Rowan forgot about the passage of time, which turned out to not be that difficult, and one of the reasons was that his dimension had been frozen in place.
When he was squeezed by the Tenebris Armor, his entire dimensional flesh entered a sort of stasis, and he was no longer distracted by the affair of his domain, he could be focused on deciphering every shard of the Supreme Circle.
Everything inside of him had become frozen in place, waiting for their lord to conquer the Supreme Circle, or they would never wake up. Although Rowan was confident in his abilities, he would not have taken this risk lightly if he had the choice, but Old Man Seed had taken that option away from him with his unexpected actions.
He could not fight against a seventh-dimensional being, but Rowan was determined to find a way to punish this old man for treating him like a toy.
Even the soul of the demon he had swallowed was not yet processed. The moment it entered into him, it also fell into a weird stasis state, and Rowan pushed that matter from his thoughts as millions of shards flooded his consciousness.
He had expected that the process of deciphering the shards of the Supreme Circle would become easier as his consciousness power was pooled because of the merger caused by every Shards of the Circle that he collected merging his consciousness, but that turned out to not be the case.
Every shard as he later discovered was paired with a single portion of his split consciousness and he could not aid those parts in deciphering the shards with his already pooled consciousness.
This meant the difficulty of completing the Circle did not decrease or increase, it would all depend on the comprehension power of each of his slivers of consciousness, and so he could mostly figure out to an accurate degree how long he would be spending to complete the Supreme Circles.
By his estimation, it would take seven centuries for it to be completed. This number was stunning, but his time in the frozen waste had made Rowan accustomed to the extended period of time an Immortal could spend on a single project. Seven hundred years was not a long time.
His previous estimation of a few decades was grounded on the fact that he expected to be able to use more of his consciousness power as time went by, since that turned out not to be the case, he would just have to settle for the next centuries inside the armor.
Overall Rowan thought that this was nothing but a slight setback, and he should become used to situations like this where centuries and millennia were now equal to days in his eyes. It was not as if he was not enjoying the process of deciphering the Supreme Circle.
There were so many things he could be doing at this moment, but if he was stuck with this project for now, it was not too much of a loss.
Rowan had also come to the realization that the span of time he would begin to work with going forward would become far more extended as he traveled to higher dimensional states, and spending millions if not billions of years on a single task would become the norm.
No matter how powerful the Supreme Circle turned out to become, it was still beneath the power of Will. Theoretically, the complete Supreme Circle should be the greatest technique under Will, and he was already spending seven centuries just to grasp it.
Using the same thought process, simply meant he would need to spend more time when it came to tackling tasks or techniques that required Will.
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