Chapter 1166: Understanding The Sixth Dimension
Aethernet
The appearance of the Undying was unexpected, but not surprising because, in a manner, Rowan's vision of this Memory was still being slightly influenced by Shisu's perception of events.
Memory/Mind was the sixth dimension, and unlike Time/Space which could be easily understood by him, this dimension was still strange. A mortal, even the gods could not imagine that their memories could become a dimension, where powers and other dimensional forces could be cultivated and unleashed. It touched on concepts so strange and unreachable that most would never have a chance to know it existed.
Rowan had always walked a higher path, and he could touch this dimension even when he could not yet understand it. His extremely powerful bloodlines meant he could easily manipulate these forces, despite not fully understanding them.
For a man to fly, he would need to create machines to touch the heavens, but Rowan was born with wings. In the future, he might need machines to boost the power of his wings, but this did not take away the fact that the heavens were always within his reach.
Understanding more about the sixth dimension made Rowan realize that perhaps, all those memories he had about times past shown to him by the Primordial Record, were not just memories, but dimensions... higher dimensions that he did not understand their essence at that time.
As a living dimension, if he reached the sixth dimension, was it possible that unlike everyone else who could not manipulate dimensions beyond surface levels, he might be able to reach across Memory and access them in ways that were considered impossible?
Such thoughts were beyond tantalizing and were ultimately a distraction from what he needed to be doing at this time, so Rowan placed them aside.
Rowan was leaning towards the second reason, but he felt that whatever would happen on this day might give him more evidence to support his logic. With that in mind, he focused on capturing every detail of this spear, he would need this knowledge for his plans ahead, and it was crucial.
A million years ago, this spear had ended his life, and even if this was a pale imitation, its lines were still the same, and the instant he entered Shisu's mind and smelled the traces of the Undying in his soul, he knew he had to find the Memory where he had appeared and see what he could discover from it.
Turned out that Rowan's luck would make the devil cry out in anger, for not only did he find a third Sin Weapon, but he had now seen a copy of the Primordial weapon that killed him making his future plans more manageable because a section of his consciousness had been devoted to finding a solution to a problem that had become suddenly half-way resolved.
Just before he died, Rowan had used the entire power of Astrolabe to seize and launch this weapon away from the Undying.
Berrion could wield the Primordial weapon, which was an extremely amazing feat in its own right, but he could not control it, giving Rowan the chance to punish his killer in a way that he did not easily understand at that moment, because if Berrion thought that he could easily collect the weapon that Rowan had sent away with the full might of Astrolabe, then he was in for a rude surprise.
His three Chambers, Astrolabe, Hollow Forge, and Memory Well had reached levels of power that the original designs could have never anticipated was possible.
Every time he evolved his state of being, the three Chambers he received when he was merely an Avatar of Eve grew stronger and more versatile, and when he became a dimension, his Astrolabe received powerful new upgrades that made its speed that were already ridiculous even more broken.
Except Astrolabe was blocked by an extremely powerful force a few moments after it was launched, nothing could catch up to the speed of the Astrolabe given enough time to gather momentum, because its speeds would never stop increasing, and after a time this speed would reach a dimension that even Rowan could not understand.
Discounting the fact that anything that was carried by Astrolabe would become ephemeral, making it so that Astrolabe did not need to change its direction when moving and could pass through most obstructions in its way, when it was in this state, it was hard for Rowan to control Astrolabe, and this was the reason he needed to understand the proper shape of this weapon in order to call upon it when the time was right.