The Primordial Record - Chapter 1099: Time Storm

Storm Hammer lost track of time, and the only thing she knew was the pain. She repeatedly tried to activate her power over Time but like a raw wound that had been scrapped to the bone, anytime she touched the Dan, her chest exploded, it was not her Dan that was faulty, it was that both Time itself and the people around her were so resistant to the influence of her Dan.

After trying to stop time for the third time, Storm Hammer went numb in horror when the new senses she had developed as she reached her First Dan began to fade. She knew of Ascendants that suffered Calamitous damages and their ranking dropped, but those Ascendants were literally taken to the edge of death and despite the damages she was suffering, she had lost not more than thirty percent of her Core Aura. How was she losing her Dan this easily?

“No, no, no, no….” Storm Hammer screamed internally, her anguish and disbelief creating visual phenomena around her. Once the Dan was lost, it was almost impossible for it to be regained, she had only survived this long against the Calamity God because of her Dan, without it, she would not last a millennium.

A loud keening sound emerged from her body as a massive shockwave carrying the color of time blasted out from Storm Hammer. It was a Time Storm.

The body of Storm Hammer was squeezed, bent, and stretched to various inhuman poses as the power of Time fled from her body. All around her was chaos as the world went mad.

The Blood Blessed assaulted her we’re blasted back for hundreds of miles, as the Time Storm ravaged everything around them to dust. Golden energy poured out of their bodies serving as shields to bear the brunt of the storm, but among the oldest, white hair began to crop amongst the red of their hair, and for the younger ones, especially Young Po who was closest to Storm Hammer before the Time Storm exploded out of her body, he became a full grown adult.

The Blood Blessed knew that the golden energy shielded them from the worst of the storm because in front of their eyes, metals and everything that could decay, crumbled into dust.

Several shockwaves of Time blasted out from the shrieking Storm Hammer until it subsided and the world was covered in silence.

In the aftermath of the destruction that has turned nearly a hundred miles into a desert and several unknown phenomena behind, Young Po stood up and did not seek out the Ascendant instead he was admiring his new body and flexing his arms to reveal his gigantic biceps, standing more than nine feet tall, his biceps were as big as watermelons.

He began to laugh crazily, but his laughter turned to horror when golden flames consumed him and he began to shrink, he cried out in shock and dismay as his massive biceps that was bigger than his head began to shrink and his bones folded into themselves, as his body reasserted itself from the hold of time.

Young Po began to weep, his eyes that were filled with anger turned towards Storm Hammer who had risen from the massive crater caused by the Time Storm, she looked around confused for a moment before taking to the skies, a few moments with the speed of an Ascendant she would vanish from the continent.

“You big bad meanie. You take everything away, not even creating monsters for me to grow,” Young Po shouted, “Give me back my muscles!”

He pushed against the ground and the earth exploded, his body shot into the air as he transformed into a golden giant, forgetting that the Elders had forbidden them to use this new form against the Ascendants until they were sure that they could subdue them, in order not to allow the details of their new power to come to light.

Young Po despite his young age was considered the greatest genius among the Blood Blessed due to how quickly he learned and how easily manipulating the energy of their bloodline came to him. Despite all this, he was still a child and he could not follow orders well when his emotions were hot, but it was his spontaneous action that prevented Storm Hammer from escaping because none of the Blood Blessed would have been quick enough to stop her due to them hesitating about revealing their transformation.

Twenty thousand feet in the air a loud clap resounded as a golden and blue light flashed, followed by a shockwave.

Young Po had timed his leap extremely well, his massive spirit and instincts directing his body in a fluid manner so he could gain the right trajectory to block Storm Hammer’s ascent, “Give me back my muscles!!” he screamed as he threw a punch with a fist that was half the size of Storm Hammer’s entire body. She rapidly swung her hammer to counter the unexpected enemy but she had not expected the power behind the blow, and especially in her present condition where the loss of her Dan made her weak, the last thing she wanted was a battle.

Her Hammer was blasted back into her chest with the hammer’s head blasting against her skull, and the force of the blow pushed her back to the ground as she lost an entire percent of her measly twenty percent Core Aura that was left in her body.

The whistling wind and the rain pressing against her skin as her body released shock waves as it tore its way towards the ground was all she could feel before Storm Hammer impacted against the earth.

Her body bounced back from the ground, Storm Hammer moving only on instincts alone, knowing that she could no longer make any mistakes going forward and not think about what madness was happening all around her.

For the first time in almost a million years, Storm Hammer began to summon the rest of her Natal Treasures, a lightning crown appeared on her forehead as a large golden fist carrying hurricane-class winds with it swung at her body from the side.

Storm Hammer scattered her body into lightning sparks and dodged the fist, reassembling her body a dozen feet away, but another golden fist appeared beside her as Young Po who had descended from the sky followed the traces of lightning moving through the air and threw more punches at the fleeing Ascendant.

Using the same tactics, Storm Hammer dodged several of his blows, giving her enough time to summon her entire arsenal, and with a cry of rage, the surroundings for hundreds of miles turned blue.

The color of blue faded and the new body of Storm Hammer was revealed. Unlike the Divine Ascendant that Rowan once fought, the Natal Treasures of Storm Hammer were not all tangible, except her hammer, the rest of Storm Hammer’s Natal Treasures merged with her body, transforming it into a giant of about three hundred feet tall, whose body was made from black ice and blue lightning.

Now having three more pairs of hands and a cape made from glowing yellow clouds filled with lightning Storm Hammer raised her hands to the sky and unleashed devastation on the earth.