The Primordial Record novel Chapter 1072

Chapter 1072: Dan

The silvery dust traveled up Rowan's nostrils and entered his brain and a subtle wave of golden light pulsed down his robes as the silver dust was separated into two components, Ascendant Aura and Soul Essence.

The Core Aura of the Ascendant released what would be considered an overwhelming amount of purified Aura for anyone else below the Ascendant level, but it was like pouring a bucket of water inside a river in the case of Rowan whose body was filled with enough Aura to rival a thousand Ascendants.

With soul energy, he no longer needed to kill for Aura, the primary reason he killed an Ascendant was no longer for their Aura, but their memories.

With most of Rowan's consciousness in a dormant state, he could no longer process the Soul mountains of immortals, and so he devised another plan. The bodies of Ascendants were unique, existing more as souls than flesh, and so instead of assimilating the entirety of an Ascendant soul which would inevitably create a Soul mountain and therefore locked inside his dormant dimension, Rowan decided to disperse a majority of the Ascendant soul, leaving their core behind.

If it was any other creature that Rowan had come across in the reality outside Doom Star, then he would not be able to do such a thing, but because every blow against an Ascendant that led to the injury was like breaking off a part of their souls, he thought he might be able to break them down enough to a digestible size for his now limited consciousness.

It was a risky plan, with a high chance of failure if he did not fully grasp the way an Ascendant's soul and body worked, but he ended up succeeding to an extent.

There were clear disadvantages to this process because every part of the soul that was lost represented missing memories but Rowan had no choice but to trim out the fat and bones and leave only a small choice meal that he should be able to digest.

Although Rowan made sure he seized the portion of the soul that was integral to the core of the Ascendant, which should contain all his most important and relevant memories, there was still a chance that he might lose something important, but that was not a problem when he could kill more Ascendants and cover up the gaps in his knowledge base.

Yet, all his speculations would be useless if he was not able to assimilate this soul he had just harvested. He felt a click in his mind, and everything fell into place as a familiar sensation overwhelmed his senses.

Like falling into a dream that seemed to last for an instant and simultaneously a thousand years, the memories of Arthurius Rais came to him like a flood.

Born into the prestigious Arthurius family in the upper continents, Rais's destiny was always to become an Ascendant, and he did not disappoint his clan, rapidly rising through the ranks of Explorer, he soon became an Ascendant, creating a faction in the lower continents called the Silver Alliance, alongside three other Ascendants, he was a man of many talents, including an in-depth understanding about Fate and....

Rowan rapidly parsed through the information emerging from the soul, he did not want to know about the life experiences of the Ascendant, he was only interested in his knowledge about Ascendant society, his other Consciousness Nodes would slowly take apart Rais's life, but for now he needed other kind of knowledge. _{freewёbnoνel.com}

Rowan soon nodded in delight when the target of his inquiry began to emerge from the fog of memories, but there was not enough for him to understand the full picture of the Ascendant world, because he had gone for the core part of Rais's soul, most of the information he had collected was personal and linked to his life, but this was the only way Rowan was assured that he could harvest something tangible from a dead Explorer.

He opened his eyes to an army of angry faces, and Rowan smiled. There were many more targets to pick from.