Chapter 608 Creating Connections Rowan quickly brought out the remaining two treasures, which were the Aeorkron Core, a Universal Bearer Level Treasure, and the Ruin of the Mountain, and Sea Supreme World, a Proto–Source Level Treasure. Each treasure here was integral to his success, as he had chosen to build his Destroyer Core to be patterned around these treasures, if he had a different set of treasures then he would still change his style of refinement to reflect what he had to work with. What Rowan considered to be the most important metier for him was the direction the Core was being crafted towards, and not necessarily the materials, although a powerful enough material as the base was a plus. Unlike the Gears of Madness, these two treasures had a unique method of refinement, and with the differences they had, he flowed according to his plans. He briefly observed that the dead Scribe souls came to him and transformed into Soul Origin and not Soul Energy. Rowan considered this for a little while before dismissing it out of his thought, the importance of this occurrence would be ascertained for later, not now. The Aeorkron Core was a treasure that could create Primordial Mana. At first glance, it resembled a closed fist, but with closer examination, the appearance had been transformed into the shape of a heart. This shape had slowly revealed itself over the months as Rowan had been preparing this Core for this day. On the massive body of the blue Aeorkron Core were billions of golden ports that were created using the enhanced Hollow Gold Alloy. Hollow Gold was an Alloy Rowan had created after infusing his Aether with various materials he had gathered from the universe, he had created an Alloy that was the perfect conductor, or at least he thought so at that time. The current Hollow Gold was far more different than the ones he had created a year ago, he had infused this current Alloy with all the spectacular treasures he had harvested from the Divine Kingdom of the gods, and their properties had changed, as this Alloy began to subtly affect deeper Aspect of energy that surpassed the third Dimension and encroaching into the Fourth. This means his Hollow Gold was now more powerful than any metallic Alloy that could be birthed inside a universe. During the preliminary crafting of the Aeorkron Core for the purpose of this forge, Rowan had installed billions of ports that would link all around the treasure, so it could be pumping out power at any rate he required. Rowan intended the heart of his Destroyer to be fuelled by Primordial Aether, a wild and ambitious idea, and anyone else would find it useless because for the Aeorkron Core to produce enough Primordial Aether to fulfill the consumption requirements of a Destroyer, a Source of Primordial Essence must be found. He did not know how difficult it was to get Primordial Essence for anyone else, perhaps some powers would find it easier than others, but he knew he had an excess of this stuff lying around. His Primordial Sea of Darkness was filled with an abundance of Primordial Essence that he had no use for at this time, and it would serve as fuel. He had experimented with it and found out that he could use a million parts of his Primordial Sea of Darkness to create one part of Non-Attributeless Primordial Aether. An expensive bargain to be sure but it was impossible for Rowan to truly run out of his Primordial Sea, and he knew that as he continuously got stronger in the future, this Divide would slowly be closed. If he had still been in the Second Supreme Circle, he would have no doubt that he would have to use a Billion Parts of his Primordial Sea to exchange for one part of Non-Attributeless Primordial Aether. He knew how important this Aether was to his development and he would make sure he controlled it. 𝚏𝗿𝗲𝐞𝚠𝕖𝐛𝗻𝗼𝐯𝕖𝚕.𝚌𝗼𝗺 Rowan gestured towards the bowl containing the 'soup' that consisted of his World Engine and Gears of Madness and they had begun to slowly combine. This process was being directed and accelerated by the Billions of Arcane Runes Rowan had shot into them during the previous refinements, and although it appeared as if Rowan was still just examining the Aeorkron Core in front of him, that would be wrong for he had divided his concentration into a thousand streams and was directing a dance of such incredible complexities with all the Runes inside the platform. The gigantic 'soup' began to slowly swirl around and was gaining momentum with every revolution. The appearance of this 'soup' had begun to change as it slowly began to resemble a swirling galaxy and the flashing Arcane Runes resembled billions of shooting stars. The Gears of Madness would inevitably return to its previous form if Rowan was not thorough in his refinement, he had no room for any mistakes. When he was inside this space he could not use his Tower of Greed because in a manner the past, present, and future were happening at the same time here and he was actively forging all those periods at the same time. With the processing of the swirling material below him, Rowan a greater portion of his attention to the Aeorkron Core and brought his Telekinetic tentacles and connected to hundreds of Hollow Gold Ports at the same time. With a flex of his will, the ports began to extend like massive divine snakes into the swirling material below, and with his concentration at the peak, Rowan still let out a sigh of relief as the hundreds of ports connected with the swirling 'Soup' below. The mixture of the Gears of Madness and his World Engine began to slowly travel up the extended ports and began to stream into the Aeorkron Core. Rowan did not pause and began creating more of these connections since there were billions of ports in this Aeorkron Core to be paired with, it would take a considerable amount of time, as he had to be precise, while conducting a massive amount of calculations at the same time. Rowan was slowly going pale and even his body was beginning to shrink. He was expending so much power that even with his present physical condition, he was losing far more energy than he was recovering. Yet, Rowan had to succeed in one try. He could not hope to do better than this in the short term if he failed.