The Primordial Record novel Chapter 1363

What struck Rowan as odd was the voice of Thenos, which had an odd quality that almost reminded him of the treasure Wormtongue, because his voice was reverberating twice as if two individuals were talking at the same time.

His voice was also familiar, it sounded like the voice of Berrion and Nemesis, and it was clear that the titan had not simply stolen the energy of these two, but he had taken other things as well, and one of the things he took was their voices, and maybe something more, his intelligence was suspicious, Thenos was learning too fast, and this knowledge was not coming from his intellect alone.

The instincts that caused him to flee to this world even though he should have been safe in the realm made by the World Stele, the methods he used to scatter his consciousness into the bodies of everyone here in this realm, so that despite his madness, searching for him would be nearly impossible, all of these and more prove that Thenos took much more than memories.

Rowan’s eyes flared like twin torches when he heard Thenos’ insane question and he shook his head in rejection, as he replied,

"No, I don’t like the sound of their cries."

The numerous eyes of Thenos blinked, "Of course, you don’t like it. There is not enough! You can barely hear them, I want more… more… more! Let me know why they cry?!"

"You don’t need to find more people to torture to know the answer to that question Thenos, the answer had been here in front of you from the start. I think you know it too, but you are choosing to lie to yourself, or perhaps you don’t know the meaning of lies and truth, at least not when it relates to you, so I can tell you if you want."

The eyes narrowed in suspicion, and Rowan knew in that instant Thenos had realized who he was, if he had not figured it out from the start already, but Rowan could understand this titan more deeply than Thenos realized, and what he had just told him was a fatal lure that held him in place.

Thenos whispered,

"Why does it hurt?"

Rowan spoke slowly,

"They cry… they hurt… because unlike you, they are complete."

The eyes of Thenos blinked in confusion and that emotion rapidly shifted to rage, "I don’t understand! What makes them complete and why do I not have it?"

Rowan smiled, "Come closer to me, and I will tell you."

"No, you wish to kill me, that much I can understand." Thenos replied in a flat manner, "Although I wonder why you have not begun butchering me, you did not waste this much time the first time you saw me, or is it… ha, I see you are a fool. The only thing that has changed here is the presence of these piles of meat, you… love them." Stay updated through freewebnovel

"Of course I love them, and I do not just love them Thenos, I envy them."

Thenos began to laugh in a rather disbelieving manner, "Envy? Such weakness? If this is who you are, then I was wrong to flee from you."

"Oh you silly child," Rowan’s body began to glow, "Knowing that this is who I am, should have made you flee because I am not going to be battling with your body, but with your soul."

The only way to save them was for Rowan to force Thenos out of their bodies and souls, and he had succeeded.

With the darkness out of the bodies of the people, it began to gather in the sky, clashing together with shocking violence until the massive body of Thenos was revealed. Still taking the form of an infant with a head that resembled mangled and diseased flesh, the titan sought to escape, his limbs digging into space but he was denied, his screech of fear resounding throughout the planet. _{freēwēbnovel.com}

His head suddenly twisted three hundred and sixty degrees, multiple eyes glaring at the spot where Eva was standing, but she was already gone. The instant that the Lady of Shadows had seen the darkness erupt from the bodies of the people, she had left, knowing that this battle was beyond her capabilities.

Thenos’ body shifted and he appeared at the spot where Eva had stood and he began to touch the space, his eyes inquisitive and he muttered, "Shadows?"

Reality seemed to shift around him and Thenos growled in anger, but a glance around him revealed that the world below him had vanished and he was in a gray space whose size seemed to be infinite.

His eyes suddenly bulged in shock as a long blade erupted out of the middle of his head that was filled with the immense power of destruction, and a great force slammed into the side of his neck. The combination of these two potent actions exploded the entirety of his head. The mangled flesh did not have the chance to fly far before it collapsed into ash.

His body flailed around in panic as he heard the voice of Rowan, "What a waste… even without any knowledge of her, you could still feel her shadows."

Another great force slammed on the stump of his neck where his new head was growing out of, shattering it into ash. Thenos felt stabbing sensations all over his body as he was reduced to ash, and as he slowly regenerated, the stabbing sensations resumed.