Freezing time in the entire universe was unexpected, but after thinking about it for a while, he understood why that had happened.
This should have been a method for him and the universe to battle without the knowledge of its inhabitants. If he wins and takes over the universe, no one inside it would have been aware at first, but the sweeping changes that would have inevitably followed as his power transformed the universe into his own image would have drawn the attention of everyone else, but by that time it would already be too late.
Everyone in the universe would become his own.
"BOOOM!!!"
The next pulse that erupted from his position came with more force and traveled faster, stirring the Great Desert and causing countless mighty roars to error from its inhabitants, before slamming into the gate, and with a mighty groan, countless cracks, millions of miles in size spread across it.
This impressive gate was supposed to be indestructible, countless great powers had tried to shatter its protection to no avail, but Rowan's unique dimensional fabric was its nemesis. It was not about raw power, but its unique nature to supplant the defenses of a universe.
A brilliant light erupted from the shattered gate that spread all over the universe. Undoubtedly everyone in the universe should have become alarmed by these great changes if not for the fact that they had all been frozen in place, Time was still stuck.
Rowan nearly cried out as another great wave of power surged forth again from his body, far greater than the previous two combined and filled with an unimaginable yearning, it wanted, no, demanded its bounty.
"BOOOM!!!!!"
The Great Desert was shaken, the wave of power drove its sands hundreds of miles into the air as earthquakes rippled through its core, the scream of rage from the desert was drowned out by the overwhelming crash as the final blow shattered the Gates of the Universe.
The power did not pause and surged into its heart, and at that moment Rowan saw everything. He saw the Will of the universe in the form of a gigantic tree cut down in its base, he saw the bones of a titanic worm, and sitting on the edge of the tree, even though wearing a new form, was the Third Prince.
Like everyone inside the universe, he had been frozen, but he had such a quick reaction to this change because he had a moment to look up in surprise before he was frozen in that position, but the power that was carrying Rowan's perception was regrettably not looking for the Third Prince, it came for something else and it surged into the base of the tree where it wrapped around a green sphere and pulled it out.
Rowan tried to direct his focus towards the Third Prince, the opportunity to catch this elusive trickster in a position like this where he was not in control was few and far between, and whatever had happened here, the Third Prince had been the one to benefit from it. He needed to kill him before the Time Stop ran its course.
Yet the power of his Dimensional fabric had only a single goal in mind and they had already taken their prize. Rowan groaned in annoyance, but he focused on the green sphere.
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