With those alarming words Old Man Seed focused on consuming the bottles of wine, muttering about their taste, and something about how he was enjoying the alcoholic beverage made Rowan to accompany him.

Bringing a bottle to his lips, Rowan felt a chill down his spine and he stopped, the old man was looking at him with a strange glare, Rowan paused and after considering for a while he threw the entire bottle in his mouth and like Old Man Seed, he began to chew, the resulting smile from his grandfather indicated that he had made the right choice.

Rowan shrugged and joined him in ‘eating’ the wine. If he wanted he could chew stars, so eating bottles made from wood and glass was nothing. For a while, there was silence as in a few moments both of them consumed hundreds of bottles.

With Old Man Seed satisfied he spread his hands wide and gestured to the tunnel they were traveling through, “I told you I was bringing you back through time, and that is correct, but also not. It’s a tricky thing dumbing down the abilities of higher dimensions to you while still retaining enough truths about their workings. You see, even though I am not strong enough to push through time while delivering our weight across that eldritch expanse, what I can do is access a Passage of Time, which is where we are situated.”

“A passage…” Rowan muttered to himself, his mind in a frenzy as a hint of why his blood that was linked to Time was almost going crazy occurred to him, ‘This passage, is it not like a vein in the body of the Primordial of Time? I don’t know the form a living Primordial may take, but what about a dead one?’

Rowan could not say such a thing aloud, but he could inquire about the nature of this passage, and so he did not hesitate to ask, “Old Man Seed, what is this Passage of Time, and how is it able to effortlessly bring you back to the past?”

“Effortlessly? Bah… more like clawing your way through an exploding universe with your nose hairs because your hands have been tied behind your back! No, there is nothing easy about fighting your way through a Passage of Time, and I don’t know its Origins, only a Prime would know it, but it is a passage available for you to access once you have the power of a seventh dimensional domain under your belt.”

Rowan’s breath caught in his throat and he tried to maintain a fairly normal appearance, but he could see by the shameless grin on the face of the old man that he was not as successful as he would like. A seventh-dimensional entity was just two level below the ninth dimension, the realm of Primordials! He was standing beside one of the most powerful entities in all of creation. The closest power he had associated with was the dead remnant of the Mountain and Sea Realm, and that minor realm was the one responsible for Rowan being able to create a World Core due to the information he harvested from it.

With a more smug tone Old Man Seed laughed, “Now that you have an inkling about how awesome I am, it is time to tell you more about this passage, staying inside this place is draining, and I am in no mood for training.”

He paused and swallowed and Rowan did not have to be told, he retrieved more bottles of wine and gave it to the endless pit and the old man continued speaking, “You should know that this opportunity I am about to give you is priceless, important details need to be repeated. I am doing this because I think out of every mortal and even Immortal I have laid my eyes on, you are the one that is most deserving of such an opportunity, but as you should understand by now, there are always risks associated with great leaps like this, and I do not need to ask your permission, because no matter the risk ahead, you will be a fool to reject it, and no grandson of mine is a fool.” freёwebnovel.com

Rowan went silent as he waited for Old Man Seed to finish speaking, from the words of Elura and Old Man Seed, he knew that these two were incredibly domineering and simply bent reality to their wish anytime they wanted, in their eyes, it did not matter what Rowan wanted, they saw a treasure inside him, and even if he kicked and scream, they would still drag every single utility out of him, until he fulfilled the dreams they had of him.

This prospect was incredibly annoying, but Rowan had expected it. Leaving the comforts of the universe would place him in the eyes of the truly powerful, and at first he had thought he might be able to develop himself in relative obscurity but that was not possible in the short term.

He had picked the Land of Miracles with the faint hopes that of all the places he could choose to develop, this might be the one that could be a bit tolerable, and even till this moment he had not regretted his decisions.

There were worse places to be and worse fates he could be enduring. If the price of growth was the loss of his freedom for a bit of time, then that was a price he was willing to pay.

In the end, Rowan knew his advantages better than anyone else, and he would not remain on the back foot for long, he just needed to get his foot into the doors of power, and before long, there would be nothing that could stand against him.

His goals and their alignment for the moment, and he knew that Old Man Seed also had his own hidden agenda behind this training. Rowan knew he was too valuable a resource to not be exploited by those who had power over him, what he needed to ensure was that even though he suffered losses, it should only be balanced by the growth of power and knowledge.

He was immortal, and he was willing to bend the knee for a time if it meant he gained all he needed for his goals. No matter how much this old man may think he knew, no one could comprehend the heights Rowan was pursuing. “As you would have noticed,” the old man pointed to the space around them, “I am shielding your perception from touching the walls of this passage. No matter how talented you are, it is quite impossible to comprehend the higher dimensional energy here, because you simply do not have the ability to do so, you will need to reach my level first before understanding will come to you, else what you will gain is madness and death.”

“With this passage, we can reach as far back in Time to the end of the Primordial Era, and that is where this passage ends, although there are rumors that higher tier passages exist for those who control higher dimensional energies, but as for now, that is unknown to me, although it is possible.”

“Taking you to the end of this passage is the first step, at our destination, I shall cut a small hole through it for you to see the end of the war, and the beginning of the Supreme Era that we are currently enjoying now.”

Rubbing his hands together, Old Man Seed exclaimed, “So for the warnings, first, I am going to be showing you a small part of that reality, I do this because there are certain aspects of existence that you have to fully indulge yourself before they can be comprehended.”

Old Man Seed had said all these with a single breath, and Rowan digested it all without interrupting him, although still curious about how it all works, he was willing to learn by observation. freeweɓnvel.com

“Ahh…we have arrived!”