Lord Shadow

This Will power is the most arbitrary power.

Because it could not be quantified the way some other method of destruction or creation.

For example, if you conjure up a fireball, the range and the destructiveness of the fire ball could be somewhat quantified as long as that fireball did not enter the conceptual realm

How hot the fireball is?

How big it is?

The speed it is travelling?

The strength of the being that is hurling fireball.

Whether the fireball is affected by the speed or friction of the rules and laws of physics.

With all of this, the range and effect of the fireball could be calculated somehow.

But will power.

Willpower is useful and sometimes very powerful.

In magic that are more conceptual than the one based of the rules and laws of the Universe, Willpower is kind of a catalyst or shield.

At times, it could overwhelm the magic of other and other times it could repel the magic of others.

But Willpower.....this term, this kind of magic, depends on situation and mood and even the state of mind of the one using it.

It is not static.

Sometimes one have strong will power.

Sometimes, in a moody mood or in a pessimistic situation, the Willpower is low. A bad day or a good day could change someone Willpower. Certain personal tragedy, personal joy could also affect it.

Mindset, determination, and all kinds of factor could affect it.

That is the case.

Out of the many method of magic, this one is the most unreliable. Because it is the hardest to quantify

No, it could be quantified. Because Willpower did not remain the same and it did not have a constant.

So, to train Willpower is hard. Because it is not so easily defined, quantified or even seen and measured.

And even if somehow you could measure it, the measurement would always be different depending on the time and circumstances that one is facing

That gate that nearly forced him to self-terminate actually honed his will.

Though, now that he reached this point, he likes to think this is also a part of his destiny, a part of his luck and fortune and maybe that was what meant to happen.

Wargod said....no, hinted at him, that this did not happen before.

That word alone seems to held all kinds of meaning but Azief somehow understood.

Maybe in the other timeline, he was no worthy enough for valuable enough for Wargod to open up this gate for him

Then, why does Azief still think he is destined for it

Because he also understood that maybe his future and his past had changed.

And so, knowing time and space rules and how they act, they would try to correct it and make it return to original path.

So, when Wargod confess to it, he really did not know whether to thank him or curse him

Could he even blame him knowing that it might fate and destiny itself trying to course correct his fate?

So, at that time, they simply did not talk much about it. Azief did not mention it much and Wargod did not bring it up unless he brings it up

"How did it go again?" he thought to himself

"Ah" he suddenly remembers and he activated all of his thirteen energy. And the moment he did this, all thirteen of his Disk emanated powerful fluctuation of energies that even the space around the stairway seems to shake

"It seems reaching this realm of Sovereign, even though it is not yet fully completed had made me able to move this Stairway" he mutters to himself

And he could not help but laugh

Ina way, he felt like he was about to finish the game

And then he took the step and then he appears in a different space.

All around him is rips of space. Three thousand space rips. No, more

This is not the same place where he arrived before

"Different places for different experience" he thought to himself

that is the only thing he could think of

When he look at the space rips he notice that it is more.

More than three thousand rips.

His eyes now could see further than he could before. Right now, he is in the state of Sovereign without being a Sovereign

Because his tribulation is still waiting for him.

But right now he is like in a vacuum space.

The cause and effect could not reach him, time and space could not reach him and as such, there is this weird phenomenon that he is stuck like this.

Inside a Sovereign tribulation, possessing the power of a tribulation and the cultivation of a Sovereign

The tribulation and hardship of the Sovereign realm should be the normal experience.

But because he is on the stairway, all is frozen. So, right now he have almost like a Sovereign power.

His sense before could never reach this far and travel this far away from the stairway.

But now, he could see the three thousand rips of space and see more than that.

Countless of space rips.

And when he urged his divine sense to look at this space rips he discover something else.

Inside the rips are countless universes.

And inside those universes, in its vastness there is also rips of space

But those people living in those planets could not see those rips simply because the rips is so far away from their planets.

Million and even trillion to the factor of ten or more further than their technology could measure

But there is also countless of such rips.

And when Azief send his Divine Sense into those rips, there he sees another tens of thousands of universes

Almost like a Matryoshka doll. Almost feel like it is endless.

And then Azief sighed and he retract back his divine sense

And then he look at his front.

No longer nervous, no longer afraid.

A smile on his face.

A kind of smile that is hard to understand

He himself did not know why he smiles

It is almost like the kind of smile you gave when you see something familiar.

Something you forgotten but then suddenly remembers.

There is a lot of things that happens the moment he walk in this stair.

He formed his Perfect Disk by walking on this stairway and from this stairway he become connected with the cause and effect of the Monkey Sage

He met his other disciple Xi Feng and he had his own kind of enlightenment on that world. He also gain the flute and even though he rarely uses it, he knows someday he had to use it

The more he understood the cause and effect of the world, and the world cause and effect on him, he sems to have an uncanny ability to know when certain things would happen and when it should happen

The reason why he rarely uses that flute is not because he did not trust the power contained in that flute.

It is because there is nothing yet that could force him to use that flute.

Well, there is that meeting and that meeting leads to more cause and effect.

The more one tries to see and tries to unravel it, the more one become untangled and he could not help but think all of those moments as something that form him today.

There is a lot of things that happen to him that would not have happened to him if he did not walk this steps.

And for some reason, whether because of the connection he had forged because of it or because of the memories related to it, Azief could only smile

In front of him is that step.

Thirteen step of stairs.

But it is illusory.

He had destroyed that step when he walk to the end.

But now, it appears again.

But illusory. Like a mirage.

But the power on that step is even more prevalent than it was when he walk that step all those years ago.

He laughed

"As magnificent as ever" he mutters.

The steps stand still in the space almost like they were nailed shut by some cosmic force. Almost like it is floating in the epicentre of the entire Universe.

The statue" he mutters.

Some of those statue, he knows who it belongs to.

Some, he did not.

But it is all those who had step on that road. And all of them deserves respect.

He smiles

The thirteen steps are bathed in light.

And the energies coming out of it does not seem fake.

And then Azief notices it. the energy is gathering towards him.

Entering his body.

Azief eyes narrows and then an understanding dawn upon him.

Different people have different trials and tribulations when reaching Sovereign realm.

But he focused only on the trials and tribulations and forgot that as much as there is trials and tribulation to reach that realm, there is also gifts and blessing along the way, luck and fortune that could not be explained, all kinds of fortuitous encounters and fortuitous events

All of that also makes up all of his journey....the good and the bad. Azief smiles for a moment.

"I thought I would be sending you off." He laughed again and smiles and shakes his head like he could not believe it.

"It seems you are sending me off" the thirteen steps are tribulations. It is a trial. But once you passed it, it is a gift.

A blessing.

A bundle of luck and fortune.

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