Rowan was a few hundred feet to the ground before he stabilized his descent, but the energy of Ascendancy flowing in his body and outside of it had weakened, if before it was flowing through large pipes, now it was as if the passage of energy had been reduced to passing through a straw.
If with all his energy stores he was feeling this way, then it meant that any normal Explorers must be having a hundred times worse experience, making any lives with Aura would become a draining and problematic challenge. How were they expected to fight with such a crutch?
Underground he could feel the Shiik becoming agitated as energy flooded its being and its size began to expand, cracking the earth around it.
The Aura of Calamity that filled the earth had become ridiculous, Rowan knew in the past before he was killed, whether it was five hundred thousand years ago or a million years ago, he could not really tell, the Aura of Calamity had not have been this powerful, but something must have changed during this time period for this new state of existence was not normal in the least.
If the three suns belonged to Ascendant Aura then the other seven suns were surely of Calamity, there was no longer balance between the two forces, and what Rowan wanted to discover was if such changes were a new development or if such events had happened before in the past. ƒreeωebnovel.ƈom
If the two forces waxed and waned over the endless time they had been in existence, then this was something that could be controlled by the World's Will to an extent, but if the balance had never been broken, then this signified that the changes in the world must be monumental, and somehow Rowan found himself leaning towards this second option.
A part of himself was missing, and although he did not remember much, he still felt that his descent was not the worst thing that could have happened to this world,
'Because I did not come alone. I brought something here with me... I brought Time.'
What that meant or what it truly signified was not something Rowan felt he was able to handle at this time, thus it was imperative that he quickly grew stronger and assembled his consciousness because he was running out of time. The already chaotic world of Doom Star was at the edge because of his presence and if he was not stable enough to withstand what was to come, his convictions would not matter because he would be swept away like sands before a tornado.
The changes in the world were jarring, but Rowan's battle senses were tingling, he ignored the majority of his speculations and focused on what was in front of him. The future could wait, he needed to build his foundations in the present.
Looking up in the sky and then again at the earth where the flood of Calamity was emerging from the mist as if it was a passageway to another dimension, Rowan wryly chuckled,
"So it has reached such a point? This is why the Ascendants are losing. How can you fight off an enemy that is born from your strengths?"
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