The Primordial Record

The Primordials had ripped open the vortexes, spewing the dead essence of Eosah into Reality. Although they used this to create a bridge to allow their bodies to finally awaken from their slumber, it did not mean that the essence of Eosah stopped pouring into Reality.

The bridges acted like a potent conduit to unleash this power, and Reality was transforming faster than ever before. The audience in the Arena might have believed that the Primordials were above them, but these were Reflections of their bodies projected across space and time. It would not be long before those projections would become real.

Still, the rapid elevation of Reality had other effects besides preparing the realm for the weight of the Primordials. An observer who was able to leave the internal layer of Reality and proceed into the Nothingness would observe a startling event… it was beginning to shrink!

If Reality were an orange, then the Nothingness was the thick skin that covered its soft internal fleshy bits, and this skin had protected Reality from the harshness of Limbo, but it was beginning to collapse.

The Primordials had taken all of Eosah's essence inside of Reality, but there was one place they did not touch, and that was the Nothingness, not because they could not do so, but because they knew consuming the essence of the Nothing less would leave this Reality open for their final feast.

It was just a way to preserve their meal long enough until they gained what they wanted from it.

When the World Stele began making immortals into World Bearers and giving them power to place their dimensions into Reality, it did this by siphoning minute portions of essence inside of the Nothingness into Reality.

The Primordials had allowed this to happen because, in the grand scheme of things, these acts by the Singularity would aid them in understanding the mysteries of this realm while giving them a workaround to the danger that existed in the Nothingness.

This danger was the Wall of Aegis, which was the Singularity that belonged to Eosah.

It did not take long for Rowan to figure out this truth when Eosah told him of her Singularity, but even if Rowan knew that the Nothingness was the final layer blocking Reality from the hunger of the Primordials, he would have still taken the option of destroying it just to serve his needs.

All of Reality was being slowly cooked inside a pot, and Rowan would rather destroy the pot than deceive himself that they might survive if they endured the growing heat for long enough.

However, he did not shatter this pot entirely; he slowly eroded it, ensuring that the inhabitants of Reality were slowly nurtured with its essence so they would be able to endure the endless flames that existed outside their home, which had since turned into a cage.

The actions of the Primordials had shattered the careful balance he had created, and the Nothingness that, by his calculations, should have remained for at least 200,000 years was rapidly collapsing and should be entirely destroyed in less than a decade.

This rapid shrinking led to the destruction of countless life forms that had made the Nothingness into their home, while pushing a lot of these entities into Reality.

One of them was the broken Singularity, the World Stele, and it fell into an unknown fifth-dimensional realm, where the presence of so much Essence began to accelerate its healing and the gestation of the memory of its host.

Thenos was awakening.

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At the entrance of the fifth layer of the void, a place that should not exist because it had long exceeded the scope of Origin, the last fragment of Eosah stirred.

Origin was the realm of the ninth dimension and was the peak of existence. Space, Time, Memory, Fate, Destiny, and then Origin.

When Rowan began showing glimpses of his realm and called it the Land of Origin, he might not have understood that to the Primordials, this was a clear challenge, because it signified that Rowan believed he had reached the ninth-dimensional level.

However, what made Rowan dangerous was that his true powers were unknown. Each Primordial knew something about him that the others did not, and none of them was sharing the information with the other.

Like a colossal beast led by blind men, each Primordial only knew of certain aspects of Rowan, but what they understood about him was enough to make them, if not fearful, then wary of his potential.

Yet, even in Origin, there was still the weak and the strong, and over the endless eras, the Primordials had proven countless times over that they were at the peak of Origin.

Their supreme powers came with certain drawbacks, but these drawbacks became the most potent weapons of the Primordials, allowing them to unleash their hunger on all existence.

That hunger had led them to Eosah, a newly born Reality outside the space where new Realities were usually born, which was an odd occurrence.

Realities were at the peak of existence, and they had only a single predator, several ravenous ancient entities whose true origin and name had been lost in the dark corners of the past, and most simply called them Primordials to signify them as the masters of Origin.

Knowing they had predators that hunted them across Limbo, Realities began to converge in a single area inside Limbo, creating a vast, intertwined society where truly ancient Realities protect and nurture the new Realities that were born.

This area inside Limbo was called the Cradle of Enoch, and it had been a long time since any newly born Reality had been born outside its dominion.

Eosah was the first for a long time, and it was unknown why that happened. Every Reality was carefully nurtured in its nascent state inside the Cosmic Record, the first Singularity, and it should have been impossible for a newly born Reality to escape its influence.

However, Eosah was born outside the Cradle of Enoch, and not only that, she also carried a child, Eos.

Eos thus became the first Reality that was born, whose name was not recorded in the Cosmic Record.