The Primordial Record novel Chapter 2021

Chapter 2021: The Cost of Resurrection

Watching Noctis, the Primordial of Screaming Void, come to life was a learning experience because Eos could see that Noctis had no choice but to come to life, because before his mind was awake, his body had almost been brought to completion.

The process of resurrection for a Primordial was resource-intensive, but for Eos, it was only a slight loss of power before his regeneration took care of everything. However, Eos had come to realize that this was not all the cost associated with resurrecting a Primordial; the true bearer of this weight came from his soul.

After killing Noctis a couple of times, Eos had not noticed that his soul had lost a small part due to the pressure of the situation, and because he had unleashed powers that harmed his soul when he was fighting with the Abomination.

It was after the battle that he was able to digest all the benefits and losses from the fight that he realized that a part of his soul had been lost forever, technically, it was not lost, the right term would be permanently borrowed.

When a being becomes a Primordial, everything about them is crushed into their Origin, including their souls. It means they no longer had any conventional weakness, and soul attacks, no matter how powerful, were useless against a Primordial; their effects were the same as other attacks to a Primordial, and the only thing they would be losing is their Origin Essence.

In that sense, Primordials were immune to everything... up to an extent. In a fair Existence where Rowan, the Ancient Primordials, and beings like the Beast of Inevitability and the Beast of Final Rest, Enoch, and the power of End did not exist, then a Primordial was invincible.

It was easy to forget that a drop of Primordial Essence was considered infinite, as a single drop of Essence could power all the inhabitants of a Reality, from mortals all the way to Old Ones, for all eternity. 𝕗𝐫𝚎𝗲𝘄𝐞𝕓𝐧𝕠𝘃𝕖𝐥.𝐜𝚘𝚖

For such a being to die and resurrect, the price paid by the host of a Primordial was high, and if Eos was a normal Reality, then he should maybe handle the death of its Primordial for at most three or four times before the weight of this resurrection destroyed it.

It was the reason no Reality would ever allow a Primordial to be born inside of them, and would push them to leave as they could not bear the cost of holding a portion of the Primordial’s Origin Force.

Eos could see that the part of his soul that had been taken, shattered, and transformed into Noctis’s soul. This process was so complete that without the sheer durability of his soul that still kept a trace of itself despite the transformation, Eos would not be able to trace where this part of his soul had gone.

In this manner, he knew how to finally kill Noctis.

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