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 so kind of force, instead, it is Azief using the power of ti.
Ti stopped and he is the only one that could move right now. The whole world is like this. All of their ti stopped.
In a distance, far away from Vietnam, in the other side of the world, there is soone who is ditating 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 mont, the matrixes stop, this person opens his eyes and look toward the distance.
"Death Monarch!" This person that exclaid Death Monarch is none other than Jean.
Jean look toward the distance, trying to found the source of this ti disturbance, but he could not find nothing
It was like there is sothing shielding him
"Death Monarch becos 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, ditating on a cave, soone 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 ti. And when he look beside him, looking at Oreki, he frowns.
He could see Oreki standing still. There is ti laws that is suspended in place.
"is it Jean?" Hikigaya tries to move but even moving one of his fingers is extrely hard.
"My understanding of ti is not that proficient. I could escape a bit but I could not move easily in this kind of ti suspension" he thought to himself.
Unlike Jean, he could not identify who is the one using the Ti Law.
But there is only three candidates in his mind. Jean, Death Monarch or the Heavenly Will.
Hikigaya could only wait for this mont to pass.
At the sa ti, he was thinking that maybe he should also master so of the intricacies of Ti Laws.
If not, one day, when he is to battle with such a person who master the Ti Laws, the outco of such battle would be catastrophic for him
Right now, even though he could still be awake under this ti suspension, he could barely move. If the one stopping this Ti 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 ti
From the beginning, he already knows that so people would be able to remain aware during his Ti Stopping.
It is not like in the past where he could easily froze the entire world
There is also other people that have so proficiency in ti laws.
The only few that could escape from this ti 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.
Ti had already move in normal way. Azief look at the fish on the long stick and sile
"My ability to control Tiem has increased in proficiency" he thought to himself
But to use such magic I still have to use a lot of my power and energy" Azief could feel that most of his energy is drained.
Because to really control ti, you could not only control ti on a certain region. You have to control ti to reach a level where everything truly stopped
And to do that, you also have to connect with the heaven and earth and everything beyond it.
If Jean could break though to Essence Creation, Azief is quite sure that he would beco even more powerful in his use of the rules and laws of ti.
However, Azief did not want to think about such thing right now.
Instead, he uses all the spices that he took in Vietnam to add to his fishes. So he make a
soup.
And using a few onions, salts, onion leaves, and a few anchovies, he made soup
He also bought a few pots and cooked a fried fish.
Azief might have taken all of this without the permission of the owner, but he did pay them by leaving a few energies stones
Azief look at the dishes that he have cook and he smiles
"It seems my cooking skill is not yet rusty" he thought to himself. For so reason I felt like he had returned to the days before the Fall
Azief, if asked, whether he would want to return to the days before the Fall, would surely said
no
Because in the world before the Fall, he was a nobody. he has no one and he has no desire to
live
But in this new world, he is soone.
He has soone.
And he has the desire to live. Because only when he is confronted with death, he feels the
preciousness of life.
But just because he did not want to return to the world before the Fall, does not an that every once in a while he would not miss it
He eats and for a mont, he relishes this mont. Eating and drinking, like mortal, appreciating the mortal dust and the six emotions
Then he lied down on the shore, hearing the sound of the sea feeling the sand on his body, and then in the afternoon, the rain falls.
The weather around here is hard to predict. Azief opens his eyes. He is now half naked. He wears shorts. His body wears nothing.
He sit up, his eye look toward one direction of the island. His eyes could see further than anyone in the world and as he squint his eyes, he could see that a thousand kilotres away, there is soone breaking through to Disk Formation realm.
Azief only smiles at this.
"So, that is why it is raining"
Azief look again at the sky and he frowns a bit.
Even though Azief breakthrough, Raymond and Oreki breakthrough drains the energy of the world, it also increase the quality of energy in this world.
Azief when he breathes in, breathes the energy of this world and when he breathes out, that
energy is refined and rges with the world.
There is give and take here. Azief did not care that much about the person breaking through in
the distance.
Instead, he just look at the light rain that continued to fall.
"It has been a long ti 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 ti passing by, appreciating everting around him. The waves of the ocean, the scent of the sea, the sand beneath his skin,
everything and anything
Ti flashes quickly for him. Or he could enjoy it in a different way, making things appear to
be slow.
A mont of eternity trapped in a second.
A second becos an eternity.
He is not using so kind of ti laws to affect ti 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 movent
of the wind, of ants, of crabs of fishes, of thunder and lightning
Everything beco 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 sothing. Sothing he had felt before, but always loses its grasp in the last
minute. Now, he felt it again
And he smiles.
He realizes sothing. It was more like he sense it. The Grand Path that he seeks could be find
only when he is calm.
Perfection ans stillness.
And so, he sat still.
And then he smiles.
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