The Primordial Record
chapter-1068

The Divine Ascendant shrugged at Rowan's words and summoned all his Natal Treasures in a conflagration of blue fire that resembled a volcano erupting.

First, his entire body was wrapped in gleaming silver metal, and two large orbs appeared over his shoulders like two small moons, and finally a large silver cape. He transformed from a being of shadow into a metallic golem that gleamed under the sun.

With every Natal Treasure he summoned, the world groaned as the metaphysical weight of all these treasures strained reality to its limits. Ascendants were never meant to fight among these weaker continents, and the Divine Ascendant had reached a higher level of Ascendancy. Phantasmal images appeared around the Divine Ascendants that showed six massive continents, the Ascendant made a mystical gesture that caused whispers to travel all around them, and the phantasmal images of the continent as if responding to a summon began to converge, until they all shrank to a single silver dot that rested on the forehead of the Ascendant, and the dot unfurled to become a silver crown that had blue flames flowing within

it.

The full glory of the Divine Ascendant was revealed and the sky quaked as the earth shuddered and cracked.

"I am Arthurius Rais, Divine Ascendant of the First Dan, Master of the Silver Alliance, and I shall face you with my full strength."

Rowan nodded, he paused as if in thought, before he smiled, "I am the last living part of a broken world, and I will match your strength, and exceed them."

"Then let us take this battle to the heavens!" the Divine Ascendant roared and his body launched into the sky. Rowan's robes unfurled and like a rising golden sun, he chased the Ascendant, as they both traveled hundreds of miles into the sky nearly instantaneously, their passage causing thunderstorms that were visible across the entire continent.

At first, flying higher into the sky was easy, but across a certain point, every inch upwards felt like tearing through metal, and this phenomenon was constantly increasing as the pressure multiplied with every inch crossed.

Rowan's robe shrank and wrapped itself around him, as he did not bother with any subtle movement, he just bulldozed his way through the resistance causing multiple explosions and surrounding him in a corona of plasma and force, while the Divine Ascendant was like a Spirit, his body appearing to merge with space, and therefore he felt no resistance going this high

up.

Higher and higher they flew, until they had traveled thousands of miles upwards, and still there was nothing but pale drifting clouds and a seemingly fathomless expanse around them, until finally they reached a certain point and reality seemed to change in subtle ways, and the Ascendant stopped and pointed his short sword at Rowan,

"Step upon the threshold that bound the mortal and the immortal, and face me here, only in this place, a worthy battle can be fought."

The Ascendant waited for Rowan silently after his proclamation of battle, and Rowan halted and looked around him, he had never been so high up, even when he entered this world, he had manifested thousands of miles below their present level.

Below him, the lands had shrunk to a dot and the world had opened up, from up here he could see hundreds of thousands of continents, Doom Star was so massive that even at this height, he could detect no visible curvature in the lands below, proving this massive area was just a fraction of the surface of this realm, and above him was a barrier that the Ascendant had stepped through... the threshold, he had called it.

Rowan touched the barrier, it felt as flimsy as a bubble, yet no matter how much power he exerted in his arms, he could not push it back a single inch. He closed his eyes and his robes tightened around him, although his dimension was dead, it still had weight. A weight he could summon when he wanted it.

With this weight around his arm, he pushed, and the entire heavens rumbled.

If Rowan had been outside in reality, he would have seen a stunning sight. He would have seen the entire surface layer of Doom Star ripple and the entire star seemed to expand before it returned to its previous shape. Shaking the entirety of Doom Star was a feat that was ridiculous in its extreme.

Rowan brought back his hand from the barrier and then proceeded to cover it using his Ascendant energy, and now when he brought his hand forward, he easily pierced through the barrier and stepped through onto the threshold, and he stumbled as his mortal shell gasped because he had just crossed from the third dimension into the fourth.

It was an experience that destabilized him for a few seconds as he held his head in pain until he took control of his senses and straightened, he nodded at the Ascendant wearily,

"You should not have waited for me to acclimate myself to this higher dimension, I expected you to attack. You might have killed me."

The Divine Ascendant chuckled, "It was not all mercy, I wanted to attack, but if you were right about what you said about holding back against me, then at your moment of peril you would have no control over your powers and don't think me a fool, I saw you carry the entire heavens with a single palm... what are you?"

"the entire heavens?" Rowan whispered, "You see so much, yet so little."

The Divine Ascendant considered his words for a moment before he pointed his blade to the sky, "Look above you, and see the glory of the Ascendants."

Rowan shook his head to clear it of the last of the fog clogging his mind. As a dimension, Rowan had never experienced higher dimensions like others, and not even considering the fact that he was now a mortal, the experience for him was jarring.

After experiencing the memories of immortals, especially those who had entered a higher realm, he understood that they perceived reality very differently than he did. Yet his innate nature as a dimension shackled in the body of a mortal creature made him more susceptible to higher dimensional forces than others. As a dimension, he had defenses against such heightened senses, but in the body of a mortal, his senses were causing him problems.

Despite all that, he was slowly getting used to the higher dimension, and Hlhe looked upwards, and his mortal eyes for the first time saw the color of time.

It flowed like a river, silent and majestic, Rowan thought he could hear it... the sound of time,

it was like the cry from an eagle, or the quiet whisper of the breeze that touched the surface of a river, it was everything and nothing.

On this river were millions of continents, each of them far greater than a thousand continents placed together below.

The three Ascendant suns above were continents! Albeit the largest of all the continents here, Rowan could not see more because his consciousness began to ache, with a groan he looked

away.

The Ascendant whispered, "You think the conflicts below have any meaning? The true nature of reality lies above us. Now that you have seen the heavens, you strange creature, and you know awe, how is it that you can move it?"

Rowan cracked his neck, a bit irritated at the weakness of his consciousness and dismissively replied, "The one thing I have never lacked is strength."

"Ah..." the Ascendant muttered, "A child in the body of a Titan."

"No," Rowan replied, "A Titan, squeezed inside the flesh of a child," and he attacked.