The Primordial Record novel Chapter 1023

Chapter 1023: First True Step

Rowan opened his eyes, and he saw the flesh around him was beginning to turn gray. He did not have one hour, he barely had one minute. Yet he had to survive a year before he could access the mental space of this body and with it, connect to the remnants of his own.

The portion of him that was alive at this time was a fragment of his overall being, and without access to his mental space, Rowan was nothing but a mortal with a dense consciousness. In any other situation, this would be annoying but workable, but not here where he was at death's door.

The words Old Man Seed spoke to him a while back returned,

"I ask only this of you. You don't stop moving forward, there is a weight to power that few in creation can bear, and nothing is heavier than the powers of the Prime.... Nothing! You shall be tested beyond what you think possible, your mind and body taken to the limits and beyond that limit, only for you to discover that beyond your limits was just the starting point of this road."

"You shall break, again and again, painfully and in ways you cannot comprehend Romion, no number of words can show you just how much you shall hurt, and I expect you to pick up the pieces of yourself and rebuild it stronger than before while knowing that the torture would never end..."

And then he had whispered,

"...and when the pain gets too much when the weight becomes something that your mighty back cannot endure for a single moment more, I shall ask you to add more load to it. I have asked you this before and I will ask you once more. Can you do that Romion, can you take the load that no one else in creation can carry?"

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'Can I take this load? What a dumb question... hahaha. Who am I without the load I carry?' Rowan grinned, his mouth opened in a toothless facsimile of a smile, and he began to laugh aloud, but in this place where there was hardly any air, the sound was like a wheeze.

"Watch me..."

An infant, and one that had not even reached the appropriate time to be born had no reason to be able to speak, but he did, and the sound was frightening.

This world had spent enough time knocking him down, and Rowan did not doubt that there were more tribulations ahead, but he had endured enough, it was time to take the battle to it. His disadvantage had always been a lack of information, but he had experienced enough to pick up traces of the overall state of this new reality, and since Rowan now had a foothold in this world, he would no longer be denied his prize.

At first, Rowan had been content to harvest what he needed from this place and leave. This was no longer the case. This world had drunk his life twice, it had brought him to the brink of death and beyond, Rowan was no longer satisfied with a minor harvest, he was coming for it all.

His deep introspection to find his Mental Space was also the chance for him to truly understand this body, and for Rowan, knowledge was power.