The Primordial Record novel Chapter 623

Chapter 623 The Great Betrayer

When Rowan spoke those words, it carried a tone of finality, time seemed to stop, everything went still… Yet this was the Forge, a space that was as close to a fifth Dimension as possible, and time was not the ultimate ruler here.

Rowan's voice transcended the limit of time and he continued speaking, whomever owned that voice was no longer just speaking, rather they were actively trying to thwart his efforts,

"My Empyrean birth may have been as an Ouroboros Serpent, but that is not all of my nature, but a minor part of it, and it should not determine all I am to be. If my future is to be determined by Chaos… Then I am no longer a Child of Chaos!!!"

Several pained roars emerged from the Core above, and Rowan's ears and eyes exploded and his corporeal body went blind, but his consciousness no longer needed such limiting organs like eyes to understand his environment, however, that did not last for long.

Rowan's consciousness was suddenly bathed in darkness, and he could feel a crushing power beyond what his current frame could hold, and his body began to collapse, unlike the previous bodily destruction, he could not control this collapse, and his mortal body was held at the edge of death, and if not for his profound vitality and his stubborn will to live and succeed, he would already be dead, because Rowan at this moment was just a pile of blood, flesh and bones.

Yet, all these seemed to happen in the distance, to someone else's body as his consciousness was dragged beyond infinity, and he saw a long Golden Road that stretched beyond countless universes…

Rowan heard a loud crash as if a thousand worlds were being split apart, and the Core above cracked as six massive Ouroboros Serpents emerged from it, they had no skin, and their bones were decaying, but their size and power were breathtaking.

… His consciousness could not maintain the connection with the Forge as he was dragged deeper and deeper down that Golden Road past hundreds of universes, but he could see flashes of battle, as his Sovereigns and all his Angelic Host fought with the Serpents…

Rowan's cries of anger could not reach the Forge, for the minds of his Serpents were being corrupted, forced against their will, but they fought against this intrusion, without Rowan, they were losing the battle against this foreign power, and he was growing ever farther from them…

He tried to fight the pull but he could not, with a loud pulse that Rowan felt could be heard all over the many universes, he found himself crashing on top of a mountain.

It almost reminded him of the moment he entered the Anima of Ohrox, the Prince of Destruction inside the Covenant.

His consciousness was addled for a few seconds before he jumped to his feet and looked around, and he nearly fell on his face, for the body he found himself in was distinctively mortal, but it was not his own.

He grunted, "How I despise this weakness!"

Rowan's consciousness tried to escape from this body, he needed to return to the Forge or his Ascension to the level of Will would fail, and his struggles were useless. The Serpents had nearly been melted into the Core, and if he did not return to complete the Destroyer, they would be taken from him, he would never allow that travesty.