Lord Shadow

While all of this is going on, there is also something very important happening not too far away from the Centre Palace.

Meanwhile on the Centre Hospital, the largest hospital in the Centre Pandemonium, there is a person who looks like she was sleeping, lying peacefully on her white bed.

Many things were injected in her body and there is new technology that looks like it comes out from a science-fiction book monitoring her condition.

She seems stable but she isn’t waking up. Nothing seems wrong from her vitals.

After she was given many herbs and injected with regenerating liquid, her vitals stabilized but she still isn’t waking up.

It even baffles the Healers of this hospital. They even brought in a few other experts to see whether it is a mental attack or something else.

She was in a white room and sitting beside her, accompanying her from the moment she was admitted is a man.

The man is holding her hand tightly and there is a trace of concern on his face.

He was beside her when she falls down onto the floor, her blood all over the white marble tiles of the Centre Palace.

He had warned her. Many times. He had warned her not to do it. Not now. Not when she was already so weak.

Thinking about all of this, there is a pool of tears that is about to fall down from his eyes.

He has lost a lot of things in his life. But he couldn’t lose her too.

This tragedy all started with Azief. When Azief was about to return from his seclusion he felt an intuition in his heart, a sensation that grew heavier as time passes.

Then because of that feeling of unease, Azief spreads out his Divine Sense to the entire Pandemonium.

It was then he found out someone was trying to divine him. And with his Heaven Sundering Finger, he cut that connection, that vision and that connection

The person that was trying to divine him was this woman that is still unconscious in the white room

This woman is none other than the Oracle. And the man beside her is Antonius. When she arrived at the Centre Palace the Death Monarch was still in secret seclusion.

Not to mention at that time his clone was meeting with Hirate. And then Azief clone return back to merge with his original body.

So when she arrived at the Palace she was invited in with respect since everyone knows who she is.

It is only because Death Monarch did not like the Oracle he never invited her or even try to meet her even though all people attest to her precise prophecy.

She enters

She was waiting for the Death Monarch to return but the vision in her dreams, and she could even hear the howls and the screams.

It grew stronger and stronger. She could not wait. Antonius had tried to stop her. But the Oracle is as stubborn as an ox.

She wanted to seek Death Monarch and tell him what she saw and prevented it regardless of the consequences.

For some reason she felt like it was her duty.

Somehow she felt like there is an echo from the past or was it an echo from the future that keeps guiding her path forward, pushing her with each steps.

It was like she owes something to the Death Monarch. She didn’t know how to explain it. She never met the Death Monarch but somehow she felt like he was very familiar to her even though even until now she never met him.

It was like something or someone is trying to tell her something and they reached out from either the distant past or the distant future to guide her….until she reached here.

She reached Pandemonium….the forbidden continent chasing the Death Monarch halfway across the world

If not for the context of her search people might even think Erika loves the Death Monarch and has been chasing him all this time for him to reciprocate her love.

In a way, even Erika did not know how to explain why she keeps chasing the Death Monarch

It was like her meeting with the Death Monarch is something inevitable. Like it was…..and Erika almost laughed when she thinks about it…..because it was like destiny wanted them to meet.

Like there was something she must do. Something she has to repay. It was almost like she owed him too much and she has to suffer now because of what she had owed him

Divining a future and divining a location is different.

In the world Erika could divine a person fate by seeing that person or having something personal that belong to that person.

But divining location?

It is not as easy like that.

That depends on the person is being tracked. If the person who is tracked is powerful than the tracker and the person who is tracked does not like being subjected to such tracking they could cut that connection.

There is always that risk. Erika knows it. Antonius told her. But she did it anyway.

But of course it never happens this exaggeratedly. After all, at most one would suffer a little backlash.

But other than that it shouldn’t have force the Oracle to remains unconscious even after being given treatment and all.

How can Antonius and Erika guessed that Azief method of cutting the connection is by using Heaven Sundering Finger?

It is a spell that could sunder down the Heavens, a legacy technique of Azul one of the strongest being in whole Universe.

That is one of the reason but not the only reason. As Antonius look at Erika, his heart is in pain.

Even though her hair is no longer white, and her skin is back to its youthful complexion, her vitality and youth restores but…she is still unconscious.

The wind blows gently and the white curtains of the room billows gently bringing in the fresh air and the breeze.

Perched on the ledge of the window sill is a green eyed raven. But when it blinks once more that raven eyes turns normal.

Then it flew away to the sky.

And someone in Mnemba Island opens his eyes slowly. A complicated expression is on his face and then he frowned.

‘So…it seems I am not the only one that has counter measure. That One Eyed Oracle also have her countermeasures’ And then Loki laughed.

‘I guess nothing is that easy is it?’ Loki asks to no one in particular. Then sighing he said

‘Destiny will come even when I am trying to stop it. And….I already delays the meeting between them long enough. Whatever choices Azief made after meeting the Oracle…..it is his decision and his decision alone. Though I hope this time he also made a different decision’

Then smiling bitterly he said it under his breath

‘But, maybe that is too much to ask after he sees that image later’

‘I guess I have rested in this island long enough. Yewa Hafar is already starting, and Time is running out. I need to come out now. There are still few things I remember, few things that I could still change. And I still need Raymond alive’

The reason Loki is saying this because of his green eyed ravens has shown him another vision. It is an alarming vision. It is the vision of Raymond fighting with someone.

And he is losing. Badly losing. Not only him. There is Hikigaya and Oreki fighting this someone. And there is also a few Orvanians on the side also fighting that someone.

It already make their battlefield looked like a place in some regions of Hell

That someone they are fighting is none other than Sithulran.

They are about to die now and are at their last breath. It seems after the fight with Death Monarch Sithulran has swiftly increased her strength.

There is also the fact that she met Yewa Hafar.

It is most probably Yewa Hafar doings.

Then shaking his head like he was leaving all of this to fate, he dispersed into green smoke that travelled out from the island and go to that battle.

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I miscalculated once again. This part of the chapter is actually the shortest one of all the parts. But this chapter reveals many things that happens outside Pandemonium when Azief was in seclusion and refining his energies.

And there seems to be something with Loki and the Oracle. And that sentence about the Oracle owing Azief….Hmm…hehehe.

And guys and gals( Thought I don’t think many girls read this kind of story)do check out my other novels Age of Adventure and Song of Heroes. Song of Heroes is kind of stopped for a moment since I am editing Age of Adventure and writing Lord Shadow at the same time.

But do check it out.

Anyway, this is it for today. Wait a few days before I post a new chapter though maybe by this time I am already finished with the new chapter