The Primordial Record

Chapter 1052  Stone Reach

Their bodies which seemed to be made from black smoke left long trails behind, but their form appeared shaky and on the edge of dissipation as if both Ascendants had suffered grievous damages to their bodies.

This was when the true reality of their situation was revealed, their speeds were ridiculously fast, that was true, but the reality they were traveling past had been frozen in time, and their only protection against this time stop effect was the rapidly vanishing green flames covering their bodies.

One of the Ascendants noticing the rapidly fading flames, sighed and spoke loudly, breaking the silence that had been their companion all this while as they fled,

"We won\'t make it. The fort is gone, and the Blight has overtaken us."

"Yes, we won\'t make it, but it does not matter if we don\'t make it, from here we should be able to transfer the data about the spread of the Time Blight. Give me your flames, I shall complete the process. I shall send a small packet of information across to the Council, the flames should be able to protect such a minor amount of data until it escapes this zone."

There was a slight pause before the first Explorer nodded, and touched the second Ascendant passing the remnants of his flames over to him without any hesitation even though he knew he was condemning himself to a date worse than death, and immediately he was frozen in place.

The second Ascendant looked at his brethren for a short while before he began to gather his flames also in a large green orb and a bright blue mist emerged from his smoky eyes and fused to the green flames, about to launch it, he felt a chill crawl past his spine, and his body turned involuntary to beheld the creature that had appeared behind him.

It took the form of a Deific Explorer, with hands spread outwards as if crucified, from his body, came a flood of blood and pus, black smoke, and dead snakes. From his thin chest came an unending sound of laughter.

Every Ascendant knew the form of Noah Rithmast, the originator of the Time Blight that had swallowed ten million continents, placing everything, both Ascendant and Calamity in a zone of null time, yet the sounds of anguish from countless multitudes resounded from the bodies.

The Ascendant knew he would not survive this encounter with this unknown terror, but not backing down he pushed his arms upward to launch the ball of green flames carrying the message that the Time Blight was beginning to spread once again, and its originator was on the move once again, the higher Ascendants would need to interfere before more of the world was lost.

The flames did not travel far before it vanished and the Ascendant shuddered when it noticed the eyes of Noah Rithmast had opened, and that was the last thing he saw before his body was frozen in time, and his endless torture began.

The head of Noah Rithmast slowly turned to his side, his dead eyes bleeding blood, pus, and smoke peering past unfathomable distances until his gaze reached Rowan and he grinned.

Below him spread out for what seemed like an infinity were ten million continents, and unless Rowan was here, he would have understood that the overall shapes of all the continents resembled an eye, not an oval-shaped one, but the four-sided square-shaped eye of the Primordial of Time.

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 Rowan reappeared above a massive continent, far greater than any he had ever been. This continent was more than ten thousand miles in circumference and covered with nothing but endless forests. This was one of the most important outposts of the Silver Alliance.

Behind him, the Shiik appeared shortly followed by the Prism which collapsed into dust. Rowan had utilized every single speck of energy inside the Prism to bring him to the farthest location it was able to reach, knowing he would be able to get a more powerful Teleportation Prism in this location to bring him to his target.

Looking up at the sky, he noticed that the position of the three Ascendant suns had shifted their position and was closer to the north, confirming his speculations and affirming the memories of the Explorers that he had collected that the Ascendant Suns were no longer powerful enough to cover the entire Realm.

From the memories in his mind, Rowan knew that once there were ten Ascendant Suns and an equal number of Calamity Suns, and they separated the Realm equally between them, but seven of the Ascendant Suns had fallen, for only three Calamity Suns, pushing the balance out of bounds.

This meant that in many corners of the Realm, the light of the Ascendant Sun could not reach them, and they were permanently under the bounds of Calamity.

Dropping his gaze back to the earth, Rowan began surveying the land. The forest covered more than ninety-five percent of the entire land mass, and the rest five percent was dedicated to a massive castle that could hold tens of millions.

This castle did not belong to the Silver Alliance, they were only to serve as watchers over it. This castle was the property of the Council of Nine, the preeminent power of Ascendancy, whose among its members were the three Ascendant suns overhead.

The castle was called the Stone Reach, and it was responsible for holding back the tides of Calamities against a thousand Continent and was an important communication hub for a lot of continents facing the crushing onslaught of the Calamities, however, its most important function was that of a Citadel Hub, the only location that could ensure the immortality of a Deific Ranked Explorer.