The Primordial Record

The seed of the idea came from a single event which Rowan had always found perplexing because at that time he should not have the capabilities of achieving something like that. Rowan had been a one-dimensional thread and he had been able to send his consciousness into the body of his Berserker Clone, which was a simple thing to do, they were simply his technique after all, however, he was able to take it further and he had reached across time to find the possible futures of these clones and then he manifested their abilities from the future into the present.

With that impressive power, Rowan had been able to easily kill all the Archmages here while granting Andar his freedom at the end. With everything that he was capable of and his relative ignorance over the higher dimensions, Rowan originally had no idea how impossible the feat he had achieved was.

Killing more powerful beings, especially the Third Prince and the rest of the Reflections of the Eye of Time had revealed an important truth to Rowan.

No one could see the future and no one could access it.

Rowan at first was ecstatic about the possibility that he may have a way to access a dimension of time that was lost using his Berserker Clones, but then he discovered that they were not as ground-breaking as he had once thought.

Seeing the future was amazing, but in the case of the Berserker Clones, Rowan had discovered that the only reason he could see the future was that his Berserker Clones were tied to his dimension, therefore they could only see the futures of those clones that lived inside his Dimension. They could not see the future events that happened outside his dimension.

With this method, he had been able to learn a lot about the future of his children, but due to how dim the vision of the future was, he had to invest a stupid amount of energy to obtain trickles of information, and it was mostly an annoyance. After all, he could simply simulate the future life choices and destinies of all his children with ninety-nine percent accuracy because he knew them from the moment of conception and had been with them for every event of their lives.

The one thing that Rowan would never lack was essence and energy, so despite how costly it was to dimly peer into the future, he had simply assigned a hundred consciousness pillars to this task and allowed them to create billions of Berserker Clones and used them as a vehicle to explore the future of his dimension.

With careful trials and repeated experimentation, Rowan had been able to discover certain radical events that would be happening inside his dimension, but due to the flow of time inside his dimension being a lot faster than what was applicable to reality outside, he could not properly ascertain if those changes could coincide with any changes in the outside reality or was linked to the many things that could cause drastic changes in his dimension.

Yet this idea planted a seed in his heart. If his Berserker Clones could only read the future events inside his dimension, what would it mean if he could translate these capabilities to reality as a whole?

His repeated experimentation with the Berserker Aspect reached such a profound state that he was able to break past the limitation of this Aspect, evolving it past the Origin grade until it became a power that transcended the material plane, reaching the Apocalypse Grade. This more than anything allowed the visions he had of the future to become clearer.

Rowan could simply not see any path forward. The only reason he was allowed to grow to this extent despite the many ridiculous powers he had was the umbrella of the Primordial Record shielding him from the gaze of higher dimensional beings, but the moment he crossed that threshold and became a fourth-dimensional entity, he would be fully revealed, especially if the criteria for reaching that dimension meant he had to consume a powerful fourth- dimensional space like the Great Darkness.

He would be like a very bright star, maybe the brightest star in all of creation, but as it is with such things that burned the brightest or the hottest, they were usually the first things to fade.

The only way to avoid such a fate was to find the narrow path through the future that would not only ensure his survival but would make him thrive. Rowan would choose death over a life of mediocrity, not with his talents and potential and the responsibilities he had on his shoulders.

As he experimented with the vague premonitions he could get from the future, his sight turned to something that could aid him in understanding the reason why he was apparently the only one who could see into the future, and that was with the Eye of Time.

The problem he faced was that he could not unearth the secrets of the Eye, he was simply too weak to achieve something like that, perhaps if he shared the secret that he had the Eye with Caine, this being might be able to help him excavate its secrets, but this was simply a passing thought that he rapidly pushed aside, like displaying bloody meat to wolves, he would be devoured alongside the Eye.

Considering such a mad solution to this problem showed the amount of frustration that Rowan was experiencing. The mounting pressure on his psyche was growing with every passing moment and he needed a way to break past it.

Unlike what he did to every other soul in his keep, Rowan took the souls of all the Reflections and he shredded them. To understand the Eye of Time he needed to understand its fruits, and there was no better starting point than the Reflections it created to bear its will.

It was by using such a radical method that Rowan learned how to create Reflections because he repeatedly viewed the moments all of the Reflections were created, from the first bearer of the Eye of Time, Erohim, to the births of all the successive Reflections.

Armed with this knowledge, Rowan channeled resources into improving the method to improve the creation of Reflections. He was a living dimension, and if he wanted to create a Reflection of himself it would be drastically different from what the Eye of Time had created because a Reflection of himself could be considered as a Reflection of a universe.

It was during his experimentation in understanding and improving Reflections while simultaneously plumbing the depths of the Berserker clones' abilities to reach the future that he was struck with the realization that perhaps he could merge the two processes to attain the best of both worlds.

The problem he had with the Berserker Clones was that no matter how powerful he could make them, even to the extent that they all had souls, they were still tied to his dimension, and even if he made them extremely powerful, his influence over every clone would never wane. They could not see outside of reality because he couldn't.

At the start, Rowan was studying the Reflections to gain insight into breaking the Eye of Time, and now, that path had diverged a bit as he began to consider if a Reflection would serve him better as a vehicle into the future.

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