The Primordial Record novel Chapter 1189

Chapter 1189: I know You

Rowan was silent and did not make a move or speak, anyone would think he was a golem crafted out of an erupting volcano.

If this presence was expecting more of a reaction from him, it would not be getting it immediately, instead Rowan was focused on trying to strip away the layers of obfuscation shrouding this mystery figure; he had lived long enough to know that appearances and words could be deceiving, especially when it came to beings at this level of power.

Their knowledge and their great age were often not considered, but it was what made them truly terrifying besides their powers. There was no situation that they had never encountered countless times in the past, and to surprise them or go against their will was nearly impossible, and so what it would take to stand before them was to become an existence that was also not possible.

His mind was moving at a million miles a second, piecing all the clues and details he knew about the Eye of the Primordial of Time and Evil and what he was witnessing here in front of him. The eye had just set up the board and he had few moments to identify all the pieces, find out the flaws that he had shown and the various ways of offense and defense it was going to be using against him.

As suddenly as a spark jumping out of a flint, Rowan had begun a life and death battle, even though an observer would think everything was calm, he was perhaps in the greatest danger he had ever faced since he was born.

Rowan's mind went back into his memories and among the myriad of information he had compiled, he fished out a clue that he had missed when he was not aware of the reach of this enemy, it was a small detail, but it shifted the direction of this impending conflict and stopped him from making a terrible mistake.

The memory came from Jerediah, the first Blood Slave. Rowan had gone through his soul when he destroyed the blood slaves underneath the continent he had raised as his new city, and he had seen where the pollution had begun.

Jerediah had been sailing through the endless ocean, his barren soul slowly driving him pass madness into something worse, and in all of his possible futures this unfortunate blood slave should have perished in this place and he would have finally found a measure of peace, but then he came across a presence, who changed his path, serving him up to become a tyrant that terrorized an entire race, and at first Rowan had thought that this visitor was perhaps another facet of the Will of Doom Star who was making sure that Rowan could never rise from death, but now he saw that he was mistaken.

At that time it was easy for Rowan to have made that mistake not because he was not aware of the presence of the Eye of the Primordial in this realm, but because Jerediah had asked that unknown presence,

"Are you, my god."

It replied to the blood slave, "I am not your god, and you can not find him because I killed him."

There... This was the moment that fooled him.

There were many factors that led to his death in this realm, and chief among them was the World's Will that had warped his flesh into stone and sent the Undying to finish him off with a Primordial weapon, but it would be a mistake to think there had not been other subtle hands at play in his demise.