The Primordial Record novel Chapter 1031

1031 A Cruel God

Rowan had a peculiar notion about size. It could not be helped, he was a cosmic being, and as far as he could tell he was the only living dimension in existence, that gave him a unique perspective on the matter of size.

From the start as an Empyrean Ouroboros Serpent, he had always been a massive individual, and most of the beings he came across and fought were usually gigantic. Old Man Seed, who was nearly fourteen feet tall, did not raise even an eyebrow from him. After becoming a dimension, his true size was like multiple galaxies in scale, and so, humans, planets… they were all so small, and it was hard to even tell the difference between them if he did not focus his sight on them.

Rowan had become used to walking around people with his shrunken size, but the awareness of his real size had colored his perspective, and he liked things big. The bigger the better.

Boosting the size of the Shiik was something easy for him to achieve and when it finally reached the Heroic Rank and aided by Rowan's quick absorption of the vitality it produced, the size of the Shiik had exploded, but for Rowan, this size was still relatively small according to his cosmic standards standing at two thousand thousand feet.

He would have made the Shiik two thousand miles tall if he was able to spread out his true influence in this world, but he had plans for that later on. Forgiveness was for mortals, for immortals, blood would be repaid with a greater amount of blood. This world had incurred his ire, and those at the top would fall, and he would paint the entire horizon until the ends of existence with their blood.

Pushing the thoughts of future vengeance away from his mind, Rowan viewed this new form of the Shiik as acceptable because it was constantly growing and its growth had not yet neared its limits… A limit that he would always be pushing upwards.

However, what Rowan considered important was the energy levels of this creature and its peculiar ability to digest death and produce life that had been further boosted to a great degree with the advancement towards the Heroic level.

A mass of meat would dominate the lower levels, but the true winner in the higher realms was energy and concepts.

The ability to eat death was the reason why the Shiik who had barely been fifty feet tall after becoming a Heroic Ranked calamity exploded in size.

Its stomach suddenly expanded to ten times its previous volume and this expansion did not stop as with every moment that passed, the stomach kept slowly increasing as the temperature inside it kept plunging lower, leaving the only area of warmth to be around Rowan's body.

There was also a third presence with him inside the stomach, it was a single red rune that resembled a withered palm. Rowan quickly recognized that it was this rune that was the foundation of the ability of the Shiik. Its stomach would not have this incredible ability if not for this one rune.

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There was also a third presence with him inside the stomach, it was a single red rune that resembled a withered palm. Rowan quickly recognized that it was this rune that was the foundation of the ability of the Shiik. Its stomach would not have this incredible ability if not for this one rune.

The cries of the giant Shiik as it evolved rang with exultation and intense hunger. Its new stomach and increasing size needed fuel, and the tendrils from Rowan were not nearly enough. It opened its growing mouth, inhaling tonnes of flesh, bones, and blood that entered its stomach in a deluge of gore that did not last a second inside its stomach before it vanished.