The Primordial Record novel Chapter 1024

Chapter 1024: Growing Luck

The stamping of Rowan's foot shattered the ball of flesh that had been drained from outside and within. Outside by the least, and within by him.

Rowan hung in the air for a single second, he had noticed that the gravity inside the stomach of the beast was weaker than what was available outside.

Before his feet touched the surface of the stomach of the beast, in that brief moment when he was in the air his eyesight perused the overall state of the stomach.

Unlike the stomach of a mortal creature that usually contained some sort of fluid, and was constantly in motion, the stomach of this creature was bone dry and looked like a cave with hundreds of glowing crystals scattered around, and it was cold, enough that Rowan had to begin diverting a lot of resources to keep his organs functional.

From the size of the stomach which resembled a fairly large cave, he could estimate that this creature must be around a hundred to three hundred feet in height. However, it was difficult to judge the exact size of supernatural beasts using their internal organs due to various reasons, from fewer or more organs in the body to more exotic reasons like spatial expansion. Before Rowan's feet could touch the insides of the stomach, thousands of tiny worms emerged from the pores of his small feet and wrapped around his feet encasing them in a mesh of wriggling flesh. Rowan was surprised at what happened next when he immediately detected hundreds of worms began to swell up before violently exploding.

What had happened was unexpected, every parasite was linked with him, but when outside his body, as a security feature they could not transmit whatever energies entered their bodies back to him, but he could understand everything that occurred inside their bodies.

The moment the parasites had touched the walls of the stomach, they had been filled with so much vitality, that they had simply exploded.

He squeezed his eyes in thought for a moment before he understood what was happening and he nearly smiled. Even if the Will of this world was moving against him in earnest, his luck was beginning to turn the table.

This beast was a carrion, it did not feed off of life, but from death. In fact, he suspected that life was poisonous to this beast, and the dried ball of flesh he had seen outside was filled with expelled vitality from the stomach of the beast. Was this why he was being fed with vitality? No, Rowan quickly decided, the clear stream of vitality entering his body from a mysterious place was far more dense and pure than what was available inside the body of the beast.

"How very interesting, I never expected to come across such a creature like this."

Rowan's plan before was that he would leave the stomach of the beast and crawl towards its spine or the area closest to its brain, and from there he would find ways of killing it quickly or if not, slowly and in a manner that the beast would not easily detect his presence, but this surprising ability it had demonstrated had given him a new idea on how to proceed forward.

Why should he kill something that had what he wanted? This beast fed off death and produced life as its waste, without a stronger consciousness to investigate how this process was occurring, Rowan could only act using intuition and his understanding of mystical energy manipulation.

He might not be able to understand the process but he could easily hijack it to serve his purposes.

Rowan marshaled half of the parasitic worms inside his body and he pushed them out from himself with tremendous force. From his tiny body of around thirty-five inches, a red wave of parasite that should have been nearly ten times his body weight shot out from him and splattered against all the surfaces of the stomach.

He was able to contain this amount of parasites by compressing them onto every single cell in his body, this made him extraordinarily dense, acting as a natural inner armor. When he needed the parasites he could eject them from his body in the blink of an eye.

These parasitic worms flooded the entire stomach of the beast, and before long they all gruesomely exploded, Rowan turned his head to a portion of the cave where the parasites had perished the most quickly, this was his target.