Chapter 1019: Cutting the path (1)

The black hole in front of him is now the size of ten Earths. In that span of a few minutes such a titanic black hole had been reduced to such a size. 

Azief even felt that it was smaller than it should be. The rate of absorption has become faster than what he thought

And then there is a smirk like he had realized something

It is not that the black hole had become smaller. 

He had become bigger. His body is still absorbing the energy and slowly all of his thirteen Avatar materialized in the real world. 

Each one of them created mystical phenomenon where they appear, representing the Law that they consisted of.

Creation, destruction, rebirth, reincarnation, time and space, the elements and all matters and Laws around him seems to be distorted and in chaos.

There is a certain solidness to them

BOOOM! 

A certain shockwave exploded from one of his law Avatars and then Azief could see strings.

These strings seem like some kind of rainbow strings. It is thin, and almost appears like some kind of viscous liquid that ifs floating around in the Universe.

It ties his avatar to each other. And Azief felt something. It is not so much as the feeling and sensation of the skin. 

It is something that have no name

Like the tugging of a heartstring or the feeling of love appearing. He felt the existence of his soul. 

The soul is the most miraculous and mysterious creation in the Universe.

He might have learned Soul Law but all he had seen about Soul are that it manifested differently. 

And Azief is not even sure if what he saw is a Soul in its true form

If Alsurt to be believed, a soul could power an entire Universe for eons. A pure soul that is. The rarest of souls.

Today, as he is attempting to condense the Etherna soul, he felt the existence of soul once again.

This soul he is condensing would belong to him and him alone. If he succeeds today, people would find it very hard to calculate his destiny and fate.

Even now, when he is not yet condensing completely the soul, he could see that some strings that attached to him become translucent.

The thread and strings is the thread and strings of fate and destiny. Azief could see it if he wanted to.

He just need to focus and concentrate and using the Laws he would be able to see the entanglement of fate and destiny.

The thread and strings are always clear to him. 

But as he is now condensing the soul, the thread and string seems to become translucent. And the hold it has over him is slowly loosening

The soul that he has right now is something that existed before he was even born. 

But now, he is attempting to create a new soul. 

He did not know whether the soul that he already has would be destroyed or faded away after recreating the new soul.

Regardless of that, he would have a new soul. Then he saw the strings and thread to come out from his being and flew toward his Law Avatar

Like being jolted by an enormous source of power, Azief body brightened even more. Azief felt the energy source of the Law Avatar almost melding completely with him

He saw the strings tightened and become more numerous that it ties every part of his Law Avatar body

The accretion disk of the black hole and the energy contained in it is drained by the constant swirling of energy that is absorbed by Azief body. 

It was almost like Azief is the black hole and it is devouring the largest black hole in the Milky Way galaxy.

A soul has no shape and the moment he thinks of this, there is this mass of chaotic energy that seems to be creating itself. Like it manifested itself into existence.

It is not in his body. It is not outside his body. It felt like this mass of energy seems to be in every part of him.

Invisible but not undetectable.

It could not be easily separated and it is the basis of his creation. An immortal soul as some religious people would say

You could die, your body perished, but the soul would still remain. There is a certain trait of that. Azief did not deny it.

But as for soul remain eternal…...Azief knows quite a bit about this matter. 

Souls could be taken away, sealed and even broken. 

As for destroying, there is no conclusive evidence to suggest that when one destroy a soul, that it is truly destroyed.

Maybe it returns back to the Omniverse, coming again in a different shape and form in another time.

Alsurt had once said to him that while there is method of destroying a soul, no one could truly confirm whether that soul would not appear again in a different form. 

The destruction of a soul might simply the process of destruction and creation like that of a Big Bang that exploded and birthed new life.

It is hard to describe what Azief is feeling right now. 

Though, Alsurt himself did not deny that there is always people stronger than him and they might know methods that he did not know of.

He also knew some other thing that he needed to do. 

As he is slowly trying to condense his soul, he calls out from the system status. He looks at it and there is a bitter smile on his face

The system window, the game like system that he had is now distorted. He could not even see the level status window clearly as the number fluctuated.

When he wanted to look at the abilities skill windows the same thing happens. 

When he looks at his class the same things happen. He looks at himself and he felt a certain sense of rejection. 

And he knew why. He had veered off far away from the path of the Shadow Lord. In fact, he had rarely uses Shadow Lord skill in many of his battle.

The perfection Path is very demanding. 

It did not allow anything else yet it contain everything. Since it is Perfection, it looks down upon imperfection. At least that is what Azief believe to be the Perfection Path.

Like a high tier Law could overpower a low tier Law, the same could be said about the path he is taking and the path he walks in the past.

'I know what I need to do' he looks at the attire of his Shadow Lord. 

'I need to let go' 

This attire is an attire created by the system. The class he took is the extension of some Etherna will. 

He did not walk that Etherna path instead he forges his own path. But in the end, it still leads to the Etherna

How ironic is that?

Now, as he tries to condense an Etherna soul, there is a rejection inside him. 

The Laws and abilities of the Shadow Lord is rejecting his path and the same could be said for his Perfection Path.

It is incompatible like fire and water. He had notice this rejection for quite some time. His Shadow Lord attire had also reflected the change. 

He notices it when looking at his clothes before. 

It was still black in color but it lined with blue fabric that seems to be imbued with certain properties of the legacy of Etherna.

That surely did not come from the Shadow Lord abilities.

The blue fabric that lines the dark black red outfit is not some fabric but Laws power. His entire outfit is made up of Laws of the world. 

At that time, he had this premonition. After he took that orb and the information streams in his mind, he knows what he need to do

'I'm going to miss it. I might rarely use it but for a few years, this class is what gave me my identity as Lord Shadow. A Lord of the Shadows that rarely uses the Shadows. It is quite funny. He thought to himself

I need to cut the Shadow Lord status' he said. Before he did not know how to do this. To separate this part of himself form him.

But as he felt the existence of the soul, he also felt the existence of the Will of the Shadow Lord on him. 

Like some kind of force that is aiding him, a calling that seems to drive him forward to reach the pinnacle that a Shadow Lord could achieve and surpassing that.

A Will that is passed down. That is what is all about. Ethernian race was wiped out but their Will remains.

It is the essence of the creation of the Universe and what gives the Universe balance and created all kinds of lifeforms 

The Laws of all this Universe come from the destruction of the Etherna.

Azief now felt that Will.