The Palace of Time was no longer quiet. A hum that could barely be sensed was slowly becoming louder. This was the sound of the Origin of Time, and this entire palace was the sublimation of that Origin.
Rowan had discovered through his battles with the Primordials that they all carried multiple Origins. They had plundered many Realities before Eosah, and the last thing they were lacking was Origin.
Of all the Primordials that Rowan had killed, he had been able to harvest only a single unit of Origin Force, which was the one from this Reality. He had lost out, but he had no choice; to kill a Primordial without exhausting their Origin Force was impossible.
However, Xyris, Primordial Time, had given Rowan a gift; he had allowed himself to fade without battle, thereby preserving all the Origin Force he had.
It was important to note that technically Rowan was still an Old One, and he was deliberately stalling his ascension to the ninth-dimensional level because he was sure that once he crossed that road, any changes made to his body would become fixed, and he would be able to build only from the foundations he had made.
As an Old One, he was able to easily dominate Primordials inside Reality due to multiple factors, and one of those factors was that he also possessed Origin himself and numerous different types.
Still, each of the Origin types had only had one unit, but from what he was sensing arising from this palace, there were as many as fifteen Origin Units of Time left behind!
Granted for Primordials, fifteen units of Origin Force were nothing. Primordial Demon had twenty, Primordial Chaos had thirty-five, and Primordial Soul had eighty-seven. 𝒇𝓻𝓮𝓮𝙬𝙚𝒃𝒏𝓸𝙫𝒆𝙡.𝓬𝓸𝒎
It did not do much to help them, only delay their death, although Rowan was lucky that he was able to open a pathway to Limbo during his battle with Primordial Soul as he discovered that the act of resisting the pull of her main body had drained a lot of Origin Force from the Primordial, else with so much Origin Force in her body and Rowan not fully used to his new powers, then there had been a high chance that he might have lost the fight.
Fate and Destiny had been on his side on that day, and everything that followed was a result of that battle.
So, Rowan knew that for the Primordials, more Origin Force acted like a form of battery; it was most likely that their main bodies could do more with this Origin Force, but their offshoots inside Reality were not able to do so.
Every Reality was different, which meant every Origin Force was also different. The Altar of Unmaking found at the center of Primordial Soul’s Origin did not come from this Reality, even the hammer came from another Reality.
Rowan was sure that the ability to utilize Origin Force for more than just batteries was possible for the Primordials, but this power had been removed from the ones inside of Reality.
But that limitation did not extend to him.
There was no telling the possibilities that could arise from exploring the Origin Force of fourteen alien Realities, but Rowan was sure that the final key to unlock his path to the Primordial Level would be found in them.
Rowan was a mutant, an abomination, but at his core, he was Eos, a Reality. His path of ascension was supposed to be different from a Primordial, yet he was harnessing both the traits of a Primordial and a Reality simultaneously.
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