The Primordial Beast did not lie. Andar was alone, and Rowan's quiet voice in his heart was silent.
The mont he passed through the barrier, the disorienting sensation Andar felt did not co only from the act of stepping onto a higher plane of existence; it also arose from the Will of Rowann being stripped away from his body and soul and the various shocking events that were transpiring did not allow him to discover this discrepancy until he was duly inford by the mysterious being here with him.
A mont before, while Andar "summoned" the power of the Great Storm and the Fla Guards were sent to bring him to the Supre Mage, chaos had arisen in the hall where the Supre Magus Endirius had sat with his seven descendants.
When it was revealed that the storm carried Primordial Essence, the seven Magus Elders erupted in a frenzy, disregarding the cool intellect the mages were famous for cultivating.
The implications of such an event were reality-shaking, and the possibilities that it brought were endless. These ancient beings could not make a sound for a while as their souls could not fully process this occurrence in a short ti. A commotion soon ensued as they tried to rationalize how such a thing was possible.
"Did a Primordial Domain shatter?! Why is there is much Essence in this storm?"
"This… this is happening everywhere… Even in the lower realms, all the universes I oversee are flooded with Primordial Essence!"
"It is such a short period, but there are reports of babies being born as Acolytes; they perceived the nature of existence inside the womb!"
"A Primordial must be behind this event, and Andar must be associated with them; he used our Supre World as the cover for their activities. He needs to answer for this!"
"With his demonstration from the Aethernet flooding Reality, everyone would believe that this change erged from our Supre World; if this is not dealt with properly, I fear that the consequences may be dire for our society."
One of the Elders here hurriedly called for Andar's arrest in order for the truth behind this storm to be revealed, and all of them quickly agreed.
In their fear and excitent, they were not truly looking at Endirius. Usually, the Supre Magus is silent in tis like these, and they do not consider his silence strange, but Rowan was looking at nothing but the Primordial Beast.
That and the Oracle beside him, who had the appearance of Lost but lacked the charm or personality, there was no life in his eyes; Endirius, it would seem, did not follow the path of Rowan; he did not give this fla a chance to gain his sentience.
Where Lost was rambunctious and curious, the Oracle was cold and silent, like a machine. The state of the fla was sothing that Rowan recognized because it was similar to his nature when he was soulless.
In the past, when Rowan gained the Lost Flas as a mortal, he beca aware that the flas had been split into pieces after it was acquired by Endirius for unknown reasons. However, he did not know the number of pieces, and due to the nature of the first fla in existence, it was not sothing that Rowan could easily decipher.
All of this changed when he grew stronger; if he used the power of his Will of Truth for this question, the answer beca... six pieces.
The first flas had been separated into six parts.
He had gained one part from mastering the Lant of Celestial ditation Art, the second part had been claid by the Archmage who was given the ditation Art that was supposed to go to Andar, and there should be four parts of the Fla that were left, which should all be contained in the body of this Oracle.
Lost was unable to reach the higher dinsional level despite his talents, but the Oracle here was at the eighth-dinsional level, which suggested that Endirius must have placed the remaining portions of the flas in one vessel.
Because he was inside Revah's soul and mory, Rowan was able to go back and observe everything she knew about the Oracle. He discovered that the Oracle was not a higher-dinsional being in the past; these changes were recent, coinciding with the ti he first seized a portion of the First Fla.
To protect this fla from the reach of the Primordial Record and Rowan, Endirius must have gathered the rest to keep them beside him.
This was most likely a trap for the thief who stole his fla. For anyone else, such an action would be regarded as careless because if the thief could dare to steal the fla when it was in pieces, gathering them all in one location was inviting a hungry wolf into your ho.
Rowan had initially felt the sa way, but with his understanding that Endirius was a Primordial Beast, he knew that the safest place to keep the fla was by his side. Who else but the Thrones of Primordial Domains could challenge him?
Rowan had changed his plans because he knew he could no longer continue with the agenda, knowing that Endirius was an unknown Primordial Beast.
He acknowledged that he could not easily seize these flas; Rowan would have to do sothing drastic.
It was as drastic as changing the entire state of Reality to shake Endirius's ntal state, and it had worked.
When the mages here decided to send the Fla Guards to intercept Andar, Rowan sent his Will to Andar to ensure that the fla in the hearts of the Fla Guard was taken. Andar was free to unleash his powers as long as he collected the piece of the fla inside that mage; this mattered the most.
Rowan knew that Andar would not fail him, which assured him that he had two out of the six flas, and the last four could be seized under Endirius's nose if he made his move…. Now!
Revah Endirius had no idea that her soul and essence had begun to heat up. Everything was done silently, even as her Will deceived her consciousness. A spatial gate was being created in the center of her soul and was about to be activated.
Rowan had to do this slowly, but transforming soul energy directly into spatial-temporal forces, even if this was the soul of an Old One, was sothing that was entirely under his control.
The power of this gate was so extre that it would shatter the powerful soul of an Old One, but it would give Rowan enough power to drag the Oracle from this place to a space of Rowan's choosing, and this plan should have worked flawlessly.
If these mages here were shocked at what was happening in Reality. In that case, Endirius, a Primordial Beast, must surely understand a portion of the intricacies behind the power that could release so much Primordial Essence into Reality.
A Primordial Beast would know that this Essence did not co from any Primordial Domain but outside of Reality.
He would be focused on figuring out what or who was capable of such a thing, and this would be the chance for Rowan to strike.
It was a very slim window, but one that Rowan paid dearly for, but the space around him exploded in radiance as six of the mages here abruptly attacked Endirius.
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