The Primordial Record novel Chapter 148

Chapter 148 Perilous Journey (final)

"You are not supposed…"

She was interrupted by another louder crunch as he threw the silver and black vials into his mouth one after the another while seeming to take his time and sample the taste.

"Hmm… It has a fruity taste, almost like candy. Do you have any more of those?" Rowan smacked his lips and looked up at the distressed face of Circe.

"Are you alright? Those are not supposed to be consumed with those methods, their energies may be overwhelming … But, I can see you don't have any issue with that. Great."

Rowan had not carelessly chewed through the Battle Stimulant on a whim. He had detected a massive amount of energy inside of them that he could not properly identify, but for him, those details were unnecessary.

Anything with a sufficient amount of energy could be consumed, and the pills were not disappointing. The bronze level pill gave him 100 points of energy, the silver was 1,000, and the black gave him a whopping 10,000 points of energy.

He had felt the first Ouroboros Serpent quiver in satisfaction, as he directed all the energies from the pills towards it. He had some idea about the application of this Legendary Skill, and he could not wait to put his thoughts into action.

"How Is it possible to extract all these energies from the Blue Iron flower?" Rowan inquired and brought the flower closer to his face as he checked through it with his Energy Vision, he could barely see a fraction of the energy from the pills inside this flower.

If he were to extrapolate using the energy he was glimpsing inside this flower, then to make the least bronze level Battle Stimulant, it would require more than a million of such flowers, not an equal trade in any sense, and there would be no profit in harvesting these flowers.

Circe paused for a while, and after shaking her head and muttering a little curse, she began to speak, "That is where the mystery of the Great Storm originates from. The flowers do not contain the energies for the Battle Stimulants, it only serves as a catalyst. I can only further explain when the Great Storm Begins."

"Speaking of Great Storms, you were talking about this convoy before we got side tracked." Rowan asked.

"Yeah, well, it all ties back to the Legend of Erohim, but that is a story for later. You see, every ten years there will be a planet wide snowstorm that occurs for three years without ceasing. To preserve life on the planet, there are a series of enormous caverns inside the earth where the people and animals of the planet would have to reside for the duration of the snow storm."

"This planet was occupied 15,000 years ago by my family, it was first deemed worthless by most, but a clever alchemist from our Trading houses came across a unique combination of the Blue Iron flower and the Great Storm that rages every ten years."

"So, to maximize the productivity of the people living on the planet, we had to spread them all over its surface to harvest as much Blue Iron flower as possible. But that brings about a dilemma."

"The Great Storm!"

"Precisely, the storm does not only create unfavorable weather that scours all life from the surface of the planet, it also brings with it vast celestial energies that would ravage everything it touches. Since we have spread our workers all over the planet, it would be a shame to lose them all every ten years."

"So, we used the old ways that the indigenous people had been using to exist on this planet for the last 200,000 years. The Underground Caverns!"

"They have been extensively excavated and repurposed, and we have managed to link most of them into three singular bodies. Three gigantic cities below the ground, where the people and animals would live for the next three years."