clearly had not seen so many things

Azief had understand this.

So, he does not need the hood to maintain some kind of an invisible fear that connected him and his officials.

And the most important reason of all, is that he no longer need the hood.

At least, like some psychological wall, he had break it when he created this new attire.

The image did not only come from his imagination and his desire, it also comes from his subconscious and in the subconscious, probably a bit of his soul imbued in it, manifested in the reality in the form of this new attire.

This attire seems to encapsulate what made the Shadow Lord attire so terrifying to some people yet at the same time with certain colors, Azief look like some kind of an Immortal Monarch.

The blue lines seem to give one peace and calm and some kind of majesty while the golden felt holy and divine.

The design Azief had in his mind is merely a few changes here and there, with the base design looking exactly like the Shadow Lord attire, yet when he showers down the energy to reconstruct for him a cloth, an attire to wear, this masterpiece is the one that appears.

This relates heavily to Azief own psyche.