Chapter 1686: Realization

Chapter 1686: Realization



But even though there is many people in the market everyone is standing still. Even the air, the droplets of water, the animals, the wind, all of it is in stand still.

It is not that they were frozen by some kind of force, instead, it is Azief using the power of time.

Time stopped and he is the only one that could move right now. The whole world is like this. All of their time stopped.

In a distance, far away from Vietnam, in the other side of the world, there is someone who is meditating on the top of a snowy mountain.

This person is covered with a matrix of runes that is swirling around him.

Suddenly these matrixes stop and at the exact moment, the matrixes stop, this person opens his eyes and look toward the distance.

"Death Monarch!" This person that exclaimed Death Monarch is none other than Jean.

Jean look toward the distance, trying to found the source of this time disturbance, but he could not find nothing

It was like there is something shielding him

"Death Monarch becomes even more unfathomable" Jean mutters to himself. But then he exhaled a sigh of relief.

"At least, he is still on Earth. I guess I could inform the Republic later" he mutters to himself. On another side of the world, meditating on a cave, someone opens his eyes.

The eyes of this person is very weird.

There is all kinds of symbols in his pupils and around him is all kinds of colourful mist.

And from this colourful mist, all kinds of things spawned. This person surrounded by this colourful mist is none other than Hikigaya.

He could also feel there is a change in the laws of time. And when he look beside him, looking at Oreki, he frowns.

He could see Oreki standing still. There is time laws that is suspended in place.

"is it Jean?" Hikigaya tries to move but even moving one of his fingers is extremely hard.

"My understanding of time is not that proficient. I could escape a bit but I could not move easily in this kind of time suspension" he thought to himself.

Unlike Jean, he could not identify who is the one using the Time Law.

But there is only three candidates in his mind. Jean, Death Monarch or the Heavenly Will.

Hikigaya could only wait for this moment to pass.

At the same time, he was thinking that maybe he should also master some of the intricacies of Time Laws.

If not, one day, when he is to battle with such a person who master the Time Laws, the outcome of such battle would be catastrophic for him

Right now, even though he could still be awake under this time suspension, he could barely move. If the one stopping this Time is his enemy and this person wanted to kill him, right now, he would be like a sitting duck.

Azief right now did not care that much whether Hikigaya or Jean knows that he is the one stopping time

From the beginning, he already knows that some people would be able to remain aware during his Time Stopping.

It is not like in the past where he could easily froze the entire world

There is also other people that have some proficiency in time laws.

The only few that could escape from this time domain of his is probably Jean and a few other that is in a mystical and forbidden places or people who have strength that surpasses him.

Azief walk leisurely in the market picking spices and then he took another step and appears in Africa.

He goes to a bee nest and cutting the bee nest he extracted the bee and put it into a glass container that he took in Vietnam

Then he took another step and he appears back in the island.

Time had already move in normal way. Azief look at the fish on the long stick and sile

"It has been a long time since I enjoyed the rain" he thought to himself.

Right now, he is at peace.

The future, the present is still there.

There is still work to be done, task that needed to be completed, a long road ahead, a perilous

path that is waiting for him to tread.

There is all of these problems but there is this kind of calmness that he now have. This kind of

calmness that he did not possess before.

This conciseness knowing that he is strong.

A kind of confidence.

No, a kind of Will.

A kind of invincible will, the belief that he could sweep every problem away

And this will inside his heart..... burns brightly.

And so, he could stand here, watched the passage of time passing by, appreciating everting around him. The waves of the ocean, the scent of the sea, the sand beneath his skin,

everything and anything

Time flashes quickly for him. Or he could enjoy it in a different way, making things appear to

be slow.

A moment of eternity trapped in a second.

A second becomes an eternity.

He is not using some kind of time laws to affect time but simply changes the perception of his

mind.

So, that his mind work incredibly fast and everything look slow.

The droplet of water falling from the sky, the sand that is falling from his skin, the movement

of the wind, of ants, of crabs of fishes, of thunder and lightning

Everything become slow.

And everything could be appreciated by him in this state.

It felt like years had passes by but only a few second had passed in reality.

He could feel something. Something he had felt before, but always loses its grasp in the last

minute. Now, he felt it again

And he smiles.

He realizes something. It was more like he sense it. The Grand Path that he seeks could be find

only when he is calm.

Perfection means stillness.

And so, he sat still.

And then he smiles.

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