No matter the reality that he found himself in, Rowan had come to acknowledge one important fact; Knowledge was power, however, the application of that knowledge was even more important.
Like the ancient Greek philosopher Archimedes in his old life who said: Give me a lever long enough, and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world. @@novelbin@@
In that previous reality, this was a fanciful hypothesis, but not here.
Rowan had entered Doom Star at his weakest, yet he had displayed a great show of strength, and it was not just to influence the thought processes of the Eye of Time, but it was also against the World Stele, because he knew that he did not just have one great enemy, but three!
All three were entities that could equal powers that were at the eighth dimension at the least, while he was simply a third-dimensional being, although he had stopped using his levels to ascertain his strength, it was still very relevant. Rowan's knowledge was very important, but without a proper way to apply it, he would not be able to compete at this level.
The Eye of Time, Nemesis, and the World Stele were the three great mountains in his path that he could not simply bulldoze over, he had to play with these three powerful dimensional beings in a manner that none would understand what was truly happening, because they could stop him quite easily if they understood what he was doing.
His plans had been going relatively straightforward, but that was because he had spent countless years refining it, transforming the complex into simple and yet retaining all the effectiveness that was needed for him to succeed.
Every single word, every single move, they had to have a purpose, and yet he had to maintain a picture of chaos in this entire affair so that no one here would realize that they were following the scripts that he had written.
The greatest challenge he would face would be deceiving the World Stele because he would have to reveal some of his cards in order to mislead the Singularity.
He exiled himself outside of time in the Nothingness for so long and tampered with forces that he should have no reason to play with, all to present the right balance towards the World Stele.
Rowan might be young, but he had lived a life where despite his great powers, it was easy for him to lose everything.
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Doom Star was an eighth-dimensional realm, and so its structure was incredibly stable, including its past, making it practically impossible for it to be altered without paying a significant price, a price that anyone else would consider impossible, and except for a Primordial who was willing to spend their Primordial Essence to alter the past of a dimension, no one else could return to the past and make extreme changes.
In the lower realms, higher dimensional immortals could reverse time and make changes, but even that had a limit, as even eighth-dimensional immortals would find it hard to reach millions of years into the past of a lower dimensional realm and make meaningful changes, of course, if they wanted they could view what had happened billions of years in the past, but changing it was a completely different concept.
Singularities on the other hand saw rules such as these as non-existent or extremely malleable.
With the Primordial Record, Rowan could house multiple Primordial-level bloodlines in one body, and the World Stele was able to easily access the past of its host and make sweeping changes. Of course, such changes also had limits and specific rules that needed to be followed, in the case of Rowan, he could not simply have all the Primordial Bloodlines in existence if he wanted to have them, he must have a sort of connection with those bloodlines for the Primordial Record to be able to create a link between him and those powerful bloodlines.
There were certain limitations to the power of the World Stele and how much of the past it was able to manipulate, but the fact that it could do so much without paying much of a price was still astonishing, and Rowan a foreign entity, had also been brought back into the past of the realm with relative ease.
However, every single excursion of the Reflections to Rowan was not just a journey to the past of Doom Star, but they were a journey to the future as well, and if the first six Reflections could not take advantage of this process, the last three were able to.
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Rowan understood that the World Stele would never honor their bargain and neither would he, and it was a non-spoken truth that both acknowledged. The loser would simply be the one who did not play the cards that they had in the right manner, and so when his Reflections were taken to the past by the Word Stele, the first six Reflections had been his scout, and the last three were the primary executors of his will.
Although Rowan's Reflections had arrived at different times, the World Stele had waited until all eighth Reflections were in hand before it had instantly spread them across time, placing the sixth, seventh, and eighth Reflection in a single timeline in order to reduce whatever influence Rowan would gain.
What it could not understand was that taking the first six Reflections into the past was different from taking the last two, because Rowan's dimensional flesh could cross the threshold of space and time because intrinsically they were not made from flesh but of Space. That meant it could stretch far past the fabrics of space-time when a stable tunnel into the past was presented to it.
So while the seventh should have been sent to Doom Star four hundred million years ago, it had instead followed the path of the first Reflection and entered Doom Star one billion years ago, and for the eighth Reflection, Rowan had gone crazy, he had gone much farther, as far as his dimensional flesh could hold, so far back that when it arrived, there was no life on Doom Star!
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