The Primordial Record novel Chapter 1643

Chapter 1643: Noctis Fear (2)

With the enhanced perception of Noctis, he had been to notice that there was a lot of death domains linked to the different regions of the realm of Death clustered around the Bleak Gate.

It was as he had feared, Rowan had drawn too much attention to himself with the power of his soul and the ridiculous amount of time he took to fully enter the realm of death.

This commotion was vastly greater than Noctis had expected. If it were two or even three regions of Death, then he might be able to intercede for Rowan, but the brief glimpse he had seen before his consciousness was blasted away was at least fifty regions of Death!

Noctis had not even been aware that there were so many regions in this realm. With things reaching this point, Noctis no longer knew what to expect from this matter, as it had already far exceeded his level; the only thing he could do was observe and see if he could fish for any benefit.

He consoled himself that even if Rowan was lost, the fruit of his labor, the New Light, was still inside his castle, and with this power, they could fight against the Primordials.

Knowing he could no longer charge into the realm of Death as before, Noctis began his journey back to the Bleak Gate, but now he was using a ritual. With this method, he was not afraid of suffering any backlash from entering a place where so many powerful consciousnesses were converging.

This ritual enabled him to share his perception with the Bleak Gate in a limited manner; he would not be able to see as much if he were directly using his consciousness, but at least he would be protected.

The ritual was costly, but Noctis could draw upon the endless vitality inside of Sheba, and power through it, and before long, a thin strand of his perception pulsed out of the Bleak Gate.

At first, Noctis could not detect the trace of any of the consciousness from the other regions of Death, and he was beginning to believe that whatever happened here had been resolved and Rowan’s powerful soul had been split piecemeal across various regions of Death.

But it did not take long for him to see the one glaring abnormality inside this realm. It was the living and breathing representation of life, nonchalantly standing inside the realm of Death, eyes closed as if he were meditating.

Noctis became speechless. ‘This… why does everything I plan concerning this man always go the opposite direction? It is almost as if the act of me plotting against him, even though I have no hostile thoughts, draws karmic bad luck, and nothing ever goes my way. What kind of being is he, and do I have to worship him as a subordinate?’

Noctis knew that time ran faster around the various regions of Death, and there were rumors that in the central core of this realm, it ran millions of times faster. He watched Rowan for millions of years, many thoughts passing through his head.

Noctis realized that this man did not seem like someone without a plan. Rowan was far too calm for someone who had entered the realm of Death for the first time, and Noctis wanted to see what else this man had to offer. Surely it could not be more shocking.

“I see you.” 𝙛𝓻𝒆𝓮𝒘𝙚𝙗𝒏𝙤𝙫𝓮𝒍.𝓬𝒐𝙢

These words were the only warning Noctis had that something had changed. Afraid that he had been detected by Rowan, Noctis’s senses flared open, and then he sensed the entity that should not be known, and the knowledge that Rowan’s presence had summoned such a thing drove him mad a moment before his consciousness was exterminated.

The backlash from seeing the true presence of an entity whose powers were equal to those of a Primordial reached Noctis’s true body, and his head exploded, followed shortly by his entire body, leaving his tattoos standing in the air.

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It took a while for Noctis to awaken. His tattoos were his covenant with Death, and so it was impossible for him to die, even if his soul were extinguished. His tattoos would first draw upon the life energy of everyone he had killed to resurrect him, and if those life energies were exhausted, they would pull directly from the Bleak Gate. Such an act would place Noctis in debt with the gate, and he would lose more of himself to it.

With enough debt that could not be repaid, Noctis would become one of the full-blood crows of Death, his Destiny forever to be an extension of the power of Death.

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