The importance of Aetherium for Rowan could not be overstated, for although he had an infinite pool of powerful Primordial Aether in his dimension, Aetherium was the next step for this power, but it was gate-keep by the Primordial forces who used the seeds of Aetherium as a bargaining chip to draw geniuses to their side.
The act of gathering Aetherium from the ocean was two-fold, the first was to give him a potent source of energy as he wondered the sort of power he might be able to wield if he used Aetherium instead of Aether to power them, and the second was to learn how to forge his personal Aetherium using the degraded Aetherium of Doom Star as a guide.
If he could succeed, then his act of rejecting the offer of the Aetherium Seed from Elura would not sting as much, and as a hidden hand he could play, Aetherium would be a very potent weapon.
Despite the fact that he could observe every single aspect of the Aetherium being organized inside his Hollow Forge, he could not just replicate them with his Aether, because the Aetherium of Doom Star has unique attributes that were different from Rowan's.
He could however use it as a tool to guide his journey towards creating Aetherium.
The tapping of the Shiik was the only sound that could be heard inside this underground chamber for the next month until Rowan who had been sitting with his eyes closed, shuddered and opened them.
There was a calamitous rumbling ongoing inside Hollow Forge as the final portion of the Aetherium unit was created.
Inside Hollow Forge, a stupendous amount of water was rushing to a single point in the air and vanishing seemingly without a trace. That point had been slowly growing over the last few years until it was now the size of an apple, and the terrifying rumbling that was ongoing inside hollow Forge had been building up over the last two years and now it was at a crescendo.
Old Man Seed's voice still rang strong in his memory of that event, when Rowan had asked him if this star was alive,
"In a manner," he had said, "But the devastation that heralded its birth fractured the Will it contained, and so it could never take a singular Will. It is a good thing that happened, or else this entity would be at least at the eighth-dimensional level... a truly frightening thought."
For a while he had been sensing Doom Star as a colossal threat; he had missed one very important clue staring at him, the face and that was the color of this realm.
From above it was a green and black star. The green of it was like intense flames and the blackness was like an ocean of tar. When Rowan had fallen into Doom Star it was not with his power, wrapped by the power of Old Man Seed, he had been unable to understand the
sensation of passing through Doom Star.
Rowan frowned and looked at the heavens, analyzing the power structure of Doom Star. If the blackness he saw on the surface of Doom Star was the Pure Darkness that was a part of this realm and therefore the hidden power source of the Calamity Gods and not the red Aura they utilized, then was the Green Aura the hidden power of Ascendants or was it a separate power entirely?
Also if he looked at the entire structure of Doom Star from a distance, the Calamity Gods inhabited the depths of the earth, and in the sky was the home of the Ascendants, what was above the Ascendants?
Could the answer be that simple? He only needed to go upwards, passing all the higher continents, passing both the Ascendant and Calamity Suns, and reaching above it to the power that supervised everything in this realm.
Rowan sat there in thought for a long while. The more he knew about the realm, the more questions arose.
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