Primordial Chaos crossed through space and time and appeared before the frozen serpents. He reached out to them, and they vanished once more, a loud rumble like thunder emerging from their fused bodies.
Their traces vanished, and Primordial Chaos looked around with less amusement and more annoyance. Once was pleasant, but evading him twice should not have been possible.
These beasts were moving, but the breath of life in their bodies was gone, and they were not moving under their own influence. Something else was manipulating them. There was no way that Primordial Chaos would miss the surge of teleportation power surging inside the serpentsβ bodies.
There were only two parties that could move these bodies under the eyes of Primordial Chaos, and they were Rowan and the Primordials.
The Primordials should have been the most likely suspect, and before his battle with Rowan, he would never have believed that the child was capable of manipulating power to such an extent, but he knew how fast Rowan could learn.
Spreading his senses all over Reality, Primordial Chaos could no longer detect these serpents, which meant they were either inside a Primordial Domain or were... He looked towards the vortex spewing out the dead essence of Eosah, and peered deeper into it, where he could see an obscure image of a plain filled with rich earth.
The so-called Origin Land... Could it be where the serpents were hiding?
Primordial Chaos began to move his consciousness into the vortex, and he stopped. He could sense that if his consciousness crossed that threshold, it would become unbound by the rules of Reality.
This would be a very bad thing for him, not before he harvested what they needed from this Reality.
The main body of the Primordials outside of Reality was like a giant magnet, and the Primordials within Reality were tiny metal fillings.
While inside Reality, the little pieces of their consciousness were protected by the flesh of Eosah, and they could not detect the powerful pulling force of their main bodies. However, if for any reason they stepped into a place that was unbounded by the rules that governed Reality, then they would be pulled towards their bodies with such great force that every last bit of them would be ripped from Reality.
Even if a minor fragment of his consciousness were to enter this Origin Land, it would be enough to attract the attention of his main body, and everything he was would be lost to it. Everything.
Primordials did not have gender or emotions; all of these were gained every time a piece of themselves entered a Reality. Over the endless Eras, they collected back those pieces, and the emotions and every other thing they gained inside of the Reality fed and sustained them for the many Eras they roamed Limbo, looking for new prey.
Yet it never endured. Everything they gained was always washed away in time, and the hunger returned, and their search continued.
No, whatever this Origin Land was, Primordial Chaos could not risk his consciousness wandering into it; the losses would be too great. However, he needed the bodies of those serpents to recreate a new bloodline for him to be able to send them into this Origin Land once it was found.
None of the Primordials could risk searching for a realm outside of Reality; otherwise, they might unknowingly get too close, and that would be too risky, not when there were disposable pawns that could search for this place.
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