To understand where Primordial Soul had been hiding for all these eras, Rowan had to place all the truths he had learned about existence to figure it out.
Primordial Soul was gone, but Rowan could see countless trillions of soul origin orbs that were tucked into the folds of Oblivion, he had not noticed them at first due to the nature of this place, but when billions of soul origin orbs erupted from these folds and was swept into the distance, he understood how this Primordial had been fooling the rest of Reality for so long.
Rowan gazed deep into Oblivion, and he saw vast amounts of soul origin orbs, almost without number, hidden deep inside of it, and every now and then, a large number of these orbs would be swept away by a tide of soul force.
Rowan held back the instincts that nearly pushed him into devouring all of these soul orbs. If he did, then his storehouse of soul power would explode to unknown limits.
At a glance, it seemed impossible to determine where she was. Reality was extremely massive, and to search for a single person, even if they were a Primordial, was worse than searching for a single pin in an ocean of pins.
However, Rowan was not an ordinary immortal, and he was able to determine certain truths that reduced the area he needed to search.
The first thing he considered was that it did not matter if Primordial Soul awakened in the fourth Major Era; it did not mean that she would leave Oblivion, and the reason for that was obvious: Reality was too weak to hold a Primordial, not after it had been emptied out by the others.
If Primordial Soul had escaped from Oblivion, there was no way that she would be able to survive in a Reality that had been drained of all Essence, and so the safest option would be to remain inside of Oblivion without alerting the other Primordials that she had awakened.
Primordial Soul had fed on the Essence of Reality alongside her brethren, and the weight of her existence may be greater than any Primordial inside Reality.
Then there was the fact that Primordial Chaos had been standing guard outside the Gate of Oblivion, and had been funneling the soul fragments from the "sleeping" Primordial Soul to the rest of Reality.
If anything had changed, then he would be the first to notice, and so, Rowan had to look back through time to find the one moment when Primordial Soul was free enough to act, and the answer was simple: it was during the transition from the Primordial Era to the Supreme Era.
The past was important, and knowing all the events that happened before was the most excellent judge of what was to come in the future.
In all of the previous Eras, there had always been a prevalence of Essence in Reality, although with each new Era that passes, the Essence becomes smaller.
Rowan believed that even for Primordials, feasting upon Reality was a meal that took a long time, and so with every Major Era that passes, the Primordial Essence floating around in Reality shrank.
Yet, every meal must end, and the Primordials finally consumed every single bit of Primordial Essence inside Reality, and usually, this should have been the end of Reality, and the Primordials were supposed to leave the dead Reality behind, but they were still awaiting a grand prize.
Reality was not supposed to exist for long, not after all its Essence had been drained, but the Primordials extended its lifespan by introducing the dimensional system to the life forms inside of Reality and creating Aether and Aetherium to keep the fire of life burning, even if it would only last a single Era.
For such a grand working, all the Primordials needed to contribute their power, and Rowan had seen it.
Old Man Seed had shown Rowan the dawn of the Supreme Era. He had seen all the Primordials create a blade that swept through all of Reality and instituted great changes across Reality that had remained till Rowan began to transform Reality again.
Primordial Chaos and the rest of the Primordials, believing that Primordial Soul was sleeping inside Oblivion, would not be too focused on her, and that should be the gateway for her escape.
Still, she would have to be extremely careful, and to ensure that she slipped out without being noticed, Primordial Soul should have left a lot of her strength behind.
If the weight of her presence was that of a planet, she had to reduce it to the weight of a bee to avoid attention.
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