The Primordial Record novel Chapter 105

Chapter 105 Deep Sea Blues (5)

The doors took a little over three minutes for them to be devoured entirely, and while devouring the doors, Rowan took the time to scrutinize the embodiments he saw on them.

On the doors was a familiar image; in fact, it was one of the foremost things he saw when he first came to this world. It was a peculiar entity that had burned itself into his mind. It was the mermaid with three pairs of arms.

The image on these palatial doors was covered with dust, and by ordering the Ouroboros Serpent to blow it away, the true portrait of the Mermaid was revealed.

The face of the mermaid had been left blank, but a closer examination would reveal that it was not always the case; sometime in the past, someone had chipped away at the face of the mermaid.

In each of her hands, she carried little sleeping babies; as she had six arms, she held only six babies. A closer look at the babies, and you could notice there was something wrong with each of them.

The babies all appeared human, but each of them had certain distinct features that were wrong in various subtle manners, and although the babies appeared human, they all seemed dissimilar to any babies he had ever known in a manner he could not yet describe.

One of the babies had three eyes, but the eyes were vertical; the second had no eyes and two noses; the third was missing its mouth and ears; the fourth had no toes on the leg; the fifth had eight fingers and toes on each limb; and Rowan paused at the last baby, where a cherubic figure lied sleeping.

This baby had no visible deformity like the rest, except she had long, luscious hair, and intertwined with the hair were hundreds of tiny eyes.

Was this Lamia and her sisters?

He remembered that Augustus said that she was different from the other Abomination Core. She was a firstborn. What did that mean? How old was this embodiment? If this was Lamia, then how old must she be if she was among the first Abomination Core in Trion?

Was this mermaid their mother? And did Lamia not claim the Abominations were the original rulers of this world? One of the visions he had when he consumed that soul flame was of an Abomination Champion Vorsher who served a Core called Myrrah.

He had said not to forget, for the world had betrayed her first. Who was he speaking about? Was it about one of Lamia's sisters or this mermaid—the mother of abominations?

There were so many mysteries and so many questions he needed to ask that it was a good thing his lifespan was measured in tens of millennia; otherwise, he would never be able to find the truth.

Rowan had come to realize that everything inside the Nexus served a purpose, and nothing placed here was done out of convenience. Behind every face may be an important piece of the puzzle that was the madness of this Nexus.

What was the image of the Mother of Abominations doing inside a palace deep inside the ground? Why would the other end of the sigil be kept in a place like this? Except that there was another entrance to this location, this door appeared to have not been touched for centuries.

It was a good thing that the Ouroboros Serpents were indestructible, and he could use them to enter various dangerous locations without any fear for his life, for there was something wrong with this place.

Even with the filter on his senses through the Ouroboros Serpent, this place just screamed its strangeness, but for his freedom, he would be willing to enter hell itself, and he would slowly understand everything hidden from his sight.

The Ouroboros Serpent made sure it devoured every single bit of the gate, and Rowan tried to ignore the fact that the doors were bleeding, but of course, the Serpents did not care; they were busy slurping down every single drop.