Chapter 1690: Choosing The Record When he first gained the Primordial Record, Rowan had depended on it for information; its short but succinct descriptions of bloodlines and their abilities were an essential tool he used in understanding his surroundings and figuring out hidden secrets. The Primordial Record had also served as a method for judging his abilities and expanding on their usage. Due to the fact that Rowan had been unique from the start, he had no other individual who shared his abilities, so he had to find a way to discover the reach and limitations of his powers. Without the Primordial Record, Rowan would have died or faced countless deadly hazards as he attempted to understand what he was capable of. 𝓯𝙧𝙚𝒆𝙬𝙚𝒃𝙣𝙤𝒗𝓮𝓵.𝙘𝙤𝙢 Over time, he grew increasingly powerful, and his dependence on the Primordial Record for figuring out the world around him drastically reduced as well. His greater consciousness and comprehension ability made his mind increasingly powerful as time went by, and he slowly graduated from a fledgling powerhouse to a terrifying, unique predator of immortals. In recent years, Rowan has stopped utilizing the Primordial Record as much, not because it has lost its relevance—far from it; like Rowan, the Primordial Record is also adjusting to fit Rowan’s growing powers and needs. The first significant changes came about when it found a way to create a Class that fit Rowan’s present capabilities, and assisted him in the creation of his Origin Land, and now, with Rowan acquiring the power of Origin, another leap forward in its capabilities had been created, which was fusion. This ability had always been present in the Primordial Record, and its usage was spectacular, but it could not reach the levels of option that it had just presented to Rowan at the moment. Rowan did not have to guess how such a potent degree of fusion was now available, when he knew it was because he had finally bridged the gap between his dimensional flesh and his original nature as a Reality. Only with such a robust foundation could a proper fusion begin to occur where all of his multiple abilities and bloodlines would be fused into a singular and potent power whose limits were unknown. Rowan had always known that the path of the Primordial Record was centered on the ultimate fusion with him. In the past, when this fusion had occurred, the singularity had been in a dominant position due to how weak and incomplete Rowan’s foundations were. If he had agreed to fuse with the Primordial Record in the past, he would have certainly gotten extremely powerful in the short term, but he would have lost his mind to the singularity, and his potential would have been capped at the Primordial level. With his stubbornness, Rowan had stuck to his path and chose to be the master of his fate. Slowly growing his powers and digging into the secrets of his past, Rowan’s personal power base had grown to such an extent that fusion with the Primordial Record was no longer a simple affair. His dimensional flesh and soul, his Origin Land and bloodlines, his multiple powerful wills, titles and techniques, all of these were not simple powers that could be easily managed, instead a highly complex procedure of filtering and matching were to be made, his abilities needed to be grown, refined and understood, and then the Primordial Record could attempt fusion. Rowan was no longer a simple immortal that could be merged with the Record. His dimensional flesh had the potential to hold multiple Origins, essentially making him a Primordial of numerous paths, and his Origin Land held potential that was unmatched since nothing like it had existed since the beginning of existence. All of these changes were quite important because Rowan had longed to understand that the Primordial Record was not an average Singularity. Unlike every other singularity in existence that acted like seeds to water the foundation of a budding Reality, the Primordial Record aimed for something more, and whatever that thing was, Rowan would only know when their fusion was complete. However, this was not what separated the Primordial Record from every other singularity in existence; what did was the fact that Rowan was not the first entity that it had merged with. It was rare, almost nonexistent, that Singularities survived the total eradication of their host. The World Stele was not destroyed because fragments of Thenos’s memories remained, and so did the so-called Map, as well as the unknown third Singularity of Eosah. If their hosts were to be entirely destroyed with nothing remaining, the Singularity would perish alongside them, but the Primordial Record was different; it was almost as if it were a parasite that could give unimaginable benefits to its host, but when they fell, it could easily detach from them and find a stronger host. Although it had not occurred often in the past, the Primordial Record had told Rowan about previous hosts and how Rowan was far distinguished from any of them. Rowan, not understanding what it meant for a Singularity to not only exist after its hosts were killed but also take multiple hosts, did not understand the significance of that revelation until now. There was a portion of the mind of the Primordial Record that was filled with the experiences of his previous hosts, and every page that was flipped before the present one, which occupied Rowan’s consciousness, was the remnants of all of those that came before him. This should have made Rowan more wary of the Primordial Record; instead, it was the opposite. Rowan felt a close kinship with the black book because it reminded him of himself. Rowan suspected that the previous hosts might not all be Realities like him, with some being extraordinary beings like Thenos, but the Primordial Record must have survived their destruction. The Primordial Record was a Singularity that had lived far longer than it should have, survived what would have killed any other Singularities, and its stubbornness was familiar to Rowan, because he recognized that madness, and the desire to make the impossible possible. It was for the recognition of this madness that kept Rowan in communion with the Primordial Record. With his present powers, it would be difficult but still possible to strip himself of this Singularity, but he still decided to keep the bond. The Primordial Record may be flawed, but Rowan would not choose any other Singularity if given the chance, as he suspected that with the damage that had been done to him even before he was born, only the Primordial Record was able to squeeze out his potential and elevate him to the powerhouse he had become. There was always a price for power, and the greater the power, so also was the price that would be paid for it. ® Since realizing that fusion was the main path of the Primordial Record, Rowan did not choose to check the Record every chance he had. He would wait until he had used his abilities to the limits and made new breakthroughs before opening the Record because he knew there would be potent new fusions waiting for him. He had made a considerable elevation from dimensional flesh to acquiring his Origin Land. Now, he was making another big leap to acquiring Origin for each of his dimensional layers. Knowing that this fusion would push his abilities to the next level, Rowan focused on the changes and pulled up the first fusion.