This intrusive thought was stuck in his head, his memories were fragmented but he still remembered that the Primordial Record could not fully understand the intricacies of his dimensional flesh, as far as he could tell he was the first living dimension in existence, and although the Primordials had been around even before time began, it did not mean there had ever been anyone else like him.
His understanding of dimensions and how to manipulate them came instinctively to him because he was a dimension and knew that if someone else wanted to hide under his sight, this was the route to follow, but was this manner of thinking common? Could it be that his greatest advantage had been with him all along but he had just been chasing fluff?
This line of thinking was exciting but also dangerous. This could all be a deliberate trap set by the Eye to deceive him, and he should not rush down this path until he had gathered enough evidence to assure him that he was not making a deadly mistake, before then he would assume that the Eye knew the details of all his abilities, this was a necessity at this moment where he was at his weakest.
"Your aid," Rowan asked, "What would it be worth to me?"
Noah Rithmast smiled, "I would have been very disappointed if you did not ask this of me."
Somehow, Rowan doubted this statement very much, but he kept silent.
"You know of the Great Darkness, the fourth-dimensional realm of Chaos," Noah gestured and the space in front of them parted and something emerged.
It was like a blob of amorphous darkness that was interspersed with light of all shades. A mortal or even an immortal who had not reached a higher dimension would not be able to interpret what this was, their minds and souls not grasping the entirety of the picture, but Rowan's soul was at the fourth dimension, and even without this, he would understand that he was seeing a map of the Great Darkness.
This map that the Eye created was not larger than a few meters, but the details it contained were ridiculous. Just an inch of the map contained more than a million third-dimensional universes, and this was just the surface.
Since the Great Darkness was a fourth-dimensional space, then it could hold far greater things than universes, and those were the gateway to other higher dimensions. Every known power in reality, from the Primordials to other Supreme Powers like the Mages or Titans had their root connected to the Great Darkness.
Rowan's gaze was drinking all the details of this map greedily, he was aware that after he left the universe of his birth, he had roamed the Great Darkness for a short while before he found his way to the Frozen Road. He must have roamed around for decades, maybe even centuries but he saw that he would have barely begun to scratch the surface of what the Great Darkness had to offer.
He had been staring at the map for a while and he looked back at the Eye, he should have brought up the Great Darkness to make a point but he was just silent, his gaze containing a weird glow as he stared at the map, seemingly forgetting the reason he had brought it up in the first place.
Rowan did not interrupt him, he could not tell the value of this map but he knew it was priceless. With proper sturdy, he could find the way to any domain linked to the Great Darkness. He was not sure how many maps there were of this dimension, but he knew none could ever beat what a Primordial knew and recorded.
When Noah Rithmast began talking, so focused was Rowan on the map that he almost missed it,
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