The Primordial Record novel Chapter 1229

Chapter 1229: Breaking Time

On the battered shell of Rowan's Ascendant body that had been raised on a dais of blood and darkness, surrounded by the seven Calamity Suns and a grieving Shiik, a purple dial appeared, it had a single hand that was spinning backward slowly, but then this speed unexpectedly quickened and a black and purple smoke surrounded the dial and converged, taking the form of the Eye of Time, who still wore the broken body of the Third prince.

There were no longer any phantoms of the Primordial of Time behind it, and it nearly collapsed after it emerged from Rowan's body. Before entering this body to possess it, the Eye of Time had left a seed of itself outside the body, and despite the fact that its judgment over Rowan's powers was compromised, it was still careful enough to create a backdoor even though it thought it might win a moment before.

The Eye of Time senses swept through its surroundings and it nearly cringed. Surrounding them were the epitome of madness, a realm that had gone mad and played with flesh like an insane lobotomized infant.

The weight of all this power pressed down on its broken body, and any other time, it would be a bit annoyed with the weight of the power arrayed against it, even though it might not be able to win, this realm was young when the Eye of Time was old, it could outwait any opponent, the shell its wore could be destroyed as many times as possible, but its core, which was the Eye itself was invulnerable.

At least that was the truth but in its desire to consume Rowan, he had unleashed powers that its fragile shell could not handle, leading to cracks being created on its core. These would heal in time of course, and already of the many cracks surrounding the eye, the fine ones had already vanished and only three large cracks remained that were slowly closing up.

It needed to escape until those cracks healed up and then it would not matter if Rowan's main body found it again, it would not commit the same mistakes as before, and it would outlive Rowan and be the last one to smile.

It was Time, and Time was everlasting.

The Eye of Time exploded from Rowan's body, picking a direction that should place him as far away as possible from the emerging monster, but Rowan had already placed a safeguard in place, which was the Shiik.

Calamity gods were creatures of instincts, guided by endless hunger and warped by hate, their higher intelligence had been exchanged for power, and this a power they did not even need to consciously wield. If they wanted something, then reality itself would bend to fulfill their needs as time and space were under their mighty domain.

As the Eye of Time blasted away from Rowan's body, it began to transform. No longer taking the shape of a man, but a lesser Calamity god.

Inside the Time Blight were not just the bodies of Ascendants and mortals, but also lesser Calamity gods as well, but the Eye of Time had been careful and it did not use the bodies of the Calamity gods as a source of fuel, it knew that would trigger a higher retaliation from this world, and despite the arduous battle it had faced, including the Tribulation and during combat, it had protected the bodies of these gods inside of him.

This was essential for the eventuality that it needed to escape under the gaze of the realm. Its appearance outside the body of Rowan had drawn great cries of hunger and hate from the Calamity Suns, but after its transformation, those cries went silent, and it would have succeeded in its escape if not for the presence of the Shiik.