Chapter 1300 Nameless Bloodline Technique The Eye of Time did not seem surprised that Rowan had dodged its attack or the appearance of Nemesis, its focus was on the wailing infant pinned on the halberd that it was bringing closer. Multiple nostrils on the body of the titan inhaled, smelling the potent power of the Primordial Essence within the body of the headless infant, there were four droplets within, and with this knowledge, a massive stream of drool poured out from the hundreds of mouths of Gothran'Inul. Dozens of the titan's heads began to merge, the Eye of Time twisting all of them into a massive mouth so that it could swallow the infant in one gulp. The body of Thenos even as an infant was nearly the same size as Gothran'Inul. The blaze of victory in the heart of the Eye of Time had reached the peak, as the legs of the infant entered its gigantic mouth. R) Although Rowan had been able to dodge the purple lightning blade, a technique from the Eye of Time was never that simple. Using spatial-temporal manipulations that Rowan struggled to wrap his head around, the lightning blade that had zoomed past Rowan appeared in front of him again, and this time there were a hundred of them. Rowan realized that this was an application of the Time Stack ability, but used in a manner that was more ingenious the more you analyzed it. With his understanding of this ability, he knew he could not avoid it, only crush it, else the blades would keep multiplying, and he might be able to avoid them at the start, but the growth curve for this ability was exponential, and in a short time he would not be able to respond to them and he would be grounded to death. The power of the Eye of Time had taken a step forward after possessing Gothran'Inul's body, but Rowan knew that he was not even experiencing the peak of its powers, and if the Eye of Time got hold of the Primordial Essence, there would be no chance to mount any form of resistance, he would be crushed like a weed under the tread of a giant. The lightning blades surrounding Rowan zipped toward him, their motions were utterly confusing, they seemed to be heading toward him, but at the same time, they had already arrived. These two separate outcomes were both true and occurring at the same time. Rowan's eyes flashed and the hourglass that had vanished under the dark of his eyes reappeared, glowing like the sun, its appearance was distinct. At the bottom of the hourglass were golden sands, and Rowan triggered the power of his bloodline of Time. This bloodline technique was nameless, it was the first of its kind and Rowan had not yet given it a name, but he hoped that by testing it in battle he may further understand its potential, hereby giving this new central technique of his time bloodline a proper name. Activating this technique made the hourglass in his eyes flip, and the surrounding space around him for millions of miles went still, this also included the lightning blades heading towards him. A sense of Omniscience washed through his mind like a cool breeze before fading away, but the world around him was still rendered in stark detail as he still kept a slight benefit of that state of mind. Rowan felt a burning pain across his body as if he was a mortal that had been plunged into a vat of acid, he looked down at his chest where the tip of hundreds of lightning blades had penetrated, and then he understood the sneaky tactics of this move because even though the hundreds of lightning blades were still quite a way from him, they had already begun to stab him. This concept did not make any sense, yet it was simply a higher-order manipulation of time, where effect and cause were swapped, and if he had been a bit slower to respond, he would already be skewered by these blades even from the distance, and knowing the Eye of Time, these blades were simply a delivery mechanism for the true killing blow. The pain he was feeling was not from being stabbed with the blades, but from the intense poisonous Will it contained, which would have confused Rowan if he had not heard Gothran'Inul's claim that his Will was the Will of Pain. With the control of this titan's body now completely in the hands of the Eye of Time, it was not a surprise that it could now control the titan's Will with some degree of proficiency. The pain Rowan was feeling was simply the tip of the iceberg because the payload delivering the Will of Pain had been halted even before it could commence its true attack, else Rowan's threshold for pain would have been placed to the test, and even if he could resist, the effort of doing so would leave him helpless and defenseless, easy picking for the Eye of Time. This had surely been the plan when the Eye of Time sent out that blade, but it had been countered by Rowan's bloodline technique. In Rowan's eyes, the golden sands in the hourglass now at the top half of it began to slowly trickle downwards, grain by grain. Each grain that fell was silent, but inside his consciousness, they resounded that of a heavy tolling bell, and his entire dimension felt a heavy strain as if he was pushing against an incredible weight. This was proof that despite his heretical Constitution that had been further upgraded with the addition of his new Wills reaching the fourth dimension and his new and evolved bloodline, using this nameless bloodline technique was still incredibly strenuous. If he activated this move, with the strain on his body, Rowan discovered that he would not be able to move. Until this technique ran its course, he was stuck in one place. Rowan had counted, there were a hundred grains of golden sand in the hourglass and simply flipping the hourglass had caused time to pause around him, and now as the grain of golden sand began to fall, something amazing commenced. The first indicator of this change was the blinding pain from the lightning blades stabbing into his chest simply vanished, the Will of Pain that was encroaching in his flesh became a notion of the past, and then the tip of the blades stabbing into his chest all exited as if they had been forced out, but that was too simple to explain this phenomenon because as more golden sands dropped down, Rowan realized that the effect of the hourglass bloodline technique was Time Reversal. At first, he was a bit let down by this technique, for its cost was heavy, and it was not that groundbreaking. Time Stack seemed to be more powerful than Time Reversal, which was an ability that was available to all higher dimensional immortals within the Time Streams they controlled. However, with this thought Rowan's eyes lit up further as he understood that maybe he was underestimating this technique. No immortal could control time, the only control they had was over the Will Chains that bound a Time Stream to their Wills, although Time Reversal was only available to a higher dimensional immortal within the Time Stream they controlled. This meant when a higher dimensional immortal unleashed their Will power, and used it as a bridge to manipulate Time using the Will Chains that bound their personal Time Stream to them, they could only reverse time, stop time, or slow down time inside their Time Stream. In simple terms, a higher dimensional immortal stopping time was only possible inside their domain, which was usually small, a few miles in diameter. Previously Rowan's Reflection had been able to stop time around an entire continent because he had multiple Time Streams, precisely 33,000 time streams that he had harvested from the realm of Doom Star. Spreading out all these time streams, the Reflection had covered the entire continent, placing them under his time domain. If the Reflection had wanted to reverse time or freeze time, only inside this broad domain would it be possible. However, the hourglass in his eyes had begun to reverse time all around him, but what Rowan had failed to note at that moment was that he had not unleashed any of his streams of time, but he was already reversing time around him. Rowan was controlling time without using any Will Chains, or Time Stream!