Lord Shadow - Chapter 1577: The Ten Rings

Of course, this kind of behaviour could not be compared to him in the past.

After all, he has a bit of cowardly side.

Some people are born brave and some people have to fight and survive to become brave

Sometimes, you have to have this determination of do or die attitude to become brave.

One choice, one decision is the dividing line between cowardice and bravery.

And when Azief was young, he made this choice.

He made this choice when he fight against that giant crocodile on the shore of Pahang river.

He made this choice when he fights against that alien protector to get the Six Sabers. he made this choice many times.

He made the choice to be…..brave

But when he saw the vision that Erika had showed him of the future, the daring attitude he have towards life is not because he made a choice

It is because he knew.

Because he knew that fate and destiny could not let him die that easily

Luck and fortune is on his side.

But Azief also knows that fate and fortune is also fickle, like the gods and deities n(—….-)/.1()n

When he fears death, that is when his potential burns the brightest.

When he fears death, an in spite of it, keep dancing at those edges of death grasp, that is when he shines the brightest.

Knowing that you could die and still fighting it and keep running forward, missing death by an inch

Because all hopes, dreams, love, passion, all the good things in life could all disappear if he dies, because there is something at stake, that he could burst with the greatest power he could muster, overcoming his own limitation and going past beyond it.

The desire to survive, the desire to live.

But now…..now that he has no opponent in the world, what he fears is slowly disappearing.

He fears stagnancy.

He knows that outside of this world, there is all kinds of Supreme Beings.

Azul is one of them.

That is a Supreme Being that come from ancient times.

And when Azief mentioned ancient times here, he did not mean two or three thousand years ago but during those primordial times.

Azul was in existence during time infancy. When time itself just have its concept born in? the world.

This is an ancient being that is very old and very ancient.

And there is probably a few others lurking all over the Omniverse.

Each of them have terrible powers and magical abilities that would defy reality.

Even though a Divine Comprehension leveler could already be considered a powerhouse in the universe he knows that in some other galactic set, there is beings that is stronger than these.

“I need to fear death again” he mutters. And he close his eyes. Waiting for the fish to be roasted.

….

Under the luminous moonlight, Azief tree house stood as a quaint oasis amidst the serene forest.

It is neither too large nor too small, striking a harmonious balance with its natural surroundings.

The tree house is divided into three cozy bedrooms, each adorned with simple yet rustic furnishings.

Azief has crafted an ingenious lighting system using a special mineral that gently illuminated the space when activated.

This allowed the interior to maintain an exotic yet soothing ambiance, seamlessly blending with the forest’s beauty.

As he sat within the tree house, Azief could feel the gentle breeze brushing against his skin, the coolness of the night air contrasting with the warm illumination inside.

The sounds of the forest provided a soothing backdrop, crickets chirping in harmony with the distant rustle of leaves.

The moon, a radiant orb in the clear night sky, cast long, captivating shadows through the tree branches that framed his dwelling.

Then he sat down on the floor and take one of the handkerchiefs lying around on the floor and then laid it out in front of him.

And then he slowly pulls the rings from his finger. Many people knows that Aeryon had ten rings he wears around his fingers

But not many people knows the power of these rings.

And he put down a blue crystal.

“these rings. This crystal. That roar. The Gate. All of it might be connected” he thought to himself.

These rings might be Ethernian in nature. If that is the case…..then these rings must be some kind of a powerful item.

The Ten Rings are all powerful items, each one with all kinds of ability. As for the blue crystal it seems to have some kind of ability to alter reality itself.

It was this blue crystal that save him and manage to keep the condensed Law Avatars from splitting back up into Law Avatars when he was trying to break through to Essence Creation.

“But, how do I access it?” Azief ask himself. He had tried many methods. He tries to break it. But even with his powers, none of it could break this blue crystal.

He had also tried to put energy into the blue crystal. While it did absorb the energy, it did not show any sign of being activated.

“Is there something I am missing?” he asks himself and he sighed. He has been trying to access this blue crystal for a few weeks now.

Then he changes his gaze to look at the Eternal Rings.

He took one of the rings and the moment he took it, he could feel an echoes and in his ears is the sound of a song, like a hymn, like an anthem, like a melodic sound that exist in all of existence.

Hard to explain, even harder to describe.

Azief could tell that this must be the Ring of Songs.

Azief rarely uses this ring.

But since he is in the forest, secluding himself, sometimes he would sing the songs that he got from the rings. These songs don’t have lyrics and the words are not something that he recognizes.

But when he sings it, he could “feel” the meaning of the song. It doesn’t make sense but nothing about the rings make sense.

It is like you don’t need words to understand the song. And when he sings it, it felt like he had been singing it for a long time

Before, he had the Song of Poisonous Mist. The effect of the song is to create poisonous mist.

But the song is fueled by emotion, like a kind of magic that synchronize and vibe with the world.

This song in particular, is born from his evil thought, from his poisonous heart. The negative your mind, the more powerful this song became.

There is also the Song of Sun and Moon

When he sings this song, he could not help but cry, a melody so sad, a kind of feeling of sorrow that mourns the end of sunset and the beginning of dawn

This one song seems to have many intangible effects.

There are a few others like Hymn of Disaster

Singing this hymn create lighting storms, dust storm, earthquakes, sky splitting thunder storms in the skies, and flooding acid rain that melts metal.

The clouds would be dissipated and the sun rays would be turned into a poisonous light ray that melts skins and kills plants and other living things

There is also the Ten Thousand Song of Life

There are ten thousand songs transmitted into his mind. These ten thousand songs are actually one song.

Ten thousand song and stories compressed into one song titled the Ten Thousand Song of Life.

there is no hint of what emotions that he had to channel when singing the song. And these songs are like a song that stuck into his head. And now, after a while, he found something special about these song

Forget all the song he learns. Forget all the melodies, the anthems. The Ring of Songs is like a conduit

He did not need to know the name of the song. He did not need to sing it one way or the other.

What he needed to do is sing and feel the song. There is no lyrics needed.

Those who could understand the song, could understand the feeling behind the song. It is like a person who heard a sound and the sound moved a person heart so much that one could not help but be affected by it

But the Songs that Azief would sing, would stimulate the laws of the world.

Like a Song that has been sung from the beginning of time. Like a Song that echoes endlessly across the ages.

A sound, a voice echoes and reverberates and each song brings alive new worlds.

So, Azief has found a way of how to uses this ring. This ring probably has more songs to offer. But he also knows there is no need to follow the knowledge given to him by this ring.

Because each song, as long as he thinks of it, and thinks of it hard enough, he could materialize it by singing

He put down the ring. And then he took another ring. And this is the Ring of Words.

The moment he picks it up, there is voices in his ears and in his mind, he could see words.

Though none of the words that is floating in his mind right now is words he could understand.

Every once in a while, he could see alphabets that he could understand and comprehend but there are also words and alphabets he did not understand

But most of them are words and alphabets he had never seen before and never heard before.

Maybe, it is because he sealed his energy and he is now a mortal that he could experience these kinds of things.

Before, he did not hear the song and did not see the words.

Or maybe, there is something that changed about him that made him able to feel a deeper connection with these rings.

He did not know which is which.

The Ring of Words as he understands it is a ring that possesses words.

That is his current understanding about this ring.

It is a ring that possess words.

But what kind of words?

Forbidden words, ancient words, taboo words.