In the past, he would not hesitate to sacrifice the world for the people he loved. But...but....now he had seen the world.

And when he said he seen the world, it does not mean the mountains, the hills, the cities, the seas and the ground....he means the people living in it.

The miracle of life.

The hardship of life.

The bad.

The ugly.

The beautiful.

The sublime.

He had seen it all.

And he had seen more.

And seeing more, he understand more.

People are ugly.

They are evil. Grotesque. Disgusting.

People are beautiful.

People are kind. Sublime. Resilient.

They are all of this....and more.

People who think all people are veil because of a few bad apples, sacrifices the forest for the trees, and people who think all people are good because of a few see only a fraction of the truth

Whether they become good and beautiful, or evil and grotesque is from many factors.

And philosophers, behavioural scientist could debate this from morning to night and could not find the right answer.

But the world is full of people.

And they are different and the same.

If you want to focus on the difference, then all you see would be the difference. And if you want to see the similarity, you could always found it.

But it is all because of this he found that he no longer have that confidence.

Could he sacrifice the world for the person he loves?

When he could also understand others?

This is the most heart-breaking things.

Before you understood others, all you care about is yourself and the people around you.

But for a being like him, he is no longer quite mortal. And because he is no longer quite mortal, he could understand and accept things that no mortal could accept

He understand the emotions of even a beggar in the street, like he himself had experienced the life of this beggar. He could read and see the cause and effect.

There was one quote he remembers.

"If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man’s life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility."

Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.

And that is what he sees. He sees perspective.

Not one but many.

People have different perspective in viewing things and viewing events

But because he understood this, rarely there is an enemy that he truly hated.

Other than those sick people who truly does thing for depraved reason simply because they are too weak to restrain their darker impulses, most of the people and beings Azief had met had their own reason for doing things

And at times, even if they stand on different sides, Azief would respect them.

So, he is not confident. If one day he had to choose between his beloved and the world, could he really ignores the pleas, dreams, wishes of everyone in the world

If he doesn’t know, he might not care. But once he knew and once, he understood, can he truly be that heartless?

Azief had seen the regret of Wargod, the pleas and wishes of Borgan, and the hope of the Etherna in the form of a crystal.

He had also seen Azul who did not seem to care that much about his race being annihilated. After all, he was the one that burns his own race.

But there is a difference between these two. Etherna is a taboo and a forbidden topic in the Omniverse. Azul however had pass down method of his demonic ways.

(Demonic here does not refer to the same stigma of demons in Earth. Demonic here refers to the race)

And Azief sighed

"Just like anything else, I would not know the choice I would make until that time come to me"

Azief really does not know what he would choose now. After all, Sina had changed and he too had changed.

Sitting on one place for too long stagnate thinking and you would be confined by your own bias.

But if you travel and see the world, then you would think more and knows new things and your thinking would also become more mature.

Azief only chuckles at his own thoughts. He passed the small pond between the annex and reach the house. the door open when it detects him.

"Finally, Sina dismissed all of them" Sina sent a few of her hired hands to help him. But it is not like he needed any help.

And the more people that don’t know what he needed to do, the better. Robots could be hacked, but human hearts are unfathomable.

Azief sat down at the sofa and grab the remote and open the news.

[War in Pandemonium]

Azief click and the channel changed

[The Problem of the Untainted Land? Is it the fault of the World Powers or a Mistake in the Policy?]

Azief click again and this time it is a debate style shows

"I believe that the Untainted Land problem lies in the fact we coddle them too much. If we had allowed outside forces to enter, then they would not be deceived and tries to do something that would endanger themselves"

"Absurd! If we had allowed outside forces, what is the difference in creating the Untainted Land or not? Death Monarch created tat land as a sanctuary so that people could survive. It was a noble intention"

Someone chirped in

"The policy of non-interference is the best policy for that land. In a way, the world powers give the people of the Untainted Land freedom to shape their own world. Now, to blame the fault of the people there to the world powers and to Death Monarch is absurd!"

"I agree!"

Azief watching a few of the channel could see that it all focused on Pandemonium.

There is other conflict going on but what seems to be most [prominently displayed is none other than the conflict in Pandemonium

Even though Pandemonium is being bombarded right now, there is still people reporting the news.

Most of the news are news that are approved by the central government. But there is also news by the regime controlled by the three great generals. And there is also news by independent media.

Of course, the so-called independent media is not that independent.

He had waited long enough and seen things long enough.

It is time for him to make his move.

Azief watches it for a few minutes before he closed the television.

He is going.

Azief did not need to say anything to Sina. He already said it. And there is no need for farewell

"I will be returning" Azief then sat up and then walk outside the house and he look back at the white mansion in the distance

"I promise"

then with one step, he suddenly disappears.

The wind gust ruffles the curtain and Death Monarch is no longer there.

...

The capital

Azief is now in the capital.

Coming out of the space and time rift, he appears directly in the capital.

He appears just a few second ago and now he is already walking along the road and he could not help but sigh looking at the road

The cities is on fire. That is how he could describe it

He is here to see the death, the destruction, and the despair. And that is what he sees.

He did not care that much about the houses, or the buildings. They could easily be constructed again.

Lives however could not

But if he succeeded then he truly would...Azief smiles

"A one-time thing. Because there is no rules. But rules....rules should be established"

Azief knows why he could do this. Because he contained it on one localities. But if he were to break through and truly control the rules and laws of life and death, then he could not focus on the loss and gain of one place.

Sovereign...is supreme. Supreme in all Omniverse

Azief then looks at the building around him. Even though the building have ben destroyed, he could tell it is a house.

He squinted and then everything around the area of the house seems to be reconstructed back.

It is like he rewinds time.

This is not his rewinding time.

This is just him reading time.

In a way, it is like people watching a surveillance camera to see what happens before an incident

The difference is Azief is using time as his surveillance machine.

"Wang Jian really have powerful weapons if it could even breach the defensive formations. It is easy for me to break through it. But for him to break through it....his men must have created one hell of a weapon"

Azief could not help but mutter to himself.

Right now, even as Azief is strolling the battlefield, the soldiers of the capital and the soldiers of the Three Great Generals is fighting each other all over the place.

Azief is right now in the middle of a warzone. The only people in this area is military personnel.

And just like before, no one could sense that Azief, Death Monarch is walking amongst them

In the sky, there is hundreds....no, thousands of people creating a magic protection formation to held off the Battlestar.

Below there is tens of thousands of soldiers fighting each other. Some uses magical swords and spears and halberds.

Some use cold weapons like some warrior from the ancient past, but there is nothing ancient about the weapons that these people are using.

These are magical weapons.

Some of them when they swing their weapon created an energy slash so big it reaches twenty feet in height and sweep everything around them away.

It could cut mountain and seas

But the people fighting them are also the same. And some uses more sci fi weapons. Using plasma weapons, dark energy charged weapon, and even anti-gravity gun.

There is screams and there is shouting.

Azief is just walking around this battlefield like it is nobody business.

At times he watched this battle intently.

Sometimes, he seems to be captivated by some fighting and at times he would ponder things while looking at the rubble

And there is also a fight below the ground.

Azief could see it.

Even below there is battle. There is tunnels all over the city.

Some of the tunnel are buried under rubble but many of the tunnels still works.

Some of these tunnels were modified when he changes the geography. But clearly the military and the central government expanded the tunnels.

After all, these tunnel helps a lot of the resistance fighters during the occupation. If one day such situation were to happen again, then maybe it could help again.

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