The Primordial Record

Chapter 1078: Golden Temple

Temple Mother Eliaxha had not left her Convent in the upper continents for more than six million years, and it was for good reasons. Called the Mighty Fist, Temple Mother Eliaxha was known for her warlike tendencies and her no-nonsense policies in handling issues. Having little patience for pandering or negotiation, Eliaxha dominated whatever space she entered with power.

The remaining Temple Mothers knew her to be a blunt instrument that was used when absolute force was necessary, she was not a scalpel but a falling meteor, and they never used her for affairs in the lower continents to avoid situations where she could destroy thousands or even millions of continents if she was struck by her famous fury.

Yet strange things had begun to happen, and the world was increasingly moving out of balance, the time for subtlety had passed, and the Temple Mothers were ordered to root out any dissident in their flock for the end of the world was coming. Not known to all but those at the top, it was said that another Ascendant Sun was about to fall.

Their unending war was on the verge of becoming more desperate and bitter, and any unknown factor must be plucked out before the already tenuous situation spiraled out of control.

On the way to Trion-Strange name, the Temple Mother had thought-Eliaxha had been furious, although this was not known to many, this famous Temple Mother loved to sleep, and her naps lasted for millennia at a time, and she could not wait to return to sleep every time she was awakened which gave her a reputation for rashness, not that she cared, and she made sure she played to that identity, anything for her to get more space to sleep away time. With the incoming chaos, Eliaxha knew that sleep would become harder to find, and she was desperate to end this problem and catch a few decades or mercifully centuries of shut-eye before the rat race, the screaming, and the dying began.

‘Why cannot I have these few moments of peace before the war?’

She saw no reason why she was dragged to this continent, sure the millions of Maidens who remained behind on Trion were suspicious, but it had only been a few months and that was not enough time for panicking, they should have waited for a decade, perhaps two or even three before she was summoned to bring this so-called Redeemer to her knees and the Temple maidens to their duty, they would be needed more than ever.

“Matrons of this day and age,” she muttered with annoyance in her voice, making the Temple Matrons behind her shudder in fright, “Gain the gift of insight and suddenly they are out of bounds. Newer rules would have to be enforced to police these new batches. Anything to ensure that I am not woken up until the world is about to end….Oh, the rest of you stay behind, I don’t want to crush you all.”

“Boom!!!”

The moment she stepped her feet on Trion, a shockwave went through her head, and the anger that had previously filled her heart vanished and in its place was intense caution. Eliaxha’s demeanor might seem rash, but she was actually the opposite, her great talents and acumen meant she could be lazy because it was easy for her to peer into the nature of things and figure out the truth.

She stopped walking and took the time to observe her surroundings with a more discerning gaze, and the first thing she noticed was the three Ascendant Suns overhead were brighter, far brighter than they should have ever been on a lower continent, almost as if she was not standing on a lower continent but a higher one.

Her suspicion increased when she felt the overwhelming density of Aura and a surprising amount of vitality in this place.

Aura was usually only present in living beings, who while performing daily activities would lead to Aura being naturally dispersed into the surroundings from their bodies, but you needed a lot of powerful Ascendants in one place to produce the amount of Aura that was present here, nothing millions of Deific Ranked Explorers were supposed to be able to give off even if their numbers were multiplied a hundred times.

The second was the vitality essence, there was so much of it that mortals living here would easily survive just by breathing and effortlessly live for hundreds of years if not more. This was a condition only available on the best of the higher continents, and no mortal could ever hope to enjoy it, how could they be found here?

Then she looked ahead at the millions of kneeling Temple Maidens who despite her appearance had not even turned around to acknowledge her presence, instead their eyes were fixed in the air and they were muttering under their breath. Her frown deepened and the air around her began to emit faint blue light as they were frozen.

The bodies of every Temple Maiden were overflowing with vitality and Aura, so much so that it could not be natural, she tracked the direction of their gaze and could find nothing, she idly tapped the air, and the heads of a million Temple maidens exploded, but in the next seconds it was regrown, and the Maidens continued their chanting, appearing as if they were unaware that a moments before their heads had been vaporized.

“Now, that’s not right,” Eliaxha muttered and then she began to rapidly tap the air, killing millions of Temple maidens at a time, turning them to dust, burning, freezing, electrocution, poison… she could have used more permanent methods, but the Temple Mother was fascinated by how the healing of these Maiden did not seem to be losing steam and nothing had changed in their bodies; in fact, they appeared to be even more vigorous as if they fed off their own deaths.

Their gazes were unerringly focused on the skies and for the words they chanted, Eliaxha did not know the meaning or the language used.

She was slowly losing her patience and with a wave of her hand, the entire continent of Trion was frozen in place as time stood still. Experiments could be made later, and Eliaxha was determined to know what was causing these changes.

Once again she looked back at the position where all the Temple Maidens were watching in the sky, and now it was no longer empty, instead a massive golden temple with an alien design was floating in the air. The temple almost resembled an eye with feathers waving out of it.

The Temple Mother frowned and began walking to the golden temple, and in two steps she was before the gate, raising a hand to crush it, the gate instead silently flew open and she paused in her actions before snorting and entering fearlessly into the golden temple.

She came before a massive passageway that extended for an unknown number of miles, and standing orderly on both sides of the passageway as far as the eye could see were gigantic faceless golden statues. She peered curiously at these statues, noticing the odd features they carried which were their wings, and the weird armor they wore.

The only difference in these statues was the number of wings on the backs of these giants, most were two and others were more. Except for Calamities, she knew of no humanoid species on the lower continents or the higher continents that had wings.