The Primordial Record-Chapter 2145: Tempering The Foundation

However, all of these sacrifices were not in vain. Eos and Rowan had reached a soft peak in their techniques and abilities. While it was true that they were always growing stronger and smarter, that rate of growth depended a lot on the external factors around them.

One of the greatest reasons it was hard for Eos to reach the level of Primordials was that it was hard for him to find true external pressure that could temper him.

The Ancient Primordials were not good candidates because, apart from their endless strength and malevolence, they had nothing new to teach Eos.

Their strength only came from their bloodline and the vast amount of Origin Force inside their bodies, and they wielded this strength like a brute. Still, Eos knew that the Ancient Primordials were never given a chance to entirely master their powers.

If they had not been beset by madness, and if the last sixty-five million cosmic eras had been one where they were allowed to fully develop their abilities, then there was no way he would be their match, and they would have been the perfect whetstone for Eos to refine his strength and reach the Primordial level; however, he was not that lucky.

And so, like a gigantic fish in a small pond, Eos could not truly grow stronger because he had reached the limit of the pond. Even as an eighth-dimensional being, Existence could no longer give him any inspiration any longer, and only until he saw what was outside Existence and fought with Luminious Memory, that the shackles over his growth had begun to loosen.

Now this fight with the sentinels, while dangerous, was everything that Eos and Rowan needed at this point.

The Incarnation of Eos, Primordial Space had been able to reach the fifth layer of Origin because of the pressure he had faced battling all of the Ancient Primordials while undergoing tribulation at the same time, and since it was the first time Rowan had experienced a battle of that level, he was able to push himself to limits that was beyond anything anyone had seen inside of Existence.

From this pressure, he created the Origin Realms and became the first being in Existence to push Origin to a higher state than before.

It was a shame that after that battle, the pressure that the Ancient Primordials could give to Eos could not reach this point, and so he resigned himself to slowly cultivate all the way to the fifth layer of all of his Origin.

However, the battle with the sentinels was changing all of this.

Every sentinel they fought was a supreme genius in their Existence, and they had perhaps billions upon billions of cosmic eras to refine their abilities and techniques to the apex before their Existence ended.

They may not have seen the fifth layer of Origin, but that was only because Existence was being deliberately limited, not because they were not able to.

Enoch, in his madness, had broken the boundaries of Existence, giving Eos the chance to be able to peer into a layer of power that no one before him had, but that did not mean his foundations were perfect.

Every sentinel here had been able to push what he knew about Origin far beyond what was possible, and for the fifty Incarantions who remained at the core of the group, there were subtle signs that they were on the verge of a breakthrough, but they kept all of these changes hidden.

If possible, Luminous Silence would not have unleashed the sentinels to stop the Incarnations; just climbing a single staircase alone would take millions of years for an average Primordial. For those who had entered the tower in the past, progress was measured in billions of years and not seconds like the Incarnations were achieving.

Although there was no Primordial Space here, the knowledge that Incarnation had gathered was enough to give every single Incarnation here the ability to understand space in a manner that exceeded an average Primordial.

It should be noted that Eos could recreate an Incarnation with the Origin of Space, but they would not be able to survive past a few picoseconds before they collapse, as their bodies would not be able to handle the strain of carrying an Origin of this power.

And so, the infinity of the tower could not delay these Incarnations, and even when the duplicates were triggered, it hardly stopped these Incarnations, not even when Luminious Silence cheated and brought multiple duplicates numbering in the dozens when there was only ever to be at most three.

The section of the tower he controlled had basically been bled of power, and it would take a while to gather all of those again to beef up its defenses.

Luminious Silence wanted to delay Eos and his Incarnations, and the best weapon he had in his arsenal was the sentinels. Unlike the duplicates that could be ambushed, the sentinels could only be fought one-on-one.

This ensured that the Incarnations could not use their numbers to blast through the trials, but unknown to Luminious Silence, this was the greatest mistake that could have been made in this war up to this point.

If Luminious Memory were here, since the plan was to meet up with Luminious Silence when the war began, he would have quickly stopped the action of Luminious Silence, but unfortunately, he was dead.

What Luminious Memory discovered about Eos was that there was no true way to measure the potential of this being, and although it was hard to admit, the best way to kill Eos was to slowly poison him from a distance and watch him bleed to death over a long period of time.

He had been barely given any valuable resources, and yet he had reached this point. How much more would he be able to grow if he were given the chance to gain more experience from the best that had ever lived?

Luminious Silence had always been arrogant, believing that the peak of Existence had always been the Luminious, and even Eos could only reach this point because he had the bloodline of the Luminious inside of him, and all of his achievements were tied to his bloodline.

That was his gravest mistake, because the moment the last of the sentinels fell, another fifty of Eos’s Incarnation also perished, bringing their number to 3,390.

This was a far lower number of deaths than Luminious Silence would have wanted, but there was still one great trap left ahead that had a high chance to kill all of the Incarantions; however, what the Luminious would not have known was that quietly, three of Eos’s Incarnation had seen the path to the fifth layer of their Origin!