The Primordial Record novel Chapter 1949

Chapter 1949: Breaking The Cage of Time

All the while that Noctis had been speaking, only his mouth and eyes had been moving. He had his face turned towards Rowan and his body facing the forge. He was still like a statue, making Rowan wonder whether the person talking to him was just a representation of this temple, not an individual being.

It was odd that the remaining eight members here still remained frozen, despite the presence of Rowan, and made no move to reveal themselves, and with the cloak on their bodies, Rowan could not tell if they were awake or dead.

Rowan remained silent when Noctis spoke of many things that he did not know; he knew an obvious trap when he saw it. The words of Noctis were highly insensitive; it was like blaming a cripple at birth that he could not run.

However, existence was intrinsically unfair, and Rowan had enjoyed many of the benefits of that unfairness. The only reason he could stand over the multitude and relatively have so few enemies was because Existence could accommodate a being like him whose presence supersedes many rules.

Noctis waited for a few minutes, and Rowan just watched him, his eyes glowing with weird lights as Eos directly took charge of his sight and began to investigate the anomaly before him.

The weird smile on Noctis’s face slowly disappeared, and he grimaced, "You are not going to be easy to work with."

"You mean easy to manipulate," Rowan countered, "Then no... I will not be your mark. I have a war on hand, and I have no time for games such as these. I do not need all the answers if I have the biggest stick."

Noctis grinned, "And do you... have the biggest stick?"

Rowan looked around, "This place is strange, time does not exist here, and this is an advantage, but also a disadvantage."

Like a puppet being controlled by an invisible puppeteer, the arms of Noctis arose, and he gestured to the temple around him, "This place has resisted the hunger of the Primordials for sixty-five Cosmic Eras; what better test can there be?"

Rowan smiled, "My test...

The entire space around them vibrated for a brief second, and Noctis went still, "What is..."

"VROOOMMM!"

A deep humming sound shook the air as the vibration of the temple exploded in intensity, and Noctis screamed, "Stop whatever you are doing this instant, or you will destroy the last chance that Existence has for survival."

The vibration continued, and Noctis growled like a rabid animal, "No more games, Rowan. I will tell you everything you need to know."

Rowan gestured, and the vibration stopped, "Noctis," he said, "Don’t fuck with me, I have long exceeded my limit for games."

A few minutes after the vibration ended, Noctis still appeared to be tense, and he looked at Rowan deeply, "This place should be sacrosanct, and the time stream here should be inviolable. Without our permission, nothing should change this rule... this is the foundation of this temple!"

Rowan shrugged, "That time stop, yes, I felt it. The moment I entered this place, you would think that all of my Incarnations I have outside would fall into the time stream of this temple, and you are not wrong. I cannot break the rule of this temple... I just have to outpace it."

It was worth noting that many of his Incarnations lacked bodies. Eos had reached a point in his life where he had no natural or supernatural predators, and his enemies were the greatest of outliers in existence, and so the need for having multiple bodies to deal with issues had become nonexistent, since he could just easily will away the problems.

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