The Primordial Record novel Chapter 1090

Chapter 1090: Corrupting Influence

The eyes of Jerediah unexpectedly snapped open. Due to the state of time-dilation they were experiencing, the force of opening his eyes so quickly shredded the top part of his face leaving his two bloody eyeballs loosely held in place by small strings of flesh and bones staring at Rowan with madness.

His mouth cracked open and he began to speak, every word shredded his face to pieces, and a red haze burned the air due to the incredible friction experienced as Jerediah's weak flesh pushed against the molecules in the air that were harder than Adamantite at this time dilation level, but the mad will in his eyes showed he was not even aware or did not care that pushing himself to such a level was destroying his flesh,

"So it's you," Jerediah rasped, his throat exploding into ribbons, "My god and Creator. Shame, I thought you would be taller."

Jerediah turned and looked at all the Blood Bound and chuckled darkly, "I don't have much time left, I have always imagined what I would say when I stood before my maker. When I was young I forced myself to pray. There has always been a god-shaped hole in my heart, waiting to be filled. I needed answers, why was I born this way, why was I cursed… so many whys it could fill an ocean… but now looking at you, I have my answer."

Rowan slowly cocked his head to the side, "What is your answer?"

Jerediah smiled and on his features, it was a thing of nightmares, "There is none, I live, I die, everything that happens or exists has no purpose, not for the weak, we don't choose our fate, it chooses us. I regret nothing, and at the end of my life, I shall be yours."

Rowan stepped back from Jerediah whose body had begun to rapidly crumble to pieces, his reaction speed was catching up to that of Rowan, shattering his flesh to nothingness, and this was no surprise, for on the day Jerediah met that shadow, it left a piece of itself inside of him. The shadow intended to bury the last of Rowan's consciousness but it would have never imagined that a piece of Rowan was now aware.

Jerediah was never an Ascendant, even that was a lie, there was no way the World Will would allow Rowan's power to become integrated with its own.

What Jerediah displayed to the Blood Slaves was nothing but borrowed power, and when he shed his skin and showed the guise of an Ascendant, it was only the piece of the shadow lurking inside him that others saw and they were deceived, thinking Jerediah now had the body of an Ascendant, and with this deceit, the Resistance had crumbled.

Inside his crumbling chest, two large red eyes were revealed, and Rowan saw the familiarity in those eyes, he knew those eyes, although the last time he saw them, they had a different shape, he could not win this fight, not against what was coming, but he did not need to fight in order to win,

"Banish him," he commanded the Chaos Door, who swallowed in hesitation before he expanded his size and, opening his mouth wide, swallowed Jerediah.

The Chaos Door grimaced, and he dry heaved multiple times on the verge of vomit, but with a force of will he forced the content he had just swallowed deep inside his body where the black light that was beginning to shine through his throat vanished, he sighed in relief before he spat out in intense disgust,

"Blargh!! That is the most disgusting thing that I have ever placed in my mouth, and I have eaten a planet made from Demon's shit! Do you know how nasty a Demon's shit is? Imagine a planet made of it after countless eons of accumulation and I have eaten that shit, yet this is a million times worse… Aarhhh, I can taste it on my soul, what the fuck did you make me eat Rowan, I will not be doing…"

The eyes of the Chaos Door began to widen and he turned his head around in shock.