The Primordial Record

In the deepest recesses of the Underverse, a place where distance and time were warped until it was impossible to plot your way through it by any conventional means.

It took a long time for the Major powers to be able to find a suitable path through the darkness of the Underverse, also the stronger you became, the easier it was to transverse through the Underverse.

In this strange space, a figure wearing red armor and a red cape pushed through the Underverse, his red eyes piercing through the darkness. The figure had suffered a disastrous wound that was slowly healing, as darkness was clinging to its edges.

It was a good thing that technically this figure had no delicate organs, even though it had eyes, brains, and a heart, this was all a mimicry of life, for his power lay inside the blood flowing through his body.

This was the Berserker Clone of Rowan that he had released years ago to search for the page of the Primordial Record inside the Underverse.

To avoid suspicion from others and not to attract unnecessary attention, he had released only one Berserker Clone, and he had been using the faint connection between himself and the Primordial Record page to slowly close the gap between them.

With the chaotic nature of the Underverse, it was the best option to use only a single Berserker Clone to search for if he used more than one, the feedback he received from the page became jumbled and the difficulty to decipher its direction increased tenfold.

This Berserker Clone was far less powerful than the current clones Rowan could create, but it was still as powerful as a Dominator at the Earth god level. Rowan had created this line when he was far less powerful, and with the rate of Rowan's power growth, if he created a Berserker Clone every day, their powers would be different, because Rowan was constantly growing stronger.

Using all the powers available to him, the Berserker Clone had been able to escape from countless dangers, surviving by the skin of his teeth through many terrible encounters against not only the denizens of this place which were all horrifying creatures of darkness and space, but with the countless powers who used this place as a convenient source for traveling through the vast gulf of space.

Most Major powers like Trion and other powerful organizations created specialized pathways inside the Underverse that were regularly patrolled by their soldiers to keep them safe from the denizens of the Underverse and it was a great source of Income for these Major powers.

If you were unwilling to spend years traveling through the universe using spaceships that were often a very risky affair due to pirates and other dangers present in the universe when you wanted to go beyond the normal Space Lanes, then you had no option but to use the Teleportation Gates offered by these Major powers for a sizable fee.

Of course, you were being charged for using the Space Lanes but it could be shared among the tens of thousands of passengers on the massive ships, and it was a joint affair most of the time, but nothing could beat the convenience and safety of using a Teleportation Portal.

The act of Teleporting through the universe was straightforward, a cut was made in the fabric of reality to the Underverse below. In the Underverse, distance and time acted strangely, and moving a few hundred feet in the Underverse could translate to millions of miles being traversed in the material universe, then another cut was made through the Underverse that would open to the desired destination.

To create a Teleportation Gate, the Major Power would cut out a passageway through the space of the Underverse, linking vast distances between the material universe. These Passages are maintained by them and were sometimes used as currency among the Major Powers, for some distant locations in the universe could only be reached by following specific passages.

When in the Underverse it was easy to spot these Teleportation Passages, as they appeared like massive glowing veins in the everlasting darkness of this place.

This light inevitably attracts the attention of the shadow creatures of this dark place, who feed on energy and vitality. Thankfully they were not too powerful, but they had the advantage of numbers, and it was a constant struggle to keep the Teleportation Lanes safe from their endless hunger and sabotage from opposing powers.

There were constant wars fought in the Underverse as the struggle for power and the right to control the Teleportation Passages were unending.

You could easily tell how powerful a Major power was by the number of Teleportation nodes that had, and the Berserker Clone made sure he avoided all the routes containing Teleportation Passages as much as possible, but that brought a new form of risk for it meant he came across more dangerous foes that did not need to use Teleportation Passages to move through the Underverse.

These individuals who could move through the Underverse without using Teleportation Passages usually have power at the level of gods, and so coming across any of them during his search would lead to death, as they would usually rob and kill anyone they came across that was weaker than them, and so if you were not at a particular power level it was advisable for you to not tread through the Underverse alone.

Rowan had not expected this Berserker Clone to survive for this long inside the Underverse, and he had planned to create a new Berserker Clone after the previous one was destroyed, and using the last location where the previous Berserker Clone was destroyed he would be releasing a new Clone there.

The reason he made this decision was because the only way for him to search for the Primordial Record lost page was with his Clones for they had the ability to sense his connection with the Singularity, an ability that his Angels lacked.

Rowan also knew that every new Berserker Clone he created would be stronger because they used his current body as a template, and so if the previous Berserker Clone would be destroyed, he would create a new one, and using the light of Astrolabe, he would be able to send the new clone to the last location of the destroyed clone, to make sure no ground was lost during the search.

Yet this Clone just refused to die.