The Primordial Record novel Chapter 1028

Chapter 1028: Burn To The Foundations

If the armor had previously been like the bark of a tree, now it was titanium.

It was a good thing that the giant Shiik had Rowan inside of it that could process all the energy it required, and before long its armor thickened to the extent that it could move a single inch before it was suppressed once more, but that singular inch was terrifying progress, at this point the weight on top of the creature would have cracked a mountain.

The giant Shiik consumed unceasingly until a threshold was reached, and Rowan felt the pulse of energy congregating throughout the body of the creature, from its pattern of movement, this energy should be heading towards its head, but Rowan had lived for too long inside this Calamity and understood all its physiology, so it was not difficult to divert that stream of energy towards himself.

If his plans ahead were going to work, he needed this creature to survive for as long as possible, and although he could not interfere with its development too brashly, he could make minor changes that would create a compound effect superior to the many minor changes he had made when viewed as a whole.

From what he understood about the Shiiks, and at this point he understood nearly everything, their greatest weakness was their head, and if he had allowed the normal path of evolution to follow through in this giant Shiik, it would have mindlessly created its center of power in its head in order to lessen the weakness of that particular organ, but that would be a waste of resources, and Rowan would never choose to allow such an obvious display of vulnerability. Rowan who was growing all this while, was now in the form of a two-year-old child, with bright red hair and green skin. He was sitting cross-legged in the center of the stomach of the giant Shiik when the ball of energy signifying the evolution of the giant Shiik came to rest and he picked it up.

The ball of energy that resembled red fog and filled with a dense Aura of death struggled a bit before settling down and revealing all its secrets to Rowan, it contained all the evolutionary pathways for the Shiik, and for the Shiik, it turned out to be a short one because its evolution ended at the Heroic Rank.

"Now, this would not do... not at all,"

Rowan muttered and began tweaking the ball of energy, he manifested tiny tendrils that he inserted into the ball of energy, they shriveled not long after, but he constantly recreated them.

He could not do much without learning more about Calamities, but what he could do was tear open up the ends of the sequence governing the evolution of the Shiik, stopping at the Heroic Rank was useless for Rowan.

To access his mental space and begin manifesting his Supreme Circles, he needed this body to become immortal.

Rowan intended to reach the immortal rank with this beast not in centuries but in a far shorter time frame, a year at least and two at most.

Tweaking the energy ball further, Rowan frowned in concentration as he went deeper. If the beast reached the end of the Heroic Rank with such an opening in its evolutionary path, it would die in a very spectacular manner, as its body would seek to evolve but lack any direction for it to follow.

With Rowan inside it, however, it would suffer no such problem, because he intended to weave the path forward for this beast from this rank onward. Whatever was to come after the Heroic Rank would be built by him from the ground up.

With that out of the way, Rowan began to tweak the abilities that the Shiik was supposed to gain at the Heroic Rank.