The Primordial Record novel Chapter 1856

Chapter 1856: A Necessary Struggle

Rowan felt like he was in hell… How long had he been here and fighting this unending battle?

“BOOM!!! CRASH…. ROAR!!!”

Terrifying waves of power erupted from his body and spirit, shredding through billions of tonnes of skeletons that were directly falling over his head.

He was only defending himself, and that meant with his talent and battle arts, he could technically last forever, but his mind was rapidly nearing its limit.

‘How long had he been battling beneath the rain of bones?!”

A part of Rowan had been keeping the time at the beginning. He thought the rain of bones would not last for long, but after a million years, he began to rethink this position.

A hundred billion years passed, and Rowan was still struggling to fly higher into the sky. With the fall of bones, the ground was beginning to rise to meet him slowly, and if he did not want to be buried forever, he could only push on.

Ten trillion years passed, and Rowan was still fighting.

A hundred trillion years…

Two hundred trillion…

Eighth hundred trillion…

Five septillion years…

One hundred septillion years…

It was around this time that Rowan believed that a part of him stopped counting the years, and the thought that this rain of bones would have an ending vanished. The immortal energy that had been entering his body had vanished a long time ago; it had barely lasted for a hundred years before they were exhausted.

If Rowan did not have access to the techniques he had created in the past on a whim, and had depended on passively absorbing the immortal strength bestowed by this place, he would not have been able to live more than a century before he perished. Now, he had fought for so many years to survive that time had become truly meaningless to him.

All he knew was that he must never stop fighting to survive. He needed answers, and he would get them one way or the other. What else was there to do?

As Rowan battled, over time something amazing began to happen… cut off from his main body Eos, and forced to rely on techniques that he had created for frankly lesser beings than him, he had been reduced to a state where he could no longer hold on to his past majesty.

Rowan’s expression did not change, even as new insights began to fill his mind. Directions he was not aware of were taking shape, as the layer beyond Origin began to open up for him. Yet if he factored in the speed of his comprehension, it meant he would spend countless years to make meaningful progress.

“What else am I to do? To avoid the fate of madness that is slowly creeping into this mind, an improvement in my spirit and body would allow me to hold on for as long as it would take… even if it means I have to remain here forever. I hope… No, I don’t need to hope, my Will is eternal, even if it is only a fragment that remains in this body.”

Focusing on his endless battle, Rowan continued his motions of channeling annihilating flames overhead to destroy the falling bones, while refining the shield around his body to tackle those that slipped through the flames.

A lot of these bones came from mortal beings, but a vast number were also immortals, and their bones could survive the flames of annihilation long enough to slam into his body. This was the true danger, as Rowan had nearly been crushed under some powerful bone countless times now and had stopped counting when his near-death experience surpassed a trillion.

Normally, his mind would be wandering, bringing forth various possibilities of where he was and the reason he was stuck here for so long, or even if this flow of time affected his main body, but there was no space for that, other than survival and improvement.

Suddenly, Rowan made an unexpected move, and instead of pointing the flames of annihilation upward, he thrust them to the side, and they were not just flames; he had woven them into chains.

It initially appeared as though he had just thrown these flaming chains across a space filled with nothing but falling bones, but they snagged something that was not bone, and the chains wrapped around it.

A series of shockwaves mixed with an unknown purple element erupted from Rowan’s body that vaporized the bones falling above him for hundreds of light-years. This should give him enough time to tackle the entity that had been observing him all this time.