The Primordial Record novel Chapter 60

Chapter 60 I Am Legend (5)

Rowan's body lay on a beach, in a world of death. Around his still form, an ephemeral storm rages, while an eye blacker than night watches in fury. Suddenly, his body twitched, his hand slapping the ground repeatedly, and then he began convulsing.

The shell on his body began to quickly dissipate as multiple invisible mouths consumed it, and numerous bulges appeared underneath his skin, as if countless roaches roamed beneath. _{freeweɓnovel.cøm}

In a short while, every shell in his body was gone, and he lay naked on the beach, except for his twitching body, he was not breathing.

His body began to grow hot, the surrounding air began to warp by the increasing heat, a mini vortex was created around him as a result of the extremely hot air being forced away from him.

He began to grow. His increasing attributes were not just numbers on a status screen, they reflected on his physique, and with his Ouroboros bloodline, his body had begun a transformation that made his flesh comparable to Divine metal.

He grew to seven feet tall and stopped growing, his body made metallic clunks as his muscles expanded and toughened, his skin got darker until it was a light shade of bronze, and every motion he made was like a blur to the naked eye.

Slowly the activities in his body seized, and yet, he did not breathe. Inside his body, a peculiar change was happening.

Before Rowan soul fell into slumber, he poured all his Soul points into the Ouroboros bloodline, but this process was a continual one. Even if he wished to pour all ten thousand of his soul points into the Ouroboros bloodline, it would only funnel the Soul points one at a time, although this process happened rapidly.

As the Ouroboros bloodline grew, the snakes around his hearts were intensely stimulated and their growth increased exponentially. They gave out quiet hisses as they feasted on his shell, until there was nothing else, and they began to expand in size.

Rowan had a conjecture previously about the nature of the size of the snakes in his heart, and if he were conscious at the moment he would have seen something amazing happening inside of him.

Although the snakes were growing larger, the space they occupied remained the same, his body almost seemed like it contained an infinite amount of space around his heart and no matter how big the snakes got, they would always be contained inside his chest.

His bloodline growth was constant, as it slowly ticked upward, and then it hit the threshold of the Legendary mark and paused.

It was as if the last Soul point encountered a barrier, and it could not push through, and it stayed that way, but a pressure was beginning to build. Rowan had dumped all his points into Ouroboros, and one way or another it was going to develop that bloodline.

For a Mortal to become a Legendary State being, it would need to be thoroughly prepared for it was about to elevate his entire being from the mundane to the mystical.

There were specific rituals, and specific preparations to be made because it could be argued that this step was the most important to becoming powerful, for even though a proper Mortal foundation was necessary, it was at the Legendary state that the true wheat would be separated from the chaff.

At the Legendary State, the Dominators body is now capable enough to access and contain Aether, but they are unable to utilize it in an active manner, that is, until the Dominator ascends to the Rift State.

The known State of Change that Rowan knew were: The Mortal State, The Legendary State, The Rift State and The Incarnation State.

Few would survive such an ordeal, for the space they were in could not be rashly broken into, else it would collapse and only luck could enable one to find them using a careful manner. Most likely, in a few years later, their bones would be spat out around the area of their birth.

Rowan's case was different, for as an Empyrean, they were the children of the universe and this gave them the right to have access to all their bloodline abilities, but at each State of Change they could only select one that they could tolerate.

You could learn and develop the Abilities alongside the ones given to you when you reached the Rift State, but that was very difficult, or get those Abilities as you upgrade your State of Change.

At every State of Change, a Dominator was given a chance to draw one ability from their bloodline origin.

Unlike every other being who had to be lucky to have a powerful ability, an Empyrean just had to choose the direction it desired to develop towards, and if his bloodline could tolerate that level of power, it was then selected.

Not all Empyrean are created equal and some are vastly more powerful than others, but the weakest Empyrean was not something most creatures in the universe could stand against.

For even the weakest Empyrean, at a minimum could destroy entire solar systems with ease.

Rowan was at the edge of Legendary before he passed out, and unlike a normal form of unconsciousness, he was barely alive. The sacrifice of his people gave his soul a bit of light, but they were ultimately too weak to cause a fundamental change to his soul, nevertheless they gave him more time, and that was what he really needed.