Lord Shadow - Chapter 1995 1995: Beneath the Temple

That is what great luck is. Too much of a good thing is sometimes a bad thing.

Hence, luck should be suppressed so that it would not overwhelm the wielder.

Everything has balance in this world. For you to gain something, someone else must also lose something.

But for Azief this luck and fortune did not tempt him.

He did not need it.

But Erika probably needs it.

Because sometimes when you peer at the secret of heaven, you also burn your luck and fortune.

Having such luck and fortune under your control does make some symptoms that plague many oracles become more bearable.

This is Azief thoughts on the matter

Azief looked around and he did not take long for him to make his move.

“This damn thing” he thought to himself. He didn’t even know what to call this. If one called it a disease, one could consider it to be the correct term

A harmful deviation from the normal structural or functional state.

The thing is other than some discomfort; it is not really pain.

Harmful….only in certain situation.

As for affliction, it is a state of great pain, distress or grief.

It refers to something that causes chronic suffering or burdens an individual.

An affliction can be a disease, but it can also be a misfortune, sorrow, or physical disability.

It is so…for him…at certain time.

At other times it is merely an inconvenience and at some other times he felt like normal.

Just like before where he breaks through space and time come here.

He did not feel any obstacle hindering him using his energy and he did not feel any pain

It is unlike any disease he had ever encountered before since the Fall.

He had gotten hurt.

He had been encased in an ice mountain. He had been at death door many times

He knows pain.

And sometimes he is even numb to it.

This one is just weird.

Magical pain has its stimulation point.

When certain action or magic is used, this pain exacerbated.

If this was any other normal magical affliction, if he had tried to use his energy, he would be attacked by great pain.

But the thing is this…affliction is quite random.

Azief tries to find a pattern, maybe a specific time where it would strike.

Some magical diseases are like that.

Some struck when the sun is hot, some struck when your body is cold, some struck when you do certain pose or certain movement.

But this one…. seems to have no pattern.

Even when some pattern repeated, it is just based on randomness.

Trying to create a pattern from some randomness is just wasting his time

And time…..is what he needed the most right now.

Some plans that he had made had to be accelerated and some plans that is already underway should be resolved by now.

That is what makes him anxious.

The plan that he wanted to accelerate could not be done while he is in this state of uncertainty. At any time, any place, he could just…. go daze.

And Azief believe even if he is the strongest person in the world, if he is in a daze and the enemy attack him, while any enemy on Earth would not be able to one kill shot him, but given enough time and chance, they might just find a way to kill him

Being an Essence Creation realm, makes him very hard to kill.

But very hard to kill does not mean you could not be killed.

Even now, his head is aching, and his feet and hand are trembling.

This disease, this affliction come suddenly.

This is something he had felt.

And the terrible thing about it is that it is not easy to prevent it.

It is unlike normal pain where you could tough it out and you could still walk and talk.

This lethargic feeling that made his thoughts and his actions all slow is unbearable.

He took a moment and Katarina seemed to notice it

Katarina was about to hold him but then Erika suddenly said

“There is no need. Let him be for a few seconds. It’s better that way”

And Katarina, who was about to hold Azief refrained from holding him.

Azief did not say anything, but he appreciated Erika words and then he closed his eyes.

Darkness fell for a few seconds

He felt it was just a few seconds but after a while, he opened his eyes and he saw Katarina was sitting a few feet away from him.

She is sitting on a chair made of glowing stones

In front of her is a round table, tea and biscuit like she is enjoying an evening tea. In the distance, the sun is setting. The horizon is deep orange.

The sun is setting; the world is about to go dark.

Katarina looks at Azief and smiles

“You woke up”

Azief even though in his current state could hear the worries in her voice

Azief feels groggy for a second and then he shakes his head. Seeing so different scenery than what he expected he sighed and asked

“How long was I out?”

“An hour?”

He looks at Katarina, but Katarina did not nod

“More?”

She nodded.

“Hah” Azief could not help but sighed

“It is getting worse” he said under his breath.

Azief closed his eyes for a moment, and he could feel his energy was in disarray. But it did not take long for the energy to return back.

It became normal again.

Like nothing is wrong with him.

If he did not experience it himself and judging by the energy fluctuation alone, he himself would not believe he is affected by anything

Then Azief looked back at Erika

“You seem to know what I am suffering from”

Erika shook her head

She then looked at Azief and she sighed

“I know some of it” she paused for a second and then added

“Not all of it. The kind of things that someone like you could get as disease, as an affliction, is unlike any other magical sickness I have seen before”

She put down the teacup on the coaster and then said

“Thought I could give you some of my thoughts on this matter”

Azief nodded, allowing her to continue

Erika then closed her eyes for a second and at that moment, she went to the Veil and looked at some of the things she had forgotten

And once she opens the Veil, she understood something, yet she also did not understand certain things

It looks the same, feels the same, but it is not the same

The symptoms are similar, but they are quite different. And should not have affected Azief, an Essence Creation realm being

Inside her mind, she could spend as much time as she wants

Her current thought is moving so fast that it did not make any difference in real time.

She could spend a hundred years in the Veil but outside of this Mindscape, not even one second had passed

And then Erika opens her eyes and the way she looks at Azief changes

“No wonder, he is always so weird. Even the kind of disease he gets is weird” This mut be another one of the adventures that he is experiencing.

She knowns that when Azief is out there in the Omniverse, there are all kinds of adventure that he is caught up in.

This is also something that she knows in the other timelines.

The kind of adventure that he is caught up in, are all a road

A road that led to that End.

The reason why it is always out of this world experience, is because each journey was to prepare him for the End.

There is cause and effect that is unseen.

Erika sighed

“Wargod, Odin, Poseidon and even a trace of Hades. All kinds of gods and deities enter this game. And they enter it early. Are they optimistic? Are they hopeful? Or is this a last-ditch effort?”

Thinking of this she could not help but shake her head

“Am I the only one felt unsatisfied by the ending? Are they too regretting their choice, the last time around?” Erika thought of all of this in her mind, and she could not help but chuckle.

And then she laughed.

She laughed so hard that she cried. And the more she laughed, the more she cried, until she did not know whether she laughed or cried.

In the Veil, she is affected by many voices, and many memories.

Some memories she did not want to remember….is remembered. Some memories she wanted to bury are unburied.

And the more it is like the more she could not help but be emotional.

She sighed, she laughed, she cried and in the emptiness of the Veil, her sigh echoed, her laughs reverberates and her cries heart rendering.

Erika knows that Azief had met Wargod.

She might not know before but when the ripples of time echo and shake the entire Time and Space of the Omniverse, how could she not know?

It was something that should not happen.

Something that defies fate and destiny, something that inevitably altered the unalterable fate.

Only then would the entire time and space of the Omniverse is disturbed.

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