The Primordial Record novel Chapter 1044

Chapter 1044: Working Hard

No plan survives first contact with the enemy, Rowan could wait for more Explorers to come to this continent and hunt them down little by little, or he could use this opportunity before him now and create a more robust meal for him to devour at once.

He released a minor strand of Ascendant Aura, the smallest that he could create that could still maintain a sort of offensive potential above his fingers, and even that little activity of Aura caused a faint trail of mist to erupt around his fingers and the creation of nearly a hundred cockroach-like Calamities.

Crushing them all before the little critter even had time to open their eyes, Rowan ran some numbers and found that it was doable, if barely, he would just have to make sure that in the implementation of the plan, there was proper balance between the two forces below or else he might be left with no harvest at all, but he did well dancing on the edge of chaos.

The purpose of this test was twofold, to see if the Calamities that were born from this tiny amount of Aura could be easily crushed before they multiplied and second was to confirm the duration between the release of Ascendant Aura and the creation of Calamities.

The first test was a success and Rowan clocked the time between the release and the creation in the second test to be a twentieth of a second, that was very quick, but nothing he could not handle with the present state of his consciousness.

Running a rough final simulation in his mind, Rowan began agitating the flow of energy inside of his body, slowing down the creation of his technique a bit and channeling Aura into new paths he had just laid out. _{freewebnσvel.cѳm}

The next round of force bolts was about to be unleashed and Rowan sent a hundred tendrils into the body of a hundred Heroic Ranked Explorers, he collected a trace of their Ascendant Aura, he had already deciphered the Runes around the staffs and knew how they operated, and so he intertwined the Aura of the hundred Explorers alongside his own to their staffs and he did all this at the instant the force bolts were about to be released keeping the factor of time in mind.

When the next round of fire happened, something spectacular occurred. The frost bolts ripped into the lines of the Calamities, and now it did not push further into their ranks like before due to the presence of multiple Legend Ranked Calamities that soaked up an impressive amount of damage, and many of them did not die, only seriously injured and pushed back, but it was a good thing that these injured Calamities were quickly devoured by the Calamities beside them or the lines of the Explorers would have long been overrun.

From the staffs of the hundred Explorers he chose the bolts, they fired flashed with blue light the moment it impacted against the ranks of the Calamities and the damage caused was higher than before, but this was not the end as an impressive wave of Calamity Aura like a tide erupted from the bodies of the slain Calamities and rushed towards the hundred dumbstruck Explorers.

The rich wave of Aura soaked into their bodies and of the hundred Heroic ranked Explorers, one of them began to glow as his energy surged towards a higher rank, and the rest had their energy storehouse filled considerably.

It was a testament to their experience and fortitude that the Explorers did not scatter at this unexpected phenomenon, they knew that something was wrong, but they had to deal with the Calamities that were growing in strength and charging towards them.

They would leave the investigation to their higher-ups, but the main suspect in this issue was their staff, perhaps a malfunction allowed it to draw the powers of its wielders.