Lord Shadow - Chapter 1983 1983: Out of Control

He always knew he had many enemies. But before he met Odin, he did not know the level of his enemies

Of course, meeting Wargod, Odin and Wukong also made him realize something. Up there, above the sky, he did not only have enemies.

But he also has beings that wanted to ally with him and wanted to help him

“The schemes of gods and deities” and then he smirks. He could also be considered one of them.

Reaching even Disk Formation already made you eligible to be seen as a god in many star system

The only reason why no one worships such a being on Earth is simply because everyone could reach it

Of course the idea that everyone could reach it is also not quite tenable. Depending on how you breakthrough, some people realm end before Disk Formation

The world, even though it has lost many of its population, still has about a billion or so people.

But those who became Disk Formation did not pass a thousand marks. And those who is in Disk Formation and reach the high realm is even more rare

This illustrates how difficult it is for someone to break through and how far of a reach is it for some people to reach Disk Formation.

The other realm could easily be reached by stacking on energy. Consuming and taking and even stealing energy in the early part has no limitations

But when you reach closer to Disk Formation, what you need is more than just energy. You need comprehension, you need luck and fortune

Comprehension is not based on intelligence. You could be the smartest person in the world but sometimes the comprehension to break through did not come for you

Comprehension in this context depends more on your heart and your personality. The path you walk is superior to the path you copied.

What is suitable for you is the best

As for luck and fortune…. how do one even get luck and fortune? After all, isn’t that something illusory? But it is not

At least in this new world with different worldly laws and rules, to gain luck an fortune, it depends on cause and effect

A good cause and effect lead to good luck and fortune and those with evil and bad cause and effect would bring about calamity and tribulations

Hence why in some world, there are people seeking merit, extinguishing evil and protecting life and defending against death.

Imagine.

In a population that has reached billions, not even one percent has the ability to reach Disk Formation

Of course, if you really wanted to breakthrough to Disk Formation you could take some shortcut.

But taking shortcuts always comes with a price. You either cut off your path immediately or run the risk of being backlashed by your own energy

“Did not change the fact that this problem come from me underestimating the obstacle in front of me” his mind begins to wander, and he needs to bring back his initial thought

Knowing it now fills him only with trepidation.

But it also gave him something to learn. Expect the plan to go wrong.

Most of the time, he would always expect his plans to go wrong. When he made plans, he always believed plan A would fail and so he would prepare plan B from the start. And he also assumes plan B would also fail hence, he would also have plan C.

However, there are only so many plans that could be prepared before something really unexpected really happens

When that kind of thing happens, something so unexpected that it throws a wrench in every one of your plans, you could only choose to confront and overcome it based on what you have at that time

but for the Pandemonium conflict, for him to let the war rage on, there is only one plan

It is not because he could not have made any other plan. It is just the solution he could think of only has one solution

And that solution depends on him. He could have modified it if it is related to external factors.

But it is not.

It depends on him as the factor. And now this factor is now weak and the magic he could command is uncertain at best

That is not the kind of state he should be in to make sure that all the plans he set beforehand to succeed.

This si not how it is supposed to be

But Azief could not blame anyone but himself. He could have stopped the war long time ago.

However, at that time he believes he could still stop them. He is now finding out the limit of what he could do when his plan backfires.

Katarina could not know the turmoil in Azief heart, but he could see even when Azief is joking around with her, there is this kind of heaviness that he did not notice before

Katarina looked at Azief and spoke

“you’re worried about Pandemonium?” Azief did not say anything, but his silence alone is like the answer.

“I could send a message to Wang Jian and Sasha that it is really you. They would not doubt it if I was the one saying it. They would open the barriers of communication and one decree from you would end the war”

But Azief shook his head

“Your words would not help. Both of them would not believe you. Both sides would think that it is the ploy of the others. And also, because…..” and Azief sighed a little

He could not finish his own words

Because all of this stems from him, in a way.

He did not say anything after that. Katarina eyes narrows but then she also sighed

This war….is not Azief fault.

But to continue it was Azief decision.

He must have made some plans

What Azief did not tell her is about Lukas.

Lukas is there.

And knowing him, if he is told to choose sides, he might have chosen a side or he is playing both sides.

Considering his position and his influence on the palace, he probably is playing on both sides. Azief did not blame him.

After all, this was his order

It is also because he wanted to see any dangerous elements in Pandemonium. He is not oblivious to the fact that there is many foreign actors that have infiltrated Pandemonium

The only reason he did not deal with them is because they possess no threats and they themselves know their position.

And the other reason is that some are hidden too deeply. Sleeper agents.

In Azief minds, the way of making a sleeper agents in this era of magic is even more powerful than before

Hirate for example could even plant false memories and these false memories could even deceive the host

And since it could even deceive the host, it could also deceive whoever that is investigating

After all, even if you use some kind of mind reading technique or some kind of soul-searching method, if the memory itself does not remember it what you would find would be nothing

The great powers all have spies on each other’s soil. This is not some kind of secret

Some are not quite conspicuous. While some are hidden deeply.

Azief wanted to draw out the dangerous one.

The one that did not come simply to spy but to destabilize.

Pandemonium is the strongest power in the world.

Hence, it is only logical for the other world powers to pay attention to what he would do. Azief could tolerate that.

What he could not tolerate is if they are there to destabilize this place and bring havoc to the people living there

Azief might be high and mighty now, but he was also just common person before the Fall.

Most common people talk about politics but also know they could not change anything and treated it like just empty talk

And they did not care much but pray for their life to continue to be peaceful.

Sometimes they are bored but even that boredom is something that is pleasurable.

Other than personal problems, Azief life was quite uneventful before the Fall.

Because he understands those people, he knows that the plans of the powerful could make their life hell

And he would not wish that on innocent people.

So, he has many intentions for letting the war to go on. He wanted to cast a fishing line, and he threw a bait with that fishing line and tried to see if anything got caught inside that fishing line

To clear the turbid water all at once.

Surely someday, the water will become turbid again. But for a few decades, the people in Pandemonium would enjoy relative peace in this world full of battles and war

That was his intention

Azief coughed

Coughed.

He coughed.

That alone should be absurd but right now he really coughed and he could not help but smile bitterly.

What is he afflicted with?

Sometimes, he is fine, sometimes he is not.

And right now, just trying to form thoughts in his mind requires his full concentration.

Fortunately, he is of Essence Creation and when he wanted to focus on something, his mind could focus on it

But if he is of a lower realm, he is quite sure he could not even hold the thoughts and even all of his plans in his head would be forgotten by himself

Did he meet Loki or not? For some reason he forgets whether he had seen Loki. Did he do something with Loki? He is forgetting something.

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