The world was stopped, frozen in ti
Thick raindrops are suspended mid-air, hanging like crystal beads.
Flashes of lightning are frozen across the sky, illuminating the dark clouds in eerie, flickering patterns.
Each lightning bolt is a jagged sculpture of light, illuminating the scene with a ghostly, static glow.
The turbulent wind, which monts ago drove the rain sideways and rustled the trees, push people, trying to uproot lamppost is now a motionless force.
Leaves and debris that were caught in the wind's grasp hover in place, adding to the stillness.
Puddles on the ground are caught in the act of rippling, each wave and splash frozen in ti, creating a surreal mirror reflecting the immobile storm above.
"So, this is how it feels" Azief never feel controlling ti as sothing he studies very much. Among the people he knows, Jean would co to mind when it is about controlling ti
Azief once ask him why he studies ti.
Azief thought of many answer.
He might study it because of its benefit.
Ti, Life and Death are all connected sohow. In a way that is
Azief study is more about Death.
At least the Destruction part of Death.
Of course, as he matures, more and more his study touch upon life, creation, destruction, the source of all of these conflicts.
But when he first ask this question, Jean simply said, there is a sensation that only he could feel and understand in that mont of controlling ti.
It is an intoxicating feeling.
In that mont, you feel you are in control of everything. Like there is nothing that could do anything to you.
Because you control everything.
Azief also stop ti before. It is not hard for him to do. But he never felt like this. Now, he could feel every stillness in the world
And with one thought he could make this world always stays like this. One thought and it is enough
Azief knows his control of ti was never as good as Jean.
If they battle each other using the Laws and Rules of Ti, Azief bet, seven out of ten matches, he would lose terribly top Jean
Because he never felt such sensation when using such thod. But today he felt it.
"The Veil" Azief mutters to himself.
Even though his cultivation is now restored to the Essence Creation realm, this did not an that his control over the laws of ti suddenly propelled to such height.
The only explanation is that in the Veil, because he enters the Veil, and because he enters the bead through the Veil, in a way, the Veil amplify his powers.
Azief sighed
"The more I know, the more the world shows that I am still that frog that looks at the blue sky from the bottom of the well. I still did not know the vastness of the world and still very ignorant"
It is better than thinking he knows everything, he thought to himself. Dunning Krueger effect cos to his mind.
He chuckles a bit.
His chuckle echoes endlessly.
In this world without no sound, his only sound is obviously would echoes and beco very loud.
While it is good to appreciate the beauty of a still world, Azief did not forget why he is here and what he should do now.
He thought of sothing, and then his entire existence was teleported out of the apartnt. He is on the air, outside of the apartnt
The mont he appears in the sky, the rainwater avoids him.
But the mont he saw this, he frowned.
He look down.
He sees people that is running from the rain stopped in place.
He stopped ti because he wanted to confirm sothing.
Now that he confird it, he had so kind of new understanding about fate. About destiny. About cause and effect.
He sighed. And then he mutters to himself
"the fate and destiny of this world is too weak. Even this small changes could affect the big picture" Azief calculated in that brief span of ti that when he appears in the sky, when the water make way, one of the fate and destiny of the person below would be affected.
The small changes leads to big changes. In a high-level world small changes did not affect the future direction easily
Azief however understood why it is different in this case.
Because this world is a low-level world. And he a high level being stepped into this world. If
he only co to visit, it would simply just be like an alien visiting another planet.
It would not affect much of this world operation. But, he did not just visit. He did not just observe. He did sothing
And that makes all the differences
"Is this why those aliens simply tour Earth and did not do anything else?" suddenly these thoughts appears in his mind.
If Azief did that, nothing would change much about this world.
But when Azief begins changing fate and destiny, introducing things that did not exist in the
reality of this world, it forced this world to change its reality.
Azief believe that even after his departure, this world would begin to have so kind of
change.
He already could see so of its changes.
Hence, the mark that he gave to that girl.
In a way, it is kind of repaynt
"that girl has a kind heart. So, she is worthy of that mark. With that mark, the changes of the
world could be contained" he thought to himself.
Azief look around the world.
His Divine Sense spreads all over the world.
Unlike his world that is full of all kinds of mystical energy and all kinds of entities and forces,
it is no longer so easy to use Divine Sense to monitor the world.
But this world is not like his world.
So, it is very easy.
In just one sweep of his Divine Sense, he already got a rough idea what this world is like.
He also senses a few small magical energy but this small magical energy is already in the
verge of disappearing.
In other words, this world is he did not co today and created such change, the only possible developnt for this world is to rely on technology and science.
Using the natural laws of the world to strengthen their species.
Either they would be consud by this technology or break through their destructive nature
and go sails the stars is anyone guess.
But, now Azief could feel that the magic in this world is undergoing revival. One simple action
changed the world.
He saved that girl life. And saving her life changes this world.
Hence, it is only right that the responsibility to save this world should fall on the shoulder of
that girl.
And she has two guardians around her that would help her.
Azief could feel that sohow that girl would have sothing to do with him soday in the
future.
She did not have anything to do with him before.
But the mont Azief changes her fate, her fate is also bonded tightly with his fate.
Azief himself does not know whether this change is good or not. But he had done what he
wanted to do and in the process he understand sothing else
He closes his eyes and the mont he opens back his eyes; he is back in that space. Vast space
of darkness that is dotted by the light of stars.
He is back in front of the veil. He look at the bead in front of him and smiles
"That's life" he thought to himself.
He could see that the little girl grows up to beco quite adventurous.
The father and the mother never separate. A tragic couple in another life and a happy ever
after couple in another.
That kind of life...is it not perfect?
It is not always happy. It has its challenges.
But....in the end, the happy mories trumps the bad one.
Azief then look away from the bead and look at the Veil in front of him.
Azief felt a bit weird
"Did sothing change about the Veil?" he did not feel anything so he disregarded this.
He is calming himself down and trying to rember why he is here again.
He has bene in that world for almost a few decades.
Yes, he observe the life of these people. Years passes in those tis.
But Azief knows in the real world, all of this is happening in this Thought Space so ti is a
very confusing thing in this kind of space.
Azief believe that if he goes out from this place, only a few monts had passed in the real
world.
He took a breath,. And tries to rember why he is here.
And then he rembers.
He was about to learn the knowledge of the Etherna from the blue crystal and he enters into
the veil to see if there is any great changes in the future if he remains in seclusion for a long
ti.
He closes his eyes like he is digesting this old mories and freshening it back up. The
mory of Carol, Marissa and Graham in that world feel so raw.
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