The Primordial Record novel Chapter 2001

Chapter 2001: Too High A Price

"Oh, is that the case?" Eos muttered as he stretched forth his hand and seized Noctis once more. It did not matter that the Primordial tried to struggle, even when he used various unknown methods alien to this Existence; the suction power from Eos’s hand was countless times stronger than what any Primordial could conjure.

Already knowing the defenses of his mind, Eos easily crushed Noctis’s defenses, and this time, the consciousness spear he stabbed into Noctis’s core was a hundred. Causing the body of the Primordial to freeze in shock before disintegrating into ash.

He had gained ten times more data from Noctis’s mind this time, but Eos was not fully focused on what he had acquired; the major part of his consciousness was on the Essence of Screaming Void in his Origin Realm and noticing the methods it was using to draw upon the power of his Essence to feed the resurrection of Noctis without his consent.

With his control over his energy and essence, such a thing should be impossible, but it seemed that rooting Primordials in his realm, while it gave him benefits, also opened a backdoor for manipulation.

Inside his Origin Land were streams of Origin Essence from all the Primordials who had rooted themselves in his Realm, he watched the Essence of Screaming Void infect his flesh and draw out power, and while Eos knew he could slow down this process by starving the areas surrounding the Essence of Screaming Void from accessing his energy, this was simply treating the symptoms and not the root cause.

There was a rule inside his realm that had taken charge without his knowledge. It was as if he wished for the light and the heat of the sun, but he had been unaware that, as a side effect, the sun came with quite a powerful gravitational force around it. Except that he completely purged his body of the Essence of Screaming Void, his body would always try to feed this Essence power in order to resurrect Noctis.

It was as if every Primordial inside him was being seen as his natural defenses, and when they were hurt, his body would attempt to heal them; they were now a part of him. The problem with this was that some of these parts were cancerous, and cutting them out was not that easy.

For now, Eos took this option. He isolated the Essence of Screaming Void inside his Realm, and although power still flowed towards it. Eos calculated that with the present transfer rate of power, it would take a few billion years at the least for Noctis to return. Still, it was annoying that he could not do something more permanent to solve this problem at once.

However, Eos knew there would be time to sort out this mess later. Right now, there were bigger fish to fry. The Ancient Primordials, Death, and the Abomination had only been pushed back, not defeated, and they would not leave Eos to take charge of all the power inside the Primordial Record.

It was a shame that Eos would not be giving them any opportunity to stop him.

Eos addressed the New Primordials, "You can all return to your Realms of choice. I would be summoning you all when I am done with the preparation of our outer defenses."

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