Rowan's words hung in the air, the language he spoke was the same as what this strange man just used, and this language was one of the strangest he had ever heard before.
If a storm could speak, this would be the language that they would use.
The man being roasted above the fire smiled, "In the flesh, or what's left of it? Our father's fury is… magnificent. Yet I'm surprised how you understood my words. The language I speak has been dead for many Eras, I should know, I created it. So many mysteries to you…So… so… many, but you are beginning to go astray little brother, and I can no longer watch."
Rowan quickly collected all the information he knew about Caine, he barely had the might of a single consciousness pillar in his body and he had to make do with what he had.
Most importantly he could not really plan deeply and had to keep his real thoughts a secret and act more with his intuition because he suspected that this body he inhabited might be able to listen to his thoughts!
He was in grave danger and was still under a vicious time constraint, and every second he spent here, Caine was winning. This would be a mental chess match that would test him to the limits and the board was stacked heavily against him.
This was the individual who stopped the unceasing onslaught of a Primordial by thwarting the plans of Chaos. He had forged a pact with the Celestials and created a technique that devoured the Intent of Chaos.
Labaletai the Chaos Door had praised this figure, calling him the bravest and wisest of all the Children of Chaos, and if he was right, Caine was the reason why the last war between the Primordials ended and Chaos imprisoned for all of eternity.
Rowan did not understand when he fell into the sight of this figure, but if he were to guess, it would be when the Chaos Door devoured the Will of Chaos inside the consciousness he had placed inside Andar.
With his current knowledge of mysticism, he knew that for a figure like Caine, who was most likely a being who had transcended the Fifth Dimension, anything they created would have the touch of their Will.
Previously Rowan had thought that what was inside his body was Intent, and the Chaos Door had also played to his ignorance, telling Rowan that what he collected from his body was the Intent of Chaos, now he knew that Labaletai was lying to him or if he was not, that meant the Chaos Door was ignorant of the true dimensions of power, which Rowan felt was difficult to imagine.
Yet if that was the truth, that would reveal a deep flaw inside the so-called Travelers of The Blood, which was they escaped the clutch of one tyrant and fell into the hands of another. If a powerful creature like the Chaos Door had been deceived for so long, what hope did Rowan have of winning against this creature?
When the Chaos Door devoured the Will of Chaos, he had claimed to have destroyed it, and at that time, Rowan had felt that to be the case, but he knew this was falsehood. That was not Intent but Will, and it was not destroyed, but transferred… to this figure here… to Caine!
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