Return of the Fallen Volume 12 Chapter 61
After Arc finished locating a far-off low-tier city. Kazuki wasted no time and flew faster than the speed of light. Kazuki through the wilds of this world at such an unbelievable speed that most things were left completely unaware of his passing. Those that were powerful enough to sense him felt a terrifying pressure roam overhead and choose to stay clear and away lest death takes them on swift tides.
After a few days of travel, Kazuki arrived at one of the smallest as well as poorest cities on this random, nameless world. Kazuki landed a few million miles away and raced across the land on foot.
Millions of Gods had witnessed the way he fled Satruss city. They had seen Kazuki flee using his Golden Gauntlet. If he were to approach another city whilst using his Gauntlet, he would be declaring to the whole world look, here I am.
Kazuki had no doubt that all cities across this world already knew of him. The shadow had taken the body of a powerful God. Though Kazuki did not know who this God was exactly, from what he sensed and observed, the God the shadow inhabited commanded millions of other Gods. In order for information about Kauzki to spread from one city to the next the most obvious method was the Stargates in every city.
What took him days of travel, would take other Gods using Vajra ships months sometimes even years. With a Stargate, however, that time was cut down to seconds. Spreading his info, the shadow most likely already took the initiative to do so.
Before arriving at the city, Kazuki made a brief stop. He searched his memories for a new disguise. After traveling around the Lower Realms with Mei, Kosaru, his aunt Alutra and his uncle Lin, Kazuki had peered into the soul of trillions of individuals and seen every single memory they’ve ever had.
Forming a new identity was as simple as counting from one to two. With perfect control over every cell in his body. With a thought he recalled a person from one of the many Lower Realms he passed through and with it, his face quickly began to change shape. Eyes not too far and not too close together brows a little thicker than before. Nose slightly pointed with brown hair. His bones creaked and popped as he shrunk more than a foot in height. His arms and legs thinned slightly as he took on an average build.
He became a man in his late 20’s. His looks from every angle appeared to be average. Average height average build average face. From a normal glance, average is exactly how he would appear to be. As for his magic, now that shadow had a whiff of what his magic felt like, he could not just go around using it at random. At the same time, this would not be much of a problem.
Kauzki recalled exactly how the man’s soul and power felt. Using his soul-reading ability, it was not difficult to mimic the man’s soul in nearly every way. This meant even the magic he used would feel exactly the same as the man from his memory.
(The shadow will never be able to see through this identity. Just as he could not sense the depths of my power without getting close, so long as he is not nearby, my disguise will escape him every single time.)
Back in Satruss, one of the reasons the shadow was so cautious of Kazuki was because it could not see through his power. When they finally got within range of one another and exchanged strikes, only then did the shadow understand Kazuki’s power a bit more. Even then, Kazuki’s full power was not discovered and many things were kept hidden but enough got out so he understood it was best to go undercover just in case.
Kazuki couldn’t help but chuckle thinking about this.
*Hehah*
As soon as he laughed he grimaced slightly before he changed the muscles in his throat. His vocal cords became thinner in some places and thicker in others before he tried laughing again.
*Heheha*
“Much better.”
Now he sounded exactly like the man from his memory.
Exchanging the clothes he wore with something a bit plainer in the Gauntlet’s inner space. Kazuki now looked the part to a T.
Speaking a few more times, he sounded the part and changed his gait to fit the man’s walk and movement as well. From the outside in, Kazuki was now a man called Medatte.
Kazuki made his way to the city. Quickly yet not so quickly to raise suspicions he arrived. The city was much smaller than any other he’d been to previously. The walls were considerably smaller and he could sense very little power coursing through them.
There were only a few people entering the city and at the gate, only one guard stood charge lazily. The guard wasn’t even looking at Kauzki as he passed through.
The moment he entered the city he could tell just how poor it really was. Even though this was a city in a Higher Realm, the streets were small and cracked all over. The city was filled with people and humanoid beat-like creatures that were all below the 3rd stage. Most of them held a slave mark upon their head and within this entire city, he could count both the Gods and Demigods on a single hand.
The air quality was scarce of magical energy. Usually one would find traces of Divine energy in the air. In this city, though there was absolutely none. In fact, all of the Divine energy that Kauzki felt was either within the wall or those few individuals he sensed half a moment ago.
Everywhere he walked there was poverty to be found. Dirt and filth lined the city and every building was dilapidated and in need of repair. Usually, these buildings would self-repair using the energy within the city but again, there just was none to be spared.
Even the wares on the street to be sold were all second-hand items. Everything was used and old. Kazuki wondered just why this place was so…desperate.
(These people, why stay when there is this much poverty? Most of these people still require food and water in order to survive but even those needs don’t seem to be met adequately.)
(Kazuki nearly all of them have slave marks across their foreheads. These people have no freedom to leave. Most likely it is the person running this city that keeps it in such a sorry state. As for why, well you can sense the energy around this place, it’s simply too scarce.)
Codex was right. The magical energy in the area was almost nonexistent. Not just in the city but within the surrounding area. For well over half a million miles, the energy was very low and of weak quality.
(Cities don’t just appear, they are built. Marty once told me that these cities are built up in places that have an overabundance of Divine energy. Several Gods come together to create a city and surround it with walls and defenses so that they can monopolize the vast amounts of Divine energy. Because of this, they attract other Gods and Demigods to the area and they really become cities then. That’s just for small worlds like this. Outside where there are countless planets under the belt of single Gods, the amount of Divine energy they have access to is indescribable. Wars are fought over these domains, these star paths. I guess when that energy gets all but used up, you end up with poor cities like this after a while.)
(That’s one possibility Kazuki. Another could be that they simply chose the wrong spot. Can one see the supply of Divine energy before they put shovel to dirt? Building up these cities cannot be an easy task. If you choose the wrong location to set up shop and it turns out your ocean is merely a pond, well, I guess you could say your shit out of luck at that point. In the end, you reach the sunk cost fallacy and it just never seems to end. Humans tend to reach rock bottom and they run out of many things, time, resources, and so on and so they are forced to give up or die. Gods are different. They have a sense of pride that cannot be broken by normal methods. With an infinite lifespan and eccentric personalities, all they can do is sink further until they end up in this state. Fools.)
Kazuki completely agreed with Codex. Gods were oddballs, to say the least, and to change one’s mind after they’ve put in eons of time and effort. To tear them away from their goals and dreams was basically impossible. Maybe at one point, this place was a hot spot and filled with pure Divine energy but someone must have miscalculated. The energy ran out and in the end, this poor city and those inside could not be kept afloat.
Kazuki could sense the few Gods in the city. A God could go basically anywhere yet here they stayed. It told him they had their own flawed dreams and these dreams of obsession could not be swayed bartered or broken.
(The Gods in charge of this city can only fail. They already know this but still, they won’t give up.)
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