The Primordial Record
chapter-1063

The only problem with this plan was that even if he was able to cleanly kill Ascendants he would not be able to crush their soul mountains. Nevertheless, even if he was incapable of excavating the memories of the soul without his complete consciousness, he would find other ways of gathering information.

Another stream of soul energy congregated around Rowan, and with a mental push, he shoved them away. He was not taking any risk in consuming any of the souls on this continent at this time. Ascendants were closer to their soul form and it was possible that the Divine Ascendant resting in his palace a few thousand meters away would be able to sense the dissipating soul energy.

There was a constant stream of souls always heading towards him and Rowan had to continuously disperse them with his consciousness power that he sent out in a broad arc to dissipate incoming soul energy streaming towards him in the distance, else no matter how much he tried to hide his form, the congregation of souls over his location would be a dead giveaway.

It helped that the souls streaming towards him were in far lower numbers than he had once expected in a world like Doom Star, but with the understanding of how the powers of Explorers worked, that confusion was quickly cleared away.

This continent seemed quiet and peaceful as if the hold of Calamity over it was nonexistent, but that was far from reality. It was just that this continent was under the control of the Divine Ascendant presently living in Stone Reach.

At the Deific Rank, the number of Natal Treasures available to the Explorer increased to six, and to reach Ascendancy, among the many criteria, one of the most important was merging a continent with the Natal Treasure, and so a Deific Explorer would have to merge six continents to their six Natal Treasures to fulfill one of the most important foundations to becoming an Ascendant Ranked Explorer.

A continent merged with an Explorer Natal Treasure enjoyed many benefits, one of the most important of those benefits was that Calamities could not spawn randomly, since the Explorer could create dedicated zones in the continent where Calamity creatures could be spawned.

With the decline in the power of Ascendancy, this feature was no longer available to Explorers at the Deific Rank who had merged their Natal Treasures with continents, for they were not strong enough to resist the increasingly greater influence of Calamity, and except for Ascendants with greater control over Aura, no claimed continent was enjoying their previous levels of safety.

Rowan was following a divergent path as an Ascendant and instead of creating more Natal Treasures, he was strengthening just a single one, and another reason he pursued this path was because of the feature of claiming continents that became available to Explorers when they reached the Deific Rank. He had great expectations for this ability.

The months flew by and although Rowan's shape in the bed did not change much except for his increasingly longer hair, his true size had become monstrous. Soul energy was a ridiculous power, placing Rowan on an untouchable stage that would be nearly difficult to ever replicate.

Presently, his Ascendant body was at 7,700 feet tall, and the Aura it contained had become so dense, that it was beginning to liquefy inside certain organs in his body, and except for his skin and other visible organs, every organ inside his body was now transformed into a house sort of gem, including his bones.

Time ticked by continuously until the moment arrived when he could not make any more growth as a Legend Explorer, his height at 10,990 feet, and his Ascendant Aura becoming so plentiful if he was not shielding his body, he would be felt all around the continent and even further.

Rowan sat up on the bed of skulls and cracked his neck, and as he opened his eyes he pushed towards the Deific Rank.

His robes immediately exploded out behind him, all twenty feet of it, and since Deific Rank mostly focused on gaining more Natal Treasures, his robes began to gain volume and length, and before long, his robes were longer than fifty feet, the space around him shivered as the robes exploded in size once more reaching a hundred feet, and another explosion pushed it to three hundred feet.

His robes alone had occupied the entire inside of the ship, and only around Rowan's body was the robe gold, but the other parts of it were blue, and anyone else who saw this a new would think the ship had become filled with the ghost of an ocean.

The insides of the ship were shaken but not destroyed, part of the reason Rowan chose this ship was its durability, and because it was made from the skulls of Explorers, with his Ascendant energy, Rowan was able to strengthen it further, making sure the eruption of energy that would arise from his Ascension was hidden.

In this manner, Rowan stayed still and waited for the transformation inside his body to become complete. The gaseous Ascendancy Aura inside his body all liquified, but this did not increase the density of his Aura, instead it was further decreased until it was almost weightless. The Aura of Ascendancy inside his body could fill an entire river, yet they were all lighter than a bird feather.

Rowan grinned when he finally felt the final effect he wanted at the Deific Rank, his mind began to expand and his consciousness strengthened. The benefit to this was obvious, Rowan could presently only utilize the consciousness power of this body, and this reduced the amount of soul energy he could mine from his dimension, but with greater consciousness power he could already feel the greater stream of soul power available to him.

With his investigation into the abilities of Explorers he had discovered a minuscule number of Explorers that were able to gain an increase in their consciousness powers, and the only thing that was common among all of them was that they were great genuine with an equally greater Explorer technique.

Rowan knew that he should have what could be considered one of the greatest Explorer techniques if not the greatest technique to be ever created in this realm, perhaps if this battle had lasted for a billion years, the Explorers might have created something better, but after seventeen million years, Rowan was at the pinnacle of the Explorer society when it came to matters of techniques, and the boon he received was stupendous.

His consciousness exploded to ten times its previous limit, rivaling twelve of the consciousness nodes on his spine. Although Rowan had not bothered upgrading those nodes since they were now almost useless to him except for comprehension purposes, it was still amazing how much growth his mind had gone through in a single moment.

Rowan gasped as his mortal body shifted in a subtle manner, his pores all around his body opened and closed, trying to seek a greater source of power outside his body and he laughed when they could find none. Inside him was the greatest source of purified Ascendant Aura outside Ascendancy.

It was time to summon the second portion of his consciousness.