The sounds of the enhanced Tribulation raining down on Rowan were like a hellish drum being beaten by a legion of demons, a trillion strong. If not for the impossibly enhanced hold of Time over this region, then this Tribulation would have been heard and seen throughout the entire realm.
Loud cracking sounds emerged from the bodies of the Calamity gods as they began to slowly break down. The flames covering them were a double-edged sword. Enhancing their powers, while burning away at their un-life.
The bloodshot eyes of the Shiik followed every exchange like a hawk, she was agitated, and her gaze fueled these Calamity gods, the thoughts of failing the task set out by their Queen, the idea that the reason they existed in the first place would not be coming to fruition made them roar in rage and push more powers into their bodies, exceeding the limits imposed on them during their creation.
Their weapons came down faster and harder. It was unknown if Rowan knew that the mental state of anguish he placed on the Shiik might have caused this unexpected growth in the difficulty of his Tribulation, but this was most likely the case, most things Rowan did were never by accident.
It did not take long for this enhanced state the Calamity gods entered to begin to show results. Rowan felt his Ascendant body breaking down faster than he would have wanted, reaching some of his worst estimations, but it was also within his margin of failure and he adjusted himself accordingly.
The force of the Tribulation raining down on him was not the problem, it would take a thousand times more power to shatter his Ascendant body if it was by force alone, however, it was the intense Calamity Aura that every single move brought with them that troubled him.
His Ascendant body was pure unlike every other Ascendant in this realm whose essence and Aura had become inextricably linked with Calamity, which made them two sides of the same coin, yet this knowledge was hidden from them all. They never knew that the Calamity they fought was simply another side of themselves.
Even if the World's Will was capable enough to make every Aura it gave the Ascendants truly pure, Rowan was sure that such a thing would go against its will. It seemed that for some reason the World's Will wanted Calamity to win this war.
All of these thoughts ran through his mind like lightning, as he tried to hold back his Ascendant Aura from rushing out of his body and embracing the Calamity outside his rapidly crumbling shell.
The problem was that his Ascendant body was simply a powerful container for his soul, it possessed no enhanced characteristics that could aid Rowan in controlling his Aura, although it possessed all of these features of Aura manipulation in a limited manner, it could not aid Rowan when he was facing such a strenuous situation such as this one.
He did not hesitate and ruthlessly sacrificed ten percent of his total Ascendant Aura to lessen the load that had become imposed on him. Ten percent of Rowan's entire Aura capacity was almost equal to all the Aura that could be found in the body of a billion Ascendant.
The eruption of this power was like nothing this realm had ever seen. No single Ascendant since the beginning of their existence could ever hold this amount of Aura in their bodies.
His Ascendant body rumbled and flared a bright blue that nearly escaped the bounds of the continent. The light destroyed billions of the tiny calamities struggling to enter the cracks in his body and destroyed tens of thousands of the Calamity gods.
This eruption not only pushed back his Tribulation, but it also healed a lot of the cracks surrounding his Ascendant body, relieving a lot of the pressure he was under as the progress towards upgrading his Ascendant body finally reached the halfway mark. It would seem that he had made the right move.
Rowan felt his soul rumbling, as the premonition of danger he was becoming familiar with began to echo all through his soul.
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