Rowan could not merge with his bloodlines due to his present state, where he had to restrict himself to the third-dimensional level, to make sure his presence left no ripples in space.
He was digging the foundations of power from under a Primordial, and any slight carelessness would lead to his discovery. His bloodlines were intelligent enough to understand what was happening without any need for him to explain.
So they had to share their memories with him, else he could only listen to Serathis speak, and as lovely as her voice sounded to the ears, Prime was correct when he said they did not have the time for this. Barely eight years remain before his promised duel with Primordial Demon, and he was not ready for that challenge.
The perception of Serathis was familiar to him, but it had also grown richer, even though it was not as condensed as Rowanโs perception; there were still enough details here that made her memories pleasant to go through, and he could glean nearly all the intricacies of the battle of the Great Desert.
He barely glanced at the immortals that gathered before the Great Desert, even though an impressive number of Old Ones had arisen among their number, dwarfing anything that this Era could have made naturally over the course of its lifetime.
"Empty drums... all flash, no substance."
Rowan was a bit disappointed at these immortals who were rushing towards becoming Old Ones and not correctly using the gifts he had given them.
The insights he gave freely from his Origin Land were meant to solidify the foundations of these immortals. There was no need to rush to the higher-dimensional level when they should have taken the time to ensure they reached perfection in every single dimensional level they reached.
Lured by the promise of quick power, these immortals had forsaken their foundations and followed the easy path towards the eighth-dimensional level. Still, it was not as if Rowan was not expecting such a thing from the majority of Reality.
Only a few of them knew his giftsโ true meaning and used them effectively, like Fury Kuranes, his half-brother. Rowan had been dimly following the advancement of Fury, and he was not too surprised that he had been able to refine his bloodline abilities to such a realm.
Fury would be among the first of many who would begin to understand that the search for true power depended not on the height of the realm, but the foundations built to reach that realm, and when that happened, a sweeping change would cut across Reality as the realization of the true potential within the body of every immortal would be placed on display.
Only such a group of people would be able to survive what was to come; any others would be fodder for the bloody grindstone that Reality was about to become.
He saw Nemesis and knew that this was a new being. After all, he had been the one to kill Nemesis. Rowan looked at this new Nemesis for a while, seeing the countless lives and souls of the Chaos Bloods forcefully merged into its being to empower this creature to the limit of the eighth-dimensional level.
Primordial Chaos had not been concerned with creating a being that would function properly; he only made Nemesis for slaughter, and in the short time it had been alive, this being had suffered incredible torment, and death was its salvation.
He watched his serpents use the Will of Elder for the first time, and their powers amazed him. If he could gather the strength of all the previous Primordial Beasts, then using them alone, it should be more than enough for him to challenge the Primordials, but that was a challenge, not winning.
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