The Primordial Record

There was a feeling of a drastic shift about to happen that filled her Spirit as Circe opened her mouth, and she instantly sensed the connection with the flesh deepen until she felt as if it was one of her limbs and she pulled.

It zipped into her mouth so fast that it left after images in the air, and she did not even swallow before it melted into a warm gooey substance that was simultaneously hot and cold.

She felt it run down her throat and settled around her chest, where it wiggled before forming a red sphere. Circe was following every single action this heart made with all her Spirit and when it began drawing energy from her it still came unexpectedly.

"I forgot to tell you," The voice of Rowan said, "This is the part where it would really hurt."

The orb suddenly rippled and a silver eye emerged from it, Circe's scream was cut short when her body suddenly collapsed inwardly as it imploded, all her flesh and blood was dragged into the sphere leaving a small clump of bleeding flesh that was no larger than an apple.

"Ouch," Rowan winced, "I should have warned you, all my changes are drastic and violent, but don't worry you now have healing capabilities that would rival anything you can ever imagine, and except for the pain, you cannot die… even if you wanted to."

He still remembered how a mortal mind could be overwhelmed with pain when it reached this magnitude and he pitied Circe for a brief moment before looking away towards the Lightning Kirin that was floating in the air in suspended animation.

"Hold on for a while longer, the power you shall grasp will make all the pain worth it in the end." With those last words to Circe, he fully concentrated on Archimedes. He had left the best for last, Circe was a profound genius and was very necessary to his plans, but Archimedes was something different.

This Lightning Kirin contained mysteries that Rowan found very fascinating, for one, the problems Archimedes faced with her talents were not natural, it was by design.

The Lightning Kirin had stated the truth all this while, that it was the first of its kind to ever have any problems such as this, perhaps if she had taken the time to fully analyze her situation and look at it from another perspective she would have realized that this fact made her problems very suspicious.

There was no precedence for a Lightning Kirin to not grow after every resurrection, an example would be a bird who has wings but could not even fly a few inches off the ground.

Her problems were relegated to bad luck and her lackluster talent but the truth was that Archimedes had been plotted against, even before she was born by a familiar figure that she worshiped–Ohrox.

The sly Prince of Destruction had been using the emotions and the love of this Kirin to maintain a plot it had been hatching for unknown millions of years, and he was unlucky that Rowan was the one who came across his designs.

Unknown to Rowan, Ohrox was not just any Demon Prince, he was a special figure who aspired for the most powerful position in all of Creation. Ohrox wanted to become a Demon God.

There was a single figure who ruled over the Great Abyss, a figure shrouded in mysteries and depravity. The Demon God was one of the oldest creatures in all of existence and he was also a Primordial.

Ohrox had seen the glory of a Demon God many billions of years ago, and he deeply understood that even if he lived for countless trillions of years, he would never reach that level. No matter how strong he became in the future he would never reach this level.

This Demon Prince could never accept this and he began his experiment, and Archimedes as lowly as she was, would be his crowning achievement.

Rowan delved deeply into the Lightning Kirin and discovered that intertwined deeply in every one of her cells was the energy of the Demon Prince, silently growing inside her and feeding on her potential and all her deaths, but doing it in a manner that would cause no harm and would show no signs to Archimedes.

The true resurrection of the Prince of Destruction was not supposed to come from his Origin Treasure–The Tower of Greed, but from the deaths of the Lightning Kirin, yet for all of his preparations, Ohrox had not expected that the Lightning Kirin would have survived this long and the Demon Prince had been stuck in limbo inside of her.

Rowan chuckled, it was sometimes the unexpected that always betrayed a well-laid plan. With the mental manipulation the Demon Prince had laid over Archimedes, perhaps he had expected the Lightning Kirin not to even survive past a single year.

What he had underestimated was the barbarity of the Gods of Trion. They had tortured Archimedes for many centuries, killing her in various ways that grew more elaborate with every death, and with their casual disregard of her sacrifice, the Kirin had grown bitter and no longer wanted to die alongside her master, but wanted revenge.

Her quest for vengeance was so strong that when she saw a chance with Circe to finally merge with her to become a god, she took it without any hesitation.

Meanwhile, the state of the Demon Prince's existence inside Archimedes made Ohrox unable to interact with the outside world, and for all intent, he was deeply asleep and was not aware of what was happening in the outside world all this time, or else he would have wept in rage.

Rowan had been able to see deep inside this Lightning Kirin when he observed her but that was only a brief investigation, now he attempted to look even deeper into the Lightning Kirin.

There must be a good reason why the Prince of Destruction must have risked the wrath of the entire coven of the Lightning Kirin and interfered in the life of one of their broods.

There were easier methods to be resurrected and Rowan knew that a figure like the Demon Prince would never make any moves that would destabilize its future and his aim of being a true Avatar of Destruction. At the level of a Demon Prince, their sights began to expand beyond the thoughts of just countless slaughters, now they wanted more.

Rowan began to take Archimedes apart, until he had every single part of her opened before his gaze, and then he was now able to view all the ways that Ohrox had linked with Archimedes, and for a long time he was puzzled. There were connections here that made no sense, and Rowan had to brainstorm for another hour before everything clicked.

"What the fuck…. What the fuck!!!... You can do this? Is this even permitted?"

For the first time in a very long time, Rowan became speechless.