Although the fact that he was standing upon what he assumed was an Anima of a Primordial was surprising, it was not as startling as the realization of what was happening inside his soul before he was dragged into this place.
Rowan had enough experience in this subject, perhaps more than anyone because he owned a treasure that could grant such a thing and he was very familiar with this process, however, what was happening was still unexpected and it took a few moments for him to come to terms with it.
He was gaining a fourth bloodline, or rather, he was awakening his fourth bloodline!
It turned out that all this while, he could not get access to a bloodline that he felt should be intrinsically connected to him for one simple reason only; he needed a soul, and from the hurdle he had just scaled through just to reach this point, an extraordinary one that would automatically eliminate majority of all participants.
Not even the Shadows of the Primordial with their newly gained souls could gain this bloodline because, unlike any other bloodline that Rowan was familiar with, the bloodline of Time was not encoded in the flesh, but in the soul.
Rowan had tried not to think about the reason why for all these while he had not yet received a bloodline related to Time, chalking it as the fault of a dead Primordial, who was bitter about his death and defeat.
Among the many things he was sure could happen when a Primordial dies, locking away his bloodline so it could not be accessed by anyone seemed standard enough, or he had thought that the bloodline of Time had been banished by the other Primordials to stop any chance for the Primordial of Time to be resurrected, who knew the steps that could be taken in order to kill a Primordial and make it permanent.
Despite the powers he could gain from the bloodline of Time, he knew that such a bloodline like the ones related to souls must be under intense scrutiny, and he had enough on his plate already.
As far as he could tell the greatest threat against the Primordials was the Primordial of Time and they would certainly place stringent restrictions over anything that concerned this matter, he had to be extremely careful, but now the matter was out of his hand, as the bloodline of Time had just dropped on his lap.
Previously, Rowan had slight regrets for not obtaining the bloodline of Time, because as far as he could tell, except for the Shadows of the Primordial that could display some of the powers of Time, no one else in all of reality had the bloodline of Time.
Everyone else could only control Time due to the fact that it was prevalent in the higher dimension, and the act of gaining Will was obtaining the authority or the chains that could suppress and control a portion of the power of Time.
In the past, the Primordial had most likely created the path to reach the higher dimensions by using the body of Time itself as the foundation.
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