Chapter 1178: Eyes Wide Shut Ascendant Nyla entered the chamber and was met with the excited gaze of the Shiik, however, Nyla's eyes were not focused on this magnificent queen for long before it moved to the right where a heavenly being of light sat on a throne of golden flame, her jaws dropped open as it felt as if her mind was exploding, a buzzing in her ears that she soon identified as the Shiik brought her mind out of the daze she had fallen into, ".... Is it ready yet, I am tired of waiting!" the Shiik was tapping the side of her throne more furiously as she spoke, words flowing from her mouth in an endless stream, "How far has the Ascendant Sun traveled, is it a hoax that one of the Suns had truly fallen or did he simply hide himself in fear of my Creator's return? When can we expect a Temple Mother's arrival on Trion?..." "Um, what?" Nyla looked back at the Shiik flustered, "What did you say? I was... I was..." She fell back into silence, Sigh. "Is the outside world becoming that dangerous? Come back to me, child, rod your kind of chaos and tell me everything. In my presence, you are safe from any outside influence. Tell me all about your mission." Nyla's eyes snapped back to the Shiik and nodded, "Um, yes, of course, my mission... but my Queen, what... who is that beside you?" The Shiik finally noticed that the state of Nyla had changed once she entered her presence and not before, turned to her side, and frowned, "What do you mean, I don't..." She unexpectedly vanished from her throne and appeared beside Nyla, her red hair began to blaze and her nails lengthened as she bared her fangs, hissing like a snake, her heart had nearly escaped her chest when she saw that a presence had been with her for a while and she had not even noticed, "Who is that?!" she shrieked, her confused gaze turning to Nyla for a moment before returning to the shining figure sitting calmly on his throne, "My Queen, don't tell me you did not know that you were not alone all this time." Nyla looked between the Shiik and the sitting figure, not knowing if she should laugh or cry at this situation. The Shiik transmitted her words into Nyla's mind, "Stand behind me, I will deal with this situation, if you notice that things are getting out of hand, evacuate with as many Temple Maidens as you can, if any single Temple Maiden survives, so do we all." Noticing that the figure had made no threatening gesture and appeared to be sleeping, the Shiik relaxed a bit and her eyes blazed with black flames as she used her investigative methods, but the flames from her eyes gutted out as if blown by the wind and black and white blood erupted from her sockets making the Shiik grunt in pain. This did not deter her as her eyes healed in a blink and she poured a tremendous amount of vitality inside of them while boosting them with her Will. Black runes of fire enveloped her entire body and then blasted outwards as she used her Will for eyes, but when it reached the shiny figure sitting on the throne, the Will simply vanished, swallowed into it without any motions made to unravel the mystery guest. The Shiil backed away, her eyes not filled with panic but resolve, she turned to Nyla, "Evacuate everyone, leave as far away from this place as possible, and don't look back." Nyla nodded, but there was something in the voice of the Shiik that made the Temple Maiden who was about to leave, pause, "Are you going to be okay?" The Shiik smiled and her head gracefully rose, "I am the Queen of Calamities." Nyla looked at her for a bit before turning and leaving, a sense of sorrow erupting in her heart, she could feel the connection between the Queen and every Temple Maiden including her begin to loosen. If she was taking this direction, it meant the Shiik believed she could not survive what was coming, and the fallout of this battle could be so devastating, that it did not matter if she could resurrect using any of the bodies of the Temple Maidens, so she decided to give them a chance at survival, no matter how slim it was. 'Was it possible that the missing Ascendant Sun, rumored to be dead, was secretly hiding under the continent of Trion? What could be his purpose? Most likely the destruction of that enigmatic being behind the Shiik.' Nyla gritted her teeth, "As expected, this forsaken realm takes everything." behind her she could hear the roar of the Queen as she charged into battle, and knew that there could be nowhere far enough to run. R Rowan was deep inside his soul, his mind separated into 33,000 distinct time flows, as he began to explore the next step towards the third dimension. A part of him already knew the answer but he silenced it, wanting the result to flow naturally to his senses. It took a few hours but then it clicked and Rowan's soul cheered. The cogs and gears were the frameworks, and the time stream around them was the coating, they may be separated into different time streams but that was looking at this picture from a two-dimensional perspective. If he allowed himself to see everything as a whole using the senses of a higher dimension, he could see the marvelous painting they were creating. It was fiendishly complex, the operations of which could not be discerned by any mortal or even most immortal minds, but Rowan was not trying to solve a puzzle, he just wanted to experience his bloodline operation. Like a young bird learning to fly, it should be more of an instinctual process for him. His bloodline already held power, he could grow by letting his instincts guide him. Within the vast complexity, a simple arrangement showed itself. Simple in the sense that it was the least of the possible combinations that this diagram could make, yet it was so complex that Rowan could only grasp it instinctively with his soul, and if he wanted to understand its make-up, even with the power of his mind and Knowledge Well, it would take him months, for others, forever. It was his Time Stack power. This deeper understanding of his bloodline and its first ability pushed Rowan to the third- dimensional Will of Time, and his soul jolted in pleasure, he had barely used eight hours to gain the powerful Will of Time and bringing it up to his present state, while also limiting himself, and he could not wait to finally touch the fourth-dimensional level to see what that scene would look like. 𝒇𝓻𝓮𝓮𝙬𝙚𝒃𝒏𝓸𝙫𝒆𝙡.𝓬𝓸𝒎 Noticing a disturbance, Rowan ignored it, the Shiik would block anyone from reaching him for a while, and he did not want to leave this state of enlightenment. The disturbance came again, and he frowned, his anger triggering his full mental capacity and in that instant, Rowan simply understood the path to the fourth dimension and he cursed in anger. "Why am I being disturbed?!"