The silvery dust traveled up Rowan's nostrils and entered his brain and a subtle wave of golden light pulsed down his robes as the silver dust was separated into two components, Ascendant Aura and Soul Essence.
The Core Aura of the Ascendant released what would be considered an overwhelming amount of purified Aura for anyone else below the Ascendant level, but it was like pouring a bucket of water inside a river in the case of Rowan whose body was filled with enough Aura to rival a thousand Ascendants.
With soul energy, he no longer needed to kill for Aura, the primary reason he killed an Ascendant was no longer for their Aura, but their memories.
With most of Rowan's consciousness in a dormant state, he could no longer process the Soul mountains of immortals, and so he devised another plan. The bodies of Ascendants were unique, existing more as souls than flesh, and so instead of assimilating the entirety of an Ascendant soul which would inevitably create a Soul mountain and therefore locked inside his dormant dimension, Rowan decided to disperse a majority of the Ascendant soul, leaving their core behind.
If it was any other creature that Rowan had come across in the reality outside Doom Star, then he would not be able to do such a thing, but because every blow against an Ascendant that led to the injury was like breaking off a part of their souls, he thought he might be able to break them down enough to a digestible size for his now limited consciousness.
It was a risky plan, with a high chance of failure if he did not fully grasp the way an Ascendant's soul and body worked, but he ended up succeeding to an extent.
There were clear disadvantages to this process because every part of the soul that was lost represented missing memories but Rowan had no choice but to trim out the fat and bones and leave only a small choice meal that he should be able to digest.
Although Rowan made sure he seized the portion of the soul that was integral to the core of the Ascendant, which should contain all his most important and relevant memories, there was still a chance that he might lose something important, but that was not a problem when he could kill more Ascendants and cover up the gaps in his knowledge base.
Yet, all his speculations would be useless if he was not able to assimilate this soul he had just harvested. He felt a click in his mind, and everything fell into place as a familiar sensation overwhelmed his senses.
Of the hundred and thirty-five Ascendants before him, a hundred and ten of them were basic Ascendant Explorers and had not attained the First Dan. It was not easy to attain the first Dan, and time and opportunities were needed.
The power of Ascendancy was straightforward, after becoming an Ascendant they became true immortals and unless they were killed, an Ascendant would live forever.
Rowan pegged the power base levels of a basic Ascendant to be equal to either a High God, God King, or a God Emperor; these power levels were all dependent on the number of continents that were merged with the Natal Treasure when they became Ascendants.
The leap in power from Deific to Ascendant was extreme and was one of the largest dividing gaps between mortal and immortal that Rowan had ever seen. The Deific Rank was equal in power to an Earth god or a Minor god depending on the Explorer's techniques and talent, and becoming an Ascendant for a talented Explorer could push their power levels instantly to the realm of God Emperors.
After this level, came Dan.
The first Dan signifies the first stage of Will, which was the fourth dimension-Time.
The Second Dan was the fifth dimension, Space-Time, and the Third Dan was the sixth dimension, Memory-Mind. There was not much difference between the Wills of Doom Star and what was achievable in the outside reality.
Of the twenty-five Ascendants left, twenty-three were Ascendants of the first Dan, and among them was the Ascendant who had attacked him from afar.
This number of First Dan Ascendants in such a small sample size would be a ridiculous number outside the universe, Rowan had explored countless universes in the great darkness but he could barely find a dozen immortals in the fourth dimension, but here he could find twenty-three Ascendants who could control the power of time, and this must be a small percent of the total Ascendants as evidenced by the thousands of descending light now erupting from the continents above.
The two preeminent Ascendants leading these small groups were at the Second Dan.
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